Installing the hombrew channel again-- running from SD?

[sith12345]

I have firmware ver. 4.2U, NTSC(Black Wii if it makes a difference) and I was wondering if there is a way to install the homebrew channel to the SD card, so I don't have to soft mod my Wii.


I had installed it using the TP hack way back when my wii was firmware, like 2 point something or other, and my wii was fine. After a while, my wii stopped being able to read disks. I sent it on to nintendo, but they would not help me because I had soft-modded the wii.


Now I have a new wii, (I still have the old one, it just can't read disks.) and I was wondering if there was a way to put the homebrew channel on the SD card without modding the wii?


Thanks.

[James0x57]

I don't think there is.

However you would install the HBC on your Wii though, you can also use to launch any homebrew app... (terribly cumbersome)


But, uh, I think that there's apps out there that let you completely remove homebrew so Nintendo doesn't know you soft modded it.. Maybe someone else here knows better on that?




(sith from ARC?)

[dcx2]

This is treading gray area here, but I think it is justified to use a USB loader when your disc drive dies.  You can keep your old Wii as a modded Wii and use the loader on that.  The only issue is getting games on the hard drive.  There are ways to run homebrew apps once without making any permanent mods to the Wii, so you could probably do that and dump your library onto the hard drive.

[sith12345]

(Yup, not many other people (I hope) who have this username)



Hmm... so theres no real way to run HBC off of a SD card?

[dcx2]

There is, but it's "dirty".

Nintendo signs all games, so that way only things Nintendo signed can run.  In order to run unsigned code, you need an exploit.  Most exploits involve doing tricky things that almost make the Wii crash.  Usually, we use exploits to launch the HBC installer, so that way we can run HBC whenever we want.

You could use the exploits to launch homebrew apps directly, however that whole "dirty"/almost-crashing aspect of the exploit will give you trouble.  For instance, I think the bannerbomb exploit won't run Gecko OS.

As I said, you might be able to use your old Wii for softmods, so your new Wii doesn't need any permanent modifications.

[sith12345]

Yeah, I was working on a moveset in brawl, so I wanted to finish it.