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Yes I know, there are a few guides out there but mine is superior. This is what worked for me, and if you follow all of the steps it should work for you. I've included links for ALL of the files you will need (apart from the brawl iso)
Setting up Project M on your PAL Wii
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1. a USB thumb drive (at least 8GB) or HDD that you need to dedicate to your Wii. You will need to format this so the Wii can read it, so it can't be used for anything else.
**NOTE** apparently you can just format it to FAT32 (32kb cluster size) and it works, I haven't tried it myself though.
2. An SD card. When I was doing this I was under the impression that the Wii could only read 2GB SD (not SDHC) cards. However the most recent update allows the Wii to read up to 8GB SD AND SDHC cards. A microSD and an SD converter will work fine. You will also need an SD card reader for your PC.
3. An NTSC Brawl iso. If you have a PAL copy of brawl, there's no harm in downloading an NTSC version to play PM
4. Project M - < http://projectmgame.com/en/download > - download the 'Homebrew Option ZIP (Full Set)'
5. WBFS Manager - < http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/ >
6. All of these files;
- http://please.hackmii.com/ (I'll go through what you need to do to download in the steps, but if you already have the homebrew channel on your Wii, ignore this)
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/382rug38fuxbv25/USBLoaderFiles.zip?dl=0
THE PROCESS
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE HOMEBREW CHANNEL ON YOUR WII SKIP TO STEP 6
So let's assume your Wii is updated to the most recent firmware, which is 4.3E. If not, perform an update.
1. Turn on your Wii, go into the Wii Options>Wii settings>Internet>Console Information. What you will find is your MAC Address. Type your MAC address into http://please.hackmii.com/ AND MAKE SURE 4.3E IS CHECKED. start the download by clicking on either 'cut the red wire' or 'cut the blue wire' it doesn't matter.
2. Put your SD card into your computer and do a quick format. Extract all of the files from LetterBomb.zip onto your SD
3. Put the SD card into your Wii whilst it's turned off. Turn it on and have a look at your messages on the bottom right of the Wii Menu screen. What should appear is a message/letter with the letterbomb logo, however if it's not here, go into calendar view and have a look. When it, it appeared under yesterday.
4. Click on the letter bomb and your screen should go black with white text. There will be a disclaimer that lasts for 30 seconds-ish, so don't stress that your wii has frozen, just wait and press 1 to continue.
5. From here follow these commands. >continue >install the homebrew channel >yes, continue >continue >exit
and wallah, you now have the homebrew channel.
6. Put your SD card in the computer, complete another quick format, open up the .rar file you downloaded from the dropbox link < https://www.dropbox.com/s/382rug38fuxbv25/USBLoaderFiles.zip > and open up the first folder 'USB Loader GX', open up the second folder 'Files' and extract all these files onto the root directory of your SD card. your SD card root directory should have files such as 'wad', 'textcodes' etc on it, rather than all of these files in one folder.
7. eject your SD card from the computer and put it back into your Wii. From here, turn on your wii and open up the home brew channel. Make sure your wii is connected to wifi in order to get the most updated versions.
- First load up IOS236 Installer/Uninstaller.
Press 1 > Download IOS from NUS > Press A to Install > Exit
- Second, load up cIOSX rev20b Installer.
Select IOS236 > Press A > Select IOS56 v5661 > Select IOS249 > Network Installation > Any button to continue > Select IOS38 v4123 > Select IOS250 > Network Installation > Exit (B to Restart)
- Third, swipe right to the next page and open the WAD Manager.
Press A > IOS249 > Disable > Wii SD Slot > open up the WAD folder and select USB Loader GX > Install WAD > any button to continue and close the WAD manager
Alternatively, follow < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPEgwbCFa8 > from [4:22] to [9:10].
you will now have a usb loader channel, but it won't work and it will redirect you to the Wii home menu. I will explain how to fix this in step 11
8. What we need to do now is open up WBFS manager and put that brawl.iso onto your HDD/thumb drive. In order to do this you need to format the drive using the WBFS manager. To do this, locate your drive in the drop-down box up the top (make sure it's the right one) and click the format button to the right.
