WiiHD's homebrew guide: hacking doesn't get much easier than this

The folks of WiiHD, in honor of the recent Quake release for Wii homebrew, have put together an easy-to-follow guide for getting the Wii homebrew channel up and running on your little white console -- plus a pre-packaged zip file with some ready-to-go 'brew if that's the way you like it. You've really got zero excuse to hold off on homebrew with as purtiful and straightforward all these fine hackers have made the process, but if you're still unconvinced, check out the Quake video after the break.

[nxtiak @ Jun 24th 2008 2:37PM]

It is ridiculously easy to play homebrew *cough*pirated*cough* games on the Wii.

[Pfanne @ Jun 24th 2008 2:58PM]

you do know, that it is impossible to play wii games with the homebrew channel, do you?

[Bobby D @ Jun 24th 2008 3:16PM]

I thought you needed a mod chip to play backed-up discs...

[nxtiak @ Jun 24th 2008 3:25PM]

Duh. The Homebrew Channel is a launcher to launch Homebrew apps (some which are to LOAD pirated Virtual Console/WiiWare games).

[hiimcliff @ Jun 25th 2008 12:31AM]

seriuosly pirated games work?

[ybd @ Jun 24th 2008 5:12PM]

Gee I sure glad I got me this 250$ machine to play 15 year old games on..

[prateeko @ Jun 24th 2008 5:27PM]

Actually, the Wii is really nice to play old games on. Having them all on there with a wireless controller (let's ignore the plug in aspect of the classic controller) is nice and all, but being able to play games over component versus composite makes a big difference.


I busted out my SNES the other day for nostalgia and let me tell you, that lone yellow cable just did not help. Component cables on the Wii (and no need for battery back ups, which were also surprisingly still good) actually are really nice touches.

[Vanillacide @ Jun 24th 2008 8:15PM]

I always used to get my Nintendo consoles modified to output RGBcvS (Red, Green, Blue, composite video Sync) via scart for crisp graphics; even the US models I imported to the UK.

So have alway had "component" video of sorts on my Nintendo consoles, but the RGB kind rather than YPbPr one.

[teh_dahl @ Jun 24th 2008 2:39PM]

"You need to... uh... speak up."

Good god, he sounds like a pedophile.

[Jeff @ Jun 24th 2008 3:37PM]

no kidding. what's with the whispering?

is he still in his mom's basement?

[Christy McGrory @ Jun 24th 2008 8:08PM]

We uh have that available for you :S

[blarvh @ Jun 24th 2008 2:39PM]

It's so shady he has to whisper.

[DB @ Jun 24th 2008 2:59PM]

Your avatar is brilliant!

[John @ Jun 24th 2008 3:26PM]

Does the Quake homebrew come with the NIN soundtrack?

[Pochi @ Jun 24th 2008 3:33PM]

@John

I remember reading somewhere (from one of the guys who was involved in the original) that Trent threw the whole thing together in a few days and treated it like a "nothing" project except for the track that plays when the game first starts (that's a good one). You can sort of tell he phoned it in, it's just a bunch of noise. It works, but I would have liked a real NIN soundtrack, too...

The expansion packs, those had really good music. I think somehow the dude who wrote those was related to NIN in some way.

I would go look it all up to check my facts but... eh. I will just be lazy and not do that.

[Outinthedark @ Jun 24th 2008 2:41PM]

Wii-broot hehe!

Great walkthrough guide but I feel as if the son of satan was the tour guide.

[Richard @ Jun 24th 2008 2:49PM]

Question; so i can homebrew this without installed mod chip in my wii, just installed those files at my SD Card? will it work with Wii download games or other nintendo older games?

[CubeGuy @ Jun 24th 2008 3:14PM]

Yup. No mod chip required.

[nxtiak @ Jun 24th 2008 3:24PM]

The "Twilight Hack" requires an SD card and a copy of the Zelda: Twilight Princess game. This allows you to load homebrew and pirated Virtual Console games and WiiWare. No mod-chip required.

[Dan @ Jun 24th 2008 2:51PM]

His mother was clearly in the other room.

"Ralphie who are you talking to?"

"The internet, mother."

[Sam K @ Jun 24th 2008 2:52PM]

HAHAHAHA.....he said "Wii-boot"

[Lowest Ranked @ Jun 24th 2008 2:53PM]

Little off topic: Does anyone know if or when Quake III: Arena will be coming to XBLA?

[mingistech @ Jun 24th 2008 3:20PM]

voted down for plugging the Wii60.

booooo.

