The Beginner's Guide to Wii Homebrewing/Softmodding (2020 Tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
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Today's video is a comprehensive guide covering how to homebrew the Nintendo Wii and install some useful homebrew apps.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:07 - Gathering Necessary Files
04:05 - Installing the Homebrew Channel and BootMii
08:35 - Making a NAND backup with BootMii
09:53 - Installing Priiloader
11:43 - Installing the Homebrew Browser
12:48 - Installing cIOS
14:01 - Using USBLoaderGX and Nintendont
17:25 - Playing Games Online with Wiimmfi
18:34 - Connecting to RiiConnect24
23:17 - Conclusion
Downloads:
FAT32 Format Tool: fat32-format.en.softonic.com/
Priiloader: wii.guide/priiloader.html
cIOS Installer: wii.guide/assets/files/d2x-cI...
Nintendont: mega.nz/file/wBMHlCQK#zUgBMtF...
USBLoaderGX: sourceforge.net/projects/usbl...
Open Shop Channel: oscwii.org/
RiiConnect24 Patcher: github.com/RiiConnect24/RiiCo...
NOTE: Priiloader, cIOS Installer, Nintendont, and USBLoaderGX can all be downloaded from the Open Shop Channel/Homebrew Browser if you would prefer to do it that way.
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Resources:
Priiloader Options Explanation: wii.guide/priiloader.html
Wiimmfi Site: wiimmfi.de/
Topics covered:
Installing the Homebrew Channel and BootMii with str2hax
Creating a NAND Backup using BootMii
Installing Priiloader to add a layer of brick protection
Installing the Homebrew Browser to download apps from the Wii
Installing cIOS versions to allow for USBLoaderGX to work
Using USBLoaderGX and Nintendont to backup Wii and GameCube games
Connect to Wiimmfi to play certain games online
Connect to RiiConnect24 to re-enable access to the Forecast, News, CheckMiiOut, Everybody Votes, and Nintendo channels as well as the Wii Mail feature.
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*READ FOR CORRECTIONS*
str2hax’s DNS settings have changed. Use 18.188.135.9 for both the Primary and Secondary DNS.
RiiConnect24's DNS settings have changed. Use 167.86.108.126 for the Primary DNS and 1.1.1.1 for the Secondary DNS.
The Priiloader archive had been updated and the file structure will look a bit different. The archive now contains a "priiloader" folder, which is meant to go inside of the "apps" folder on your SD card.
should you create an apps folder now or what can i do?
I have followed all you said in the video, but when the string for the installation of hackmii appear they said Error and nothing else happen :c
Any suggestion?
I made it this far and I don’t have a computer to install homebrew browser 😔
do we still need to create an "extra" folder?
@@user-bx8xi2nj4d yup! just create an apps folder
Great, did all that. Now all I need is a Wii.
Lol
haha same
Same I only have a Nintendo switch and a modded ds
Who doesn’t have a wii
@@ppidk2267 ikr
It has been about 15 years since I last loaded a wii. Got one out and knocked the dust off of it and with this video had no issues. Very well done.
Glad to hear that!
went through the first 5 minutes of this guide only to find out my dad had already installed the homebrew channel years ago and it was sitting there right on the main menu
wait wut????
Ha ha
@@danielyaseen yo u know where i can download the cios the link says 404 page does not exist
@@josephbermudez3448 same here
@@josephbermudez3448 I think wii guide might work.
Dude. I just want to say. Thank you so much. This was the only guide that got me through the whole process. Completely new to anything like this and got it all done flawlessly. Honestly such an amazing guide. Thank you so much!!!
Pretty good tutorial. Now I have digital copies of my Wii and Gamecube games and, even better, the loading times are super fast on a USB, way faster than those of the DVDs. This really helped me get started with Wii softmodding
Very organized and well structured tutorial! Thank you. Now I'm able to play wii games again and get my childhood memories back. I'm very grateful :")
Thank you for this very comprehensive guide. I'm going through my Wii and redoing everything from scratch and this video answers nearly every question I had, and shows me how to install and configure everything perfectly. Could not ask for a better guide than this.
You are doing this way better than anyone else I watched/read, thanks for the high quality content
Thank You dude! It really helped me Homebrew my wii. Other tutorials were very confusing, But yours was simple and easy to follow, Keep up the good work!
