Does Your Super Smash Bros Brawl Disk Work?

[UglyJoe]

I thought there were stuff like checksums and recompressing would lead to errors.

Dunno.  It's possible, but you can always hack around checksum checks.

[manuel]

Hackers sure know their tricks. Somehow I admire them. 

[michaelthegreat]

They found a problem in way nintendo authenticated the rsa encrypted data. Nintendo has already fixed the issue in their latest firmware and will activate that firmware with MarioKart (at least most are guessing this--also I'm simplifying things a bit). Hackers think they have a way around this for those who don't upgrade their firmware, but it looks like the nintendo/hacker leapfrog game has begun. Of course, the wii scene still needs hardware modding to run backup disks. Some of the early mod chips are obsolete, and new ones are coming out all the time still. Personally I'm only interested in homebrew on the wii, so I'm not going to be modding my wii. The twilight princess hack is enough for me!