Nintendo Targets Homebrew Channel With Wii Update
- Thread starter Logan Westbrook
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"Because unauthorized channels or firmware may impair game play or the Wii console"
My Wii never had a hiccup since I put the homebrew channel on mine. What are they talking about?
My Wii never had a hiccup since I put the homebrew channel on mine. What are they talking about?
I didn't know there was a DS-scene. Until i read some article here on how they might make the 3DS with a game hard drive.Megacherv said:
Well, I don't have homebrew, though I know a few people will be disappointed. That said, I won't even get this update until it's required for a game I buy. And by that time I'm sure homebrew will be back on the scene.
Pretty transparent excuse, don'tcha think?shaboinkin said:
I only use my Wii for Brawl+ anyway, so this is going to be another update I'm not going to download.
This goes back to a rant I had during the 4.2 incident.
In short, why the hell is Nintendo trying to curtail an aspect of the community (the homebrew scene) which likes the Wii and generally continues to support it, instead of going directly for the people who are pirating games.
News Flash Nintendo: Most Homebrew users don't use it to play pirated games (unless you count emulators and even 10 year olds can do that these days on the PC).
My only reason for getting into the Homebrew scene was to enable cheats akin to CodeBreaker-esque codes for games that I either couldn't beat or just wanted to screw around on. Like getting those last couple ridiculous and seemingly impossible Brawl trophies (there were about 4 or so of them).
Same statement goes out to Xbox and PS3. Stop trying to keep people from playing the gods damned games how we want and focus more on making quality products that are worth the money you're forcing us to shell out for your goods. One of the main reasons I didn't buy an Xbox 360 was that it HAS no cheat option (unless you mean in-game cheats which often screw up the game). I don't play online, I play games single player like I've ALWAYS done. What people do in their own home with the games they buy should be their own business. All it does it narrow down the potential market for people who won't take risks (or do and return the game next day) on games they find unplayable.
In short, why the hell is Nintendo trying to curtail an aspect of the community (the homebrew scene) which likes the Wii and generally continues to support it, instead of going directly for the people who are pirating games.
News Flash Nintendo: Most Homebrew users don't use it to play pirated games (unless you count emulators and even 10 year olds can do that these days on the PC).
My only reason for getting into the Homebrew scene was to enable cheats akin to CodeBreaker-esque codes for games that I either couldn't beat or just wanted to screw around on. Like getting those last couple ridiculous and seemingly impossible Brawl trophies (there were about 4 or so of them).
Same statement goes out to Xbox and PS3. Stop trying to keep people from playing the gods damned games how we want and focus more on making quality products that are worth the money you're forcing us to shell out for your goods. One of the main reasons I didn't buy an Xbox 360 was that it HAS no cheat option (unless you mean in-game cheats which often screw up the game). I don't play online, I play games single player like I've ALWAYS done. What people do in their own home with the games they buy should be their own business. All it does it narrow down the potential market for people who won't take risks (or do and return the game next day) on games they find unplayable.
I'd argue it is the easiest of the current-gen consoles to hack, especially if one has an older firmware and can run the Zelda: Twilight Princess hack (which I did, but I guess it doesn't work anymore). No hardware messing-around necessary!UnableToThinkOfName said:
However, I sold my Wii when I realized all the games that were going to come out for a loooong time were games Wii Music and My Little Pony.
So let me get this straight... Nintendo wants to take away the only reason I even play the Wii any more, even though I never actually use it for piracy? Who the hell do they think they are! That's like Microsoft forcing a download for windows which removes and user-created software, simply on the basis that "it may impair your PC experience."
I tell you what, Nintendo... if I want to install something that "Impairs my game play or console" That I have the right to do so... after all, it's my Wii. I own it; hell, it cost me nearly 300 bucks if memory serves, and for the year and a half that I wasn't playing it (because, you know... it's a Wii) it was basically a brick anyway.
Arrg, no matter. I don't play new Wii games or access the internet with it anyway, so no worries here. Ill just wait for a workaround.
I tell you what, Nintendo... if I want to install something that "Impairs my game play or console" That I have the right to do so... after all, it's my Wii. I own it; hell, it cost me nearly 300 bucks if memory serves, and for the year and a half that I wasn't playing it (because, you know... it's a Wii) it was basically a brick anyway.
Arrg, no matter. I don't play new Wii games or access the internet with it anyway, so no worries here. Ill just wait for a workaround.
Same reason they spent ridiculous amounts of time ripping sequence breaks out of the Metroid Prime series, even though all that does is ruin their replay value for the most dedicated fans of the games. Indeed, the same reason Nintendo have managed at various times to annoy almost every major third-party developer in one way or another (Namco over screwing them with contracts from the NES / SNES days, Id for the emasculated Wolfenstein on SNES, Midway for Mortal Kombat, EA for not letting them manufacture cartridges when Sega did, Square for ignoring them over CDs, Sony for pointlessly double-crossing them over the SNES CD drive, Rare for massively screwing them over re: Starfox Adventures and resisting Conker's Bad Fur Day at every step, everyone who tried to develop anything for the N64 for stupid hardware bottlenecks, buggy devkits and Nintendo refusing to explain how the custom microcode actually worked, etc etc etc).Hiroshi Mishima said:
Put simply, it is because they are dicks.
The last two generations of Nintendo consoles used ridiculous proprietary media (3-inch DVDs and cartridges instead of CDs, respectively) so Nintendo could make sure everything had to go through them, so I don't see why it surprises everyone that their paranoia is in "business as usual" mode. And don't bring up the Video Game Crash, Nintendo's allowed so much WiiS2 shovelware that they're in no position to claim they're trying to preserve quality.
Man, reading this thread makes me want to hack my Wii! Tho all I have access is to my family's Wii.. if I ever get my own Wii, I'll definetly be giving it the homebrew/DVD playing treatment.
I was already gonna say this is futile, and that Nintendo should focus on things that MATTER to paying customers instead of the wild goose chase with highly motivated hacker communities.
I was already gonna say this is futile, and that Nintendo should focus on things that MATTER to paying customers instead of the wild goose chase with highly motivated hacker communities.
