Twilight Hack prevention already thwarted

Can any of us actually be surprised by this? If someone from a computer or gaming company states that we are taking anti hacking precautions you are bound to find people that are going to try to hack into it just to say that they could. It is just like those morons who say they can't be hurt so they ask you to punch them in the stomach as hard as you can. Eventually you are going to be hit by someone strong enough to really hurt you. You go around announcing something is the anti hack to a current one someone is bound to figure out how to bypass it.

HACK THE PLANET!!!

Wow, that didn't take long. I somehow feel an inkling of pride, too.

Coming soon:
Wii Menu 3.4

While, yes, there are great uses for hacking a system (hellz yeah, ScummVM on Wii), Nintendo is pretty much obliged to fight these security holes. They know these holes can be exploited for piracy (be it disc-based or download-based), and if they don't try to stop it, it kinda sends a bad message to third-party publishers. Same reason Sony keeps fighting it on PSP.

Took about as long as I expected it would. Give up Nintendo, it's never going to stop and, as long as there's no piracy, they're really doing your system a favor (not like it needs to become any more desirable, but...) Homebrew sold a lot of PSP's, including mine. The people who will play emulators on Wii are the same people who already play emulators on a PC or other console - not your target audience for Virtual Console games. WiiWare piracy is certainly an issue, but legit homebrew should just be left alone. Of course, so far there hasn't been anything compelling enough released to actually warrant the use of this clumsy hack for me, but I still side with them in principle - and the scene always gets better as it goes along.

I know they CAN hack the system, but what have they done with it so far? There's no hot shit applications worth bothering with the hacks at the moment....

...or is there?

I get the feeling that Nintendo could have tried a lot harder to fill the security hole. Maybe the update department is secretly a fan of the homebrew scene. It really wouldn't surprise me.

I don't think the patch it's really for all these geeks that probably have a hard drive inside their Wii already and some l33t red leds added, but for the new people buying stuff will not be able to run piracy. These guys were happy the homebrew was still there after the patch... And all those that say hacking is for homebrew must be smoking something, Not to mention Nintendo is selling these games, emulator were supposed to be for stuff not available anymore.

It's going to be a bloody battle but who cares, wasn't the Wii pure gimmicks and no one should play Wii games?

> Note to Nintendo: As with Sony's PSP, you can only do so much.

They as business are obliged to do it - to prevent some pro bootleggers taking advantage of it legally.

Though of course, who wouldn't want to have a simple possibility to play games off freshly burned DVD+-R. Actual lack of demos and average quality of Wii titles only contribute to the push for cracking Wii wide open.

You don't hear about people hacking 360s or PS3's...

Word to Nintendo: People are getting BORED with your casual game approach. Release something people can actually play.

Looks like a job for Michael Bay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNi5tDUqwkA
http://www.teamavalaunch.com/

It may not be as good as homebrew on wii, but it's still there.