Alright, lets break everything down, and tell exactly what happened here, because I know literally EVERYTHING about this situation, even meeting this asshole online.
It started all off on GBAtemp, when some guy was talking about a "DS Owata" or "r0mloader". At the time, I didn't know what we was talking about, so I did some research. Apparently, a guy named DarkFader was all the way back in 2005 inspired by another group of PSP brickers to make a trojan horse for the Nintendo DS. Read the whole article here (once the RGDWiki gets back up, I'm looking at you Ben)
https://wiki.mariocube.xyz/index.php?title=CrashMe. Everything went fine for a couple of days until someone posted on the RiiConnect24 and Open Shop Channel Discord servers a simple Wii Pong game, and he needed for people to test it. Quickly browsing to the AWFUL code in a hex editor, we were able to make the app work on Dolphin and found a little application known as
Wii Bricker 9000.
Even the maker of this app had the balls to tell that he was inspired by my article, asking if he could join as many Wii-related Discord servers as possible, just for attention, fame, and more importantly, bricking Wii's. After that, this guy was mostly a clown. He was most of the time an annoyance, he got banned from the Open Shop Channel, RiiConnect24 Discord servers, banned from the r/WiiHacks subreddit. He would sometimes post something on his newly-made Github account and post stuff in the wild. So far, there is this:
-A forked/fake RiiConnect24 patcher that downloads Wii Bricker 9000 instead of the usual RiiConnect24 Wii Mail Patcher.
-Wii Bricker 9000 - *REDACTED* Edition (not the actual name, but someone's name was mentioned in it).
-The Wii Bricker 9000 I mentioned above.
-A forked Wii Bricker, who'se name I also won't mention, but he made that bricker waaaaay before this whole thing went down.
-Some minor leaks of "Project Dandelion".
But why is he doing this? Simple:
Attention. That's it. And here are we now. A bunch of yet-to-be-released brickers and a Github account where I still have to await a responce if they will take it down or not.
Now, what can you do, or what can we do?
-Do not give this guy attention, neither positive or negative attention, that is what he wants.
-For the coming weeks, be careful with what you download from Nintendo Discord servers, Wii-related subreddits, WiiBrew and other Nintendo Wiki's, and more importantly, GBAtemp.
-Do not accept any given application from a random account that DM'ed or PM'ed you out of nowhere, block them instantly, and notify any online moderator or admin on that server, wiki or forum.
-If you obtain one of these brickers, DO NOT SHARE OR ARCHIVE ANY OF THESE BRICKERS AROUND. According to a message he posted, he has 800 different checksums ready, all of which will be posted probably somewhere. Make sure you keep your MD5Checker handy.
If you have any questions left up your mind, make sure to either reply to this post with this post mentioned, or hit me up with a PM.
That is it for now, Trash_Bandatcoot out.