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Wii homebrew made dead simple

by JC Fletcher on Jul 28th 2008 10:30AM

If you've been too scared to try Wii homebrew in the past, you'll be interested in this latest project, which is sort of ... meta-homebrew. The Wii Pack Generator holds your hand through the process of downloading homebrew, making it as simple as clicking on some check buttons and unzipping a file.

The Wii Pack Generator allows you to choose the programs you'd like to install from a list, and then generates a self-extracting archive containing the Twilight Hack file, the Homebrew Channel installer, and the programs of your choice. All you have to do is extract it onto an SD card!

The most complicated part of this whole thing is figuring out who the participants are. This is a project of wiibrew.com, not the well-known wiibrew.org that runs the Wii homebrew wiki.

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Tags: homebrew-channel, twilight-hack, wii-pack-generator, wiibrew

Reader Comments (14)

I installed the channel two weeks ago. I thought it would be really difficult, but it was really easy. Now I've got region free and I can play US games sooner and faster than here in PAL land. I just haven't got round to ordering any new games yet.

I want a Wii Mame channel!

But aren't MAME dumps ridiculously huge?

It's really a question of whether you want to emulate Donkey Kong vs. Dance Dance Revolution. Picking and choosing could end up with a manageable file size for roms.

I would love to do this, but I am deathly afraid of bricking my Wii. I would NEVER forgive myself for doing that!

I'll probably wind up doing this when i go to Japan, either spring 2010 or spring 2011, just so i can keep up with purchases

Otherwise, i don't see the need. Emulation is objectionable and i haven't really seen a killer app for homebrew yet, though if they build an MPEG-2 reader for Wii (and thus DVD compatibility), i would jump on it

Quake runs surprisingly well on Wii.

For me the "Killer App" was a near-perfect homebrew freeloader, so I could start buying japanese games.

But you should be happy to know that some Wii hackers are working on a version of mplayer with DVD support for the Wii, and the hope to release it in a week or two.

You know the one thing stopping me from Wii Homebrew? The fact that I lost my SD card somewhere.

Everytime I learn about something that makes the homebrew process simpler its like I'm getting slapped in the face for my stupidity of losing it.

I just saw a 1gb card at target for 10 bucks, might be worth replacing it at that price.

I think the best option is to install the HomeBrew Channel as is, plus the HomeBrew Browser to manage apps directly from the Wii.

Wow!

I wanna start homebrew now!

So do I just go to the site, unzip the files, put them on my sd card, put them in my wii, and then I move the browser to the homepage? Or do I still have to do the twilight hack.

where can i buy a sd card already loaded? I don't have the ability to to do this and neither does my computer.

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