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Pre-owned Wii... hacked?

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Old 18-09-2009, 4:08 PM   #1
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Pre-owned Wii... hacked?

Just bought a pre-owned Wii bundle from Gamestation for the family, and noticed after I set it up I have 2 channels that my parent's Wii don't have, which are 'WiiGator' and 'Homebrew Channel'.
I connected the Wii to the internet and it immediately asked me to update so I did, and now have v.4.1E but these channels are still there.

Are they worth keeping? Will my Wii still operate normally? If I decide to get rid of them, do I just format the Wii?

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Re: Pre-owned Wii... hacked?

http://www.avforums.com/forums/wii/9...ms-piracy.html
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Old 18-09-2009, 11:16 PM   #3
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Re: Pre-owned Wii... hacked?

it's been softmoded to play wii games from a USB hard drive, you can just delete the channels if it bothers you, if not dont worry about it
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Re: Pre-owned Wii... hacked?

and by updating I think you may have disabled it anyways....try it ;-)
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