(once you do this every time you connect this drive to your computer, windows will ask you to format it, make sure to click 'cancel' every time)
9. locate where your brawl.iso is by clicking on the 'browse' button on the right side of the program. once you have located it, simply press 'Add to drive'. This will take a few minutes, so you can complete step 10 whilst it's doing its thing.
10. insert the SD card back into your computer, and perform another quick format. locate the file 'homebrew.zip' that you downloaded from the project M website. extract the contents of this file onto the root directory of your SD card.
11. find the file that you downloaded from the dropbox link entitled 'USBLoader_GX_V3_0_AllinOnePackage_IOS249.zip and extract these to your SD card's root directory. On your SD card this should appear in the 'apps' folder.
12. Now everything that requires a computer is complete. connect your thumb drive/HDD to the OUTMOST USB PORT. The inner port wont work.
13. Put your SD card back into your wii (this is the last time you need to do this, you can keep it in there from now on).
14. Now, you need to open up USB Loader GX. The first time I tried to do this it didn't work from the channel on the wii menu, so i had to open homebrew and load it from there. simply open homebrew>usbloder gx>load and it should start work. If it opens and it starts searching for your usb drive, just give it another try, this happens occasionally.
15. You should now be on the usb loader GX that you loaded from homebrew. From now on you should be able to load it from the channel on the Wii Menu without a problem.
16. The only thing you need to do now is turn ocarina on. you can either do this by locating the brawl iso and following >game settings>loader settings>ocarina and turning it to on (it should say global before changing it), or just turn it on from the usb loader settings (if you do this, leave it as global in the settings for brawl).
**NOTE** apparently changing the 'hooktype' to AXNextFrame (also done in game settings) will remove some minor glitches.
and there you go, when you open up brawl from usb loader gx project M should load. if you want to play brawl just change he ocarina setting to 'off'.
I hope this guide helps, written by Nicolas Downer.
Setting up Project M on your PAL Wii
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1. a USB thumb drive (at least 8GB) or HDD that you need to dedicate to your Wii. You will need to format this so the Wii can read it, so it can't be used for anything else.
**NOTE** apparently you can just format it to FAT32 (32kb cluster size) and it works, I haven't tried it myself though.
2. An SD card. When I was doing this I was under the impression that the Wii could only read 2GB SD (not SDHC) cards. However the most recent update allows the Wii to read up to 8GB SD AND SDHC cards. A microSD and an SD converter will work fine. You will also need an SD card reader for your PC.
3. An NTSC Brawl iso. If you have a PAL copy of brawl, there's no harm in downloading an NTSC version to play PM
4. Project M - < http://projectmgame.com/en/download > - download the 'Homebrew Option ZIP (Full Set)'
5. WBFS Manager - < http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/ >
6. All of these files;
- http://please.hackmii.com/ (I'll go through what you need to do to download in the steps, but if you already have the homebrew channel on your Wii, ignore this)
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/382rug38fuxbv25/USBLoaderFiles.zip?dl=0
THE PROCESS
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE HOMEBREW CHANNEL ON YOUR WII SKIP TO STEP 6
So let's assume your Wii is updated to the most recent firmware, which is 4.3E. If not, perform an update.
1. Turn on your Wii, go into the Wii Options>Wii settings>Internet>Console Information. What you will find is your MAC Address. Type your MAC address into http://please.hackmii.com/ AND MAKE SURE 4.3E IS CHECKED. start the download by clicking on either 'cut the red wire' or 'cut the blue wire' it doesn't matter.
2. Put your SD card into your computer and do a quick format. Extract all of the files from LetterBomb.zip onto your SD
3. Put the SD card into your Wii whilst it's turned off. Turn it on and have a look at your messages on the bottom right of the Wii Menu screen. What should appear is a message/letter with the letterbomb logo, however if it's not here, go into calendar view and have a look. When it, it appeared under yesterday.
