Any reason to not install home brew on wii u?

[Yong Dekonk]

I played Mario Party 6 the other night with some friends on a gamecube and had a blast. I read that you can play gamecube games on wii u with homebrew. Has anyone tried it?

 

[SphericalCrusher]

I have and it works great. No issues. I don't want to overstep my bounds by the moderators on this topic, so that's all I will say.

 

[Verteidiger]

If you only install the Homebrew Channel, it will be completely harmless. You won't be able to load Wii games, but you have nintendont and plenty of other emulators to try. I am currently playing some RPGs that I missed back in the day, such as Terranigma (terrific SNES game), Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Tales of Symphonia. Playing with the Pro controller is awesome.

 

[Elisay]

You lose your Wii U warranty, if you had any.

 

[Yong Dekonk]

Will I lose my ability to download from the nintendo store? Will the console still get updates from Nintendo? Will I be able to play online?

 

[Verteidiger]

No, yes, yes. The Wii mode is self-contained and anything you install there will not affect to the rest of the console. Of course, just be careful any everything will be okay.