I've had homebrew on my Wii for a couple years, I mostly just used it to play Project+ but I decided that it would be easier to start USB loading my games so I wouldn't have to carry all of them with me when I moved around. I installed cIOSes using d2x and got USBLoader GX working fine for my...
although i ended up accidentally changing my nand with no way of going back bc i didn't know you needed a gamecube controller to restore it (i have a wii minus/1.1, which doesn't have gamecube controller support)
and if i find the sd card i have my NAND backed up on, i can not only restore the NAND if i solder the right part in, but i can also put my NAND on dolphin, then i can play dolphin online, like PMEX Remix or MKWii Riibalanced