Dust that GameCube off – it looks like you’ll have to put it back into your gaming rig.
Nintendo is now probably twiddling their thumbs and casually whistling while gazing off in the distance, pretending like they didn’t know that the latestWii firmware updatewould render Datel’sFreeloadersoftware unusable.
Freeloaderwas originally a third-party product for the GameCube, enabling users to defeat the territorial protection of the console to play imported games. Up until now, gamers could useFreeloaderto play imported GameCube titles on the Wii, but the version 3 firmware update killed that possibility.
Nintendo told Eurogamer that there was nothing they could do asFreeloaderis not an officially licensed product. Nintendo has said nothing about fixing compatibility problems with the software.
[ViaGamesIndustry.biz– thanks, Justin]
