Wii Twilight hack could enable homebrew booting from SD cards

Make no mistake, Nintendo's Wii has been hacked to pieces, but there's nothing like an all new method that keeps the soldering iron residing in the utility drawer to get us all hot and bothered. Unfortunately, what you can see in the video waiting after the jump is only a proof of concept at the moment, but it does show that Twilight Princess can be exploited and homebrew code can be booted directly from an SD card. Also of note, certain versions of the game -- most notably, RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA -- have reportedly been found to not play nice with the aforementioned hack, but hey, it's a start. Click on through!

[Via Exophase, thanks zshadow]

[fischju @ Feb 11th 2008 10:14PM]

I have a launch day TP game and Wii I haven't touched much. Hopefully a Wii version of XBMC will come, along with emulators. It will be epic.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Feb 11th 2008 10:16PM]

that penguin just makes me happy for some reason...

[Mr Happy @ Feb 11th 2008 10:27PM]

Is it just me, or does that soundtrack hark back to the days of Commodore 64... err... modified games?

[Chris @ Feb 11th 2008 10:32PM]

I got my wii on the first day it came out, then right after christmas I got a new HDTV and haven't touched my Wii sence. (Other than those drunken nights I can't remember)

[Anthony @ Feb 11th 2008 11:10PM]

BRAWL. I would just die if they could get Super Smash Bros. Brawl to me before March 9th.

[fischju @ Feb 11th 2008 11:22PM]

Get a chip and import that Japanese version, which is out.

[Anthony @ Feb 12th 2008 1:04AM]

I'd rather not mod my Wii for fear that a firmware upgrade would render it useless. I know that Brawl is out in Japan, it looks so good! I've been following news on that game for over a year. I cant wait!

[Ian Whelan @ Feb 11th 2008 11:20PM]

"MUAHAHA! My evil plan is complete, and now there is nothing Nintendo can do to fix the exploit! I shall never pay for games again!" -Linus Torvalds

[mattrob2 @ Feb 11th 2008 11:26PM]

great stuff, just tried it out and it works for me

[Tobby @ Mar 22nd 2008 12:39AM]

Since not all Zelda game works with the hack. How do i know wich one will does the game have a serial, barcode, model #....etc any ideas?
Thanks

[mattrob2 @ Feb 12th 2008 9:37AM]

you can see what version you have by looking on the inner ring of the disc

[Alexander @ Feb 11th 2008 11:32PM]

Oh how I love the SID music.

[mr_happy @ Feb 12th 2008 2:40PM]

Exactly! I thought it was from the C64.

[thephotoman @ Feb 12th 2008 3:07PM]

Awesome! I can't wait to have Linux running on my Wii.

[Marrvia @ Feb 12th 2008 3:34PM]

Screw Linux and Emulators for wii, I want a HDD Loader, dammit!

[Wiggles @ Apr 21st 2008 1:30AM]

And a HDD too presumably.

[CB @ Feb 25th 2008 6:14PM]

That's still pretty sweet though.

[paintba||er @ Jul 22nd 2009 8:33AM]

Sweet. Now maybe I'll have a reason to boot my Wii. I would love to have Linux or FreeBSD on it.

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