Comments on: Wii System Menu HTML

By: sciencematthew

sciencematthew — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:20:46 +0000

the links are dead );

By: durbinator

durbinator — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:06:48 +0000

hey! i clicked on the link and it said: You really, really shouldn’t be here…

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:49:35 +0000

Oh sorry, searched all over using Google but didn’t look at the other post on here. Heh.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:43:50 +0000

What about the fully bricked Wiis? What do they try to access on startup that they can’t find?

By: Ice

Ice — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:06:16 +0000

Hey Bushing! I got a few questions.

1. So This Html has Images right? From what I understand You could just possibily edit them in photoshop and just repack them for a customized Setting menu? Is that correct?

2.Would it be possible to Redirect all the enteries for the 4mb file just to one 4mb file or are they all different?

3. is it also possible to make a recovery file, well the first file the Wii’s IPL Memory tries to read (e.g.. boot.wii, I made that up) And rename the original File (which the wii uses to boot up) to something like boot2.wii and make a boot.wii that has some code that when you press 2+1 it takes you to the recovery menu which allows you to flash a firmware dump from the sd card to the flash nand and if u dont press anything it just boots up as normal but it wont if you’ve bricked you wii but you could have a chance of booting into recovery? (Even make the file a read only hidden file)?

and last but not least
4. If that is not possible what about editing the boot.wii file to try to read a flash nand backup from a Usb dongle (Abit like devhook for the psp?) and u could modify those files (custom themes etc) without worrying about bricking the wii’s nand flash because you’d be modifying the usb’s nand dump and if you brick the usb’s nand dump then when you boot it would try and boot from the usb but it cant so it would just boot directly from the wii’s nand?

is any of this possible? thanks for reading, btw I used boot.wii as an example for the first file (since i do not know what it is).

By: bushing

bushing — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:01:50 +0000

@Shiny: Your point about the copyright issue has some merit — the HTML is copyrighted by Nintendo, sure. I could have posted a program to download the system menu from Nintendo’s servers, unpack it, and view it, but that’s a lot of work for little benefit.

Instead, I’d say that being able to look at these files — a very very small fraction of the data in the System Menu — is highly educational, and doesn’t really deprive Nintendo of any potential income. Still, if they ask me (or rather, Marcan) to take it down, I will.

You conclusion (“homebrew and piracy are mutually connected”) is pure sophistry.

@ChucktheTekkie: http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=LZ77

By: ChucktheTekkie

ChucktheTekkie — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:07:41 +0000

How do read the HTML.

all the HTML content as well as the pictures have the LZ77 header.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:28:49 +0000

I love reading all your entries, they are very interesting and really make me feel like the Wii scene is progressing day by day, faster and faster.

By: Shiny

Shiny — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:47:08 +0000

It’s funny that you’re against piracy, yet you link to decrypted files from their firmware. It has always been that, in most cases, homebrew and piracy are mutually connected, and I doubt that will ever change.

Minor hypocrisy aside, good luck in your Wii homebrew ventures! You’re like the Dark Alex of the Wii scene.

I patiently look forward to further developments and insightful entries (:

By: wowfunhappy

wowfunhappy — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:27:52 +0000

“every channel? man that is grossly inefficient, so after a recovery mechanism is made, do you think it may be possible to share wwwlib across all channels to make the nand usage more space efficient?”

Well, this is just me, but I think it would involve more effort than it’s worth. (Not that I have the skill for anything like this, but I have a pretty good idea of the effort required) Thinking through educated guesses, (and nothing more, so DON’T take this for fact) there may also be a reason it’s stored inside each channel. Nintendo may do stupid things sometimes (don’t we all?), but I don’t think they’d mess up on something like this, given all the criticism of the wii’s limited storage space.

And at the end of the day, it’s only 4mb…