Take the SD card out and place it in the Wii SD card slot.
Copy the homebrew software onto the SD card. Ny netbooks come with SD card readers pre-installed. Place the SD card into your reader and format it.
Installing Homebrew for Free Wii Game Downloads
To install the Homebrew channel and download Wii games for free you will need: Systems upgrading to the 4.2 Wii firmware version may find that the console becomes useless if they have the owner has the Homebrew channel installed. Nintendo has made several efforts to stop the system from working on your computer. The lack of a warranty will not be a problem for older Wii owners. These changes invalidate Nintendo's warranty. Installing the Homebrew channel requires that the user make changes to the Wii’s firmware. => First install Priiloader for additional brick protection, then read up on MyMenuify, the app which allows you to change the system menu theme.The Homebrew channel offers many free Wii games that a user can download Some of the open source offerings rival commercial games.Guitar Fun lets users create their own Rockband and Guitar Hero style tracks. => Continue on to install a cIOS which will allow you to use these more advanced apps. I want to load backup games from a USB drive, install WADs: You can also view our Homebrew Channel page if you need help setting things up. => You are already done! Visit the list of Homebrew Applications on Wiibrew. I want to run basic homebrew applications: It mostly depends on what you want to do. If you don't want this, rename/move the "bootmii" folder on the SD card.Īlternatively, you can enable Wii menu auto-boot in the configuration file. If you installed BootMii as Boot2, the BootMii menu will appear every time you boot your Wii. You can learn about launching BootMii and making a backup on the BootMii page. This backup can be used to restore the Wii to a working state in case you brick it. If you installed BootMii, regardless whether it was as boot2 or IOS, it is recommended you use it to create a NAND backup. You can press Home to bring up the menu and reboot the Wii. Unless you already downloaded some apps, you will probably see just the background. It will automatically launch the Homebrew Channel. Once you're done, return to the Main menu and choose Exit. If you're one of the lucky winners, choose install BootMii as boot2, then Yes, continue and let it install.
In the HackMii main menu, choose BootMii. Optional (Recommended) Steps: Installing BootMiiīootMii is a helps greatly with Brick protection and it is highly recommended to install it. The Homebrew Channel will now be installed on your Wii. Now we get to the main menu, where we can install everything.įirst install the Homebrew Channel (choose Yes, continue).
If you see Can only be installed as an IOS, you can only get BootMii as IOS (which will give you NO brick protection on its own). If you see Can be installed, you can get BootMii as boot2 (which gives the best brick protection there is). Depending on your wii, it will show different things behind BootMii.