Hacking homebrew without a dvd drive possible?

[Scorpei]

I asked this a while back but I'm kinda hoping people are now more willing to try for me / have checked this

. I was wondering wether running homebrew is possible without a drive installed. Naturally the drive is needed for the twilight hack and etc., but after that can one start and run for example the homebrew channel without problems without a drive?

An official channel dies shortly after you start it when a drive is absent in the Wii, hence the question. Cheers to anyone who knows

. Seeing as I have a fully working Wii here that only misses the drive it would be great if I could set it up to for example run linux and be my WOL-box.

 

[KiiWii]

What about homebrew disk channel thingy and a flatmii?

http://dl.qj.net/Homebrew-Disc-Channel-v0....25072/catid/526

http://www.flatmii.com/

You can win a flatmii at www.softmii.org/v2

 

[WiiPower]

I too recommend to get a flatmii, for now it's the best alternative if you don't have a drive. Maybe you should ask someone with a flatmii if the HBC works with only a flatmii connected(without drive) and no pc connected)

What about homebrew disk channel thingy and a flatmii?

http://dl.qj.net/Homebrew-Disc-Channel-v0....25072/catid/526

http://www.flatmii.com/

You can win a flatmii at www.softmii.org/v2

I guess the homebrew disc channel doesn't really replace the disc channel it's just another homebrew channel.

 

[KiiWii]

I was under the impression you could make a homebrew disc, boot it via HBDC, and in this case, try load it (as an iso) via flatmii instead of a physical dvd drive?

 

[WiiPower]

I was under the impression you could make a homebrew disc, boot it via HBDC, and in this case, try load it (as an iso) via flatmii instead of a physical dvd drive?

I think the problem is that the Wii can't run ANYTHING when it doesn't detect a drive. But a flatmii can fully replace a drive, that's why i will consider buying one when my drive dies.

 

[Scorpei]

@WiiPower, that is indeed the problem. The system menu works perfectly fine (the channel part) however as when a channel, regardless of which is STARTED by hitting the start button the channel starts but soon gives a black screen. The question in this is of course if, when using homebrew, this problem isn't there. Or indeed if when using flatmii the problem isn't there (which I would expect, but we can't be sure of course until someone tries

).