Get Gecko OS as a channel!

June 27th, 2008

Posted by nedthehead

One of the big reasons people despised firmware 3.3 was because it cut out the Twilight Hack and blocked Trucha Signed discs. Well, earlier this week we got ourselves a new Twilight Hack, but we still needed a way to run our Trucha discs on 3.3.

Fear no more, because we now have a BETA release of Gecko OS. Now as an official BETA, you can now run your games region free. Online has been tested and working too!

This is the first public beta to allow people to try out WiiRD (Wii Remote Debugger). It also has a new Gecko Region Free engine which will boot nearly all games, even from the homebrew channel.

SD card features and USB Gecko client commands are disabled in the version as they are unfinished but I wanted to release a version of WiiRD / GeckoRF engine due to large amount of requests and the fact Gecko RF 1.5 had too many bugs :)

The package comes as a app which can be launched with the homebrew channel, also a DOL file is included if you want to make trucha based DVDs or custom channels

And what is this WiiRD you’ve been hearing about?

WiiRD is a game hackers dream app, with a large number of cool tools you can use. The official website for it is http://wiird.l0nk.org/wp/ and will also be posted and supported at http://www.usbgecko.com/forums

Documentation for WiiRD including the new cheat code type technical documentation is always included in the WiiRD archive download file.

Included in the download is a file that can be launched from the Homebrew Channel, or a WAD you can install to the Wii main menu. You don’t need both. Choose whichever is more convenient to you.

Source

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20 Comments

  1. iso on 28.06.2008 at 01:32 (Reply)

    is it like an iso loader?

    1. Brandy Mccray on 12.11.2008 at 20:33 (Reply)

      qsb1oo083zf6bj00

  2. chris on 28.06.2008 at 04:24 (Reply)

    no. this allows you to play games you buy from different regions on your PAL wii. this was released due to the 3.3 not allowing you to use the free loader so i could not play ssbb. but this program is really good and works perfectly :)

    1. nedthehead on 28.06.2008 at 14:07 (Reply)

      PAL and NTSC ;)

    2. iso on 28.06.2008 at 18:01 (Reply)

      oo..thanx bro..

  3. DrFred on 28.06.2008 at 16:01 (Reply)

    Installing the .wad doesn’t work on 3.3 D:

    1. MISTERE on 28.06.2008 at 18:24 (Reply)

      installing wad on 3.2 dont work also

  4. MISTERE on 28.06.2008 at 18:29 (Reply)

    will this enable the Trucha Signer hack for wad installs to run on 3.3

  5. MISTERE on 28.06.2008 at 18:32 (Reply)

    can anyone confirm after 3.3 install that the wad installer and uninstaller channels that I installed before updating to 3.3 will work or will I have to use homebrew channel or new twilight hack

  6. Koji on 29.06.2008 at 08:05 (Reply)

    As far as I know, you can’t install wads from within 3.3 because the trucha sign bug also covered wads that used the same hack. If you don’t have the homebrew channel installed, I believe you have to use the twilight hack to launch anything.

  7. MISTERE on 29.06.2008 at 08:45 (Reply)

    So you an you install Wads via homebrew channel in 3.3

  8. MISTERE on 29.06.2008 at 08:52 (Reply)

    (SORRY)
    So can you install Wads via homebrew channel in 3.3

  9. Allan on 08.07.2008 at 01:32 (Reply)

    Problem… I installed the Gecko OS .wad using both the WAD installer channel and also the wad installer through the homebrew channel. Both times the new Gecko OS channel is installed but when I select and run it I get a ‘This channel can’t be used’ error.
    The boot.elf works directly from the Homebrew channel and Gecko OS works perfectly from this but I would love to be able to run it directly as a channel. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    I have 3.3e

  10. Allan on 08.07.2008 at 06:12 (Reply)

    Solved..didn’t realise I needed to find a Pal version of the wad file

    1. Doctor Downs on 14.08.2008 at 10:24 (Reply)

      Anyone know where I can find a PAL version of the Gecko OS WAD?

      1. nedthehead on 14.08.2008 at 16:16 (Reply)

        The .wad is region free. Works on PAL/NTSC/JAP

  11. Kevin on 10.07.2008 at 13:59 (Reply)

    Does anyone know how to install Gecko OS on your wii? Btw i have the new firmware 3.3 on my wii, a wiikey, and an U.S.A. region console. Hope that helps.

  12. Q on 01.08.2008 at 19:57 (Reply)

    As Kevin said… I would really like a noob instruction of what we need and how we install Gecko OS how to make these workaround to work cause i am too stuck at 3.3e :(

    1. king_td on 01.08.2008 at 20:18 (Reply)

      http://www.nes-hacks.com/forums/t712-Trucha-signed-games-firmware.html

  13. a on 25.10.2008 at 05:09 (Reply)

    does not work on pal

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