You're welcome! Glad the video helped
This video helped immensely with the whole process, it's so well put together and incredibly concise. It definitely helps people with little to no knowledge on the subject so a million thanks for being so thorough!
Can someone tell me what controllers I can/should be using if I can run n64 emulator on here. Do I have to use the wiimote/nunchuck?
@@Shorts11327 I just checked and you can use either your Wii/nunchuck controller OR a gamecube controller, not sure what else other than those two. I preferably use gamecube controller :)
I just picked up an old wii, haven't done this since 2010. Your guide is perfect man. If someone can't get where they need to go after watching this they don't need to be there.
You rock man....just modded my Wii with your help. Very straight and to the point....bless you!!!
From what I'm watching so far, this is a great tutorial! I already modded my Wii, but I love this tutorial!
Some Moron same
even though Ive done all these things already, Im just gonna watch it anyway
Same
Exactly
Same
Did it work for you?
@@timmiles3054 yeah
Forgot to add THANKS FOR MAKING A GREAT TUTORIAL! The best one I have seen very thorough and easy to follow.
You're welcome, glad it helped!
Did you need wifi already connected into the wii for this to work?
Almost a year later and this still works! Thank you MJD!
Aloha,
I can't thank you enough for this video! I thought it would be difficult, but you made it very easy to follow. Mahalo & Aloha from Hawaii
Glad the video helped you!
This tutorial is fantastic. So concise, succient and easy to follow. Great work!
Thanks so much!
@@MichaelMJD bro thank you! usb loader gx finally works for mre! fun fact: when you dump wii sports, it says sports pack for revolution, the wii's code name!
Thank you for the step by step help! Commenting to say that at may 25th 2021, this tutorial still works! Thanks again for this very detailed video 🙏
Best guide to modding your Wii out here! Keep up the Great work!💯
dude thanks for the help. I have been wanting to homebrew my wii for a long time now this really helped
Glad to hear that!
I didn't realise this modding was so easy, thanks for the great tutorial!
How long did it take?
@@xenniealchayliss2489 20 minutes
Does the cheap controller that plugs into the Wii mote work tho
Or do you gotta get a game cube controller?
Question
does it deleted ur data ?
Your video is by far the best wii modding tutorial I have seen
Cheers for this! A tip for anyone new to this - the new Windows update has made it so that SD/USB drives are automatically converted to exFAT files. Homebrew doesn't take exFAT, so use an older computer when downloading files.
Is windows 10 good
This is false. Windows does not turn drives into exfat files.
This was the best and simplest tutorial to follow from every single one that I've tried to follow. I fell off of it initially due to the trial and error aspect of it and despite one hiccup, I was able to jump back in and finish the whole process in about an hour. This was my mom's birthday present so she could play the old mario games as well as Dr. Mario and everything went very smoothly! Thank you for the tutorial!
You’re welcome! Glad it helped you
I bought from ebay a semi-bricked Wii for... 5 euro. It was stuck in Preloader since years, I managed to get it working some day ago after reading many many many tutorials and viewing videos on YT. I must say that your tutorial is really one of the best and very precise. Thanks man! :-D
i had bricked my wii after tring to install a black wii menu. i was 13years old i just downloaded a dolphin wii system and put it on an sd card then installed it on the why idk how it worked but it's still working lol thos thing cannot die
Thanks for taking the effort to explain everything properly. I picked up a working Wii for no cost last week and I am going to try this over the next few days. I’ve got some experience with emulators and roms so know that side of things I just need this to walk through the home brewing. If I go for it I’ll update my results here afterwards for future reference. Can’t wait to play zelda
update - I followed this and got things working, although I had to use the updated DNS in the top pinned comments - I tried the first set and it worked fine, I have homebrew and the packages installed, and did the brick security backup. I now also have a secret hack menu like what a phone with developer options would open up. If my console gets bricked for any reason and it wont turn on properly or whatever I can hold power and reset to open a cool mod menu and run everything including my back up files from there so if the worst happened I could restore everything. the only thing I've experienced when in homebrew and the other installed apps within, every so often the console will freeze and I have to restart it - it's happened about 3 times in a good few hours of messing around and for all I know it could be my old console playing up or a setting I need to look at. Also the one package - the USB loader needs an update when it gets installed, when I see that program in the Homebrew browser it has a ? symbol next to it and when clicked it prompts me to update. It crashed when I tried so I will maybe reinstall that package tomorrow and re-do it. I managed to already get some cool games from the homebrew browser, some old classics like duck hunt and the old WIndows XP space pinball so I'm really happy. And I can install a multitude of stuff from the same browser app which is like a marketplace for cool utilities and software.
