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"Holy Grail" of Wii homebrew released

chautemoc | April 16, 2008 | News | Wii 
Someone over on TehSkeen has uncovered a method of loading games on the Wii, independent of region. This effectively brings things parallel to the DS' region free policies.
Instructions:

Load boot.elf from Chain Loader. Insert any Wii Game and press reset. Enjoy your region free gaming.

Cool Additional Bonus (optional)

If you own a USB Gecko it will install a remote debugger and screenshot engine into memory and will hook. This means you can load Gecko Tool version included and grab screen shots and use the remote debugger in any Wii game. This is all done on the fly and silently, and has no effect on none USB Gecko users.

Technical Gargon:

Gecko Region Free was created with the homebrew libogc library. No certs, Tmd, Tik, Keys or other Nintendo copyright material were used or attached in the file, making it a pure homebrew release. No Datel code was used either, so please don't call this a clone etc as this and Freeloader work in completely different ways.

The decryption is done by the hardware, not in software and the correct IOS version of the game booting is selected and used. This is done by reading the information off the DVD using the low level read commands and then passed back to the starlet.

My own apploader was written, and will completely ignore the update partition, no patching is done except a region flag which is required.

This of course only works with Wii games.

Disclaimer:

Please note I take 'no' responsibility for the use of this software, If a game doesn't work you can report this in the USB Gecko forums, and I will try to fix it for the next release. It has worked on all games i've tried however I can not afford to buy all games so will need beta testers.

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  • 0 thumbs!
    Twisted | April 16, 2008
    Does this mean you can download certain games for free? Or is it just like the freeloader?
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    Paper Mario Dude | April 16, 2008
    i think its a freeloader but a SD card version so you don't have to keep switching the CD for every region coded game.
    this sounds good....too bad i can wait a week for mario kart.
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    Catboy14 | April 16, 2008
    It looks to me that it is an SD freeloader that uses it's hardware to decrypt the region code or something. I guess this means that it won't be affected by firmware updates?
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    Zeon I | April 16, 2008
    Sounds interesting. I hope Japan releases some exclusive games so I'd have a reason to buy it.

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