DSi hacked after just four days

Back when the DSi was first announced, people speculated Nintendo would use the opportunity of updating the hardware to try and keep hackers out once and for all.

However, as it's only been four days since the official Japanese launch and already a modder has posted evidence of a hacked DSi, it seems the company didn't do that good a job.

As Joystiq has reported today, a YouTube video has emerged from one 'Yasusoft' - developer of the YSMenu custom DSTT menu (the DSTT being a flashcard that allows homebrew software to be played on DS) - showing the DSi doing things that it wasn't necessarily designed to do. To be precise, displaying a little message that reads 'Yasu software. Hello, world!'

People who know about these things are apparently speculating the hacker used a modified TIFF image file to cause a buffer overflow.

It's perhaps not surprising hackers have found a way to crack the DSi - but it's quite a feat to have done it so quickly.

Now we just have to wait to see how Nintendo will respond. The company hasn't confirmed or denied it will be bringing out regular firmware updates, similar to PSP. If it does, those hackers are going to be kept pretty busy from now on in.