http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2012-12-07 22:02:46 - HackMii : Another year, another console, another Hackmii Installer Despite all of the anti-reverse-engineering tricks we put into our last installment of the HackMii Installer, Nintendo managed to find the IOS exploit we used to install The Homebrew Channel and fix it sometime within the last two years There never was a Wii system update for this, the fixed IOS versions http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/415788.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/415788.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-02-27 11:56:43 - HackMii - You thought HBC was dead Can t say I blame you Our usualy update cycle tends to follow Nintendo s updates Nintendo plugs one of our exploits, and we release a new version with a new exploit At the same time, you get all the new goodies and bugfixes that we may have accumulated since the previous http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/360045.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/360045.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-02-14 23:22:39 - HackMii - anyone recognize this car I parked next to it and waited for its owner to show up, but left empty-handed http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/357821.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/357821.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-25 21:26:53 - HackMii - The final DSiWareHax is now available, goto the exploitslist for the list of exploited DSiWare and the usage instructions for the exploits The updated Sudokuhax is now available as well, the main change is faster bootnds loading You can only copy the new DSiWareHax to your DSi if you re on 141 or below, and already http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/325262.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/325262.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-09 19:42:07 - HackMii - Up until now the only way to liberate your Wii console and enable the use of homebrew with System Menu 43 was to use a gamedisc based exploit such as BatHaxx , Return of the Jodi and others Today we are announcing a project that changes this completely and removes the requirement for an exploitable game http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/322030.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/322030.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-20 06:37:02 - HackMii - DSi system update 142 blocks copying all current and future DSiWare exploits to internal memory Most of you won t have the final DSiWareHax target, but don t update for now anyway Only people who already have the target game, and stay on system version 141 or below until exploit release could copy the exploit to internal memory http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306032.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306032.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-02-02 23:14:38 - HackMii - Guest post by roto Recently, news has spread of a Lego Star Wars exploit for the Wii After last week s Bathaxx release there wasn t much rush to get our LSW exploit out there but it seems the cat is out of the bag Releasing our own version now would make more sense than waiting or http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/282574.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/282574.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-01-27 20:53:57 - HackMii - As you may remember we started looking at the DSi about two years ago Despite some early attempts using savegame hacks for hybrid card games we eventually resorted to more complex attacks that involved soldering many wires to tiny points on the PCB to be able to trace and modify the RAM However, doing this http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/281230.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/281230.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-01-27 00:03:34 - HackMii - Another year, another hack The Indiana Pwns hack is quite old, and it appears that people are selling that game for extortionist prices now around EUR 100 on ebay, seriously So, it would be good if there was some other game we could use lewurm has created a hack for the LEGO Batman game, thanks http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/281027.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/281027.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-12-19 15:46:17 - HackMii - We ve seen a lot of interest in USB in the past few months a slew of PS Jailbreak clones appeared from an USB trace taken with a 1500 Lecroy USB Analyzer, and marcan wrote a Kinect driver using libusb, based on some USB protocol traces taken with a 1200 Beagle 480 USB analyzer To http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/272940.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/272940.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-11-07 09:14:05 - HackMii - Hello friends I m glad to report that as mha reported earlier we ve surged past 600K installs of the HBC, worldwide We ve always believed that the HBC is a valuable tool for development, especially with the convenience of being able to use Wiiload to load code over the network Some of those 600K users out there http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/263019.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/263019.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-22 14:23:52 - HackMii - Those of you who have been reading this blog for a year or two know that I ve been fascinated with figuring out how Wiis are made at the factory The driving reason is that if we can figure out how Wiis with blank flash chip are programmed at the factory, we could possibly wipe http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/250641.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/250641.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:53 - HackMii - When we released the Homebrew Channel 107, we supplied a new look and the announcement of a surprise I must apologize for the delay in the revelation of this surprise, which is mostly owed to a complete meltdown of my work machine Without much further ado, it is my pleasure to give you Homebrew Channel http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246515.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246515.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:53 - HackMii - Some of you may be familiar with a major problem in Wii homebrew land Most applications and games found on wiibreworg use libogc, which in turn relies on IOS While most IOS versions have a USB module, it is limited to USB1, and its I O throughput make some applications next to unusable when using USB mass http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246514.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246514.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:34:53 - HackMii - We have always known that HBC is widely used We ve had some idea of how many downloads have been completed, and by sorting on unique IPs we could get an idea of the overall distribution Update As promised As of 2010-08-31 we have 266440 unique installations System Menu 43 is catching up to 41 in the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246513.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246513.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-07-27 00:33:28 - HackMii - After more than four weeks we believe we ve finally reached the point for the next public release of the HackMii Installer v07 A lot of changes and improvements went into this release After quite some headaches and a few puzzles thanks Erant we stockpiled over 250 commits since v06, increasing the compatibility with even more Wiis The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/244060.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/244060.