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First Wii U exploit revealed
- Thread starter TunaLover
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Altered Juice
Member
aw yeah i can't wait for the "back up" apps to get added, AKA PIRATE THAT SHIT, SON!
Zomba13
Member
lol this.
I was all "ooooh this'll lead to region free!" but then I was a all "Wait... region free to play what games?".
Then I was all
molnizzle
Member
This:
Downright ridiculous that I can't play my Wii copy of FFVI on the GamePad. Homebrew will give me that.
And it's also the reason why PSP have extremely low attach rate, subpar support on west, and an early death despite strong lineup from Japan, even on 2011. 99% of people will use this to pirate and only 1% like Gaf that bother to import legitimate copy from other region to use reg free hack.
AcademicSaucer
Member
ps2 as well, problem is , nintendo doesnt make a profit out of the hardware .
Anyway, seeing this, shows nintendo that the wii u doesnt deserve more games , not like there was going to be any new game announcements for the platform outside of zelda anyway.
Even the yoshi and the fire emblem x smt game may have been canceled already .
The pontential for piracy is not a sad thing. On a fundamental scale the ability to pirate is an amazing thing to have on a platform. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating piracy, and I'm not saying piracy is a good thing, but on a fundamental scale the ability to pirate stems from complete freedom to do what you want with your hardware, which is an amazing thing to have and should always be appreciated. Obviously there is always going to be someone who abuses the potential for homebrew, but the reason it is possible is a good thing to me.
ilikesanta
Member
My god this gif is horrifying.
I'm always curios what people are able to do with the homebrews.
I'm with everyone for ending region locking but the three others are wrong.
Games modding is so-so, I understand some people like it but the fact remains, it's not really legal due to copyrights things, and add that DLC changed things too. I heard about those New Super Mario Bros Wii packs, but we got the Luigi DLC.
Emulation is entierely piracy.
And multimedia idk what you mean with bruteforcing but atm I think this could be something an app could do.
Oh and fixing SSB jokes? Patches also exists on Wii U now, on the contratry of Brawl on Wii.
So to me those lists still havn't added one good reason outside region locking.
SneakyStephan
Banned
76 million psps or something, right?
the psx was only as popular as it was because it was easy to pirate on (parents looooved the psx for that reason) and the n64 was impossible
same with the ds and the r4 cartridge
QuantumZebra
Member
Fuck this shit. I hope Nintendo finds a way to still keep hackers out. On the Wii, similar hacks enabled some good features, but unfortunately also piracy. However, the most annyoing thing that came out of this - and I hope this won't be a problem on the Wii U - were the fucking cheaters in online games. Mario Kart Wii was full of them - and even Conduit 2 - a game that wasn't even that popular had the occacional cheaters online...
Mango The Magician
Banned
God dammit, is it too much to ask for the ability to play Mario Kart and Smash online without hacks?
GAF usually frowns upon claiming no one uses homebrew and homebrew = piracy, by the way.
Just a forewarning to everyone that's about to claim this is only good for piracy and the only reason people will be doing it.
Should probably put a warning or something in the topic, OP. Thread might get a bit ugly. :/
Edit:
I wonder if this might lead to the possibility to play blurays on the Wii U? Hopefully it won't be as hacky as playing DVDs on the Wii is.
Just a forewarning to everyone that's about to claim this is only good for piracy and the only reason people will be doing it.
Should probably put a warning or something in the topic, OP. Thread might get a bit ugly. :/
Edit:
I wonder if this might lead to the possibility to play blurays on the Wii U? Hopefully it won't be as hacky as playing DVDs on the Wii is.
Using the gamepad to play Wii and Gamecube games without needing a separate controller.
That possibility didn't even cross my mind. Wow.
I don't disagree with you, all I am really getting at is that opening the door for the consumer to do what they want is great. Problem is, by opening that door, they can also do things that aren't great. I suppose this is a problem of freedom, of full choice, and many lean to leaving it locked up no matter what, even if that can become another issue entirely.
