Ares said: leo-j said: Da harddrivexxzzz is notzzer Gigzsa.   In other words, wii does not have a harddrive, therefore it limits these hackers' from downloading illegal games. Now you can unscrubble wii isos, so games like wiisports can be put on a 100MiB .iso file. Bomberman is a 1,7GiB and larger games like Resident Evil, 4GiB. You can download it and burn in DVD-R media, no need for HDs... Nintendo can't do much thinks about wii piracy without loose MUCH money. The wii specs are alread on the wild, if they make a big change, they can create some incompatibility with older versions, loose a bunch of money with the "legal users"... and in the end someone would crack it again...   Nintendo are atacking scenes sites... and it REALY SUX... why can't we build a linux for WII that can play DVDs??? even sony alow to run free homebrews in linux mode...   ___________________ BTW, about X360, MS made a BIG anti-piracy system, it is called 3RLs, or RRoD. I know a bunch of plp afraid to open a X360 and void warrant because they will need it...

PS3 style updates with firmware bi weekly would help, piracy raids in native japan and USA would also help. The pigs don't live in pakistan, they like in the USA. Stronger Updates, and updates with BIG wiiware and VC titles, also working with the ESA to shut down pirate sites and shops. Blocking the freeloader, and locking the freeloader thread(GT this means you.) would also help. Theres a ton of things they can do, stop being the butt of everything nintendo. Step up, take sony, EA, MS, activiton, Ubisoft, SEGA, UGM, Universal, THQ, warner bros, paramont, Nintendo, Take 2, Hudson and every other big music/movie/gaming company and along with the anti piracy fanatics pwn the pigs.

Grahamhsu said: El Duderino said: Grahamhsu said: ....360 hacks aren't popular? They cracked the 360 within a month, despite MSFT saying it will be uncrackable... 360 pirating is just as easy as Wii. And you're asking why PS3? Obviously the BR game size... So yes pirating on PS3 is impossible as of now, BR was Sony's defense against it. Sorry but thats not all right, the fact that you can´t dump BR on the PS3s hardrive is why there is no piracy, the constant updates do help a lot... Ouch it hurts to be put down by the dude ;_; I mean I worship you man...but I still stand by that it's the BR size that prevents piracy. Who wants to DL a huge 30-40 gb game. Even on my connection at 500kps it'd take me at least 3-4 days nonstop.

 Their pigs,3-4 days is worth a wait and 60 bucks. Plus not all games are that big, infact most arn't.

Grahamhsu said: El Duderino said: Grahamhsu said: ....360 hacks aren't popular? They cracked the 360 within a month, despite MSFT saying it will be uncrackable... 360 pirating is just as easy as Wii. And you're asking why PS3? Obviously the BR game size... So yes pirating on PS3 is impossible as of now, BR was Sony's defense against it. Sorry but thats not all right, the fact that you can´t dump BR on the PS3s hardrive is why there is no piracy, the constant updates do help a lot... Ouch it hurts to be put down by the dude ;_; I mean I worship you man...but I still stand by that it's the BR size that prevents piracy. Who wants to DL a huge 30-40 gb game. Even on my connection at 500kps it'd take me at least 3-4 days nonstop.

 I´m not putting you down man :) I´m just saying if the BIOS was hacked you could go to a vidoestore rent a ton of games and put them on your 300 gig harddrive you just put in your PS3, yes the BR is also a very affective way to keep hackers away, since both the 360 and Wii can´t get a real hack yet hackes just hacked the drives instead, BR makes this a lot harder.

Ares said:     ___________________  BTW, about X360, MS made a BIG anti-piracy system, it is called 3RLs, or RRoD. I know a bunch of plp afraid to open a X360 and void warrant because they will need it...

^^ LMAO, great contribution. That should do the trick:)

El Duderino said: Grahamhsu said: El Duderino said: Grahamhsu said: ....360 hacks aren't popular? They cracked the 360 within a month, despite MSFT saying it will be uncrackable... 360 pirating is just as easy as Wii. And you're asking why PS3? Obviously the BR game size... So yes pirating on PS3 is impossible as of now, BR was Sony's defense against it. Sorry but thats not all right, the fact that you can´t dump BR on the PS3s hardrive is why there is no piracy, the constant updates do help a lot... Ouch it hurts to be put down by the dude ;_; I mean I worship you man...but I still stand by that it's the BR size that prevents piracy. Who wants to DL a huge 30-40 gb game. Even on my connection at 500kps it'd take me at least 3-4 days nonstop. I´m not putting you down man :) I´m just saying if the BIOS was hacked you could go to a vidoestore rent a ton of games and put them on your 300 gig harddrive you just put in your PS3, yes the BR is also a very affective way to keep hackers away, since both the 360 and Wii can´t get a real hack yet hackes just hacked the drives instead, BR makes this a lot harder.

 Yeah great PS3 bought it self half a year without piracy, every heard of a little device called the PSP? Sony needs to kick their game too, they got software loss in music, gaming, movies. They need it more then Nintendo does.

PS3 has been out for a year, and I still dont' see piracy on it...Imo Sony WASTED so much money trying to prevent more PSP pirating. So many useless firmware updates only to be owned by the one man army of DarkAlex...besides who here can honestly say they don't have a eyepatch and peg leg lying in their drawer somewhere...I kno mine are there. And I don't just mean games, i'm talking music, movies, books, comics...

I don't want to derail the conversation too much, but it's not possible to simply burn a Wii game to a disc and put into a modified system and have it work. Wii discs are in the same format as GC discs, and are not the same as standard DVDs. Hell, the Wii doesn't even spin the discs in the same direction that a DVD players spins its discs.

The technology is no doubt similar, but you have to have a second work-around to actually play games on a Wii after you've gotten it modified (most likely a cable to connect to your pc, like with the GC).

Firmware updates are almost useless agains transparent drive chips (unless they are very bad chips), and they only didn't made it to PS3 because you can't "hear" the BD data the same way you can with DVDs, so you can't know how to make a chip.. but it is question of time.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to sell hardware in Brazil without a way to pirate games, and it is a fact very dificult to change (video games here are overtaxed, thinks like 600%). So companys make money selling the console as expensive as they can (WII@U$ 1100 and X360@U$1500, Sony don't sell PS3 here...).

Chichiri I'm sorry but I have no idea where you people get this crazy weird information...pirating on Wii is just as easy as you described. Shoot it's easier than back in the day when I was swapping PS1 games timing that was hard.

leo-j said: Da harddrivexxzzz is notzzer Gigzsa.   In other words, wii does not have a harddrive, therefore it limits these hackers' from downloading illegal games.

 

Not really--it just means that they have to use a blank CD instead of storingit on the hard drive.

 

Well, Nintendo DID recently crack down on pirating by taking down a bunch of illegal factories, no?