Hi Everyone!

Hi guys!

I am brand new to the Wii community : ) Got a Wii console yesterday and got to know a lot about many things from the web. Like Homebrew, softmod, this, that, etc. Pretty stoked and overwhelmed with all the things that I can do with my Wii. But honestly, everything's pretty greek and latin to me right now and I do not want be Mr. Smarty Pants and get into any trouble (read about Wii getting bricked and stuff!!).

Didn't know where to start, so I thought this would be the best place to begin. Looking forward to some advices, suggestions, and help.

Cheers!
Mike

Hello
and welcome to

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Thank you for becoming a member of the best wii modding site around!

First off you need to read the Site rules and try your best to abide by them.
Also You need to realise that this site is here to help you make the most out of your Wii and not to help people with piracy!

Now we know the rules its time to find the right guide for modding your wii, I recommend the

The Softmod Any Wii Guide by Mauifrog

This guide works for all wii's

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And Bluphant's noobs guide - Basic introduction to wii hacking

There are also other guides which you can find in the Guides and tutorials section


Once you have completed the guide you need to ascertain if your wii is capable of playing backups via the disc drive or whether you need to be usb loading.

Wii's post 2009 generally cannot play backups via the disc drive and have to use usb loading.

I recommend usb loading anyway as you can add an remove your games easily and there is no wear and tear on your disc drive and no messing about with discs etc.

What you will need to know -

What drives are compatible - Usb Compatibility list

How to set your drive up - Loading and Playing Wii Backup Games from USB HDD


Once your HDD is setup and ready to go, you will need a program to manage your games!
Checkout Peire's Wii Game Manager Guide


Now your set up and ready to go, but you run in to a problem with one of your game backups -

Bmarlo's Ultimate List of problematic games and the solutions

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Peire's Ultimate guide to music and dance games

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Now if you're a modchip user you need to get over to the Modchip Section

Wiihacks also has an IRC chat room so you can get live help and assistance from staff and other

members - IRC welcome and rules

Other useful guides -

Ultimate Wiihacks index

Wiihacks guides - The Authors Index

Multi Mod Manager guide

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