I recently got my hands on a physical Wii, and I'm very excited to get to work homebrewing it. However, I want to be careful not to do something stupid and brick it or otherwise mess something up. So, I decided to see if I could use Dolphin as a "test ground" of sorts, just to see if I can run an exploit and get the installer running.
First, I did the obvious thing and just dragged the boot.elf file for the BootMii installer on to Dolphin. This just causes it to spit some invalid read/write errors until it crashes or I force close it. So, I decided to see if I could use Smash Stack or LetterBomb. Smash stack works, but causes the virtual Wii to freeze rather then loading the boot.elf in the SD cards root folder, and LetterBomb simply won't show up at all (which some quick google searches suggest might be due to the way the SD card is formatted).
Should I bother trying to do this? Are these things not actually supposed to work in Dolphin as of yet? Should I just jump straight into running the BootMii installer on my physical Wii, or is there a way to practice with it in Dolphin?
First, I did the obvious thing and just dragged the boot.elf file for the BootMii installer on to Dolphin. This just causes it to spit some invalid read/write errors until it crashes or I force close it. So, I decided to see if I could use Smash Stack or LetterBomb. Smash stack works, but causes the virtual Wii to freeze rather then loading the boot.elf in the SD cards root folder, and LetterBomb simply won't show up at all (which some quick google searches suggest might be due to the way the SD card is formatted).
Should I bother trying to do this? Are these things not actually supposed to work in Dolphin as of yet? Should I just jump straight into running the BootMii installer on my physical Wii, or is there a way to practice with it in Dolphin?
Seriously considering replacing my Wii with Dolphin once I get a good gaming machine, now that the Shop Channel is supported.