Will Homebrew channel mess up my wii?

Question

I am thinking of hacking my wii via the homebrew channel and jst wondering if there are chances that it will mess up my wii. I had bought the wii by my own pocket and so i dont want it to be messed up or something...on the other hand i also want to put homebrew channel on it..
Anyone HELP plz..

Answer 1

Homebrew Channel is great and quite safe. I've had a lot of experience with extensive Wii soft-modding, and the Homebrew Channel and its standard apps are the safest thing in the world. And yes, you can safely go to Nintendo's system update 4.3 after you've installed the Homebrew Channel 1.0.8. It won't hurt Homebrew, and it is required for many newer games. Use the links below to do the following:



1. Install the Homebrew Channel.

2. Do a system update to 4.3 only AFTER you've installed the Homebrew Channel.

3. Install the Homebrew Browser and use it to download and play all kinds of free and legal stuff.



Good luck!

Answer 2

The "Brick Risk" with the Homebrew Channel ultimately depends on how much modification you're planning on doing.





Installing the Homebrew Channel itself is very safe as it has an extremely low "Brick Risk" (only a power outage during installation can cause problems).



Using basic homebrew applications is very safe as it doesn't tamper with the Wii's internal memory.



Using advanced homebrew applications that tamper with the Wii's internal memory (Trucha Bug, cIOS's, ect.) is probably the stuff you want to avoid as your "Brick Risk" increased considerably with these.







If you want to install the Homebrew Channel & you're running Wii menu 4.2 or lower, here's the suggested method.



1) Install the Homebrew Channel using the Bannerbomb exploit.

2) Upgrade your Wii to version 4.3

3) RE-INSTALL the Homebrew Channel THROUGH the Homebrew Channel -- This re-installation will have the Homebrew Channel use IOS 58 (which has USB 2.0 support, included with Wii menu 4.3) instead of IOS 61.





Just be aware that once you've modified your Wii with the Homebrew Channel, you'll want to avoid upgrading the Wii Menu until the developers of the Homebrew Channel have released an "Wii menu safe" update... For example, when Wii Menu 4.3 was released, it was detecting the Homebrew Channel version 1.0.6 & lower... It took about a month for version 1.0.7 to be released (& later version 1.0.8) to circumvent the new detection measures.





So when the next Wii Menu update comes up... wait for the next version of the Homebrew Channel to be released before you consider updating your Wii.

Answer 3

From what I've heard, it doesn't mess up your Wii. However, once you have hacked the system and installed the Homebrew Channel, make sure that you DON'T do a System Update, or the Wii will be bricked.

Answer 4

No, it won't. But you can't install the Homebrew Channel on a 4.3 Wii System yet, but that doesn't mean your Wii will get bricked. A Wii console will only get bricked if you attempt to install a custom IOS the wrong way.

Answer 5

There is always a way of messing up your Wii. I bricked (messed up) my Wii 3x If you DO decide to hack your wii (you can email me @ [e-mail] if you need help doing so) I highly recommend that you make a NAND backup of the Wii's NAND memory and install Priiloader.

Answer 6

nope it will not. just make sure that once the will has been hacked, you do not update your wii firmware via the update feature in wii, or else it'll brick.

Answer 7

its a soft mod so it probably wont but it could some ppl who do it get there wii bricked