In recent times, we've seen quite a number of major leaks in regards to video game content. Joining the leaks for The Last of Us Part II's story cutscenes, and the source code for both Pokemon Gold and Silver and Team Fortress 2 is a collection of Nintendo-related content. Supposedly, RouteFree, the company behind Nintendo's iQue Chinese division, and BroadOn, a company that assisted Nintendo with the development of the Wii, were recently hacked, leading to a source obtaining various files from them, including source code and betas.

Included in the files was information about how Nintendo created the Wii itself, demos for games that they used to test the Nintendo 64 during development, the full source code for the Nintendo Wii's IOS, a handful of pictures and documents about Nintendo's plans during the years of 2004-2006, the iQue GameCube SDK, and much more. Certain users have already begun uploading videos of some of these leaked demos running on emulators or official hardware. Just as with the other leaks, you cannot link to the content or distribute it, as those files contain copyrighted content.

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[Kioku]

especially with all those fan projects that they shut down for no reason at all

Just because you didn't agree doesn't mean they didn't have a reason...

Regardless, these leaks could help people learn more of the inner workings of Nintendo and their infrastructure.

 

[iyenal]

Maybe BootMii for patched consoles, but I hope new Wii devs will get on board "thanks" to that leak
Most of competent devs left the scene

 

[HaloEffect17]

Is it time for the revival of the Wii homebrew?

Yes please, I just modded my second Wii the other day.

 

[Shiranui-san]

C'mon, give me "cIOS D2X v20 Final" with full Virtual Console / WiiWare compatibility

 

[huma_dawii]

Is this good news? For Wii N64 emulators?

 

[Goku1992A]

I hate to sound like a jerk but how beneficial is this if we already have Dolphin and that runs pretty well... It''s kinda hard getting emulators optomized on other platforms I just dont see how is this going to be beneficial... maybe 2008 but 2020 i dont think so

Unless I'm missing something

 

[XDel]

I hope a better Dev kit for the Wii is born from this.

 

[raxadian]

I wonder if this will lead to creating a custom Os for the Wii?

 

[Jayro]

I don't give two shits about Ethics or legality, I hope somebody has the stones to finally clone the N64 at the hardware level soon. Like, full-on newly-fabbed MIPS chips with RAMBUS, or as close to RAMBUS timings as possible. Cycle-accurate hardware emulation. Or if Analogue can make an FPGA clone that plays all N64 games then count me in. 8bitdo would really need to step their game up and make a GOOD N64 controller, hopefully in the spirit of the Brawler64 with Bluetooth.

Oooohh a goldeneye “port” for the wii and then online play?!? That’d be the illest!

I hope to see GoldenEye ported to everything, in a similar fashion to DOOM.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Ohhhhhh shit. Incoming wii clones in 654...

3, 2, 1...

 

[gudenau]

It would be cool to have the private keys. We could do stuff like make a new bootloader.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

As much as this sounds interesting, i don't get what fool is keeping important files on online machine.
it should be on offline drive on a machine disconnected physically from network entirely. I dont care how good the security is, as long as theirs a risk of something important being hacked, don't hide it in plain sight lol.

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by the way...if someone more technical would please explain to me, what does this actually mean for us if someone actually has the original source codes?

If one has the source code, you could write, say, a hacked Wii OS that's already cracked wide open...as if the current method of hacking the dust collector wasn't easy already.

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I don't give two shits about Ethics or legality, I hope somebody has the stones to finally clone the N64 at the hardware level soon. Like, full-on newly-fabbed MIPS chips with RAMBUS, or as close to RAMBUS timings as possible. Cycle-accurate hardware emulation. Or if Analogue can make an FPGA clone that plays all N64 games then count me in. 8bitdo would really need to step their game up and make a GOOD N64 controller, hopefully in the spirit of the Brawler64 with Bluetooth.



I hope to see GoldenEye ported to everything, in a similar fashion to DOOM.

Same here. Just like this song here:

 

[Lumstar]

I hate to sound like a jerk but how beneficial is this if we already have Dolphin and that runs pretty well... It''s kinda hard getting emulators optomized on other platforms I just dont see how is this going to be beneficial... maybe 2008 but 2020 i dont think so

Unless I'm missing something

A few strange/obscure bits remain. Dolphin isn't yet perfect at Triforce arcade games, and there's frankly no reason to emulate the Panasonic Q.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Global security?
What the actual fuck?!

The communist and socialist countries are the ones balancing the whole world from being full of corporate fucks like Nintendo and Disney.
Do you want movies and media from 50 years ago to not become public domain until fucking 2200?

Are you out of your mind?

They're also the incompetent bitches who got us into this coronavirus mess. But please, go on your AMERICA BAD tirade on a country you haven't even spent time within!

 

[Magnus87]

I would have loved that this material was leaked a little earlier, I do not think that there is now any programmer who wants to do something for Wii, we hardly have Cyan sporadically maintaining ULGX although we recently had the appearance without prior notice of DacoTaco with a new version of PriiLoader.

The Wii is one of my favorite consoles and I think that it can still be exploited. However, the vast majority of developers are looking at the current console, Switch. So I prefer not to get excited about the possible launch of a new homebrew or even a CFW for Wii

 

[Silent_Gunner]

A few strange/obscure bits remain. Dolphin isn't yet perfect at Triforce arcade games, and there's frankly no reason to emulate the Panasonic Q.

Wait, was some stuff regarding the Triforce arcade board leaked as well!?

Not that I care about it too much since F-Zero GX can play the AX version tracks and Double Dash has all the content from its arcade version, right?

 

[Viri]

wait. i thoughts this was N. Korea revenge for they dear leaders passing.

He's fine. He just sometimes vanishes for a few weeks to see if the world would miss him or get curious about him, and it worked! That and he got surgery, and didn't want to look "weak" towards his own citizens.

He chain smokes and is pretty fat, so he probably won't make it to 50 anyway.

 

[NoNAND]

I'm so curious to see how Nintendo will react about this,
and what will they do exactly...

I see someone getting shot

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

Global security?
What the actual fuck?!

The communist and socialist countries are the ones balancing the whole world from being full of corporate fucks like Nintendo and Disney.
Do you want movies and media from 50 years ago to not become public domain until fucking 2200?

Are you out of your mind?

China and other (so called) "communist" and (so called) "socialist" countries are not balancing anything.

China is full of iPhones, billionaires and simply (so called) Western™ consumerism.

North Korea for at least maybe the past 30 years has just been a kingdom with a small luxury lifestyle royal court and more or less everyone else is a literal peasant. Similar to the United Kingdom, but a thousand times worse.

 

[Something whatever]

Fanmade PC Ports incoming

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I wonder if this will lead to creating a custom Os for the Wii?

....this would be sicccccccccck