Wii Hacking: Day One Summary
A summary of current (reported) progress. I unfortunately don't have a Wii that I can really mess with, yet, so take all of this with a grain of salt, please.
- Most important news: Datel FreeLoader for Gamecube already works on the Wii. Right now people can use this to run imported gamecube games (NOT HOMEBREW, see below..AR does!) and will probably be a popular entry point. For the uninitiated, FreeLoader is a commercial product that allows one to boot unsigned code on the Gamecube. You can buy it from Amazon, but I wouldn't do that until this has been more widely confirmed to be true.
- There are also reports of people using their Action Replay with SDLoad to play GC homebrew on the Wii, such as Snes9x. Snes9x was able to read roms off the SD drive as well.
- This is good news, because PSO for the Gamecube apparently does not work on the Wii, so no PSO exploit. The issue is that PSO does not find any sort of ethernet/broadband adapter.
- Rumer has it Wii rips are already being released. A quick scan of torrent and public IRC trading sites shows no activity yet, so no way to tell if it's not just a rumour.
- While no drivers exist yet and no one is sure if it conforms to many standards, the WiiMote is confirmed to be a bluetooth device.
- Wii cannot play CD's or DVD's apparently. Not too big of a deal if whatever linux distribution eventually gets support for the wifi, SD, and USB.
- Speaking of linux distributions, see WiiLi, or Wii-Linux. My money is on WiiLi.
posted by Tom at
9:50 AM
2 Comments:
Awesome. I'll be keeping an eye on this for any region-related hacks, especially a hardware switch mode a la GCN.
Where has it been reported about the SDLoader? And more specifically, if it can load roms etc off the SD card, is that using a GC memory card to SD adaptor, or are we talking about the SD card in the standard SD slot? (Which would mean the system is addressing it as a standard device using the same legacy access modes that the GCN used, which would be AWESOME for hacking) - This thing takes full size discs and reads DVD Roms. Let's make it a portable DiVX Machine!
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