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A few years ago I had seen my old roomate hack a Nintendo Wii. He hardware modded the thing, with a modchip installed physically inside the wii.
That small, warranty voiding modification, allowed you to play unsigned burned games. It was cool, except you still needed a dual layer burner and blank dual layer discs for some games. R4 Sdhc 3ds Dsi Dual Core Smart Update Kernel.
Fast forward a few years, my new redheaded roomie showed up with a brand new Black Nintendo Wii, fresh from the store. After a brief search on Google, I was informed that homebrew could be achieved via software modifications, provided you had an SD card. I also found out that the Wii can be modified to run games from an External USB Drive, provided you have the proper software on your computer. As if all that wasnt enough, once you’re done, the custom Homebrew Channel that will be installed on your wii allows you to download games other homebrew users have developed, all open sourcy.
Yes, free new crazy homebrewed games! If you’re the artistic type, after this lengthy tutorial, you can also download the wii dev kit and make your very own wii games. All without opening up the wii or buying one spendy dual layer disc. If you’re familiar with iDevice jailbreaking, Wii homebrew is basically Cydia. And the Bannerbomb wii exploit was actually written by the same guy who wrote the iPad Spirit Jailbreak.
Small world huh? BTW: This tutorial applies to versions of the Wii System Menu ranging from 3.0 to 4.2. Required materials: – Learn Your Wii’s Version! Go to your wii settings menu and you should see the number in the Top right hand corner.
Depending on your Wii’s number, the unlocking process will be different. This Wii is fresh from a store in the Midwest, and came preinstalled with 4.2. Chances are, if you have bought a Wii recently, you’re going to have 4.2. (I believe it or (4.1) came out in sept 2009). All versions can be unlocked, its up to you to figure out what way to go about it. – SD CARD Most guides will tell you to use a 2 gig card or less.
Although, reportedly, the new Wii’s can handle over a 2gig SD card, but its really not that important. We are only using this to unlock the wii, not load games from it. Personally, I used a 2gig card that cost like pennies at the store.
They are practically giving those things away these days. – USB Hard Drive This can be any size.
Keep in mind that Wii games average about 4 Gigs a piece, so if you planning on collecting a few, you’ll want something decent size. Also, to really test things out, I used an enclosure and an old IDE 200 gig 3.5 inch desktop computer harddrive. Still worked perfect. So, pretty much any form of USB hard drive you can come up with should work. (ALSO format it to Fat32, more on that later) – Software HackMii Homebrew Installer: Download this from BannerBomb: (make sure you get the right version for your wii) USB Loader Software: (You’ll want to unzip this to the root of your SD Card after you’ve performed the exploit) Both of these are zip files. Both of these need to go on your SD Card. But for now, just unpack both of them somewhere you’ll remember.