Difference between revisions of "Homebrew Channel"

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**The Homebrew Channel**
Creator:	Team Twiizers
Designer:	Team Twiizers
Version:	1.1.2
Date of latest version:	Unknown
Editors used:	?
Download:	hackmii.com Click Here to go to an article of how to preform the LetterBomb exploit on

Overview

The Homebrew Channel is a homebrew application loader made by Team Twiizers it allows users to load various homebrew applications without having to exploit your Wii every time. Once it has been installed, users load the channel from the Wii System Menu like any other channel. It can launch or install from a SD or SDHC card or via TCP/USB Gecko using Wiiload. You can choose to install the Homebrew Channel via the HackMii Installer.

Installation

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Changelog

Version	Information
v1.12	PAL 50Hz (576i) video mode now works properly BootMii/boot2 can be installed again on newer Wiis Icons load again in The Homebrew Channel
v1.11	WiiU (WiiMode) compatibility - new title ID and exploit
v1.10	Added support for RVL-CNT-01-TR Wii Remotes New TrueType font renderer (FreeType) with antialiasing and theming The new default font is Droid Sans Added full UTF-8/Unicode support (font dependent) Added Japanese translation IOS is always reloaded, use ahb_access to keep AHB access enabled Fixed HBC framebuffer tearing/lag/sync/corruption issues Aligned HBC graphics to the pixel grid (sharper graphics) Aligned font rendering to the pixel grid in both 4:3 and 16:9 mode Fixed/improved text layout Fixed support for huge meta.xml files (e.g. very long descriptions) Renamed "Coder" to "Author" in app descriptions (<coder> is now an alias for <author>) Fixed missing theme app entries (sometimes) Changed many crashes into explicit errors / a panic screen Speed and stability improvements when launching apps (cleanup after IOS) Reload stub: support any BAT setup (or even real mode) Reload stub: do not depend on existing exception vectors Reload stub: do not touch HID4 Reload stub: disable IRQs ASAP Fixed bugs in device hotplugging support Added nicer error message triggered when HBC runs out of memory while loading an app Removed the <unknown> coder/version labels Fixed memory leaks while loading themes and in app entries Reduced the minimum theme size (for xml-only themes) Increased the maximum theme size up to 20MB (for huge fonts) Reduced memory fragmentation when loading apps/themes (less OOM errors) Fixed sorting by release date Fixed crashes with incomplete meta files Themes now affect language choice (due to font differences) HBC now allows apps to load code at 0x3400 Fixed various buffer overflow / error conditions Fixed/improved thread synchronization and race conditions Theme ZIP files can now contain .txt files, which are ignored (README.txt, etc.) HBC can now take screenshots (Nunchuk Z+C, in that order) Updated to devkitPro r24 and latest libogc/libfat git
v1.08	General USB improvements for all IOS versions, this fixes the regression introduced in version 1.0.7. USB2 support through IOS58.
v1.07	New title id to circumvent its deletion by System Menu 4.3. New look from our favorite pixel artist drmr. Both views now show five rows of application entries. On-NAND settings. HBC now has the HW_AHBPROT flags set for direct hardware access, thus replacing DVDX. Ability to not reload IOS when launching an application. USB access is more stable, thanks to tueidj Fixed the retry mechanism for the network initialization. Fixed some rare hangs upon launch and exit (Hopefully all of them). Notable speed improvement. Now capable of custom themes granted all files are of the same dimensions.
v1.06	Freeze fix Some other minor hiccups
v1.05	System Menu 4.2 support Improved startup HBC prefers boot.elf over boot.dol when launching apps Improved fonts enjoy :) Widescreen support: If your Wii is set to 16:9 in the system menu options, HBC won’t stretch the picture like it did in older versions Grid view: 4 columns on 16:9 TVs 3 columns on 4:3 TVs Device hot-swapping: Added a menu for device options App sorting Name Release date For release date sorting to work a valid release_date tag must be present in the apps meta.xml file Wiiload overhaul On-the-fly compression Improved USBGecko support libftdi support Because of these improvements, older wiiload versions and 3rd party upload clients are incompatible. Use the bundled v0.5, binaries and source code are included Basic app management : To add apps: Just wiiload a ZIP archive, it will then get extracted to the active device. The ZIP file must be structured in a certain way, check this description for the details Added option to delete apps
v1.04	Fixed POWER button bug (BootMii IOS) Turned HBC upside down for those who modified the contents of the HBC or installed it using a "wad manager"
v1.03	SDHC support... again Improved SD Card support (regression was introduced in v1.0.2) HBC is compatable with all pre-4.2 system menu versions (stock 3.3 post Oct 23 has issues Fixed rare hangs when exiting HBC Added translation for "Launch BootMii" button
v1.02	Added "Launch BootMii" button (BootMii IOS) to home menu System Menu 4.0 support USB support Manual shutdown support
v1.01	Fixed B button issues Wii Remotes are in-sync with System Menu Possibly fixed the USB Ethernet Issues Fixed wiimote auto-shutdown Possibly fixed "video after shutdown" Issues Changes to () -> *
v1.0.0	Meta.xml supports all ISO-8859-1 characters Wii Remote shutdown support Rumble support (system menu settings) Fixed some crash bugs Fixed meta.xml UNIX style newline regression Support for Non-Nintendo Wii Remotes Classic Controller support Nunchuk support (scroll only) Guitar Hero 3 guitar support Left/Right button page scrolling Hit 1 on Wii Remote for net reload (like net icon click or GC Z) Add information to installer Fixed network issues Pushed in some text to avoid overscan crop Widened video width to match System Menu ("black bars" fix) B returns from app screen (unless scrolling) Auto-connect support Retry network init Reload stub now identifies itself (magic number) Support for broken HTTP proxies in update check Added IOS revision in main menu