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-06-24 18:01:14 - HackMii - It s been a quiet few months around here Nintendo seems to have been neglecting the Wii We expected to see a firmware update bundled with Super Mario Galaxy 2, but found no such thing however, a few weeks later, we have ourselves a brand new 43 update As usual, Nintendo http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/234699.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/234699.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-15 11:12:09 - HackMii - Matthew Braga s article article prompted our good friend Nate to post some thoughts about how homebrew developers might be able to foil piracy on our favorite platforms I had a few things to say on this subject some of which I ve gone over here in the past and a little bit of which http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/222485.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/222485.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-02 04:45:26 - HackMii - We spoke with Matthew Braga a little while back for an article he was doing about console hacking at the risk of sounding self-promotional, I thought he did a really nice job of it It was written before Sony pulled support for OtherOS from the PS3, which just makes it all the more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/218025.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/218025.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-24 23:57:26 - HackMii - A faithful HackMii reader spent some time with AnyTitle Deleter and tried to clean everything odd off his Wii, and used the HackMii Installer to uninstall the HBC and BootMii boot2 He then sent his Wii into Nintendo of America to try to get them to repair a noisy drive the warranty had expired, and he http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/215769.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/215769.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-19 13:22:44 - HackMii - Now that I ve established some context, maybe this will make some more sense The more games we have to try to run on our SPG unSP emulator, the easier it will be to find and fix bugs, so when I had the opportunity to do so, I picked up a VSmile Pocket on eBay that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/213605.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/213605.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-18 12:07:01 - HackMii - Every once in a while, you stumble upon something that nobody else seems to have paid much attention to This all started with my investigation into a glorious product named the Vii I can t really give a great justification as to why this thing was so damned interesting to me, but it seemed weird and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/213422.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/213422.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-16 01:43:41 - HackMii - As someone who has never cared for online advertising or shady deals , the weird and wonderful world of on-line search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, and all that stuff baffles me In case you re new to the whole story, quite a few people are selling soft-modchip packs for the Wii via these channels, which bundle our http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212748.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/212748.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-02 07:17:54 - HackMii - It s been quiet on the Wii front lately Nintendo has yet to release any new updates in a while Nothing new to report on the DSi front yet However, all hardware hackers need good tools, and it s even more fun if you can hack your tools There seems to be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/208346.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/208346.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-01 14:49:34 - HackMii - Recently I was informed that Datel has released a new version of their Action Replay Cheat Cartridge that allows you to cheat in DS games on a DSi console Knowing that Nintendo put quite some effort in blocking any third party cartridges from working on the DSi I was curious to figure out how they http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/187303.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/187303.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-28 01:57:09 - HackMii - Wow, time does fly More than a year ago, on October 23rd, 2008, Nintendo finally released an update that fixed the strncmp fakesigning exploit in all forks of IOS This disabled any direct methods to install unofficial content on all updated Wii consoles At the time, version beta9 of The Homebrew Channel had been in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/186092.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/186092.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-18 06:24:40 - HackMii - I have been spending some time on reverse engineering the Nintendo CIC ROMs The CIC is the lockout chip in NES SNES N64 cartridges, used to get an iron grip on the market prevent people from copying games It was manufactured by Sharp and is likely one of their old one-chip microcomputers , used in calculators http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182637.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182637.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-16 15:06:43 - HackMii - One thing CCC shows me every year is how amazing it can be when you get a bunch of random hackers who have never met each other into a room, and you start bouncing ideas off each other I ve tried to create a similar environment here on this blog , on IRC, and to a lesser extent, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182384.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/182384.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-05 01:53:55 - HackMii - The annual Chaos Communication Congress CCC is always a bittersweet experience for me I always go there with projects that I hope to work on this year SPMP, a TV Plug n'Play version of Bejeweled with an SPG chip inside, a couple of DSis TWLFPGA boards, SD cards and a logic analyzer to work http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178128.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/178128.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-06 16:58:20 - HackMii - Many of us are planning on attending 26C3 in Berlin in a few weeks we hope to get a table again in the Hackcenter this year, but no guarantees We will not be presenting anything this year, sorry There s not much new to report with the Wii, and we don t have anything complete enough to show http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169103.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169103.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-02 06:26:31 - HackMii - To continue with the theme of my last post on updates and bricking I don t have an actual explanation for any of the 42 bricking, and I suspect Nintendo doesn t really, either I don t think they keep a copy of the NAND keys for each device, and I doubt they have any readily-available way of retrieving http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/156111.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/156111.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-01 18:18:15 - HackMii - I keep getting questions along the lines of should I update to 42 Are you guys going to make a safe boot2 updater The answer is no , but keep reading Somewhere in the noise about this most recent update the point I was trying to make got lost Let me recap the facts The most recent http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/156040.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/156040.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-08 00:44:50 - HackMii - HBC v105 freezes Like forever But only for some users Fixed that, and some other minor hiccups Launch HBC to update it Or grab fresh installer BootMii and DVDX unchanged And please Read our updated FAQs first For the HackMii installer and The Homebrew Channel, see here For BootMii, see here Better read those twice We http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/148394.