Forwarder Factory is a community of Nintendo Wii hackers who try to preserve homebrew and official software so that it can be accessed by anyone years from now as freeware.
It is owned and hosted by speedie. We have an IRC channel on the libera.chat network (#ff) and a Discord server.
Our goals is to preserve Nintendo Wii homebrew and make it accessible to anyone years later. It's already becoming very clear that this stuff is getting harder to find, and a lot of media is already completely gone after Nintendo shut down the DarkUmbra hacking/piracy forum back in 2017.
This sent a very strong message to me and perhaps others: this kind of media must be preserved. Efforts were already being made years ago but preservation wasn't considered as important back when the Wii was at its homebrew peak. (After all, these were just channels for a soon to be obscure console)
If you wish to support our efforts, you can take action by doing any of the following:
Below is a list of our preservation projects at this time. Feel free to contribute in any way possible.
This is our Homebrew Channel archive. It contains all Homebrew Channel/HackMii Installer's officially released, HBC .dol forwarders, complete collection of dumped Homebrew Channel WADs, unofficial colored Forwarders, DVDX and more.
- To clone the HBC .dol forwarder branch:git clone https://github.com/ForwarderFactory/hbc-archive -b hbc-dols
- To clone the HBC Forwarder branch:git clone https://github.com/ForwarderFactory/hbc-archive -b hbc-forwarders
- To clone the HBC Forwarder (OHBC) branch:git clone https://github.com/ForwarderFactory/hbc-archive -b hbc-ohbc-forwarders
- To clone the HBC Installer/HackMii Installer branch:git clone https://github.com/ForwarderFactory/hbc-archive -b hbc-installers
- To clone the HBC dumped WADs branch:git clone https://github.com/ForwarderFactory/hbc-archive -b hbc-wads
Feel free to join our Discord community. It's free as in beer (homebrew).
If you're a free as in freedom (libre) software fan, consider joining our IRC channel. It's on the irc.libera.chat network. Channel is #ff.
This is the Forwarder Factory GitHub organization. It has most if not all archived media. Please reupload to archive.org if you can.
This is the Homebrew Channel archive. It has everything we've found regarding the Homebrew Channel. This includes BootMii, all installers, DVDX and more.
For example, we've dumped every Homebrew Channel ever released.
This is the general Wii homebrew archive. It's mostly Wii homebrew but also official channels. Most are available through NUS.
Our goals is to preserve Nintendo Wii homebrew and make it accessible to anyone years later. It's already becoming very clear that this stuff is getting harder to find, and a lot of media is already completely gone after Nintendo shut down the DarkUmbra hacking/piracy forum back in 2017.
This sent a very strong message to me and perhaps others: this kind of media must be preserved. Efforts were already being made years ago but preservation wasn't considered as important back when the Wii was at its homebrew peak. (After all, these were just channels for a soon to be obscure console)
If you wish to support our efforts, you can take action by doing any of the following:
If you wanna send media, you can send them through the Discord server. Otherwise, if you're against non-free software please email me. My email is speedie@duck.com.
You can also contact me on libera.chat (speedie).
If you wish to support me (speedie) and my preservation efforts, feel free (not forced) to send over some of your Monero. It would be greatly appreciated.
To do so, simply send your Monero (XMR) to this address:
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For more information, see the donate page.