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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