Hello, everybody and welcome back to another video here on the channel now today
We're going to be doing something just a little bit different than what we've been doing [for] the past few weeks
And that is going to be a full tutorial and guide on how to homebrew your Nintendo Wii console
Let's just jump right into it. So what you're going to need for this is
Obviously a Nintendo Wii console which I have one right here, and this is the one that I got at
One of my local thrift stores, you can see I have not taken the middle price off of it
[you're] going to need a Wii remote
Also pretty obvious, and you're also going to need an SD [card] now
This is you know pretty obvious as well, because we're going to have to be actually copying some files from our computer
Over to the Wii console in the only way of actually interfacing with the Wii console is
Through an Sd [card] slot which is right here normally that is used for saving game files however
you can actually you know put some code on here and run it and that is essentially how the home boot process is done and
This one right here as you [can] see is a [2gig] card
And you're obviously not going to be able to put like a 128 gig card in here
It's not going to be able to work properly
I believe that the actual limit is about 8 gigabytes. So you want to make sure that you have a sort of low capacity card
which is why that I have this one right here and
Another optional piece that you're going to need and you know the reason that I say this optional is because you might not need it
You're going to need one of these things right here
And essentially what this is is an sd. [2] usb adapter. I [can] just take the piece off here
You can see there's an [sd]. Card slot on one side and a uSB adapter on
The other side and this is for people who you know like me my computer does [not] have an sd card reader in it
So you might need to use one of these to actually you know [put] this this Sd card into your computer
So these are all of the physical pieces that we're going to need to make this whole thing work
And now what I'm going to do is actually switch over to the Wii itself
For the next portion of this video ok so here
We are on
The Wii menu as you can see here so the first thing that we're going to want to do is
Go into the Wii options menu right here
And I want to make [sure] that your wii is connected to the network now if you do that
You want to go into Wii settings?
and
Once it loads up here. You want to go into internet and
connection settings and
I know that mine is you know already connected through my wireless connection, but you want to make sure
That yours is you know connected to your wireless network for this to work properly [you]
[also] want to note the version number if you go back in the Wii settings
the
system version number right up here -
4.3 you you want to make [sure] that it's 4.3, but you might have
4.3 E
4.3 J. Or 4.3 k now that's going to you know be really important in the next part of the setup
Once we you know finish with this portion here, but you want to make [sure] that you're updated to 4.3
If you're not you want to perform a system update which by doing that I believe is you go all the [way] over
to the last page and click on Wii system update and
So once you got all that figured out you want to go back into internet
Go into console information, and you want to note your Mac address here now
This is going to be really important for again for the next portion of the setup
So you really want to know two major things here you want to know the wiis version number which again is going to be either
4.3
[u] [Ej] or k I believe those are the only four and
Your mac address here now this you're probably [just] going to want to leave open
on Your Wii
And just go to the next portion of the setup which I'm going to switch over here
Momentarily to show you how to do that okay? So we are here on my computer for the next portion of the setup
What you want to do here is first of all plug in your sd card to your computer
that's either going to be directly into your computer or
[through] the uSB to Sd
Card adapt that I told you about before [and] what you want to do is you know if there's anything on it you want to
Completely wipe [out] the SD card
And if you want to save like any of your we save games that might be on that sd
Card you or your you know we channels that you might have downloaded you just want to copy that to another area on your computer
[now] [you] [can] see the mine here is you know completely empty?
There's nothing on this sd. Card, so it's going to work fine, and you can see in this browser one over here
We have a tool called letter bomb open here and this can be accessed by going to please
Dot hack me calm and me is spelled like it is in we so Mi. I
Not [me] so it's hack me calm. And what you want to do here is
Note your system menu version which again is going to be either 4.3. You Ej or k
So mine was 4.3. You I?
believe that this does you know depend on what area of the world that you live in and you also want to put in your
Mac address here
And you want to click the box that says bundle the Hackmii installer
For me because this is again [going] to make it easier for us you want to?
Check the cap show that says I'm not a robot [and] you want to click either of these buttons down here
It doesn't really matter you can either click cut the red wire or the blue wire. It doesn't really matter again
So we're just going to save the file and once the file is done downloading you want to go to your downloads folder you want
To open it up
[I] am going to be using a [window] are here as you can see and you can use you know any other zip?
You know extracting tool that you want you can even use the one that is built in to windows
but all you want to do here is [just] drag everything from the zip file over to the SD [card] and
Let it copy everything over and you're pretty much done with this part of the setup
So we're back on the Wii here and the first thing that you're going to want to do is plug your SD card into your
Wii, so, I'm just going to reach over here and do that right here
Plug in [to] the Sd. Card slot on the front and
what you want to do is go back to the main menu for the Wii system menu and
You want to go to your wii message board which is going to be right here?
[and] you're looking for the letter bomb well letter basically and it's going to be either in the
You know today section the tomorrow section or the yesterday section?
It's usually going to be in the yesterday section, but I do believe [that] this depends on what time zone that you are in
So what you want to do here is [you] just want to press a on this letter here
and it's going to start doing its thing and
This is you know this doesn't take that long it does however you know come up with this little disclaimer here
basically saying that you know this software is free to use and
It should not be
Sold as there was a you know scam going on back when the software first came out people were actually trying to sell this um
You know for you know money and for profit and that is obviously you know completely
Illegal as this is you know free software
And you know this was basically you know warning everybody that you know if you paid for this you should ask for your money back
Or well you know as it says here demand your money back
[but] once it's you know says press 1 to continue
just want to do just that and press 1 and it's going to come up with the Hackmii installer [and]
You want to press a on the continue button?
you want to press the D-Pad up to go up to install the homebrew channel you want to press a
You want to press yes continue?
It's going to install the homebrew channel, and then you want to press continue again
And then you'll see that there's this option here to uninstall the homebrew channel if you ever want to uninstall
this so basically on home your your [Wii], you would do this same process here and just
You know instead of saying install you go to uninstall. So we're basically done with this section
Here [you] trying to go down to exit, and it's going to finish up here
And it's actually going to boot right into the homebrew channel as you can see right here, so yeah, I mean
This is the root channel you see if I press one we have full access to everything
There's no, you know like actual applications on here yet. That's because you actually have to add them
You know yourself which I may do a you know video on that afterwards you know [will] like after this video
if you guys you know want to see that, but I just kind of wanted to make this video because
you know I just felt like it would [be] cool to do you know I have been wanting to do something [list] for like a
While you know and I've had this a week sitting around I figured why not
So yeah, you know
I just want to thank you guys so much for watching if you enjoyed this video if you want to see more videos like this
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you know future videos on
The homebrew channel and what you can do with them
But as always guys thank you so much for [watching] and I'll see you guys in the next video