Hack Wii Console

Hak5 isn't your ordinary tech show. It's hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics, to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Damn the warranties, it's time to Trust your Technolust. In this episode, see how to install a ...more

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to load virtual console games onto your Nintendo Wii. You'll need the Twilight Hack and an SD card for this process. The Twilight hack allows you to run unofficial software through the SD (Secure Digital) card inserted into ...more

Hacking the Wii is a fun, easy, and rewarding process for any of the more geekily-inclined. This two-minute video will walk you through the whole process except for the first bit where you copy the files here to an SD card and insert it into your Wii. This video will get you t ...more

Hacking the Wii is a fun and not-too-challenging way to have a lot of fun with your console and give yourself a geeky sense of accomplishment. This video will show you how to hack a Wii from any region and with any firmware version between 3.2 and 4.2 using these files for ver ...more

Installing the Homebrew channel on your Wii is one of the smartest things that you can do as a Wii owner. It allows you to use the console for all sorts of things like playing ROMs, movies, and homebrew games on your Wii. This video wills how you how to do it on a Wii with fir ...more

This video demonstrates how to set up your computer to play WoW with a Wii remote. The video walks you through downloading the correct programs to your computer, connecting the Wii remote to your computer, and playing WoW with the Wii remote.

John Park from Make Magazine hacks a Nintendo Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities. This Maker Workshop episode will expand your uses ...more

Trucha Bug Restorer is a powerful piece of homebrew software that you can use on your Wii to make sure that it is formatted properly in order to play burned games and use other hacks. This video will show you how to use it to set up an installation of cIOS on your Wii, which i ...more

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to install the Twilight hack for you Wii. The twilight hack is an exploit that reads a elf file off the root of your secure digital (SD) card. To start up this hack, you'll need to load the Zelda: Twilight Princess game bef ...more

Check out this video to learn how to hack your Nintendo Wii by installing the Homebrew channel. This video will take you through all of the steps required to install the Homebrew channel to get access to Homebrew channel apps. Download Hackmii and Bannerbomb before you start. ...more

The Twilight Hack is currently the only safe, public way to enable homebrew on an unmodded Nintendo Wii. The Twilight Hack is achieved by playing a hacked game save for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess which executes a homebrew application from an external SD card

These are two gun designs that can be used with the wiimote. Both are pretty easy to make, and modify. Let me know what you think.

ios249 is a sweet little hack for the Wii that allows you to play backup burned copies of games on your console. Pirated games will work too, although we DO NOT condone piracy. This video will walk you through the whole rather elaborate process of installing it on a hacked Wii ...more

Hak5 isn't your ordinary tech show. It's hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics, to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Damn the warranties, it's time to Trust your Technolust. In this episode, see how to analyze p ...more

This video tutorial will teach you how to use the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel to download and play your favorite console games on your Nintendo Wii. To follow along, you'll need either a WiFi Internet connection or Wii Lan adapter. Instructions: 1. Click on the Wii Shop button ...more

Since the Nintendo Wii was first released, it has become one of the most popular gaming consoles in the video game industry. In terms of sales, the Wii has destroyed its competitors, the PS3 and Xbox 360. So there's no denying that the Wii is a pretty popular console. So in th ...more

Using the Wii Options menu, it is possible to upgrade your Wii software to the latest version released from Nintendo for the gaming console. You will need to have an active internet connection to download the update first, so make sure that the Wii is connected to your home ne ...more

Interested in some good clean fun? With this hack from Japan, you'll learn to operate a Roomba vacuum cleaner remotely using a Nintendo Wii balance board with a Bluetooth serial adapter. Watch this tutorial and build your own Surfin'ba today!

Hacking the PSP requires some unique tools and procedures, including the infamous Pandora Batteries and Magic Memory Sticks. This video will show you how to hack both the fat and slim versions of the PSP with firmware version 5.03 and below. This will allow you to play all sor ...more

In this video you'll see different methods for emulating some of the major console games on your PC, such as Atari, NES, PS2, Xbox, N64 and Wii. An extensive tutorial with everything you need to know to emulate your favorite games right from you PC. You don't have to lug those ...more

Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The software can be downloaded at http://johnnylee.net

Formatting an SD card to FAT32 format, the format that the Nintendo Wii can read, is the very first step that you need to take to hack you Wii. There's a lot of other reasons to do it as well, so even if you don't have a Wii you're trying to hack but want a FAT32 formatted SD ...more

Watch this Nintendo Wii tutorial video to learn how to control access to games on a Wii console by using their ratings. Setting parental controls on your Nintendo Wii will be easy after you've watched this helpful how-to video.

In this tutorial, learn how to copy an original Wii game to a USB or an external harddrive without using a computer. This is helpful if you are sharing games with someone else, or if you would like to create a backup of your current Nintendo Wii games. You can also use this pr ...more

Are you dying to show off walkthroughs and glitches on your PS3, Xbox 360, or Wii console? This video tutorial will walk you through each step of the way and teach you how to set your hardware so that you can record your plays on your console, no matter what it is.

