Author Topic: Wii Homebrew Channel (Read 40531 times)

stevey · « **Reply #100 on:** August 13, 2008, 05:20:14 PM »

Quote from: Brandogg on August 13, 2008, 01:04:32 AM

Just be careful - the Wii's (cheap) laser wasn't designed for the non-stop reading that goes on with watching a DVD.

What the hell is going on? One bad E3 and everyone turning anti-Nintendo, buying other systems and bashing Nintendo

. This is fake, as far as I can tell a bunch of Nintendo hating pirates on GBAtemp started the rumor a day after this was announced who wanted people to work on a softmod iso loader instead of "wasting" time on a DVD player/reading and then spammed it on every homebrew related site there is. After an hour of searching no one has ever reported their Wii laser having died from constant reading nor has anyone show proof of this "melted" or burned out laser. Plus if you played any real game (Zelda, Metroid, Smash bros., Metal Gear) you know that they are steaming data nonstop most of the time off the DVD. The laser is identical to any "DVD only player" with the only difference from you computer's is the lack of ability of playing CDs. There are no factory that are making short access DVD read lenses either.

Quote from: Erant (the one who made this hack)

The myth of you being able to ‘burn out’ a DVD laser is pretty much what it says on the tin, a myth. This drive was designed specifically for two things. reading Wii games, and reading DVD-Videos. There are special commands in the drive for doing so. (We use these commands to read these discs without a modchip). So, these drives were designed with reading DVD-Videos in mind. (And even if they weren’t, you’re running the entire drive in spec. I’ve been told these myths came about when people were pot-tuning their PS2s, running them out of spec. Running any piece of hardware beyond the limits that were set for it will break it in the long run)

The drive is not doing anything it's not doing during a game. This is Nintendo, if there going to make a console that can withstand being whacked by a sledgehammer and still work afterward, why would they cheap out on the drive!

Morari · « **Reply #101 on:** August 13, 2008, 05:43:13 PM »

Quote from: Brandogg on August 13, 2008, 01:04:32 AM

Just be careful - the Wii's (cheap) laser wasn't designed for the non-stop reading that goes on with watching a DVD.

It's unlikely to cause damage. Developers just like to spread such misinformation to try to scare people away from piracy. Sure, the writable DVDs you buy down at the store aren't as easily read as the factory pressed ones that Nintendo throws out, but in the end it's not going to do anything. Hell, I played almost nothing but pira--er, backups on my Dreamcast and it's still going. I had to revert back to it for a while while my Wii is out for repairs... It can't read GAMECUBE discs without sending up error messages!

Really though, go spend the $50 on a good DVD player. You're guaranteed better performance if nothing else.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #102 on:** August 13, 2008, 05:53:31 PM »

I'm just posting what I've read from other sources - such as the problems with SSBM occurring, and getting worse over time for *some* users. I'm certainly not trying to be anti-Nintendo, in fact I'd love to install this app (I already have tons of homebrew on my Wii...ok, a few things), but it's pointless for me, since I use XBMC on my XBox to watch my DVDs at 1080i, which my TV displays at 1080p.

stevey · « **Reply #103 on:** October 26, 2008, 02:11:50 PM »

Homebrew Channel Beta 9 Released! It's can be installed even after the new 3.3b system update and now features SDHC (4GB+) support. Proving once again, Nintendo's Hardware/Firmware department is run by a bunch of idiots.....

KDR_11k · « **Reply #104 on:** October 26, 2008, 02:51:13 PM »

Remember, amateurs can (sometimes illegally) use stuff that companies cannot due to software patents.

Morari · « **Reply #105 on:** October 26, 2008, 02:57:54 PM »

Proving once again that patents are filed by a bunch of idiots?

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #106 on:** October 26, 2008, 05:17:02 PM »

I saw this, it's good to know that it is possible to do this with the hardware in the Wii and that Nintendo could theoretically patch SDHC compatibility into the firmware if they wanted to. Right now the only reason anyone would need more than 2 GB of space on a Wii SD card is homebrew, but if DLC becomes more of a thing on the Wii I could see Nintendo possibly doing it.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #107 on:** October 26, 2008, 05:25:19 PM »

You would need more than 2GB of space rather quickly if you like Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour. This is awesome news, I'm gonna update a little bit later.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #108 on:** October 26, 2008, 07:27:43 PM »

I don't know if it would be that quick, I don't have the Wii version, but on the 360 version of Rock Band 2 DLC songs are in the ~40 MB range, so it would take a lot of them to fill it up..

