Wii U Homebrew Apps

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The Wii U Homebrew Channel is a good alternative to the old Nintendo Wii Twilight Hack. It is a channel that can load Wii U hombrew applications without initially using hardware mod chip or the softmod solution like Twilight Hack. What it does is list the apps that are stored and organized in the SD / SDHC / SDXC card then the list is shown.

However, what makes Pimp My Wii stand apart from every other option is its compatibility with Wii U. Once updated, the. Useful Wii Homebrew apps, Watch. Mar 04, 2021 The Homebrew Browser lists all of the major Wii homebrew software available for download, which is helpful for apps that don't have good installation instructions like WiiXplorer (see below). If you can't get this app to work, you might need to go into the settings.XML file and change 'settingsserver' from 0 to 1 so that the Wii will make the. Region: NTSC-U System Menu 4.2U (v481) Priiloader installed Drive date: Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58 Hollywood v0x11 Console ID: 51233502 Console Type: Wii Shop Channel Country: United States (49) Boot2 v4 Found 102 titles. Found 56 IOS on this console. 3 of them are stubs. IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches. WiiU Homebrew Appstore.

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This section of the guide will help you to prepare everything.

Step 0: What You Will Need¶

  • A SD Card (or Micro SD card + adapter)

    • We recommend a SD with at least 4GB+ even if not needed. A small SD card is enough to get CFW running, but larger ones are preferred for installing games and performing NAND backups efficiently.

    • If you want to backup your Wii U, you should use a SD at least twice the size of your console (16GB for the white console and 64GB for the black one)

  • A working internet connection on your Wii U

    • The browser exploit requires internet (Crazy, I know). If you decide to install Haxchi this is only needed once however.

  • One of the following games if you want Haxchi:

    • NOTE: This is not required if you just want to run the Browser exploit. We do recommend buying one of these games though

    • WARNING: Don’t use a pirated copy of these games. This will result in a brick.

      Compatible Haxchi Games

      Animal Crossing: Wild World

      Big Brain Academy

      Brain Age

      DK: Jungle Climber

      Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training

      Kirby: Canvas Curse

      Kirby: Mass Attack

      Kirby: Squeak Squad / Kirby: Mouse Attack

      Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

      Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

      Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

      Mario Kart DS

      New Super Mario Bros.

      Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky

      Pokemon Ranger

      Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs

      Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia

      Starfox Command

      Super Mario 64 DS

      Wario: Master of Disguise

      WarioWare: Touched

      Yoshi’s Island DS

      Yoshi’s Touch & Go

    • We recommend buying Brain Age as it’s the cheapest at 6.99€ ($6.99 USD). However any of those games work fine!

    • If you had Brain Age or Brain Training installed for a very long time, please consider deleting and redownloading it as older versions are not compatible with Haxchi.

Step 1: Format your SD Card¶

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The Wii U needs a FAT32 formatted SD card. However unlike the Switch, only FAT32 works!. If you need to format your SD on Windows and you can’t find FAT32 as a selectable option, use guiformat and set the Allocation Unit Size to 32K (32768).

Important

Don’t call your SD “wiiu”, this will cause problems later on

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Step 2: Download Kosmos Wii U¶

  1. Grab the latest version of Kosmos-Wii-U from https://github.com/NicholeMattera/Kosmos-Wii-U/releases

  2. Insert your SD card into your PC

  3. Open `Kosmos-WiiU-vX.zip` with a ZIP Archiver of your choice

  4. Copy the content of the ZIP onto your SD

  5. You should now have a `wiiu`,`haxchi` and `install` folder on your SD

Congratulations, we’re done with preparations.

For this, you need legitimely purchased DS VC game from eShop.

Ready for Haxchi?

Haxchi allows you to launch Homebrew Launcher, it’s own built-in CFW and every homebrew app out there with a simple button hold. It has 100% launch rate which beats Browserhax method on every way

What does Haxchi do? Haxchi swaps rom.zip of your DS VC game with a exploited one. You will be unable to play that DS VC game so be sure to complete it before you Haxchi it!

Why only DS VC? DS VC is faster to bootup and get everything done!

I already have Brain Age installed. Will it also work? The answer is: Yes. Brain Age was free and every NNID created in 2014 got it! It’s also the cheapest DS VC out there so make sure to buy it!

Done reading? Then let’s jump right into it.

Before we start:

  • Download/Redownload/Purchase then download Brain Age/Exploitable DS VC game from eShop
  • For list of exploitable games, click this -> Haxchi Compatible DS VC games

If you can’t visit eShop, then disable your DNS TEMPORARILY in order to access eShop. [Set it again after you’re done]

Now, you need to get back into HBL again. Fire up your Internet Browser on Wii U and repeat Browserhax step again, but this time, just launch Homebrew Launcher from wiiubru.com/go Now load Appstore.

  • You can find Haxchi Installer in Tools section of Homebrew Appstore!

After it’s done downloading, press Home button.

Back into HBL! Now it’s time to install Haxchi!

Tap on “Haxchi Installer” then tap on “Load”

  • Now you;re prompted with Haxchi installer
  • Select your Legitimely purchased Brain Age/Exploitable DS VC game
  • Press A on it
  • It should begin overwriting your DS VC game with it’s own configuration
  • After it’s done, it will kick you back to Wii U menu, rarely to Mii Maker. If it does kick you to Mii Maker, then just quit Mii Maker

“Help! Haxchi Installation failed!” Don’t worry, we can fix that

  • Delete Brain Age/Exploitable DS VC game and redownload it from eShop
  • Check if Haxchi Installer isn’t corrupted [Instead of Haxchi Installer, you get black screen]
  • If it does give you black screen, delete Haxchi Installer using Appstore and download it again
  • Retry

Now tap on that DS VC game. Oh look! Homebrew Launcher! Did you know that Haxchi has it’s own built-in CFW? With this small trick, you will be able to boot into Haxchi’s CFW! But you need to eject out your SDCard [In Wii U menu of course, not in HBL or Appstore]

It’s time to edit config.txt. config.txt is located in SDCard://haxchi/config.txt

  • Now you have SDCard in your hands. Insert it to your PC again.

You will now see a new folder on your SDCard named “haxchi” [If it’s not there, create it] Now you will see config.txt here. [If it’s not there. create config.txt file] This is where fun begins.

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  • Open config.txt, you will see some strange stuff. With this config file, you can bind buttons to your liking!

Quick explaination: wiiu/apps/<Homebrew’s Folder Name>/<Homebrew’s .elf file>

sysmenu= This argument will boot you into Haxchi’s Built-in CFW

Set it to something like this:

  • a=wiiu/apps/homebrew_launcher/homebrew_launcher.elf
  • b=wiiu/apps/appstore/appstore.elf
  • default=sysmenu

Now insert your SDCard back into your Wii U and run Haxchi’d DS VC

Now from there run Haxchi Installer and let it overwirte your Haxchi’d game with new configuration. Now to get into Homebrew Launcher, you have to hold A, to get into Appstore, you have to hold B while starting up Haxchi. If you do nothing, you will get booted into Haxchi CFW! No need to use Mocha CFW anymore!

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Congratulations! You’re done! Permament HBL solution, that feels good doesn’t it?

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Want to boot direct into HAXCHI(cbhc) ? or simply learn now how to install Game Backups (WUP installer)? or you just want to Homebrew(Appstore) ?

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