This shows a step by step method for using the Wii controller to output MIDI control to Apple Logic Pro and "conduct" MIDI with the Wii stick! This is a way cool Wii hack that makes the bluetooth controller work with Logic. You need to install another program to receive and co ...more

The board does not always look like this: occasionally the nearby capacitors aren't present. Also, Pin 4 is the 4th pin from the L on the bottom. This is the side closest to where the cartridge loads, also, the writing on the chip should be right-side up. Please note this is a ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to connect a Nintendo Wii to the internet. Begin by going to your Wii menu and select Wii Options. Click on Wii settings and go to Wii System Settings 2. Select Internet and click on Connection Settings. Click on a connection and selec ...more

From the depths of the gaming abyss, a classic returns to melt the heart of shoot 'em up gamers. Here's some tips from G4TV on beating the first two bosses in R-Type for the Wii Virtual Console.

Want to know how to pair your Wiimote controller with your Nintendo Wii video game console? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this Wii owners' guide from the folks at Butterscotch can present a complete overview of the process in about two minutes. For more information and det ...more

Miis are tiny versions of you that live inside your video games. On the Nintendo Wii you can personalize all of your games and add a little bit of your personality and appearance to the screen. Check out this video tutorial, and learn how to create a Mini Mii on your console f ...more

Want to know how to use the Dashboard on your Nintendo Wii video game console to do fun things like surf the Internet? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this Wii owners' guide from the folks at Butterscotch can present a complete overview of the process in about four minutes. ...more

It's easy to watch Hulu on your Playstation 3 console. Using a free trial version of PlayOn, you can watch a variety of internet TV & movie sites on almost any game console - including your Wii. Who needs cable anymore? This video will show you how to set up your PlayOn accoun ...more

This two-part video tutorial from OzModChips show a detailed instructional on how to install a solderless mod chip in a Nintendo Wii. Solderless Wii modchips are popular for the Wii gaming console. The one installed in this video is specifically the d2pro mod chip. OzModChips ...more

This video tutorial from noxad presents how to backup and burn games for Nintendo Wii game console.To setup game transfer from computer to your console you'll need any type of SD memory card. In this tutorial it's Lexor 1 GB SD card.Insert SD card into your computer card reade ...more

Use the same bomb that Liberty Prime does in Fallout 3! This cheat only works for the PC, since you will need to open the dev console in order to hack the game and give yourself all the weapons and bombs.

Watch this 11-part video tutorial on how to walkthrough Super Castlevania IV on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Anybody who's owned an SNES knows this video game is a classic! It features the same plot and premise as the first Castlevania on the NES, and it was also e ...more

In this modding video, you'll be finding out how to install the Sunkey lite modchip for the Nintendo Wii. Once installed, this enables users to play backups of Wii games easily on the console. In order to do this, though, you would need to know how to open up a Nintendo Wii, s ...more

While the Wii may be one the most popular console today, many people may be unfamiliar with all the many uses and features of the system. In this step by step guide, learn how to utilize the SD cards or a USB drive with the Wii (which most people are not completely familiar wi ...more

Hack the PSP or Playstation portable handheld game console. You need a Pandora battery, a 2 GB memory stick and a PSP. You are hacking the firmware of the PSP. You will turn the official firmware from the 3.80 into M335. You can downgrade if you have v 4.0 or higher firmware. ...more

In this video, we learn how to install the homebrew channel to your Wii. You will need: the Zelda twilight princess game, SD card, homebrew installer, and Wiibrew hack. First, go to Wiibrew and find where it says Twilight Hack underneath "homebrew". Go directly to download and ...more

This is a video walkthrough of the ultra violent and gory game MadWorld, exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. Mahalo has produced this full walkthrough for MadWorld, complete with high-quality videos. The guide explains everything from the point system and basic combat techniques ...more

This is a video walkthrough of the ultra violent and gory game MadWorld, exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. Mahalo has produced this full walkthrough for MadWorld, complete with high-quality videos. The guide explains everything from the point system and basic combat techniques ...more

These are video walkthroughs of the ultra violent and gory game MadWorld, exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. Mahalo has produced this full walkthrough for MadWorld, complete with high-quality videos. The guide explains everything from the point system and basic combat technique ...more

In this video, we learn how to connect your Nintendo Wi-Fi USB connector. Before you do this, you need to purchase a Nintendo Wi-Fi USB connector and connect it to your computer. Once you do this, a window will pop up on the computer asking for information. It will start to se ...more

Most people own a Wii system, or at least have seen the infamous Wiimote that serves as the controller for the console. What most people have overlooked is that this handy piece of technology can be set to work on PC. Surf the web or scroll through photo albums without the nee ...more

One of the few technical advantage the Nintendo Wii has against its high-tech rival the XBox 360 is that it allows users to browse the web on their console. Trying to do so using only a Wiimote, however, is impractical. Did you know that you could use a USB keyboard instead? T ...more

Michael Weisner guides us through syncing a Wiimote with a Wii. You will need a Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii remote to do this. First, you will need to open the front hatch door on the console and you will see a red button, don't press it yet. Now, look at the back of your Wi ...more