You can fix it easily by reloading the Homebrew installer. Note: In some instances this tweak can invert the Homebrew screen, a strange quirk. DOP-Mii will complete the modification and kick you back to the Homebrew channel. Again, click A to confirm that you would. On those screens you will apply-press A to say yes to-the ES_Identity patch, the NAND Permissions patch, and then you will download the patches through your Wii's internet connection like so:Īfter the screen above, DOP-Mii will ask you if you want to restore IOS15 to v523. The next series of screens look similar to the above screenshot.
Run DOP-Mii and select Install I0S36 (v3351) w/FakeSign from the menu: Pop the SD card back in your Wii and launch the Homebrew channel.
As of the 4.0 Wii menu update, the Trucha Bug was eradicated luckily for our hacking purposes, you can easily reintroduce it in order to exploit it.ĭownload DOP-Mii v12 and extract the zip file onto your SD card keeping the folder structure intact.
The Trucha Bug is just a code vulnerability that existed on early versions of the Wii operating system (referred to in Wii-hacking documentation as IOS). (If you're not sure what version you have, click on the Options button in the lower left corner of your Wii's main menu and then on the Wii Settings icon on the right hand side of the screen the version number is displayed in the top-right corner of this screen.) If you have a newer menu system, you'll need to read this section. If you have an older Wii with an out-of-date menu system (3.2 or lower), you can skip this section about the Trucha Bug since your system still has it.
When laid out screen-by-screen this guide is quite lengthy, but the process itself only takes about 10 minutes start to finish-if you're not stopping to take lots of screenshots and write a tutorial along the way! This guide will show you how to activate an exploit on your Wii to allow more advanced Homebrew software to run, how to set up and format an external USB hard drive to play nice with your Wii, and how to manage the process of backing up your games and displaying them in cover-flow inspired style. Save your Wii games to an external hard…Read more Read In response to the demand, here's our own complete guide to setting up your Wii to play games from a USB hard drive.Īdvertisement Back Up and Play Your Wii Games From an External Hard DriveĪ disc that never leaves the case can never be scratched. Setting up your Wii with an external hard drive is a wildly popular topic, however, and since the old guides went offline, we've received daily emails on the topic. Unfortunately, like many things on the internet, the guides faded into the digital night (read: they were taken down). Last year we shared two guides with you that other people had written-the original and a revision-on how to back up and play your Wii games from an external hard drive. Connecting an external hard drive to your Wii to back up and play your games is a simple way to keep expensive discs out of harms way, decrease game load times, and organize your collection with swanky cover art.