Nintendo-Scene

According to CBS11tv.com, a southern California college student has been arrested on allegations of bypassing the DMCA by installing modchips into consoles.

A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 27-year-old Matthew Crippen was released Monday night after posting $5,000 bond.

The California State University, Fullerton student who lives in Anaheim is accused of modifying Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents got a tip from the Entertainment Software Association and searched Crippen’s home in May.

He was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury. Crippen faces 10 years in prison if convicted and is scheduled for arraignment on Aug. 10.

Attempts to reach Crippen for comment were unsuccessful.

Discuss this topic in our forums.

        

Brkirch has updated the popular Wii homebrew application, Gecko OS, to version 1.9.2. This release is a slight bugfix, as well as expansion on the options you are provided per game. For those who have not heard of Gecko OS, it is a great alternative disc loader to the Disc Channel. There’s no backup support, but that’s covered by the extensive feature set.

From the release notes:

If necessary, cIOS will be used for channel loading

A few more gameconfig options were added

Some video mode fixes

• Gecko192.zip - 842KB

Discuss this topic in our forums.