JLHack7
11-30-2008, 09:10 PM
Public Service Announcement:
*DO NOT ENABLE AUTO WII UPDATES WITH THE NEW PATCH*
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Nintendo is apparently going out of their way to disable homebrew, because they want to take preventative measures against emulation
Since the Wii can not only play GC games, but it turns out, emulate old game code with the Virtual Console (as in, those games are modified versions of the originals, and most of their code is the same), hackers and programmers can easily make emulators for homebrew, since the Wii can already use most of the code
New Wii updates however, will be taking preventative measures against emulation, etc. The problem is, this also hurts our chances of creating legit homebrew.
In other words, they are stamping out all homebrew, even legal, to prevent people from doing the illegal.
So, if possible, WAIT TO UPDATE
There will always be hacks going around their patches, but those hacks take time, and as the fixes get tighter and tighter, more time will be required.
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Now to the stuff you came for:
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[WARNING: Using the "Twilight Hack" (Which I describe here) voids your warranty!]
Most Wii homebrew is launched through the homebrew channel, you're probably wondering, how do you get this?
I've done it, its quite easy
The minimum requirements (Stuff you ABSOLUTELY need)
A Wii, preferably new
An SD card (like, the ones you use with digital cameras)
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii version)
I don't have the time to post the full tutorial right now, so if someone else could, that'd be really really awesome.
But, here's the overview
There's an exploit in LoZ:TP, which involves using a hacked save, that makes Epona's name some long string of random characters in the save file. What this does, is make your Wii go like "OMGWTF?!?!?" and then crash, at which point homebrew can be launched directly from an SD card inserted into the Wii SD slot. The most common one is to use the HBC (Homebrew Channel) installer, allowing you to launch homebrew directly from the Wii Menu. (If you don't install the HBC, you probably will have to re-do the TP save exploit every time you want to launch a homebrew app, meaning you'll have to have Twilight Princess every time you want to run a homebrew app)
from the homebrew channel, you can put homebrew apps on an SD card and run them from the Wii menu. The hardest part is installing the HBC, from there its easy, once you figure out the HBC filesystem.
So, thats the gist of it. If someone would post a full tutorial, that would be great. For those of you who are tech savvy, you can just use Wikipedia and other resources, for those of you who don't know a byte from a string, you can wait, and one of us will soon get a step by step tutorial.
For those of you who get this joke, you might be tech savvy.
"There are 10 types of people in this world, those who know binary, and those who don't"
*DO NOT ENABLE AUTO WII UPDATES WITH THE NEW PATCH*
:\
Nintendo is apparently going out of their way to disable homebrew, because they want to take preventative measures against emulation
Since the Wii can not only play GC games, but it turns out, emulate old game code with the Virtual Console (as in, those games are modified versions of the originals, and most of their code is the same), hackers and programmers can easily make emulators for homebrew, since the Wii can already use most of the code
New Wii updates however, will be taking preventative measures against emulation, etc. The problem is, this also hurts our chances of creating legit homebrew.
In other words, they are stamping out all homebrew, even legal, to prevent people from doing the illegal.
So, if possible, WAIT TO UPDATE
There will always be hacks going around their patches, but those hacks take time, and as the fixes get tighter and tighter, more time will be required.
-----------------------------------
Now to the stuff you came for:
-----------------------------------
[WARNING: Using the "Twilight Hack" (Which I describe here) voids your warranty!]
Most Wii homebrew is launched through the homebrew channel, you're probably wondering, how do you get this?
I've done it, its quite easy
The minimum requirements (Stuff you ABSOLUTELY need)
A Wii, preferably new
An SD card (like, the ones you use with digital cameras)
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii version)
I don't have the time to post the full tutorial right now, so if someone else could, that'd be really really awesome.
But, here's the overview
There's an exploit in LoZ:TP, which involves using a hacked save, that makes Epona's name some long string of random characters in the save file. What this does, is make your Wii go like "OMGWTF?!?!?" and then crash, at which point homebrew can be launched directly from an SD card inserted into the Wii SD slot. The most common one is to use the HBC (Homebrew Channel) installer, allowing you to launch homebrew directly from the Wii Menu. (If you don't install the HBC, you probably will have to re-do the TP save exploit every time you want to launch a homebrew app, meaning you'll have to have Twilight Princess every time you want to run a homebrew app)
from the homebrew channel, you can put homebrew apps on an SD card and run them from the Wii menu. The hardest part is installing the HBC, from there its easy, once you figure out the HBC filesystem.
So, thats the gist of it. If someone would post a full tutorial, that would be great. For those of you who are tech savvy, you can just use Wikipedia and other resources, for those of you who don't know a byte from a string, you can wait, and one of us will soon get a step by step tutorial.
For those of you who get this joke, you might be tech savvy.
"There are 10 types of people in this world, those who know binary, and those who don't"