Homebrew Best way to build & test homebrew repeatedly?

Kirby6417 · Monday at 10:20 PM

I want to create and/or edit several homebrews (e.g. WiiMC, Nintendont, WiiXPlorer) for some very specific uses.

I've never done this before, but I've found tutorials and I can learn how to use makefiles and stuff.

My question is: how do i repeatedly test my work? Turning on the wii takes time, but Dolphin doesn't necessarily handle homebrew the same way a Wii does. How do all the veterans do this? What's the most efficient workflow?

newo · 2026-07-31T23:31:02+0100

in the make file there is a way to send the dol directly to the wii over the network(wii must be turned on, hbc must be running, sd card must have assets) using the run option which executes wiiload

export WIILOAD := tcp:192.168.0.16

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
run:$(BUILD)
wiiload $(TARGET).dol

Once your code is stable enough dolphin is pretty good for testing and very fast in comparison.

Kirby6417 · 2026-08-01T00:36:49+0100

Awesome! Thank you, I really appreciate it!

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