[Christine]

Okay, so I installed 249 rev20 in slots 248/247 and 222/223 in slot 224. Configurable says that 249 isn't installed, even though I added the appropriate argument to sd:/apps/Usb-loader/meta.xml

Edit: nevermind, I broke the </arguments> tag by accident. All good now.

[harriet the spy]

This is a random question, inspired by all the trepidation regarding NoA's decision to translate or not games. When I first installed the homebrew channel a while ago (or something related to the homebrew channel, probably the usb loader), the installer asked me a question to the tune of 'are you going to use this for pirated games as well, or only to install your own games on disk?'. As a shining beacon of honesty (:)), I chose the second option. But I was wondering - if there was a fan translation I was interested in (for instance, I might import Fatal Frame 4), can you patch the game without having activated that piracy option or whatever?

Hopefully NoA will decide to bring Last Story and Xenoblade over so that my question is moot.

[Clipper]

This is a random question, inspired by all the trepidation regarding NoA's decision to translate or not games. When I first installed the homebrew channel a while ago (or something related to the homebrew channel, probably the usb loader), the installer asked me a question to the tune of 'are you going to use this for pirated games as well, or only to install your own games on disk?'. As a shining beacon of honesty (:)), I chose the second option. But I was wondering - if there was a fan translation I was interested in (for instance, I might import Fatal Frame 4), can you patch the game without having activated that piracy option or whatever? Hopefully NoA will decide to bring Last Story and Xenoblade over so that my question is moot.

I'm surprised how many people this tricks on both sides of the argument. Having written that app, I can tell you exactly what that option does. If you pick the piracy option, it undoes what it just did, deleting IOS236 from your Wii and then chastises you for being a pirate. If you try to immediately rerun the app, it remembers your previous response and chastises you even further for attempting such a thing.

Even if you turn the Wii off and then back on, it remembers how many times you have tried to run it and refuses to do anything else. It also stalls your Wii for a longer period each time before returning to the HBC. It is rather easy to fool the app, but I do enjoy the occasional heated private message or post on the GWHT forums from some stupid pirate who was too stupid to figure it out.

[Netto-kun]

Without thinking I accidentally updated the official Wii firmware when I was testing the internet connection for my Wii. Noticed that CFG USB Loader didn't load, so I looked around the Wiki as usual and thought I had solved all the stuffs (did the meta.xml thingy as well).

However, upon trying to actually start a game (Xenoblade in this case), I kept getting the "Custom IOS 249 is a stub! Please reinstall it." message even though I already did all the previous requirements. When I tried to start Wii Sports, I got this following message

[+] Booting Wii game, please wait... IOS(249). [+]ERROR: Custom IOS 249 could not be loaded! (ret = -6)

After that the Wii freezes so I have to do a hard reset in order to restart it. I've tried to search around for possible solutions (maybe I haven't searched good enough), but couldn't find anything that was similar to the problem I am having right now. Is there something I forgot to look into?

EDIT: Uh wow, guess I just had to change the IOS in "Option" for games from 249 to 248....now I feel stupid. >_>

[Clipper]

EDIT: Uh wow, guess I just had to change the IOS in "Option" for games from 249 to 248....now I feel stupid. >_>

Yeah, you must have previously saved settings for that game while it was set to 249.

[tim1138]

Trying to download 236 and 249 to set up the USB Loader and the links are bad. Anywhere else to get them?

[Black Republican]

i've had hombrew setup on my wii for over a year now, great stuff, but im just wondering, as i live in the uk and will be moving to canada soon, since the voltage is obviously different, will buying this universal power cable be ok?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AC-Adapter-Pow...item2561c47f8b

[Battersea Power Station]

i've had hombrew setup on my wii for over a year now, great stuff, but im just wondering, as i live in the uk and will be moving to canada soon, since the voltage is obviously different, will buying this universal power cable be ok? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AC-Adapter-Pow...item2561c47f8b

American adapters for most modern electronics are set up to work with ~100 V - ~240 V. Are you sure yours isn't the same? Check the brick.

However, not having to use a plug adapter might be worth the 8 bucks. Yeah, that will work in US / Canada.

[Christine]

I'm surprised how many people this tricks on both sides of the argument. Having written that app, I can tell you exactly what that option does. If you pick the piracy option, it undoes what it just did, deleting IOS236 from your Wii and then chastises you for being a pirate. If you try to immediately rerun the app, it remembers your previous response and chastises you even further for attempting such a thing. Even if you turn the Wii off and then back on, it remembers how many times you have tried to run it and refuses to do anything else. It also stalls your Wii for a longer period each time before returning to the HBC. It is rather easy to fool the app, but I do enjoy the occasional heated private message or post on the GWHT forums from some stupid pirate who was too stupid to figure it out.

