Hey, Nintendo–what’s going on here? After a good year or so looking the other way on Wii homebrew (for the most part), now we’ve got two fairly serious brew-killing updates in the last month? Word from the folks at Wiibrew.org is that the latest update, System Menu 3.4, is apparently a doozy when it comes to ruining the homebrew party.
mes
Friday, November 21, 2008 at 4:12 PMthat sucks that sucks that sucks
what about the wii chip?
paco
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 2:43 PMto be fair, i don’t think nintendo is trying to rain on homebrew’s parade. i’m sure they like people trying to innovate by themselves. HOWEVER, all it would take is for a website to tweak a twilight hack file in some way to make it brick everyone’s wii or log their CC info if they buy wii points or who knows what else. it’s the unregulated nature of the homebrew community that causes concern. sure, we’d all like to think everyone is smart enough to know which sources are reliable and which are a bit too shady to trust, but when it starts affecting nintendo and their paying customers, they have no choice but to keep things to a minimum.
besides, these updates will only continue to stop the casual hackers from messing around. the people serious about homebrew development can and will find ways around any update nintendo throws at them.