Open-Source Apploader: load Wiibrew from DVD

Team Twiizers, who have always been anti-piracy, have found a workaround to the legal issues surrounding ISO loading, and have released an Open-Source Apploader that will let you load homebrew from DVD. More details in the full article.

Download: Open-Source Apploader
Download: ISO Template
Visit: QJ.NET Wiibrew Forums, Open-Source Apploader Thread

Thanks to fortunez for the heads up in the forums!

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Great news from the Wiibrew front! Team Twiizers have done it again with the release of their Open-Source Apploader – a substitute to Nintendo’s own copyrighted code – and will let you load homebrew from DVDs.

Once their DVD Access Library is out, they will also add a function in the Homebrew Channel that will let you boot homebrew from the DVD. Here is what Team Twiizer’s marcan has to say about the Open-Source Apploader, with additional instructions on how to use the ISO template (also downloadable below):

Guys, this is just a base image that can be used to run homebrew from DVD. Nothing more, nothing less.

You need version 3.2 or earlier or GeckoOS to boot it, since it uses trucha. You need a modchip. You need to regionpatch it for your region (it defaults to NTSC). You need to inject whatever application you want to run into it (by default it runs a little loader that loads the homebrew channel, which must have been previously installed).

For example, if you have a version older than 3.3, you can regionpatch the ISO and set it to autoboot to have a handy Homebrew Channel loader ISO that runs as soon as you turn on your Wii, so you donÂ’t have to fumble with the wiimote when youÂ’re testing applications.

You can also inject whatever app you want into it and use it to run it. Previously people used game discs, but those canÂ’t be distributed due to the apploader. Hence why I created this image.

[…] The ISO has 32MB of space and the DOL is padded to 8MB to enable easy injection of other apps. The FST is blank. YouÂ’ll have to pad the ISO before burning it, at least to 1GB.

Thanks to fortunez for the heads up in the forums!

Download: Open-Source Apploader
Download: ISO Template
Visit: QJ.NET Wiibrew Forums, Open-Source Apploader Thread

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