It's just so goddamn tempting. I used the program recently, and even though I already knew that it was a boobytrap, I felt like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DUmoJNQK2o

[JoshuaJSlone]

I'm surprised how many people this tricks on both sides of the argument. Having written that app, I can tell you exactly what that option does. If you pick the piracy option, it undoes what it just did, deleting IOS236 from your Wii and then chastises you for being a pirate. If you try to immediately rerun the app, it remembers your previous response and chastises you even further for attempting such a thing. Even if you turn the Wii off and then back on, it remembers how many times you have tried to run it and refuses to do anything else. It also stalls your Wii for a longer period each time before returning to the HBC.

You must be Mr. Resetti's star pupil!

[PC Gaijin]

So I dug up my Wii after not playing for over a year (no joke). Since I finally have broadband again, I got the Wii online and figured I would update everything online (I had always upgraded manually before). My homebrew install is ancient, and rather than reading up on current events I just tried blindly updating everything. Oops. Black screen on boot up. Thinking I had bricked the Wii I started fooling around with the SD card and got a green screen on boot up. Erhm. Time to actually read up on everything again. Anyway, I got it all sorted by manually reinstalling the HBC, Bootmii, etc. Thanks for the guide everyone that contributed. Certainly saved me a lot of headache today.

This is making me dread seeing what I have to do to get my PSP up to date (just got Tactics Ogre the other day). Same situation the homebrew install on it is ancient because I rarely use it.

[cool_dude_2049]

So I dug up my Wii after not playing for over a year (no joke). Since I finally have broadband again, I got the Wii online and figured I would update everything online (I had always upgraded manually before). My homebrew install is ancient, and rather than reading up on current events I just tried blindly updating everything. Oops. Black screen on boot up. Thinking I had bricked the Wii I started fooling around with the SD card and got a green screen on boot up. Erhm. Time to actually read up on everything again. Anyway, I got it all sorted by manually reinstalling the HBC, Bootmii, etc. Thanks for the guide everyone that contributed. Certainly saved me a lot of headache today. This is making me dread seeing what I have to do to get my PSP up to date (just got Tactics Ogre the other day). Same situation the homebrew install on it is ancient because I rarely use it.

I have a really old homebrew channel and I want to uninstall everything so i can get netflix going. Can I just delete the channels and upgrade my Wii firmware or do I have to do something else?

[Dacvak]

I started getting an error on my Wii that says "The system files are corrupted". 90% of the time, my Wii won't boot up.

I do have a theme installed (DarkWii), but it's been installed for, like, two years. I haven't done anything mod-wise with my Wii for at least a year, and this problem just cropped up out of nowhere.

Any ideas?

[Clipper]

I have a really old homebrew channel and I want to uninstall everything so i can get netflix going. Can I just delete the channels and upgrade my Wii firmware or do I have to do something else?

Even if you don't want it any more, the safest way to upgrade is to upgrade the homebrew stuff first and then upgrade the Wii normally. The HBC is the only really important thing to keep, so just follow those steps and then upgrade.

I started getting an error on my Wii that says "The system files are corrupted". 90% of the time, my Wii won't boot up. I do have a theme installed (DarkWii), but it's been installed for, like, two years. I haven't done anything mod-wise with my Wii for at least a year, and this problem just cropped up out of nowhere. Any ideas?

Remove the theme and do a firmware upgrade.

[Vic]

Hey guys.

I've successfully installed the Homebrew Channel with the LEGO Batman exploit. What to do next?

I'm looking at the whole cIOS thing but it leave me confused.

[Stumpokapow]

Hey guys. I've successfully installed the Homebrew Channel with the LEGO Batman exploit. What to do next? I'm looking at the whole cIOS thing but it leave me confused.

Install IOS236
http://gwht.wikidot.com/ios236

Install IOS249
http://gwht.wikidot.com/ios249

Install Configurable USB Loader
http://gwht.wikidot.com/usb-loader

[Johnny]

Quick question, has anyone been working on MAME/NEO GEO/CPS emulators lately?

