Coming back to the Wii homebrew scene after a long time and what a great thing to talk about – BootMii. The awesome guys at hackmii have released (initial beta) the much awaited homebrew that has the potential to bring back your Wii from almost any brick.

A little background for those who haven’t heard of this before. The system boots through many stages and for all practical purposes, the very first stage after which it’s possible to brick the Wii, from bad firmware update to wrong region firmware etc, is now going to be protected.

This nifty hack into the system provides users with an option to boot directly into the Homebrew Channel, Backup / Restore your Nand without booting into the System Menu! What this means is if you brick your Wii in future with a bad firmware update (For eg) resulting in the error page directly on bootup, then this will come in handy, assuming you installed it beforehand

Backup your Nand (which, it seems can be done in under 3 minutes!) and keep it safe. If the firmware update goes back, all you gotta do is restore it using bootmii. Or you could use it to boot into the homebrew channel and use other homebrew utilities to restore your firmware. All the details are available on the homepage.

Although it’s in beta right now and can cause a brick itself due to some unforeseen bug, it’s a big step in the right direction as it holds the potential of giving users something nintendo couldn’t – possibility to restore things in the worst case scenario! If you’re confident about playing around you could do the testing and help out the developers. If not, just wait out the beta testing and then install away the awesome BootMii, for you might just need it on some rainy day!

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