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/148394.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-30 20:00:18 - HackMii - As you all know, Nintendo pushed a huge update yesterday Turns out it s a rather lame attempt to block, among other things, our installer They also remove The Homebrew Channel and DVDX on every system menu startup, but for that they just hardcoded the used title IDs So let s play this silly game let s http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/146084.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/146084.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-30 07:23:23 - HackMii - Edit by marcan For those of you who do not get the hint already THIS UPDATE DOES NOT AND WILL NOT DESTROY HOMEBREW An updated HackMii installer that will work around all issues caused by this update except for bannerbomb, which is being looked at separately including bannerbomb thanks comex is in testing this time I m testing http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/145858.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/145858.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-28 15:36:58 - HackMii - Hey everyone This is my first post here Some of you may know me from the GameCube homebrew scene Anyway, this post is not about the Wii or the DSi It s more of a vintage hardware hacking post The Nintendo Gameboy Color was released by Nintendo to the public in 1998 Since then no one had http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/145053.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/145053.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-23 21:08:38 - HackMii - binary, source code Extremely short instructions put this savegame on your Wii if you have one on there already that you want to keep, back it up first , start the game, walk to the art room find some walkthrough on the intertubes if you cannot find it , look at the second character, enjoy Kudos to roto for http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/143683.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/143683.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-14 11:06:14 - HackMii - As we probe deeper into the DSi, we come across some neat stuff Scanlime got a new FPGA board from Sparkfun, which gives him more GPIOs and the ability to run them at the 18v necessary to properly talk to the RAM Sorting through the data we get from this setup is still a considerable http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140595.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/140595.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-06 12:06:40 - HackMii - Some time has gone by, and we ve made a little progress on the DSi at least, enough for some people to notice so maybe I should write a little bit about it I personally haven t had much luck with my DSi I tried to dump the flash on it, and managed to blow a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/138295.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/138295.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-30 10:46:20 - HackMii - note If you haven t already, you should probably go back and read these posts, because they were written in preparation for this one Wii Hardware a history IOS history, build process A few months back, we started getting reports of unsoftmoddable Wiis , aka LU64 among other things Normally, I wouldn t care, but we discovered that our http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135988.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135988.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-30 05:23:24 - HackMii - Manufacturers of consumer electronics are constantly revising their designs over the lifetime of each product, generally for four reasons Yield improvements fix flaws that caused lots of warranty returns Cost reduction use cheaper or fewer parts, so that profit margin increases or the retail cost can be lowered or both Part refresh sometimes manufacturers stop http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135973.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/135973.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-21 07:16:32 - HackMii - Most of you probably remember our infamous attempt to open a line of communication with Nintendo We chose that bug because a previous attempt at communication had failed we had thought that them fixing the strncmp bug in the System Menu s IOS could cause the system menu to brick when it tried to load http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/133054.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/133054.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-19 10:54:52 - HackMii - This happened a couple of weeks ago, but I only found out about it recently Nuke released the full kit-n-kaboodle of USBGecko as open-source at http codegooglecom p usbgecko this includes not only the source code for the latest WiiRd and GeckoOS under GPL, but the full schematics and VHDL files for the USBGecko itself under http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/132300.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/132300.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-18 00:39:19 - HackMii - Yay, finally another release Version 02 of our installer the BootMii beta2 release is almost 3 month old, and we finally got around to push out some fixes We hoped to have some nice additions for HBC done for this release, but unfortunately those are not yet ready for prime time We didn t want to delay some http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/131677.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/131677.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-09 17:25:06 - HackMii - I’ll keep this short and brief A full week of hacking is finally givingus some fruitful results Enjoy this small tiizer video, and stayalert for what’s yet to come Credits: blasty – hacking / code svpe –golden tip segher – continuous bitching John_K et Bushing – HW et Cameraworkhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/118454.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/118454.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-06 21:45:18 - HackMii - I’m working on another post about the history of hardware revisions onthe Wii, but am having trouble collecting the data that I need I’llgive more info about all of this in my next post, but in brief — Ihave only ever seen three PCB revisions on the Wii: C/RVL-CPU-01 vsC/RVL-CPU-30: C/RVL-CPU-20: From C/RVL-CPU-20 The PCB revision http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117328.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117328.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-30 16:46:52 - HackMii - Another nerdy post, sorry I want to talk about this “unsoftmoddable Wii”crap, but I need to go into some background first I’ve written in thepast about IOS — or at least I’ve meant to — but it seems especiallyrelevant now IOS probably stands for “Input/Output System” — becausethat’s what it does http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115298.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115298.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-28 02:54:08 - HackMii - Two weeks after beta 1 we bring you the first bugfix release: beta 2Next to the usual metric ton of minor fixes and cleanups, here are thechanges worth mentioning: BootMii beta 2 v09: SD card performancehas been improved, decreasing the boot and the NAND backup / restoretime backupmii accepts fragmented SD cards now, reformatting http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102516.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102516.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-26 15:39:07 - HackMii - Without further ado… here Have fun Any and all comments welcomehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/101668.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/101668.