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“Yes, it’s true,” announced Wiikey on Tuesday, “We have now completely reversed the Wii U drive authentication, disk encryption, file system, and everything else needed for this next generation K3y. Stay tuned for updates.”
For most of the last decade, Wiikey has sold mod chips and soft mods – tools of both the pirate community and the homebrew community – for the Nintendo Wii and other consoles. Once installed, these mods allow Wii owners to install their own operating system to run homebrew software, legally iffy emulators, and straight-up pirated games. Homebrew efforts can result in quality products, such as the open-source XBMC media player that was originally designed for Xbox, but the threat of piracy is a constant burden to this hobbyist developer community.
To a small percentage of users, Wiikey is a fun way to tinker with a console. To most, however, it’s an easy way to pirate software. Now the company is close to finishing the WiikeU mod chip for Nintendo’s latest console. With big titles like Pikmin 3 and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD still a ways off from release this news couldn’t come at a worse time.
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For most of the last decade, Wiikey has sold mod chips and soft mods – tools of both the pirate community and the homebrew community – for the Nintendo Wii and other consoles. Once installed, these mods allow Wii owners to install their own operating system to run homebrew software, legally iffy emulators, and straight-up pirated games. Homebrew efforts can result in quality products, such as the open-source XBMC media player that was originally designed for Xbox, but the threat of piracy is a constant burden to this hobbyist developer community.
To a small percentage of users, Wiikey is a fun way to tinker with a console. To most, however, it’s an easy way to pirate software. Now the company is close to finishing the WiikeU mod chip for Nintendo’s latest console. With big titles like Pikmin 3 and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD still a ways off from release this news couldn’t come at a worse time.
Mod chip makers crack open the Wii U for homebrewed and pirated games | Digital Trends
Wii mod chip maker Wiikey enters Nintendo's next-gen with a cracked Wii U, reverse engineering the system's guts and opening the door for pirated games.
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