Custom Wii Firmware and Homebrew Channel Beta 9

[wraggster]

news via wiilinux

It’s official, a Custom Wii Firmware is in development. It may not be the feature packed firmware that you’re looking for, but it truly is a massive leap in the Wii Hacking Scene.

Recently, Marcan, one of the more publicized Wii developers, was interviewed for another website. During the interview, Marc let some news items fly.

Some of the more interesting points include:

Homebrew Channel Beta 9 - This channel will include new features that many have been asking for. It will be more of a minor update, focusing on stability rather than new features, but we will be suprised with what is included in the new release. The channel could have been released already, but testing was stopped because of testing for the… Wii Custom Firmware - In general, the Wii custom firmware has no features that are new. It would operate exactly as your current firmware does. The difference however, is that a “Recovery Menu” will be implemented to restore the NAND memory, even if “has been completely and utterly trashed”

Read the entire Interview here

Awesome News, what would you like to see in a Custom Firmware for the Wii ?

[____anders____]

that's cool

[porchemasi]

Id love to see a recovery menu, easy wad and ISO creator (for legal purposes, silly kids of mine have no respect for CDs), future proof/update proof to stop tp hack from working, and if its not pushing too much, a virtual wad mounter to load WADS of SD without installation AND save to the wii hdd/sd

[dahun]

all i ask is FOR CUSTOM SKINZ CAUSE ITS L33T

[rememberthe8bit]

So, it's like FlashMe? Cool.

[cas61692]

i want to use my action replay

[iofthestorm]

This might actually be useful since the Wii has no built-in recovery, and it seems easier to brick. Flashme on the DS is kind of pointless with slot-1 carts because there's really only one program out there that can brick your DS, and it's unlikely someone will download it by accident. Hopefully in the future this will have a lot of neat features though. But I'm wondering whether it would be fully reversible or compatible with Nintendo firmwares.

[AndrewArsonn]

Java support on the internet channel would be nice,
since I go to alot of online games on my wii like runescape, etc...
since my laptop has to get repaired all the time. And I can't play WoW, Guild Wars, or DOMO. *tear*
:P

[FPU4eva]

custom firmware is out kinda a POC but great progress

http://wii.qj.net/Wiibrew-custom-fir.../49/aid/122232