For those not in the Wii World, you may wish to move on to your next task of the day, but for those who are casual Wiiers there's a World of Wii of which you likely have no knowledge--- HomeBrew [a term frequently applied to video games that are produced by consumers on proprietary game platforms -from Wiki] or in this case, WiiBrew, the homebrew channel.
So basically with some key downloads, an SD storage card, and the game Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, you can achieve a HACK of the Wii system that lets you add a whole new channel with all sorts of games created by people other than Nintendo and its licensees. It also lets you add other hacks such as utilities that let you play DVDs through the console, play Wii games from other regions (Region Free), hack your Mii (gold pants), FTP using your wireless internet connection, add Emulators allowing you to play games made for other current (SEGA, GameBoy) and ancient (ATARI, but I'm holding out for MAME) systems. Hell--it even lets you connect your PC to the damn thing. Of course all of this pisses of Nintendo which wishes to control every bit and byte of your use of their system (Can you say "proprietary"). I guess they have learned nothing from Google, Linux, and other works of the Open Source World inhabited by their core audience.
Now the faint of heart should not try this at home, nor mess with Mii, or you could BRICK your system (turn your console into nothing more than a useless brick) . But if you mod your way to this channel, the rewards are endless.
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The hack that gets all this done is apparently in the game Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess hence the moniker Twilight Hack. There is a hole in the code where new code can be inserted and thus is born a new channel.
Just some information for you soccer dads and closet geeks, since it got Mii going Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!
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