Wii U Hacked by WiiKey Team, All New Features Detailed

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KHlover said:

ethomaz said:
Expected.

The Wii U was already hacked before the release but the guys needs to work in the reverse reverse engineering to decode the "language" talked inside the system... 5 months of work and now they can do everything they wants.

I expected some update to run Blu-Ray movies soon in the Wii U driver.

"A modchip doesn't magically make the console able to run custom code (e.g. a GC or PS2 emulator), it just tricks the existing system software into running the code it can already load from a different place (i.e. it can ONLY run "legit", signed games, and it will ONLY run them if the system menu would have loaded them anyway i.e. they have to be from the correct region). "

No they can't do "everything they wants", IF this is legit they still only can play backups. Bad enough as it is, but still with Region Lock and no true Homebrew. Also, the Xbox360 also was "hacked" pretty fast and piracy didn't phase it very much. The fact that you'll have to pay (likely relatively much) money for it will turn many people off.

if they decrypt the filesystem they can re-encrypt modified data, its only a matter of time before a softmod and further system access is gained, assuming the wiiu doesnt have multi layer security but i very much doubt it does.

I'd peg june-july for a softmod or unsigned code to be running