Homebrew Channel

The Homebrew Channel is a freeware homebrew application loader that was developed to provide a way of easily running unofficial software on the Wii console. Once installed, it appears as a standard Wii Channel on the Wii Menu. When launched, it displays a list of applications found on an SD card or USB drive. The user then selects an application to launch by using a Wii Remote or GameCube controller. It also accepts application uploads via a USB Gecko or TCP/IP (over Wi-Fi or Ethernet), which allows for quick application testing during development. When launched from the Wii Menu, the Homebrew Channel will check for updates to itself and automatically download them if the user chooses to do so.

The functionality provided by the Homebrew Channel is provided by Dolphin directly, so the HBC is not needed (except to work around Dolphin's broken Wii homebrew detection in some cases).

Problems
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Black screen before 1.1.3
The developers of the Homebrew Channel have placed traps into the program specifically to prevent the HBC from loading in Dolphin. There are other problems in versions before 1.1.3 which won't be documented here.

The 1.1.3 release of the HBC, which is now open source, has removed the anti-Dolphin code.

Networking
Network initialisation never completes.

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