What you need
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- SD Card
- Method of connecting SD card to computer
- Computer and Wii...
Basically what you're doing:
Activating a glitch in Twilight Princess which forces the game to boot a file off the SD card which will install a channel that will let you do cool things, like play DVDs or run cheat codes and emulators. In order to activate the glitch, you will need a special modified save file. For more, search "Twilight Hack" on Wikipedia.
The steps below are for unmodified Wii consoles. If you have a modded Wii console, it is assumed you know what you are doing and can install the patch youself from HackMii
1) Turn on your Wii console 2) Press A at the "WARNING - HEALTH AND SAFTEY" screen This guide assumes you have a save file in "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" that you want to keep. If you don't have a save file or wouldn't mind losing it, skip the next 17 steps. (Skip to step 20) 3) Click on the "Wii Options button". The button is a round circle in the lower left side of the screen labled only "Wii", but when you put the cursor over it, it should say "Wii Options" 4) Click on "Wii Settings". It is the button on the right. Please verify that your Wii is compatable with this guide. Look in the upper right corner and make sure that your "Ver." is not higher than "3.3". It will still work if it is "3.3", but not "3.4" or "3.5" 5) Click the "Back" button in the bottom left 6) Click "Data Management" on the left 7) Click "Save Data" on the left 8) Click "Wii" on the left 9) Insert your FAT formatted SD card now (most are FAT formatted) 10) Find and click on your "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" save. You may have to navigate with the (+) and (-) buttons 11) Click on "Copy" 12) Click on "Yes" 13) Open the flap on the Wii where the SD card and Sync button are located. It's to the left of the disc drive 14) Gently push on the SD card to eject it 15) Connect the SD card to your computer via any of the appropriate methods (SD Reader, SD Slot, MP3 Player/Camera) This guide assumes you are using a Windows computer, 95 and above 16) Click on the START menu 17) Click on "My Computer" or "Computer". If the option is not there, then you removed it from the START menu, and this guide assumes you know how to locate it 18) Click on your SD card. (usually drive F:// or G://) 19) Drag the "private" folder onto your Desktop. Make sure not to lose this folder, as it contains your old save 20)Click here 21) Click "OPEN" More recent computers will open the file automatically, but older ones will use a software like winZIP or winRAR to extract 22) Drag the "private" folder to your SD card 23) Click "Yes" when it asks you to overwrite 24) Eject the SD card from your computer 25) Put the SD card back into the Wii 26) Take out your legal copy of "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess". You will need it in your hands 27) Check the inner rim of the CD. If it is labled "RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA", take note. You will be using a special save slot when the time comes 28) Insert the game disc into the Wii 29) Click on your "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" data (on the Wii) 30) Click on "Erase" 31) Click on "Yes" Your old Twilight Princess data is safe on your computer 32) Click on "SD Card" in the upper right corner 33) Click on "Team Twiizer's Twilight Hack" 34) Click on "Copy" 35) Click "Yes" 36) Click "Back" 37) Click "Back" 38) Click "Back" 39) Click "Back" Basically just go back to the Wii Menu... 40) Click on "Twilight Princess" / "Disc Channel" in the upper left corner 41) Click "Start" 42) Insert a Nunchuk attachment into the Wiimote, if not already inserted 43) Click A to proceed past the wriststrap/nunchuk screen 44) Press A+B to start. You can also make a sword swingy motion to go with the clash your Wiimote makes 45) Select the save file Twilight Hack or TwilightHack0. If you were one of the special "RVL-RZDE-0A-2 USA" people, click TwilightHack2 You will be Ordon Village. DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL YOU GET THE BOOT.ELF FILE FROM BELOW. If you happened to cause the Wii to freeze or "hang", hold down the power button on the Wii console until it turns red, and then turn it back on and repeat steps 40-45 46) Eject the SD card from the Wii by lightly pressing on it 47) Connect it to the computer via the same method as before 48)Right Click Here and choose "Save Target As..." 49) Click "Save" and save it to to the SD card. It must not be in any folders, just directly on the SD card 50) Eject the SD card from your computer 51) Put the SD card back into the Wii 52) Close the SD card / Sync button flap 53) Go back to Twilight Princess and talk to the man infront of you 54) Follow the onscreen instructions to install. It sounds really dangerous, but it really is only a channel. At the end it may say "Restarting Wii", and the Wii won't restart. You may manually hold down power on the Wii console to shut it down at this point and turn it back on, the channel was installed 55) And there! The Homebrew Channel is installed!
To install your old Zelda save again:
- Eject the SD Card
- Connect it to the Computer
- Delete the "private" folder on it (the one with the Twilight Hack)
- Copy the "private" folder we dragged to the Desktop earlier back onto the SD card
- Eject & put the SD card into the Wii
- Copy the data over in "Wii Data Management"
You can now download my recommended applications which currently consist of:
- FTPII (A program that lets you wirelessly manage files with a client)
- Homebrew Browser (A program that lets you install other apps directly and smoothly
- Ocarina (A cheating program, similar to that of an Action Replay
- MPlayer (A movie player that you can watch DVDs and .MOV files on)
- DVD Activator [lbdi] (This must be run before running MPlayer to use DVDs. Once you use it, you can delete it)
All you do is download this file and copy the "apps" folder to your SD card
Further Help for all those programs (look them up):WiiBrew
And of course, the incredible guys who did all the work:Team Twiizers