crispyben said:
I have TP, I know it involves installing the Homebrew Channel, but the whole picture just doesn't come together for me...
Don't sweat it. The
wiibrew wiki has a nice step-by-step walkthrough (and the file), but if you don't want to go there:
You'll need:
One freshly formatted (aka
empty) SD card - don't use a SDHC, the Wii can't read it!
One SD card reader/writer attached to ...
One PC connected to the net
One Wii (without any Gamecube memorycards inserted)
One copy of Twilight Princess
Basic understanding of stuff (Wii: managing savegames, PC: unpacking files, correctly unmounting flash drives, copying of files)
Hassle-free windows-only easy mode:
Go
here. Follow
these instructions and you're as good as done. Just don't erase the "apps" folder after you finish, since the homebrew browser sits there.
For everyone else (OS agnostic):
------START------
Step one (Wii):
Copy your original TP save to the SD card. If you don't have one, make one in the game. We just need to have had a TP savegame on the system once for technical reasons.
Step two (Wii):
Delete the TP savegame off the Wiis internal flash memory.
Step three (PC):
Take the SD card to your PC and copy the "private" folder on your SD card to your computer and keep it safe - your precious savegames are in there somewhere!
Step four (PC):
Delete the "private" folder off your SD card.
Step five (PC):
Acquire the Twilight hack zip file (e.g. at the
wiibrew wiki or the
hombrew channel site) and unpack it somewhere.
At the time of writing the file is called "twilight-hack-v0.1-beta1.zip".
Step six (PC):
Acquire the
Homebrew channel and unpack it somewhere.
At the time of writing the file is called "the_homebrew_channel-beta_8.tar.gz".
Step seven (PC):
Copy the "private" folder from the TP hack to your SD card.
Copy the Homebrew channel boot.dol (or boot.elf, doesn't matter) file to your SD card.
Look at your SD card. Its only contents are now:
One folder with the label "private" with a bunch of subfolders and files
One file called "boot.dol" (or "boot.elf")
Step eight (USA ONLY):
Look at your TP disk. Write down/memorize your version string which is on the inner circle of the data surface. It looks like this:
RVL-RZDE-0A-0 USA
RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA
Step nine (Wii):
Insert the SD card into your Wii and copy the TP hack savegame from the SD card to your Wiis internal memory.
There are two or three savegames available, one for EU, one for Japan and one for the USA - so copy the correct one.
Step ten (Wii):
Start Zelda TP and go to the load savegame screen.
EU/JP: There will be only one savegame available, so load that.
USA ONLY: You will find two savegames. Remember Step eight? If you have the 0A-0 version of TP, load the Twilighthack0 savegame, otherwise use the other savegame
You will start a seemingly normal game of TP. Walk towards the camera until you change the area, or talk to the guy in front of you.
Step eleven:
The screen will go black and a bunch of text will appear. Follow the instructions and you'll be fine. Installing the HBC only takes a moment, and afterwards your Wii has to reboot.
------FINISH------
Congrats, you're done.
Cleaning up
You may now safely erase the contents of the SD card and the Twilight hack savegame on your Wii.
Copy the "private" folder from step three to your SD card to be able to get your old Zelda savegame back.
What now?
After step eleven has been completed you'll have an empty homebrew channel without any apps on it. Kinda useless, eh?
To add apps:
- Make an "apps" folder on your SD card.
- Download the appropriate archive and unpack it on your PC
- Look for a folder containing "boot.dol" (or "boot.elf") and "meta.xml"
- Copy that directory into the apps folder on your SD card.
Easy peasy.
I'd recommend getting the Homebrew Browser as it makes all of that stuff hassle-free.
More PC-minded guys and gals may want to take a look at the awesome wiiload Win/Linux/OSX application included in the homebrew channel tar.gz file. It allows you to send Wii apps via the network to your Wii running the homebrew channel, so you won't ever need to do the SD card shuffle if you simply want to check out a Wii app.