The Nintendo Wii now fully hacked?

Posted Dec 28, 2007 at 10:49PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii Tags: GameCube, Sony, Wiimote

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The homebrew scene proves once more that it's a force to be reckoned with, as it seems some guys from the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (24AC3) have just shown off a live demonstration of homebrew running on the Wii. Yes, on the Wii itself, and not via the GameCube backwards compatibility feature of Nintendo's latest console. Proof? They were able to use the Wiimote's motion-sensing capabilities in conjunction with the homebrew program, as you'll see in a video we linked to below.

While we can't help but be excited at the prospect of seeing the homebrew scene for the Nintendo Wii become as creative and exciting as that of today's handheld consoles, we also can't help but take this little bit of good news with a grain of salt and advise our readers to do the same. But then again, the video itself does prove to be quite convincing, as the homebrew was able to display live information about the Wiimote's position and data. So awesome.

In any case, hit up the via link for the video. Enjoy!

Thanks to PsPoPPer for the tip!

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# ... — VgSlag 2007-12-28 21:44

That's just plain awesome.

# haha — Beno__ 2007-12-28 23:51

i love all the "nerd" comments ont he youtube video. i bet those n00bs won't be complaining when they can do all sorts of cool stuff on their Wii thanks to that nerd.

# yea! — xLinkinwormx 2007-12-29 04:14

yea them nerd comments aint needed, are the game companies nerds for making the console? well they must be, the title said wii hack, and they clicked on it, they have an intrest in hacking? they must be nerds too, there should be an anti nerd homebrew hack thing lol

# . — Mister Common Sense 2007-12-29 04:37

Homebrew has to be more interesting than the crappy third party games out now.

# ... — BrendanL 2007-12-29 09:06

I skipped all the talking and went to the demonstration to see nothing. And besides, where are they that they can demonstrate the Wii being hacked. Like what place would allow that?

# Maybe you should have listened to that talking then? — TPot 2007-12-29 23:13

They have used the Wii to access it's own decryption functions and are now changing code to be what they want. ie. same place PSP was a few years ago.

# Hopefully — J2Jack 2007-12-30 01:06

As far as I can see, this is running WITHOUT exploits! Meaning future users should only need any DVD burner and a Wii drive chip... This looks tasty, but I wish they'd release the farking keys

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