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Entries from May 2008

The Elusive Banner

May 17th, 2008 · 63 Comments

The Homebrew Channel was missing its banner in the video that Bushing posted some time ago. As making banners is quite complicated and can easily result in bricking, that part of the channel wasn’t quite ready yet. Who am I kidding. I had the tools done (as evidenced by the working icon), I was just […]

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NTSC Semi-brick fix disc

May 17th, 2008 · 73 Comments

By popular request — I’ve made a disc which will hopefully fix any NTSC Wii that got bricked by an imported Mario Kart game (or similar). It is an ISO with one partition — an update partition — and it contains three files: IOS30-64-v1040.wad SystemMenu-v289.wad __update.inf:   0000000: 3230 3038 2f30 342f 3238 0000 0000 […]

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Release Dates

May 17th, 2008 · 24 Comments

I really should be in bed by now, but this is just too frustrating to ignore.   People ask me all the time when I’m going to release software — a beta version of the Homebrew Channel, source code for the Twilight Hack, IOS37 patches, whatever — and I hate it.  Why? This thread is […]

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