Homebrew Pong running in Wii mode

[Zeus]

Just a few days ago, we caught whiff of the Zelda: Twilight Princess exploit for Wii which opened up the possibility to boot homebrew in Wii mode through a buffer overflow method. Now homebrew developer Auby has extended this hack to load an ELF version of his PONG game which runs in Wii mode.

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News Source: <a href="http://www.auby.no/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" target=_blank">auby.no</a>

[killplaystation]

maybe i can watch the video tomorrow when its done loading:rolleyes: but this is good news. look forward to some nice homebrew in the future.

[threatened]

that's pretty cool

hopefully in the future it won't take so long to load such a small (i'm assuming...since the controls don't even work...) program

[felixm477]

wow talk about a resource hogging slow downloading video...havent ppl heard of youtube? looks good though, cant wait for it to be usable enough for a softmod .

[ultragoregrind]

awesome progress! this little hack is really fleshing out!

[RuneEdge]

I wonder if they can unlock 720p once the firmware is hacked.

[majeddy]

I wonder if they can unlock 720p once the firmware is hacked.

why though?

[oldirtdog]

I wonder if they can unlock 720p once the firmware is hacked.


:p:p:p i loled

[pezjono]

Video only loads half way...
Does someone have a youtube link (or can upload it to youtube)?
Does he have the ELF file available to download?

[ichiro51zr]

you can get the exploit in the previous thread, and why would you want to run pong w/o controls?

[pezjono]

you can get the exploit in the previous thread, and why would you want to run pong w/o controls?

...because I can?
I have the exploit, I want pong!:D

[xxdimixx]

Very good news!!! Good work!!!!:D

[Notorious9i6]

so you need one of thoses SD to gamecube memory thing?

[FoG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPTkMRYUq0

Sorry for the shitty frame rate, but it is just showing pong.

[ichiro51zr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPTkMRYUq0

Sorry for the shitty frame rate, but it is just showing pong.

The video that wouldnt load had a better framerate than that :mad:

[FoG]

The video that wouldnt load had a better framerate than that :mad:And the original video that I uploaded had better framerate than that. I blame YouTube. I will try to get a better quality version up

[killplaystation]

so you need one of thoses SD to gamecube memory thing?

No, this is Wii homebrew, and the wii has an SD card slot

[FoG]

http://fog.bgoat.com/pong.swf

There you go, much better quality.

[kungpow12345]

No, this is Wii homebrew, and the wii has an SD card slot

Actually, that's not true. If you look at Auby's blog he states:

Current work in progress have made it possible to run ELF files from an SD card inserted in the GC card slot, and this is the result:
(before mentioned video)
It's just my old Pong demo written for GameCube a long time ago. Controls doesn't work yet, and there are more to fix before a release, but at least things are moving forward.

At least this is another way to load Gamecube homebrew in Wii Mode but it makes you wonder if he's still using the old firmware with this hack or if the newer hacks have any affect to what he's doing.

[killplaystation]

since when can you load wii gamesaves from a gamecube memory card?

[Funkwheat]

since when can you load wii gamesaves from a gamecube memory card?

You can't. The exploited file goes on the Wii SD, but it loads files from the GC slot.

[pezjono]

since when can you load wii gamesaves from a gamecube memory card?

You copy the Wii gamesave from your PC and upload it your Wii through the built in SD slot.
The actual Pong file in this video resides on an SD card through the SDGecko adapter. You can see at the end of the Twilight hack that it shows "Slot A" and "Slot B" one of which detects a Gecko in the slot A.

I have a Gecko and when you have it in at the time of the hack, it says "detected" like in this video instead of "not detected" like in the original video just showing the hack.

[fanni]

This is excellent progress ;)


Roll on all those emulators in wii mode :cool:

[moneydog96]

Emulators in GCN mode run well enough and I doubt the extra horsepower of the Wii will have much effect. This is mostly for things that'll make use of the Wiimote. Hopefully, some dumbass won't ruin this by creating an ISO loader.

[crono]

Emulators in GCN mode run well enough and I doubt the extra horsepower of the Wii will have much effect. This is mostly for things that'll make use of the Wiimote. Hopefully, some dumbass won't ruin this by creating an ISO loader.


Its not about the horse power but about the memory the wii have,and whats wrong about a iso loader,you already can boot backups so it can't go any worse then it already is.

[moneydog96]

When you have a softmod method of running backups, it's nothing but trouble. Just look at the PSP scene, I'm pretty sure they have the highest number of pirates per capita of all the now gens.

Also, soft modders trying to run ISOs flood forums with the dumbest questions IMO (I'll probably get flamed or something for that), but seriously how many of you have never been annoyed by the "What's an ISO? How do I play a .r01 file?, OK, I'm a noob gimme step by step instuctions to do this" type topics. Also, let's face it a lot of 12 year olds own a Wii and have the internet and they're usually the ones that make those kinds of topics.

[JonathanD]

When you have a softmod method of running backups, it's nothing but trouble. Just look at the PSP scene, I'm pretty sure they have the highest number of pirates per capita of all the now gens.

Also, soft modders trying to run ISOs flood forums with the dumbest questions IMO (I'll probably get flamed or something for that), but seriously how many of you have never been annoyed by the "What's an ISO? How do I play a .r01 file?, OK, I'm a noob gimme step by step instuctions to do this" type topics. Also, let's face it a lot of 12 year olds own a Wii and have the internet and they're usually the ones that make those kinds of topics.

LOL The best one is "How do I use this file I downloaded, its only 19K I do not think it is the whole DVD file" (When they in fact downloaded some torrent file)

[the_Skip]

I am just wondering on how you exctly made that?

[miyawii]

Wow! Seems that old SD Gecko never dies...

Hope next Nintendo system will also come with GameCube memory card slots :D

[TheLaw]

. Just look at the PSP scene, I'm pretty sure they have the highest number of pirates per capita of all the now gens.
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I would have to disagree - since the NDS has more worldwide sales and a R4 type card practically comes complete @ $50 it would have to be NDS.
Aswell as the game roms being a fraction of the size of psp game roms. Even dial up users can get them:D

However i do agree on the point you made with the post. Softmods may work with portable game systems to increase unit sales, home consoles suffer from lack of interest from developers to provide quality games, if sales are bad. ps3 perfect example - too many supposed exclusives are now multiplatform.

[xxdimixx]

Hehe.:D Just think of a NDS-EMU with wiimote for the touchscreen.:eek:

[CyberAxe]

has anyone attempted to load any gamecube homebrew other than pong and tetris? i'm about to test tetris then attempt GCOS