June 18^th, 2008 (10:47pm) - If you haven’t turned on your Wii lately, Nintendo’s 24-hour download service will welcome you with an eerie blue glow surrounding it’s disc drive. It looks so pretty, only a fool would resist it.

Like all other updates, this one claims to upgrade the Wii with new functionality concerning the system or its other online components. Unlike the other updates, what this one claims as a mere extra Mii feature, is just a clever guise to undermine recent homebrewers and hackers’ efforts by rendering their projects null.

A recent epiphany on the hacker scene opened a door to a corrupted Zelda: Twilight Princess save file that allowed the oppurtunist to insert four lines of their own code. People have gotten everything from SCUMMVM to Wiiware loaded by running off the SD slot.

But it’s not just illegal or homebrew releases to take the hit, as Datel’s Freeloader seems to be affected as well. So those people holding dear their ability to play imports may want to think twice before downloding.

The Mii-cake is a lie!

(Zelda: Twiligt Princess corrupted save)