This has been a really cool and interesting project and made even more enjoyable by a clear and intuitive guide throughout every step so Thank you for taking the time and effort to do this and update the changes too. I might do a later update if I smooth out the little wrinkles I am experiencing, but it worked and everything that was shown was available and accessible.
Thanks :)
this tutorial rocks, this really helped me with homebrewing my wii/setting it up.
I have used this to setup 6 Wiis recently and I nearly have your entire scrip memorized. Great Christmas stocking stuffers for the family. Thanks for the video. Maybe one day I'll actually play a game beyond quality control test.?!
Hey! That’s awesome! Glad to hear the video helped
Thank you so much for this! I've homebrewed two Wii's before, and it was so complicated due to the lack of a complete and updated tutorial. My third one, which I just finished, was really easy thanks to this video.
Glad I could help! : )
I’m having trouble when I change the din setting I can’t get a successful connection test can someone plz help
Dns*
@@PennUniversityPV reset the wii that’s what I did
@@dylanlovell3925 lol I already got it working thx tho
Following this guide now, as my husband got me a Wii as an early Christmas gift :)
it gives me great pleasure you madea guide for this, i'm extremely confident in homebrewing with this video lmao
Best Homebrew tutorial on the internet
Thanks so much
Thanks, man! Thanks to you I can play my NA copy of Metroid Prime Trilogy on my PAL console!
awesome video it help me update and redownload the more recent relevant cfw apps for my old cfw old wii that i haven't use in a long time
Thank you so much!! Your tutorial is simply perfect
About time somebody made an updated tutorial for how to do this. There already are some out there but many are outdated and/or assume you already know how to do some things so aren't beginner-friendly. I already have my Wii modded but I'll show this to friends if they ask me how to do it.
Hey could you help me out: I did everything he did but my Homebrew only shows the screen with the bubbles and not the different menus.
@@R88ER Whenever I had that happen it was usually because my Wii was not reading the SD card correctly. But there could be lots of reasons so I can't be sure why it is that way for you. If you have another SD card on hand it couldn't hurt to copy the files to it and see if it works. Make sure it's formatted to FAT32, also, SD cards that are higher capacity than 32gb can cause problem sometimes. You could also try using a USB flash drive instead of SD card or vice versa. Good luck
@@hananezumi well i try doing that. If it works i will message you!
@@hananezumi Oh yeah the reason why i want a hacked wii is to play Mario kart Black. Its a wish i have for 10 years now but i could never get it to work. Do you know how i can get Mario kart Black?
@@R88ER It's on the Internet Archive
I had only 3 bad blocks on the Backupmii 😑 this is a fast paced tutorial. It was edited and put together super concisely, thank you! If you missed a step, pause and rewind. It's important
only ad one bad block lol
I had 2
I had 4
You know that they will dissapear after you back the wii up again? Like the whole process?
I had 0
BEST, CLEAR AND EASY WII MODE !!! Thank you, it works flawlessly
I did all of this and followed the instructions very carefully so thank you very much. My first hacking experience and I had a blast!!
I always homebrew my friends' wii when they need me to cause it makes me feel like a cool hacker lol
Hackerman
@@timdasilvamickley Hello World ... HACKERMAN!
Just bought a Wii yesterday so I could do some fun exercise with Wii Sports and Just Dance so here I am :)
Welcome to the club
The best softmodding video guide in the internet. Thanks!
found a box on the sidewalk junking a perfectly fine wii! only thing that didn't come with it was a sensor bar
an incredible find that I'm taking as a sign to roll up my sleeves and mod my self. super thankful for this tutorial
I found a Wii and xbox yesterday with every thing it needs both work
I used the Letterbomb exploit to install the homebrew channel and bootmii because 4:05 - 8:35 didn't work for me.
But everything else in this tutorial was great, thank you!
Did you still put the apps folder with nintendont/other apps on the root of your SD with letterbomb on as well?
@@ktownc936 yesh
Priiloader gave me an error called cios infected can anyone help
Simple, clear and it works. That's how a tutorial should be. Bravo!
This is seriously impressive, ngl. Thanks!
