bricks wanted?
To continue with the theme of my last post on updates and bricking: I don’t have an actual explanation for any of the 4.2 bricking, and I suspect Nintendo doesn’t really, either — I don’t think they keep a copy of the NAND keys for each device, and I doubt they have any readily-available way of retrieving them.   As a matter of personal curiosity, I would be interested in doing a post-mortem on such a Wii myself. If you have a bricked Wii that fulfills the following requirements: Worked just fine before the 4.2 update Is now unusable after the

updates and bricking
I keep getting questions along the lines of “should I update to 4.2? Are you guys going to make a ’safe boot2 updater’?”   (The answer is ‘no’, but keep reading.) Somewhere in the noise about this most recent update the point I was trying to make got lost.  Let me recap the facts: The most recent system update was the largest update ever done — 32 titles were added or updated, and each system downloaded approximately 50MB

HBC freeze fix
HBC v1.0.5 freezes. Like forever. But only for some users. Fixed that, and some other minor hiccups. Launch HBC to update it. Or grab fresh installer. BootMii and DVDX unchanged. And please: Read our updated FAQs first. For the HackMii installer and The Homebrew Channel, see here. For BootMii, see here. Better read those twice. We have a bug tracker. If you think you found a bug, be so kind and open an item here. Download. As always: Please link to this post in

Silly games
As you all know, Nintendo pushed a huge update yesterday. Turns out it’s a rather lame attempt to block, among other things, our installer. They also remove The Homebrew Channel and DVDX on every system menu startup, but for that they just hardcoded the used title IDs. So let’s play this silly game: let’s switch title IDs! Beware: Everything installable with this installer works with every system menu version, you do not have to update to v

Wii Menu 4.2: a lack of imagination
Edit by marcan: For those of you who do not get the hint already: THIS UPDATE DOES NOT AND WILL NOT DESTROY HOMEBREW. An updated HackMii installer that will work around all “issues” caused by this update (except for bannerbomb, which is being looked at separately)including bannerbomb (thanks comex) is in testing (this time I’m testing it, instead of working on it). None of the changes in the update are insurmountable; in fact, as you’ll note if you read this post, they’re pretty lame. What this means is that you definitely should NOT panic and start pa