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[DeVS]

Here is a video preview of it:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op1V5eWpTQQ[/youtube]

Here is what the banner thats missing from the first video looks like:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGeMP1zsW2I[/youtube]

This allows you to place your Wii homebrew apps in an "apps" folder on your SD card and launch them from the SD card, no need to install the wads, no need to load up Zelda Twilight Princess to load homebrew! This thing looks professionally made and works perfectly. Makes the Wii's menu nice and clean since you no longer need to install the all the emus to your Wii for easy access. The Wii Homebrew Channel can also update itself through the Wii's Wifi if you have it turned on. Be sure to take out any GameCube Memory cards or else you could receive an error when trying to launch apps.

You can read an FAQ on it and download it at the official site here: http://hbc.hackmii.com/

Also GBATemp has a great post going of apps with banners you can add to your "apps" folder here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=87796

The Wii Homebrew Channel is the end all be all must have piece of Wii Homebrew. It's the next best thing to a custom firmware right now!

[onekelly]

this is great! Will this load the newly released VC and wiiware? Looked into this further. Better question, it appears that you can use this app to load wad (wiiware and vc) with this program, is that true?

[DeVS]

You put the already released Wad Installer in the "apps" folder on the root of your SD card and then it will be listed with a banner when you start the Homebrew Channel. just click Wad Installer and it launches it. Same thing for Wad Uninstaller, just get the version from the GBATemp link above and put it in your "apps" folder then you will have Wad Uninstaller too.

[onekelly]

When i try the wad manager from the homebrew channel, it say 'loading wad manager' and never gets past 0%. what am i doing wrong? (no apps are currently working for me).

[DeVS]

Do you have them in an "apps" folder on the root of you memory card and are you using the version made for the Homebrew Channel here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=87796

[onekelly]

yes, they are in the same root folder in apps, and made sure to reformat memory card(FAT). only thing is that i do not have internet access on. Trying savegame extractor from the gbatemp thread. Stalls out at 0%


FIXED: Forgot to remove the GC memory cards!

[DeVS]

Ahh ya I remember reading people having that problem. I put that in the main post to remind people.

[zektor]

Ok, just about to jump in to the homebrew Wii scene, but before I do:

I already have what I need to do (and the stuff I need) to install this homebrew channel. I do not need any help in that area. But, I am kind of confused as to the whole WAD thing. Now, I have some wad files here that I plan on trying out, but with the homebrew channel how does this work? Will it just boot up a said wad file right from the SD card? Or am I to use the homebrew channel to install a wad installer, which I will then use to *install* the wad? And if so, which wad installer/uninstaller package from the link above? There seems to be a few there...

I am kind of hoping for the earlier I spoke of (homebrew channel directly loading wad files from SD card with no need to install) but again, I have yet to do any of this and am just gathering a wii bit (dump pun!) of information before I hack my beautiful $250 machine

[DeVS]

You must install .wad files to the Wii, they can not be ran off a SD card. Download the Homebrew Channel app called Wad Manager and put it in the apps folder. Then put any wad you want to install in a folder called wad on the root of your SD card. Start your wii, start the homebrew channel, select and run Wad Manager from your list of apps, then do as Wad Manager says to install the wad. Use your D pad to select the wad you want to install and hit + on the Wiimote to start the install. I did notice that while it was installing a wad the text ran off the bottom of the screen instead of scrolling down when the text got to long to display on the screen, but this was only during installing a wad, once the wad was installed it scrolled down so you could see it was installed. I was worried my Wii hung up during installation, so if it happens to you just give it a sec and let it finish installing the wad. To uninstall a wad just choose the wad from the Wad Manager and hit - on your Wiimote to uninstall that wad.

[anton]

What's the selfdisc booting image for?

[fexo]

Has anyone checked out the N64 comapability? This would be the only thing which it would be needed for (the N64 Wads were taking up too much space). For the new video at Wiibrew.org it the splash screen for the N64 emulator suggests that it isn't great.

[onekelly]

n64 is at half speed at the moment. It is still early in development(my info is from tehskeen latest news on n64 and emu_kidid).

[dantheman]

Just out of curiosity from a non-Wii owner:  is N64 emulation done via a homebrew emulator or by injecting our own games into the official VC N64 emulator?

[DeVS]

Both. There is a new N64 emu that had been in development for awhile, but now we can also inject VC N64 wads with our own N64 games.

[fexo]

The advantage of the emulator is that the games can be run from the SD card (at least I'm assuming/hoping that this is the way it works); in contrast the Wii system memory is rapidly consumed if you start putting the N64 wads onto the console. A 1gb card is equivalent to about 7,000 memory blocks on the Wii and so could accomodate about 35-40 N64 games.

(What has amazed me is the size of the save file for SSBB, which is almost as big as some of the N64 games at 130 blocks!)