Nintendo Fights Piracy, Smash Bros. Won’t Play On Modded Wii

15 Responses to “Nintendo Fights Piracy, Smash Bros. Won’t Play On Modded Wii”

1. Silverkiller on March 12th, 2008 9:41 am

   also there is a way to deactivate the chip to play the retail copy, and there is going to be an update un the wiikey soon

2. John on March 12th, 2008 12:43 pm

   I don’t own a modded Wii, but here’s why I find this tactic a bad move. Sure, these people modded their Wii, _but_ it punishes those that actually went out and bought the game. It will encourage those individuals to get the hacked copy in the future because why would they buy the game if they know it won’t work.

   I’d like to clarify and state that I don’t object to Nintendo fighting piracy, it’s their business and their right to do so. I think they’ve made a mistake though in this instance that will force more piracy of this specific title because no individual is going to go spend $50 on a game they know won’t play in their system. I wonder how many of those people just boxed the game up and took it back to the store in response for a trade in on something else.

3. Eric on March 12th, 2008 1:24 pm

   If “one” had a modded Wii why would “one” buy the game. Isn’t that the whole point of modding your Wii

4. phuongmods on March 12th, 2008 1:25 pm

   This is incorrect.
   Only the wiikey modchip will not play the retail game, the other chips work fine. D2Pro and d2ckey, do not know about argon.
   The wiikey can use a simple on/off switch to turn the chip off as the chip works on the fly. I have installed numerous switches since then and the customers themselves are happy. The news source here is incorrect as one must take into account.

   The dual layer pressed disk of the ssbb starts at a different layerbreak then the backed up copies. One simply has to change the wiilkey’s code to look for the layerbreak on the fly to fix this.

5. Fazz on March 12th, 2008 1:39 pm

   So in fact Nintendo is encouraging piracy! If people with modded consoles can’t play a legitimate copy they have no choice but to play an illegal version.

6. Allah on March 12th, 2008 3:03 pm

   It will be hacked

7. Laura on March 13th, 2008 2:08 am

   —If “one” had a modded Wii why would “one” buy the game. Isn’t that the whole point of modding your Wii—-

   ^^^^ Had to repeat that quote since it destroys the whole point some here are making.

   Fact is, you mod your Wii to play illegal copies of the game. Not to go out and buy a legal copy.

8. Jean on March 13th, 2008 11:06 am

   My wii is not modded, but I’m thinking of doing it not to pirate games, but as a way to get around the international regions system. As a PAL user currently in Latin America, I cannot play anything new right now.
   More over, as a PAL user, I’m regularly screwed in term of release dates (thanks Atlus for releasing the games in Europe one year after at least , smash bros will be there in fall only ) and in terms of price (why do I have to pay twice the price people in Us are paying for (RE 4) ? I don’t care about the translations of the game. )

9. Ruth on March 18th, 2008 6:44 pm

   I don’t know.. I have a modded wii, but I still bought a copy of the game. It’s not that I modded my wii just to get copies of the game. I only buy the original games if I really want it. Like… hell yeah I’m going to get Mario kart when it comes out. Just like I bought Twilight Princess and all the other games that are worthy of buying. But to buy Cooking Mama or Big Brain Academy full price doesn’t make sense and isn’t really worth my money.

10. Starz on March 19th, 2008 8:11 pm

    —If “one” had a modded Wii why would “one” buy the game. Isn’t that the whole point of modding your Wii—-

    Some people don’t have DL burners so they can’t burn the 7.5GB version of SSBB.

11. B-Boy on March 21st, 2008 1:27 pm

    Thats dumb how they made Brawl not work on Wiis with mod chips. My brother kept saying that he thought it wasn’t the Wii that brawl wouldn’t work on he thought My family bought a crap version of Brawl. Now I can laugh at him because he was wrong but I’m still sad that it didn’t work.

12. Zleet on March 25th, 2008 6:08 am

    This has nothing to do with piracy, it’s simply there to stop people in the EU who have modded their Wii’s to remove region protection getting the game early by buying an American copy.

    If anything it’s forcing piracy.

13. Joe on April 4th, 2008 5:43 pm

    What a terrible article. “It seems that a retail copy of the game will not play in the modded console, but the free copy the hackers download will.” - 15 yr olds pirating games are not generally referred to as hackers. One would think that a dbtechno admin would know the difference.

14. TICKBOY on April 13th, 2008 6:54 pm

    I INSTALL WIIKEY ON SOME OF THE WII CONSOLE AND I FIX SO SOME OF MY FRIEND COULD PLAY A Smash Bros. THERE ARE THERE STEP….BUT IN THE RETURN OF THIS I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO COPY A Smash Bros. dual-layer DVD I TRY EVERY THING BUT I CANT NOT COPY IT.

15. WII GUY on May 3rd, 2008 2:00 pm

    I Know on another forum this guy’s modded wii can play both copied and retail smash bros.

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