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Forums - Nintendo - Apparently, the Wii can play DVDs

steven787 on 14 August 2008
SHMUPGurus said:
Godot said:

If you want to know what the twilight hack is, you can always look the article on wikipedia . I fail to see the point of the homebrew channel or the DVD playback. Everybody has a DVD player nowadays... That was precisely Nintendo's point. Nintendo isn't really fighting against the homebrew community because they can't play backup game so it's of no use to pirates.

http://gizmodo.com/5033680/hack-brings-region-free-to-the-wii-without-a-modchip

*EDIT: Oh wait... what do you mean by backup games?

 

 

backup means pirated.



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

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greenmedic88 on 14 August 2008

Fry's was selling a video/media player for the Wii several months back. Don't ask who the soft publisher is, I didn't bother to check ($29.99). But the point is, there are commercial applications that enable video and DVD playback on the Wii.

The real question is why bother?

As it's already been beaten to death, everyone already has at least one DVD player, in most cases, they have multiple players.

Nintendo doesn't want to add licensing fees to their costs per unit for DVD playback so that they can add a feature most people simply wouldn't care about or even use for that matter.



SHMUPGurus on 14 August 2008
steven787 said:
SHMUPGurus said:
Godot said:

If you want to know what the twilight hack is, you can always look the article on wikipedia . I fail to see the point of the homebrew channel or the DVD playback. Everybody has a DVD player nowadays... That was precisely Nintendo's point. Nintendo isn't really fighting against the homebrew community because they can't play backup game so it's of no use to pirates.

http://gizmodo.com/5033680/hack-brings-region-free-to-the-wii-without-a-modchip

*EDIT: Oh wait... what do you mean by backup games?

 

 

backup means pirated.

Ah, I see... Still, if they found a way to play region-locked games without a mod, some serious stuff could happen. :/

 



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