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-15 23:29:03 - HackMii - Just a brief note to fulfill our promise about the MINI source code: It’savailable in a git repository now Please note that everything in thisrepository ie the full source code and the build utils is licensedunder the GNU GPL 2 This essentially means that you will also have tolicense all your changes http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96969.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96969.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-14 06:17:41 - HackMii - We are proud to present HackMii Installer v01 This is one executablethat can install the Homebrew Channel and DVDX on any Wii, with anySystem Menu version It can be used with Comex’s BannerBomb on SystemMenu 40, or on our Twilight Hack on earlier versions, or through theHomebrew Channel or any other http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96071.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96071.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-23 13:14:14 - HackMii - I’ve been asked whether installing the Homebrew Channel or Twilight Hackor whatever will void the warranty on a Wii I’ve generally saidsomething like “Technically, yes, but I doubt they will enforce that”This seemed reasonable, given some of the anecdotes I’ve heard —stories of people ruining their drives with a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/87132.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/87132.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-29 16:01:27 - HackMii - Warning: rant and drama ahead If you’re not into that sort of thing,feel free to skip over the following Time and time again, Waninkoko’sapps have just been thin wrappers around existing code or toolswritten by others His Filesystem Dumper came about when I told himabout the GID 0 TMD trick WAD Installer http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76523.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76523.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-29 16:01:27 - HackMii - I’m translating the previous post for the benefit of our Spanish readersUna y otra vez, las aplicaciones de Waninkoko no han sido mas quesimples interfaces implementads sobre código existente o herramientasde otros Su FS Dumper salió cuando le comenté lo del truco del TMDcon GID 0 El WAD Installer salió después de http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76522.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76522.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-27 04:54:56 - HackMii - As you may already know, we moderate the comments on this blog It shouldgo without saying, given other related sites such as Wiibrew, itsforums, or the #wiidev EFNet IRC channel, but there are rules hereComments containing any of the following will be deleted: Anyquestions regarding warez launchers, or implications that you use saidhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75832.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-25 21:46:41 - HackMii - I’ll keep this brief Nintendo, as expected, half-assed the SD feature byjust automating the copy to NAND No surprise there The IOS16 thatwarez users used to pirate is no longer an option, thank goodness HBCsurvives So does DVDX They fixed the bug that the HBC installer andDVDX 34 installer use; time to bring out another http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75233.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75233.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-21 19:31:35 - HackMii - We have read reports and been spammed on Wiibrew with the claim thatNintendo is banning Mario Kart users from the online WFC mode if theyhave The Homebrew Channel installed There is very little informationregarding the claimed issue However, considering HBC is not aprerequisite for Mario Kart online cheating, nor does it have http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/73435.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/73435.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-03 18:50:59 - HackMii - Since System Menu 35K recently came out, and it makes sense to monitorthe activity of updates separately for each region, I’ve updatedWiimpersonator to check the USA, EUR, JPN, and KOR regionsindividually As a reminder, it checks for updates hourly and producesa report if any new titles or updates are detected You http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66975.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66975.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-02 20:23:42 - HackMii - Yeah, I know, like I have a chance, haha Anyway, if you’re one of thosepeople who are happily bundling The Homebrew Channel, Twilight Hack,warez launchers, and a whole bunch of illegal wads and IOSes, wouldyou please stop including our stuff You know, because our scammerfriends love to link to your downloads as http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66613.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66613.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-01 04:28:15 - HackMii - Yes, this is another Wii rant There are plenty of other articles talkingabout the poor recent game offerings, the hardware limitations, andthe primitive online play I’m not here to talk about those Instead,I’m going to talk about the Wii’s software stack, and how it comparesto other consoles The Wii’s software architecture sucks If http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66318.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66318.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-28 22:10:28 - HackMii - Yes, this is another Wii rant There are plenty of other articles talkingabout the poor recent game offerings, the hardware limitations, andthe primitive online play I’m not here to talk about those Instead,I’m going to talk about the Wii’s software stack, and how it comparesto other consoles The Wii’s software architecture sucks If http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66307.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66307.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-19 21:17:58 - HackMii - A few months ago we released a small, hidden channel called “DVDX” whichessentially allowed homebrew to read DVDs on any Wii console withoutrequiring hardware modifications Since that release some things thatyou are probably all aware of have happened: Nintendo released anupdate that blocks the installation of fake-signed titles like TheHomebrew http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63330.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63330.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-19 03:32:59 - HackMii - From the checker statistics, we’re seeing about 10% of Wiis with the newboot1 all newer ones What will happen to those new Wiis that haveit At first, BootMii will not be compatible with those Wiis Amodified boot2 will not run on them, period However, there is a wayof accomplishing some of BootMii’s http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63078.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63078.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-16 15:53:12 - HackMii - We haven’t made an update on BootMii for a while but never fear, thingsare progressing Part of what takes so long is figuring out what theedge cases are that could cause things to fail and in this regard weneed your help We’ve developed a BootMii Compatibility Checker thatwe need as many people as http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/62139.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/62139.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-15 19:08:06 - HackMii - Those of you that already know the story regarding these and otherwebsites may skip this paragraph Several websites have, for a whilenow, been selling our Wii homebrew tools in conjunction with warezloaders, under the guise of “unlocking” you Wii In doing this, theyof course make all sorts of outlandish claims, such http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/61983.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/61983.