Blue Liight Special: Brick Your Wii!

By Joel Lutherlutherjw. Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:49:04 PM

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Late Monday night your Wii's blue light should have flickered to your delight. With all your might... ah who cares any more.

Anyway, the Wii firmware was updated to version 3.3 on Monday, with the update citing a new feature in the Mii channel: the ability to drag and drop Miis from the Mii Plaza to the Mii Parade, allowing you to store more than 100 Miis.

The update also, somewhat stealthily, kills the Twilight hack, meaning if you don't have the Homebrew Channel installed already and want to run homebrew on your Wii, do that before updating. Fortunately, the update does not appear to disable/delete the Homebrew Channel if you already have it installed. It does, however, make the Wii Freeloader completely obsolete...

Bummer. Check after the break for the full message.

Wii Menu version 3.3 is now available for your Wii console. To update your Wii Menu to the latest version, please select the Update button at the bottom of the screen or select the System Update option in Wii System Settings.

With this update, you can now move a Mii from the Mii Plaza to the Mii Parade in the Mii Channel. To do this, simply pick up a Mii using the A and B Buttons and then release it over the Mii Parade icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Because unauthorized modifications to save files may impair game play or the Wii console, updating to Wii Menu version 3.3 will also check for and automatically remove such save files.

**Please note:
If you’ve updated you Wii Menu after June 17, you may not need to update again.

Thank you for updating your Wii console!

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Comments

Ace Jon Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:21:42 PM

Yeah, a guy I know lost a lot of save files because he'd been using Datel's "Powersaves". That'll teach 'em. Oh, and he had a freeloader and US Brawl. Hehehe.

seaempty Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:39:28 PM

hehehe

AntonCaptainSeagull Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:00:19 PM

hehehe

SpookSpook81 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:38:01 PM

To be fair, the message DID warn you that the update would render your hacked (modified without authorization) save files unuseable, and that just SCREAMS "We'll destroy the Twilight Hack".
I still haven't downloaded the update, though... I just had a few minutes to play that night and I'd rather spend them playing Boom Blox than waiting for the update to download and complete.

Pikachu Electronkawaiipikachu Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:18:40 AM

And a sneaky thing is you can't avoid the update as the very same updates that you download are also on the game disc's which you must install before playing .

So in the future system update 3.3 well be on every game you buy .

As for the Freeloader this is the very reason that i didn't buy myself a freeloader as i realised that Nintendo can block the Wii version just as easily as the Gamecube version that thay previously did .

Ace Jon Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:31:49 AM

Yep. It's ridiculous not updating anyway. It means you'll never be able to update ever again.

Pikachu Electronkawaiipikachu Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:47:50 AM

@Ace Jon
Well theres no point avoiding it at all as one day you end up with a game disc wich has update 3.3 or newer which you must install before you can play it .

Datel should know once nintendo managed to blocked products being used on the Wii so Why did they waste money on a Wii version of the freeloader anyway .
Im surpised that many people are forgeting that these updates are also on the very game disc's that they playng .

Big dawgBig Dawg Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:09:47 AM

agreed ace, especially since the storage solution would come via an update.

Ace Jon Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:34:54 PM

@kawaii - Datel didn't waste money. Datel made a lot of money from people who no longer benefit from it.

SpookSpook81 Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:28:41 PM

And will make a lot more from people who will now need to buy Freeloader Reloaded (or whatever they're gonna call it) if they want to keep using their non-compliant games.

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