Wii Homebrew takes massive first steps
Having recently hacked the Wii via a Twilight Princess gamesave exploit, the Wii Homebrew Community has taken the next step in fully cracking open the lovely white little box: they’ve managed to install a custom channel to the Wii menu that can boot custom code from the Wii’s SD card slot. For those only passingly keeping tabs on the Homebrew Scene: up until a few days ago, one needed to boot through Twilight Princess every time they wanted to run the exploit and, to run any code, one also needed a special SD-to-Memory Card adapter originally made for the Gamecube. Considering how both those requirements have been smashed within a week, the future for Wii Homebrew looks incredibly promising.
Hopefully we’ll see some legitimate uses for the newly created “Homebrew channel,” as opposed to just a simple way to circumvent the Virtual Console. A Linux channel would certainly be a welcome addition to the Wii Menu, that’s for sure. At the very least, let’s hope this doesn’t become the Wii’s Dreamcast moment.
To see the exploit in action, check out the video below.
- Rob O’Reilly
