Hacking Dump Mii NAND - a BootMii format (nand.bin) NAND dumper for vWii/Wii

[Pogostick]

Can this be tested on Dolphin also?

 

[BIFFTAZ]

4GB class 4 SDHC, 2 1/2 hours... But at least I have my nand backup just in case. Thanks !!

 

[OriginalHamster]

Well I think people that already bricked vWii don't have anything to loose by restoring a NAND backup.

 

[Maxternal]

Well I think people that already bricked vWii don't have anything to loose by restoring a NAND backup.

The problem is that people with an already bricked vWii don't have any way to run homebrew to restore a NAND dump either.

These dumps could still be used to fix a bricked vWii ... but only with the correct NAND flashing hardware.

 

[Ray Lewis]

Seeing a diagram to flash vWii nand via hardware would be great. You can get keys and should be able to recover without your own original then...right? Have vWii files, nand, keys...and in theory can flash a vWii nand as you have everything you need. Can people who bricked vWii recover via hardware? People said it can be done but I've had some bs private messages before.

Marcan mentioned the nands but not a lot of detail was given. Epic fail if vWii keys open Wii U emmc/nand and/or vWii progs like this can read Wii U side.

 

[OriginalHamster]

The problem is that people with an already bricked vWii don't have any way to run homebrew to restore a NAND dump either.

These dumps could still be used to fix a bricked vWii ... but only with the correct NAND flashing hardware.

Yeah, totally forgot about that, maybe in the future we will have access to something like bootmii, maybe

 

[JoostinOnline]

I'd like to suggest changing it to dump nand_vWii.bin and keys_vWii.bin. It might help prevent accidental restoration to a real Wii.

 

[Sirstiv]

FYI. The nand dump took me 4hours. What a joke lol.

It's the standard 2gb one that comes in a 3DS.

Atleast enable it so you can cancel it... i was too scared to screw anything up....

 

[JoostinOnline]

FYI. The nand dump took me 4hours. What a joke lol.

It's the standard 2gb one that comes in a 3DS.

Atleast enable it so you can cancel it... i was too scared to screw anything up....

Feel free to write your own if you think this isn't good enough for you. The reason it takes so long is because it copies one byte at a time.

 

[mashiro21]

so can i just write my nand with anyone else's nand?

 

[JoostinOnline]

so can i just write my nand with anyone else's nand?

No.

 

[TheChield]

No.

Even if you've got the keys from the 2 nands and decrypt the backup an recrypt it with the "right" key ?
Anyway, if the wii u is not able to boot it's useless to do this... And the only case a backup can be usefull is a brick... ( well not exactly, because I partially corrupted my nand with a weird soft of mine, but few people will do this...)
Or if you have an HW flasher...

 

[JoostinOnline]

There's no way to restore a NAND, and it would be dangerous and pointless anyway.

 

[TheChield]

There's no way to restore a NAND, and it would be dangerous and pointless anyway.

So why doing a backup ?
The component is the same as it was on wii, hardware flashing still work (never try software back up or restore...)
But some ohneswanzenegger would do the trick. (with vWii IOS...)

 

[JoostinOnline]

So why doing a backup ?

For the hell of it.

 

[TheChield]

Like using advanced checks with 3DS that seem to cause bricks but people like doing this ?
Or having emunand without knowing what it is but ask for it ? (holly shit they could have done it without telling any line about it...)
But everyone have sneek ! "Whoohoo !"

 

[JoostinOnline]

FS Dumper is faster.

 

[TheChield]

FS Dumper is faster.

Well, you hit the target every time
I'm just trolling about the way of doing this for noobs

 

[TheChield]

Can this be tested on Dolphin also?

Quoting someone else : No

 

[flo]

Can you convert a FS dump into a nand.bin ?