First Wii Game Pirated
December 23rd, 2006 Posted in Business
We all knew it was coming; piracy. Every system has some type of account of it. A pirate group called Paradox has released the first Wii game rip, Red Steel. The data is just a dumped ISO, so as of now it is useless. It is, however, a very crucial step towards pirating Wii games. It won’t be long before crackers hack the system and find a way to use these dumps on emulators. It can also lead to homebrew game development. The image file can be found all throughout the Internet.
[Correction] Both Xbox 360 and PS3 have been hacked, albeit using stronger copy-protection features than the Wii.
Via Aussie-Nintendo
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:07 pm
The author is factually wrong when referring to Xbox 360 piracy. Pirated games for Xbox 360 are sold all over Asia (even in some places throughout Europe and NA); ISO files are also available for download through Warez sources and P2P.
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:44 pm
So soon … people in the UK have only just got theirs in the last week or so. I haven’t stopped playing mine:
http://silversprite.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/nintendo-wii-first-impressions/
On a hardware-related theme, I do wonder if we’ll see cheaper unofficial controllers at some point that can physically harm you (or your environment). How much do the internals of the official Wii controller cost to replicate?
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Yeah, and Bluray has been hacked, and the 360 uses the same DVD format as Wii.
December 24th, 2006 at 2:11 am
Wow Paradox..
December 24th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I guess this will never stop now, the next great step is hacking the virtual console and putting some Roms on your SD card.
April 21st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Myahon: They already HAVE done that. You can already add points and download games free, as well as dumping them from an SD card with a hex editor @.@