Make your own Wii component cables; play homebrew

Looks like the Wii hacking is fully underway this weekend, with guides both on how to make your own Wii component cables (since apparently it's still super difficult for Nintendo to flood the damned market with 'em), as well as to play homebrew games. On the component cable side, it looks like what you need to do is follow the Wii AV pinout, re-arrange the pins on an AV cable, then rewire those to a new set of cables with RCA ends; if you wire it the right way, you can even use a toggle to switch between component and composite. We're not saying it's easy, but it's not heart surgery, either. As for the homebrew, it's appears to be slightly less tricky, but essentially you need an SD card and SD to GameCube adapter, a GameCube Action Replay pack, and some patience while you enter in a 28 line long 474 character code. Enjoy playing that hacked Wii running emulators and homebrew on a faux component cable -- remember Nintendo, the people will always get what the people want.

[Thanks, Ryan]

Read - component cable hack
Read - homebrew hack

[KoZWiZ @ Dec 3rd 2006 6:19PM]

UM ok....can anyone tell me where i could get that GC SD Memory Card??/

[Chris M @ Dec 3rd 2006 6:30PM]

It's a GC SD ADAPTER, not a SD Card.

These look very interesting...

Chris

[Michael @ Dec 3rd 2006 6:33PM]

Wake me up when we can do this natively on the Wii... Entering all of those codes is far to inconvient to make it useful.

[Dave @ Dec 3rd 2006 6:47PM]

It says to open and close the lid on the wii in the last step! Open and close what lid?

[TT @ Dec 3rd 2006 7:05PM]

does anyone have a mirror or backup source for the GC-SD hack info that they can post? the site appears to be gone now. thanks!

[steve @ Dec 3rd 2006 7:25PM]

hmmm....ill have to try that....
i only need to get a sd -> gamecube converter.....
and a gamecube memory card.....
and a wii :(
but still if i get all that stuff eventually then it will be like the virtual console games but free :)

[Tim Dorr @ Dec 3rd 2006 7:30PM]

The component cables are pretty much readily available. I ordered mine on Thursday, they shipped on Saturday and should be here tomorrow or Tuesday. That's about as fast as fast can be.

[DjFIL @ Dec 3rd 2006 8:48PM]

I just got my Wii component cables, delivered on a Sunday! (may had been because of currier catching up due to a snowy past week) But, they have a design flaw which were possibly the cause of me already damaging mine. Unlike the component cables you can't peel apart the audio feed from the video feed past a junction point about 6" down each cable. So for me... my audio receiver is just slightly over 12" away each of the needed inputs. So the cables may had stretched when finally completely hooked up. I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't use tv speaker outputs. And my 360's cables reach the distance with no problem at all. Now I have to hope Nintendo doesn't question them as damaged.

[HyperHacker @ Dec 4th 2006 2:36AM]

Bit cruel that only at the bottom of the linked page does it mention this method is only for _Gamecube_ homebrew.

[Aaron @ Dec 4th 2006 2:51AM]

I ordered component cables from Nintendo a week ago and they shipped out on Friday. I was going to do the paper clip component hack, glad I was patient. The real cable will be much nicer.

[Xeroderma @ Dec 4th 2006 3:15PM]

@DjFIL

Go to your local radio shack and pick up an extension cable. Theyre pretty cheap and will give you as much length on the audio cord as you could ever want.