Starlight
My journey of hacking the Starlight Wii
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How recovered e-waste data and a blinking LED defeated Wii U’s security
Preface: I am going to speak mostly in regards to my hand in this as I don’t have solid understanding of the Wii U software and architecture and I don’t want to throw out incorrect information. Where needed I have provided quotes and screenshots so that the information provided is coming straight from the horses…
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Running the 100J disc on RVT-H
Running the 100J disc on a Wii turned out to be a little more of a hassle than I anticipated. The 100J disc (image) was discovered in a bank on the HDD of a RVT-H Wii unit and it was marked for deletion. The disc image contains 2 partitions, an update partition and a game…
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Wii optical drive firmware dumping
With my recent fooling around with the zumiDrive diag program, it led me down a rabbit hole for the past week. In short, with help from Crediar, we were able to dump the firmware from the Wii’s optical drive using the SPI GPIO’s on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. Expect a full write up soon enough,…
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Welcome back
ConsoleBytes lives on. More to come. Give it time. Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been up to lately. After borrowing a Wii RVA Arcade unit from someone last winter then having to return it, a fellow wii enthusiast secured another RVA unit for me. In the screenshot above we are running Win NT…
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Starlight Wii – The Final Attack
I have prospects for a full starlight wii kiosk unit, and this is solid. Expect in the next month or so that we will have our hands on it. As the seller will likely ship it all to me in a few separate boxes, I will have to assemble it before the hacking live stream….
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RVT-R BootMii Installation Live Stream
@ 2PM EDT today, so about 4 hours from now, we are will doing the first ever installation of BootMii into boot2 on a RVT-R development wii. This requires a complete teardown of the wii and using a hardware flasher to write bootmii into the boot blocks of this wii.
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StartUp Disc Installation Live Streams
The Wii StartUp Disc has been found and we are doing plenty of live streaming in regards to it. Above is the live stream scheduled for 10 PM EDT tonight, and the video below we did a different live stream where we installed it earlier!
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Another Friday. Another Nintendo leak!
We have another major Nintendo leak happening today. It is said to contain source code for many games, GBA gerber files, and a hell of a lot more. Come grab your copy HERE!
