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walsufnir on 02 May 2013
ethomaz said:
I'm not really sure... I just watched videos showing the 3DS playing ROM copies... in any case my company block most of the hack site so I can't look for sources now


I would like to remind you that some are still waiting for your source! :)



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walsufnir on 02 May 2013

"fail0verflow @fail0verflow 30 Apr

Drivechips/replacements (WiiKeyU) are boring and useless for homebrew."

"fail0verflow @fail0verflow 30 Apr

And yes, we've been too fail/busy/lazy/bored to release anything yet :("

I think it will not last too long until marcan and the others release their "stuff".



AnthonyW86 on 02 May 2013

This might get me interested in the Wii-U for the right price.



Viper1 on 02 May 2013
osed125 said:

According to this, the Wii U disc drive is a custom made drive based on the Blue Ray platform. I don't know if the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives, but if it does then yes, playing Blue Ray will be completely possible on the Wii U. Haven't found an article saying the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives (only that is based on Blue Ray), haven't really tried hard though.

The disc drive is a standard Matsushita Blu-ray disc drive.  Nothing special about the physical hardware.  The proprietary part is the firmware Matsushita developed for it.  The only real difference between the Wii U's Blu-ray disc drive a consumer Blu-ray disc drive is the firmware.

ethomaz said:

I think 3DS was hacked late 2012... it play ROMs (illegal copies) already with the hack.

The 3DS has a sandboxed DS environment for DS games.  All the exploits of the original DS carried over so the 3DS is hacked only in the sandboxed DS environment.   The 3DS software environment has not yet been hacked.



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KHlover on 02 May 2013
Viper1 said:
osed125 said:

According to this, the Wii U disc drive is a custom made drive based on the Blue Ray platform. I don't know if the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives, but if it does then yes, playing Blue Ray will be completely possible on the Wii U. Haven't found an article saying the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives (only that is based on Blue Ray), haven't really tried hard though.

The disc drive is a standard Matsushita Blu-ray disc drive.  Nothing special about the physical hardware.  The proprietary part is the firmware Matsushita developed for it.  The only real difference between the Wii U's Blu-ray disc drive a consumer Blu-ray disc drive is the firmware.

ethomaz said:

I think 3DS was hacked late 2012... it play ROMs (illegal copies) already with the hack.

The 3DS has a sandboxed DS environment for DS games.  All the exploits of the original DS carried over so the 3DS is hacked only in the sandboxed DS environment.   The 3DS software environment has not yet been hacked.

Yay for BluRay movies on my WiiU once it is properly hacked^^



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walsufnir on 02 May 2013
KHlover said:
Viper1 said:
osed125 said:

According to this, the Wii U disc drive is a custom made drive based on the Blue Ray platform. I don't know if the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives, but if it does then yes, playing Blue Ray will be completely possible on the Wii U. Haven't found an article saying the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives (only that is based on Blue Ray), haven't really tried hard though.

The disc drive is a standard Matsushita Blu-ray disc drive.  Nothing special about the physical hardware.  The proprietary part is the firmware Matsushita developed for it.  The only real difference between the Wii U's Blu-ray disc drive a consumer Blu-ray disc drive is the firmware.

ethomaz said:

I think 3DS was hacked late 2012... it play ROMs (illegal copies) already with the hack.

The 3DS has a sandboxed DS environment for DS games.  All the exploits of the original DS carried over so the 3DS is hacked only in the sandboxed DS environment.   The 3DS software environment has not yet been hacked.

Yay for BluRay movies on my WiiU once it is properly hacked^^


I think there is more to it to play Bluray-movies. You need properly player-software (as I know you would need java for Blu-ray) and I think it will suffer the same problem as linux where it is (afaik) also not possible to play Blu-ray-movies that are drm'ed.



KHlover on 02 May 2013
walsufnir said:
KHlover said:
Viper1 said:
osed125 said:

According to this, the Wii U disc drive is a custom made drive based on the Blue Ray platform. I don't know if the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives, but if it does then yes, playing Blue Ray will be completely possible on the Wii U. Haven't found an article saying the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives (only that is based on Blue Ray), haven't really tried hard though.

The disc drive is a standard Matsushita Blu-ray disc drive.  Nothing special about the physical hardware.  The proprietary part is the firmware Matsushita developed for it.  The only real difference between the Wii U's Blu-ray disc drive a consumer Blu-ray disc drive is the firmware.

ethomaz said:

I think 3DS was hacked late 2012... it play ROMs (illegal copies) already with the hack.

The 3DS has a sandboxed DS environment for DS games.  All the exploits of the original DS carried over so the 3DS is hacked only in the sandboxed DS environment.   The 3DS software environment has not yet been hacked.

Yay for BluRay movies on my WiiU once it is properly hacked^^


I think there is more to it to play Bluray-movies. You need properly player-software (as I know you would need java for Blu-ray) and I think it will suffer the same problem as linux where it is (afaik) also not possible to play Blu-ray-movies that are drm'ed.

Someone will manage to crack the firmware of the BluRay-drive, just like the Wii's DVD drive. About the software part...either someone will figure it out or I'll resort to mkv's if someone manages to import the codecs.



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snowdog on 02 May 2013

I don't think you'd need to crack the firmware, just having a homebrew media player with the right codecs should do the job.



Tachikoma on 04 May 2013
pezus said:

 

 

At this rate there will be more games to pirate then to buy.


Wii U now Confirmed to be Hacked, First Game Dumped

 

After the announcement of the Wii U Keywhich breaks Wii U’s security, a modding scene has released the first game dump.

 

The Avengers: Battle for Earth becomes the first unlucky Wii U game to be dumped and weighs in at 23GB. We will of course not be posting the direct link to that, but it looks like every game is padded to fill out the disc. It’s not clear whether the padded content can be removed at this stage or not.

The modding scene known as ‘Venom’ is quite an old player and this looks like a really bad news for Nintendo. The company had earlier released a statement saying that they were aware of “that a hacking group claims to have compromised Wii U security”, and they will be taking necessary legal steps to stop piracy.

The Wii U key enables piracy and doesn’t really benefit the homebrew scene much, so this is something that isn’t really advantageous to people looking to legitimately run emulators and the likes on the console.

Here’s a screenshot of the NFO file:

 

Popcorn at the ready.



the2real4mafol on 04 May 2013

That was fast! I guess the PS3 was a one off, that took ages to get hacked



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