Homebrew rocks, I was wrong

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KylieDog said:

blaydcor said:
Homebrew and piracy are not synonymous. Not even close. Homebrew literally: brewed at home=(obviously) home made games and apps.

Now, you can homebrew apps that let you play back-up copies.

But saying homebrew=piracy is like saying that wild plants=poisonous. Not that cut and dry, folks.

 

Yeah but the main attraction of homebrew is piracy, without the ability to pirate it would die.  Without so many people using it for piracy all those other apps that people make would not exist, afterall who would bother making apps for something hardly anyone ever uses?

 

Its like R4 on the DS, can get some great homebrew apps for them but really we all know what R4s main use is and why people buy it.  Wii homebrew is no different.

It's absolutely different. Hacking your Wii in order to play burnt discs/games from a HDD is a LOT more complicated than just installing the Homebrew Channel.

It's essentially a three-step process. (1) Hack and install Homebrew Channel. (2) Use Homebrew Channel to install DVD-compatibility. (3) Unlock burnt-DVD game usage.

I just wanted my Wii to play movies on DVD, but I could never even get that step in the process to work. Without that step working, there's not a chance in hell I'd be able to get the rest to work.

 

Yet I used my Homebrew Channel on a regular basis, and I know dozens of other people that did as well. The homebrew scene on the Wii is absolutely marvelous, thanks to the unique controller and all the tinkering that people have done with it. Mario Paint Wii, anybody? Or maybe Quake Wii? Or any of the dozens of other cool projects that have come out of the homebrew scene?

No, piracy is actually an extremely small part of the homebrew scene on the Wii.