14 Nov
Hacking a wii to enable Homebrew Apps on UNMODDED wiis too!
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Now, on to the guide.
The Twilight Hack is currently the only safe, public way to enable homebrew on an unmodded Wii. The Twilight Hack is achieved by playing a hacked game save for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess which executes a homebrew application from an external SD card. Examples of such homebrew elf files can be found on the Homebrew apps page.
The latest release is compatible with version 3.3 of the Wii System Menu.
Download
Usage / Installation
Required Materials:
- SD card. You may want to format the card to ensure a consistent filesystem (for Windows user maybe use the SD formatter for better filesystem)
- SD card reader
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that has been played at least once
- Some homebrew to load
Inside the zip file you will find versions of the hack for all three regions. You may copy all of them to your SD card, but you will need to choose the correct one to copy to your Wii based on your version of Zelda: Twilight Princess. USA users, additionally, need to determine the correct save slot to load once inside Twilight Princess. The easiest way to check your version is to compare the text string which is on the inner circle of the data surface with the ones below.
| Region | Inner circle text | File | Save slot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe/Australia (EUR) | RVL-RZDP-0A-0 JPN | /private/wii/title/rzdp/data.bin | Twilight Hack |
| Asia (JPN) | RVL-RZDJ-0A-0 JPN | /private/wii/title/rzdj/data.bin | Twilight Hack |
| America (USA) | RVL-RZDE-0A-0 JPN | /private/wii/title/rzde/data.bin | TwilightHack0 |
| America (USA) | RVL-RZDE-0A-0 USA | /private/wii/title/rzde/data.bin | TwilightHack0 |
| America (USA) | RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA | /private/wii/title/rzde/data.bin | TwilightHack2 |
Step by Step
- Begin by formatting your SD card to FAT16 if it is not already (in Windows it’s just called “FAT”). FAT32 should also work in the latest release. (Formatting will erase ALL data!)
- If you get an error such as “Failed to read boot.elf (-1)!” then reformatting your SD card with the Official SD Card Format Tool may help.
- To do this on Mac OS X, open the Disk Utility (in Finder click the Go menu, select Utilities and find it there). Your SD card should show up as two entries. Choose the second entry, and then go to the Erase tab. Select the FAT16 option in the Volume Format dropdown, and assign a name to the device (if you want to), then click Erase. Confirm that you want to erase, and then follow the rest of this guide when it’s done.
- Copy the “private” directory from the download to your SD card.
- Take your homebrew Wii executable (elf or dol file) and save it in the root directory of your SD card as “boot.elf” or “boot.dol” as appropriate.
- Now, put the SD card into your Wii and turn it on.
- Go into Wii Options –> Data Management –> Save Data –> Wii.
- Find your Zelda save, click on it, click “Erase”, and click Yes.
- Open the SD card and select the “Twilight Hack” save that corresponds to your game region. Note: Some people are having problems with the Wii not “seeing” the save file on the SD card. If you are experiencing this, try setting the archive bit for the data.bin file – in Windows this can be either be done from the file’s properties dialog (right click on it in Windows Explorer and check the box) or from the command line using “attrib +a <path to data.bin>”. More info at #wiihelp on Efnet.
- Click copy and then yes. Now exit out of the menu.
- Insert The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess game disc and run the game.
- If you have the USA version of the game, load the “TwilightHack0″ or “TwilightHack2″ version of the game as appropriate (see above).
- Otherwise, load the only “Twilight Hack” save game.
- Once in the game, either walk backwards or talk to the man standing in front of you.
- Enjoy.
From: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Twilight_Hack
