Today crediar has released Freedom Public Beta 2 for the Nintendo Wii console.

Freedom REPLACES the system menu COMPLETLY, there is no way to access the system menu as long as Freedom is installed.

The installer requires and IOS with both the fakesign bug and the ES_DIVerify functions working. The installer will try to load the following IOS and will use the one...

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Version 4.1 of the System Menu for the Nintendo Wii was released on July 3rd, 2009 in Japan, and now it's available in America and Europe.

Apparently, there is a bugfix whereby if a VC/WiiWare game is played from SD, and then Wii Sports Resort is played, it forces you to watch the motionplus tutorial, although it was meant to be only watched once, on the first run.

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BootMii is a set of software that can be installed on Nintendo Wii consoles to provide added functionality, safety and convenience.

Download: BootMii BETA 2 v0.9 Installer / BootMii BETA 2 v0.9 Installer [Mirror]

To quote: Two weeks after BETA 1 we bring you the first bugfix release: beta 2. Next to the usual metric ton of minor fixes and cleanups, here are the changes worth mentioning:

BootMii BETA 2 (v0.9):
* SD card performance has been...

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Hermes has updated to uLoader v1.7 for Nintendo Wii today, which is now compatible with Rock Band and other USB peripheral titles and it adds parental control.

To quote, roughly translated:

NOTE: Custom IOS 222 1.6 is required now (the new installer with menu uses). This cIOS is incompatible with previous versions, since now the modules are loaded from the...

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Today the first public beta release of BootMii for the Nintendo Wii console is available.

BootMii is a set of software that can be installed on Nintendo Wii consoles to provide added functionality, safety and convenience.

HackMii Installer v0.1 is capable of installing:

• BootMii public beta 1
• The Homebrew Channel 1.0.2
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Recently some new Ubuntu builds have been made available for PS3 Linux. Although Ubuntu does not officially support it, the PS3 versions are maintained through community support.

PlayStation 3 Desktop CD: For Sony PlayStation 3 systems. (This defaults to installing Ubuntu permanently, since there is usually not enough memory to try out the full desktop system and run the installer at the same...

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With help from cfwprophet with dumping the cios v9.wad. I was able to take this to the finish line.

I successfully installed The Homebrew Channel on a 4.0u Wii via .wad and you can only do this if you have a wad installer installed pre 4.0u update.

Refer to my thread from yesterday for instructions and enjoy.

Video is below...

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NUS Downloader, or NUSD, by WB3000 is a PC Utility designed to allow easy access to the resources present on Nintendo's Update Servers.

Using this tool, you can download and pack many system titles into WADs ready to install.

Download: NUS Downloader v1

To quote: This tool creates WAD files. If it should happen to have issues during this procedure, installing...

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Just before the weekend, slouken posted (linked above) the following PS3 Linux SDL video support patch news:

Hello. This patch provides basic support for video on the Sony PS3 Linux framebuffer.

Scaling, format-conversion, and drawing is done from the SPEs, so there is little performance impact to PPE applications.

This is by no means production...

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Another GUI for WBFS (Wii Backup File System) version 2 is now available, which is the file system Waninkoko's USB Loader uses.

This one by Maximillion is a lot more stable than the previous GUI posted earlier.

If you're having problems with the previously posted one, then give this one a shot.

Download:

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