Nintendo Wii Fanboy

What is it: twilight princess hack

How to use it: hack twilight princess

What its used for: homebrew

From what I've been told, they've cracked open Twilight Princess's save file, and then made Epona's name a bunch of random characters longer than it should be, and there's also a chainloader imbedded into it somewhere. The chainloader is triggered when you talk to the guy where the Twilight Hack save starts, and boots to your homebrew.

Not, positive, I may be wrong.

People are always nervous about this sort of thing, I was nervous when i was just getting my feet wet in the PSO hacking scene, but once you jump in, there's nothing quite like the legal-but-still-not-quite-right world of software mods and homebrew code

The method involved is called a Stack-Attack, it's when an object overflows it's allotted memory, in this case, in Twilight Princess, the horse's name is a set amount of bytes long and by giving that allocation of memory a byte or even a bit over the allotted memory, it corrupts the remaining memory and causes a crash. Here, custom code is injected into the memory and such, the chainloader is booted.

actually, that's called a buffer overflow attack.

I've also heard that if that update comes out and you have an invalid channel like this, it could brick your Wii. But then, the news surrounding the update has been mixed and confusing so I don't really know what it could do.