[Alextended]

Has anyone made a YouTube application for Wii? Going to YouTube XL from the browser is too much for little old Wii, it just goes so slow and the frame rate suffers in videos, especially if you view them fullscreen. Viewing YouTube videos via WiiMC however shows that the system can handle the videos themselves OK, even in fullscreen. But searching for stuff isn't very intuitive on WiiMC so if there's a dedicated application that mimics the YouTube site layout in its sorting and search functions, that'd be awesome.

[slaughterking]

I just installed all that homebrew stuff and the USB loader, because judging from the sound my DVD drive started to make I don't think it would've lived much longer under normal conditions.
Now with the USB loader installed my DVD drive is relieved and my Wii is amazingly quiet, too. It's pretty awesome. :3

/edit/ Also thanks to everyone who did the Wiki. It's more or less foolproof I'd say.

/edit2/ And everything is loading so fast. It's magical. :0

[Black Republican]

is there an application that allows me to scrub all of the homebrew stuff off the wii completely?

[slaughterking]

I think BootMii does that.

[Starwolf_UK]

is there an application that allows me to scrub all of the homebrew stuff off the wii completely?

Depends on what you've installed really. The homebrew channel and bootmii have removal options, I think. As for cIOS, IOS249 will be stubbed if you run a firmware update/run an update off a recent disc but other slots will stay.

[EvilMario]

is there an application that allows me to scrub all of the homebrew stuff off the wii completely?

If you're terrified because you're taking your Wii in for repair, don't be. We took our Wii into a Nintendo Repair Facility with Homebrew just sitting on the Wii Menu, and they didn't care.

[hikarutilmitt]

Finally got my ass in gear and converted my wbfs drive to FAT32. Was actually painless to do, though I left it as FAT32 instead of NTFS because I wanted to use it for homebrew as well.

Can I force all of the apps to load from the USB drive instead of the SD card? I imagine it should be as simple as copying the folder(s) to the USB drive and HBC will find it all itself, but would it break anything?

[Clipper]

Finally got my ass in gear and converted my wbfs drive to FAT32. Was actually painless to do, though I left it as FAT32 instead of NTFS because I wanted to use it for homebrew as well. Can I force all of the apps to load from the USB drive instead of the SD card? I imagine it should be as simple as copying the folder(s) to the USB drive and HBC will find it all itself, but would it break anything?

Most things work fine off the hard drive, so go ahead. Only really old apps would fail.

[Foov]

I've been having some freezing up problems with CFG USB loader - games and even the usb menu seem to hang every now and then - I'm using a 500gb portable WD hard drive currently - for example was playing SMG2 and while I was in a level noticed that the music suddenly went away, I could keep playing the level just fine but as soon as I exited the thing crashed. Should I just get another hard drive and transfer my data onto it,and if so whats the best one to try?

[Clipper]

I've been having some freezing up problems with CFG USB loader - games and even the usb menu seem to hang every now and then - I'm using a 500gb portable WD hard drive currently - for example was playing SMG2 and while I was in a level noticed that the music suddenly went away, I could keep playing the level just fine but as soon as I exited the thing crashed. Should I just get another hard drive and transfer my data onto it,and if so whats the best one to try?

That sounds like spindown. Try other IOSes and see if they handle your drive better. Also, I think WD drives have a tool you can use to disable spindown, so search for that in Google.

Also, make sure you have everything upgraded.

[User Name Here]

Does Netflix work on a modded wii?

[Clipper]

Does Netflix work on a modded wii?

Yes.

[whitehawk]

So I installed red steel 2, but whenever I Truro launch it it just boots me back to the who menu? Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Edit: also it wouldn't download the covers for the game, can I manually add the covers?

[Boney]

Is there any specific HDD to get or will mostly any work well?

[slaughterking]

Any should work. Even the formatting is rather secondary and I'm actually just using a random USB flash drive I had lying around.

[nincompoop]

So I installed red steel 2, but whenever I Truro launch it it just boots me back to the who menu? Can anyone tell me what's wrong? Edit: also it wouldn't download the covers for the game, can I manually add the covers?

IIRC you need to boot it with the alternate .dol the first time you play it so you can watch some boring tutorial on how to use motion plus. Then once you watched that you should be able to boot it normally.

[whitehawk]

IIRC you need to boot it with the alternate .dol the first time you play it so you can watch some boring tutorial on how to use motion plus. Then once you watched that you should be able to boot it normally.

Thank you :)

[bumpkin]

I'm thinking about installing the homebrew channel and trying my hand at some Wii dev, but I have one huge concern... Will I have to worry about my Wii getting bricked?

