RIP

RIP

not having a modded wii already

ngmi

How do I un-hack my Wii? This is a fucking disgrace.

Did the devs troon out or?

QRD?

qrd?

Fake news

The Homebrew Channel was apparently built on stolen code and only now people found out so they decided to quit development out of shame for some fucking reason.
This really doesn't mean much because the thing still works.

Wii Homebrew Channel used stolen Nintendo code, hoster of the files took it down in fear of getting Yuzu'd.

No, do the honorable thing. Un-hack your Wii you're endorsing a fucking corrupt system.

scared of nintendo ninjas

Holy shit, it's FUCKING OVER.

The implications of this grievous violation will be felt for generations.

FOR.

GENERATIONS.

youtube.com/watch?v=gN7TnG1SOgg

“only now found out” my ass, they probably knew this for years and just aired it out now for drama

software designed to steal things

devs stole some code

Imagine my shock. I'm more surprised it was still in development to begin with. It's been almost 20 years, what else could there possibly be to add/update/fix/etc?

Can't wait for the new "better" version of Homebrew Channel that asks you to join a discord and send the code of your Wii, a dumped nand of it, your friend code and your verified email and other shit in order to download the specific files to install this shit.

go open source, they said

no one audits code for misappropriation for almost 20 years

Delightful.

who fucking cares
it hasn't gotten update in years so what's the point of revealing this? it works on all wii consoles so this changes nothing

The best option would've been to literally just shut the fuck up and pretend nothing happened. I get that people were lied to, and developers are extremely passionate about their work, but now they just made themselves open to DMCA gangrapes from Nintendo because they decided to be honest.

I had to google what happened, and found this.

So an open source project used code from an open source project? What exactly is the issue here? The redditors are universally acting like shutting it all down is perfectly understandable and unavoidable reaction to this news.

None of this is about people's reputation, its about letting a useful wii tool exist. Just fucking credit them in the readme or something if people really give that much of a shit. Is the writer of the original stolen code sperging out about this? I expect they wouldn't care.

There's a concern that tools and stuff will slowly fall off the web to avoid getting into legal trouble.

fail0verflow are a bunch of krauts and the current faggot tranny kraut hacker meme (infected the CCC as well) is to do the le ethical thing

has anyone rehosted the git repo yet?

again, who cares
there's probably thousands of links for redownloads for it everywhere
wii has been a dead console for over a decade and no longer relevant for legal shit

Any separate party that doesn't give a shit can just copy their code 1:1 and pick up where they left off.

Such is the magic of open source.

Nobody cares, but modern day homebrew devs are always going to put their word and opinion over anybody else.
This shit has been infested with self righteous troons for years now.

trannies are covetous little slimes who will jealously protect their hoard of useless trash as if they're Smaug on HRT, all the while gleefully purloining from the trashpiles of friend and foe alike.

its just Hector Martin (psycho tranny) desperate for attention again, he's known about this since 2009 but only cares now because he can make drama
elotrolado.net/hilo_publicara-algun-dia-las-tools-marcan_1178719#p1714912282

He just wanted to cause needless drama for headlines. All homebrew on the wii uses libogc not just the homebrew channel.

Anon Babble would be much more offended by this. You people have no standards.

offended by what exactly?

covetous little slimes who will jealously protect their hoard of useless trash as if they're Smaug on HRT

except they can't, because the code is all online for free

Violation of the sanctity of open source software.

which is why they are moaning and mewling online about how people need to "take it down NOW NOW NOW" in the hopes they can shame people into doing their bidding. do not be surprised if in the near future the developers behind the software start crying about mental trauma and suicide ideation in the further hopes of trying to shame people into not sharing the hack.

did nintendo even find our did they want to be complete moral fags over nothing

the latter
homebrew devs have this self righteous pride bullshit that nobody but them cares about

not to mention the HBC has been finished as of 2013.

i can imagine all known hacking sites will have to be forced to remove all references and links to the thing out of fear of nintendo, which has been proven to still go after people who hack their old consoles so people can only play old games on NSO or thru rereleases.

but it will still be there for people who bother to study and learn how to do it.

This is a good summary by one of the most prominent modern Wii Homebrew devs

tl;dr autist is causing drama by airing decades old dirty laundry everyone in the scene knew about. Changes nothing

there is no honour amongst thieves

Still using the Wii in 2025

sorry what pozzed slop should i be playing instead

damn really sucks that development has suddenly stopped on this really active project

how else am I supposed to play gamecube games?

The Homebrew Channel was apparently built on stolen code

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Pink disc

Don't think it counts when the entrypoints were leaked by people in charge of tech support for the thing. Still funny tho

There's a concern

You mean a manufactured concern by people overthinking it on the internet like you?

I tried to look up what you are talking about and this was the first result

How dare you to keep using an entertainment product to entertain you instead of consuming the newest and worse entertainment products?!

Cry me a river. I'm going to buy a digital game for my 360 now, nigger

I've been meaning to homebrew the old wii downstairs, can I still do it or did they nuke everything?

mfw have a year 1 Wii with less than 10 bad blocks halfway hacked

Redpill me on that ahprobt thingy. Can I keep using bootleg discs while having the channel menu on usb loader gx?

i thought the xbox shop shut down for 360

The letterbomb hack should still work

Backward compat games can be purchased and downloaded into it just fine via options on the console. OGXbox games were moved onto Xbone servers

wait the same guy who just freaked out on the linux kernel mailing list did this? KEK

marcan

wait
that sounds oddly familiar
...

picrel

... it's hector martin

unfortunately, this time it does

I wish the emulation scene wasn't so mentally fucking ill

So can i still get a used Wii amd homebrew it though?

yes

I hate autists so fucking much and especially Nintendo homebrew psychos.

this is just known schizo hector martin (aka transvestite vtuber asahi lina) sperging out once again
in the past month or two he's burned every bridge

The Homebrew Channel was apparently built on stolen code

code stolen from nintendo

BASED

So this news means nothing then. Good to know.

