Incorrect: * It doesn’t sound like a brilliant idea to play online with a “backup” game. – This in itself is a fragment, and there were a few words missing prior to the above correction. Incorrect: (Apologies, no source link given the sensitive nature of this topic)Ĭorrection: (Apologies, no source link is given due to the sensitive nature of this topic.) Passive voice, always use active–this one is a bit awkward as well. Incorrect: The technique was understood by the scene pretty quickly and has triggered hundreds of pages of discussions from people loading their “backups” on the console. “The hack seems to all boil down to some mistake on how Nintendo are handling the security of their games.” awkward phrasing.
They’re typically driven by visuals, and if you just aren’t getting something about a game and need to watch a youtube video for a couple minutes to learn how to play, that’s really not so bad compared to trying to make your way through a 50+ hour RPG in a foreign language.Įspecially if you are getting your “backups” for free, and thus do not have to invest money in a game that you may or may not be able to play easily…Ĭorrection: much more than it already has …In fact, now that I think about it, MOST Nintendo games (and a lot of the 3rd party games on Wii U) are not text-heavy. Īlthough that requires an extra peripheral (at least the way it’s intended to be played).Ī few other games without language dependency: * It doesn’t sound like a brilliant idea to play online with a “backup” game. (Apologies, no source link given the sensitive nature of this topic) What’s still not fully explained at this point is how and why the technique actually works, in other words where Nintendo made a security mistake. The technique was understood by the scene pretty quickly and has triggered hundreds of pages of discussions from people loading their “backups” on the console.
tik files) extracted from the games lets an unofficial tool install the game as a “regular” game on the usb hard drive. A few minor changes to some files (tickets, or.
The hack seems to all boil down to some mistake on how Nintendo are handling the security of their games. People have been fast to report the benefits of this method though: games run and load faster, online play and updates are apparently possible*, and there is no need for an external loader as the games just appear directly in the menu. Technically, no loader is required with this new method, and the games just appeared in the Wii U’s main menu as if they had been installed in a legit way.īecause piracy was already there on the Wii U, this is probably not going to impact Nintendo’s bottom line much more than it already was. Piracy on the Wii U has been a possibility for quite some time now, but people have been reporting that this new technique goes way beyond what was possible until then. A few days ago, the Wii U scene was set on fire over some videos shared by an obscure Brazilian group, showcasing them loading “backup” games directly from a USB hard drive directly onto their Wii.Īlthough some of the early videos and “proof” was quickly made private, it took less than a day for the WiiU scene to confirm the hack was legit.