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-12 12:32:55 - HackMii - This is the second part of a three part series The first part describedthe hardware of this device; this part will describe the software /firmware that drives this thing, and the last part will document themodifications I made to the hardware and software to try to get it todo what http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/61192.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/61192.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-07 20:39:29 - HackMii - mha’s server, which hosts Wiibrew, is currently down for as of yetunknown reasons HackMii was also partially affected as the staticcontent images/CSS was also hosted there - I’ve temporarily movedthose to the main server please don’t kill my bandwidth too much,but only blog content is here, so file links / post http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/59609.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/59609.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-03 13:53:44 - HackMii - Back at 25C3, pytey handed me a rather intimidating piece of hardware“It’s a flash programmer, but it doesn’t work; I think I broke it witha custom adapter I was working on for it I don’t have any tools totry to fix it, you want to have a go” Here’s the device: The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57815.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57815.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-26 04:49:56 - HackMii - Nintendo recently began selling their next-generation handheld console,the Nintendo DSi I picked one up on eBay from Japan, since they willnot be available for sale here in the US until April Why did bushingbuy a new DSi, especially given the fact that he’s turned his DSliteon maybe 3 times and he http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/55047.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/55047.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-15 19:59:27 - HackMii - Argon contacted me a couple days ago, asking for a reasonableconversation and apparently willing to cooperate We had an IRCconversation where I explained what the problems where and how theycould fix them The end result seems to be that Argon has removedeverything that us and other homebrew developers have produced,including all http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51786.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51786.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-14 03:13:16 - HackMii - Most of our faithful readers probably already saw this, but for those whomissed it, Marcan and I presented on behalf of Team Twiizers at the25th annual Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin Slides areavailable, and you can watch the video The content of it will befamiliar to most readers here http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51177.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51177.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-12 22:35:30 - HackMii - Here’s the ridiculous response that I received when I sent them an e-maildemanding that they stop hosting the Twilight Hack According to theCOPYRIGHT LAW the owner of the “SOFTWARE RIGHTS” need to proof thatWe need some evidence that you wrote this code, and better if thiscode is currently registered on a COPYRIGHT AUTHORITY Marcan, ishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50734.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50734.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-12 17:04:23 - HackMii - The Argon guy posted a topic on WiiNewz which I can only take as theirofficial response to this matter Like everyone has notice MARCAN isacting like a GOD… He is the only one having the KEY to installhomebrew software on 34 firmware with a new Exploit Obviously hedoesn’t want to share because he http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50616.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50616.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-10 06:32:21 - HackMii - The Argon modchip guys have been trumping up this new cool thing theycall the Argon Channel At first details were sketchy, but as timepassed what it was started to become obvious: some homebrew launchingor installing “solution”, locked to a modchip Recently, the Argonguys showed up on IRC and had an interesting conversation http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50348.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50348.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-30 02:59:08 - HackMii - Welcome to the 25C3 Capture The Flag security contest The awesome iPhoneDev Team and us joined forces under the name WiiPhonies These werethe results: bigger version we’re red It was a fun 8 hours Thanks toeveryone for their hard work, and especially the iPhone Dev Team forinviting us to play with them http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/47150.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/47150.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I’ve always wanted my own bloghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46841.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46841.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I’d like to start talking about the Wii system architecture, includingits possibilities, challenges, and limitations In order to do that, Ithink it best for me to start by talking about how the Wii software isstructured and how software is run As always, for more informationon the subject, please see the Wiibrew Wiki The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46840.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46840.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - When Nintendo “accidentally” released IOS37 on their update servers lastmonth, they may have only been trying to intimidate Datel into notmaking more copies of their Freeloader; we may never know The effect,however, went far beyond that, and in a strange direction No, thislittle chunk of code appeared on our Wiis, and I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46839.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46839.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Bruce Schneier publishes a monthly newsletter called Crypto-Gram It’s afascinating read, but one of my favorite parts is a recurring sectionhe has called “The Doghouse” where he picks on a particularly badexample of crypto-related hardware or software Generally, they areprograms or hardware that make broad claims of security but http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46838.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46838.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - In Spanish:http://wwwelotroladonet/post_Gracias--Waninkoko_1711666033#post1711666033I’ve ranted a bit about how we need to be responsible as coders andconsider the effects that releasing software will have on thecommunity — in terms of hardware damage I didn’t think that I had toalso point out the need to consider broader, longer-term effectsSeveral people have send me http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46837.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46837.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - By popular request, here’s an explanation of the different encryptionkeys that are used on the Wii AES Keys: The Wii uses 128-bit16-byte symmetric AES aka AES-128-CBC for most encryption Commonkey ebe42a225e8593e448d9c5457381aaf7: This is the “shared secret”that we extracted with the Tweezer Hack This key is known by allWiis, but is never used, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46836.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46836.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - A lot of stuff has happened lately, and I haven’t written in a while VCpiracy has as expected flourished, and we’re still waiting to seewhat form Nintendo’s reaction will take — at least, I don’t reallyfeel like releasing any code until I see what happens So, I’vestepped back and am working http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46835.