I'd rather just patch out the disc check myself. There's bound to be other reasons for the updates. I'm sure I heard they patch some bugs in games as well.by HyperHacker - Ideas, requests
QuoteSifJarYou're right. But discs cant be patched, and the Wii isnt designed to patch games on the fly, so he suggested that the game could be copied to a storage device (i.e. a hard drive) then the game could be patched there, and the disc is just used to launch it from there.Pirate loaders already intercept disc access and read the data from another source instead. Patching could work exaby HyperHacker - Ideas, requests
QuoteSifJarAh, now I understand. My bad, sorry. But what would you display in the generated teletext? Could you have a page for System Info, a page for memory observation, etc?It'd be great for debug info. I know it's capable of placing the text anywhere on the screen, and (though I've only ever seen it when a crappy signal was messing up the text) displaying in multiple colours. Sby HyperHacker - Ideas, requests
describes a timing attack used to recover keys on the Xbox 360. It would determine how many bytes of a key were correct by measuring how long it took the system to check, which tells you how many iterations memcmp() did before finding a nonmatching byte. Could this be used on Wii as well?by HyperHacker - Offtopic
Google "psp hacks". There are plenty of detailed tutorials. If you're willing to risk it you can mod your battery without spending anything.by HyperHacker - Offtopic
QuoteDrLuckya HD Wii would be great... It is the only system of its generation that doesn't do blue-ray... heck, it doesn't even do DVDs without "our" help!Movie playback was never the point, although it's certainly interesting they coded it anyway. Since when does X360 do Blu-ray?by HyperHacker - Offtopic
"haha, we have 29 years to fix it or to panic! hahaha" That's what they said in 1971. And this bug is real. Of course, simply converting timestamps to 64-bit will solve it (64-bit timestamps give you a couple trillion years before overflowing), which is already largely underway.by HyperHacker - Offtopic
I wonder if you can just start up FTPii blindly and use that to copy everything? HBC even has a function to send binaries over the LAN, so as long as you could manage to get it started, you'd be good.by HyperHacker - Offtopic
else if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN) Remove the "else".by HyperHacker - Offtopic
Duck Hunt. Super Mario Bros is the first I remember though. :Pby HyperHacker - Offtopic
The Hackmii posts about the Argon channel mention it using IOS16 to get around some security measure. Just curious, what is IOS16? Does it bypass some security or have some exploit the others don't?by HyperHacker - Software
The first one is an "Interactive Play-Station"? That's two out of three; they should tack "360" on somewhere too. MiWi/UKayed even kinda looks like a sideways Playstation. And I like how the 6-button controller has two A and two B buttons.by HyperHacker - Offtopic
QuoteArikadoTake away the controllers. Easiest things to hide.Back in my day I just had a spare controller hidden in my room. :-p Wiimotes are expensive though...by HyperHacker - Offtopic
QuotebushingDiscover the 2048-bit private RSA key, which is probably stored in a locked room inside of a Hardware Security ModuleI dunno, from what I've seen from Nintendo, I wouldn't be surprised if it's scribbled on a sticky note on some guy's monitor. ;-)by HyperHacker - Software
Upgrading Wii's video card? O_oby HyperHacker - Hardware
QuoteArikadoQuoteHyperHackerQuoteArikadoQuoteDrLuckywhat would a "bad" reason to downgrade be? Downgrading to be able to once again run illegal backups and wads.And Starfall. Whats wrong with Starfall? I have it installed to protect me from disc updates.I just meant it's another reason to downgrade. Nothing bad about it.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
It reads authentic Japanese game discs? Then you need to import a Japanese Twilight Princess. IIRC the hack works on it too.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
QuoteArikadoQuoteDrLuckywhat would a "bad" reason to downgrade be? Downgrading to be able to once again run illegal backups and wads.And Starfall.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
Good to know. I didn't realize LUA was still in use today. Maybe I'll just use that.by HyperHacker - Coding
QuotewhodaresInternal files are corrupt (U8 archive incorrectly built, bad LZ77 compression, TPL format bad/unsupported)Hm. On the N64, the games didn't do much (really, any) sanity checking of their resources, and would simply crash loading a file if it were corrupt or they ran out of memory. I bet the "system files are corrupt" message is just the System Menu's exception handler, andby HyperHacker - Homebrew General
Anywhere you can use an SD card, a MicroSD adaptor should work just as well. The cards work the same way, the adaptor just extends the connectors to fit in an SD slot.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
The problem is we can't tell the difference between people who are actually using backup copies, and people who are using illegal copies and calling them backups, and if we help with illegal copies, AFAIK we'd be breaking the law too. (Or at least Nintendo would have reason to attack us.) The same methods are used for both, so we can't help with either.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
A hook basically means changing "call doSomethingCool" in the code to "call myNewCode", which ends with "goto doSomethingCool". It's not too difficult if you know assembly, but later N64 games had code in place to detect and remove hooks, and/or make the process more difficult, to stop Gameshark (and maybe copiers) from working; it wouldn't surprise me if those anti-hook developments caby HyperHacker - Software
Hm, also, what about using the DS or PSP as a controller via ad-hoc wifi? And GBA via the link cable.by HyperHacker - Offtopic
I've been thinking about Javascript as a game scripting engine too; are there any good open-source interpreters that aren't limited to a select few platforms? Or is another language better for this?by HyperHacker - Coding
QuoteArikadoQuoteTantricThat won't work at all. If you want to "slow down" you can try sleep() or usleep(). But this still wouldn't help you with what you're trying to do. Funny, I've gotten it work in some of my past games. Usually 150 ends up being some insane number though, but it definitely works.sleep() or usleep() is a better method though unless you need a very small deby HyperHacker - Coding
Quotedaniel_c_wQuoteHyperHackerUpdates are already sent through WC24. Doesn't Nintendo just send messages to the users about the updates?Right, I meant messages are sent with a flag telling it to show the update button. They could add another flag telling it to download and install without asking. Or that flag could have existed all along, and just not been used.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
Updates are already sent through WC24. They'd only have to change the protocol to add a "download and install this update immediately" flag, rather than having it just show you the message with an "update" button. Such a flag could have existed all along (doubt it), or could have been added with the latest update.by HyperHacker - Homebrew General
QuotealberonnI had the HBC installed, but it was an older version. I did the Wii System update and the HBC channel was still there. When I fired up HBC, it did it's own update and was working fine. However, several apps didn't work any more. I was getting a "Not valid Wii software" message. I do not know if that was due to the HBC channel update or the Wii update. The Homebrew Browser wby HyperHacker - Homebrew General
Is that reliable? Can you be sure an unofficial compiler/devkit will do everything compatible with the official one (e.g. use registers and handle parameters the same way)? Also I would expect them to use an IOS function to read files from the disc? Or does IOS just provide sector-level access?by HyperHacker - Coding