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Nintendo Wii: Homebrew Channel install

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In this tutorial we will show you how you can install in a few steps the Homebrew Channel on your Nintendo Wii game console. All information provided in this manual refer to the current 4.3 Wii Firmware.

Homebrew Channel for the Wii what is it?

With a Homebrew Channel to play your private software projects without any hardware modification to the Wii. After you have set up the Homebrew Channel on your game console and your Wii reboots, you will find the Tool as a menu item in the main menu.
  • You can uninstall the Homebrew Channel, if necessary by using the regular data management in the Wii settings easily at any time.
  • You will note that the Homebrew Channel is not an official Software from Nintendo. The Tool was provided by private programmers. Once you install the Homebrew Channel, you run the risk that there may be the guarantee of your gaming console will be forfeited.

Homebrew Channel: The Prerequisites

Before you can install the Homebrew Channel on your game console, you must meet a few requirements:
  • Your Nintendo Wii must have the latest Wii Firmware 4.3. This is not the case, you need to update your console via the system settings.
  • You need to have a completely blank SD card with at least one and a maximum of two GB of storage space. Best to format the SD card before the Computer.
  • So that you have the Homebrew Channel at all set up can, be you later,"Nintendo Wii 4.3 Letterbomb Channel"-a complete package to download, use and must.
  • You are using the official Wii Controller. Remove the Wii Motion Plus attachment, as to occasionally cause problems can.

Step-by-step for the Wii Homebrew Channel

Follow the instructions exactly, to possible complications or avoid Software damage to your Nintendo Wii. The exact steps to find it again in our photo gallery.
  1. Remove all the Hardware accessories of the Wii Ports, you don't need to install the Homebrew Channel. The Memory Card or the Gamecube Controller include, for example,. You also ensure that during the process, the Internet connection is active.
  2. Wii start your Nintendo and you will find under "system settings" > "Wii settings 2" > "Internet" > "console information" your MAC address. You have discovered the searched MAC address, make a note of this.
  3. Insert your SD card into the Computer. Format the memory card using the Windows Explorer or any program in the "FAT16"Format.
  4. Download of the "Nintendow Wii 4.3 Letterbomb Homebrew Channel"-complete package, download. Here, select under "System Menu Version" for the entry "4.3 E", enter your MAC address and click "Cut the red wire".
  5. Once you have downloaded the complete package, unzip the ZIP file directly on the SD card in the main directory (Root directory). When the copying is complete, insert the memory card into the turned on the Wii and start your game console again.
  6. Select in the main menu of the Wii "Wii wall" and browse the history of your calendar to a red letter with a bomb is shown. Select this so-called "Letterbomb" to install the Homebrew Channel.
  7. Confirm with the "A"button as long as the Installer until you see on your screen, select "Install the Homebrew Channel".
  8. You use the arrow keys on your Wii controller and select the Option "Install the Homebrew Channel". Your game console installed in the channel. Once the process is completed, you will leave the "HackMii"Installer with selection of the "Return to main menu" and then "Exit".
  9. You will be directed immediately to the menu of the Homebrew Channel. Select "Exit to the start menu". Now start your Wii, or you will be redirected to the main menu.
  10. In the start menu you will now find a button for the Homebrew Channel. Select the Tool and then press "Start". You are now in your own Homebrew channel.
In a further practical tip learn how to easily add your data from the Wii to Wii U transfer.

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Your MAC-address you can find under "console information". These then enter on the website of the "HackMii".

Your MAC-address you can find under "console information". These then enter on the website of the "HackMii".

The "Nintendo Wii 4.3 Letterbomb Channel"-a complete package to unzip it in the Root directory of your SD card.

The "Nintendo Wii 4.3 Letterbomb Channel"-a complete package to unzip it in the Root directory of your SD card.

Are you looking for in your calendar over the course of the "Letterbomb" to start the installation process.

Are you looking for in your calendar over the course of the "Letterbomb" to start the installation process.

Confirm the Installation of the Homebrew Channel with the Option "Install the Homebrew Channel".

Confirm the Installation of the Homebrew Channel with the Option "Install the Homebrew Channel".

Once you have installed the Homebrew Channel successfully, you will leave the "HackMii"Installer, by selecting "Exit".

Once you have installed the Homebrew Channel successfully, you will leave the "HackMii"Installer, by selecting "Exit".

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