NES Hacks

According to some rumours, the boys at Big N have taken a page out of Microsoft’s books.

The story goes something like this: some people were playing Mario Kart online and having fun, when all of a sudden, they were kicked out, and they received a message from Nintendo saying that they were banned from Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection because they were found to have the Homebrew Channel installed on their Wii.

If this sounds a bit fishy to you, you are thinking on the same path as HackMii developer Marcan, who had this to say:

There is very little information regarding the claimed issue. However, considering HBC is not a prerequisite for Mario Kart online cheating, nor does it have any direct relationship with it, and especially considering the ease with which we could change HBC’s Title ID, I think it’d be incredibly foolish for Nintendo to do this. They aren’t the brightest of the lot, but they’re not that stupid.

I have succeeded in playing a perfectly normal WFC match on-line with Mario Kart while HBC (1.0.1) was installed. There was no sign of trouble or errors at all.

Unless we get multiple, verifiable reports of people who have never cheated at Mario Kart or performed any modifications whatsoever, and who do not have and have never had any other installable homebrew other than HBC and no other modifications (that means no region changes, no downgrades, no IOS16, no cIOS, no warez launchers, and no other unofficial channels), no modchip, and a legit, in-region copy of Mario Kart, I am forced to conclude that whoever made this claim hasn’t done their research properly.

This sounds reasonable. The fact of the matter is that the reported cases have not been confirmed by anyone, and could be seen as completely false. However, take this message as a “heads-up” in that Nintendo may have something else in store for the Homebrew Community.

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