Last week, Nintendo attempted to kill all of our homebrewing fun with a small update. If you haven’t heard yet, the latest update lets us move a Mii from the Mii Plaza to the Mii Parade directly while killing the Twilight Princess hack at the same time! Awesome! [sarcasm]
Well, the homebrewers didn’t waste too much time getting their precious hack back. Apparently, the guys over at Hackmii found out that the new code was, “targeted at the one Twilight Princess bug that enables homebrew loading.” Then they found bugs in that.
So now, they have made some code that I guess, lets the Twilight Hack load once more. I’m not so much of a Hardcore technical guy so i’m not sure what all that coding stuff means, but if you are into that matter, check out the in-depth analysis: Here. Also, keep checking back to My Wii News, we’ll keep you updated.
If you’re anything like me, you’d probably give Wii homebrew a shot if it didn’t involve cracking its pretty little case open and testing your mad soldiering skills. To those of us who still like to keep our system’s warranties mildly intact (and free of burn holes), hackers over at TehSkeen have apparently been successful in running four whole lines of code without touching it’s valuable innards. According to the hackers in question, the process was achieved by altering a saved game for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in order to make it crash the system and subsequently load the four lines of homebrew code.
Only four lines of code, you say? As Brakken noted on the initial post, it’s only in a days work. They’ve apparently already doubled that amount within a few days and status updates are expected anytime soon. With a little luck and time, hackers should be able to get real working Wii homebrew to load on the console, enabling new games and possibilities for the tens of millions of Wii owners worldwide. Let’s hope that these guys can get something working soon, because as anyone who played a soft-modded Xbox knows, a solderless homebrew alternative to modchips is always a welcome one.
Lukatoll | June 20, 2008
