2 January 2008
Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code. This latest move will make it far easier to develop homebrew games popular console.
Up until this discovery, developers have only been able to create homebrew games for the Gamecube. This means that these homebrew games could be run on a Wii due to the backward compatibility but had no hardware support which meant that users were unable to use the motion-sensitive Wii control.
Michael Steil and Felix Domke, the Wii hacks, demonstrated during a recent presentation in Berlin their own code running on the console and making use of its system resources.
No such games are available as yet and it is unknown whether Nintendo will respond by attempting to revoke compromised encryption keys. However history shows such countermeasures are likely to ultimately prove ineffective.
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