#Nintendo homebrew channel install#
#Nintendo homebrew channel zip file#
#Nintendo homebrew channel download#

It might take a while for it to finish loading. After it’s done, you will see this screen: If everything is going right, you should see this screen: Insert your SD Card back into your Wii and start up Brawl one more time. Step 3: Installing the Homebrew Channel onto your Wii You are done preparing your SD card, and can remove it from your computer. You will want to move that file to your SD Card’s root. Go into that folder and your should see a bunch of files, one of which is boot.elf.

#Nintendo homebrew channel zip file#

The HackMii Installer zip file should have a folder called “hackmii_installer_v1.2”. Extract this to the root of your SD Card (or, the same place that your “private_old” folder is located). The Smash Stack zip file you downloaded should have a “private” folder. We recommend renaming it to “private_old”, or something along those lines.

This is where all of the custom stages went, and is effectively your backup of the custom stages. If you did step 1, you should see a folder called “private”.

Open your SD in your OS (it should be in “Computer” or “My Computer” on Windows, or in Finder on Mac). Step 2: Prepare your SD Card on your computerĬonnect your SD Card to your computer. Put your SD Card into your Wii’s SD Card slot, put Brawl in your Wii, start up Brawl, go to the Stage Builder, and move all of your stages on your console to your SD card. Because of this, you’ll need to move all of your custom stages to your SD card. The exploit only works when you have no custom stages, including the three samples that come with a new file or stages from the Smash Service. Step 1: Move all custom stages from console to your SD Card

A copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Nintendo Wii.

An SD card that is 2GB or less (Brawl cannot read any SD card that is bigger).

The SmashStack files, depending on your country, which can be found here: (If you live in the USA, you will want the regular version, NTSC-U, which is located here: ).

Official instructions here: Before you get started you’ll need: After installing the homebrew channel, you can also restore your custom stages onto your console, as you won’t need to have an empty stage builder to load Project M anymore. A benefit for Project M players is that once you have installed the Homebrew Channel, you can start Project M directly from the Homebrew Channel instead of having to go through Brawl’s menu and having to load Project M that way. This uses the same exploit that Project M team recommends to use to play Project M, except instead of loading Project M, it installs the Homebrew Channel. The two methods we will describe are Smash Stack, which uses a copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and is the easier of the two methods, and LetterBomb or Wiibrand, which exploits the message board.Ĭlick here to use the Smash Stack method.Ĭlick here to use the LetterBomb/Wiibrand method. We’ll go over two of the methods that will likely work for the vast majority of smashers, but if you want to try one of the other methods, the other methods are described on this wiki:

#Nintendo homebrew channel install#

However, there are plenty of ways to install it, so you’ll likely be able to install it no matter what your situation is.

#Nintendo homebrew channel download#

As the Homebrew Channel is not officially sanctioned by Nintendo, you can’t just download it from the Nintendo e-shop. If you want to run SD Remix on a Wii, you will need the Homebrew Channel installed on your Wii.