With the Wii Mini Menu dumped, the main question for us was. Update: During the writing of this article, the exploit was released!. If you're interested at all in the Wii Mini and its many differences, feel free to checkout some of DeadlyFoez's videos of their efforts. The exploit is currently not public, but when it is released, users will be able to run homebrew on the Wii Mini just like any other Wii console, without any hardware mods. This was as far as anyone could go, until Fullmetal5 found the holy grail: an exploit in the standard Wii Mini configuration, through the Bluetooth stack! This exploit completely opens the Wii Mini, allowing for arbitrary code execution to dump and/or load data over the Wii Mini's USB ports. DeadlyFoez created 'FrankenWiis', mixing Wii Mini hardware and standard Wii hardware, to create exploit options and dump the Wii Mini firmware.

With so few attack surfaces, hackers have had to get inventive. In total, the Wii Mini was missing GameCube support, with no GameCube controller ports or Memory Card slots, lacked internet and browser support, and they completely removed the SD card slot. This resiliency came from the Wii Mini's cut down nature: it physically lacks the attack vectors that were used against the original Wii. That's true, but the Wii Mini stubbornly remained unhacked all the way into 2019.

You may be wondering, 'Wait, wasn't the Wii hacked over a decade ago?'. This bookends a flurry of a Wii Mini hacking, including rigorous hardware modding by DeadlyFoez.

Earlier this month, an interesting development within the Wii reverse engineering scene was announced as Fullmetal5 revealed that they had hacked the Wii Mini via a Bluetooth exploit.

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