I had another post in this thread citing SMT IV and why region locking is shit. It's just that, to me, you seemed to be upset at X because you have the feeling it won't come out everywhere, sort of like what nearly happened to Xenoblade.
Smash 4 mods (just look at where Brawl modding has reached) and emulators on the Gamepad (primarily for games that have no chance in hell of seeing a VC release, like NHL 94, licensed games or ROM hacks, and hopes of seeing a fully-functional PS1 emulator on a console).
This is factually incorrect, and people on this forum have been banned for saying this in the past. Just FYI.
Think more of the potential future, not the present. Right now, there is no issue, and that's really due to how bad Wii U is doing. Hahaha.
To be fair though, cheaters are less of a problem in general when devs/pubs actually give a shit about post-launch support of even online community maintenance. Treating games as services is something that has damn near become standard since Halo 3 and Minecraft came out, but Nintendo is still beta testing this idea in different pockets of their lineup while keeping it absent in their biggest titles.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
The Wii U wouldn't be a great homebrew machine and I doubt authors would give it much thought. Someone get homebrew on the PS4!!
DQX and Yakuza HD, I think
mocolostrocolos
Member
I find no reasons to hack my WiiU, unlike my 3DS and the glorious region free fix.
taiko no tatsujin, puyo puyo tetris, stuff like that.
Solid Samus
Banned
Just because you don't see them as good reasons doesn't mean they aren't good reasons.
1) Game modding - nobody gives a shit that it's illegal. Particularly Nintendo, who hasn't reacted in any capacity to some of the major and fantastic full-game mods out there. Like Project M (which in and of itself helped to jumpstart a lot of Smash developments, including but not limited to tons of renewed awareness in the older titles and participation in competitive and casual scenes) and Newer/Another SMBW.
I suggest you look up Project M and know what it is before you handwave game modding away entirely like it's irrelevant. 'Patches' are not the same as this.
2) Whatever, I kind of acknowledged that
3) As in the Wii could be made to play back video and music files, stream, and play DVDs. Functionality that apps could theoretically allow for but never did
Will that really help sales if the lineup already doesn't?
Twilightzoney
Member
To be honest, I just would want the Wii U to be moddable to make editors for games like 3d World since just looks like it uses the 3d models as template pieces, so we could make our own levels in the future, same goes for NSBMU.
Same can be said with Smash Brothers comes out. I only care for the modding side of things. Usually other homebrew stuff is linked with that. Or you get emulators or little apps like we did on the Wii. And of course always comes piracy sometime.
Movie player on the gamepad ... hmmm ..
edit :
Media player, more options for drawing apps (Colors!3D started as a DS homebrew), animation homebrew (since Nintendo don't give a shit to Flipnote and the gamepad is better to draw), RetroArch, New controller setups and "gameshark" like things (like Ocarina on Wii)....
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Media player, more options for drawing apps (Colors!3D started as a DS homebrew), animation homebrew (since Nintendo don't give a shit to Flipnote and the gamepad is better to draw), RetroArch, New controller setups and "gameshark" like things (like Ocarina on Wii)....
my thoughts exactly. Now I know that if Sakurai screws up again there will be someone who will make a better game.
Green Yoshi
Member
I guess even this can't save WiiU. There are no games to steal. ^^
theprodigy
Member
Wrestlemania
Banned
Has there been any update on streaming from PC to GamePad? That's all I want from the home brew scene.
Solid Samus
Banned
You mean reiterate on a strong foundation of someone else's creation as a reaction to an outcry of unhappiness from dedicated fans. And I mean that's great, they worked hard at it for several years and ended up with something quite faithful to both sets of source material (and I fucking love it), but they didn't make a game. They made a mod to a game to make it play like it's predecessor. It's probably the best and most complex mod of its sort out there period but yeah