Wii U has been hacked

Re:Wii U has been hacked by jonny_eh on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:16PM (#5633508)

This is rather surprising, the 3DS has been out a lot longer, and as far as I know remains unhacked.

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Re:Wii U has been hacked by Groxx on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:33PM (#5633651)

If by "hacked" you accept "flash carts", then it appears to be hacked: http://www.r43ds.com/ (and a few other brands)

edit: ah, nevermind, see other comments.

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Re:Wii U has been hacked by ryusage on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:28PM (#5633608)

You sure? I could swear a friend of mine had something at least a year ago that allowed him to play just about anything he wanted on it. Maybe that was the older DS?

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Re:Wii U has been hacked by DanBC on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:36PM (#5634036)

There are a range of carts.

These carts play DS games, they do not play 3DS games.

Each time the console gets an upgrade (DS to DSi; DSxl; 3DS; etc) some of the carts stop working, and manufacturers use it as a marketing opportunity.

Cards usually tack '3ds' on the name. EG: "R4i3DS". But these just play DS games on the 3DS. (Some of them include GBA emulation functionality; nothing could play GBA games on the NDS cart slot until recently.)

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Re:Wii U has been hacked by leehro on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:32PM (#5633640)

http://gbatemp.net/threads/nothing-plays-3ds-roms-3ds-still-...

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Re:Wii U has been hacked by jerf on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:30PM (#5633624)

The DS stuff still works in DS mode, though they periodically make firmware releases that try to lock them out. Nothing executes in 3DS mode, though.

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Re:Wii U has been hacked by superkamiguru on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:48PM (#5633771)

there are sd carts that allow you to play ds games on 3ds, that is as far as they have gone

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