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The trouble with most games consoles, is you can't modify the game code when it's running. Sure, you can use tools such as Datel's own Action Replay game enhancers to input all sorts of cheats and enhancements, but there's no straightforward way for amateur programmers and techie tinkerers to get inside the game, investigating how it works and trying out modifications and tweaks you've programmed yourself. Thankfully, if you're a Wii owner Datel has come to the rescue with Drive Doctor, the ultimate aid for the hardcore tinkerer and amateur programmer. With Drive Doctor for your Nintendo Wii, you can gain a unique insight into the under-the-bonnet operation of your console, examining, analysing and altering the Wii drive's memory...

With Drive Doctor in place, you can connect your Wii to your PC using the supplied USB 2.0 cable. You can then review its innermost operations, watching your Wii software in action through Drive Doctor's PC application. You can even add data of your own, all from your PC. Drive Doctor’s memory and command views give you a unique insight into the innermost workings of your Wii’s drive memory, and even lets you make on-the-fly adjustments. You can read status, write data, send control commands, report the drive status and more. By injecting your own code into the data stream, you can create your own effects and experiment with modifying the program. It’s fun! And as the Wii home brew scene grows and prospers, the device will also come in handy for playing freely-downloadable software straight from your console.

Fitting Drive Doctor requires a little soldering, so make sure you have your precision soldering iron handy. Full fitting instructions are supplied. It’s a fairly simple task, requiring you to connect just five wires. After that, the unit just clips to the back of your console. It remains in place even when not in use - just unplug your USB cable and you can use your Wii in the usual way. It's styled to match the console, and completely unintrusive when not in use.

I have to hand it to Datel for bringing console modding to the mainstream. It will be great to be able to go into the local videogame store to buy all of this stuff instead of ordering it from shady internet sites.

WiiVision has posted about his upcoming app that will boot the wii into gamecube linux and allow it to play dvd movies.

Support currently includes:
- 4.7G DVD Media (-r, +r, +rw, and of course "originals")
- Region Free
- Multi-Language Subtitle Support

Controls:
Toggle menu: B
Play/Pause: Start
SlowMotion: A
Goto Disc Root: Y
Goto First Chapter: X
FF: R Trigger
RW: L Trigger
Next Chapter: C-Stick Right
Previous Chapter: C-Stick Left

DVD Menus Navigation: D-Pad
DVD Menus Select: Start

Eject the disc at anytime: L+R Trigger Combo

Great work so far! It's good to see the GC homebrew scene still brewing up releases.

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I've got to hand it to them, this is some pretty hardcore hacking going on at WAB and Team Infectus. The idea as it has been discussed is, you run the wii with probes attached to the memory. Then you apply an external power source and turn off the wii. Now everything that was in memory stays in memory and you can read it out and see if there is anything useful. Looks like they've got logic analyzers and their own homebrew circuits attached to try and figure out a way into this thing. God luck guys!


To follow their progress, check out the forum post here.

Over the last few weeks, several groups have been dumping chips on the wii motherboard to see what they can find. After dumping one of the Wii's memory chips they realized that everything is encrypted and not very useful. They are not going to give up easily, now they are going after the RAM to see what data is stored in memory unencrypted.

The play-by-play can be found on websites such as WiiNewz Forums or TehSkeen, as well as OpenWii Forum.

While not pracitcal, and definitely not secure, some clever engineers have hooked up a wiimote to their electronic lock, and can now open their door with the flick of the wiimote.

Check out their Video on YouTube:


The translation of the original site can be found here.