We used a 16GB Micro-SD card and a 1TB USB drive. Both need to be formatted to FAT32 to work with the software we are using. You also need to get your SD card and your external hard drive ready. If your version is lower than 4.3, go to the third page in your options menu and update the software. If you go into your Wii Options menu the version number is in the top right like this: Before You Startįor this to work, you need to have your Nintendo Wii updated to firmware version 4.3 which is the latest and the last version that was released.

Also, not all loaders will look for games on the SD card. You can install games on the SD card but you won’t have much room so an external hard drive is better. A portable USB hard drive (to store software, games on).An SD card or a Micro-SD card with SD card adapter.A computer and an SD or Micro-SD card reader.To do this jailbreak you will need a few things:

Things You Will Need to Jailbreak Your Wii It’s not legal to download and use stuff you didn’t pay for so BIG disclaimer! We warned you so don’t go and say “Mos and Boo told me to do it!” Some of this is free homebrew but there are also games you have to buy. Once jailbroken you can put software downloaded from the Internet.All the things we read made it sound this was unlikely and seeing we didn’t really use the Wii before this, it wasn’t a big risk for us. If this happens you can’t use it anymore and it’s going in the bin. When jailbreaking there is always a risk you could brick your device.They stopped making Wiis back in 2013 so you are probably safe here 😀 From what we know, jailbreaking a Wii isn’t illegal but it will void your warranty.So we found out it wasn’t that hard to do and thought we’d do a write up in case anyone else had an old Wii out there. We also have a lot of games that would be cool to put on there and not have to keep swapping CDs. There’s been a lot of old games coming out on our Nintendo Switch lately that have been updated for the Switch, like Super Mario Galaxy, which was originally a Wii game (mum has been playing this a LOT).Īnyway… dad suggested we have a go at jailbreaking the Nintendo Wii just so we could do our first jailbreak and also put some homebrew on there. Even though it’s old it’s still an awesome platform.

While going through one of dad’s many stashes of old computer and tech stuff the other day, we found his old Nintendo Wii.

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