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Posted: Oct 05 2009 04:50 pm

Ok, if you have the Homebrew channel DON'T update it to 4.2. It will remove your HC. I'm just warning you so you don't lose your channel and any game you have on it.

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Wii Menu version 4.2 is now available for your Wii console. To update your Wii Menu to the latest version, please select the Update button at the bottom of the screen or select the System Update option in the Wii System Settings.

This update provides behind-the-scenes fixes that will not affect features but will improve the overall system performance.

Because unauthorized modifications to save data or program files may impair game play or the Wii console, updating to Wii Menu version 4.2 will also check for and automatically remove such save data or program files.

**Please note: If you've updated your Wii Menu after 9/29/09, you may not need to update again.

Thank you for updating your Wii console!

-Nintendo

I hope this helps...

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

LOL I put Homebrew on my friends Wii and told him not to update it. He calls me today "Dude, the Homebrews gone, I updated" fucking idiot. If I go to instal homebrew again will it work?

Posted: Oct 05 2009 05:33 pm

Probably. They always find ways around this shit.

Posted: Oct 05 2009 05:39 pm

They already did find a way around. http://hackmii.com/2009/09/silly_games/

It's pretty funny how it takes Nintendo weeks to find ways to get rid of this stuff but hackers find work arounds in a day or two.

Posted: Oct 05 2009 05:42 pm

blkplaguelmc wrote:

LOL I put Homebrew on my friends Wii and told him not to update it. He calls me today "Dude, the Homebrews gone, I updated" fucking idiot. If I go to instal homebrew again will it work?

I don't think so. It doesn't allow you to add/use anything Homebrew.

Posted: Oct 05 2009 05:51 pm

So, the firmware challenge has begun once more...

Posted: Oct 05 2009 07:01 pm

Well, in order to work, the Homebrew channel requires you to modify the code of the Wii OS. If you fuck up while doing so, it can permanently brick your system. By definition, ANY OS update can potentially remove the Homebrew Channel, if it writes over any of the code that Homebrew modified.

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Syd Lexia wrote:

Well, in order to work, the Homebrew channel requires you to modify the code of the Wii OS. If you fuck up while doing so, it can permanently brick your system. By definition, ANY OS update can potentially remove the Homebrew Channel, if it writes over any of the code that Homebrew modified.

At least nintendo isn't bricking the wiis.....much

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there is a method to unbrick them, I believe.

regardless, most people install a wad that stops the wii from checkign for updates when they first begin homebrewing.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

I hope sooner or later one of these system updates means "no more anti-lagging on N64 games."

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Reinstalled the HBC and everything ended up working. So glad because it was either playing all the old games we put on the Homebrew or playing Ultimate Alliance 2 for the Wii, GAYY.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Well, in order to work, the Homebrew channel requires you to modify the code of the Wii OS. If you fuck up while doing so, it can permanently brick your system. By definition, ANY OS update can potentially remove the Homebrew Channel, if it writes over any of the code that Homebrew modified.

At least nintendo isn't bricking the wiis.....much

I had heard that a few people who weren't using Homebrew were having trouble with this update. Nintendo apparently is offering to repair Wiis damaged by this update if they have no evidence of ever running Homebrew.