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+[[Image:Wiibrick.PNG|Team Twiizers' HQ is built from Wiis bricked testing The Homebrew Channel.]]
[[Image:Wiibrick.PNG|Team Twiizers' HQ is built from Wiis bricked testing The Homebrew Channel.|right]]
To '''brick''' a Wii is to damage the console beyond repair - as in 'a bricked Wii has all the electronic functionality of a brick'. To put it simply, fully bricked Wii consoles do not play.
To '''brick''' a Wii is to damage the console beyond repair - as in 'a bricked Wii has all the electronic functionality of a brick'. To put it simply, fully bricked Wii consoles do not play.
The term is often used in situations where modifying a system's firmware (without necessarily making any alterations to the machine's hardware) has caused it to become inoperable.
The term is often used in situations where modifying a system's firmware (without necessarily making any alterations to the machine's hardware) has caused it to become inoperable.
−== Semi-brick ==
== Semi-brick ==
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* Do not delete critical system files.
* Do not delete critical system files.
* Watch out for malformed channel banners, the menu is very bad at error handling.
* Watch out for malformed channel banners, the menu is very bad at error handling.
−== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
−Team Twiizers' HQ is built from Wiis bricked during alpha testing of The Homebrew Channel.
+[[Team_Twiizers|Team Twiizers]]' HQ is built from Wiis bricked during alpha testing of [[Homebrew Channel|The Homebrew Channel]].