Modding Your Wii, And Wii Homebrew Guide (No Modchip Required)

Posted Apr 22, 2009 by zwrites / comments 1 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

This article is actually the table of contents for a series of articles that I am writing that covers a wide variety of ways that you can modify (mod) your Wii to break it out of its Nintendo-induced inhibitions. Unlinked Chapters = Unfinished. Please comment any input or ideas for more Chapters

Section One: Preperation

Chapter One: The Twilight Hack- Introduction to the most basic form of running Wii homebrew, and the break through that made unchipped modding possible.

Chapter Two: Installing the Homebrew Channel- Guide to installing the Homebrew Channel, a usefull tool that makes running homebrew as easy as one, two, thr... oh wait make that just one!

Chapter Three: Downgrading Your Wii's firmware to the Ideal version 3.2- Guide on how to downgrade your wii's firmware to system menu version 3.2, the ideal version for Wii homebrew

Chapter Four: Installing Starfall- A guide on how to install Starfall, an amazing utility that lets you play other reigon Wii and gamecube games and channels, recover a wii from becoming bricked (disfunctional) and the ability to bypass disc updates.

Chapter Six: The Homebrew Browser-  This nifty tool lets you get a lot of the Homebrew applications that you may need without even accessing your computer! Sweet!

Chapter Five: Guidelines: This will give some guidelines and basic information that will be useful to you in your homebrew career now that you have the backbone of Wii-Brewing installed and are about to dive into the new ways you can use your Wii.

Section Two: Applications

Chapter One: Running Wii Backups (Burned ISOs)- The wii cannot play games that have been burned from that you have ripped yourself or downloaded, so this guide will tell you how to setup and use Wii_Gator's Backup Launcher v.3 gamma to load your wii backups

Chapter Two: Backing Up and Running Wii Backups from a USB- If you don't want to burn your backups onto DVDs, and you feel the Wiis USB ports calling your name then this is the article for you.  It will explain how to backup and run backups from a USB flash drive or hard drive.

Chapter Two (Extension): Moving Wii Isos directly from PC to Hardrive- Need to move Wii Isos from your PC directly to your Wii.  Don't want to waste a DVD?  No problem, just read this.

Chapter Three A: Running Gamecube Backups- This will tell you how to use the everbrilliant Wii_Gator's gamecube launcher, and how to install it.

Chapter Three B: Burning Multi-ISO Gamecube games- While this subject is not directly related to Wii modding it is a very useful thing to do so that you do not end up wasting dvds by burning only 1.35 GB's onto a 4.7 GB disk.

Chapter Four: Playing DVD Movies on the Wii- This chapter will tell you how to accomplish the otherwise impossible feat of playing DVD videos on your Wii.

Chapter Five: Playing Music on your Wii-

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KNighthawKz
KNighthawKz said... on April 24th, 2009 at 8:24 PM

Great guide for modding wii!
thanks



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