Homebrew Browser: Download Brew from your Wii!

July 2nd, 2008

Posted by nedthehead

Isn’t WiFi great? If you’ve got a working wireless connection hooked up to your Wii and have yourselves a memory card, you’re all set!

The Homebrew Browser is a revolutionary new program that allows you to download Homebrew straight from the internet onto your Wii. No more taking out of SD Cards and copying over files. The application features a list of features, such as automatic updating to a newer Browser version, deletion of apps, and it’s even able to update your Homebrew apps once a new version is released!

How it works:

  1. The Homebrew Browser (HBB) contacts main server to receive a listing of the current homebrew applications. The list contains the different homebrew application names, image file sizes, boot file sizes and whether it is a dol or elf file.
  2. HBB checks to see if the user has the latest image files (stored in /temp)for all homebrew listed. If the image is out of date or missing, it downloads the image file.
  3. Once in HBB and when selecting a game to install, it downloads the icon.png, meta.xml and boot.dol/elf files from the server.

Source

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8 Comments

  1. PiercedDooD on 02.07.2008 at 15:58 (Reply)

    Kick-arse!

  2. rove on 02.07.2008 at 18:33 (Reply)

    Not working.. It says connection Established and then just stays on Retrieving the Homebew List…

    ?? or does it take more than 10min :s

  3. rove on 02.07.2008 at 18:35 (Reply)

    Worked the second time :/

  4. Blah on 02.07.2008 at 18:38 (Reply)

    By far the coolest app yet :)

    Good work!!

  5. dvdxploitr on 02.07.2008 at 19:10 (Reply)

    so, this just for home-brew? Or is there VC games too?

    1. nedthehead on 02.07.2008 at 20:28 (Reply)

      Yeah. You can’t *legally* download Virtual Console games without paying for them. Homebrew only

  6. hyperstar96 on 03.07.2008 at 00:25 (Reply)

    So revolutionary! I’ve downloaded a lot of stuff already!

  7. Harry on 03.07.2008 at 15:24 (Reply)

    By far the best piece of homebrew software out there. Tried it tonight, downloaded Wii Physics and wiiftp proggy. Just amazing how easy it all worked.

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