Marcan Confident About Cracking 3.4 Update
November 20th, 2008
Posted by nedthehead
The sky is not falling, and the Wii Scene is not finished. At least, that it what Marcan from HackMii is trying to tell us. Fed up with all of the panic caused by the 3.4 Firmware Update, Marcan went as far as to create an entire post explaining his feelings on the issue.
Firstly, he addresses the panic caused by the update:
Nintendo released a recent update that once again tries to secure some existing bugs on the console, breaks some things, deletes others. This time they’ve also gone around and modified the TOS. As usual, mass panic ensues.
The people who are panicking can be divided roughly into two groups (non exclusive):
- The pirates
- The clueless
This should go without saying, but we don’t want to have anything to do with the former group. Nintendo is obviously going to fight piracy (and that’s going to hurt homebrew). We’ll have to deal with the homebrew part, but don’t expect that to help piracy in any way. It may, or it may not. And if it doesn’t, pirates will have to deal with fighting nintendo themselves. The usual messages about WADs, “backupsâ€, and all that crap are going straight to /dev/null, and we’re seeing quite a few bans due to piracy on #wiidev recently. Don’t ask us about it, don’t talk to us about it.
In short, calm the hell down and just wait. Don’t update if you don’t feel like “change†– you’ve got that option so far. And if you’ve updated, my suggestion is that you wait. Avoid hacky workarounds – they can be worse than the problems they purport to fix.
He also addresses the problems presented with the new firmware:
To clarify some things: the Twilight Hack is gone and probably won’t be coming back. There are other game exploits on the table (which haven’t been announced yet). Given the ability to run PPC code, we can install stuff and exploit IOS, as the HBC beta9 installer already shows. In short, homebrew isn’t going to go away. We can “do anything†right now. But we do need to figure out what to do.
All we’re concerned with is the ability to run homebrew (from-scratch programs), not necessarily modify the existing system. This means that we’re not necessarily concerned with getting things like menuloader and DVDX working again. Menuloader involves hacking the system menu – which is pointless if it can be replaced. DVDX enables DVD use – which is pointless if there are other ways or you use an entirely new IOS. We’re also not big fans about installable stuff – the utopian homebrew ecosystem would be contained entirely on removable storage and involve zero changes to NAND (implausible, but hey). Either way, the ultimate goal is to have homebrew that is able to use the Wii’s features, period. How that is accomplished is irrelevant, so old methods of doing things aren’t necessarily going to work in the future, nor do we care about it (we’ll find alternatives if necessary).
There you have it folks! The Twilight Hack is broken, but there are methods of workaround readily available to the dvelopers. Where does that leave the Wii scene? In seemingly good hands for the future, as long as you haven’t already upgraded to 3.4!
