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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2008, 04:40:11 am »
Well I get all that and I don't think I'm disagreeing with you. It's more that I'm wondering if there actually is a useful goal (real life application) for hacking the Wii.

Maybe to turn it into a networked media streaming device like with the original Xbox.

Don't you think they are hacking it mostly to show that they can rather than that these hackers actually have a plan to make the Wii do things it doesn't do yet?

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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #41 on: March 01, 2008, 09:25:53 am »
Quote from: patrickl on March 01, 2008, 04:40:11 am
Well I get all that and I don't think I'm disagreeing with you. It's more that I'm wondering if there actually is a useful goal (real life application) for hacking the Wii.

I wouldn't mind it as a streamer like XBMC.  I'm thinking the most useful application would be opening up the VC emulators so you can plug in any roms.  Don't you think that would be useful?
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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #42 on: March 01, 2008, 10:58:21 am »
I'd say backups (aka piracy) is my first priority.  Emulators is probably second, but might be edged out by homebrew.  And third is whichever of those two isn't second.
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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #43 on: March 01, 2008, 11:01:42 am »

Backups is already possible... you're probably never going to get a true softmod because the security is at the drive level.
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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #44 on: March 01, 2008, 11:44:00 am »
Quote from: ChadTower on March 01, 2008, 09:25:53 am
Quote from: patrickl on March 01, 2008, 04:40:11 am
Well I get all that and I don't think I'm disagreeing with you. It's more that I'm wondering if there actually is a useful goal (real life application) for hacking the Wii.

I wouldn't mind it as a streamer like XBMC.  I'm thinking the most useful application would be opening up the VC emulators so you can plug in any roms.  Don't you think that would be useful?

Sure, that's why I posted the link to the SNES emulator.

On the other hand, AFAIK you can emulate SNES and N64 games already on the GC. Wouldn't that work with the Wii?
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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #45 on: March 01, 2008, 12:49:41 pm »
Quote from: patrickl on March 01, 2008, 11:44:00 am
Sure, that's why I posted the link to the SNES emulator.

On the other hand, AFAIK you can emulate SNES and N64 games already on the GC. Wouldn't that work with the Wii?


Those are homebrew emulators.  The ones on the Wii OS are made by Nintendo... I'll bet they work better on the Wii than a homebrew would.
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Re: Wii HACKED!!!
« Reply #46 on: March 01, 2008, 01:32:17 pm »
Part of my question of why is that you can play homebrew gamecube games now once you get your wii hacked.   I didn't think there was much difference between them (just a second processor).  But for most things, it seems like gamecube would be enough.

I guess you wouldn't have to hack you wii... thats a bonus... But hacking you wii allows you to try games like 'ninjabread man' to see just how bad it is, before buying it :)
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