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I'm quite curious how far they've gotten and how they did it. For the record, the security of the Wii U software was pretty thoroughly broken by the group fail
by comex 14y ago
I'm quite curious how far they've gotten and how they did it. For the record, the security of the Wii U software was pretty thoroughly broken by the group fail0verflow and friends, including me, as of last Christmas, with the goal of running homebrew, but a lot of work still needed to be done - both reverse engineering, to find additional vulnerabilities, integrate with the OS, and use nonstandard hardware like the GamePad, and the regular kind, in order to do things like run Linux - and interest and time spent petered out around then, without anything being released. I'm bummed out about it, but I'm spending my time posting on Hacker News rather than doing anything to help. ;p
- parktheredcar 14y agoIs there any central repo of progress this far?
- comex 14y agoIt has been kept secret, partly to prevent Nintendo from patching vulnerabilities, partly, I think, to prevent it from being used for dubious purposes before a proper homebrew stack could be released. Certainly this style of development did not impress me back when I was an outsider, but, well...
- new299 14y agoInteresting, I guess the thing about the WiiU is you've almost got two devices in one, does the game pad need jail breaking independently? Or is it just a display as far as the console is concerned?
- comex 14y agoI haven't been involved with GamePad hacking, but from what I understand, the GamePad firmware is upgradable but does not have any security, so it needs to be reverse engineered, but not hacked as such.