I never doubted that either. But point is, piracy has no big effect on sales of games. And you will never be technically able to avoid that. I'm a programmer, it is from principle not possible to avoid that. But that all doesn't change much, that I want to use the device I bought to full abilities. Hacking my DS brought me Homebrew like DSOrganizer, turned my DS into a MP3-player with lmp-ng and gave me additional games like Meteora. That didn't stopped me from buying great games and even recently I bought Pokemon White 2. Full price. Hacking is good, it increases the value of the device I paid for WITHOUT piracy. Piracy does not kill business, bad decision kill business. DS and Wii and software on these devices selled great, even hacked. I see much room for improvement for the WiiU specifically, most of all the Wii-mode sucks and could be much improved.

So an big yeah for jailbreaking. You will have to do it in the future in cars too, with more and more computers even in cars, the morons in suits will think, they can get restrict you to drive on some roads. Or something similar stupid.

Do you know the concept of virtualization? (Sorry if that's not the right term in English, I just made an exact translation from Spanish) It basically simulates a hardware to emulate another OS and execute it in isolation.

You can execute different OS at the same time with a software call Virtual Box and both instances don't have any connection (at least not to my knowledge). I imagine the Wii U is using the same principle with the Wii mode. This is also speculation though. 

You can access the host OS from the virtual OS and vice-versa with VirtalBox or any other virtualization system... you can't access at same time (there are CPU instructions for that too in AMD and Intel but that's more cooporative use).

Even in the virtualization the instaces have connection because share the same hardware... you can access from the Host OS the memory used by the virtual OS for example.

And VirtualBox is software virtualization... so all the things are shared between both system... the hardware virtualizations have some restrictions and more security.

Plus I don't know if Wii U have virtualization or just dual-boot because for virtualization you don't need to boot the first OS... and if it's virtualizations what kind it is.

I really don't think this hack came from the vWii side of things. They share the same hardware, but the iOS on the vWii are coded specifically for Wii compatibility. Extended memory space and multiple CPU compatibility does not exist in the vWii, so it would have to be coded in by a hacker. And in order for a hacker to code that in, they'd already have to know the inner workings of the WiiU anyway, which can't be probed from the vWii without custom drivers. Its a catch-22.

Hackers have said that the WiiU security chip is just as vulnerable as the Wii's (Starlet). I think they opened the box up, connected some pins directly to it, and started issuing commands. From those commands they learned a software vulnerability, either at the kernel level or at the system menu level, and then exploited from there.

They're keeping things close to the chest for now so as to not ruin the hacking fun for themselves and for everyone else should Nintendo decide to patch the system. Once they have a solid understanding and multiple exploits to fall back on, they will release something.

The reason the vWii got hacked so quickly is because there were multiple IOS exploits that were known to the hacking community, but kept secret from Nintendo so that they were not patched out when they wrote the corresponding vWii IOS.

You do know that at either side of the camera there are IR leds.

+1 This is the first post coming close enough to reality of this hack.

Holy crap. Never saw this image.

No, but do you really want to point on the WiiU gamepad with a remote? It makes only sense in my opinion for games, thathas inputs that can be mapped to the gamepad inputs. That should work for most of the games I play, but probably not for Just Dance.

If someone said it was for NES emulation on the 3ds/wii/Wii-u nintendo would be just as pissed off, the Ninty e-shop sells NES games for 4-5euros a pop bit harsh when a 20mb folder on an SD card can hold about 400 of um.

When there is a need, you find a way. I'm sure people would be able to play IR games by putting the Gamepad on the stand, it can be awkward but it is possible.