Wii homebrew – HackMii Installer v0.5

October 1, 2009

Team Twiizers is back to release a new update of HackMii Installer, a handy homebrew utility that is capable of installing the latest update of the Homebrew Channel, BootMii public beta 4, and DVDX v2 on any version of the Nintendo Wii’s system menu. The latest update is set to counter the recently release Wii System Menu Update 4.2.

Download: HackMii installer v0.5

Developer’s note:

As you all know, Nintendo pushed a huge update yesterday. Turns out itÂ’s a rather lame attempt to block, among other things, our installer. They also remove The Homebrew Channel and DVDX on every system menu startup, but for that they just hardcoded the used title IDs. So letÂ’s play this silly game: letÂ’s switch title IDs!

Changelog:
HackMii installer (v0.5):

New exploit to enable (un-)installation of all components on fully updated Wiis.
Fix hangs on some setups (theyÂ’re all related to retarded IOS patches).

BootMii beta 4 (v1.1):

Properly write the keys to nand.bin. This fixes the Â“NAND dump is from another WiiÂ” issue on restoring beta 3 backups. If you donÂ’t know how to fix those dumps, you have to backup the NAND again. Dumps from all other versions are not affected.

The Homebrew Channel v1.0.5:

Faster startup.
Prefer boot.elf over boot.dol when launching apps.
New shiny fonts, tweaked to the last subpixel.
Widescreen support. If your Wii is set to 16:9 in the system menu options, HBC wonÂ’t strech the picture like it did on older versions. Unfortunately the fonts might look a little weird then, it really depends on the used display unit. Blame the lack of true widescreen support on the Wii for that.
Grid view. Hit 2/Y while browsing applications to switch between the old and the new view. This shows 4 columns on 16:9 setups, 4:3 users only get 3.
Device hot-plugging. You can remove and insert devices (front SD slot, USB mass storage, and SDGecko in both slots) at all times now without reloading HBC. To change to another device, hit 1/X to bring up a simple option dialog.
Application sort order. You can now choose how to sort the shown entries. Current options: either by the name or by the release date. Note that for the latter sort order a valid release_date tag has to be present in the meta.xml file. Again, hit 1/X for the options dialog to set this.
wiiload overhaul. On-the-fly compression: Uploaded files are automatically compressed on PC side: This makes it way faster, especially on bigger files. ScummVM, anyone? Improved USBGecko support: Faster uploads, and you donÂ’t have to stop reading debug messages from the device while uploading files. libftdi support: Because ftdi-sio fails, especially on OSX. Note: Because of these improvements, older wiiload version and 3rd party upload clients are incompatible. Use the bundled v0.5, binaries and source code are included.
Basic application management. To add apps: Just wiiload a ZIP archive, it will then get extracted to the active device. The ZIP file must be structured in a certain way, check this description for the details. To delete apps: ThereÂ’s a new button on the application dialog.

DVDX:

Allow PPC side hardware access. Also known as the magic HW_AHBPROT register.
TMD version bumped to 2, in case anyone needs to check for e.g. HW_AHBPROT.

Seems like Nintendo’s effort to slow down the homebrew scene didn’t really paid off. You can read more info about the update via the source link below.

Download: HackMii Installer v0.5