Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Wii Game Copies

Today I have found out that, if you have a LG drive (more specifically a LG-8164b, LG-8163b or LG-8162b),
then you can slap your Wii game into your drive and make yourself a backup. The program and creators are here.

Be prepared to leave your PC on for quite some time, because it takes over 50 hours to copy a game, also, there is no way to play your backup yet. There are quite a few rumors of a Wii modchip called xenowii (<- link might only work on firefox and linux, let me know), that is currently under development. From what I have read and watched (below) the Wii and the gamecube have very similar copy protection, and the xeno team was the first team to create a mod chip for the gamecube. So it is very plausible that they will be creating the very first Wii modchip as well.

Here is a conference on Wii vs Gamecube security. It is very technical, and the jokes are very... technical. But I found it an interesting watch anyway.

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