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> which are nessesery to run common dumps of retail games which are usually distributed in their original encrypted form. I think people should just share roms

• jsheard 3y ago
  Before the Wii was fully jailbroken, piracy was achieved by modifying the optical drive to trick the system into thinking burned DVDs were official factory pressed discs. That approach means the system still expects the disc to be signed and encrypted like a legitimate disc would be, so the standard for pirate releases was to retain the encryption and that convention stuck. In another timeline where the Wii was jailbroken earlier the standard might have been to distribute decrypted versions, but that's not how it worked out.
  • realusername 3y ago
    Ah interesting, thanks for the history reasons, I did not know that.