ios36 freethebug problem

folks,

I need your help. or I should say a friend of mine does.

he saw me softmodding a couple of wii and thought it was easy...
unlike me he did not do a lot of reading and jumped into it.

unfortunately I do not know 100% what he did because I wasn't there, but here is what he told me.

1. he had a wii 3.3e
2. bannerbomb
3. he tried to install bootmii (because I advised him to do), but he could not install as he has a boot2v3
4. he installed HBC
5. he updated to 4.1e
6. trucha bug restorer (downgrade 15)
7. trucha bug restorer (patch 36)
8. trucha bug restorer (restore 15)
9. cios rev13a

this was all following a guide he found. and it sounds safe to me.
he then installed GX and did a few test ripping his dvd and playing a couple of games.

until then... GREAT...
but seeing he could not use bootmii he starting messing up with different nand backup tools (wiind, yawnd....)
and he did not manage to make them work.
he had a could of ideas and started having fun with this wii.
one of the idea was not too bad. as he installed preloader to "be safe"
but the other sounds a little bit risky to me (he didn't tell me until he was done)
1. run NUS, download ios36 latest version
2. install wwpacker
3. freethebug on the ios36 wad he created
4. run wad manager and install the new wad......

since then the wii is not working very well !

he can't run anymore homebrew (or at least the one he tested) the screen goes black.
even the loader (installed as a channel) is not running anymore

HBC is running.. but as mentioned everytime he runs a homebrew the screen does black.

do you guys have any hints for me to give him
I won't have his wii until tonight but I would like to get there with a few ideas.
my idea was to try reinstalling the correct ios36.
or even do a full downgrade/upgrade process.

but he tells me that he tried running everything he could (wad manager 1.3 / 1.4 / any region changer / ...)
so I am a little bit dazzled and I would love to hear that someone has a clue.

I am even thinking of creating an autoboot ISO, put it on a WBFS key... just to see if it works !! lol

thank you for any idea you can bring to the table
and sorry for being confusing, as mentioned I will only have access to the wii tonight !

Cheers,
R

Cover Downloader

edit 09/04/15 . Updated to Beta 0.3 see the end of this post for history and download link

hello everyone,

this is a quick tool to download all your covers from wii.ds-scene
I picked ds-scene because they do not have any watermark on their cover.
the process is pretty simple.
I simply open a web page including their release list
parse it to grab the needed information
and download/resize/rename the cover

don't expect anything fancy.
I started that for for my personal use.

but as I see that nothing is "really" out except nIxx download option (which by the way downloads EVERYTHING from gbatemp including non-wii covers) I decided to share it with you.

for this matter I quickly added a parameter allowing you to choose which covers you want to download
and more important all the covers are downloaded, resized (160x226) and renamed :
GAME (REGION) [RELEASE NUMBER IN DS-SCENE].PNG

making it easy to deal with

I am planning on adding different options, including either a gui or at least an ini file to give you more control, and maybe even a progress status

- region you want to download
- destination folder
- resize option
- naming convention
- starting cover (to allow you chunk downloading)

I am also trying to see if I can find enough sources with GAMEID thus giving you the obvious choice of naming it directly to the gameid.
but unless we find a way to have an online participative DB (on wiibrew?, but they will probably consider that as hackers material, I dunno), I doubt that I will reach any success on that.

once again, don't flame me for this pre-pre-pre alpha release.
I will work on that tomorrow if I find time, and if anyone has some good idea to share feel free to let me know, I am at such an early stage of the process that I could include it.

"http://rapidshare.com/files/218920081/WII-cover_beta0.1.rar (no download limit)

you will find 2 .exe in this archive
convert.exe (used to do the image conversion)
WII-cover 0.1.exe (which is my application)

put both in a folder and run :
WII-cover_beta0.1.exe ALL
WII-cover_beta0.1.exe PAL
WII-cover_beta0.1.exe NTSC-U
WII-cover_beta0.1.exe NTSC-J
WII-cover_beta0.1.exe NTSC-KOR

knowing I did not include a progress I have left the IE page open so you have a clue on were you are standing....

I hope it helps until I improve it and/or someone makes a real application for this purpose

I am sorry I could not do more today, but I really have to run right now...

Cheers,
R


HISTORY
Beta 0.2
but with some more checks (still a lot missing please let me know if you find anything weird)
removed the IE page
added a scrolling log so you see the status

Beta 0.3
fixed error in the log processing now the page blanks when reaching the bottom instead of scrolling
added a file log this way you can see what happened by scrolling it without sitting in front of your screen during the process
fixed error for downloading (added a retry counter)
fixed error for downloading (some game names had non windows characters..)
fixed error in resizing.
added the settings.ini (finally) these settings are available (more to come)
---> REGION : ALL/PAL/NTSC-J/NTSC-KOR/NSTC-U
---> SIZE : decide your own sizing... pretty handy.. not all loaders are using the same size
---> RETRIES : number of time you want to retry to download a file in case of a problem
---> ALTCREATE : define whether you want or not to create alternate file (in conjunction with the next settings)
---> ALTSIZE : define the size of the the alternate size
added an alternate size option (see settings.ini) as per fchadon request. handy for loaders which can handle big/small size images
removed region from the name as the files are now saved in the appropriate folder (a tag appears for PAL region as it can have multiple release (MULTI 3/4/5/6.... etc)

To Do
Selectable downloads (a listview of checkboxes allowing you to select which covers you want to download)
Resume ability.. restart a download from the latest cover you have
Save as GAMEID. I am leaving that to the end. first I need to make sure the rest works correctly
when GAMEID is resolved. parse a WBFS drive and get all the (missing) covers
--- hit me with anything else. I will see what can be done.


Download
WII-cover_beta0.2.rar
WII-cover_beta0.3.rar