More Wii stuff
So, learning more and progressing Wii;
Installing HomeBrew was pretty easy. Depacking the BannerBlaster V2 and HackMii 0.6 was just depacking and putting it on the CD card.
HomebrewChannel worked and I had mixed it up with the HomeBrew Browser, so the HBC was empty. Stupid me was waiting and waiting. I was expecting it to update but read up and realised the mistake. I run WLAN using MAC address control and no WEP/WPA so I basically cannot use the Wii’s WLAN capability, and did get a corded access (USB LAN converter).
So, I downloaded the HomeBrew Browser and depacked it to a newly created “Apps” folder on the SD card. Now I could add a bunch on nice applications and run them.
Next work item is adding the new 320GB USB disk and ensuring I can access ISOs from it.
I understand that there are a few things to do in order to make that work;
– Fiddle with the cIOS
– Install something that allows accessing units connected via USB (USB Loader GX seems to be the program people recommend). Download from here. There are other alternatives. Check here to see which they are and a very detailed comparison.
– Connect a USB disk. A compatibility list is provided here
– Get a WBFS manager (These are available, the best Windows one seem to be WBFS Manager. Current version is 3.0). It can access WBFS formatted device.
Seems there are a comprehensive guide here: http://gwht.wikidot.com/usb-loader
Numera går det alldeles utmärkt att köra FAT32, så du behöver ingen WBFS Manager (däremot behöver du wbfs_file (och Simple GUI) för att göra wbfs-filer av ISO-filerna). http://gwht.wikidot.com/ innehåller allt du behöver, bara utgå från http://gwht.wikidot.com/usb-loader och utför prereq-stegen ett efter ett.
Tack för input!
Det finns ju flera USB loaders. USB Loader GX (som PSXcare installerar när dom hjälper till) har ju nuemera också (experimentellt?) stöd för NTFS, så det här med att specialformatera disken är nog något som är i en övergångsfas.
WBFS manager 3 är så snyggt och smidigt att jag förmodligen fortsätter med det, oavsett om det behövs eller inte. Skulle jag skippa WBFS och formatera om disken till något mera native i datorvärlden så kan jag jag kanske göra på något annnat sätt men just nu är det “If it aint broken, don’t fix it” 😉
Readers of this one: I have written a new, more like A to Z in getting it to work:
http://bergatrollet.se/blog/2010/01/the-wii-is-prepared-not-loads-40-games-from-usb/