Wii gets custom firmware, purported PSP emulator
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jul 18th 2008 1:02PM
posted Jul 18th 2008 1:02PM
It looks like there's been a couple of developments on the entirely unofficial Wii activities front in the past few days, including one that seemingly delivers as promised and one that remains a bit of a mystery. That former item comes courtesy of Waninkoko, who has released what is purported to be the "first custom firmware for the Wii," which apparently allows writable DVDs to be read in emulators. In related news, the folks from TeamShift have released that tantalizing image above of what they claim to be a working PSP emulator for the Wii although, given that it can only muster between 4 and 8 frames per second, "working" doesn't exactly mean "playable." They are promising to deliver a beta version that brings games up to their normal speed, however, although they're unsurprisingly not making any promises about when we can expect that.
Read - Wii News, "Custom Firmware for Wii Released"
Read - DCEmu, "PSP Emulator for Wii"
Read - Wii News, "Custom Firmware for Wii Released"
Read - DCEmu, "PSP Emulator for Wii"
If this is true, wow. http://www.metacritic.com/games/psp/alpha/
First!
If only wii had better games it would be the perfect system. For now imma stick to the 360.
Fail... nice try though.
Wow! The Wii could use this boost in resolution :)
...boost in resolution? explain to me how the resolution is talked of in any way in this article.
wtf does resolution have to do with the console?
Obviously over both your heads. I'm not gonna hinder the joke by explaining it. Good luck!
I assume he's making a joke that the PSP has higher res graphics than the Wii. He is right that having to explain a joke ruins it. He is wrong if he made any assumption that his joke was funny.
Yeah I got what he was trying to say, I decided it was so dumb that he must have had some other meaning. It's not funny, at all.
Alright fine, I'll hinder the joke then. He's taking a crack at the Wii by implying that the resolution of PSP games is higher than that of Wii games, even though PSP games are made for the small PSP screen. So even though the games are stretched out beyond belief on your TV screen, it's still at a better resolution than playing regular Wii games. Get it? :)
Because, as we all know, the PSP's 480x272 resolution is vastly greater than the Wii's 640x480 (or 852x480 in widescreen mode). It's basic mathematics!
Can I please get further analysis of this joke before I scroll down to other comments?
Awww sorry guys. I wasn't making fun of you and your purchases. I have a Wii, and thought it was hilarious. (Reminds self there is no humor in Wii comment section).
Why would anyone write an emulator to run on some shitty 800 mhz CPU when they could write it to run on any 2ghz+ multiple-core cpu instead?
Oh wait... I was just trolled by a 12 year old frenchie.
8/10
It isn't true. At all.
A 360 and a wii. What a good combination that guy has got.
How about a PSP emulator for the PS3 or 360? : )
how bout we get hacking first?
8fps is playable. Try to count to 8 in one second. It's not that slow actually.
No.
if i cant count that many in one second, then its too slow
24 minimum
Anyone else notice that it's running the PSP emulator at 7 frames per s e c o n d...
nyone else bother to RTFA
Whoops, seem to have missed that..
Thanks for pointing that out, DefPo3t, and for being oh so polite.
When they get this up and running it might be time to buy a nintendo wii again ( i sold my last one)
I'd call that sell a smart move.
It's fake look at how the picture in the screen blends with the tv and how the frames look different in distances.
Thats what I was thinking.. I swore I just saw this image the otherday with something else on the screen..
Prob just a Photoshop..
How about a working psp emulator for commercial games *at all*?
First of all, yeah fucking right. Guess what, I hacked my Wii to emulate PS3. Tell the world.
And second of all, who would want this anyway? Why would you want to play portable games at home? Play games at home that you CAN'T get on the go. Then play your portable games when you leave. It makes no sense to play a PSP game on a Wii.
Even though it's BS anyway.
That screenshot looks ridiculously fake.
i agree, and so do a bunch of other people:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=121728
Looks like I was a little late on that one.
Photoshop..
thats cool, if its real
In Soviet Russia, Nintendo consoles emulate PSP games.
no no,
in soviet russia, psp emulates wii
So the DCemu (dreamcast) site is announcing a PSP (playstation portable) emulator for the Wii (Wii)..
My head asplode
It may be the crappy picture, but it kind of looks like the Wii's power LED is orange, indicating "stand-by", not "on".
Maybe it's just me, but I can't tell the difference between the particular colors used for "standby" and "on" for the Wii.
Oh, wait, it is just me. Because I am a bit colorblind. Argh.
The custom firmware uses copyrighted Nintendo code and is illegal to distribute. Besides, barely anything is modified, and for now all it can do is allow disc dumping and reading from a burned disc in an unmodded Wii (although piracy cannot be enabled using the same method).
The PSP emulator is obviously fake.
1. The PSP cannot be properly emulated because the hardware decryption algorithms are COMPLETELY unknown. Its not possible to run commercial PSP games without game specific modifications to the emulator.
2. The kernel is continuously updated every now and then by Sony and new games need newer kernels because they use functions not present in older kernels.
3. The best you can do is run PSP Homebrew in an emulator because you only need to emulate the execution environment instead of the rest of the decryption stuff etc.
4. If you don't know jack, don't argue out of your ass, and STFU.
How about a Wii emulator on the PSP? I bet PSP hardware is better than the weed i mean Wii.
Yes im ranting because i can't find one to buy.
This is definitely a hoax.. nocash doesn't have a PSP emu, and even if there was a proof-of-concept, it would be on the site http://nocash.emubase.de/
Anyway, Wii Custom Firmware Released is great, recently I found a tutorial of How to Play DVD on Wii?
It's really helpful
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/articles/how-to-play-dvd-on-Wii.html#115