Wode Jukebox

how do i get the wodeflow icon in the channels list instead of going through the homebrew channel. hopefully not too painful. i have wodeflow working and loving it, just want to make a few less steps for the family........

Nobody here will help with that as it's too risky. You have to install cIOS to be able to use WAD manager, and then use WAD manager install a custom "forwarder" channel. There's a risk that you will brick your wii so you're on your own if you want to Google for guides and try it. You could Google for something like "wad manager cios". Don't complain here if it breaks your Wii.

It's not a long extra step to go Homebrew Channel > WODEflow, and it's often faster than going up to the Wode and using the joystick. Especially if you set your WODE to "Autoload: LAST" so that it automounts the previous ISO on each boot, that way you can continue playing the last game directly from the Disc channel and only have to enter the loader when you want to change game.

cool, thanks for the information. i will not risk it or i may be kicked out of the house if i brick it. i will stick with what i have.

You're welcome.

Speaking of safety and custom channels, I'm wondering why everyone still uses the Trucha bug and risky cIOS to install channels?

Team Twiizers and The Homebrew Channel uses a different method to gain full access to install anything. That is how it can install HBC without trucha bug/custom IOS existing.

Yes, they've kept their HBC install exploit secret for ages, but they actually released it in Jan 2010. That's why I am wondering why nobody uses the HBC method by now. That way we could have a WAD manager and custom channels installed WITHOUT ever needing a cIOS, *ever*. It would be so much safer.

Full specifications and code for their exploit is at their blog. They held a contest to promote reverse engineering, where they agreed to release the exploit as soon as someone managed to reverse engineer the method they were using. Someone succeeded, so they kept their word and here we are. Full details are here: http://hackmii.com/2010/01/the-stm-release-exploit/

edit: Nevermind. I just noticed that the released exploit was one of their OLD install methods, which has since been patched by Nintendo. They have a new method now in the Hackmii installer, which is once again heavily obfuscated. They hint in the blog that it's quite similar to the last one (getting access to buggy syscalls and using them to overwrite the signature check function). Still, it would be so wonderful if one of those methods could be used by other channel installers such as WAD Manager. Imagine installing *anything* without needing a cIOS. Team Twiizers are amazingly talented, they say that they have a whole pile of unused exploits so that they can just keep swapping every time Nintendo patches their Hackmii install method.

My Wii is not hooked up to the Internet. How do I get titles and covers and where do I put them?

At the top of the tutorial it says you need FW 2.0 but only 1.28 in the actual tutorial.

Do I have to upgrade to 2.0?

That's because the tutorial is revised from wodemenu, which required 1.28. I currently can't test, but if it doesn't work with 1.28, update to 2.00. You can always downgrade if you need to.

Nope. I'm running 1.28 and it works as advertised.

one might wanna add to the install guide that you have to rename the downloaded "wodeflow - v0.1.dol" to "boot.dol".

one shall