A channel is actually an application installed on the Wii. A forwarder is like a shortcut on the Wii System Menu that points at the app on the SD card. Note: If you're curious about the difference between a Channel and a Forwarder, we'll explain here briefly. This tool isn't necessary unless you want to back your games up to another drive or to your computer. (You should already have one if you've modded your Wii for homebrew.) It looks awesome sitting next to the Wii. The drive pictured above with the Wii-matching blue/silver/white color scheme is the FileMate 3.5' to USB 2.0 enclosure. While we've never had any compatibility issues you can play it safe and browse this list of hard drives if you're shopping for a new one and want to play it safe.
We recommend grabbing the AllinOnePack for ease of setup. If you don't have these things, start with our homebrew guide and then our guide on safeguarding and supercharging your Wii to get up to speed. A Wii already modified to play homebrew software and with the Trucha patch IOS and cIOS installed.For this hack you'll need the following items:
