Thursday, September 4, 2008

Secret Wii recovery mode discovered, allows backup disks to run

by Nilay Patel, posted Sep 4th 2008 at 12:24PM


Getting the Wii to run backup disks has never been quite as easy as running homebrew, but that might be about to change -- there's apparently a secret recovery mode that can be accessed with a special GameCube memory card. Not much is being revealed yet, but apparently if a "device" with a unique ID signature is present in the slot at boot, the Wii will drop into recovery mode and happily run whatever you throw at it, from backup disks to homebrew code. Hopefully we'll find out more soon -- video after the break.

[Thanks, brakken]

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