Good news for those of you who claim you are only backing up your games for archiving purposes. As luck would have it you can now create backups of your Nintendo Wii game collection via PC. But at 50 hours per Wii disc dump this is not for the faint of heart. Only the dedicated will emerge 2 days later with their backup copy only to find that there is still no way to put it to any use. Until the Nintendo Wii can play a copied disc this is nothing more than a proof of concept.

Requirements for Dumping a Wii disc

Dumping the entire Nintendo Wii game disc only works with LG and Hitachi drives. Specifically one of the LG-8164b, LG-8163b or LG-8162b DVD-ROM drives. You will also need .NET framework 2.0 installed on your PC.

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The Wii is a game console made by Nintendo. It uses very similar hardware to that found in the Nintendo GameCube. So we should see an Emulator for the Nintendo Wii in the near future. The Nintendo Wii also allows you to play Nintendo GameCube games, which opens the Wii Console to a whole world of exploits, homebrew applications, and emulators that were originally designed and created for the GameCube. Using this knowledge all we have to do to get a Wii Emulator box going is use a GameCube exploit of choice.

Requirements for Nintendo Wii Emulation

You will need Datel’s Action Replay, software called SDload, the official Nintendo SD card adapter, and of course your Emulator of choice.

Running an Emulator on the Nintendo Wii

1) Plug your SD card into your computer and format the SD card to either FAT or FAT16, After formatting use SDload to run sdpatch.exe through the command line as follows:

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Tmbinc did a speech at a Video Game Console Conference the other day. The video is up on youtube and has some very interesting info about security flaws in the GameCube which led to it’s modchips, and subsequently the flaws in the Wii which open the door for modchips.

GameCube flaws inherited by the Wii?

It comes down to 2 flaws which allowed GameCube Homebrew and ISO Backups. This first is a little bit more difficult to exploit than the second but both opened huge doorways. The interesting bit is that Nintendo did not learn from their past mistakes with the GameCube and some of the flaws are still present in the Nintendo Wii. Perhaps they don’t really care that much since game console hacking may be inevitable nowadays. That may have been a reason to include the Virtual Console on the Nintendo Wii. By providing “Emulation” software the need for homebrew emulators is reduced. (more…)

The fact is there are some of us out there that don’t really see sports as fun. Maybe some of us enjoy sports but do we get enough physical activity in our day to day lives? Clearly one does not need to look at sheets of data to know that most north Americans don’t.

Will Wii Sports help us out?

So why is it that Wii Sports are appealing even to non-athletes? Could it be because its so easy that no skill is required or maybe its the cool new interface. Personally I believe its a little of both and with the Wii Sports Pack coming soon the virtual sports are stepping closer to the real thing. (more…)

Why not watch all those episodes of Mythbusters you have on your Nintendo Wii? But lets not worry about media tastes or how one obtains the media from the Internet and get right to the point.

About WiiCR

Created by Jacob Jarick (mem) is a media player solution for the Nintendo Wii. It acts as a streaming media server and is capable of transcoding nearly any video file to a suitable flv for an embedded flash player. It allows browsing of the remote filesystem to view: videos (avi/xvid/divx/mpeg/wmv/etc), text files, jpg’s and play mp3s.

If you haven’t noticed by now the name WiiCR comes from the abbreviation VCR. WiiCR allows you to watch videos from your PC on your Wii, much in the same way as you can watch videos on youtube.com or dailymotion.com. (more…)