Nintendo Wii System Update Upsets Homebrewers, Yawn June 24, 2010

From the “What Else is New?” category, System Update 4.3 (mentioned here) for the Nintendo Wii has predictably made it harder for modders, homebrew enthusiasts, and pirates to run their illegitimate software on the console.

Nintendo has been doing its best to keep modders out of its hardware for some time now.  The last 4.2 update also did this, because it replaced the bootloader modders used to replace the console’s operating system with Linux with one they said was pretty buggy but I never had any problems with it.

I don’t trust homebrew code further than I can throw it.  I don’t modify my consoles in any way, because I find it more likely it would restrict me from doing legitimate things with my console, give my system a backdoor for the software creator to exploit, or at the very least hamper my performance.

System Update 4.3 also promises behind the scenes code improvement, which should make system performance a bit smoother.