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#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF HOW TO#
#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF INSTALL#
#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF SOFTWARE#
#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF ZIP#

Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess.

Have a favorite homebrew application for the Wii? We'd love to hear about it in the comments. Wondering what you can do with it once you have the Homebrew Channel installed? Well, for example, you can backup your Wii games to a hard drive for safe keeping and faster load times, play old-school games in emulation, and play DVD-backups without a modchip. 12:46pm to 1:15pm and we're done! Under 30 minutes, including stopping to take pictures. As you add applications they will appear here. During this screenshot our SD card was empty, thus the expansive bubbly-goodness of the default Homebrew screen. The Homebrew Channel runs applications out of the /YourSDCard/Apps/ folder. You can repeat the installation process for DVDx and BootMii if you desire.Īfter The Homebrew Channel finishes installing you'll be taken to the channel itself. You'll see the SUCCESS in cash-money-green when it is done installing.

Far faster than we were able to raise the camera to snap a picture.

#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF INSTALL#

Install The Homebrew Channel? Yes, Ma'am.Īfter you agree to install the The Homebrew Channel it usually installs in a matter of seconds. During testing we forgot to photograph this screen and hopped back into the installer to snap it. If this is your first time running the HackMii Installer you won't see the Uninstall option under any of the entries. On this menu you install or uninstall the respective tools. You can read more about it here and here, if you're curious. From this menu you can select whether or not you want to install The Homebrew Channel, DVDx, and/or BootMii-BootMii is a more advanced tool which you may or may not care to load, it's essentially a boot loader for the Wii that provides a more extensive "takeover" of the Wii than The Homebrew Channel. Press 1 to continue loading the exploit.Īt this point the exploit has been executed and the HackMii installer is the temporary operating system-think LiveCD-of the Wii.

#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF SOFTWARE#

Take a moment to be thankful for all the awesome people in the world that create and distribute the free and open-source software that makes our lives better. Not turning your Wii-hacking skills into a profit engine for global domination is a very altruistic thing to do. The Wii will ask you "Load boot.dol/elf?", click Yes. You won't be able to access it via the Save Data tab.Ĭlick on the SD card tab to load the exploit. Click on Data Management to access the next menu.Ĭlick on Channels to get to the SD card. Once you've clicked on the Wii icon, you'll be in the sub-menu seen above. You won't hurt your Wii, but the exploit won't work. DO NOT click on the SD card icon if you've got a newer or updated Wii with the 4.0 menu. Nothing special to see here except for the fact that it's been over a week since we've hopped on the Wii Fit.Ĭlick on the circular Wii icon in the lower left corner. Here we are at the initial main menu of the Wii. Once you have the files on the SD card, it's time to toss it in the Wii and boot up. Next, copy the installer.elf file from the HackMii installer onto the root of the SD card and rename it to boot.elf-as seen above.

#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF ZIP#

This should create a "private" directory with the contents of the zip file. If you're using an SD card you already use for the Wii, you'll need to rename the "private" directory to "privateold" for the duration of the hack.įirst, unzip the contents of the banner bomb exploit onto the card. You'll need to copy the files from your computer to the SD card. The following instructions are an expanded photo-pictorial version of the instructions found on the bannerbomb exploit author's site. During our field testing it took-not counting time to carefully read the instructions and take photographs-less than ten minutes to complete the process.įor this hack you'll need a Wii, an SD card formatted to FAT, a copy of the bannerbomb file (I've linked to the banner bomb exploit file that works for the most number of Wii units right out of the gate if it doesn't work for you, visit the main page and try some of the other versions), and the HackMii installer. How does it work? The hack exploits the Wii menu itself, loading a fake banner which causes a system crash and allows the exploit to load unsigned code. The bannerbomb exploit is the newest way to install the Homebrew Channel and works on the newest systems, unlike Twilight Princess-which has been a defunct hack since menu 4.0 was introduced.

#WII HOMEBREW BOOT.ELF HOW TO#

Last year we showed you how to use the Twilight Princess hack to install the Homebrew Channel and various goodies like DVD playback. Bummed because you've got a new Wii and the Twilight Princess hack won't work on it? Have an older Wii but you don't want to buy Twilight Princess just to install Homebrew? Try the free and easy bannerbomb exploit.