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Anatomy of a Mario-Kart Brick, pt 2

May 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Work with the Homebrew Channel has taken more time than I’d hoped — but I don’t want to lose momentum, so let’s press forward here, too. In a comment in my previous post, Galtor correctly picked up the path I was planning to go down, based on the files I linked to at the end. […]

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Autopsy of a Mario-Kart brick (part 1)

May 8th, 2008 · 61 Comments

I have a “bitch” Wii — a Wii that I use specifically for testing out NAND flash hacks.  I bought it on eBay, and it came with a broken drive — not a modchip disaster, but an actual launch-day Wii with an expired warranty.  It had never been connected to the network, and had only […]

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UnbrickMii

May 4th, 2008 · 34 Comments

So, here’s my big project for, well, this quarter or so.  I’d like to be able to unbrick a Wii.  Any Wii.  I think you could rightfully call this the “Holy Grail” of Wii-Hacking projects right now — many have tried, some have written about it, and to my knowledge, nobody has succeeded.  It still […]

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