How To Downgrade Wii Firmware

Hello. I'm Rene Millman. I'm the editor of Absolute Gadget, the gaming and gadget news website.

Today, I'm going to be talking to you about how to get the most out of your Wii console. In this video, we will be talking about how to downgrade your firmware on your Nintendo Wii. Now, if you've been using the Homebrew Channel and it doesn't work like it should do, then it's probably because you've done a system update and Nintendo's quite successfully stopped you from playing your Homebrew games.

In that case, then you need to then go about downgrading the Nintendo Wii back to a version which was, with the flaws, allowed you to play your Homebrew games. What you need to do is search on the internet for a file which has the downgrade firmware and put that onto an SD card in an apps folder. And then, in the Homebrew channel, you can then access that particular file and run that file on the console to downgrade your Wii back to a version where you can use Homebrew as you normally would do.

When you download the file, you've got various files; some of them are called WAD files. Now, you need to put them in the root directory of your SD card so when you open up WAD manager in Homebrew Channel, you can extract that WAD and that will, in turn, help you install or downgrade the firmware back to its three point -- version 3.2, which is what you need to successfully run the Homebrew Channel as is.

And that's how you downgrade your firmware on the Nintendo Wii. .