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Post by chronoss »

Automatically translated from French.

Good evening!

I dive into this often but without finding an answer :(

My question: what's the difference between a Forwarder and a Channel? :93:
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Re: Difference

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Automatically translated from French.

The forwarder is a shortcut (like windows creates shortcuts) to a program and thus to the dol file that's on the sd or the hdd, and a channel contains the program (.dol) and it just needs to know where the directory is, since it already has the program.
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Re: Difference

Post by chronoss »

Automatically translated from French.

Basically:

- A forwarder can't start without the .dol located in the apps folder on the Sd

- A Channel already contains the .dol and only looks for the files it needs to run

But, how do you tell the two apart once they're installed on the Wii?
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Re: Difference

Post by Oops »

Automatically translated from French.

remove your SD, launch your channel, if you go back to the wii menu or get a message it's a forwarder. although it's not that simple. it depends on how the channel/forwarder works.

when you download a channel, generally it's indicated if it's a forwarder channel :bravo:

the advantage of a forwarder channel is for homebrew updates ;)
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Re: Difference

Post by chronoss »

Automatically translated from French.

Except you could also get a wii that's already been hacked and I don't think you'd be able to tell whether the installs are channels or forwarders... ;)

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