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46835.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Marcan has posted an extracted version of the HTML from the System MenuSome highlights: http://marcansoftcom/transf/wiisettings/US2/iplsettingash/FIX/US/ENG/index01htmlhttp://marcansoftcom/transf/wiisettings/US2/iplsettingash/FIX/US/ENG/Setup/startup_index1htmlhttp://marcansoftcom/transf/wiisettings/US2/iplsettingash/FIX/US/ENG/Setup/ScreenSavehtml Enjoyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46834.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46834.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - So, here’s my big project for, well, this quarter or so I’d like to beable to unbrick a Wii Any Wii I think you could rightfully call thisthe “Holy Grail” of Wii-Hacking projects right now — many have tried,some have written about it, and to my knowledge, nobody has succeededIt still http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46833.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46833.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - As promised: A friend whose Wii I bricked was kind enough to hook me upwith an Infectus chip to use as a NAND Flash programmer in myUnbrickMii project I’ve spent the last couple of weeks just trying toget it to work, and have run into several, um, speedbumps along thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46832.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Note: Do not bug me about anything on this page, or I will ignore youSeems like it’s been forever in the making, but we finally have a realvideo to show for the Wii Homebrew Channel: Many people have playedsmall parts in its creation, but most credit should go to bLAStY anddhewg for http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46831.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46831.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Just a quick post on my way to bed: I did some hacking around, and wasable to get amoxiflash to build under XP I’ve posted a binary forWindows here: amoxiflash-win32-02 In order to run it, you will alsoneed to install the libusb-win32 filter from here: libusb-win32 filterdriver Of course, the source is included http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46830.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46830.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I have a “bitch” Wii — a Wii that I use specifically for testing out NANDflash hacks I bought it on eBay, and it came with a broken drive —not a modchip disaster, but an actual launch-day Wii with an expiredwarranty It had never been connected to the network, and had onlyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46829.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46829.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Work with the Homebrew Channel has taken more time than I’d hoped — but Idon’t want to lose momentum, so let’s press forward here, too In acomment in my previous post, Galtor correctly picked up the path I wasplanning to go down, based on the files I linked to at the end http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46828.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46828.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I just wrote a quick little tool to obtain Parental Control passwordreset codes without having to call Nintendo Bushing found the codeinside the system menu, and I converted it into a PSP script PythonServer Pages which you can use on-line You’ll find it here It shouldbe of use for those who bought http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46827.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46827.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I really should be in bed by now, but this is just too frustrating toignore People ask me all the time when I’m going to release software— a beta version of the Homebrew Channel, source code for the TwilightHack, IOS37 patches, whatever — and I hate it Why This thread isembarrassing:http://wwwconsole-sceneinfo/forums/wii-homebrew-discussion/1244-wii-miidia-v0-1-alphahtmlThe http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46826.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46826.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - By popular request – I’ve made a disc which will hopefully fix any NTSCWii that got bricked by an imported Mario Kart game or similar Itis an ISO with one partition — an update partition — and it containsthree files: IOS30-64-v1040wad SystemMenu-v289wad __updateinf:0000000: 3230 3038 2f30 342f 3238 0000 0000 0000 2008/04/280000010: 0000 0002 0000 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46825.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46825.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - The Homebrew Channel was missing its banner in the video that Bushingposted some time ago As making banners is quite complicated and caneasily result in bricking, that part of the channel wasn’t quite readyyet Who am I kidding I had the tools done as evidenced by theworking icon, I was just too http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46824.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46824.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - As promised, here are discs to install the latest version of the systemmenu for each region — v288/v289/v290 for JAP/USA/PAL, respectivelyThese are the updated “repad” versions dCiSo has generously offeredto host these on console-sceneinfo:http://wwwconsole-sceneinfo/files/wii-system-menu-update-JAP-v288-repadrarhttp://wwwconsole-sceneinfo/files/wii-system-menu-update-USA-v289-repadrarhttp://wwwconsole-sceneinfo/files/wii-system-menu-update-PAL-v290-repadrarhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46823.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46823.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - We’re proud to present the first public version of The Homebrew Channel,beta 7 Without further ado, please visit the channel’s homepage formore information and downloads We’re having some server problems Ifyou can’t get to the above site, your ISP may have cached the host, aswe had to change it to work around some http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46822.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46822.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - This post is part of a several-part series on fixing a “bricked“ Wii:UnBrickMii - Introduction, explanation of a 4-part plan to unbrick anyWii amoxiflash - Part 1, a way to modify the NAND Flash of a brickedWii Mario-Kart Autopsy 1 and 2 - Part 2, a partial analysis of whathappens to the filesystem of a Wii http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46821.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46821.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - There still seems to be some confusion about why we turn our noses up atWAD-manipulation tools, so I think an analogy is in order A WADInstaller is like an ISO Loader Why WAD files and ISO files are verysimilar, in fact They are container formats like ZIP files and TARarchives, which means they http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46820.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46820.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - ChipD has done a lot of work lately with the actual, physical NAND Flashchip on the Wii, and he just told me about his latest feat — two chipsinstalled in one Wii, with a switch to toggle between them Morepictures and info after the break The goal: mount two full NAND Flashhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46819.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46819.