The Wii Twilight Princess hack (which I wrote about here) was killed by the system's most recent update, received this week by all Wiis connected to the internet.

The industrious hackers of the net have already figured out a workaround, though. Apparently Nintendo's fix is targeted to Twilight Princess, and scans for the specific corrupted save files that enable the hack. That's already an encouraging sign — there are almost certainly similar vulnerabilities in other games, and if Nintendo is tackling the problem in this piecemeal approach it means that the homebrew scene is unlikely to ever be thwarted for long.

But the specifics of the update are even more cheer-inducing: apparently there are some bugs in the update code which, when exploited in tandem, make it possible to continue using the TP hack. Hurrah!

All of this is comes from hackmii.com (via Hack a Day — yes, again), which seems to be home to some of the web's foremost Wii reverse engineers.