Hacking now repairing, DO NOT POWER OFF

thecyanaura · Apr 2, 2009

Has anyone gotten this message and what exactly does it mean? I put preloader 029 on my wii last night and cleaned up my sd card a bit this afternoon, but i don't know why it's doing this.

it's been stuck there for about fifteen minutes.

thanks for any replies in advance.

sess · Apr 2, 2009

Preloader's April Fools joke. Press A on Wii Remote.

feidhlim1986 · Apr 2, 2009

Someone should have Stickied about this joke hours ago.

thecyanaura · Apr 2, 2009

f'n awesome! ! that got me good. up until a few minutes ago I had no problems at all with modding my wii. i about had a heart attack.

and i swear i did a search too, but couldn't come up with anything normally i wouldn't start a new topic for something trivial.

thanks!

Bladexdsl · Apr 2, 2009

you've been had!

kedest · Apr 2, 2009

Well at least april 1st is over in Europe. So only a few more american topics and we're done

the joke sure did the trick. it scared a lot of people.

spawn844 · Apr 2, 2009

Bricked a few too

kedest · Apr 2, 2009

spawn844 said:
Bricked a few too

yeah that's the less funny part.

oneleggedjack · Apr 2, 2009

did nintendoliky ever return his wii? hope so, that was some lame shit, funny as all might hell, but lame because of the brick

thecyanaura · Apr 2, 2009

how exactly did it brick some ppl? did it brick ppl when they powered off instead of pushing a?

kedest · Apr 2, 2009

thecyanaura said:
how exactly did it brick some ppl? did it brick ppl when they powered off instead of pushing a?

The preloader prank by itself is harmless. But some people really thought something was wrong and deleted certain files from nand in hope to fix the 'error'.

thecyanaura · Apr 2, 2009

just saw that a few threads down.

sorry again for creating a new thread. I'm usually a big proponent of forum etiquette.

Bladexdsl · Apr 2, 2009

april 1st has come and gone here good riddance

Col70 · Apr 2, 2009

Jopking aside about this though - when I booted the sys menu up, after i figured it was a wind-up, some of my channels had been deleted (wads that I'd installed) - was not happy

Mor13id · Jun 10, 2009

Is there another way to fix this? I hadn't used my wii for a while and don't have any wii remotes synchronized to it...

FenrirWolf · Jun 10, 2009

Fix what, this error? It shouldn't even affect anything since it's not April 1st right now.

Mor13id · Jun 10, 2009

I just got it right now. It says

"Now repairing...
DO NOT POWER OFF"

FenrirWolf · Jun 10, 2009

That's weird. Have you tried unplugging it for 10 minutes and trying again? That solves syncing issues sometimes.

Also, this "joke" is the reason why I'm never touching Preloader.

ften · Jun 10, 2009

Mor13id said:
Is there another way to fix this? I hadn't used my wii for a while and don't have any wii remotes synchronized to it...

Turn the Wii on and wait 24 hours or if your impatient switch your non-synced Wii's bluetooth module into a function wii, sync your Wii-mote and then switch the module back... see below for complete details;

http://fathertom.net/hardwii/?p=481

I had the same issue with one of my Wii, I do a lot of repair/hardware testing, so my Wii thought it was April 1st when I put it back together a few days later.

-FTen

Mor13id · Jun 10, 2009

Well, I don't have another wii. So I guess my only option is to leave it on for 24hrs...

*crosses fingers and hopes this works.*
Thanks.

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