Saturday, October 10, 2009

GAMING-Modding Your Wii Part 1 (The Homebrew Channel)

Posted on 5:28 PM by TechAddict

INSTALLING HOMEBREW CHANNEL

TOOLS NEEDED- Wii Console, SD Card, SD Card Reader, Computer.

-Install "Bannerbomb" to your computer desktop(Link Provided) NOTE!- Go Into your Wii setting beforehand and in the top right hand corner take note of your wii system's version. (Ex. 3.0-4.1 or 4.2)
As well as the Letter next to wii system's version (Ex. 4.1U or 4.1E) The letter stand for the region of your wii consoles version I will explain this later in another post for now just take note of version.

-After selecting version(and downloading) from provided "Bannerbomb" link and  insert  Wii SD card into the SD Card Reader.

-Open SD card and take existing folders and back them up on your computer.

-Place new "Private" folder fromthe "Bannerbomb" download and replace it in the SD card.

-Now take SD card and insert it into the Wii's SD card reader.

-(PIC #1)You will click on "Wii" from the Wii's system menu.












-(PIC#2) Click on "Data Management" and then "Wii Channels".











-(PIC#3) Click on "SD Card" tab in upper right hand corner.












-(PIC#4) You should see this appear now. Select "Yes"












-(PIC#5) After loading screen and all that stuff you should see a screen similar to this one (minus the unistall option evidently you haven't installed yet but its there if you like after you install if you would like to return your Wii to boring self) Almost done select "Install The Hombrew Channel".






-Now wait till your installation has completely finished and then reboot system and check out your Wii Menu you should have a newly born channel among the crowd and there it is folks. You now have the Homebrew Channel. Hope this helps you, any questions or comments ask and say. Also feel free  to follow me as I keep you posted with "Modding Your Wii Part 2"!

Article By:Giovanni Ortiz

1 comment:

  1. Nice I just did this and it worked. But now how do I add games and such to the card and have them play on the HBC? or should I wait for part 2?

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