What a Hacked Wii Menu looks like in 2024 

I think you're right..

​@@hsmreuI also hacked my wii and i have more homebrews than you even kirby one, and i also have USB loader gx. I also forgot how to do that stuff Like i did it in 2011

@@Lunaartemis Nice

👍👍👍

@@Lunaartemisi have neogamma and now i have games for free

Just for the shits and giggles lol

JUST TO FLIP THE VIEWERS OFF LOL!

It bring back the old windows memories Read more

The hand reminds me of that one hand from gta v when you use a computer

WHAT THE F***

nintendo has been real quiet since this dropped ☠

FR

Bro probably is getting his wii gone

It was edited btw

Exactly

REESES PUFFS REESES PUFFS EAT THEM UP EAT THEM UP EAT THEM UP EAT THEM UP 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

i mean, the wii lowkey kinda hungry😂

@@hsmreuone more thing, WHY DO YOU HAVE MULTIPLE HOMEBREW CHANNELS?

@@goofyperson222 Hard to explain, but having a lot of homebrew channels installed was something common in these "hacked wii menus" I basically took this as a competition and said "You know what, I'm having an insane amount of homebrew channels". But at the end of the day, I just do it because it's funny. I also like how they look, so I make my own homebrew channel forwarders. It's kinda like a habit for the wii homebrew users to have a few forwarders installed. Idk.

On my real Wii I have about 1100 blocks Every homebrew channel, at least the ones I've made, are around 1-2mb in size. Which is about 6-12 blocks lol

​@@hsmreu I wonder if you can invrease the channels you have on Wii 🤔 On the Wii U menu, you could have a TON more apps visible. Here, there's only like 40 channel slots.

@@TMHLBPFan As far as I know, you can't increase the channel slots. I once went over the maximum number of channels the wii can allow, and of course, nothing serious happened. However, I couldn't see the rest of the channels. When I deleted a few channels, the missing channels randomly appeared lol. I guess you can install (probably) unlimited amount of "titles" until you have no free space, but, the wii can only show 40 on the menu. lol

@@FrankieSonic20 Needs more!!

to edit the homebrew channel text you need the title image or just change the name on customize mii.. Also I wouldn't recommend you to change the system menu music because the audio file needs to be under 1MB and has to be lossless... It's hard and probably useless unless you use a 16bit song or something. I still have a tutorial somewhere, I can send it to you if you want c:

@@hsmreu okay send it and really cool wii menu u should check out the ones i did

@@Jessiah19 Here's the tutorial on how to change the wii menu music. You need a few apps and stuff. But overall its pretty simple if you follow it step by step! docs.google.com/document/d/1oZjPJ-Nk4uxmxa76LNklnkyLzUqHztkGdoAEyNkq17s/edit?usp=sharingm

Since there were no tutorials or guides about this anywhere, I ended up finding out almost everything by myself, it was a bit time consuming lol. I may do a tutorial on this soon. This was already possible a long time ago, as I remember seeing the usual "my hacked wii menu" videos and some of them had modified text. But, for some reason, even after investigating a lot, I couldn't find any tutorials. In the end, I found out that you can modify the text with, literally, a Mario Kart modding tool. You need to download the wii menu file (directly from Nintendo Servers... Yeah..), decompress it, and after decompressing it, you can access a text file somewhere inside the extracted files. To open that file you need the mario kart wii modding tool, and there you can access every line of text that the wii uses, it's cool The audio thing, an incredible person (or some) found a method to do it, though, it is a little bit complicated because the audio file has to be under 1MB or the wii crashes on the disclaimer screen.. The process is similar, not hard but you need to follow a few steps. This time you need to do it with the Smash Brawl modding tool (somehow this works lol) The font of the clock is the easiest thing to change, but at the same time it's the hardest and more time-consuming. You need a program called ThemeMii, which allows you to manually select which textures to replace on the Wii Menu. You need to find the exact texture location inside the Menu File and specify it. In my case, I found out that the Okami theme had the clock font that I wanted. I extracted the clock font from the Okami Theme using the program, and then, on another ThemeMii Window, I started adding each number one by one. I had to manually write (or in this case, copy and paste) the respective directory of each number and the size in pixels. This sounds really technical but it's fine. Everyone can do it, If I could then everyone can lol. It's just surprising how no one has made a tutorial on it and there is little to no information about it on the web. Of course I was able to do all of this thanks to some related info here and there, but most of it was information about file association and how to open certain files. I have to say, the tutorial on how to add custom menu music helped me the most, as this tutorial also needs you to decompress the wii menu file, which is something you also need to do if you want to change the text. Sorry if that's a lot of text, but I wanted to explain all of it. Thanks for commenting :)

