Run Homebrew Channel without NAND dump?

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Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote:Unless the wiki is lying, the Homebrew Channel is reported to be working mostly fine in Dolphin

As the person that wrote much of that, that is NOT what it's saying. There was very little information on what it did at the time, all I had was testing from SephirothFanatic. However, what it does say is that it errors if you try to load something. Granted I didn't write "THIS ERRORS IF YOU LOAD SOMETHING" in giant text, but whatever.

wiki Wrote:Ideally, the functionality of this channel within Dolphin would allow the installation or launch of any homebrew or third-party application without the "IOCTL_ES_LAUNCH: Game tried to reload ios or a title that is not available in your nand dump TitleID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Dolphin will likely hang now." or "Unknown pointer 0x83e10000 Continue?" errors appearing.

Furthermore, the only report of it working, even a little is the testing report from 3.0-176 which states "Starts and runs normally, except when reloading or exiting with the Home button." Note the lack of "I used it to launch homebrew" or "Launches homebrew". it just starts and runs, that's it. You really made a bit of a leap there. 3.0-176 is ancient, and it doesn't list the version of the homebrew channel that was used in the attempt. It very likely could have been before the traps that neobrain mentioned.

Anyway, according to the deleted crash problem that was on the wiki, 3.0-376 fixed whichever version of the homebrew channel he was working with at that time and allowed it to boot. This conflicts with the testing report of 3.0-176, but that's all we got. See the kind of stuff we deal with on the wiki? Anyway, even with this report of it working, it all depends on the version of the homebrew channel that was used. And we don't know the version that SephirothFanatic utilized. From what I understand he has long since vanished, so there is no way to ask (even if he remembered). So, test multiple versions of HBC with 3.0-376 if you are curious about reproducing his results.


EDIT: Wiki has been updated. Spells it out much more clearly now, and uses information from the recent discussions on this topic.