Luckily, it doesn’t break the Homebrew Channel. Just install that before you update, and you should be good.

Yeah, remember that with the Twilight Princess hack you can put emulators on your Wii and even illegally obtain Virtual Console games.

So yeah, I don’t blame them for doing this.

Actually it didn’t kill anything it’s more a bump in a road. To the point a workaround has already been found. It’s not public yet.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

And well if you already have the Homebrew channel install you can still run homebrew.

Not surprising, they’re probably making sure the wiiware games get their profits.

If you’re a home brewer, why not buy the wiiware dev kit? It’s not that expensive and would get your ideas more acknowledgment.

Homebrew doesn’t equal piracy. Some people can use it as such (unforunately, which is why I’m not suprised Nintendo did this), but there are other legitimate uses, such as the awesome port of Quake, turning the Wii into a cheapo FTP server, and ScummVM.

Also, not everyone has $2000 lying about for a Wiiware devkit. I know I surely don’t.

Homebrew on consoles is such BS. There is NO reason to hack or find workarounds - which inevitably lead to piracy (and check a gaming forum like GameFAQs to see EXACTLY what “homebrew” is used for… you guessed it, piracy)… if you want to make games so bad, do it on an open platform like PC. NO reason for it on console.

Stop with the sensationalist crap.

This update doesn’t “kill every piece homebrew.” You guys are trying to make it sound like homebrew is impossible now.

1. This doesn’t affect the homebrew channel AT ALL. Anyone who is big on homebrew doesn’t even use the “Twilight Hack” (aka Chain Loader) anymore, and installed the channel long ago. Hardly anyone used just the Chain Loader for booting homebrew, because its a much less convenient method. This only affects people who haven’t installed the channel yet.

2. You don’t have to install the update. Its new, and hasn’t been included on any game yet.

3. Bushing has already said that he found a way around it. According to the time stamps on the blocker’s code, it took Nintendo three months to develop and test this very simplistic update, and it took Bushing (a brilliant hacker) less than one day to circumvent it.

Do a bit more research next time before making misleading statements like that.

*disappointed in 4cr yet again*

@39htgwieurtb:
1. Gee, I wonder how big is the % of people who didn’t know about homebrew or haven’t installed it yet vs people who did? That’s right; HUGE so for those people,this update kills the FIRST window of homebrew. If they really need ‘homebrew’ they’ll find a way

2. You underestimated how stupid general people can be

3. For all I know, Nintendo is financial at risk if they didn’t test this update thoroughly if anything goes wrong. So thorough testing is the better route. Do you want them to take the PSP route where there’s a gazillion updates already?. However, hackers do not have this limitation so they can update their hack anytime and as fast as they want to with minimal testing.

Homebrew is not a bad thing, my interest in homebrew is due to scummvm on Wii, but most people just use homebrew to play ‘bad boy’. What I felt really sorry for, is freeloader users, who got locked out because of this update, but I’m pretty sure that, if the hacker haven’t found the trucha exploit- they’ll be around longer.

Learn your world before opening your mouth

people who want to keep on truckin on with legit homebrew can just opt out of downloading the patch, simple as that.

First, the update is currently completely optional.
Secondly, a new fix will be out long before any game requires this update.
Thirdly, this does not affect already installed Homebrew Channels AT ALL.

Now, I’ve bought over 20 Wii games, more VC games to fill up my Wii’s memory twice and every Wiiware title I’ve been interested in.
But when the homebrew community starts doing things nintendo should already be doing, that’s where I join their side of the war.
Even the prices of virtual console games don’t bug me, but it absolutely sucks that nintendo gave no thought into storage.
My SD card holds more snes games than the Wiishop channel has to offer, and I can already load files off my nice 500gb external HDD.

I think everyone will agree that the majority of Wii owners don’t even know about the homebrew potential, so it’s not as huge an issue as it could be.
Also considering how nintendo makes nothing but profit off everything wii related, it’s even less of an issue.
But it’s Nintendo’s console, and I expect them to stifle their most passionate audience.

But, I do not expect other gamers to spew sensationalist bullshit as if nintendo were paying them.

Jeez. Homebrew is not the same thing as piracy. In fact, the most common homebrew thing I have used thus far is a port of Quake, which is a legitimate use of the hack. How is me enjoying a game of Quake taking money from Nintendo? I buy Wiiware stuff, and still buy VC stuff (not lately, since there hasn’t been anything I was that keen on, but…). I have a huge pile of game discs here too.

lol, 39htgwieurt, you really think Nintendo Programmers need 3 months to get a program together that deletes save games? There’s much more involved in releasing an update than just writing it. I’d be quite sure that future hacks will be countered faster than this one.

@ CATZ

You didn’t really counter anything I said. You basically just agreed with and elaborated on things I already said, so I don’t understand what your whole “learn your world” point is.

1. Yeah, it prevents people NEW to homebrew. I already said that.

2. Yeah, thats why news sites should inform people instead of sensationalizing.

3. What in the world makes you think I want them to update faster? I never implied anything like that.

If you agree with me, then whats with the condescending attitude? I’m completely confused.

@ SIRO

According to the timestamp of the block’s code: Yes, they needed three months to develop and test the update.

This is too bad. I won’t be buying a Wii until I can do (hack) something about the annoying “health and safety” warnings, and get rid of the music (dumb noise) while in the menus. Unless Nintendo can help me with this, I’ll have to wait until someone else creates a different route.

New version of Twilight Hack has been already released and homebrew can be installed again with the system menu 3.3.

http://www.wiibrew.org/