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Twilight hack
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The "Twilight Hack" is the name given to the exploit found by Team Twizzers in [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]] that permits homebrew developers to add their own ELF applications to the [[Wii]]. Notably, this is the first way found to boot homebrew software without the use of hardware modifications to the [[Wii]] console.<ref>http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack</ref>

This hack exploits a [[Buffer overflow]] error caused by loading a carefully corrupted save file in Twilight Princess. The save file stores the name of the horse in the game (canonically "Epona"), and when a longer name is presented to the system, it causes the system to crash. The system begins executing part of the "name" as code, which is used as a sort of handle to run code contained on the front SD card (or on a modified Gamecube memory card, as in previous versions of the hack).

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