Wii polling finally hacked after weeks of failed attempts!

by Blake Snow { Feb 23rd 2007 at 1:55PM }

Arguably one of the most sought after hacks in console gaming right now is the ability to vote more than once on Wii's Everybody Votes Channel. So it's no surprise that everyone on the information super highway has been tirelessly working to fool the system. Well, the wait is finally over!

To illegally vote more than once, all you have to do is advance Wii's internal clock by one day. From there you'll be well on your way in fudging the numbers so that your ~~party~~, I mean, favorite vacationing spot secures the victory. Rinse and repeat until satisfied.

In related news, the color red mysteriously beat out the heavily favored blue in a recent poll. Blue's legal counsel called the result "unsupported by the law or the facts." Red's publicist denied our request for a comment.

[Thanks, Brian]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

vidGuy @ Feb 23rd 2007 1:59PM

I call for a recount!

Agent MOO @ Feb 23rd 2007 1:59PM

Oh noes! Someone hacked the free marketing research channel!

Cutriss @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:01PM

Uh, what? Blue won - it was like 63% Blue. I thought red would win myself.

NintendoFanbot @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:03PM

omg h4xxorZ!!!1!

Now let's:
-Control the British Crown
-Keep the metric system down
-Keep Atlantis of the maps
-Keep the Martians under wraps
-Hold back the Electric Car
-Make Steve Guttenberg a star
-Rob cave fish of their sight
-Rig every Oscar night

Also, change the Everyone Votes name to the "Wii Do" channel.

Joshua @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:04PM

If blue won, I'm 2:2 so far for predictions. :D

Crono @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:11PM

LOL at the stonecutters song!

Agent MOO @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:11PM

@4
Stonecutters FTW!

Kevout @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:12PM

Holy cow NintendoFanbot + 7 points for you

Virtua Fanboy @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:12PM

Yes! Ruin it for everybody! Waaaahaaa! LOL

Panadero @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:14PM

Er..all you have to do to "illegally vote" is use a second Mii. That's why they put a limit on votes per console, so it allows multiple people/Miis per console to vote. Granted, this doubles that limit, but if somebody is so determined to vote more than once one something, all they need is a second Mii.

Semprini @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:16PM

Didn't anybody WATCH the video? He's not voting more than once. He is suggesting more than one poll question per day. That's it.

BPM @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:19PM

Fanbot wins five Internets.

JJC @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:22PM

wow people really have nothing to do with their time. seriously hacking a poll channel for the wii? it was lame enough before people started to hack it. maybe nintendo will come out with something else now too keep their fans hopeful of a future noteworthy release, such as an advertising channel or something. now you can watch commercials on the wii!!! OMG! how sweet is that you cant do that on 360/PS3 and the controller YAY! how about some online play and non ported games instead? FLAME AWAY!

PS- the browser is actually pretty cool, i think nintendo did a great job with that. i wish the ps3 had a zoom in feature.

ck @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:23PM

I'm pretty sure blue won, not red. By a significant margin, too. I thought red would win for sure, it's the only wrong prediction I've made.

On another note, does anybody know what the points mean when looking up voter data - how "tuned" in are you? The more points means exactly what? I tried looking in the operations guide for the channel, but it just says it shows how tuned in you are to other voters....

Thad @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:26PM

Good start, though hardly qualifies as hacking.

What I want to see is someone cracking the DRM on Virtual Console.

(I am not advocating piracy. I just think that it's absurd that if I want to take a game I paid for over to a friend's house, I have to pack my own console. At least it's a small console.)

airpolgas @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:34PM

Blue did win, but the computer failed to recognize "blue."

:)

BTW, 5-0 record as of yesterday's results. It's not what you like, it's what you predict.

RYAN @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:35PM

YEAH EVERYBODY!! YEAAA!! LET'S HACK WII GAMES SO NOT AS MANY PEOPLE BUY THEM! THEN WE CAN ALL SIT BACK AND LAUGH AS DEVELOPERS STOP MAKING GAMES BECAUSE PROFIT GOES DOWN AND WE LOSE WII TITLES! YIPPEEEEEEEEE

x876543 @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:35PM

Semprini is right...

First the video is the worst quality I have ever seen. Should be banned from uploading to youtube for that.

Second, in the video they are only putting in new poll SUGGESTIONS not votes!

john @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:43PM

Someone take RYAN's keyboard away.

F1ghter @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:44PM

@JJC

The funny thing is, if the advertising channel had hand-selected ads that were actually good, I'd watch it. Heck, even now I scour YouTube sometimes for great ads. The real problem with TV ads is when the crap Viagara or Depends for Old Folks ads are more common than the ones that are entertaining.

brian @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:44PM

'tis is me.

The quailty is bad because i was recording from a fucking 2 megapixel phone camara you twat.

Semprini @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:45PM

@18 (x876543)
Thanks for reading my comment (and backing me up)!

