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2008-02-17 - Wii Timeline
Wii Timeline
Follows the released videos, binaries and interviews.
This is a side project and might be moved in the near distance future.
2008-02-11 - Twilight Hack
Twilight Hack - Wii ELF Loader v0.1-alpha1 by tmbinc, segher and bushing
A demo of the Zelda Twilight Princess exploit has been released.
2007-12-28 - Wii Homebrew Preview
Wii Homebrew Preview
Thanks to Crediar for this Video.
'Console Hacking: State of the Wii' by Ben Byer+others
2007-08-20 - Wii Media PLayer DVD Edition (MFE)
Wii Media PLayer DVD Edition (MFE)
Team Symbiote (the makers of Wii-Boss) have release a linux based DVD player.
When menu comes up then the hit "z" to unmount, change disc to DVD movie and hit "start" to play.
Keep in mind that you’ll want to have a modchip that supports Dual Layer DVDs!
Creators of the Wiinja mod, have issued a warning "The use of DVD PLAYER Software for GC MODE can cause harm to your laser in the long run. Apparently the wii lens isn't made for continuous loading, and using that app (on DVD5 or DVD9) will; cause the lens to deteriorate quickly over time."
Team CycloWiz has released a tool to test DVD-DL compatibility.
We've made a simple test program to help us in that task: it checks if both the first and the second layer of a dual layer disc could be read. You can also find it in the support section, burn it on a regular DVD+/-R disc
The laser power may have to be tuned before beeing able to read DVD+R DL media (as with DVD-RW media). Less than 50% of test Wii we have can read those discs without any tuning. There is a variable resistor on the optical pickup head itself, that needs to be lowered. In our tests, the original value was typically around 700-800 Ohm, and we had to lower it to around 500 Ohm, but this might be different on each drive. Just make sure you don't go below 50 Ohm or so.
By the way, the test tool is not CycloWiz specific and can be used to test any modchip, it'd be interesting to see which ones are DL compatible. As of today, all of the commercial Wii games are released on single-layer discs, but the drive firmware supports dual layer discs.
A number of teams have publically started looking into the data contained on the NAND flash of the Nintendo Wii.
Different groups seem to have already started investigations into the contents of the dump.
It is believed that the Wii NAND flash Dump contains the BIOS, Firmware and Dashboard aswell as user information.
Could it be possible that in the future we'll see a custom BIOS replacement for loading Wii homebrew?
First Nintendo Wii News
First Nintendo Wii News
I've setup the templates for Nintendo Wii News!
I'll start grabbing Wii related news but Id like someone to moderate the Wii section.