Right after the announcement of a blocked Wii FreeLoader comes another kick in the teeth. The years biggest Wii release,
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which has seen massive delays in both Europe and Australia, will refuse to allow itself to be read on a modded Wii console. With thousands of Wii owners worldwide intentionally modding their consoles in order to play 'Brawl on its American release date, they have now been hit with a horrible surprise. It turns out Nintendo aren't quite as in-the-dark as we thought.
This ties in, funnily enough, with the recent flurry of "disc read errors" on copies of the game, with many of these errors actually turning out to be disc lockups on consoles retrofitted with modchips! This is sure to worry modded Wii owners, could this be the same for all future first-party releases? If you are a Wii consumer with a modchip and have attempted to load up Super Smash Bros. Brawl only to see a disc error message, then you may just have been hit by this piracy-crackdown.
Paradoxically, it appears that while the retail version of the game receives an error message, a pirated version burned to a blank DL-DVD will run perfectly, without a hitch. We here at WiiLoaded.com strongly recommend to Wii owners not to take this path however, as this is illegal and will most likely be cracked down on in a future update,
as we've already seen happen. If you are a modded Wii owner and you have had an experience like this, then please let us know in the forum!
Written By: Aaron Hastings
The title is a little misleading and I first thought it meant that pirated versions of Brawl wouldn't play on a modded Wii. However as far as pirated versions playing on a modded Wii this is absolutely true and very ironic. The pirated versions of Brawl seem to run without any errors at all while the retail version has been giving people problems. I can verify this as not a rumor and indeed fact.
HA! A little sneaky, but hey...dont do the crime if you cant do the time, IMO.
The title is a little misleading and I first thought it meant that pirated versions of Brawl wouldn't play on a modded Wii.
Really? Oh sorry about that Mana. I wanted a short, snappy title that would instantly draw people in. And since I know that we have a few modded Wii owners, I wanted to bring it to their attention.
Sucks for my friend that was about to get freeloader.
Sucks for my friend that was about to get freeloader.
No this only affects Wiis that have a mod-chip, like WiiKey in them.
You're better off going the safe route by not modding your Wii. Cuz if you screw it up.. well, you're screwed. That, and it voids your warranty. And support game developers by not DLing/playing pirated games.
Sucks for people with Wiikey.
You're better off going the safe route by not modding your Wii. Cuz if you screw it up.. well, you're screwed. That, and it voids your warranty. And support game developers by not DLing/playing pirated games.
That's the spirit! I feel the same way about music. LimeWire FTL!
Sucks for people with Wiikey.
Yeah it certainly looks that way. I want to gauge Joker's reaction to this.
I just feel bad for those gamers who put in a Mod Chip to simply get North American Wii titles because their PAL region was being overlooked by Nintendo. These people aren't bad and they don't necessarily pirate software. They just want the games that America has been blessed with early.
I just feel bad for those gamers who put in a Mod Chip to simply get North American Wii titles because their PAL region was being overlooked by Nintendo. These people aren't bad and they don't necessarily pirate software. They just want the games that America has been blessed with early.on time
We get games late, six months late
And support game developers by not DLing/playing pirated games.
YES YES YES!!
Nintendo maybe stupid bwhen it comes to other things, but when it comes to people getting games from other regions Nintendo's on the case.
Yeah, they have a nasty habit of doing just that.
Yeah it certainly looks that way. I want to gauge Joker's reaction to this.
/yawn
//has been playing Brawl for months now
From the way that Freeloader thing went, I'm guessing that it's safe to assume that this is an April Fool's joke.
Well, you'd think something this big would have come to our attention as soon as Brawl was released. I mean, modded Wii's had no problem with the JP copies.
So Alex might be onto something.
Yeah...also I was reading comments and someone said that this only happens on Wiikey modded Wii's. I honestly know next to nothing on Mod chips, but that person may be on to something.
Or, it could really just be an April Fool's joke. XD
April fools?
edit, wow, 4 people before me, I gotta refresh every now and again -_-
