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The Homebrew Channel

May 24th, 2008 by marcan · 125 Comments

We’re proud to present the first public version of The Homebrew Channel, beta 7.

Without further ado, please visit the channel’s homepage for more information and downloads.

We’re having some server problems. If you can’t get to the above site, your ISP may have cached the host, as we had to change it to work around some issues. If this is the case, try this link

We hope you enjoy it.

Sincerely,
The Homebrew Channel Team

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Semi-brick fix discs for all three regions (updated)

May 18th, 2008 by bushing · 171 Comments

As promised, here are discs to install the latest version of the system menu for each region — v288/v289/v290 for JAP/USA/PAL, respectively. These are the updated “repad” versions.

dCiSo has generously offered to host these on console-scene.info:

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The Elusive Banner

May 17th, 2008 by marcan · 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 too laz^H^H^Hbusy to get the big banner coded up in time. So here I present what will most likely be the final banner in the completed channel.

The entire banner, down to the last byte, was developed using homebrew tools – no leaked Nintendo SDK utilities were employed, not even to reverse engineer them. Everything was done by staring at many other banners (or rather, at the files that compose them) and reverse engineering the System Menu code that plays them back.

A few technical details on how this works: [Read more →]

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