Wii Vs. Gamecube Security Presentation

[Bohdy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTx2MAOspS4&eurl=

I don't know if this is old, buy I can't see a topic on it after a cursory examination of the board.

Some interesting information on the Gamecube's and also Wii's security features, and how they've been overcome. Apparently Nintendo weren't so clever with protecting the Wii against piracy, learning little from how the Gamecube's protection was overcome. It's quite interesting.

 

[Capeta]

Haha that's quite funny, though I've personally never heard of anyone sucessfully burning GC discs.

 

[crazygambit]

Haha that's quite funny, though I've personally never heard of anyone sucessfully burning GC discs.

I believe it's not necessary since they can make DVDs work, though I'm not terribly sure.

 

[Capeta]

I believe it's not necessary since they can make DVDs work, though I'm not terribly sure.

What I meant was before the Wii came out, I hadn't heard of anyone sucessfully burning GC games to 3" MiniDVDs. If it was possible how come nobody did it?

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

Because 3'' disks are hard to get? I never seen any disks like that in shops so I guess that if you cant buy it at your local shop alot of people wont be interested in it.

 

[Bohdy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AGAohJuovY

Also from the same conference, I believe. Seems like someone has finally cracked the running of unsigned code on the Xbox 360!

 

[Capeta]

Because 3'' disks are hard to get? I never seen any disks like that in shops so I guess that if you cant buy it at your local shop alot of people wont be interested in it.

They're not hard to get. You can get them online.

 

[Mendel]

The thing is, you don't need any discs. You only need broadband adapter, phantasy star online and a pc with a specific software to crash the gc with buffer overflow. Then you just stream the image data over network. Then you play rick dangerous and boot up linux

 

[crazygambit]

The thing is, you don't need any discs. You only need broadband adapter, phantasy star online and a pc with a specific software to crash the gc with buffer overflow. Then you just stream the image data over network. Then you play rick dangerous and boot up linux

That is the old and hard way of doing it. Later on modchips came out for the system that would let you burn mini DVDs. Or you could get a replacement case and burn regular DVDs.

What I meant was before the Wii came out, I hadn't heard of anyone sucessfully burning GC games to 3" MiniDVDs. If it was possible how come nobody did it?

It's been done for a while, but I don't think the process is all that easy. Anyway I don't even own a Gamecube so I don't know that much about it, but you might wanna google something like the qoob chip where supporting mini DVDs without swapping is one of the features.

 

[Shompola]

What I meant was before the Wii came out, I hadn't heard of anyone sucessfully burning GC games to 3" MiniDVDs. If it was possible how come nobody did it?

I have seen plenty of 8cm pirated GC games. It is nothing new, I saw them two years ago. And the GC's were also modded.

 

[Rolf N]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTx2MAOspS4&eurl=

I don't know if this is old, buy I can't see a topic on it after a cursory examination of the board.

Some interesting information on the Gamecube's and also Wii's security features, and how they've been overcome. Apparently Nintendo weren't so clever with protecting the Wii against piracy, learning little from how the Gamecube's protection was overcome. It's quite interesting.

I liked the most how the password was changed to lower case
The diffusely sad thing about all of it is how that one man reaffirms every single cliche about Germans' handling of English
Ach ja. Page eins. Schnauf.

 

[Ty]

I believe it's not necessary since they can make DVDs work, though I'm not terribly sure.

I think it's also a function of demand. Outside of a handful of stellar titles, IMO there simply wasn't much of a demand for pirated GCN games.

Go pirate PS2 games, the ROI is much higher.

 

[Mendel]

That is the old and hard way of doing it. Later on modchips came out for the system that would let you burn mini DVDs. Or you could get a replacement case and burn regular DVDs.

Old? Yeah. Hard? uh, what's so hard about it? And why would you want to burn DVDs anyways when there's plenty of hard drive space available... That's so 1990s

 

[Swervedriver]

Did Nintendo WANT the GCN to be hacked?