This has to be a sad day for Nintendo. For the first time ever, people are able to play copied (or backed-up) games on a Nintendo console with nothing more than a game they can rent from the video shop (how I installed the homebrew channel) and a $10 SD card.

It’s all possible because of a well known exploit in the game Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which when a hacked savegame copied from the SD Card to the Wii’s system memory and loaded in game, causes the console to crash and allow Homebrew software to run. Word had it there was a loader in development but nothing had hit the internet - until now. The software released is buggy, in beta and the amount of effort involved to get things working seems too great. Of coarse given time things will change and everything will be easier - still, this is enough to stop certain people from purchasing original titles who would have otherwise paid for them (due to the cost and availability of a modchip). This is however good news for those who want to make real backups or be able to try a game properly before forking over the cash.

This leak will likely have negative effects on the development of the software, as it was a self-rightous beta tester who is responsible for it being available.

You can download it via GBAtemp and read more at MaxConsole.

Originally posted by Juzza on December 6th, 2006.

I don’t think I need to say anymore. Click here and you too will need to change your pants [due to laughing].

The reason this is actually funny is it’s making fun of the Japanese Nintendo Wii instruction manual which had just itself been leaked to the internet. Some things were quite absurd such as not throwing your brand new (at the time) Nintendo Wii in the garbage. Thus why the flickr photo link is named “The Missing Pages”

Feast your eyes on the latest controller for the Nintendo Wii:

Does it look familiar? Are you having flashbacks of the 90s? Clicky to view more (sorry, it’s a Japanese limited edition).