Exploiting your Wii and Installing the Homebrew Channel; Putting safeguards in place to help prevent bricks; Installing other homebrew that can enhance your experience, should you choose; Ready to start?

Creating Wii Game Shortcuts Do you use a Wii backup loader and want to create game shortcuts to launch them on your Wii Menu? Then try WiiGSC (Wii Game Shortcut Creator), previously known as Crap.

The Wii Family Edition can dump GameCube games if the disk drive is swapped with one made for an original model Wii. When prompted, select if your disc is an unlicensed Datel disc. If unsure, select No .

If your Wii is already softmodded and you would like to update the softmods, follow this guide to upgrade your setup. All of the exploits listed here are different methods of achieving the same end-result (getting to the HackMii installer).

You can skip this process if you want, but generally it extends your Wii with little to no downsides. This d2x cIOS installer was originally developed for the Wii U's vWii by DaveBaol and custom cIOS was created by Leseratte for the Wii mini.

This guide is intended to be the last you will ever need when it comes to theming on the Wii, not only providing instructions for the Wii Menu through csm-installer, but also with themes on WiiFlow Lite, USB Loader GX, and The Homebrew Channel.

str2hax is an exploit for the Wii that is triggered by loading the Wii's End User License Agreement. It requires nothing but an Internet connection that lets you change the DNS on your Wii.

On the first page of the Wii Settings at the upper right corner, you should see 'Ver X.YZ'. Where 'X' and 'Y' are numbers, and 'Z' is a letter. An example is '4.3E'.

BlueBomb is an exploit that takes advantage of a flaw in the Wii and Wii mini's Bluetooth libraries. Although it is the only exploit that works for the Wii mini, BlueBomb can run on the original Wii as well.

This tutorial will explain how to update your Wii Menu to version 4.3, if you have already homebrewed your Wii. WARNING It is much safer to use ModMii (Windows only) to update your Wii to 4.3.