[MemphisNET @ Jun 24th 2008 3:25PM]

Hopefully not... the game is way too fast for thumbsticks. I think they got it running on a DS tho

[Lowest Ranked @ Jun 24th 2008 3:31PM]

So, no thumbsticks are better than 2?

[Mauk @ Jun 24th 2008 2:54PM]

This is a legit application to play "HOMEBREW". You don't need this to play *cough*pirated*cough* games on the Wii,

[Ghen @ Jun 25th 2008 1:32PM]

You may need this to pirate DLC for guitar hero 4 though, best get the channel installed before nintendo fixes it :)

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Jun 24th 2008 2:59PM]

Hmm... wiibrew. Sounds like Nintendo's way to put a pun in hebrew, much like Apple's i's.

[HAI 2 U @ Jun 24th 2008 3:30PM]

Fail, not made by nintendo ... please try again.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Jun 24th 2008 5:28PM]

who doesn't know it's not made by nintendo. I worded my post wrong.

[Jason Gold @ Jun 24th 2008 3:11PM]

do i need the twilight princess disc? because on the main page it showed twilight princess in the disc slot. also, where do i download the file?

[CubeGuy @ Jun 24th 2008 3:15PM]

Yes. This requires the Twilight Princess game disc to INSTALL. Once you run it once, you don't need it anymore. Just rent it if you don't have it.

[Luis Neng @ Jun 24th 2008 3:23PM]

The Wii Menu 3.3 update disables Twilight hack...

[nxtiak @ Jun 24th 2008 3:26PM]

Fail. Twilight Hack has been updated to work with the System Update 3.3. And yes, it has been released.

[cooljerk @ Jun 24th 2008 3:28PM]

.. and this new save file hack circumvents that

moron

[HAI 2 U @ Jun 24th 2008 3:33PM]

I like how there's like ... oh, four posts ... 4 ... FOUR ... following the article under the title of "Relevant Posts" .. all discussing the 3.3 hack returning.

Way to go Luis ... way to go.

[Bryn @ Jun 24th 2008 3:58PM]

The Wii Menu 3.3 update has been worked around. The fix was a far too specific fix for the exact bug they were using

[Eric @ Jun 24th 2008 3:27PM]

They've already worked around the 3.3 update.

I was playing Quake the other day on my Wii... it's a little tricky to start, but once you get used to it, it's quite fun.

Definitely worth $0.

[pairannoyed @ Jun 24th 2008 3:32PM]

@Neng:
Wrong! System Update v3.3 defeated the OLD twilight hack. there is a new and better one that does work with v3.3. So twilight is still enabled.

@Pfanne: yes, yes you can. its called gecko regionfrii. look it up and get your learn on.

and GX quake is better than regular on wii

[Wiiboot @ Jun 24th 2008 3:35PM]

as stated above, it disabled the OLD twilight hack, but it was re-hacked.

http://hackmii.com/

[gabe @ Jun 24th 2008 3:47PM]

OMG that QUake demo got me dizzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Jun 24th 2008 3:50PM]

This guys choose right game to promote the hack...

I'm sold :)

[ben @ Jun 24th 2008 4:08PM]

Last week I hacked 3 Wiis in ten minutes, including the time it took to copy things from my SD card to their SD card. Yay me!

[Jake Maheu @ Jun 24th 2008 10:02PM]

Relevant but unnecessary. Bushing already put together a fine tutorial on getting it running.

He also has a homebrew pack you can download.

[rob @ Jun 24th 2008 4:33PM]

any risk of bricking w/ this hack?

[Rage @ Jun 28th 2008 6:08AM]

There's usually no risk, if you follow the instructions, unless you run into one of those random WTF things that no ones ever seen, or can recreate.

[vannyx @ Jun 24th 2008 4:52PM]

this seems cool, but even knowing this i still dont think my wii is going to be of use to me. Even free i cant find much on it i like to play.

[Protoz @ Jun 24th 2008 5:06PM]

Quake sold it for me. I'm gonna mod mine tonight. Is there online play for it yet?

[JamesD @ Jun 25th 2008 2:37PM]

I think I would wet myself if there was but someone would likely have to setup a server or you would have to do ip to ip play(which would be fun too) online play would make this game one of the best of the wii... then again I'm a quake fan boy.

I might go rent twilight princess tonight if not this weekend. :)

[Richard @ Jun 24th 2008 5:23PM]

What version of Wii will work with this hack?