Will a Wii system update ruin my console if I have the homebrew channel installed?

[Brennus]

I'm not sure if this should go here of in Tutorials, FAQs & Help, but here goes...

A while back (I think around march) I installed the homebrew channel on my Wii to play Brawl+ (and occasionally brawl-). Fast forward to about an hour ago, I picked up a copy of Samurai Warriors 3 from Game Stop and came home for some good old button mashing fun, but when I popped the disk in it told me I needed a Wii system update to play the game and that installing the update on a modified console could cause your Wii to **** itself and die. I'm pretty much technologically illiterate and could use some advice before continuing. Should I just uninstall the homebrew channel or should I be okay to just go ahead with the update? I've never used homebrew channel to run anything other than Gecko and aside from occasionally updating my Brawl+ code set haven't changed my setup at all since I installed it last spring.

 

[Life]

Gecko should run your game without requiring a system update...

 

[TommoPuppy]

I think Disc-based updates are usually little IOS updates rather than a full-blown System Menu updates, but I would and have played it safe and just played through Gecko, yeah.

 

[Hozu]

Make sure you're using v1.0.8 of the Homebrew Channel before you update. If you have internet settings setup it should have prompted you to update it a while ago though so just make sure you have it before you accept the update from SW3.

 

[Dantarion]

The answer is no. But, the update will most likely remove your hombrew channel if it isn't up to date. However, reinstalling it with StackSmash will work.