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #109 on:** October 26, 2008, 07:38:43 PM »

40 megs per song? Why so much?

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #110 on:** October 26, 2008, 07:55:30 PM »

Sounds & scripting? They ain't yo regular MP3z.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #111 on:** October 26, 2008, 09:50:55 PM »

Each song is 4 individual music tracks, plus 4 midi files (which are tiny), and they also contain the animation sequences, note charts, and (at least on Rock Band 2) the crowd singing as well. Getting that down to ~40MB on average is no small feat. Death Magneitc (360) is 1.3GB alone, though it includes the GH3 version as well. Still though, even if each song was 20MB, that's only 50 songs per game, which really isn't that much considering there's nearly 300 songs available for Rock Band for download.

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #112 on:** October 27, 2008, 12:53:31 AM »

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #113 on:** November 24, 2008, 08:54:51 AM »

So just got this installed and I must say I'm pretty damn impressed. Lots of cool apps abound, and its great having a region-free loader for both the Cube and Wii. I'm debating importing Disaster Day of Delay now, since I doubt it's going to see a stateside release...

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #114 on:** November 24, 2008, 10:38:07 AM »

ooooooh good I dea Mr. Jack

stevey · « **Reply #115 on:** November 24, 2008, 12:06:22 PM »

This is pathetic, NINTENDO SUCKS AT CODING/PROGRAMMING. Whoever is in charge needs to be fired.....

Twilight hack returns once again (kind of). It turns out that even though the Wii now deletes the twilight hack on sight during boot up, Nintendo programmers were too damn lazy to fix their search and destroy code for when games are copied to the Wii from the SD card.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #116 on:** November 24, 2008, 12:59:23 PM »

Eh, let 'em screw up as much as they want.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #117 on:** November 24, 2008, 01:34:01 PM »

I was just coming here to post the same thing as stevey. I haven't updated, and probably never will, but at least there's a solution now.

Djunknown · « **Reply #118 on:** November 25, 2008, 12:50:46 AM »

Anybody paranoid that Nintendo will start bricking Wii's that have been modded? The new Terms of Service did add that amendment after all...

I wouldn't be surprised if they did something MS style, give the folks a false sense of security, wait 3 months or so, then BAM! Your VC, WiiWare games don't work anymore.

Or is Nintendo bluffing, and will just wag their proverbial finger?

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #119 on:** November 25, 2008, 01:24:06 AM »

How are they gonna do that?

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #120 on:** November 25, 2008, 01:53:40 AM »

Nintendo has too great of customer service to ban modders. If you install hacked VC games, then you deserve to be banned from the service, but if you're watching DVDs or playing actual homebrew, then you're not harming Nintendo in any way whatsoever, and should be left alone.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #121 on:** November 25, 2008, 04:02:43 AM »

Quote from: Djunknown on November 25, 2008, 12:50:46 AM

Anybody paranoid that Nintendo will start bricking Wii's that have been modded? The new Terms of Service did add that amendment after all...

I think the update message has included "may brick modded Wiis" for a looooong time.

I don't think they'll try to go MS-style since their online offerings make money by having people buy stuff for themselves, MS makes money from subscriptions and those need to get cheat-free gameplay guaranteed. Preventing people from using modded software, sure. Blocking them from buying more games, thereby preventing them from giving Nintendo money if they give up on modding? Stupid idea, you can just as well stop bothering if you're going to prevent them from ever giving you money again.

The clause is just a CYA since they don't know what a mod might do and their attempt to kick it off the system might brick the system.

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #122 on:** December 08, 2008, 12:52:10 AM »

Okay this channel is AWESOME. I've been playing Quake and downloading all kinda of ****.

Does anyone know if the animal crossing update will bork my homebrew menu?

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #123 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:10:25 AM »

Okay I'm safe I can install that update.

Dude you guys the HBC is so awesome. Seriously. You just install it once with the homebrew channel with the homebrew browser update and it will take care of itself. You can download the applications to your SD card right from your wii with the Homebrew browser. It's so awesome!

They are building some nice media centers, theirs Quake, Doom, and just custom Wii games. Lots of Emulators including Sega Saturn and PSX. There is DVD playback, AVI playback. Operating systems, development tools. **** it's awesome. So much **** it's crazy.

Thanks to Brandogg for talking it up, I may not have gotten into it.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #124 on:** December 08, 2008, 12:32:28 PM »

But, I actually play games.

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Author Topic: Wii Homebrew Channel (Read 40531 times)