How-to really get your Wii to play Backed up games.

So you may or may not have heard of WiiBrew but if you have a Wii you should have. For me it’s been the best app ever for the Wii. It will let you run free Homebrew games and run apps like an FTP server, website manager, emulators for SNES, NES, Sega, PSX, even run Linux on your Wii.

I think I wrote an article similar to this before but no doubt the downloads don’t work. Since there is new apps and info about WiiBrew I figure it’d need a new post. So below are a list of links for how to get it all setup. I’ve done this with all the links provided and it all worked good. The only application you really need at first from WiiBrew.org is the Homebrew Browser. It’ll allow you to navigate through a huge list of Homebrew apps and games right on your Wii.

What is WiiBrew: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

How to setup WiiBrew: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup

Recommended application: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Browser

Other PC Tools you will need: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Browser

Setup Wii to Run Backup games: http://gwht.wikidot.com/usb-loader

By FreedomChicken

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Nice! Homebrew Apps For The Palm Pre!

Okay, forget what I said yesterday about not having too many apps for the Palm Pre. About ten minutes after writing that post, I happened upon the PreCentral Homebrew channel! Now, they certainly don’t have as many apps as the iPhone, or Blackberry Storm yet, but the app pool is getting deeper and deeper!

The best part, in my opinion about it is that in order to use these Homebrew apps, you must first put your phone into dev mode. To do that do the following:

• From card view type the following without quotes:

          “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart”

• You will see an icon pop up to enter development mode. Touch that, and enable development mode. Your Pre will need to restart.

Here is a video that better explains it:

Contra anyone?

Anyway, after that little bit of geeky awesomeness, you can download the WebOS Quick Install tool from PreCentral.net

Once installed, you can easily install any one of 140+ Homebrew apps from PreCentral.net as well as any other sites that pop up!

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Playing games like Fatal Frame IV on your Wii

Using the Wii Homebrew channel and USB Loader 1.4.

What this will help you do is Mount your ISO files to your thumb drive or SD card and play the games without having to burn them to a DVD. The Wii can be really picky about loading up backup DVD's sometimes.

First thing you will need to do is install the Wii Homebrew Channel. For that Here is a good walkthrough.

After you got the channel installed, download my Homebrew pack and extract it into your SD card overwriting everything. (They can be found at MakeMeASammich.net)

Then reload your Homebrew channel and load the SD/USB Loader from the Homebrew channel.

For installation make sure to choose the Network or Internet option. You will need to have your Wii connected to the internet to use this option but it'll install all updated files that and I've had a lot less issues with it.

Now run the WBFS GUI TOOL V2 to mount your game ISO to your USB drive, Thumbdrive or SDHC card. Oh also before you can mount your ISO’s you’ll have to format it. So make sure to clear it off and back up anything you have on the removable media before you format it.

For the Files you need can be found at MakeMeaSammich.net that is my tech file site. It’ll prob always be a little run down but oh well. If you guys want a more in depth walkthrough about getting a specific game or something to work just throw us a line and we’ll hook you up.

As always, Sammich or Die. Mr. EpicFail

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Bauer-Power Episode 7 - (Sorry in Advance)

Alright, I know it has been a really, really long time since Sundance and I got together to do a video episode of Bauer-Power. A lot has happened since the last episode. For one, my wife and I just had a baby boy on the 30th of last month. You and I both know how irritable a pregnant lady can be... Well, some of you know that.

Also, I wasn't happy with the low end HD Camera I was using so I took it back. Then I had the damnedest time trying to find one I actually liked. I finally found one in the Canon FS100. It isn't HD, but at least it has a friggin' mic input which most digital cam corders don't have now.

Also, in the past few episodes Sundance and I got a little carried away trying to do chroma keying, and recording sound separately. It became an editing nightmare to do the chroma keying, then turn around and re-dub in the audio later. It would take me two or three FULL days to get all the editing done for the little bit of crap....err.... high quality video we finally produced.

Anyway, enough about that. I suppose you are wondering why I apologize in the title. Well, like I mentioned above, I took back my HD camera and don't have a camera, so Sundance and I decided to try out filming an entire episode using nothing more than a $77 Logitech web cam. The actual web cam is a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000. I have to tell you, and you will see, that this camera is great for Skype, but lousy for IPTV shows. The sound barely follows out lips, we are blury when we move, and the resolution rather sucks. Besides that, everything else is great!

Anyway, in the episode we talk about a number of things we have been working on, played with, or have noticed. These things range from Ubuntu 9.04's release yesterday, to Openfire Jabber servers, to WII Homebrew hacks and other stuff. Without further ado, here is episode 7:




All our old episodes can be viewed on our Veoh channel here : (Bauer-Power on Veoh)

Going forward though, all new episodes will be available on our Blip.tv channel here:

http://video.Bauer-Power.net

The reason for the change is Veoh now requires everyone to install the Veoh player in order to watch full episodes. Any video's embedded on other sites only show 5 minute clips. That really doesn't jive with what we use it for, so we made the switch to Blip.tv. I posted a video explanation here as well.

Anyway, back to the video... I know what you are saying, "Don't be so hard on yourselves, it was actually pretty friggin' awesome." To that I say, thanks, but I know you are just flattering us :-P

So what did you like about this episode? What didn't you like? Is there some stuff in particular you would like to see, or hear about in these episodes? We really want your feedback in the comments.

P.S. Next episode, we will use a REAL camera. I promise!

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