I was so sure that this wasn't gonna work but I was wrong. You deserve more subs. Thanks
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I originally found this video through the rabbit hole that was trying to play a Japanese region game on my US Wii, but now I've essentially found a whole new world Lol
Your tutorials are the best on RUclips
Thanks so much!
Just want to say thank you for a brilliant guide!
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
A great and straightforward tutorial, thanks 🙏
I homebrewed every Nintendo Console I own, but I still love watching this video!
@Providence Yes, even the Switch.
@@Trendlesss PlayStation, Xbox, Sega and Others Consoles?
"You can Region Free your Wii..."
Chibi Robo Japanese Wii Port, here I come!
So you did everything he did? Well i did so too but my homebrew doesnt show the various apps. Only the blank bubble screen. Pleas help me
@@R88ER To tell you the truth, I didn't actually get it after I wrote that original comment months ago. It still costed a whole lot of money and I didn't have a job to work at at the time since I was focusing more on College stuff, so yeah.
@@jordanboyd5587 Nevermind i got it all. My problem was that i was not using wireless connection
@@R88ER Oh that's good. What game did you try?
@@jordanboyd5587 Well my first game i tried CTGP (Mario kart custom tracks) and then i got Super Mario war😁
This video helped me with using my region locked Wii with Wii CDs from other regions.
This is the best guide i have seen. Thank you very much!
You're very welcome!
Although I used a much simpler method for installing Homebrew, the rest of the video was sooo helpful. Thanks!
I think it's noteworthy that if you have a GameCube controller connected, then you can use the D-Pad and A button to navigate the BootMii menu instead of the power and reset buttons on the Wii itself.
The only wiimote I knew the location of was so badly corroded that I couldn’t navigate the menu with it haha so I’m so glad you mentioned that.
It’s possible to navigate many menus with the GameCube controller in fact.
thank you so much for this! i was almost stuck when downloading the homebrew channel!
You’ve been a very big help man! I can now play imported games from any region! Fatal frame!? HERE I COME!!
Thank you so much, this is an awesome tutorial, if I were you I would think about modding an og Xbox
Glad you liked it! That would be a cool topic to cover for sure
all of these steps were hard but seeing the wii being able to do everything it did in 2007 again is amazing
Thank you soo much now after 2 years I can finally use my Wii again
just got a wii for my nephew (to show him nintendo at its prime) and got super bummed finding out nintendo discontinued its service, and games are anywhere from $90-$200!
appreciate the work you put into this video. excited to get it all set up for him for christmas!
WARNING: The IP address shown at 5:25 could potentially change in the future. The devs have already had to change servers at least once since the exploit's release, and hence this video could become out of date fairly quickly.
WARNING: No one give a shit
@@kennysbusdrawings LMAO you're mad
@@kennysbusdrawings WARNING: Someone could find a brick exploit for when you're connecting a to game's servers so if they were to get the old IP they may be able to brick some consoles. Or they could also use the old IP as an IP grabber for every game.
@@functional200 WARNING: I dont even have a fucking Wii and I only watched this video cuz Im subbed to this channel, so I still dont give a shit.
@@kennysbusdrawings then why did you comment that no one cares, that information was actually useful when modding a wii :/
Some advice for anyone that gets an error writing bootmii to their SD card at 8:18:
I formatted my SD card with FAT32 in windows using quick format, but I didn't set the allocation correctly. I had a 32GB SD card (Micro SD HDHC with adapter) and it needs to be formatted with 16 Kilobytes allocation size. I also unchecked quick format so it did a full format of the disk (this will take upwards of 30-45 min to do). Worked correctly after that.
Had the same problem with my USB drive 128 GB. Trying the same thing with 32 KB allocation.
Nintendo has a webpage about how the Wii adheres to strict SD Card format rules. They have a link to the official SD Card standards website and it has its own formatting tool (which I ended up not needing to use). This is probably worth trying out.
Here's a chart for SD Card size and what size the allocation should be:
< 64 MB: 512 bytes.
64 MB-128 MB: 1 KB.
128 MB-256 MB: 2 KB.
256 MB-8 GB: 4 KB.
8 GB-16 GB: 8 KB.
16 GB-32 GB: 16 KB.
32 GB-2 TB: 32 KB.
Great tutorial helped me a lot to homebrew my old wii
Another great and helpful video by Michael!! Thanks so much, without you I wouldn't have homebrewed both of my Wiis!! Extreme thanks ✨👐✨😎
I modded my Wii with Homebrew.
(me sat here watching thinking "yay he uploaded!"
