BootMii Video

[wraggster]

Marcan of Team Twiizers has posted a video of BootMii in action, the BootMii adapter lets you boot games as normal but also can be booted into Homebrew and Custom Firmwares etc, check out the video below :)

http://www.youtube.com/v/9oAQ9i4FMeg

Nice to see new interestimg developments for Wii Homebrew :)

[reluttr]

Anyone happen to know what song is playing in the background?

[trugamer]

The song is Chrono Trigger Crying Mountain OC ReMix.

I didn't know that I just found it out from the comments on YouTube lol

[mcdougall57]

very "interestimg" :)

[wisinx]

this is great, Cause if u brick ur console with a banner or a corrupt wad you culd boot to the hbc and make it all back to normal.

[bumfacekilla]

In theory, would this work on any Wii regardless of System menu version and region?

[Unicron2k]

Marcan of Team Twiizers has posted a video of BootMii in action, the BootMii adapter lets you boot games as normal but also can be booted into Homebrew and Custom Firmwares etc.

Firstly, this is NOT an adapter or something hardware based. The display you see is soldered inside the Wii and used debugging. BootMii is entirely software which resides in "boot2".

Secondly, it does NOT allow you to boot a game as normal(togh that can be acheived). BootMii checks the SD card for a file containing some code, which is then executed. If the file is not found, BootMii resumes normal booting. The file can contain code to launch the game/channel etc. but it doesn't launch it directly.

Thirdly, The Wii does NOT use (custom)firmware, it uses an IOS(In/Out System). A firmware is low-level software that resides on a ROM, and in some cases, it can be upgraded. An IOS is a set of modules that is loaded by firmware(boot2)(?) and used to comunicate with the hardware.

Please note that this might not be ENTIRELY correct, but overall, it's correct. marcan have already chewed out Brakken and some others for misreporting it as hardware that boots custom code.

But to be on-topic, this really help out the devs, since it makes trolling around with banners/IOS/system-files a lot less dangerous, and provides a free, simple solution to recover from bricks caused by un-luckyness or by beeing n0bish.