So nintendo came back and released another firmware update for the Wii, v3.4. The good things being as below:

• USB keyboard support in Mii Channel

• Enhanced parental controls

• Improved SD card read/write speed

• Improved disc reading

The good features aside, they also managed to kill the Twilight hack. Or so they thought anyways. The good guys at hackmii managed to exploit more bugs and have given us a new savefile for the Twilight hack (beta2 now). The procedure for Twilight Hack remains the same and the good old method to run homebrew still lives on!

Also changed is the policy of updates. If you update to 3.4, nintendo will be able to update your firmware online without asking for your permission. That is a loss of lot of control. This is bad news especially given the fact that the modchips now support update blocking from the discs, which were not preventable earlier. The recommendation is to not update to this firmware, unless absolutely essential!

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