Please note that this is not running in full Wii U mode running this on a Wii U will probably work just like on a Wii. The currently used IOS exploit is courtesy of tueidj. They also blocked our old title ID. Consequently, we have a new release with a new version of The Homebrew Channel this will install on both Wii consoles, and inside the virtual Wii sandbox inside the Wii U. There never was a Wii system update for this, the fixed IOS versions can only be found on a Wii U. Update: HackMii Installer v1.2 with The Homebrew Channel v1.1.2 now available, see belowĪnother year, another console, another Hackmii Installer!ĭespite all of the anti-reverse-engineering tricks we put into our last installment of the HackMii Installer, Nintendo managed to find the IOS exploit we used to install The Homebrew Channel and fix it sometime within the last two years. The Title ID has been changed, so you can install it without clobbering your official Homebrew Channel (though telling them apart in the menu might be tricky!). This is the code that the millions of users of The Homebrew Channel are running on their consoles.Īs a bonus, this code includes the fix for vWii aspect ratio on Wii U. We’ve kept it maintained over the various releases, and we’ve done some very minor cleanup to this release to bring it up to date with the latest version of the toolchain and remove “security” bits no longer relevant to an open source release, but other than that, what you see is what you get. Keep in mind that, since this was never developed in public, you’ll probably find embarrassing things in the source code.

Bushing, in particular, always championed for this. However, the plan was always to eventually open source it. And, to be fair, the code is definitely not as pretty as what you get when running it. But we didn’t want it to become an instant base for quick hacks and mods and endless cheap variations, and we also didn’t think proliferation of installable “channels” on the Wii is a good idea: we still think it makes much more sense to have one entry point into the homebrew ecosystem, and then launch everything else from there (among other things, because it’s easy to brick a Wii by installing things into NAND). We hoped it would inspire other software to aspire to a similar level of quality. When we built HBC, we always wanted it to serve as a reference for what homebrew software should look like: good design, professional-looking, user friendly, stable, safe, and supporting features such as network connectivity. We thought we’d dust off the blog with a little birthday present: the source code for The Homebrew Channel. Last weekend was the 10-year anniversary of the Nintendo Wii.

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