Pancakes R Us said:What, just over the phone without having to send your console in?
Interesting.Dragona Akehi said:So bushing has posted a news item Wii Menu System 4.2. It basically comes down to "lol nintendo".
A Twisty Fluken said:quick someone send the good news to g4, let's get the word out
the continued specific targeting going on here makes me think that nintendo's biggest concern is large numbers of casual pirates taking advantage of comfortable, well-known, and well-documented exploits. either that or they have some extremely incompetent full-timers in charge of system security :lol
With the DSi being region-locked, I don't see how the next console could be region free, I mean coming from them and all.Dragona Akehi said:The real reason why the Wii will never be able to recover security-wise is simply because of the way Nintendo designed the "OS". It isn't really an OS at all. It's a bunch of relatively unrelated programmes that sort of work together. They can't make a system-wide update that prevents homebrew, because then they'll break compatibility with older games entirely, when that game attempts to call for a certain older version of an IOS.
This post, by bushing explains it very well for non-programmers, and links to other informative posts to help you understand just how poorly IOS was designed: not just in terms of security.
In the end, it doesn't really matter what Nintendo does, because the Wii has been hackable ever since they finalised IOS back in 2005 or whenever.
Their next system? Probably won't be as easy to hack. But if it is as popular as the Wii, and still has retarded region coding, I'm sure it'll fall.
HUELEN10 said:With the DSi being region-locked, I don't see how the next console could be region free, I mean coming from them and all.
Dragona Akehi said:Nintendo cannot implement an overall system check at any point in the game: firmware via disc, forcing update to access the Shop Channel, etc. This is because of the way that they designed IOS.
Which is, in a word: lulz.
Clipper said:Wow. Just wow.
Almost as funny as a few hours ago as a guy on GBATemp asked marcan (one of the HBC guys): "Do you even know who made the HBC?"
marcan said:And Nintendo is deleting posts that (rightly) blame their poor quality control and focus on blocking homebrew for no good reason.
I smell a shitstorm coming.
Datschge said:Sorry state of affairs that the "experts" with actual knowledge of the Wii internals are outside of Nintendo's HQ.
They probably have noone able to talk to him since everybody there knows nothing. And this update seems to prove that being closer to reality than satire.Dragona Akehi said:The most hilarious thing is that bushing has kept trying to open communications with NOA and NCL regarding some bad exploits he wanted them to fix (with suggestions on how to fix them). They have never replied to his emails. At all.
Dragona Akehi said:The most hilarious thing is that bushing has kept trying to open communications with NOA and NCL regarding some bad exploits he wanted them to fix (with suggestions on how to fix them). They have never replied to his emails. At all.
Dragona Akehi said:The real reason why the Wii will never be able to recover security-wise is simply because of the way Nintendo designed the "OS". It isn't really an OS at all. It's a bunch of relatively unrelated programmes that sort of work together. They can't make a system-wide update that prevents homebrew, because then they'll break compatibility with older games entirely, when that game attempts to call for a certain older version of an IOS.
This post, by bushing explains it very well for non-programmers, and links to other informative posts to help you understand just how poorly IOS was designed: not just in terms of security.
In the end, it doesn't really matter what Nintendo does, because the Wii has been hackable ever since they finalised IOS back in 2005 or whenever.
Their next system? Probably won't be as easy to hack. But if it is as popular as the Wii, and still has retarded region coding, I'm sure it'll fall.
Datschge said:They probably have noone able to talk to him since everybody there knows nothing. And this update seems to prove that being closer to reality than satire.
Anony said:nintendo is a multimillion company, why should they respond to one "hacker"s emails
JonathanEx said:Basically, the Nintendo firmware team can't code for shit, and no-one should update to 4.2?
More so than ever, yes. Past updates and features have been highly sloppy already, but worked ok enough in isolation to be acceptable. Now they use an existing sloppy system code in a sloppy non-update to update the very core booting code of the system across all Wii units existing apparently without any quality check: massive fail.JonathanEx said:Basically, the Nintendo firmware team can't code for shit, and no-one should update to 4.2?
Dragona Akehi said:The most hilarious thing is that bushing has kept trying to open communications with NOA and NCL regarding some bad exploits he wanted them to fix (with suggestions on how to fix them). They have never replied to his emails. At all.
Dragona Akehi said:Basically, yes. I should make an announcement.
That's it. The update notes were "stops u being norty".Drkirby said:Ok, other then bricking systems, what is 4.2 supposed to do?
Drkirby said:On a side note, if they get 4.2 working, wouldn't that invalidate the whole rant Dragona was making about them not being able to update the older IOS? Or is this proof that the rant is correct... Eh, lets wait and see.
Anony said:nintendo is a multimillion company, why should they respond to one "hacker"s emails
Teknoman said:Once you update, if your Wii hasnt bricked...it should be pretty safe right?
Teknoman said:Once you update, if your Wii hasnt bricked...it should be pretty safe right?
Dragona Akehi said:By the way, expect an influx.
Ramenman said:Tell me about it, just read the announcement, wtf is that ??
Are there any reports yet or is it just "I saw the code it could brick it" ?
Edit : nvm http://techforums.nintendo.com/nins/board?board.id=wii_tech
This shit is scary.
Can you dear Nintendo makers, can you please, create 3D glasses and release some 3D games for Wii?
We, Wii lovers already have big LCD tv's capable to do 60Hz.
Hollywood is making milions on 3D movies, why don't you?
PS. my kid wants a 3D whackAmole - can you? I know you can.
Thanks.
Drkirby said:Yes, the stuff on that board is scary:
TunaLover said:
Dragona Akehi said:Oh wow, System Menu 4.2 seems to be bricking non-HBCed Wiis. Looks like marcan's criticism of incredibly dodgy boot2 code was right.
GaussTek said:Hackmii Installer v0.5 out @:
http://bootmii.org/
More info at Hackmii:
http://hackmii.com/
:lol
Edit: whoa at the N64 emulator!
EatChildren said:Fuck yes!
beelzebozo said:BLAST CORPS still not playable