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Just a quick note to those who haven’t already seen this — devkitPPC r15is now out Together with libogc-060208, there’s a tremendous amountof Wii goodness there for any developer Most if not all of thespecial features that we used in the Homebrew Channel — Stable Wiimotecode, networking including listening and non-blocking http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46818.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46818.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - The Homebrew Channel beta 8 is out This fixes most of the bugs that wefound in beta 7, and incorporates many new libogc fixes Changelog:you don’t need to eject your memcards anymore switched from IOS35 toIOS21, this makes the hbc usable on older firmwares improved SD cardloading performance thanks, svpe improved some translations the IPlabel isn’t http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46817.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46817.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I didn’t think that I had to explicitly say this, but I see the samethings come up over and over again, so I’m hoping I can clear this upfor people The Wii is not a PSP, or an Xbox, or any other consolesystem Stop making guesses about the Wii based on your http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46816.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46816.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - This is a continuation of boot0 One of the medium-to-long-term projectsthat Marcan and I have been working is hacking Skyeye to get it toemulate the Starlet I don’t think will ever be useful as more than atool for debugging the lowest-level hacks to boot2 that we plan toattempt, but it’s neat to actually http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46815.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46815.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Something that has caught my obsession has been the question — How areWiis made Specifically, after the parts are soldered down, how arethey programmed There do not seem to be any data ports which could beused to upload data, nor download output My motivation here, ofcourse, is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46814.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46814.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - boot1 is the second stage of the Wii’s bootloader It lives at thebeginning of flash; it is encrypted by AES, using a fixed key It ishashed using SHA1, and verified against a hash that is burned into OTPmemory inside the Hollywood during manufacturing Therefore, boot1 canbe changed http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46813.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46813.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Inspired by henke37’s idea of making a diagram that shows how thedifferent processors on the Wii relate to each other, I took a stab atit I got a little carried away I guess I can’t promise everythinghere is right — there are just too many things we don’t know, and evensome of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46812.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46812.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Breaking news har har har Check back for updates Several pieces ofNintendo system software have been updated: ====== Titles Changed====== SystemMenu Title ID: 00000001-00000002 Version: 0x 161 Size:23511040 Contents: 9 of which 6 are shared IOS30 Title ID:00000001-0000001e Version: 0x a10 Size: 1933312 Contents: 15 of which14 are shared IOS31 Title ID: 00000001-0000001f Version: 0x http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46811.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46811.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - I’ve had a few people ask about this — the way that I found out whattitles had been updated was using Marcan’s nifty tool, wiimpersonator:http://wiimarcansoftcom/wiimpersonator/reports/ It’s a collection ofPython scripts that attempt to emulate an actual Wii’s update checkprocess, and then generates reports to show what changed, eg20080617-030018log and 20080617-040048log It’s pretty neat; I’d sayit’s http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46810.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46810.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Okay, I’ve spent a little bit of time trying to reconstruct the C codeused to build the channel from my disassembler The full IDA Prooutput for those funcs is here:http://statichackmiicom/verifyzeldahtml Below, you’ll find my Cversion I’ve tried to make it function exactly like the one in thenew system menu Hopefully I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46809.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46809.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - This new version of the Twilight Hack is compatible with version 33 ofthe Wii System Menu, using the workarounds explained in previousposts Thanks to everyone on IRC who contributed to the search for thebugs, and to tmbinc and tehpola for finding the two bugs that makethis possible Changelog for this release: The Twilight http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46808.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46808.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - The June 16th ”33″ Wii System Update did more than bring the death ofthe Twilight Hack sort of and a patched version of IOS30 It alsobrought new versions of BC and MIOS — which actually may be the moreinteresting of the changes in the update BC and MIOS are titles 1-100and 1-101, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46807.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46807.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - If you try to install The Homebrew Channel beta8 with version 33 of thesystem menu, you’ll get a message that looks like this: You have WiiSystem Menu version 353 v22 USA installed The Homebrew Channel hasonly been tested with Wii System Menu version 290 v18 and belowPress ACCEPT to continue at your own risk or http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46806.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46806.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - It’s been a few days, so I’m just going to post some brief notes on whatI’ve been working on lately Twilight Hack: Marcan did a great job ofputting together a nice new release that works with System Menu 33:Twilight Hack v01beta1 It seems to work well; we have some initialreports that some SD http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46805.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46805.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Note: this is a continuation of http://hackmiicom/2008/06/factory/Last week, I bought two brand-new Wiis the first new ones I’ve everowned and dumped their NAND Flash filesystems before powering themon for the first time I was able to recover some interesting infoalthough nothing earth-shattering The two Wiis: LU5757004xx id0×047854xx: This unit was purchased Jun 27th from http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46804.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46804.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - The past few weeks has seen increased interest in hacking IOS, the“firmware” of the Wii — I think many people are under the mistakenassumption that I disapprove of this On the contrary — I think it’san exciting direction, but I want to make sure people have realisticexpectations Limitations: IOS is responsible for http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46803.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46803.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Note: This is not a standalone, ready-to-use program — hence the name Ifyou need to ask how to use this, you’re doing it wrong We’ve beenpretty bad about releasing source code lately, so this is my attemptto atone I’ve been sitting on this code for a couple of months now —I wrote http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46802.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46802.