I've been reading alot on Wii 'hacking', and this is what I know yet:

I need to wait till I get my Wii, then look up the serial, and then I can look what modchip I should buy (right?)

Now here's what I don't understand yet:

1.How do I update my Wii? What benefits do those updates bring?
2.If I install a Wii modchip in my Wii, can I replace it with another one?
3.Can a Wii update make my modchip unusable? What should I do then?
4.How much is the average size of a Nintendo Wii game?
5.I've heard something of scrubbing, do the games still work perfectly after scrubbed?
6.Any site that posts scrubbed releases (filenames, so I can Google them)
7. What's a Wii clip?
8. How do I get VC releases to work on my Wii?
9. Does the Wii have a WiFi connection, like the DS? Or do I have to get an internet cable to do it?
10. Do the modchips run every game flawlessy, if those games are burned well?
11. What kinda emulators are there for the Wii?
12. And a scrubbed release is just like a .rar file, but for the Wii? So it's smaller to download, but then you have to extract it and it turns to 4.7GB. Right?

That's about it, tnx!

 

1.How do I update my Wii? What benefits do those updates bring? Go to Wii Settings/Wii System Update. Depends on update
2.If I install a Wii modchip in my Wii, can I replace it with another one?Yes
3.Can a Wii update make my modchip unusable? What should I do then? Rather not, as modchips are rather undectable to Wii, but if update like this comes out, I'm sure the problem will get fixed
4.How much is the average size of a Nintendo Wii game? 4,37GB
5.I've heard something of scrubbing, do the games still work perfectly after scrubbed?Some of the games have problems, for exaple Super Smash Bros. Brawl unless modified have unplayable Subspace Emissary
6.Any site that posts scrubbed releases (filenames, so I can Google them) www.gbatemp.net
7. What's a Wii clip?A type of tool that lets you clip a modchip to your wii without soldering
8. How do I get VC releases to work on my Wii?Twilight Hack/Homebrew Channel + SD card + Wad Manager
9. Does the Wii have a WiFi connection, like the DS? Or do I have to get an internet cable to do it? Yes, it have Wi-Fi
10. Do the modchips run every game flawlessy, if those games are burned well?Depends on modchip, but rather yes
11. What kinda emulators are there for the Wii?Oh...NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Turbografx, GBA...too much to list
12. And a scrubbed release is just like a .rar file, but for the Wii? So it's smaller to download, but then you have to extract it and it turns to 4.7GB. Right? You have to unpack and unscrub it to be 4.37 GB

 

A gamecube emulator is not necessary, as the Wii can run that natively.

 

Yeah. It may not be a perfect science; I'm sure that in some games things don't work after scrubbing, but for the majority of releases they work just like the real game. And if things were disabled, it would be reported rapidly and new releases would probably be made.

Part 3 next post...

 

Scrubbed releases are just releases that have all the garbage data removed, which lets them be compressed easier. This in turn makes them faster to download.

 

You appear to misunderstand how scrubbing works.
Discs according to the spec hold a given amount of data. Your program does not have to occupy the lot. This means a the extra space does nothing and becomes junk data when you rip the disc (they are more or less 1:1 copies of the whole disc).
Wii isos are encrypted/signed across the disc and this means the junk data is essentially random (some work has been done into determining a pattern but I would not expect anything from it soon and a few isos do not sign the junk data).
This random data can not be compressed very easily using conventional (zip, rar, 7z etc) but luckily the junk data is not checked (it would be far too much effort) and can be altered without consequence. A nice alteration is to replace the junk with 00/FF (it gets a bit more complex when headers and such are involved but that is the principle) which means the iso can be compressed far more easily using conventional methods (i.e. you extract with anything that deals with the compressed files which are usually split between multiple rar, zip or 7zip archives). A scrubbed iso and a normal iso should be exactly the same size.

There is however some work into making multi game isos but it is not at a stage like the xbox titles and GC titles. Unless you mean storage of the files, in which case it is just normal data.

 

ive got a question too

is it possible to play ntsc wii games (so from the US) on a pal console (so from the EU)?
if yes, how?

 

Okay, tnx FAST

I would like to be able to emulate PSX and maybe XBox games, how long till they come (months? years?)

 

xbox is x86 architecture too... so it'd be a pretty serious emulator.

 

Possibly forever