[Clipper]

IIRC you need to boot it with the alternate .dol the first time you play it so you can watch some boring tutorial on how to use motion plus. Then once you watched that you should be able to boot it normally.

Even easier method is just to play the disc once. I don't generally give out the alternate .dol approach as only pirates actually need that one.

I'm thinking about installing the homebrew channel and trying my hand at some Wii dev, but I have one huge concern... Will I have to worry about my Wii getting bricked?

Not if you follow this:

[velvet_nitemare]

Out of curiosity, is there a way to put gamecube games on USBloader? Moving in a few weeks, gonna box the non-essentials in storage and if i can get away with leaving the GCN discs behind i'll go for it. Not sure how much i'll actually play them, but it's nice to have the option lol

[Clipper]

Out of curiosity, is there a way to put gamecube games on USBloader? Moving in a few weeks, gonna box the non-essentials in storage and if i can get away with leaving the GCN discs behind i'll go for it. Not sure how much i'll actually play them, but it's nice to have the option lol

There was an attempt at it, but it doesn't work very well and isn't worth trying.

Just get yourself a disc wallet that can hold smaller discs, maybe.

[mikespit1200]

Is there a decent PSX emulator yet?

[nincompoop]

WiiSX beta 2.1 works well, but the compatibility is a bit lacking. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiSX/Compatibility

[bumpkin]

Not if you follow this:

I must be dumber than the average homebrew newbie... So many different permutations depending upon what I want to be able to do (or not do), and I'm not really sure which set of instructions I should follow. It looks as though there is some degree of overlap in the subsequent instructions after "Would you like to upgrade your Wii firmware in a safe way that avoids the risk of the official Nintendo update?" Is that the best/most versatile process to follow?

[Clipper]

I must be dumber than the average homebrew newbie... So many different permutations depending upon what I want to be able to do (or not do), and I'm not really sure which set of instructions I should follow. It looks as though there is some degree of overlap in the subsequent instructions after "Would you like to upgrade your Wii firmware in a safe way that avoids the risk of the official Nintendo update?" Is that the best/most versatile process to follow?

Is your Wii on old firmware still (We're talking about not updating in two years or so here)? If so, that would help, otherwise, you're good.

The choices on that page that has confused you aren't mutually exclusive. Going through one set of instructions won't block you from doing another at a later time. The minimum you need for Wii dev is to just install the Homebrew Channel. You'll then get the rest of your info from wiibrew.org and devkitpro.org. The only other big choice is if you want to do USB loading too, at which point you would follow those steps.

[bumpkin]

Is your Wii on old firmware still (We're talking about not updating in two years or so here)? If so, that would help, otherwise, you're good. The choices on that page that has confused you aren't mutually exclusive. Going through one set of instructions won't block you from doing another at a later time. The minimum you need for Wii dev is to just install the Homebrew Channel. You'll then get the rest of your info from wiibrew.org and devkitpro.org. The only other big choice is if you want to do USB loading too, at which point you would follow those steps.

Yeah, it's a bit confusing to the un-aquainted. I've never tried to do anything firmware related to any of my consoles. The closest I've come was a mod chip in my original PlayStation. Even that sketched me out a little.

My main concern is I don't want to compromise anything I have from the Wii Shop or lose the ability to use the shop going forward or play Wii games online (though that's a rare occasion). I double checked and my firmware is up-to-date as far as I know... Version 4.3U. I'm not looking to be able to USB load if I can just put my homebrew on an SD card and load it that way.

I was in the process of following these steps but stopped prior to installing anything after I saw all the instruction variations on the wikidot page. :-/

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup

[Clipper]

Yeah, it's a bit confusing to the un-aquainted. I've never tried to do anything firmware related to any of my consoles. The closest I've come was a mod chip in my original PlayStation. Even that sketched me out a little. My main concern is I don't want to compromise anything I have from the Wii Shop or lose the ability to use the shop going forward or play Wii games online (though that's a rare occasion). I double checked and my firmware is up-to-date as far as I know... Version 4.3U. I'm not looking to be able to USB load if I can just put my homebrew on an SD card and load it that way. I was in the process of following these steps but stopped prior to installing anything after I saw all the instruction variations on the wikidot page. :-/ http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup

USB loading refers to retail games copied over from discs, not homebrew stuff. You can load homebrew stuff off the SD or hard drive by only installing the Homebrew Channel. Nothing on the GAF Wiki will make it so that you can't update the Wii Shop in future, and there are even instructions there for updating the Wii Shop. Finally, unlike other systems, none of the steps in the GAF Wiki update your firmware with anything apart from official Nintendo stuff. You have the option of installing some extra modules if you want USB Loading, but you don't modify anything from Nintendo's version.

