System Menu 4.2 - DO NOT UPDATE!

[Videogamer555]

If some piece of crap upgrade deletes my Homebrew Channel, I'll just use Twilight Hack to reinstall the Homebrew Channel.

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If some piece of crap upgrade deletes my Homebrew Channel, I'll just use Twilight Hack to reinstall the Homebrew Channel.

FAIL!!!

Sorry to say that: the Twilight Hack is impossible since System Menu 4.0 - user Bannerbomb v2!

[Jassim]

imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

[Romaap]

imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

Nah, they won't do that.
They just block all channels except the disc channel :)

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imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

That's not possible with current IOS based games.. the games run in a sandbox and they cannot see the system menu.. some IOS allow seeing more console details (like IOS16 for the rescue discs - or IOS30 for the system menus) just games do not use them yet.. in theory Nintendo could develop such a feature for new IOS.. even the shop channel DOES NOT know your system menu version! Nintendo just updates the shop to give non-knowing users the feeling the system would know its version!

[Jassim]

imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

Nah, they won't do that.
They just block all channels except the disc channel :)

in wich case the hackers would find another workaround and nintendo will pull their hair out. :p

imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

That's not possible with current IOS based games.. the games run in a sandbox and they cannot see the system menu.. some IOS allow seeing more console details (like IOS16 for the rescue discs - or IOS30 for the system menus) just games do not use them yet.. in theory Nintendo could develop such a feature for new IOS.. even the shop channel DOES NOT know your system menu version! Nintendo just updates the shop to give non-knowing users the feeling the system would know its version!

yh i guess so, even if they somehow do find a way to do it i imagine fixing it will be as easy as fixing the shop channel.

[Soul Silver Zach]

I don't know if anyone has found this or not but, Gecko OS 1.07b is still on the Homebrew Browser...and it works! I haven't tested the Region Free feature yet but I will sometime...But the Codes still work like it did with 1.9.2 :)

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I don't know if anyone has found this or not but, Gecko OS 1.07b is still on the Homebrew Browser...and it works! I haven't tested the Region Free feature yet but I will sometime...But the Codes still work like it did with 1.9.2 :)

Gecko 1.9 has introduces some new code types and fixes.. generally however, codes are compatible to each other. So as long as you have games which boot with Gecko OS 1.07b without actually getting 002 errors.. then 1.07b still works, yes!

[h@ckR]

Umm I have gecko 1.9.1 still(never updated). Would it work on the new Wii menu? I am just wondering.
Edit: Nevermind I saw Wiibrew, it says yes...

[mdmwii]

imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

That's not possible with current IOS based games.. the games run in a sandbox and they cannot see the system menu.. some IOS allow seeing more console details (like IOS16 for the rescue discs - or IOS30 for the system menus) just games do not use them yet.. in theory Nintendo could develop such a feature for new IOS.. even the shop channel DOES NOT know your system menu version! Nintendo just updates the shop to give non-knowing users the feeling the system would know its version!

When a game connects to WFC it sends some important datas like MAC address, serial number and other and it uses some sub-routine (IOS?) to get those datas. If they could manage to edit sub-routines to send more or slightly different datas (sub-routines not written inside the game but inside the wii) and they could manage to update their WFC servers then they could block not 4.2+ wiis. Am I wrong?

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imagine nintendo get so mad that they make 4.3 which stops you copying saves COMPLETELY and they refuse to let you connect to nintendo wifi on any game without updating (if thats possible)

That's not possible with current IOS based games.. the games run in a sandbox and they cannot see the system menu.. some IOS allow seeing more console details (like IOS16 for the rescue discs - or IOS30 for the system menus) just games do not use them yet.. in theory Nintendo could develop such a feature for new IOS.. even the shop channel DOES NOT know your system menu version! Nintendo just updates the shop to give non-knowing users the feeling the system would know its version!

When a game connects to WFC it sends some important datas like MAC address, serial number and other and it uses some sub-routine (IOS?) to get those datas. If they could manage to edit sub-routines to send more or slightly different datas (sub-routines not written inside the game but inside the wii) and they could manage to update their WFC servers then they could block not 4.2+ wiis. Am I wrong?

What they can do: they can update ALL IOS files.. and as the games (you are correct on that) send IOS versions to WFC, WFC will be able to check if you run an old IOS.. so they could technically create updates in future and update ALL IOS files alongside updates.. then they could do some detection.

[Romaap]

But then they would spend a lot of time and money for implementing that, and the hackers just 2 days for a bypass :)

[sal]

I am afraid i have done a update to 4.2 already. Now I cannot load Gecko OS 1.9.2 which allowed me to play Pal games on my Wii. I just bought new game and without Gecko i cannot load it.

I have managed to get homebrew back via the Hackmii installer v0.5 but even then Gecko will not load, just blank screen.

Does anybody know when this will be fixed

[h@ckR]

To last post: use the gecko 1.9.1. The link is in this topic and in Wiibrew. It works just fine for me.

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Gecko 1.9.2b should work on 4.2 again. The cIOS functionality of 1.9.2 is not working in 4.2, so 1.9.2b has it removed it!