Twilight Hack Protection Thwarted, Fix Expected Soon
Posted by x3sphere at June 19, 2008, 1:34 pm
Shortly after Nintendo launched a new Wii firmware update that blocks users from running the homebrew-enabling Twilight Hack, folks in Team Twizzers immediately began work on investigating the update, uncovering a bug that allows them to bypass Nintendo’s savedata check and run the hack without issue.
According to Twizzers member Bushing, Nintendo wrote a set of functions that specifically checks savedata pertaining to Zelda, nothing else. Seems rather foolish, considering that other Wii titles could very well have a similar save exploit. The code in question went under extensive testing for nearly three months judging from the provided timestamps.
No word on when we can expect a fix as of yet, but Bushing is still recommending to not update your console at this time.
June 16 Wii update [Hack Mii]
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See, what needs to be done is something that overrides the Nintendo Update server, with one that goes to a custom firmware server instead. Like what we have with M33 Customer firmware for the PSP.