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Playing ISO's on an unmodded Wii! Finally!
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28. July 2008 @ 20:30 |
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According to consolespot.net , A team Twiizer's member, found an exploit in nintendo's current firmware which would allow unchipped/unmodded wii's to have iso play back. He decided to inform nintendo, and has now received a response from Nintendo about the loophole for pirating Wii games. Bushing emailed Nintendo, but it appears that they were not overaly interested in Bushing's findings and he did not recieve much of a response from Nintendo. Bushing has made the decision to go public with his ISO loading DVD loading exploit. Essentially, this means that all users, including those without a modchip, will now be able to access to files stored on their own DVD-R. This opens up a lot of useful possibilities to the Wii, but means we will be seeing pirated games surfacing all over the place. :D :D
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penguin98
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28. July 2008 @ 20:40 |
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Originally posted by WiiLover:
we will be seeing pirated games surfacing all over the place. :D :D
Lol. Have you been to any torrent site in the last year? Believe me, pirated games are all over the place.
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ggbarnum
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28. July 2008 @ 20:40 |
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It actually says the exact opposite... Backups are not playable throught his exploit. Here is the text from HackMii...
This is not a backup loader, in any way, shape, or form. If you?re looking for a backup loader, please move along.
While Nintendo did reply to bushing?s open letter, he has not succeeded in establishing a conversation with an engineer about the issue. Furthermore, we have learned that they received and read at least two of the original three e-mails that were sent prior to the open letter, and decided not to reply (in fact, one of their replies was to one of the original e-mails, but only after the open letter was posted). Therefore, we can only conclude that they are not very interested in the issue.
As many of you may already know or have deduced, the bug in our open letter referred to a way of reading DVD-Rs (and Video DVDs) without the use of a modchip. Several people have investigated the bug independently, and they?ve gotten pretty close. However, we did discover an easier way of enabling this mode from homebrew, which, among other things, does not require any changes to IOS at all. This method is also relatively difficult to transform into some sort of backup loader.
Erant has been developing a library that uses this trick to enable DVD access for homebrew. We hope to release it this coming week, after a few details have been polished. svpe and dhewg have been working on a native mplayer port that uses this library to play back DVDs, which we hope to release as a proof-of-concept together with the library. We also have DVD-loading versions of snes9x and Genplus.
Non-modchip users will not need a custom IOS. Ironically, this method doesn?t work for users of some modchips. Therefore, these users will require a patched IOS using the well-known UnencryptedRead patch (the library will automatically use it if needed). We?ll try to release a somewhat more user-friendly version of patchmii dedicated to this task together with the library.
Could this mean an eventual ISO or DVD loader for downloaded backup games? Only time will tell, but for now I can safely say Nintendo should be nominated as "Dunce of the Week" for their lack of and follow through with getting this patched. I have a feeling this could come back to bite them...
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xaznboitx
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30. July 2008 @ 04:19 |
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why is he telling NOA this is he that dumb?
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12. August 2008 @ 16:54 |
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Originally posted by penguin98:
Originally posted by WiiLover:
we will be seeing pirated games surfacing all over the place. :D :D
Lol. Have you been to any torrent site in the last year? Believe me, pirated games are all over the place.
haha thats true.
I have a modded wii so it really doesn't matter to me.
And also i've had this burning question on my mind since i got the key. How can i play iso movies on my wii? I mean if its even possible.
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penguin98
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12. August 2008 @ 22:36 |
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It's fairly simple really, just make a GCOS disk, boot it, then swap to the DVD you want to watch.
But the wii's DVD drive is really not suited to the kind of use that playing a DVD movie requires, and with a cheap DVD player currently costing less than $30 USD anymore you're just better off buying a DVD burner and not wearing out the drive of your wii.
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28. August 2008 @ 21:02 |
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Originally posted by penguin98:
It's fairly simple really, just make a GCOS disk, boot it, then swap to the DVD you want to watch.
But the wii's DVD drive is really not suited to the kind of use that playing a DVD movie requires, and with a cheap DVD player currently costing less than $30 USD anymore you're just better off buying a DVD burner and not wearing out the drive of your wii.
Thats true, my dvd player(tht happens to be under the Wii)can play region free movies and divx. So when I really think about it, that was dumb of me to ask.
Here's another question, it has nothing to do with this topic, um how do you add the images under the comments you leave like the senior members?
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29. August 2008 @ 19:11 |
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