4. Click on the letter bomb and your screen should go black with white text. There will be a disclaimer that lasts for 30 seconds-ish, so don't stress that your wii has frozen, just wait and press 1 to continue.
5. From here follow these commands. >continue >install the homebrew channel >yes, continue >continue >exit
and wallah, you now have the homebrew channel.
6. Put your SD card in the computer, complete another quick format, open up the .rar file you downloaded from the dropbox link < https://www.dropbox.com/s/382rug38fuxbv25/USBLoaderFiles.zip > and open up the first folder 'USB Loader GX', open up the second folder 'Files' and extract all these files onto the root directory of your SD card. your SD card root directory should have files such as 'wad', 'textcodes' etc on it, rather than all of these files in one folder.
7. eject your SD card from the computer and put it back into your Wii. From here, turn on your wii and open up the home brew channel. Make sure your wii is connected to wifi in order to get the most updated versions.
- First load up IOS236 Installer/Uninstaller.
Press 1 > Download IOS from NUS > Press A to Install > Exit
- Second, load up cIOSX rev20b Installer.
Select IOS236 > Press A > Select IOS56 v5661 > Select IOS249 > Network Installation > Any button to continue > Select IOS38 v4123 > Select IOS250 > Network Installation > Exit (B to Restart)
- Third, swipe right to the next page and open the WAD Manager.
Press A > IOS249 > Disable > Wii SD Slot > open up the WAD folder and select USB Loader GX > Install WAD > any button to continue and close the WAD manager
Alternatively, follow < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPEgwbCFa8 > from [4:22] to [9:10].
you will now have a usb loader channel, but it won't work and it will redirect you to the Wii home menu. I will explain how to fix this in step 11
8. What we need to do now is open up WBFS manager and put that brawl.iso onto your HDD/thumb drive. In order to do this you need to format the drive using the WBFS manager. To do this, locate your drive in the drop-down box up the top (make sure it's the right one) and click the format button to the right.
(once you do this every time you connect this drive to your computer, windows will ask you to format it, make sure to click 'cancel' every time)
9. locate where your brawl.iso is by clicking on the 'browse' button on the right side of the program. once you have located it, simply press 'Add to drive'. This will take a few minutes, so you can complete step 10 whilst it's doing its thing.
10. insert the SD card back into your computer, and perform another quick format. locate the file 'homebrew.zip' that you downloaded from the project M website. extract the contents of this file onto the root directory of your SD card.
11. find the file that you downloaded from the dropbox link entitled 'USBLoader_GX_V3_0_AllinOnePackage_IOS249.zip and extract these to your SD card's root directory. On your SD card this should appear in the 'apps' folder.
12. Now everything that requires a computer is complete. connect your thumb drive/HDD to the OUTMOST USB PORT. The inner port wont work.
13. Put your SD card back into your wii (this is the last time you need to do this, you can keep it in there from now on).
14. Now, you need to open up USB Loader GX. The first time I tried to do this it didn't work from the channel on the wii menu, so i had to open homebrew and load it from there. simply open homebrew>usbloder gx>load and it should start work. If it opens and it starts searching for your usb drive, just give it another try, this happens occasionally.
15. You should now be on the usb loader GX that you loaded from homebrew. From now on you should be able to load it from the channel on the Wii Menu without a problem.
16. The only thing you need to do now is turn ocarina on. you can either do this by locating the brawl iso and following >game settings>loader settings>ocarina and turning it to on (it should say global before changing it), or just turn it on from the usb loader settings (if you do this, leave it as global in the settings for brawl).
**NOTE** apparently changing the 'hooktype' to AXNextFrame (also done in game settings) will remove some minor glitches.
and there you go, when you open up brawl from usb loader gx project M should load. if you want to play brawl just change he ocarina setting to 'off'.
I hope this guide helps, written by Nicolas Downer.
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