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[tamakun]

Well, this past weekend Christine and I went out to Tiger Direct to pick up a couple of USB hubs as apparently we've run out of ports and have too many USB thingies laying around. As well, I happened to come across a cheap Media Card Reader, so now I've got a nice setup in my computer. No more upgrades needed for me. The only reason I wanted to get a media card reader was for Homebrew for the DS and Wii, and luck would have it, Nintendo put out an update to the Wii Menu (3.3) which would prevent the Twilight Hack. As I discovered this update while I was at work, I decided not to update my Wii until I got the Homebrew Channel up and running. After about 10 minutes of reading over the directions, placing files in a very specific layout on an SD card with my newly-installed media card reader, I went over to Twilight Princess, hacked up my Wii and bam, I now have a Homebrew Channel (wow, an unauthorized Wii Channel! Awesome!) that includes SCUMMVM for the Wii, so now I can play old LucasArts and Sierra games on my Wii! As a test, I copied over the disc from Full Throttle onto the SD card, gave it a run and ...woah. Why are they saying they can't read data off the SD cards fast enough? It ran better than my old DOS computer ran the game! YAY for Full Throttle! :D

In other news, when we were over at Christine's Parents' place on Father's Day, her father had happened to discover that a baby bird had been knocked out of its nest. He had been taking care of it for a few days by the time we had seen it and it was covered in feathers (whereas he found it when it was fairly newborn and was just pink). It was adorable, and he was feeding it water and tuna flakes (which it gulped down eagerly). I think it was a baby robin, just judging from the downy feathers, and what I thought was a red breast. Unfortunately, I just heard that it was caught by a cat today. :( He had wanted to know if we wanted to take care of it (jokingly, I thought) - but the fact is that we have a cat here, too... Missy would be drawn to it like a flame to paper (as if Missy wasn't a bird-watching cat - she's watched the birds on the balcony). 'Tis nature, I guess... I'm a little upset about it, but it's nature. At least we tried...

In an attempt to ID the baby bird (I'm fairly certain it was a robin, now) I came across a touching story of Robbie the Robin. This should cheer you up, Christine. :)

Comments

[kinnonyee.livejournal.com]

Do you want the final DS Copier?

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I'll still need to get a MicroSD card for that, won't I? I think I'll pass for now, but thanks :)

[kinnonyee.livejournal.com]

Micro SDs at 2gb are about $10-15. But ok.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought it'd be more. *shrugs* In any case, if you've asked other people already, I'll put my name back at the bottom of the list.

[kinnonyee.livejournal.com]

I have ,but if you look in your facebook, you should see a message from me regarding it. you're one of 3 I've asked, with garfield taking one of them already. So there's one left between you and kevin, whoever replies first to the thread :p

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

So, wait, what? The Twilight Hack doesn't just work by loading a busted save file off the Wii's main SD port? Do you need a specific brand of SD reader, or does any Windows-compatible USB SD reader work?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

.. I ask because I'm planning on going through the same procedure myself before the update X3

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think I made it sound more complex than it really is. It's just a very interesting directory structure where you place the Twilight Hack in a specific folder on the SD card, drop the boot.elf file in the root directory, place the other apps in the apps folder, place SCUMM games in another folder, etc...

And considering I wanted to save my Twilight Princess game, I had to copy it to the SD card, save it to my hard drive, set up the hack on the SD card, copy that back to the Wii Memory, run the Hack, then restore the original gamesave from my computer. A lot of passing back-and-forth, but the Homebrew Channel's worth it ;)

Looks like any normal SD card and reader will work, considering I bought a $15 jobbie and the SD card was already formatted for the Wii. Actually, after looking back at it, it took maybe 30 minutes tops to install the Channel. And playing Full Throttle on the Wii was insane :D

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

OK, waitwaitwait. When you say you used an SD reader... you just mean to get data onto the SD card? It wasn't plugged into your Wii? i.e. if I've got a laptop that reads SD cards, then I am indeed set?

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Yep, you're set! No special hardware necessary! :D