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#1 |
1/2 Optimist 1/2 Amazing
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Homebrew (Wii)
A potentially sensitive subject.
Just got the channel for the Wii and also a back up channel for....well back ups. Anyone else got the Homebrew channel? What do you use it for? THE OPTIMISTS! 'Seeing the light in bad booking' Current members: Dave Youell Alienoid06 Impact! The Optimist And our newest member: Helmsphere ![]() |
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#2 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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I have every NES game, a lot of Super Nintendo games, every Atari 2600 game, a few Genesis games and N64/PSX/Colecovision/a bunch of other emulators on it that either don't work yet or I have no roms for. It is amazing. Pretty much the primary reason I even use my Wii. Played through all of Earthbound using just the Wii Remote and now I'm doing A Link to the Past on it. There is supposed to be a way to play DVDs but I haven't figured out how to work that yet. And a lot of cool things to download from Homebrew Browser.
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#3 |
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Yeah, I read that there's a way to make it a dvd player
There's apps where you can use your wii mote as spirit level, why you would ever want that is beyond me. But still pretty cool |
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#4 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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Wii Strobe is the best possible use of the wii
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wekasauce
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Never even heard of this. Should probably use my Wii for more than just Guitar Hero and Smash Bros every 4 months prolly.
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#6 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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I only use the Homebrew to play backups.
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VALENTÍA
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All I have is a port of VisualBoyAdvance that I play Fire Pro Wrestling 2 on and Gecko OS to play my NTSC copy of Brawl. |
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#8 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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It's some emulator called WiiSX that probably shouldn't have even been released yet cause it doesn't work. They just updated it like two weeks ago but I don't think it even has an interface yet and my Wii froze when I tried to use it. But you can download ISOs to a folder and it's should be able to play them.
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#9 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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Also how do you do backups
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#10 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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I use a soft-mod called Softmii.
Download the install programs, put them on an SD card, put it in your Wii, and follow the instructions. |
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#11 |
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I got some shit that actually gives me a channel for back ups so I don't have to run stuff through an sd card.
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#12 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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The SD card is just for installing the necessary hacks.
Once it's installed, you don't need the SD card anymore. I can put in any backup and select it from the disc channel. |
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Selectively Social
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#14 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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It is that simple, but you can't update the Wii immediately until there's an OK from the soft mod developers because update might mess up the hack. But I haven't found a need to update my 3.2 firmware because I don't use WiiWare/VC/Wii Store anyway.
You can find the instructions and judge for yourself whether it's easy or not. Just search for "softmii" on Demonoid or wherever. |
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Yeah I downloaded some directions, and apparently I need to do everything from the ground up like the Twilight hack. I dunno, seems overwhelming. How are burning games? Any kind of special discs or burner I need?
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#16 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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DVD-R is best and burn as slowly as possible.
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#17 |
Spammy Certified
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I heard updates might brick your wii if you have homebrew
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#18 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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not homebrew channel. they will make it so you can't install it, but i think if you already have it then it won't do anything.
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I ended up downgrading the firmware first of all, there are ways to do it without the twilight hack |
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I'm on 4.0, so I'll have to do what you did I guess. I don't have Twilight, so I'll have to do it without it. Can you link me to the place where you got your info and instructions?
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Can someone walk me through how to do this Homebrew thing? I'd love to play emulators on the Wii, but I need to be clued in on how to do it
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#22 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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What system menu are you on? You can check in the settings.
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#23 |
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Ok I know how to, on any version, as this thing I got downgrades it
It took me ages, but I've got by far the simplest solution on how to make it work, but there's no way I'm putting it on here on the forum direct. As it's potentially bad for me legally PM me if you want details, if your a new poster that has less than 1000 posts, forget about it, your not getting it. |
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#24 |
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OK COOL
My Wii is "modded" now, thanks to Dave Youell. Now I play the waiting game for the shits to download. ![]() |
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I don't know what to do. I burned Resort and tried to load it. It came up with the 002 error, which I researched and they said use the GeckoOS with 002 fix. I don't know how that works. I cleaned my sd card, and put the Gecko wad in a folder named wad, and just have the wad manager 1.4 .dol by itself in the root of the sd card. What am I doing wrong?
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#26 |
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Okay Punch Out works fine. YouTubed like 423152 videos about 002 and finally found one with files and shit I could download. Used that, and have been fine. Resort is probably a bad iso or something. Gonna download a different copy.
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#27 |
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Hey, I have a question. Can I go online with this stuff installed? I unplugged the ethernet cable to be safe. Can I still go online with my real games like Mario Kart? If not, I'm probably gonna sell all my games if I can get the burnt ones to work and replace them.
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#28 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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You can go online with ANY game, retail or otherwise.
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#29 |
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So it's pretty much just system and game updates I need to watch out for? Nintendo doesn't do ban waves like Microsoft?
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The Satanic Mechanic
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We never really go online or any of that shit with our shit. I mean, it's broken but I know a guy who knows a guy that can fix our shit and hard mod it for a little extra. Worth it, you think?
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I'd say so. I don't go online either, just the Mario Kart back when it was released. I'm perfectly happy keeping it offline playing free games and shit.
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#32 |
The Satanic Mechanic
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Fuck Nintendo online. Also, just noticed that like every other word in my last post was "shit"
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#33 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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Was that a nigger moment?
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#34 |
The Satanic Mechanic
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No, I just use shit as a catch-all noun far too often. My cuss word vocabulary needs expanding.
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#35 |
Spammy Certified
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So wait is there a backup loader that plays games off your SD card? or you need the burnable DVD-R?
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#36 |
The Satanic Mechanic
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My brother is getting his Wii fixed and modded afterall.
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Unnecessarily awesome
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#38 |
Formerly Ġohâń3k
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so i had no idea about any of this, but seeing this thread made me search google and now i am playing all of my favourite SNES/N64/NES/Genesis games on my wii for free
tpww, i thank you. |
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#40 |
Unnecessarily awesome
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Love everyone EXCEPT you?
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