New Hack Could Enable Linux on the Wii (Wired) [LWN.net]

This Wired blog features a video that describes an effort to open up access to the Nintendo Wii game platform. "Wii fans hang on to your hats, as the video above explains, hackers have found a way around the Wii's encryption keys which opens the widely popular console up to home brewed games, open source ports and potentially even a full version of Linux running on your Wii. The video comes from the 24th Chaos Communication Congress and demonstrates a Wii console running arbitrary code. As Tysoe_J explains in the WiiLi forums, Nintendo wouldnt be able to patch this with a firmware update, since doing so would also break the backwards compatibility with with Game Cube games."

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New Hack Could Enable Linux on the Wii (Wired)

Posted Jan 3, 2008 22:12 UTC (Thu) by robilad (guest, #27163) [Link]

24c3 had two fun talks on console hacking:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2279.e... (hacking xbox360, included the
wii hack and a debian demo)
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2209.e... (hacking psp)

Torrents are available from http://outpost.h3q.com/fnord/24c3-torrents/