It’s the old story: company makes console, modder hacks console, company thwarts modder with hardware changes, modder finds workaround 14 hours later. For the moment though, Nintendo is riding high on the ‘thwarted modder’ stage; intrepid Wii users have discovered that the latest Wii consoles come with a new disc drive that renders current mod chips useless.
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