This one can be a dodgy one to deal with so straight out the bat we should say that this should be used for homebrew only and none of that other stuff that might impose on any copyright laws. To be honest consoles need to come with homebrew access from the get go because it’s going to happen eventually. It’s just a shame that the result of hacking for homebrew also allows some of that nasty stuff in

The Homebrew Channel adds a new channel to your Wii that obviously allows you to play Homebrew easier. The previous way for this was with the Twilight Hack, this was a save game hack in Zelda: Twilight Princess. You will need to use this just the once to install the channel. If your unsure if you can use this exploit check out this.

1. Download the channel from the official site. Alternatively you could download the excellent Easy Homebrew Installer that will format your card correctly and copy the files to their correct locations. If you are using this skip to step 3.
2. Once done extract the files into the root of your SD card
3. Then run the Twilight Hack and it will install the channel.
4. After awhile it will reset the Wii.

Now if your wondering about what to do next simply make a folder called ‘apps’ on the SD Card. In that folder create another folder for each individual application. So if you wanted to play a rip off of Breakout then put it in your SD:/apps/ripoffbreakout/ folder. Inside there somewhere their will be an .elf or .doi file if might need to rename this to boo.elf or boot.doi respectively.

It’s really as easy as that. I admit the Twilight Hack can be a pain but that’s why there is a Homebrew Channel. The best place to pick up homebrew is the WiiBrew Wiki as anyone can start a page and display their game.

Disclaimer: Nidzumi or any other site takes not responsiblity in the result of a bricked Wii. Although this is very rare it can happen when you are messing around with the firmware and installing stuff that isn’t meant to be installed.

Welcome to the every first edition of OneZeroOne, which is a new weekly series we’re testing out here on Nidzumi.com. OneZeroOne will basically help you out with your tech problems on your consoles. Whether it be Playstation 3 or Dreamcast we’ll try our best to help out. Coincidentally this week we’ll tackle one of the limitations of Playstation 3’s media playback, specifically HD MKV playback.

Now the Playstation 3 is a brilliant media center as it can pretty much play any format you would ever desire and the ease of copying files combined with accessible expandable storage makes it nearly perfect. Although as you might or might not already know the Playstation 3 can not playback the standard HD format that is .mkv. Matroska is slowly becoming the norm for high definition content and it’s a bit let down that Sony haven’t supported it. Luckily there is a fairly easy work around that you can use through the process of ReMuxing.

Remuxing in this instance takes the video and audio streams and combines them into one mixed file. This means that you’ll end up with a playable file but without any visible loss of quality. This file, which can be a .vob or .mpeg depending on your preference, can then be played back on your Playstation 3 instantly. It’s also incredibly quick to remux your file to this format as I’ve rarely waited more than a couple of minutes for a file to be generated.

What you’ll need is mkv2vob which is the easiest and quickest program to use that can do this. This program is quite diverse for what is a simple program. You can produce spilt files for easier backing up and you can produce the outcome in a number of formats. mkv2vob really does the job. My only problem is fitting content on a DVD5 but maybe an investment in a dual-layer drive would help. Nevertheless this program provides the easiest solution to this problem although you would like to think that Sony will add support sooner rather than later.

Link Dump:

VideoHelp.com’s Listing For mkv2vob
Wikipedia’s Page For MKV - What Is Matroska Anyway?
MKV2VOB’s Home Page
Direct Link To MKV2VOB

Join us next Tuesday for the full scoop on Zune Gaming and how you can get in on the act. If you happen to have any questions or queries we’ll be happy to answer them at this address. You might even if your question featured on the site.