How rip? You don't need the homebrew channel and haven't for years now.
Why wouldn't you? How would 1 launcher going away affect that in any way anon.

OH FUCK MY WII AND 3DS ARE SMOKING NOOOOOOOO

stolen

open source

I thought the whole point of open source was that anyone could freely view/use/modify the program without permission. What even if this autism Anon Babble explain

nooooo, you didn't credit my work, you're supposed to credit my woooooooooork

The "Ethical" Hacker/Pirate facade is so fucking obnoxious and blatantly fake.

I honestly don't think Nintendo gives a fuck about a homebrew on the Wii. It's a super dead console

These retards' definition of "ethical" is being a corporate bootlicker who grooms children

I think the problem here is that the source for the code (Nintendo's code) wasn't meant to be used by others and wasn't open source. Aside of that Nintendo doesn't give a fuck unless some faggot tries to pass that code as theirs bothering other people

moralfags have always been a cancer to the wii scene, see: ctgp and how it needs the original disc because we don't want to le heckin encourage piracy to the company that would feed us to the wolves anyway!!!!

This may be the most newfag tendie redditor thing I’ve said all year, but I feel like Homebrew Channel was the most influential piece of software in console homebrewing history, yes?

>So an open source project used code from an open source project? What exactly is the issue here?

the only issue is that the devs were retards and lied about it instead of keeping the "stolen" source code's open source license
well that and they also stole reverse-engineered closed-source nintendo code

That would be XBMC

but I feel like Homebrew Channel was the most influential piece of software in console homebrewing history, yes?

Popular =/= influential

steal

open source

What program got more people in the community than this

You just defined popular.

fucking retarded emu devs
how do they look at Nintendo and think "Hmm, they WON'T take legal action if I use stolen code"

The problem is that the code wasn't theirs to open source in the first place. It quite literally is copied Nintendo code. Refactoring the code doesn't magically make it open source.

ummm excuse me don't you mean Asahi Lina?

lol it literally does though

i can't fathom why they wouldn't be emulating the wii
the thing is locked to 30fps at like 480p, why the fuck are you still using it

Asahi Lina

graduated

i'm pretty sure hbc hasnt been updated in like a decade? whats the point? the trannies are going for a sued into bankrupcy% speedrun?

good, piracy kill developer

name one better OS to post from

stolen code

from an open source project

It's not stolen then.

I can't wait for the Switch 2 to be hacked

OH FUCK MY WII IS BRICKED

reverse-engineered closed-source nintendo code

Isn't that legal?

SAR

Moralfags and trannies are a blight upon society.

sounds like troons bitching about based code thieves from 2008

i see no issue

All this shows is these faggots care more about making a name than releasing content.

Apparently some people got their hands on some consoles early and are hard at work on this very thing. They're "close"... By close they got it running unsigned Ubuntu for arm by jumping a leg of the cpu to a random other pin on the motherboard. It's not as straightforward as jumping joycon pins but, HOW THE FUCK DOES NINTENDO KEEP MAKING IT THIS EASY TO HACK?!?

youtube.com/watch?v=qqTXTbg_MsQ

Boomers design

the only people who would ever work on emulation are those who ARE mentally ill, it's a sad reality we must face..

or, OR... maybe thats fucking BULLSHIT!

nintendo has code analysts on their payroll who could have deduced they have used stolen code from day one, if nintendo didnt do anything back then when the Wii was on its prime and still supported, nintendo is not gonna do anything now that the Wii not only is not being supported anymore, but the servers have been unplugged 10+years ago!

this is just an asshole lying and making drama.

tldr: NO! theres no stolen code, FUCKING PERIOD!

it's my SNATCHER machine amongst other sega cd games

kekaroo

homebrew was created to bolster piracy

cry about morals

the fuck is wrong with these people

also that.

the project is already completed, theres nothing to add, the only way the HBC would need an update now in 2025, is if nintendo issues a new System update for the Wii, but thats literally impossible since the original Wii servers were wiped out more than a decade ago.

fail0verflow

aren't those the dudes who take massive bribes from sony for those bounties

FUCK

I JUST WANTED TO CFW MY WII TOMORROW

Give me a link to a forked repo pls

HOW THE FUCK DOES NINTENDO KEEP MAKING IT THIS EASY TO HACK?!?

People has interest in Nintendo systems due their games. Shocking, I know...

3DS runs Genesis games in a godly manner, bro. I'm amazed how great picodrive performs in there

i dont have a 3DS YET

i want to run unsigned code on the drm box because... uh...

oh no! anyways

kek this

stolen code

from open source project

I hope whoever hacks the Switch 2 is Chinese or Russian or Brazillian, hell, just not American so they don't have to give a fuck about Nintendo ninjas and lack the mental illness that makes you slavishly devoted to copyright legislation even while supporting piracy, some-fucking-how.

Yes, it's Marcan making up another shitstorm for no reason.

Marcan

Oh my WHAT.

Don't tell me this is actually the SAME Asahi Lina tranny stirring shit in the Linux community every other week.

like crack to the poor..

stolen code

emulator application

And??

HOW THE FUCK DOES NINTENDO KEEP MAKING IT THIS EASY TO HACK?!?

Starting with the Wii, they dropped out of the hardware arms race and focused on using existing, cheaper tech in new ways. This means they don't sell their consoles at a loss and don't need to implement fancy anti-jailbreak measures.

So you agree without Wii's Homebrew Channel, the genre would be completely different?