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  1. leseratte

    Hacking d2xl-cIOS - a fork of davebaol's d2x-cIOS

    d2xl-cIOS What is d2xl? The d2xl-cIOS ("l" for "Leseratte") is a fork of davebaol's d2x-cIOS. I began the development of the d2xl-cIOS in September 2019, when the Bluebomb exploit for the Wii Mini was released. The Wii Mini uses different IOS than the Wii, that means, the cIOS needed to be...
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    Hacking What exactly makes Priiloader not work on vWii?

    Now in the last years, there have been a couple posts of people who tried installing Priiloader on their vWii, and it did no longer work, and they had to use ftpiiU to restore a working vWii system menu. However I was unable to find an explaination for why that happens. Has anyone who knows...
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    Homebrew Collection of old devkitPro versions

    In the past, there have been multiple times where I wanted to compile a Wii homebrew and found out that my devkitPro / devkitPPC toolchain was either too old or too new to compile said homebrew. And getting the correct version of devkitPPC and libogc isn't always easy, because the...
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    Homebrew Embed Wii homebrew into ISO

    I wrote a quick homebrew test program to test something, which works just fine when started over Wiiload or in the Homebrew Channel. However, when I extract a Wii game, replace its main.dol with my homebrew and re-pack it and try to boot the "game", my homebrew doesn't start. I just see a black...
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    Homebrew Wii channel time and launch restrictions

    The Wii does support time restrictions and launch restrictions on channels, most likely intended to be used for demos. According to these two articles, https://tcrf.net/Wii#Time_Limits_and_Usage_Periods_for_Channels https://emucross.com/dolphin-developer-resurrects-incomplete-wii-ios-feature/...
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    Tutorial fwpatcher: fw.img patcher for WiiU WiiVC firmware image

    fwpatcher: fw.img patcher for WiiU WiiVC firmware image Since about two weeks, it is possible to inject custom ISO files and homebrew into the WiiU WiiVC games, as seen in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-on-wii-u-virtual-console-injecting-games.483007/ The main piece of software...
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    Homebrew Wii homebrew app - how to detect if it runs on Wii or vWii?

    I have written a homebrew app which needs to behave different on Wii vs. on a vWii (WiiU). To find out whether it runs on a Wii or a WiiU I'm currently checking the version of IOS58 - 5918,6175,6176 = Wii, 6432 = WiiU, other versions = cancel. However sometimes there are people who report...
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