

If you find this intimidating, don't despair! My goal with this guide is to help any person interested in hacking their Wii. targets the more sophisticated computer user in general.In light of this, I decided to write a guide that:

The existing guides also are very windows-focused and lacking in explanations if you are a linux user who wants to mod a Wii. In addition, there's a lot of Wii-specific jargon in all of them, and they don't have much info for Linux users. However, all the ones that I've found all share one basic flaw: they do a terrible job of explaining exactly what is going on or what is even possible. There are many, many guides out there for modifying your Wii. This tutorial is current as of November 2019. The result of that investigation is this guide. I knew that there were ways to modify your Wii and I suspected that I could do something like load games on to an SD card. However, I found having to constantly change discs to change games to be annoying. It came with a few games and my young sons enjoyed playing them. I first got involved with Wii hacking a few years ago when a friend gave me his old Wii.


By using HW_AHBPROT, it is no longer needed to downgrade other IOSs first. The IOS236 installer will install a Patched IOS36 in IOS slot 236. Nintendo has pushed a number of updates to try squashing this loophole, but other exploits have been discovered that allow us to reinstall older, bugged versions of IOS which are vulnerable to the trucha bug. The trucha bug is a very silly security hole in earlier versions of IOS that allows homebrew users to easily bypass Nintendo's security checks, which lets them to do things such as install modified content to the NAND or read altered game discs. However, if those steps for some reason refuse to work, you can still try the old method below. The updated cIOS installation guide bypasses the need for a patched IOS236. The steps in this guide are no longer needed.
