HardWii

David Findlay has created a way to control the Ipod using a Nunchuck and an Arduino. Pretty cool.

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David’s Nunchuck controlled Ipod

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Recently a bunch of my friends have purchased Wiis and have been requesting me to “hack” them. I was doing this manually using TBR , NUS, and a few other tools. This method was annoying as if something was done out of order the process generally needed to be restarted from the beginning. Xzxero and others on GBATemp have come up with a more straight forward way of hacking the 4.2 system, by using a modified version of Dop-IOS, GP DOP-IOS MOD. The GP version is just as straight forward as you can get, as in now you just have to click A 10 or so times to restore back the trucha bug to an IOS.

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Nicksasa, The Lemon Man and WiiPower have created Triiforce to allow a Wii user to launch Virtual Console, WiiWare and channels from a NAND backup. This is extremely usefully as it allows users below 4.0 to run VC / Wiiware from SD. It’s also useful as it will allow you to launch from a USB drive, so there is no worry about space on your SD card. The install and usage is pretty straight forward .

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SNEEK allows you to run your Wii NAND / ES completely off your SD, so no more worry about the space you have left on your Wii. As of right now this project went from being beta released to being unreleased as there are some issues with copyrights… interesting.

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Team Twiizer has released a new save game hack for LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures that functions almost exactly like the Twilight Princess hack by way of a buffer overflow. This hack will work on The System menu 4.2 and below and unlike the Twilight Princess hack the source code for it is being released right away. So now homebrewers have 3 different methods (BannerBomb, Indiana Pwns, and Smashstack) to install the Homebrew Channel on their Wiis.

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Wiikey has been building this up for the last month, and a day or so ago they announced the WiiKey Fusion. What sets the Fusion apart from prior chips is this chip connects to the SD slot and allows you to run ISOs off SD.

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The main issue when doing an internal hard drive hack, besides where to place the drive in the Wii, is the fact that any time you want to load previously created images on the drive you have to open up the Wii and remove the drive. I’ve taken a USB switch box, which is normally used to share a printers or hard drives between computers, and stripped it down so it can be used internally in the Wii. This hack is fairly easy to do, but there are a few catches that I’ll discuss below.

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Crediar released his beta complete system replacement about a two weeks ago called Freedom. This differs from all previous system menu replacements, as this is not directly based on the existing system menu at all and functions independent of it. So you could in theory upgrade to any version of the official system menu and lose none of the functionality of Freedom. Using this menu and BootMii you will eventually be able to totally bypass the official system menu. This is a huge breakthrough in Wii homebrew.

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I plan on making an HTML dump of each of the 28 .ash files that make up the system menu. This will make it easier for me and others to make new themes for the Wii. 56Killer of GBATemp will be helping me catalog the .ash files. Which, as you will see below, is now a complete list.
Edit: Well judging by my page hits and all the threads in GBATemp and some other forums System menu modding has taken off. Everyone doing the modding keep up the good work.

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ThaKillerKlown of GBATemp posted a link to the Pelican Wii Stand a month back or so and mention how it would be easy to hack. In the following month he bought one of the cases and hacked it for an external drive. In talking with one of my friends about USB drives for the Wii, I sent him a link to the hack and he liked the hack so much he wanted me to do one. I decided to dremel out the USB port and on/off switch in the back and cut one of the grates so I could leave the case as little changed as possible.

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