It lives! The Twilight Hack returns
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Nov 24th 2008 at 1:45PM }
Occasionally, you do have to wonder why Nintendo bothers. In typical fashion, the latest Wii Menu update (released only seven days ago) was designed to render the Twilight Hack useless. Also in typical fashion, it's already been beaten, proving yet again that you can't keep a good hack down.While some in the homebrew community predicted that the 3.4 update would sound the death knell for the Twilight Hack, Team Twiizers has now written and released new, Wii Menu 3.4-compatible code (though as usual, updating your Wii isn't recommended unless it's an absolute must).
HackMii has a link to the new file and all necessary instructions, so let the brewing of homes recommence!
The homebrew community is doing nifty things with the Wii. Have you learned how to play DVDs on your console yet? Or read about the app that lets you play games from other regions? What about getting Goldeneye to run on Wii? Alternatively, you could just use homebrew to get your cheat on. 
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZombiePikmin @ Nov 24th 2008 2:14PM
I actually think Nintendo should hire the Twilight hackers. They're smart and have experience with the Wii. . . If no one THEY could improve the Wii's operating system. I dont think it will happen, but i think it should. Does anyone agree?
Shadow31 @ Nov 24th 2008 2:22PM
First of all, that would kill homebrew; if they're working for Nintendo, they legally cannot tamper with its firmware unless instructed to do so by Nintendo. Also, they would only be able to change what Nintendo allowed them to change; meaning not much would be improved as Nintendo can easily change their firmware without hacking at this point. It really wouldn't change much other than help kill off homebrew.
Marrvia @ Nov 25th 2008 6:08PM
Shadow, that's the point. Nintendo obviously doesn't want people doing the hack, so technically it would be smart for them to hire the people doing it, so that instead of the people doing the hack, they are helping Nintendo prevent the hack.
It wouldn't help though, someone else would just step up to the plate and hack the system. Nintendo can't hire everyone.
SoshiKitai @ Nov 24th 2008 2:19PM
Maybe Nintendo doesn't even care that much? :P
It just seems like someone adds a new "Twilight Hack-block" to the Wii everytime they just feel like it. It doesn't come announced, it doesn't come celebrated, it doesn't come with a war-cry, it just.......... comes out.
It feels like it isn't even one of their main concerns.
Dunno, that's just how I see it.
Shadow31 @ Nov 24th 2008 2:28PM
Nintendo doesn't announce this because it would advertise homebrew; those who don't know much about homebrew (and trust me, those definitely exist, especially in the more casual crowd) would be curious if Nintendo mentioned it, and would discover how easy it is to install the Homebrew Channel. It would only worsen the problem.
Nintendo definitely cares about the hacking. Everytime a new hack is exploited, Nintendo has to go through millions of lines of code to find out where the security breach is being used. After they finally find it and figure out a way to patch it up (which is also difficult), they must find something else to fix up to give an excuse so they can explain away the new update. This is why some of the updates seem so trivial; they couldn't think up any better excuses.
It's a silent war because Nintendo doesn't want attention drawn to it.
Magnus @ Nov 24th 2008 2:26PM
Seriously, how is it even possible to have people so incompetent to write a firmware upgrade? Don't big companies check the people they are hiring???
Shadow31 @ Nov 24th 2008 2:31PM
Hah, you ever seen the code for a game system's firmware? There is millions of lines of code, and it is impossible to make it hackproof. Hacking a system is many times easier than trying to make it secure. They have to pour a lot of time and effort into patching up the firmware, especially since it's not always so obvious where in the code it's being breached and how to fix it.
Badaro @ Nov 24th 2008 3:56PM
@shadow31: You're right about the complexity of the firmware.
However, at least for the previous attempt to kill the Twilight Hack (firmware 3.2), the reason the hackers were able to find a workaround was because the fix was poorly coded.
http://hackmii.com/2008/06/wii-menu-tp-hack-killer-analysis/
Bushing/Marcan didn't give any details for this latest update, but from their comments it was also something similar.
Roto13 @ Nov 24th 2008 5:55PM
I don't know why people were panicking over this firmware update more than the past ones. They ALWAYS block homebrew. Every time. And every time the hackers find a way around it.