Hello again!! First of all, thanks a lot for responding :DDDD. 5 minutes after I commented you I was doing a little bit of research about the Wii Menu custom music (that is honestly the thing about your video that most interested me) and found a little bit of information about it. But really not that much as the gbatemp forums were from 2009-2013 and back then there wasn’t enough tools of modification things etc… But now that you’ve replied to me I’m planing of doing more research of the information you just telled me. Once again thanks a lot for responding me and the effort you took for finding everything by yourself :))))). (btw sorry if my English is the worst)

@@Jose-tg8ci I see. If you want to change the menu music, check this document: docs.google.com/document/d/1oZjPJ-Nk4uxmxa76LNklnkyLzUqHztkGdoAEyNkq17s/edit?usp=sharing it has the instructions on how to do it :) Also your english is fine! Spanish is my native language, so I guess we're on the same boat lol. Hope it works! If I can help you with anything feel free to ask me. I'm no expert but maybe I can give advice :D

true

I think they're still updating the apps and homebrew.

@@hsmreu yeah, but i’m hoping they can make a dreamcast or ps2 emulator, and have a update to get wii menu themes off of imac, cause right now, you can only do it off of windows

@@Crustymoon09 have you tried to use wine? maybe you can run thememii and those apps that you need for the wii. im not that informed on it but It's the only thing that comes to my mind. also a ps2 emulator would sadly be impossible for the wii to run, the ps2 is a really complex console and even modern pcs can have issues with a few games.. But maybe the dreamcast is possible, I'd honestly love to see the classic sonic adventure running on the wii ... As far as I know, the dreamcast is also a complex console, specially with the transparecy effects, If I'm not wrong, it used a special piece of hardware to calculate transparencies and stuff.. Pretty interesting.. But still, it is a fairly easier console to emulate. I remember seeing reicast showcases in devices like the Samsung galaxy note back in 2014 or 2015. I think it's a matter of finding someone who is dedicated enough and is willing to accept the challenge

@@hsmreu Wait, but the ps2 has some games that the wii has, that’s why i think it can run on it, and so as the dreamcast

@@Crustymoon09 Well yeah, the wii has some ps2 games, but its more something about hardware, those games are ports and the code is changed so it communicates directly with the wii hardware, im not an expert lol, but doing an emulator would be really hard because the wii will have to simulate the ps2 hardware like if it was a real ps2, and at the same time translate all the functionality, that would require a lot of computing power... Im no expert though but that's what I know, certainly I would've loved to play titles like devil may cry 3 in my wii lol

@@ChillAndChilli there's always room for improvement 💯

A classic

Yea

@@hsmreuclassic

But the pirate channel is dead now so it’s a legend

Not enough homebrew channels bro

@@hsmreuget 1000 more

​@@hsmreu I got like 4 homebrew channels: Hebrew Channel, Xbox 360 Channel, Roblox Channel, and the og

