Hack A Wii?

According to those who attended the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (24C3), it would appear that a fully hacked Wii capable of running native homebrew with full hardware access has been presented. This is great news for a lot of people who are interested in modding their Wii. Wii modchips have been around since the start of the year in various forms, but nothing that gave anyone full hardware access. The sky is now the limit for homebrew Wii developers.

It’s not known when this will become publicly available, but we will keep you up to date. Although I wouldn’t expect anything in the super near future, I am predicting that Wii will see boot disks available soon. They may not be the first type of hack to come out, but they will happen.

I’m not one to condone piracy, but modchips, hacks, cracks, bootdisks, and homebrew technology has always piqued my interest. This is something that I will definitely be keeping my eyes on. In an age when more and more hardware manufactures restrict what the user can do with the items that they paid their hard earned money for, it’s hard not to cheer for the underdog every now and again.

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MP3tunes Opens Their Music Lockers For Nintendo Wii Owners

A belated Christmas Present or an early New Years gift?

MP3tunes has released a new technology based-on API (Application Programming Interface) that allows a Wii owners to wirelessly stream their personal music collections from MP3tunes Music Lockers. Music stored in MP3tunes Music Lockers can also be played on the Sony Playstation 3, Windows Mobile devices, a variety of Internet radios and more. According to Michael Robertson (CEO of MP3tunes), this latest popular gaming device if combined with MP3tunes technology, actually becomes a home stereo system and consumers shouldn’t be limited in where or how they enjoy their personal music collections, and we will continue to announce new ways MP3tunes is fulfilling its vision of giving people access to all of their music, anywhere they go.

Visit http://www.mp3tunes.com/wii for more details as well as set-up instructions for the Wii, PS3 and other devices. To sign-up for a free MP3tunes Music Locker visit http://www.mp3tunes.com/signup.