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[shuri]

Signed on Animal Crossing today and got error 20107. Typing that into nintendowifi.com I get:
The game you are attempting to play on the Nintendo WFC hasn't been authorized.

What to do:

Please call 1-800-895-1672 in the USA or Canada

Good thing, because with Metroid coming out soon, it would have been only a matter of time before people started running aimbot type programs or modified maps. I think it's cool that there's an homebrew scene for emulators and stuff; but when people abuse it and start going online with pirated version of games, it crosses the line. Nintendo did the right thing by twarting pirates now, because it could have become a real problem later on

Discuss.

 

[Cold-Steel]

Awesome, Nintendo is the only company who is almost YARRR-proof.

 

[Cheebs]

Man, a metroid mod community with custom levels and stuff would be awesome like pc fps's now that I think about it. :lol

 

[Wario64]

They will find a way



*I thought you still needed a code or something to play online?

 

[Sho Nuff]

Does this happen to people who were playing Mario Kart and unlocking singleplayer, typically offline tracks too?

 

[shuri]

I assume they are banned too since they play with with a modified version anyways

 

[jamesinclair]

Does this happen to people who were playing Mario Kart and unlocking singleplayer, typically offline tracks too?

Well, they were playing online...

 

[DDayton]

Does this happen to people who were playing Mario Kart and unlocking singleplayer, typically offline tracks too?

Ooh... that's interesting. I should try it out again and see what happens.

 

[Haibane]

Reading further along the thread on the yarr board it turns out that the issue was fixable this time, and all the yarrs are back online again. But Nintendo *was* detecting *something* so they might be working on shutting out illegitimate copies.

 

[Beer Monkey]

Awesome, Nintendo is the only company who is almost YARRR-proof.

GBA flashcarts everywhere, modchips for Gamecube...they've got a ways to go.

 

[DrEvil]

modchips for Gamecube...

Granted the modchips took almost four years to even start working / be released.

You're forgetting that the GCN had some of the best copy protection out there- it was because of one little Sega game that changed it all early on, and led the way to figuring stuff out.

 

[littlewig]

Funny how it was Sega who help lead to the cracking of Gamecube.

 

[Beer Monkey]

Granted the modchips took almost four years to even start working / be released.

If the system were more popular, I'm sure they'd have worked harder on it. But yes, Gamecube appears pretty secure compared to every other disc-based console so far.

 

[frogg609]

where can i read about this at?

 

[SantaC]

some forum where people yarr a lot and talk about sinking ships:

shuri?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I would like to know about the unlocked mariokart as well. So whats the deal with animal crossing? Was that guy running a pirate version or just some kind of mod or something?

 

[Cheebs]

Rev will be hacked easier since it uses SD Cards instead of Nintendo made original memory cards I am thinking.

 

[shuri]

shuri?

I actually got that news from a retrogaming forum who mentionned it.

 

[The Faceless Master]

If the system were more popular, I'm sure they'd have worked harder on it. But yes, Gamecube appears pretty secure compared to every other disc-based console so far.

more popular? it's sold around the same as the xbox, the world's most friendly box for hacking... and the xbox was cracked back when it was in 3rd...

 

[Y2Kev]

more popular? it's sold around the same as the xbox, the world's most friendly box for hacking... and the xbox was cracked back when it was in 3rd...

Because the Xbox was pathetically easy to hack!

 

[Beer Monkey]

The Xbox was an especially juicy target for hacking because of Microsoft's silly brags about it not running Linux, plus the fact that the hackers saw a lot of potential in the machine as a low-cost workstation complete with hard drive. If the Gamecube had a hard drive and an Intel processor, I assure you that the North American 'grad student' hackers would have attacked it ferociously.