Hey I can’t get the connection test to be successful after changing the DIN. Any tips? Whenever I go back to make sure it’s right it has a .014 instead of just a .14 even tho I never put a zero.
Dns*
@@PennUniversityPV Hey, neither did I, how did u solved it?
@@liadiaz4665 use letterbomb instead
This is why I bought 2x Wii Mini recently!
Somebody tell him that wii mini is the unhackable wii
@@NoobPlayGamesReal It's hackable. Just with a different method and no online functionality.
It's time I finally dust off my Wii and take advantage of this opportunity! Gonna get an HDMI adapter soon and then I'll use this tutorial to mod my Wii. Thanks for the thorough explanation, it helps a lot!
Thanks, softmodding my Wii right now! 😁
Bro your the best,thanks for the tutorial.Everything works perfect!
Glad to hear that!
Me and the homies playing Homebrew tonight!
Worked like a charm, thanks!
just came back here as a congratulations message on 250k subs
I wish I were able to homebrew a Wii cause it looks so much fun and lets you do things some people will never think off using a Wii. In 5-6 years ago I wanted to use a Wii as a DVD player but I was not allowed to homebrew it, because it wasnot mine and the owners were like "if there is a risk that it could go wrong dont do it"
I never understood why the Wii wasn't set up to read DVDs. Especially when the PS3 was released at the same time and could read Blu Ray
@@sunnyokapi the PS2 could read DVDs, idk why the wii was so backwards. No HD output, no DVD...
bruh a used wii is like 3000 rs - 18 dollars
Dude! I was just watching your old tutorials yesterday and I was thinking "man, I wish there were newer versions of these."
What do you know!
Thanks for showing, Michael
Thanks soo much i really needed it!!
Boy I’m trying to brew beer and this popped up . I’m like wtf is this
This is your future
Buy a wii!
Great tutorial. Made it through and all modded thank you
Glad to hear it helped you!
i did this ALONG time ago like when it came out but il watch it
I appreciate it!
@@MichaelMJD thanks! I Havent done riiconnect yet so i probably will i have some Japanese wads somewhere
Note: RiiConnect has changed a bit too and varies from language to language but it shouldnt be a very big problem. The patcher itself will show you show you what button to press. It should be the same process on the wii tho.
looking at this video at 2020 during the pandemic
GETS A FACINATION WITH COMPUTERS THANKS TO YOUR ACCOUT SEEING YOUR OTHER CONTENT
Awesome job dude. Followed this and everything with the exception of GC games run. Still trying to nut that one out.
What does it mean when Nintendo sends me 5 messages from pastimes in 1 day? I modded my older wii and they targeted it but my newer wii did not receive any messages from Nintendo.
Could it just be my older wii had less protection than my newer one?
This was a great video, but you should mention that Wii is picky when it comes to USB drives and can easily corrupt a drive if the wii crashes mid game. Wii backup manager and WBFS should be mentioned at least.
worked in June 2021, THANK YOU!
Love that new icon!
9:22 reminds of Windows defrag!
And 3rd party defrag programs
Thank you so much for going slow for us non-tech folks lol
Great guide so far!
wow I am about to mod my third wii thank you for helping me get into it
Ironic that i wanted to do this yet didnt even know this video was uploaded 45 minutes ago
Could you do everything from just the SD card? I noticed you said you could do it all from the USB but what about an SD? I have a 128gb sd just for this lol and a 16gb USB
Of course you can, but SD cards with more than 32GB size are not supported by the Wii. At least in theory
@@vivianciurus5326 Yes you are right, I am using a 32gb sd card in my wii.
@@vivianciurus5326 i figured it out, my 128gb sd has been working fine you just need to format it to fat32 and set all the pathing and it's all good!! i was just confused bc the whole video a USB was called essential to use but was never used lol
@@urnotjustin wow, cool! So it looks like Nintendo never tested more than 32 GB or it has high failure rate
yeah, in fact you can do much more on an sd than a usb(at least on the native OS)
Hey Michael, just wanted to inform you that the cIOS Installer doesnt work anymore, its the 5th time i mod my wii, and this video helped me many times, thanks man, keep up the good work!
this video was extremely helpful not a problem with it i still dont understand the usb part but my crappy phone sd card was able to do it just fine
If your having problem connecting to the wifi at this point 4:20 (nice) you will have to connect to the wifi BEFORE plugin in the sd and usb