Wii homebrew makes another stride

[ameratsu]

Team Twiizers Wii Zelda Twilight hack has recently been updated. The major change is the ability to boot Wii homebrew using the SD card slot of the Wii. Moreover, SD gecko support has been removed in favor of adding USB gecko support. Full information is available at Wiibrew.org.

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=26087

my take:

So now the SD card slot can used for homebrew booting. This is interesting because I really wonder how far away they are from running gamecube games, roms (and eventually Wii games) off a SD card. Imo, it's only a matter of time before there is a no mod/soft mod tool for wii owners wanting to run backups. the Wii is in the same generation as the PS2 was last generation. Given it's popularity, there is an inevitable demand (and people wanting to profit off said hacking) for modchips/backup solutions. Just like there was a flood of ps2 modchips early on, i see there being many soft mod/no mod solutions coming for the Wii.

I'd prefer people refrain from discussing ethics of such behaviour in this thread as that's a topic thats been beaten to death repeatedly (and focus on the possible implications of an easy to mod wii instead) but it's inevitable so just try to keep it civil.