​@@hsmreu I saw one channel called the 9/11 channel 😂

@@TMHLBPFan 😂😂😂😂😂

I can make a tutorial on that. I've been planning on doing one after this video hits 10K.. You need a few apps. You need to download the wii menu that matches your wii. I use modmii. In my case, I downloaded the 4.3u wii menu. After that, I searched for the wii menu file which is called 00000097 .app or something like that. Inside of this thing you can find a text file, you can get it by unpacking the 00000097 .app, which is something that you can do with another program. To open the text file, I needed another app, which is literally a Mario Kart Modding tool. "SZS modifier", if I'm not wrong. Ofc, I discovered, almost all of this by myself. I guess. But it was already possible before, somehow. Though, I imagine that people used a command prompt application to open the text file. Right now, SZS modifier has an interface so it's really easy to use. TL;DR: 1. Download wii.cs tools (includes U8Mii which is the app that you need for packing/unpacking) 2. Download SZS modifier (hardest thing to do, you have to right click the download button on the chadsoft page, and save the link as a file) 3. Download the system menu file that your wii uses. (after getting your files locate the 000000xx .app file!!) 4. After you have everything, open U8mii and unpack the .app file. 5. if you installed SZS modifier, you should be able to open the text file. It's called common.bmg and it's somewhere along the extracted system menu files. 6. Change any line of text that you want and close the app when u finish 7. pack the 000000xx .app extracted data with U8mii. After this, you have to install the app file to your wii. You may be able to do it with mymenuify or something (I don't remember) but if you can't, just create a csm with thememii and install it with mymenuify. Should apply the changes with no issues and there should be no risk of brick but proceed with caution anyway lol

@@hsmreuthanks for the information, keep up the content I enjoy watching these type of videos!

I have a tutorial somewhere on the comments, you may be able to change the menu music if you manage to fit a lossless audio file in less than 1MB. Kinda hard if you ask me.. I used a few programs for this, but at the end of the day, most of the work is done inside a smash brawl modding program. I don't know if there's other methods though

It's the DSi Menu Music :)

how did u get a custom wii menu bg music tho

​@@prolicheats I followed this guide docs.google.com/document/d/1oZjPJ-Nk4uxmxa76LNklnkyLzUqHztkGdoAEyNkq17s/edit?usp=sharing

es un flex bro

check this document :) docs.google.com/document/d/1oZjPJ-Nk4uxmxa76LNklnkyLzUqHztkGdoAEyNkq17s/edit?usp=sharing

fr

help **explosion in progress**

Lmao

😂😂😂

check this document docs.google.com/document/d/1oZjPJ-Nk4uxmxa76LNklnkyLzUqHztkGdoAEyNkq17s/edit?usp=sharing Had to replace the menu music with a lossless 1mb audio file. Anything more than that and the wii gets a brick. I don't know how they found out how to do this, but it works. honestly amazing

I used thememii I extracted the original cursor image and edited it on my phone with an app I could make a tutorial on this I guess

I have a lot of them just for fun

you need to install homebrew channel through homebrew channel you can install any wad installer. I use wii mod lite. then you only need to find a wad that works with your wii I don't remember much about this homebrew stuff so I'm not sure if the wad has to match the region. there are banner bricks and semibricks but I don't remember if the region has something to do with it. I guess not. Maybe it's enough to know which wads are meant to be installed on a wii and which ones on a vwii.

Just for decoration

absolutely true, I need that forwarder lol

@@hsmreuim pretty sure i have it, want it?

@@prolicheats I found it yesterday so I'm good. Thank you anyway bro, I appreciate it

@@hsmreunp

@@Robiketer It's a custom theme. Please tell me what wii system version you have, I can make the theme for you . If your wii is 4.3 u, I can share the theme file.

I have the vwii will it work?

@@Robiketer Well I don't know how to create vwii themes so I can't help much. I imagine vwii is a separare firmware you can download from Nus Downloader so I will tell you the process anyway. This just involves the use of thememii. Thememii is a tool for theme creation. In my case, I added the firmware file for 4.3U (.app file) and then I replaced the cursor texture with the middle finger one. I can extract the middle finger texture and I can share it with you. Overall it's just a pretty simple task, but I just don't know if vwii themes are created in the same way as normal wii themes. I hope it helped at least a little. :/

@@hsmreu hold on is the file a csm file because if it is it should work

@@Robiketer yea it's a csm. the thing is that the csm has the system file included, if you install the csm on your vwii, it will absolutely go nuts.

