Comments on: Wii Freeloader is firmware-proof, says Datel

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:06:54 +0000

Cool

By: AMG

AMG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:05:40 +0000

I’ll post something on the board about Datel when I get a spare half hour.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:42:06 +0000

haha

By: Chinster

Chinster — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:40:35 +0000

Datel, you have managed to convince me…….

…..that you are living in cloud cuckoo land.

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:37:27 +0000

Go ahead, AMG

By: frod

frod — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:23:31 +0000

I don’t think it was really blocked by chance - it’s not like this is a sanctioned product, Datel use a piracy exploit to get the disc to run

By: Zumi

Zumi — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:20:39 +0000

It bypasses the update on the disc. It means that if you have a PAL Wii, and buy a PAL game that has an update on, you will still have to use the freeloader to load that game. Basically it means that every game you buy, no matter what region, you will have to use freeloader to load (assuming they start putting the update on every game, like Sony did with PSP). It’s sort of a minimum requirement. Nintendo could always change the method of reading the game update, to still lock the Freeloader out, but according to some people, they only blocked the previous Freeloader by chance, while trying to block out a piracy exploit. And, as Blerk pointed out, it means you’ll never be able to update your system again. It may also prevent you from downloading VC games (but if you have a PAL Wii, why would you want to!).

By: AMG

AMG — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:16:48 +0000

I used to work for Datel, I could tell you some stories.

By: elredeyegrande

elredeyegrande — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:16:28 +0000

“and what if the firmware comes on the disk and is required before you can play, like Super Mario Galaxy?”

I’m pretty sure the Freeloader bypasses that by reading the raw game data. They’ve already bypassed the updates on the SSMB discs apparently.

By: frod

frod — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:01:45 +0000

and what if the firmware comes on the disk and is required before you can play, like Super Mario Galaxy?

I don’t think that they thought this through (hmm, six words all beginning with ‘th’) before creating this press release.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:57:28 +0000

So it’s firmware-proof as long as you never update your firmware ever again? Doesn’t sound like much of a ’solution’ to me, tbh. :-/

And that second bit makes no sense whatsoever:

“if the disc is removed after been inserted and reinserted this will again enable the console to update its firmware but still allow the usage of the any imported Wii game discs”

What? Speak English, boy!

By: frod

frod — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:57:00 +0000

it doesn’t actually sound like it’s firmware-proof at all to me.