You knew it would happen sooner or later. Every system has a scene dedicated to picking the system apart so it can fit their needs. It didn’t take long for a modchip to come along for the Nintendo Wii, but while that focuses on game backups, this development is going to let you bring more software to your Wii.

By taking advantage of an exploit found within a save file for the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, hackers have been able to run unsigned code on the system. By using your SD card with this save file on it, you too can run homebrewed applications. Unfortunately at this point, all you can run is a Pong demo. But don’t expect to play it yourself, as it’s a self run program that operates at a crawling pace.

This is only the first step forward in this development, but just like any company defending their systems integrity, it should be expected that Nintendo will try and prevent this from happening. With the awful library of shuffleware we’ve had to endure so far, it’s very likely that the content coming out of this homebrew scene will prove to be a thousand times more fun than Ninja Bread Man.