The YouTube video name has just been changed. I posted a comment there that the uploader must have erased. Now if only Joystiq could fix their description of the story, all would be right in the world again. :)

But I wonder, what's the point? If you change the date to tomorrow, you lose your suggestion for that date. To submit again, you'll have to change your date again. In other words, you're not gaining anything.

Plus, most of these suggestions are probably deleted by some poor Nintendo intern anyway. :)

Zell @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:50PM

Yeah really, how the hell did Blue win?!

I wonder if the points you get will do anything later.

x876543 @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:56PM

Video title changed from "Vote more than once" to "suggest more than once" as Semprini pointed out. And I agree, woopdeedoo, suggest more than once. I have suggested once only, but voted a whole lot more. So far I'm 3 to 1 win/loss on the predictions. Who cares if you can put a bunch of crappy poll suggestions?

AJ @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:57PM

um...yeah blue won.

Todd @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:59PM

Why the hell would Blue win? Studies have shown that people prefer cool colors, like blue, over warm colors. People do traditionally lean towards the darker, cool colors.

RYAN @ Feb 23rd 2007 3:05PM

lol sorry john i just don't like people that pirate console games. It irritates the shit out of me.

iNime @ Feb 23rd 2007 3:27PM

the channel is stupid, so who cares what is happening. It's pointless! if you have fun with the channel, you could put that time into answering marketing polls that will actually get you something back... wii = wiitarded

Mr Khan @ Feb 23rd 2007 3:42PM

Blue winning caught me by surprise to

And reduced my record to 2 wins, 1 loss

I was also surprised that Wii owners favor dogs over cats, considering how much we all seem to love those internet memes

I would be interested in seeing VC DRM Hacked just so you could port applications over from your PC, enabling you to access PC titles and Master System titles

Although i'd also like to see an update/hack that could decode Dreamcast GD-ROMS and Saturn CDs...

Geo @ Feb 23rd 2007 3:43PM

WEEE DOOOO, WEEEE DOOOO.

You can use 6 miis to vote for each poll. You can rig things that way, you know...

Rubang B @ Feb 23rd 2007 4:40PM

The name of the YouTube video is even "Everybody Votes Channel - suggest more than once!" And that's all this h@x0rzing does. You can suggest one question per day, so if you change the date, you can do it again. Big fucking deal. You can still only get 6 votes for Wii by registering a max of 6 Miis with the channel.

john @ Feb 23rd 2007 6:09PM

@ RYAN

Then maybe you should read the article, watch the video, or just skim the comments. If you did, you'd find that this has absolutely nothing to do with pirating games. Read first, then think, then you can have the keyboard back.

vidGuy @ Feb 23rd 2007 6:33PM

Um, Blue won 67.6% to Red's 32.4%.

Anyway, yeah, I'm also 5 for 5.

Joshua @ Feb 23rd 2007 7:03PM

Wait wait wait...How many polls have their been? As far as I know, there have only been two completed:

What century would you prefer to live in?
What's your favorite color?

Were there more before these ones?

trujunglist @ Feb 23rd 2007 7:08PM

If you actually care that much about skewing the votes in any of these absolutely pointless questions, then I say good luck and god speed.

Rubang B @ Feb 23rd 2007 8:16PM

There were also

What's a more romantic Valentine's gift? Roses or chocolate?

Do you prefer dogs or cats?

Would you rather live in a house on a mountain or the beach?

And that's all I remember right now.

exit stencil @ Feb 23rd 2007 8:47PM

crips > bloods?

Saturn2888 @ Feb 23rd 2007 9:47PM

Why would someone cheat? Can you please shoot that person and get this over with? I'm very big on statistics and especially you guys announcing how to cheat on something I wanted to use for studying, it's horrible! The person who cheats seriously deserves a beatdown. I'm not going to stand for this. It's a voting thing! If you lose, you lost for good. If you cheated, you're a dumbass that deserves to be cut off from the rest of the world for your ignorance. Does anyone else understand why I'm so hyped up over this? It's a really big issue that needs to be dealt with and fixed immediately. Now those data numbers for all the current questions are incorrect and they can't ask them again as people have a hindsight bias. The way to vote multiple times could be to add more Miis to your voting channel, but even that's unethical. I have 6 people on my voting channel and 2 of them don't own a Wii, and I called them up for their answers and predictions. This cheating basically makes that entirely void now. Thanks for screwing over my new source of fun Mr. Cracker... You deserve a cruel fate.

Deozaan @ Feb 23rd 2007 10:27PM

Anyone else notice on the Wii Menu when you press the + or - buttons on the Wiimote to move the screen two screens away from the Everybody Votes Channel that that Marquee is displayed in the same box but one screen over?

For instance, my Everybody Votes Channel is in the bottom right window on the 1st page. When I navigate between the 2nd and 3rd pages, the scrolling text of the latest poll that shows on the Everybody Votes preview window shows up in the bottom right corner on the 2nd page, even though there's no channel stored there.

Weird.