"Bannerbomb" Released.

[Midboss]

It should also be noted that: I used SNES9x last night on it, and the emu froze up and the Wii Remote kept rumbling. I think Bannerbomb is causing these issues :(

Hmm, that happened to me when I tried to run Homebrew Launcher.  It may very well be a problem with the bannerbomb.

[goemon_guy]

I can now confirm that Bannerbomb is the cause of the Stack dumps; I can run gecko fine with the HBC installed :D

[Link]

Seeing all these bannerbomb issues here.. please do not use the downgrading instructions for now! Really do not.. even though they might work to install the HBC and thus getting Gecko OS to work.. I wouldn't want to risk any damage to Wiis..

[goemon_guy]

:/ Is it bad if we already used the downgrade instructions...?

[111]

Sorry, I should have clarified that it is still an alpha version.  There apparently is still some issues that need to be worked on.  Also, on that page, Comex mentions Loadmii, which may work better.  The Front SD ELF loader was the very first homebrew loader that was created.  I remember using it with the Twilight Hack, before the Homebrew Channel was released.

You may also want to try some different versions mentioned on that page.  Maybe one of them would work better with GeckoOS.

:/ Is it bad if we already used the downgrade instructions...?

I wouldn't recommend using them.  However, I'm curious if it seemed to work okay for you?

EDIT:  One other thing, but keep in mind that Comex does not recommend using any downgrading tutorials.

[Link]

:/ Is it bad if we already used the downgrade instructions...?

Did they work? That'd be interesting - actually after doing an IOS Downgrade the hbc installer should work with it

[Midboss]

I just got up and tested with LoadMii; same deal.  I've tried a couple versions of the bannerbomb as well.

Wherever the problem is, it definitely looks like all that's left is to wait.

[milw0rm]

Bannerbomb works just fine here on the virgin wii (4.0E). It hadn't HBC installed before and all works fine. Wii-Homebrew.Com (I) mirrored yesterday - just in case Comex server will be flodded! - all Bannerbomb Variants in one free downloadable ZIP. Users in our Forum tried it out and wrote a guide/tutorial how to do it right. It's just a second alternative to bootmii, which will of course install the hbc, too. Some just couldn't wait ^^
Here the Download Link (please do not hotlink!):
BaNNerBomB: http://www.wii-homebrew.com/downloads/firmware-und-hacks/bannerbomb.html

"My-Wii-is-a-4.0-Virgin-and-I-cannot-wait-for-BootMii-Package" (lol): http://www.wii-homebrew.com/downloads/fuer-einsteiger/homebrew-startpaket-fuer-firmware-4.0.html

Just in case...
And a question: how does bannerbomb actually works? Again a bufferoverflow? I think it's a pretty open source ELF Loader modded a bit to work in this way.. But how can people DISCOVER Exploits?! Of Course this is an art, but they learned it, too :-)

[goemon_guy]

The downgrading instructions did not actually completely work. Bannerbomb kept on freezing after downloading 3 IOS's therefore, I reset the wii, and reran it. It restarted from the spot it left off.

Technically, I was able to downgrade IOS35 or whatever. But not the cIOS. Bummer. Aw Well, I got my HBC back :D

[brkirch]

It appears that there is a new version of Bannerbomb (v104), those of you that were having problems with Gecko OS and other homebrew apps freezing might want to give this new version a try to see if it fixes anything.