Hacking homebrew channel questions

[mcjones92]

I was thinking about finally getting the homebrew channel. The only thing is I am a little worried that somehow it might mess up my Wii.

1) Is there any possibility that it might mess up my wii or in future updates?
2) Can I uninstall it fully so there are no more traces of it?
3) Can any of the programs for the homebrew channel mess up my Wii?
4) What are the advantages of getting it?

Thanks!

 

[fly_us]

1. not understand you fully
2. yes
3. yes
4. without HBC, it almost means no homebrew unless you want to use twillight hack everytime.

 

[mcjones92]

I fixed question one, I must have been distracted when I wrote it.

 

[felix123]

1.Yes, we don't know what N will do in the future. Be careful.
2.Yes, but you have to format your Wii.

 

[Sportsmaniac1322]

I was thinking about finally getting the homebrew channel. The only thing is I am a little worried that somehow it might mess up my Wii.

1) Is there any possibility that it might mess up my wii or in future updates?
2) Can I uninstall it fully so there are no more traces of it?
3) Can any of the programs for the homebrew channel mess up my Wii?
4) What are the advantages of getting it?

Thanks!

1) Yes, but as long as you don't update you're positive it won't affect anything (let others confirm it won't) then you should be fine.
2) Yep!
3) Mostly WAD Manager (the program that installs channels). If you make sure the channel you're installing is confirmed to work then you'll have no problems.
4) Lets see...emulators, custom channels, homebrew games, apps, and now a backup loader

 

[AeroHex]

I was thinking about finally getting the homebrew channel. The only thing is I am a little worried that somehow it might mess up my Wii.

1) Is there any possibility that it might mess up my wii or in future updates? Mabey.i heard the new one stop your wii booting i dont have any problems and one removes twilight hack
2) Can I uninstall it fully so there are no more traces of it? Yes and No.you can delete it but there will be log files left
3) Can any of the programs for the homebrew channel mess up my Wii? only when you're using wads they have to be from a reliable sorce and torrents read the comments
4) What are the advantages of getting it?do thing your wii could never do (play mp3s play sega n64 snes games etc)

Thanks!

hope it helped

 

[yukine]

I was worried about installing it as well, but once I did I regretted not doing it sooner.

Not having to do the Twilight Hack every time I want to run an emulator is very nice.

 

[Arm the Homeless]

To completely remove:

Use Tona's AnyTitle Deleter and go into Downloaded Channels and delete channel HAXX.