Bummed because you’ve got a new Wii and the Twilight Princess hack won’t work on it? Have an older Wii but you don’t want to buy Twilight Princess just to install Homebrew? Try the free and easy bannerbomb exploit.
Last year we showed you how to use the Twilight Princess hack to install the Homebrew Channel and various goodies like DVD playback. The bannerbomb exploit is the newest way to install the Homebrew Channel and works on the newest systems, unlike Twilight Princess—which has been a defunct hack since menu 4.0 was introduced.
How does it work? The hack exploits the Wii menu itself, loading a fake banner which causes a system crash and allows the exploit to load unsigned code. During our field testing it took—not counting time to carefully read the instructions and take photographs—less than ten minutes to complete the process.
For this hack you’ll need a Wii, an SD card formatted to FAT, and a copy of the bannerbomb file (I’ve linked to the banner bomb exploit file that works for the most number of Wii units right out of the gate; if it doesn’t work for you, visit the main page and try some of the other versions), and the HackMii installer. The following instructions are an expanded photo-pictorial version of the instructions found on the bannerbomb exploit author’s site.
You’ll need to copy the files from your computer to the SD card. If you’re using an SD card you already use for the Wii, you’ll need to rename the “private” directory to “privateold” for the duration of the hack.
First, unzip the contents of the banner bomb exploit onto the card. This should create a “private” directory with the contents of the zip file.
Next, copy the installer.elf file from the HackMii installer onto the root of the SD card and rename it to boot.elf—as seen above.
Once you have the files on the SD card, it’s time to toss it in the Wii and boot up.
Click on the circular Wii icon in the lower left corner. DO NOT click on the SD card icon if you’ve got a newer or updated Wii with the 4.0 menu. You won’t hurt your Wii, but the exploit won’t work.[imgclear]
Wondering what you can do with it once you have the Homebrew Channel installed? Well, for example, you can backup your Wii games to a hard drive for safe keeping and faster load times, play old-school games in emulation, and play DVD-backups without a modchip.[imgclear]
Have a favourite homebrew application for the Wii? We’d love to hear about it in the comments.
The bannerbomb website don’t work
Goldy, yes it do. Hick.
Thanks easy to follow instructions!!
Great work!
How do i back up my wii games?
when i put my sd card in the wii slot and click on channels to get to the sd card its saying there is no data on mt sd card.. i have tried this before and it always does the same thing. my wii is updated to the latest version too.
what happens if it freezes?
if your wii freezes try this approach click on the sd card icon but make sure your sd card isnt plugged in then when you get to the screen that says “no sd card found” or somthing like that then stick your sd card in then a message should pop up saying the “boot elf thing”
when i click to hackmii installer, what only appeared is a cat (picture)
I get a cat too – any ideas anyone??
http://bootmii.org/download
Alternatively if you want the beta3 linked here copy the link above into notepad, go to the download page on bootmii.org copy the download link from there into notepad
paste the random key from the bootmii link over the one from the lh link.
I Received A Message From Nintendo Saying If I Wanna Upgrade To Wii Menu Version 4.3 Is There Gonna Be A V4.3 Hack?
when I follow the instructions perfectly I get ??? marks on the SD card, it doesn’t ask me to load the file. Also there is a cat picture, if you go to their website I think the file is already named boot.ini as I don’t see one that is called installer.ini
I get ??? marks just like wendy! I have 4.3E for my Wii. Does anyone know how to get this thing to work?
Hello, I have a wii 4.2u, when I get to the screen to access the sd card, I just get the question mark in the box. also, there was already a file named boot.elf. I didnt see one named installer.elf. in the hackmii file folder, this that the only file I add from hackmii to the sd card.??? Any help will be greatly appreciated
If you buy the games to play on the Wii you would not take the risk of losing the warranty and piece of mind not being labeled a cheap bastard paying $300 bucks you could not afford yourself.how about this guys, Do your parents a favor go out and get a job like the programmers did making the game for people to purchase to make a living. You slackers need a life and employment to spend for software to run the Wii. If this offends you then you are still a virgin living with your parents too over weight to get laid. lol hit the nail on the head!
Home Brew is not only for making copies of games
there are other Valid reasons.
e..
Playing a DVD
Viewing Video from the network
Free games from open source
etc
dude don’t give anyone B.S. over this crap blah blah ppl become programmers to make money… guess what the entire U.S. economy is based on corruption and debt so I’d suggest our country spend a bit more money on schools and less on warfare and maybe there would be more ppl willing to work.
i did every thing there but on the wii it just show an icon with a ? sign on it and it wont copy or move to the wii!!! wat did i do wrong??? my wii is ver 4.3E Thanx in advance please help!!!!!
If you have 4.3 Firmware or updated and not realized that the banner bomb exploit will no loner work, follow this link for a fix.
http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-faqs-guides-
tutorials-only/66601-4-3-softmod-guide.html
if you don’t have the disc you need, rent it at a local video store.
i cant get this to work idther i come from melbourne australia is there any one hear in aust that i can speak to to hel me get this to work ? ? ?
im in aus and you can get smash stack use the (pal) one for australin wiis i found this link for ya http://giantpune.zzl.org/smashStackPK.html#_downloads_
I have firmware 4.3
I put the required files onto my flash drive, when I click on Wii channels I don’t get an option to load. I am in Australia.