Wii 'Twilight Princess' hack gets SD card support

27 Comments by James Ransom-Wiley Mar 14th 2008 7:00PM
Filed under: Hacks, Nintendo Wii

The Wii 'Twilight Hack' has been upgraded to version 0.1a3, also known as Hello Grandma! Perhaps responding to complaints from Wii's elderly demographic, purveyors of the Twilight Princess exploit have laid out a process that's as simple as popping out that little card from your digital camera and copying some files right next to the folder of 'Senior Night' at the bowling lanes. Insert into your Wii (see image above) and *POOF* ... you'll be playing a second-rate version of Tetris in no time!

For those still uncertain about just how easy Wii hackery has become, peep the video walkthrough after the break.

[Via Wii Fanboy]

Tags: homebrew, sd, twilight-hack, twilight-princess

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(Page 1) Reader Comments

wootman: Mar 14th 2008; 7:05PM

yay, the video isn't imaginary!

aaron_k7: Mar 14th 2008; 7:06PM

Wii, welcome to the world of the PSP. Enjoy your stay.

Sora267: Mar 14th 2008; 7:58PM

I hope the Wii STAYS in PSP world. WTB Wii Skype!

Tiptup300: Mar 14th 2008; 9:25PM

World of Xbox would be better. It has XBMC and.....erm, .....

Wii, welcome to the world of XBMC!

Madster: Mar 16th 2008; 5:37PM

The Wiimote has a builtin speaker and microphone and a nice bluetooth range.

Skype Headset? Yes please!

ApolloIV: Mar 14th 2008; 7:09PM

The hack isn't very exciting but what it will lead to will rock my world.

gir: Mar 14th 2008; 7:21PM

I know this isn't related, but I finally found a wii today. Yaaaaaaaahhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's Brawl time. Grades, get ready to suffer!

Lock: Mar 14th 2008; 7:30PM

so no SNES emulators yet?

Jhongerkong: Mar 14th 2008; 8:17PM

There is one.

Ethan: Mar 14th 2008; 9:07PM

Woo Wii60 (hey there's probably a ps3 somewhere out of shot though)

Dan Bugglin: Mar 14th 2008; 10:16PM

I was just playing the Tetris thing with this (only an OK clone).

I tried using Linux but it froze while booting up. Which I find odd for a release product that runs on exactly one type of hardware. Maybe it didn't like my SD card. Ah well it was only a qiock port of GameCube Linux... I'm sure we'll see a more refined version as time goes on.

zelderman: Mar 15th 2008; 12:03AM

do you need a mod chip for this?

Moofree: Mar 15th 2008; 12:11AM

No.

zelderman: Mar 15th 2008; 1:52AM

sweet, I'm doing this

CubeGuy: Mar 15th 2008; 12:13AM

Wake me up when I can download the Wii Miidea Center.

Alex: Mar 15th 2008; 2:33AM

Awesome! What programs work on it?

CrazySteve88: Mar 15th 2008; 4:39AM

GTATEMP HAS BEEN HACKED! I was trying to view the news and BAM I noticed the site has been hacked! I just viewed it maybe 2 days ago...

halfblind(-_x): Mar 15th 2008; 12:41PM

This has nothing to do with the article but I think this guy is using OsX in a pc because of the mouse cursor locator to prevent tearing :P.

CrazySteve88: Mar 16th 2008; 9:22AM

GBATemp is the one with the story, which you can view if you click Read. My comment was on topic and I was merely trying to view more information about this. GBATemp is now fine.

Nivres: Mar 15th 2008; 1:15PM

Hi! I tried this on my Wii with a SNES emulator, the emulator ran ok, but the controllers stopped responding, I mean, the Wii didn's froze, because the animation kept running. Any ideas?

The emulator is Snes9xGx-2.0.1b8.

Eric Jackson: Mar 15th 2008; 1:37PM

the only homebrew that works with the SD card so far is tetris, and I believe the emulators and I believe emu_kidid's mp3 player. the emulators still need to be changed to work with the SD card, so give it a little while.

but there are good things to come, so keep updated!

Eric Jackson: Mar 15th 2008; 1:39PM

excuse the typo, just woke up.

*the only homebrew that works with the SD card so far is tetris, and I believe emu_kidid's mp3 player. the emulators still need to be changed to work with the SD card, so give it a little while.

but there are good things to come, so keep updated!*

karmaghost: Mar 17th 2008; 8:34AM

Funny thing is when I read this I couldn't think of a single game that I'd want to pirate on the Wii and I owned one until my eBay auction just ended last night.

rDr4g0n: Mar 17th 2008; 9:04AM

Im really excited about the non-pirate wii game possibilites. All the little indy game maker people can now make wii games absolutely free! Hopefully now well see indy game slike n+ and the knitt games on wii for free, plus some options as far as interface and apps, cuz nintendo is notorious for doing stuff their way and not caring what the consumer wants.

hvnlysoldr: Mar 30th 2008; 2:59PM

But does it play Doom?

bzlai: Apr 10th 2008; 5:29AM

pirate pirate pirate! arg! :D

monkeyninja: May 6th 2008; 1:50AM

how much room does it take?

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