FGOD said:Yes, these are indeed designed to make the wii brick proof. I'm thinking of buying one when it comes out.
QUOTE said:The very first working test of BootMii. BootMii takes over the boot process of the Wii and lets you run almost anything (even security code, a backup/restore utility, you name it) from an SD card, before most of the system even starts booting. It is a huge step towards "brickproofing" a Wii, as it will still work even if you thoroughly screw up your filesystem. You could even format it entirely and it would still work.
Here I'm testing it with a small program that modifies the boot code (boot2) to boot into the Homebrew Channel instead of the normal system menu. Pop the SD card in, the Wii boots to HBC. Take it out, it reverts to normal boot. Real handy for coders.
To those that claimed that System Menu channels were more convenient (read: saved you a click or two) compared to running homebrew off of HBC: take that! :-)
Sorry for the crappy video. My 5 year old digital camera finally decided to crap out, so I had to film this using my cellphone.
Tell that to all the kids who claimed that (often illegal banner-containing) channels were more convenient than HBC because they saved them three seconds.EmperorOfCanada said:Awesome! That program would literally save me like 3 seconds every time I wanted to run the HBC!
marcan said:I love how no one bothers to read the youtube video description... here, I'll paste it for you:
Dude, read. It's software. There's nothing to make.QUOTE said:The very first working test of BootMii. BootMii takes over the boot process of the Wii and lets you run almost anything (even security code, a backup/restore utility, you name it) from an SD card, before most of the system even starts booting. It is a huge step towards "brickproofing" a Wii, as it will still work even if you thoroughly screw up your filesystem. You could even format it entirely and it would still work.
Here I'm testing it with a small program that modifies the boot code (boot2) to boot into the Homebrew Channel instead of the normal system menu. Pop the SD card in, the Wii boots to HBC. Take it out, it reverts to normal boot. Real handy for coders.
To those that claimed that System Menu channels were more convenient (read: saved you a click or two) compared to running homebrew off of HBC: take that! :-)
Sorry for the crappy video. My 5 year old digital camera finally decided to crap out, so I had to film this using my cellphone.
EmperorOfCanada said:Awesome! That program would literally save me like 3 seconds every time I wanted to run the HBC!
Tell that to all the kids who claimed that (often illegal banner-containing) channels were more convenient than HBC because they saved them three seconds.
still a nice video and damn you guys do great stuff! i hope you guys keep on making wonderfull stuff like this!
that's alright too then i only have to find the stuff and somebody who is good at making stuff like thismarcan said:QUOTE(FGOD @ Oct 12 2008, 01:25 PM)
marcan said:Dude, read. It's software. There's nothing to make.FGOD said:that's alright too then i only have to find the stuff and somebody who is good at making stuff like this
Why would it be needed? Surely it's just a display he made.QUOTE said:and what about the display on top of your wii showing the boot? isn't that needed?
yes you wont need any extra hardware.jan777 said:marcan said:Dude, read. It's software. There's nothing to make.FGOD said:that's alright too then i only have to find the stuff and somebody who is good at making stuff like this
are you saying that we probably wont need that bootmii gcmemcard?
well just put this piece of software into the sd and boot the wii?
cause that just what will help my region-impaired wii.
Given the right patches, sure.FGOD said:and what about the display on top of your wii showing the boot? isn't that needed?
That's just a display for debugging. Completely passive. The Wii can't tell whether it's plugged in or not in this case.
Would it be possible to get the game in the Wii drive to run straight off boot rather than going through the Wii menu too? 'Cause maybe I'm just lazy, but that would be useful.jan777 said:are you saying that we probably wont need that bootmii gcmemcard?
There is no GC memcard. The LCD is soldered into the Wii (there are a bunch of wires sticking out) and you won't need it for anything.
It's not a channel, but you need to install it beforehand, yeah.jan777 said:EDIT: oh you need the channel installed first? that sucks
QUOTE(Trolly @ Oct 12 2008, 01:48 PM)
OSW said:yes you wont need any extra hardware.jan777 said:marcan said:Dude, read. It's software. There's nothing to make.FGOD said:that's alright too then i only have to find the stuff and somebody who is good at making stuff like this
are you saying that we probably wont need that bootmii gcmemcard?
well just put this piece of software into the sd and boot the wii?
cause that just what will help my region-impaired wii.
but first, you need to be able to boot the software that modifies boot2.
so it protects your wii from future bricks. boot2 as it is normally, wont do anything with the SD at boot like bootmii does.
so if your wii is already bricked, i presume you can't boot the software that modifies boot2 through normal methods