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And thus began the race with the updates and hacks :( Just proves that the big companies won't let you develop homebrew for their consoles (unless it's a crippled sandbox such as XNA or PS3 Linux). It's been said that it is about preventing piracy or quality of the software, but to me it seems it's also about control and selling overpriced devkits.
added on the 2008-06-17 09:32:18 by Marq Marq
bleh i updated my wii to play mario kart, am i fucked ?
Oh.. nintendo released a fix. But they made some wii-a-boo's, stay tuned people! :-)
added on the 2008-06-17 10:37:54 by blasty blasty
And done! TP hack runs again *here* on this updated wii. :-)
added on the 2008-06-17 12:11:53 by blasty blasty
Woo, disaster diverted in less than a day! Good job. ;p
added on the 2008-06-17 12:42:06 by micksam7 micksam7
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nintendo released a fix

What??
Let me guess it wasn't just hacked savegames you couldn't copy...
added on the 2008-06-17 15:02:25 by xernobyl xernobyl
http://hackmii.com/2008/06/june-16-wii-update/
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Update 2: Okay, now this is just silly. Three functions have been added to the system menu. Guess what they do:

ipl::utility::ESMisc::DeleteSavedata((unsigned long long, EGG::Heap*))
ipl::utility::ESMisc::VerifySavedataZD((unsigned long long, EGG::Heap*))
WADCheckSavedataZD
I supose ZD means Zelda...

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Update 4: It’s interesting to look at the timestamps here. The System Menu has a build marker of “systemmenu.rvl.0803060727″ – yes, that’s March 6, 2008, 07:27. This update to the menu only accomplished one thing, as far as I can tell — the blocking of the TP hack. (I guess we can count the IOS30 patch together with it.) They spent 3 months testing it — this isn’t actually that surprising, when you consider the potential financial damage if they roll an update out that bricks Wiis.

It's cool to know how stuff works.
added on the 2008-06-17 15:27:26 by xernobyl xernobyl
BTW, if anyone ports UAE to the Wii, please, please call it Amwiiga.
added on the 2008-06-18 10:43:32 by xeron xeron
and if they port an ST emulator, call it Atawii.
added on the 2008-06-18 11:21:54 by xeron xeron
There already is a crappy ST emu (castaway port) called AtaWii
added on the 2008-06-18 12:03:54 by blasty blasty
\o/
added on the 2008-06-18 13:17:37 by xeron xeron
Wii MotionPlus
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Aparently Nintendo will anounce that thingamabob tomorrow. They say it will allow the wii to have 1-1 movement response. Giros?

That will be cool to use the Wiimote to record movement of cameras or objects in 3D space, for demos of course.
added on the 2008-07-14 21:39:40 by xernobyl xernobyl
Ruuleage!! I would suppose 1:1 is still impossible, but significant improvement: yes :D
added on the 2008-07-15 04:01:42 by bdk bdk
laserswords!
added on the 2008-07-15 09:01:35 by v3nom v3nom
hurray another addon. on an addon on an addon on an addon.

in a year u will be holding the wiimote with 2 hands :)

but a great way from Pretendo saying: what your holding now in your hands is crap. buy our other addon.
added on the 2008-07-15 10:56:18 by s0r s0r
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on a year u will be holding the wiimote with 2 hands :)

JUST LIKE A REAL LIGHTSABER!!!

Yes, I agree they're making too much hardware for a crappy 10 year old computer.
added on the 2008-07-16 01:21:11 by xernobyl xernobyl
say what you like about the Wii, it has the best games of the current gen. \o/
added on the 2008-07-16 10:45:04 by xeron xeron
xeron:true strike >.>;!
added on the 2008-07-16 12:04:20 by panic panic
you mean last-gen.
added on the 2008-07-16 12:19:19 by arm1n arm1n
its being sold now, it is nintendo's current console, it is the current top-selling console, it has games and hardware in the high street.

If it was Z80 based it would still be current gen by my (and quite a few other peoples) definitions :)
added on the 2008-07-16 12:31:18 by xeron xeron
xeron: don't hide yourself behind your thumb, the wii is no more gamer-oriented, it is top-selling because of its line of casual, healthy, party games, and the only 'hardcore' games are over-recycling the same aging nintendo stars ; besides not many big 3rd-party publishers are developing ONLY for the wii.
added on the 2008-07-16 12:56:05 by Zest Zest
Don't hide myself behind my thumb? I don't know that saying.

Anyway, as it happens I own a PS3 and a Wii. When i go to buy games, there is way more that takes my interest on the Wii section than in the PS3 section.

Don't get me wrong; the PS3, Wii and XBox all have great games, its just that i play more games on the Wii than i do on the PS3.
added on the 2008-07-16 14:17:51 by xeron xeron
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over-recycling the same aging nintendo stars


BTW, recycling Mario Kart worked. Mario Kart Wii plays beautifully, and is head and shoulders above Double Dash on the gamecube.

Mario Kart has been one of my absolute favourite games for years, and i think the Wii version might be the first to actually be better than the SNES original in every aspect.
added on the 2008-07-16 14:19:24 by xeron xeron
Oh yeah, and Super Mario Galaxy is also pretty special.
added on the 2008-07-16 14:22:16 by xeron xeron
Aparently there's an hacked IOS version that allows to run backups without a modchip. I must check that... I'm gonna borrow someone's backup backup just in case, so I don't ruin someone's backup backup.
added on the 2008-07-17 17:32:54 by xernobyl xernobyl

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