I don't know, I've never modded a wii u

@@hsmreu how about a wii

@@nodripsam7157there are a lot of good tutorials out there on how to hack a wii. you usually need an SD card for this. wii.hacks.guide/get-started installing the homebrew channel should be really easy, but when it comes to installing cios to run backups, that's a whole different thing I would do a video on how to mod a wii, but there's a lot of videos already. If you want to mod a wii you just need an SD card. That's all you need. If you dont have a computer, then a microSD with adapter will do the job

😂

lol

And the third disc in the disc channel

@@BladetheGOanimater2006 maybe 😆

@@hsmreu lol

the hood nintendo wii be like

I have a tutorial on how to change the text in the description The music can be changed with a document. I shared it with a few people here on the comments. I shouldn't be this lazy lol but you can search for it in here. It's a google doc with detailed instructions

nvm I scrolled through the comments and found it docs.google.com/document/d/1oZjPJ-Nk4uxmxa76LNklnkyLzUqHztkGdoAEyNkq17s/edit?usp=sharing

I don't know that one:/

feed it bro

I dont know

I'll upload all of them to mediafire when I get home. Just a problem, the homebrew channel wads I made don't forward to the real HBC... Just decoration

@@hsmreu ok How does one make them go to hbc on wii...and vwii?

@@zero-z4551 I'm not well informed on it. I think you need to add a boot.dol file to the wad, but, knowing that the homebrew channel is not an application but a channel, I simply don't know how to do it

@@hsmreu ok

@@zero-z4551 www.mediafire.com/file/3j1b59ac0tz999h/Custom_HBC_Forwarders.zip/file here you go bro. I added all of my hbc forwarders and the ones I made.

thx

I made 12 of them and the rest found them somewhere. In all seriousness, it seems that having a lot of homebrew channel forwarders installed in a wii is a common thing in the community, probably as a flex (since they're usually customized, rare to find and they can also work to show just how much you know about this stuff). or maybe just for the shits and giggles. To me it's funny to have a wii menu full of them, so I decided to take it to another level 😮‍💨

@@hsmreu Damn and thanks. I wish I was as cool as you 😊

@@Piratefreddy You're the cool guy bro! but thx, I appreciate it a lot 🙂

yes

Thanks for replying

for fun and to flex the amount of homebrew channels that I have lol

I think its this one www.mediafire.com/file/fd5kk960fzw9hf1/Wii_Earth.wad/file

They know where I am ☠

I can share the .csm file with you, or I can create a new theme with the cursor. Which one do you prefer?

yea but wii cant read dvd. I think it can but only through wiiMC.

for da gits n shiggles 😂

best cursor bro

wii looks better in 4:3 and I don't mind using it stretched lol

@@hsmreustreched 4:3 gangg

sayori

@@hsmreu do you want to join my literature club?

@@pussycontrol69 Absolutely:)

Thanks for the feedback ❤

I mean, I liked the mix of red and blue, didn't know it had relation to it lol I guess I can learn something new everyday. Thx for the feedback tho :)

Listen, I know this'll trigger a lot of moans and groans but whatever Imma just put this here My photo channel is the straight flag and I have the fvcking Xbox 360 as a Wii channel 🤣

@@TMHLBPFan lmfaoo I need to see that xbox 360 channel

whatcho mean broskie

It's not fake

Theres something called HOMEBREW

Nintendo did not license this thing

@@YousefGamer_16 then it is not fake, it is unofficial

😂😂

I've heard that the forwarder redirected you to the twitter website on the web browser. But I haven't tried it. I think the website would work but the security certificate is obsolete for sure. And I doubt that the wii would support modern HTML stuff ... So yeah, I guess it doesn't really work lol The wii web browser has always been really simple, kinda like the web browser on the PSP. Maybe it worked back in the day when they created the wad !

@@hsmreu Maybe! It’s still cool to have

​@@hsmreu A Discord Wii app sounds cool as hell

@@hsmreui think i saw a video of the wad working like 10 years ago but now the wii browser can barely display anything :skull: