07.02
I while back, I rented Zelda (Twilight Princess) to install the megacool Wii Homebrew Channel using the Twilight Hack, which went just fine. At first sight, you don’t even notice it’s homebrew, the developers made a professional looking icon for the Wii main screen. Even the Homebrew Channel itself looks fairly professional. And best of all, it’s customizable through an XML file. And hell yeah, now I can play LucasArts’ Full Throttle on my Wii using a Wiimote…
So after much rejoicing, the following thing struck me: straightaway after the homebrew channel release, ROM emulators became available. I was quite disappointed by this. Making rom emulators publicly available as Wii Homebrew endangers the very existence of the Wii Homebrew Channel. Not only have we used the Wii in ways Nintendo did not intend, we are also giving Nintendo every reason to lash out at the Wii Homebrew Channel, as we are subverting their business model. Nintendo already failed at their first attempt to disable the Twilight hack. And they’ll probably try again… And again…
This is exactly the reason why they are reluctant to opening up their console for unlicensed third party developers.