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - There is still a wealth of work left to be done on reverse-engineeringthe Wii Off the top of my head, we still know very little about:WiiConnect24 Opera on the Wii Communications between the Wii and theDS see eg the Nintendo Channel Huge chunks of IOS in generalother, uh, stuff I’d like to try an experiment Most of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46801.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46801.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - As part of our efforts to understand how the Wii works, we believe wehave found a security issue that could allow pirated Wii games to beplayed on an unmodified Wii console I would like to speak to anengineer about this — please have one contact me Sincerely, bushingUpdate: A representative from Nintendo has contacted me see commentbelow http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46800.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46800.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - This isn’t the prettiest code I’ve ever written — it doesn’t have much ofan interface, and I just threw this release together in a few minutesHowever, it’s been exceedingly useful to me, and hopefully some of youwill find it useful, too I’ll quote the README here: This programwill do http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46799.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46799.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - ChipD is a lean, mean, solderin’ machine — I have some of these TSOPsockets, and they are really really hard to solder down to a PCB thatyou actually care about Also, they tend to melt if you breathe onthem — but maybe that’s just me I really like the way http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46798.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46798.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Note: this is not a backup loader, in any way, shape, or form If you’relooking for a backup loader, please move along While Nintendo didreply to bushing’s open letter, he has not succeeded in establishing aconversation with an engineer about the issue Furthermore, we havelearned that they received and read at least http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46797.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46797.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - In order to make legally re-distributable ISO images for the HomebrewChannel installer, we had to remove Nintendo’s copyrighted apploadercode and replace it with our own; we based ours on the one fromGC-Linux You may find the source and binary for it here:http://statichackmiicom/wii-apploadertargz Here is an empty“template” disc image that you can use in your http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46796.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46796.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Yesterday we had some server issues, and I took the server offline for awhile During this, I decided it was time to release a preview versionof menuloader Since I couldn’t write a post about it here, I just letit loose on the forums Unfortunately, the resulting game of Telephonesomewhat predictably managed http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46795.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46795.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - To all newcomers to Wii Homebrew: Welcome We hope you enjoy thewonderful world of homebrew software Since this post is primarilyabout the DVD player in particular, and assumes that you are at leastfamiliar with the usage of homebrew software on the Wii, we wouldappreciate it if you avoid asking general questions like http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46794.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46794.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Just a brief note to those who haven’t already seen them: #hackmii IRClogs up: bLAStY has set up his custom web front-end to view thechannel logs from #hackmii at loghackmiicom Search is coming soonNew forums: We have some newly re-designed forums atforumwiibreworg Come check them outhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46793.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46793.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Apparently tehskeen took a month-old video, coupled it with a paragraphof reality and a paragraph of rampant speculation and nonsense, andmade it into a news story This is undoubtedly going to spread aroundas these things do, so I’m going to stop it dead in its tracks It’snot a pandora battery It won’t http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46792.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46792.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - With the kind help of naamah31 author of WUM, James and bigwolf, I havefinally gotten my hands on a filesystem dump of a Korean Wii foranalysis It’s a little anticlimactic, but we finally have some of theanswers Here are the vitals on its System Menu: TMD: Versions: 0, CACRL 0, Signer CRL 0, System http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46791.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46791.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Team Twiizers is proud to announce the new SaveMii recovery dongle Thissimple device plugs into the GameCard memory slot of any Wii, and willforce the Wii into a special “Recovery Mode” This mode will allowsoftware updates from game discs to be installed, and will bootautoboot discs for those with drivechips installed The target http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46790.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46790.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - The SaveMii launch has been pretty hectic, and we’ve even gotten somelarge volume requests from resellers We’re flattered to get theserequests, but at the rate we’re going, it’d probably take us a week ofwork in the kitchen to fill just one of those requests let alone theindividual sales we’re making http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46789.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46789.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Recently, some sites have started to sell Wii homebrew packages / guidesHere are two of them: HomebreWare Another site I won’t link to it ormention its name because its author apparently feels that it willboost his sales Update: After some clarification, the owner ofHomebreWare has rewritten the product Now, what is being sold ishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46788.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46788.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you The Homebrew Channel, version 10Okay, so it’s really just another name for beta10 Getting intodouble-digit betas sounds kind of lame, and we don’t want to sound toomuch like google, so we’re calling it 10 After all, many bugfixeshave come and this thing is pretty stable http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46787.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46787.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Okay, so I screwed up a couple things Here’s your fixed HomebrewChannel, version 101, with a couple of bonus fixes too Changelog:Fixed B button issues app screen corruption, crash on B+A Wiimotesnow keep the ordering from the System Menu libogc note: they’llswitch again when you boot apps that haven’t been updated like HBC hashttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46786.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46786.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-28 17:01:46 - HackMii - Now that we’ve received our mini-production run of SaveMiis, we are onceagain selling them to US customers via Amazon — click here to orderThe rest of you may, as always, order from Marcanhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46785.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46785.shtml