I wanna get a few cheats for my Wii like textures and others but I need Gecko OS .

Anyways my Wii doesnt have the homebrew channel and I have been looking at videos to install the homebrew channel.

I heard that doing this can brick your Wii.

So anyways, I was wondering if the homebrew channel is safe in general from someone on the forums rather than a random youtube comment.

The Wii updates can cause the Wii to brick if it detects the homebrew channel and the Wii hasnt updated in over a year and a half so i would think it is safe enough.

Homebrew channel is 100% safe. And it's worth it, you can run awesome stuff in your wii like emulators and homebrew games. And it's easy. Just use letterbomb/bannerbomb to run the installer, tell it to install HBC, and done.

Most people who brick their wiis do it by installing more "dangerous" things like cIOS'es or other stuff, but even that, if you do it properly it's safe.

If you're going to install HBC, update before you do, because updating after installing HBC is not recommended. It should be safe, people say it just removes HBC and other hacks, and you can install it again after it, but if you can avoid trying, avoid it. Anyways, there are probably no more interesting updates coming for Wii, so you shouldn't worry too much about not being able to update.

Great. My Wii is 4.3e I think ( definitely 4.3 ) so I can download HBC and Gecko OS and more thanks.

One more question, lets just say a new Wii update comes out, 4.4 lets say, am i able to remove the HBC so if I were to update to 4.4 there would be no chance of messing up my Wii or it is installed there for good?

This is me ^^ sorry

There is also Riivolution . I use that to play wii hacks (with the original rom)
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I apologize to everyone for my horrible English.

Yes, it can be removed.
Anyways, there's no problem in updating with HBC installed. The update removes HBC, so you just got to install it again.

But if there's a new update out, before updating, check that HBC can be installed in the new version. THey'll probably fix the exploits that are used to install it. There was BannerBomb, then they fixed it in 4.3, and there's LetterBomb now. They'll fix LetterBomb and then the HBC guys will probably come up with a new one

Thanks for the replies.

I dont want to heavily mod my Wii or use ISO's or anything so ill keep to the safe stuff like Gecko OS and emulators, so my wii should be ok

I am actually a little skeptical about installing HBC (bricking & stuff), but ive been reconsidering to install it, since I want to do NSMBW hacks and play classic games in emulators. I still have the 4.2U version, so I am wondering if is still a good idea to install it?
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Sure, go right ahead.

As long as you don't fuck up, it's completely safe.