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Homebrew Browser Is The Wii Homebrew App Store. Of course, browsing games and software on your computer isn't necessarily ideal – you'll be running this software on your Wii, after all. If you want the app store experience, try the Homebrew Browser. It lets you explore the games and software offered by the homebrew community, entirely on your. Open this channel and you will find numerous homebrew apps suited for Wii and also Wii homebrew games not approved by Nintendo. Also Read: Best 3ds Homebrew Apps. Using the homebrew apps, you can even enable DVD playback support in your Wii console. With only a few clicks, you can do a world of change to your Wii console. Top 10 Best Wii.
What is “homebrew”?
Homebrew refers to software not authorized by Nintendo. This can include games, utilities, emulators and much more!
Running homebrew on your Nintendo Wii can be done for free by exploiting bugs in Wii’s software. The modifications installed by following this guide will give you easy and persistent access to Wii homebrew.
What can I do with homebrew?
Here’s a list of things you can do using homebrew. While this list is by no means totally comprehensive, you should have a good idea of what is possible, and the guide will help you easily get started.
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- Patch game disc contents (allowing you to load game modifications) using Riivolution.
- Install themes to your Wii Menu using MyMenuify.
- Install a USB Loader like WiiFlow or USB Loader GX to launch all your favorite titles from a USB storage device and more.
- Back up your discs with CleanRip and installed games and titles with YABDM
- Back up and restore your save files with SaveGame Manager GX
- Download new homebrew apps with the Homebrew Browser
- Restore discontinued online services, such as WiiConnect24 & Nintendo WFC services.
- Backup and restore copies of your Wii system memory (NAND) using BootMii.
- Protect your Wii from bricks using Priiloader and BootMii.
- Turn your Wii into a media player with WiiMC.
Ready?
Get started by choosing your exploit!
More Resources
There are also few more good resources for Wii modding and troubleshooting that can help:
- Wii Hacking Explained - by Cyan…and of course, this site
For modding a Wii U, follow this guide:
How To Get Wii Games For Homebrew
This guide is meant for the absolute beginner who has just softmodded their Wii and wants to add a ISO/WBFS file to their USB stick so they can play their games via a USB Loader app. The most common setup to play your Wii games via ISO/WBFS, is to have your all your HBC apps on your SD card while having your ISO/WBFS files on your USB stick.
Requirements:
- SD card that you already use that works for HBC
- USB Stick at least 4GB in size
- Softmodded Wii (Guide - https://mkwii.com/showthread.php?tid=1614)
- WBFS or ISO file of game that you are wanting to add to the USB
Visit this page - https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/
Click on the large green Download button. You will be navigated to a new web page (still on sourceforge.net). After a brief moment, the download will begin..
Extract the download. You will see a folder called 'apps'. Move the apps folder to the root of your SD card. The SD card must be in FAT32 format. Place SD into Wii.
1. Insert your USB stick into your Computer.
2. Format the USB stick to FAT32 (Quick format will work)
NOTE if you use Linux and need to format a USB to FAT32: There is a program called 'gparted'. Simply google gparted FAT32, and you will find plenty of guides to format the USB.
3. Make a folder on the USB called 'wbfs' (without the quotations)
4. Now we will make a folder within the wbfs folder. The name of this folder varies depending on the title and game ID of your game. For demo purposes we will use the American MKW game (game ID of RMCE01)
5. Within the wbfs folder, make the folder called - 'MarioKartWii [RMCE01]' (without quotations)
6. The title of the game (no spaces) goes first, then the game ID within the brackets.
7. If your game is already in .wbfs format. We can simple drag and drop our American MKW game into the 'MarioKartWii [RMCE01]' folder. If your game is in .iso format, please see further below for solution.
8. Once the .wbfs file has been added to the USB we need to rename it to match its game ID, so for this guide we rename the wbfs file to RMCE01.wbfs
9. Eject your USB. Now you must plug in your USB stick into the correct port. If your Wii is laying flat, this would be the BOTTOM port.
10. Launch HBC, launch USB Loader GX. You will see your game listed on the main menu. Select and launch it. Congratz.
If your game is in .iso format read this:
You will need WIT Tools to change the iso to a wbfs file. Download WIT Tools https://wit.wiimm.de/download.html
For help installing WIT Tools, view this thread HERE
If you are on Windows:
1. Once the tools are installed, there is a new Wiimm folder within your Program Files (x86) folder of your C Drive. Within that Wiimm folder, is a folder called WIT. Drag your ISO file into that WIT folder.
2. Open up cmd/command prompt
3. Type this: cd C:Program Files (x86)wiimmwit
4. Now type this: wit copy nameofyourISO.iso newnameofyourISO.wbfs
5. And that's it you have made a copy of your game in the better wbfs format. Now you can complete the rest of the guide.
If you are on Linux:
1. Once the tools are installed. Open a terminal in the directory where your iso file is located.
2. wit copy nameofyourISO.iso newnameofyourISO.wbfs
3. And that's it you have made a copy of your game in the better wbfs format. Now you can complete the rest of the guide.
Troubleshooting:
If you get a black screen when attempting to boot your WBFS via USB Loader, there's a few reasons why this could happen:
1. Your USB stick is corrupted or near the end of its life. Reformat it to FAT32 (Do a FULL format, will take awhile)
2. Your WBFS file is corrupted, this could be because you possess a corrupt file of your game, or you simply pulled your USB stick out of your computer without properly right clicking on it and selecting Eject.
3. Your SD card containing your USB loader app is bad, reformat it.