Long story short, it sounds like all that you want is the Homebrew Channel. You'll also need a method to launch the HBC installer. YOu can ignore everything else.

[bumpkin]

USB loading refers to retail games copied over from discs, not homebrew stuff. You can load homebrew stuff off the SD or hard drive by only installing the Homebrew Channel. Nothing on the GAF Wiki will make it so that you can't update the Wii Shop in future, and there are even instructions there for updating the Wii Shop. Finally, unlike other systems, none of the steps in the GAF Wiki update your firmware with anything apart from official Nintendo stuff. You have the option of installing some extra modules if you want USB Loading, but you don't modify anything from Nintendo's version. Long story short, it sounds like all that you want is the Homebrew Channel. You'll also need a method to launch the HBC installer. YOu can ignore everything else.

Ah, alright. Thanks for distilling it down for me. :) I'll have to give it a whirl sometime this week.

One last Q... As far as you know, is it possible to configure an IDE to let me write and compile code (for Wii homebrew) with a Mac? I saw a link on wiibrew.org mentioning Eclipse on Linux.

[Clipper]

Ah, alright. Thanks for distilling it down for me. :) I'll have to give it a whirl sometime this week. One last Q... As far as you know, is it possible to configure an IDE to let me write and compile code (for Wii homebrew) with a Mac? I saw a link on wiibrew.org mentioning Eclipse on Linux.

Well, it's just standard C/C++, so you should be able to configure any IDE to work with it. I use Visual C++ for my coding stuff, but I just use gcc in cygwin to compile.

[bumpkin]

Well, it's just standard C/C++, so you should be able to configure any IDE to work with it. I use Visual C++ for my coding stuff, but I just use gcc in cygwin to compile.

Ah, yeah. That makes sense then I guess. The only thing I'll have to figure out then (after getting my IDE configured) is how to test early-ish builds without having to play musical SD card. :) Not too long ago I discovered that there's a build of Dolphin for Mac OSX, but I never had much luck getting it going; the .dol file I used to test could have easily been built wrong or missing assets though.

[Clipper]

Ah, yeah. That makes sense then I guess. The only thing I'll have to figure out then (after getting my IDE configured) is how to test early-ish builds without having to play musical SD card. :) Not too long ago I discovered that there's a build of Dolphin for Mac OSX, but I never had much luck getting it going; the .dol file I used to test could have easily been built wrong or missing assets though.

Part of the hackmii installer which installs the HBC for you is a program called wiiload, and they include an osx version. With your Wii idling in the HBC, you can use wiiload to send a binary to the HBC to be executed. You can even use command line arguments while doing this. This should eliminate musical SD cards and you can do your testing directly on the Wii.

[Like the hat?]

Sorry if this has been answered, or if it goes over any lines. I couldn't find anything on the wiki about it.

I was wondering if there is any Wii homebrew that I can use to back up gamecube games to sd or a USB hard drive. I don't want to play the backed up files on my Wii, I want to try messing around with Dolphin on my PC.

Mostly I am trying to play SMS and the jaggies are killing me (I didn't remember them being this bad) - I'm wondering if I can get it smoother looking on Dolphin.

Also is there any concern with installing a configurable usb loader forwarding channel? I know there used to be, but that was quite a while back. I've been on a virgin wii for a while

By the way, thanks Clipper, the tutorial is great. I was at stock 4.3U and not even 20 minutes later, I had HBC and CFG USB Loader set up.

[Clipper]

Sorry if this has been answered, or if it goes over any lines. I couldn't find anything on the wiki about it. I was wondering if there is any Wii homebrew that I can use to back up gamecube games to sd or a USB hard drive. I don't want to play the backed up files on my Wii, I want to try messing around with Dolphin on my PC. Mostly I am trying to play SMS and the jaggies are killing me (I didn't remember them being this bad) - I'm wondering if I can get it smoother looking on Dolphin. Also is there any concern with installing a configurable usb loader forwarding channel? I know there used to be, but that was quite a while back. I've been on a virgin wii for a while By the way, thanks Clipper, the tutorial is great. I was at stock 4.3U and not even 20 minutes later, I had HBC and CFG USB Loader set up.

I added a page for the forwarder a long while back. That one is safe.

As for ripping GameCube games, there's an app called CleanRip that I believe does the job quite well.