The Wii Homebrew Guide For Dummies

Crank · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:52 pm�� Post subject:

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl.

Can't believe how quick and easy it is to get homebrew working on the Wii. Now for the fun and games of watching Nintendo try to kill it with each new update.

EDIT: Might have spoken too soon. Got HB Channel, no problems. Got USB loader on the channel, great. Now I can't install the dang file needed to make the USB loader work. Don't know if it's because I installed the HB after the lastest Wii update of not.

UPDATE: Success! I just got Sports Pack for Revolution... er, I mean Wii Sports, running off my HDD! No more disc swapping for me, yipee!

Cerebral · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:39 pm�� Post subject:

Note to dudes who want to keep a trace of homebrew on their Wiis - don't update to the new system menu 4.2. Updating is reported to delete the Homebrew Channel, BootMii, any custom IOS, and removes the BannerBomb exploit.

Pretty harsh stuff, given that basically no other system improvements are reported in the update other than homebrew removal.
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Luketheman5 · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:40 pm�� Post subject:

SumAznGuy · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:32 pm�� Post subject:

If you did update to 4.2, you backup channel will not work because it doesn't have the cIOS anymore. The only way to get everything back again is apparently with the Indiana Pwns exploit(I remember reading that it still works on 4.2, not entirely sure), but then again even with that exploit you might not be able to install homebrew channel and whatnot again....

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Luketheman5 · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:19 pm�� Post subject:

SumAznGuy · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:26 pm�� Post subject:

All your "backups" work through your backup launcher channel? That doesn't make any sense because the backup channel actually needs the cIOS to run the "backups"....or am i on a completely wrong tangent?
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Luketheman5 · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:50 pm�� Post subject:

Luketheman5 · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:31 pm�� Post subject:

Apparently this can reinstall HBC
http://bootmii.org/download

Not sure if it really can/how it works though, can anyone clarify?
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SumAznGuy · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:34 pm�� Post subject:

Basically u need an exploit to run that installer(IE: the boot.dol file). So you'll have to do a bit of googling to find out what exploits still work on 4.2 as apparently bannerbomb doesn't work. As i previously mentioned, the Indiana Pwns exploit might work (But then you need a copy of Lego Indy....), or maybe the Smashstack(or whatever its called) exploit (Which uses SSBB). I have no idea as i havn't updated to 4.2.
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StompBrother · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:14 pm�� Post subject:

Just a heads up that New Super Mario Bros Wii has the 4.2E update on it.* It greets you in the tiny channel window "SYSTEM UPDATE."

Since the game is released in our shores first, there's no info about it after googling. I bit the bullet and made sure everything is updated in my HBC. Ran the update and the progress bar just flew and about 5 seconds from clicking the update restarted the Wii. With everything intact and nothing updated beyond the last 4.2E update.

So if you already have 4.2E firmware, this is a safe update. But this is with my personal experience and might differ to yours. I "Safe Updated" my firmware as the posts I did above.

*Therefore, I assume the update on the disc is 4.2E.
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döppelgangbang · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:44 pm�� Post subject:

No such luck for me. I performed the safe update, then the HBC update, then th NSMB update, 5 seconds was all it took to de-HBC

This is why nintendo and I can never be lovers, only friends!

ManeKast · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:55 am�� Post subject:

Sweet as long as no Wii's are being bricked, my only fear is that. I am sure the homebrew channel folks will find a way to bring it back.
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Smurf80 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:02 am�� Post subject:

StompBrother · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:54 pm�� Post subject:

Smurf80 · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:35 pm�� Post subject:

Well I super keen to play NSMBW on my console so I guess I will try it over the weekend and post back here what the verdict is. If it does nerf my homebrew I won't be too upset as I only use it for import games and even then I have only bought 2. If it does screw it I will be posting in the for sale thread my NTSC games

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StompBrother · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:14 pm�� Post subject:

Yeah I was super keen to play NSMBWii as well only to see the system update logo.

It's a pity that I, you and a few others, actually just use HBC to play legit physical import games using the import loader that will get no PAL releases get a bum deal about it.

I still want to play my import copy of Capcom vs Tatsunoko and still thinking of importing non PAL released titles like Excitebots.
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SumAznGuy · Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:07 am�� Post subject:

^
iirc, excitebots had a PAL release, just not in Australia. So you'd just need to import a UK copy.
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StompBrother · Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:08 am�� Post subject:

I'd love to import a PAL copy, but Excitebots never came out in any PAL region. As far as I've researched, it's only been released in North America.
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Luketheman5 · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:19 pm�� Post subject:

I updated my Wii and all my homebrew seems to be working fine....except for my .WAD manager.
Does anyone know a working .WAD manager? Wanniko's 1.3 doesn't even boot and 1.5 freezes the second I tell it what IOS to use.
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ManeKast · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:23 pm�� Post subject:

Seems wad manager has been killed for now (its a piracy homebrew anyway, so beware of using it Nintendo's ne T&C's can shut down your Wii and brick it forever).
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Luketheman5 · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:30 pm�� Post subject:

Smurf80 · Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:10 pm�� Post subject:

I just did the NSMB update tonight and ill still have my homebrew channel

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Luketheman5 · Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:16 pm�� Post subject:

Nevermind guys, managed to get my Backup/WAD manager working on 4.2E with a lot of hard work and a headache

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Crank · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:56 pm�� Post subject:

Okay, so does anybody know of a good homebrew media player that can play DVDs from any region, or at least region 2?

Using Mplayer CE (with DVDX) and it is shit. Would probably work okay for playing a movie, but I'm trying to watch a TV show and can't seem to get past the first episode. There just doesn't seem to be any way to navigate to episode 2 and it is bloody frustrating...

plazma · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:18 pm�� Post subject:

Does anyone know of a way to use USB loaders on 4.2E?

I have tried multiple things a none works. my main problem seems to be deleting stubbed IOS's
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