Here's the situation: I got a launch day wiiu back in the day, did one of the earlier hacks (haxchi 2.3 according to files on the SD card. Oh, and set up as cold boot) but then completely lost all track of further updates. Both from hacks (I never attempted tiramisu) or from nintendo (I can't say which version I have, though it did work fine with that hack). Simply put: it worked fine.
It pretty much retired for years and never even got turned on unless nephew and niece came around for some mario kart (Christmas 2022...probably). I pretty much had the same idea for last Christmas...but I found out during the event that my wiiu failed to start.
I remember it booting straight into cold boot haxchi, and from there to the (hacked) system menu. It doesn't show that anymore, but is stuck in nintendo's basic "loading" intro screen. It doesn't show up the menu or anything else.
At first glance, all files on the SD card seemed fine...except the SD card is stuck in read-only mode (I've had this happen before, though never on a quality brand sandisk). Figuring that was the cause, I replaced it (note: not with a same 32GB sandisk type, but a 64 micro-SD EDO Plus samsung one+adapter). The new one is formatted in FAT32 and has the same files as the old ones. That didn't change anything of the error.
Online I found that simply reinstalling haxchi (that is: placing the files on the SD card as they were) could help, but...not in my case. Then again, I'm not sure if this is caused by haxchi to begin with. Due to me not being able to do anything on the wiiu itself, troubleshooting is pretty limited.
So...does anyone have an idea what this could be and/or how to fix it? Are there shortcuts to starting the wiiu in troubleshooting mode (akin to priiloader on the wii) ? Would "updating" to tiramisu in this state do anything usefull?
Thanks for your help.
It pretty much retired for years and never even got turned on unless nephew and niece came around for some mario kart (Christmas 2022...probably). I pretty much had the same idea for last Christmas...but I found out during the event that my wiiu failed to start.
I remember it booting straight into cold boot haxchi, and from there to the (hacked) system menu. It doesn't show that anymore, but is stuck in nintendo's basic "loading" intro screen. It doesn't show up the menu or anything else.
At first glance, all files on the SD card seemed fine...except the SD card is stuck in read-only mode (I've had this happen before, though never on a quality brand sandisk). Figuring that was the cause, I replaced it (note: not with a same 32GB sandisk type, but a 64 micro-SD EDO Plus samsung one+adapter). The new one is formatted in FAT32 and has the same files as the old ones. That didn't change anything of the error.
Online I found that simply reinstalling haxchi (that is: placing the files on the SD card as they were) could help, but...not in my case. Then again, I'm not sure if this is caused by haxchi to begin with. Due to me not being able to do anything on the wiiu itself, troubleshooting is pretty limited.
So...does anyone have an idea what this could be and/or how to fix it? Are there shortcuts to starting the wiiu in troubleshooting mode (akin to priiloader on the wii) ? Would "updating" to tiramisu in this state do anything usefull?
Thanks for your help.
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