Demonstrated during today’s 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) in Germany was a fully hacked Wii capable of running native Wii homebrew with lowlevel hardware access.

The guys over at 24C3 just demoed a Wii hack that is set to provide native Wii homebrew in the near future (not running in GC mode, and with full access to all the Wii hardware!)

They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were able to create a Wii ‘game’ that ran their own code (their demo happened to show live sensor/Wiimote information, amongst a few other things).

Currently homebrew on Wii is limited to GameCube mode. GC mode limits homebrew developers to GameCube specifications, meaning certain features like motion sensing are completely disabled. If this is no longer a limitation, as the video suggests, then we could see some interesting developments in the Wii homebrew scene over the near future.

A video of the five-minute presentation is available over at YouTube.

Real Wii Homebrew with Full Hacked Hardware in the near Future? [Nintendo-Scene]

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