Hackers have reportedly found a new loophole in the Wii's Internet Channel that could allow the running of unsigned, home-made code on the console.
Apparently the exploit lies at the heart of the Flash Player (the software used for watching Flash-encoded video - like on YouTube) embedded within the Wii's web browser, and could allow the homebrew scene that's rife on PSP to kick off on Nintendo's hardware.
This could, among other things, lead to the creation of game emulators on the console - a disaster for the Virtual Console, which charges gamers to play games from Nintendo's huge retro library.
Nintendo was unavailable for comment at the time of writing, but we expect Nintendo to take hasty action to prevent the hackers achieving their sneaky goals. Of course, you'll invalidate your warrantee if you hack your Wii, so you probably shouldn't.
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This will probably lead to them getting rid of flash availability.
That would suck.
The Wii Internet channel would then be useless.
Without flash, the Internet Channel is a waste.
I read about this too. I am sure Nintendo will later release an update that fixes the problem.
yea thats sucks there prolly wont be any flash anymore
The only hack I want, is something with Unlimited VC Points.
That would be pretty cool. *Hits head when thinking like this*.
Tch, stop thinking like dem hackers *slap*
I really want flash to stay one my Wii internet, Youtube ftw.
Of course flash will stay don't be silly, they'll just get Adobe to place the Flash 9 plug-in into Wii. Wii only runs Flash 7, so now is the time for Opera to update.
theres always the few who ruin it for everyone.
How do you know that they are going to take out Flash for sure?
How often do you really use the internet channel? I find it much easier to surf with my laptop. Easier to type.
I don't use it much, about once every 2 weeks or so. I'm sticking to points cards rather than credit cards.
This could, among other things, lead to the creation of game emulators on the console - a disaster for the Virtual Console, which charges gamers to play games from Nintendo's huge retro library.
I wanted to point out to everyone that emulators ALREADY RUN ON THE WII just like they did on the Gamcube. In fact there are premade ISO's you can download from many torrent sites that have all of the popular emulators and their roms built right in. No work necessary on your part.
How often do you really use the internet channel? I find it much easier to surf with my laptop. Easier to type.
I agree, but I would also like to have the Internet Channel on my Wii so that I can surf the Internet if I quickly need to check something.
man, i hope they dont get rid of flash. that would suck.
Of course flash will stay don't be silly, they'll just get Adobe to place the Flash 9 plug-in into Wii. Wii only runs Flash 7, so now is the time for Opera to update.
not that easy.
The Wii has a PowerPC style core as opposed to an IA-32 (x86) based core. The software would at the very least need to be recompiled on that platform.
Most likely completely rewritten.
This is why I always say:
never_browse_the_internet_on_a_console_or_any_device_that_cannot_easily_have_it's_system_software_re stored.
not that easy.
The Wii has a PowerPC style core as opposed to an IA-32 (x86) based core. The software would at the very least need to be recompiled on that platform.
Most likely completely rewritten.
Even harder. Adobe (at the time of it's last release, Macromedia) releases what's called an SDK (software development kit, some may already know that) for flash. This allows anyone to build a flash player for any device or platform (so long as they use the guidelines properly, and do the work to run it on the desired platform. The latest version is v.7.0. There's no word as to whether Adobe plans on releasing a flash 9 SDK any time soon. (It would help, then more sites could require it, and it's FLV improvements could be utilized universally).
The PowerPC core is no problem, as Flash 9 (9.0.46 I believe) is running on PowerPC Mac OS X (the OS is more of a jump than CPU platform). The issue is that Adobe is not going to put their work, nor their name to the Wii project, because I guess they feel the return is just not worth it (and they may be right). So, as of right now, Nintendo has to work some kind of deal if they hope to get Flash 9 supported on the Wii browser. There's no other workaround for this either. The Only Flash 9 for PowerPC is Mac. (Linux PowerPC always had lackluster/none).
Besides, browsing on a console really sucks, it should be left to the PC as far as I'm concerned.