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Then you can almost feel sorry for the crackers who have been involved with the Nintendo Wii for years. You may have just had to wait long enough: According to credible forum reports, hackers have posted almost everything that is necessary to have full access to the game console.
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Obviously, it’s not just about the source code of the Wii operating system, but also the almost complete technical specifications of all the essential components of the console, details about the interfaces and more, writes a user with the pseudonym Atheerios in Resetera.
In addition to the Wii data, older Pokémon game developer codes and hardware and game information have also been released for the N64 and occasionally for the Wii U. The data for the current Nintendo Switch console is apparently missing. included in the package.
The material apparently comes from a hack at a company called Broadon, with which Nintendo worked, among other things, on the Wii.
It is unclear whether the data also compromises the security of the Switch and especially Nintendo Online, but at least theoretically possible. At the end of April 2014, unknowns had unauthorized access to around 160,000 service accounts.
Nintendo said a problem was the old Nintendo Network ID (NNID), which was primarily used on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. This connection has now been broken.
The Nintendo Wii was released in late 2006 and the pairing and multiplayer servers on the console went offline in mid-2014. In 2013, the manufacturer released Wii Mini, a special version that only works offline.
Meanwhile, the Mini is no longer officially available. The most important peculiarity of the Wii is the movement control, which among other things made possible new fitness games (Wii Sports). Nintendo has sold a total of around 101 million Wii worldwide.
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