Wii Menu hack now available to adventurous homebrewers [update]

by JC Fletcher { Aug 6th 2008 at 3:37PM }

Yesterday's jaw-droppingly comprehensive Wii Menu hack, which enables cross-region Wii, Gamecube, and downloadable games, as well as various display and UI tweaks, was unavailable to the public when the video (encore presentation above!) was released. But today creator Crediar has released the files for use on your own Wii.

We're very interested in opening up our Wii systems, but at the same time, we're ... going to hold off until we hear some feedback about this. Something as drastic as this HackInstaller seems like it could carry a high risk of Wii brickage. If it ends up being a Wii killer, we're sure we'll hear about it in the next week or so.

[Update: Oh noes! PAL only! Thanks, Asok!]

Tags: channels, hackinstaller, region-free, wii-menu

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rocketboy @ Aug 6th 2008 4:32PM

Well, if you brick one, can't you just have AOL buy you a new one...

oh.

JC Fletcher @ Aug 6th 2008 4:36PM

Rocketboy @ Aug 6th 2008 8:37PM

I only do it because I love.

And would have 50% less to do if the s really hits the fan. It's almost disturbing how often I'm on a weblogs site.

Asok @ Aug 6th 2008 4:47PM

Oops, you should probably mention this hack is PAL only. I was about to rear up and try it out...then I read the replies on the forums post. Oh well, it'll get updated :D eventually

supa_s @ Aug 6th 2008 4:55PM

meh this is for PAL users only >:(

jaredgood1 @ Aug 6th 2008 5:07PM

Heh. Something about a region hack being PAL only kinda amuses me.

TheOverlord#2 can has Animals Crossing? @ Aug 6th 2008 5:33PM

From the video, it doesn't seem really useful to me because I've never really imported before. If it can make the Wii Shop think it's Japanese so I can get some games that haven't made it over here yet though, I would try it out.

Maybe when it actually lets you open the Wii Menu up and do things like change channel icons or make the channel menu's background change colors(white to ...) then I would think about it.