Hacker claims The Conduit 'virtually unprotected,' easy to foil

LOL online cheating is fun. I have homebrew and the ocarnia cheat application and I cheat online on mario kart all the time. Different buttons on the GC controller give me items and its a blast!
I usually use a mega mushroom and then star power and block off a bridge. The funny thing is that most ppl stay because I guess its kinda fun trying to escape my wrath!

One day you're going to find a game that you really like, that you enjoy playing without cheating. Probably when you grow up some. And some little douchebag is going to cheat and ruin the game for you.

I hope you remember how much fun it is to cheat in Mario Kart then.

Dude its a game! And I dont have to worry about little kids ruining fun online games for me becasue microsoft actually has control over their online system.
The times that a cheater does come is rare, and when it happens its hilarious. Just like me on mario kart. So you can shut up. Like on halo 2 someone would make me spawn on the roof and they were flying around in a warthog. I wasnt mad, I laughed. CALM DOWN

I think they believe that the user base of the Wii doesn't know how to hack. This shows they have never heard of the Twilight Hack or any of the things people use to get around the Wii's region lock, among other things.

It's not necessarily bad. They probably did it like that because they knew that it would be hacked eventually and decided to keep the game fast by compiling it without any obfuscation.

Who is *really* at fault here is Nintendo for developing such a bad multiplayer API. They actually thought it was *ok* to allow clients to modify stuff like this when all those variables/etc should be stored on the server. If anyone modifies them, their game will reflect the changes but the server will not, and you will still have to play like a normal player, with the exception of the wallhack maybe. This is how it is done in Quake 3, and works amazingly well. If the server says you get hit, or can't fly, or aren't invincible, then that is how it is. The only way it would ever work is in single player.

Another thing that pisses me off about Nintendo is that they actually allow one hacked client to send action commands to another client, and the other client will actually obey them. For one, no client should ever be allowed to send commands or even packets to another in a client-server architecture like this. This is what gives cheaters the ability to make your character spazz out and move around wildly as if you're hitting random buttons. It happens in Conduit, and in Brawl.

Depends which console. Wii's really the only vulnerable right now.

I was with you till you said bad things about shooters on the Wii. When the Wii first came out I said "they are going to port all the old-school light gun games and it will be awesome". Its sentiment such as your last comment that has prevented such awesomeness from occuring

I don't think you sprinkled enough fail on that comment.

Um, did you read the article ?

Or did you make random comments just because you thought it would work out ?

Some hackers actually work with companies to find stuff like this and prevent others from exploiting it. A steady pay check is better then wondering it the FBI/Interpol is going to break down your door.

*Thinks whistfully of the days when people knew the difference between hackers and crackers, before the media screwed it all up.*

You are thinking of the days between you and your select groups or friends knew the difference.

Black hats are the exploiters, white hats are the defenders IIRC.

Yeah, I don't think the general populace has ever recognized the difference between a hacker and a cracker.

Sad.

Oh I know the difference between whitehats and blackhats, I suppose I was just under the impression that once if you were a white/blackhat you stayed that way, unless you are trying to shoehorn yourself into the business as I suppose hetoan2 is trying to do.

And I'm fairly certain that he went from "cracker" to "hacker" once he changed the code to give him infinite ammo, etc. And doubly so once he did this in an online game.

Again I could be wrong, but that is just what I assumed. And all this discussion stemming from the fact that I was trying to make a joke, albiet a bad one at that.

I like saltines.

Well, me and my friends Acid Burn, Crash Override and Lord Nikon are going against The Plaugue...does that make us crackers or HACKERS?

HACK THE PLANET!!!

THEY'RE TRASHING OUR RIGHTS!!!

TRASHING!!! TRASHING!!! TRASHING!!!

lol

"Hackers" is either awesome in an awful way or awful in an awesome way.

all this talk is making me hungry for cheese and crackers.

problem is most cheaters probably don't know how to fix the cheats. they just know how to do it because some guy out there put the steps online

The difference is that he MADE the hacks, understand how they work, and can probably help with a way to fix it. Usually the ones who get banned just use them with no understanding of how it works or what is going on behind the scenes.

That was my first thought. Then my second was that I don't have this game so I really don't care.

From the looks of it he released it with stuff to fuck up the games of anyone using it. So he decided to punish them for their cheating ways.

yeah, he's just f*ckin with em. like how his first release would delete saves.

Apparently Joystiq comments won't accept a html tags. Here's the links I was trying to post.

Latest vid of Harmonium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=758vL22E5EY
BootMii: http://bootmii.org

You come to joystiq for hacking/homebrew news? Really?

Of course not. My point is that they do a horrible job of covering it lately. For hacking/homebrewing news I use http://www.wiibrew.org and http://www.tehskeen.com

In case you haven't noticed, they almost never cover the PSP or DS homebrew scenes either. Maybe a rare article here and there, but nothing extensive.

Unfortunately I've noticed. To be fair though, the PSP scene is way to complicated lately (to hack a virgin PSP) unless you want to devote writing, updating, and supporting guides of how to hack your PSP. And the current DS homebrew scene revolves around running homebrew with flashcarts and Joystiq appears to have a strong policy condemning all news supporting them. (However there were quite a few homebrew on flashcarts articles and even a how-to guide on the old DS Fanboy)

@Arikado

Maybe someone is putting pressure on them not to cover it, although this is highly speculative.

I almost never see any homebrew stuff for any console posted on joystiq, why should the Wii be different?

@Rob:
Wouldn't surprise me. There clearly has been less news since they became Joystiq.

@Reader:
My point is that if they are going to choose to cover it, don't cover the warez and cheating crap; Cover the "true homebrew". If not, don't cover it at all (and quite frankly, that wouldn't bug me as much as only seeing articles like these does).

The old Fanboy pages were quite excellent about following that scene, or at least those aspects of it that were significant.

Those days are gone, now.

I remember...

In fact, I first heard about Wii Hacking from Wii Fanboy.

That's griefing, and those people are the scum of the earth.

Schadenfreude.

When you can cause someone grief and suffer virtually no consequences, it's much more tempting. Alas, internet.

I dont cheat online, I don't have the time to set it up or the patience to figure it out. If I did, I'd turn the voulme all the way up just to hear everyone's reaction.

To be fair, between the glitches, the lack of a half decent ranking system, and the inclusion of the lock-on feature online (REALLY?!), The Conduit isn't really that competitive (or that fun) online.