re: CRC algorithm
It is the standard CRC32 (ie. if it works the first time and after a single byte modification, it should work all the time)

re: WiiBrew vs. PC
The more approaches the merrier.

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Semi related: For anyone who hasn't seen it already, check out http://www.kurtboyer.com/guides/Anim...k/StalkMarket/

This is a pure "black box" approach to analyzing the game. What is going on inside the game is a mystery. And the results are not perfect.

In comparison, what we usually do on this forum is "white box" (ACToolkit, Turnip WiiBrew or runtime cheat codes). When you know what is going on inside the game you can change it to make it do what you want with 100% reliability (give or take bugs, or misunderstandings of how things work)

To the credit of the Nintendo engineers, the "stalk market" part of the game has got a lot of people thinking of ways to cheat it (with or without hacking ;-).