wii U allegedly hacked

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Originally Posted by Drakon

That's because they all use cheap purchasable media to store the gamedata and rely on cute little software blocks to stop you from playing pirated things.

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So what then makes this any more troubling for Nintendo than it does for Microsoft or Sony? There's always gonna be people willing to go to the trouble to hack and pirate, regardless of what console.

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Originally Posted by Drakon

I remember someone saying you need to burn the image backwards or something strange. Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

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Technically yes, Gamecube discs begin with the outer edge of the disc, but all pirated disc images have been fixed for home burning, so it's a non-issue. Long story short, Gamecube does not use a proprietary media format.

Why the hell is everything in this page and half of the previous one in bold? Even the stuff outside the posts is bold. Did someone not close a [ b] tag?

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If this is indeed true and someone has successfully hacked the Wii-U then this is possibly the beginning of the end for the troubled console. Sad thing is that even if I acquired one, IMHO I can't think of one game that's worth obtaining with a hacked Wii-U. Nintendo's efforts against the original Wii Home Brew hack was futile at best. In fact the reason why I own a Wii is because of the Home Brew hack, and the respectable library of stellar games, albeit most of them are gimped my the ancient Gamecube tech.

Nintendo better have a comprehensive plan to combat this current lack of urgency. Hopeless fan boys, little kids, Windwaker HD, business as usual, and soccer moms can't save the Nintendo Wii-U. Cutting edge games and intelligent business practices will.

Wise up Nintendo!

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Originally Posted by Metalwario64

Why the hell is everything in this page and half of the previous one in bold? Even the stuff outside the posts is bold. Did someone not close a [ b] tag?

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It has something to do with WarmSignal, going by other threads as example... He's the only one I've seen so far with WCPO Agent as a user rank... I suspect something is wrong with that rank.

I have the power of bold. I'm not seeing anything bold other than rankings.

If anything this will boost sales.

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

If anything this will boost sales.

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Will it ? How much has Wii U sold so far ?

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Originally Posted by The Jackal

According to that report the hackers have "completely reversed the Wii U drive authentication, disk encryption, file system, and everything else needed for this next generation key." That to me, at least, means homebrew's not that far off.

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back to cartridges for nintendo then :fail:

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Originally Posted by WarmSignal

So what then makes this any more troubling for Nintendo than it does for Microsoft or Sony? There's always gonna be people willing to go to the trouble to hack and pirate, regardless of what console.

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simple. wiiu is out like what 6 months? it has almost no userbase and software sales are pathetic as they are. I don't know if ps3 is hacked by playing burned blue ray discs but at least it's quite a pain and it didn;t happen until ps3 had a huge user base.