Filed under Wii, All, Modchip by DaedaluS | 9 comments
Modchip makers Wasabi are releasing a new modchip they claim will work with all drive chips, including the difficult D2C drives. The boasts 9 wires, 3 of which are vias for easier installation.
Here’s the list of features:
* Direct boot of Wii and Gamecube original, import, and backup discs
* Supports all chipset versions: DMS, D2A, D2B and D2C (including D1A)
* Supports all regions, configurable via jumpers
* Fully upgradable from DVD (no external programmer required)
* Only 5 wires on DMS, D2A, D2B
* Only 9 wires on D2C (only 3 of them soldered to pin/via)
* Very easy installation on “cut-pin” drives
* On-board flash (128KB)
* Integrated Audiostreaming fix for GC games
* Excellent media compatibility (supports DL media)
* Works with SMG and SSBB
* Flash recovery mode
* Two LED for easy installation troubleshooting
* Full firmware control even on D2C chipset
* Drivecode symmetry between all chipset versions
* Compatible with all GC and Wii homebrew programs
* No extra wires required for region override
* No external switch required
The site also mentions this interesting bit of info:
Did you know that current ISO dumpers are currently missing a few KB of data stored in the barcode (BCA) and lead-in area ? This “extra” data could be read by the console and used to detect chips. SMG and SSBB are the first games to call one of the related drive commands, without interpreting the data yet. We take that as a warning. Thanks to on-board memory, the “extra” data of your whole game collection could be stored on the chip itself if that becomes necessary. The flash memory is also used to store the drivecode and could store patches and Wii/GC binaries in the future.
Homepage: http://www.wasabi.net.cn/
Thank you xboxbman for the story.
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Filed under Wii, All, Modchip by DaedaluS | 2 comments
Filed under Wii, All, hacking by DaedaluS | 5 comments
Ingenieria Inversa has released Trucha Signer 0.2.1. Trucha Signer is a PC program that can resign edited Wii data. While nothing is being done with it yet, the potential is there for some great homebrew to come out in the future.
Thank you to zkello for the tip.
The last year I was quite lucky in attend for the 24th Chaos Communication Congress and meet very interesting people, renowned console hackers like tmbinc and bunnie, the authors of radare, and hackers of different topics.
Even more interesting was to be at the first row at the Why Silicon-Based Security is still that hard: Deconstructing Xbox 360 Security presentation by tmbinc and Michael Steil, and see the bushing’s surprise making a demo of homebrew running on the Wii.
The bug exploited in that demo never was made public, they only talk about the method to access the “common key” that is the one that let us decrypt the discs and updates, so now hack the system is only matter of found a bug… The biggest bug is just in the place where the public key verification stuff is performed. Moreover this bug not only compromise the discs security, it compromise ALL the certificates verifications (the RSA ones), that means discs, WADs, channels, VC Games, and so on.
Being this bug so clearly for everyone (and especially for Nintendo) I can’t see the need to keep it secret forever, thinking that Nintendo never will find it, for instances there was another bug (in former firmwares versions) that could be exploited to break the system in a similar way, even if nobody tried to exploit it, that bug was already fixed.
Also as tmbinc states, the system compromise is total, and for sure new attacks and exploits are coming like the Zelda TP exploit come some days ago.
After spend some time thinking on it, I see there is no problem to release Trucha Signer, a tool that let us extract and replace files withing a disc and after that insert a “trucha signature” to be autenticathed by the Wii.
Trucha Signer 0.2
*edit: I’ve fixed it as I’ve to forget to enable something before release, be sure to use version 0.21
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Download: trucha021.rar
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Filed under Nintendo Inc., Wii, All by WB3000 | 2 comments
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Filed under DS, All, homebrew by WB3000 | 0 comments
Filed under DS, All, homebrew by DaedaluS | 0 comments
Spinal from PAlib has released an open source movie player for the DS. Based on Eponasoft’s and nicoc73’s Multimedia Codec, this movie player offers improvements as well as enhancements.
I have been working on a small movie player based on work by Eponasoft and nicoco73. I originally intended to make Eponasofts converter a bit quicker, but ended up changing the movie format and adding a couple of extras.
Format-wise it is similar to Eponasoft’s media format, using jpg images for the frames and uncompressed audio. It uses ffmpeg to convert the movies, so almost any format can be converted (I have already tested mpg,vob,flv(youtube) anbd a few others. You can skip back and forward using the << and >> buttons and you can seek by tapping the progress bar. Pleas not though, you may need to hold the stylus down for a short period, as a lot of the processing power is taken up by the decoding.
Anyway, I’m having a little trouble getting the timing right (you might hear a slight clicking in the audio), so if anyone wants to help, please do.
Download: movie_player.rar
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