Hacking Have you ever shown your friends about Wii hacking?

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I've done it for a couple friends. One, (Knows how to use a computer) is fine, doesn't need much help with it. The other however, seemingly has never done anything on his computer except play games. He updated to 3.4 straight after it came out and kind of messed up his Wii (nothing serious) It does not go to the shop channel now, and he wants to buy DLC for guitar hero. (Naturally, he had to need the one thing the shop channel is needed for.) Also, Gamma doesn't work.

I'll do it for anyone who asks, but another newbie fiend and I'll probably stop doing it free.

By the way.. Anyone know how to get guitar hero DLC for free?
 

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I've told quite a few people, mostly when they're over and say "what games do you have?" and I respond by plopping a spindle of DVD-Rs on their lap.


I've only installed it personally on one console - my own.


When people ask, I usually tell them the basic process - in the Wii Zelda game, there's a horse that can be named, and with a special save file, the horse's name is much longer than the Wii expects, causing it to crash, and then the save file lets me boot anything I want, and from there I can install things like this that lets me play burned games.


A lot of people ask me to do it for them, but decide against it when I tell them of the bricking risk, or I decide against it for them because they don't fully appreciate the risks involved, or will hold me responsible even if I tell them ahead of time.

Only one other person I know has hacked their Wii as a result of what I did to mine, but he did most of it on his own. The only thing I did was help him set the booktype on his burner to DVD-ROM for his DVD+Rs, give him Starfall, and help him install Starfall after he told me B+2 didn't work....





Personally, I've found that the best method is to simply over-exaggerate the risk of bricking. Most will decide against it, and some will go online to learn that the bricking only occurs if you screw up. At that point, they'll see how easy it is to do, and do it themselves. For the few remaining, just tell them that you don't want to risk breaking their Wii, and that if they really want to do it they should find out themselves.

If someone actually goes through the process of learning how to do it and doing it themselves, they should be able to figure out how to get apps and other things themselves too.
 

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I was actually thinking of modding my friend's Wii but I think they'll hold me responsible. They even said that you have to softmod your Wii first. And they're both really scared so yeah. Even with the mod chip they're scared.
 

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I would like to, and i'm quite confident about doing it safely, but it does open up the potential for them to brick themselves in the future, and i don't want to be blamed...

Everyone I've told about wii softmods hadn't heard anything of them before and were pretty excited by the concept lol.
 

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Hey... someone I know wants me to do it for them... they supply this discs (blanks) the sdcard (which they may or may not get back) I have the game...

They are going to be highly warned about bricking if they start messing around with stuff they have no idea about... I will burn them 50 games w/ best loading method for their Wii... (seems like some of the drives have bad personality on reading discs) Gamma is the usual method... I tell them don't update unless I update them.. and that if they find a game out of the 50 that they got they like...I tell them to go buy it now... What do I charge... anywhere from $150-200 for softmod and 50 discs *they supply.I don't rush out to tell people about...word of mouth works... and explain to them a bunch of facts about how this isn't something available from the Nintendo site... and if you have any problems to please go to hackmii.com for all the latest answers.... (the last one was sarcasm)...

If they want more games from me... then they are going to pay me and buy the discs... I have better things to do then do then burn games for them...
 

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OSW said:
I would like to, and i'm quite confident about doing it safely, but it does open up the potential for them to brick themselves in the future, and i don't want to be blamed...

Everyone I've told about wii softmods hadn't heard anything of them before and were pretty excited by the concept lol.

You could just install the backup channel and a few other channels for people and then remove homebrew after so they cant possibly brick their wii.
Its a way to get them installed without letting them break things after.
 

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I have installed the HBC and Gamma on 6-7 Wiis now so I find it very easy to do.
I dont have TP on my Wii, I have it on GC, so I just get them to rent the game and then I install it for free.
Then I charge $1 for each disc I burn for them.

I told my friends, and they thought it was awesome.
None of them are into Homebrew though...
 

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IMO, I feel that this is more for wii users that are good at computers, or at least those that did alot of reading beforehand, or both.

As mentioned already, even if one could help hack their wiis, there is no guarantee that they wouldn't brick themselves in future.

So BEST is to do alot of reading!
 

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Dr Eggman said:
Heh, i told a lot of people. But i only showed one in particular. My good friend. Sometimes we'll be talking
"Did you see the new version of xxx homebrew etc"
and my other friends will be thinking
"WTF are they talking about?!?!?"
I don't regret it. Only thing, once, he took the update to 3.4, so i downgraded him. But that's it!
I just told him about the Twilight Hack. He found out everything else on his own. (we started back in the days of 0.1 alpha 1, we used to toss around an SD Gekko)
New version of porno homebrew eh?
 

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djtaz said:
You could just install the backup channel and a few other channels for people and then remove homebrew after so they cant possibly brick their wii.
Its a way to get them installed without letting them break things after.

Really ?

LOL i thought that you needed the SD card in the console all of the time?

I have to use the backup loader from the hbc to launch my games cos whenever I try to use one of the backup loaders from the main screen (Wiiish-BKUP.wad or Backup_Loader_ZELDA-BKUP.wad) i get audio and no video.

So does the HBC backup loader not run from the SD card (SD Card\apps\2. Backup_Launcher) ?

also..


Is there a way to hide the HBC from the main screen (other than moving it right to the end of the channel list out of view)?
 

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theauth0r said:
djtaz said:
You could just install the backup channel and a few other channels for people and then remove homebrew after so they cant possibly brick their wii.
Its a way to get them installed without letting them break things after.

Really ?

LOL i thought that you needed the SD card in the console all of the time?

I have to use the backup loader from the hbc to launch my games cos whenever I try to use one of the backup loaders from the main screen (Wiiish-BKUP.wad or Backup_Loader_ZELDA-BKUP.wad) i get audio and no video.

So does the HBC backup loader not run from the SD card (SD Card\apps\2. Backup_Launcher) ?

also..


Is there a way to hide the HBC from the main screen (other than moving it right to the end of the channel list out of view)?

1-you dont need the hbc afteryou install a wad. of a backup loader
2-you can't use the wad becouse it not the right version for you, you have a version that forces pal and your wii is ntsc or the other way around
3-you can't hide it, just delete it
 

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You can run the HBC from the channels without the sd card the DOL is all built into the channel and resides on the wii itself - you may be using the wrong channel - u may have tried a Force pal or Force NTSC one and were in the wrong region - try one with no force but with autoboot (theres one in my zip for no force autoboot)

Theres no way that i know of to hide the HBC from people - i just uninstall it after getting the backuploader channel on.
 

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thanks for the heads-up..

i'll look into the issue, however im running a pal wii, with pal games, on a pal tv.. i've not tried to force any settings.
I've tested it all on my sisters console, and everything works without problems, the only difference is I am using a hd component connection to my lcd tv and hers is an old crt tv using the standard connectors.


I'll have a play round with mine tonight and see.

thx guys
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I don't leave an SD card in for people, just the blank channel and backup Launcher. They can always google it to find out about homebrew
 

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I love how everything makes you a hacker to those who aren't electronically/computer literate
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I've been called a hacker for some of the dumbest reasons. Know how to fix a crashing computer, your a hacker, know how to alter your windows theme, your a hacker, Run linux OMG your a hacker! My all time favorite though, had to be when a friend called me a hacker because i was altering a photo in photoshop. Yes photo editing now makes you a hacker....
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