Looking for a little advice on modding a potentially corrupted Wii-U system. A co-worker brought me her Wii-U and I’m hoping I can fix it and mod it like I have with my other Wii-U systems.
The system is a black 32gb unit and had 5.5.1 on it. There were multiple profiles on the system and quite a few games installed. The owner said that it was giving memory errors (she couldn’t tell me details other than that). So I took it home and here’s what I found:
1) System boots fine, I can click on games and navigate fine. I was going to try and reformat it but it was password protected (I’m hoping she has the pin). When I went to open the PARENTAL CONTROLS panel it crashed with the memory error! I had to shut down and restart.
2) It crashes every time I try to go into PARENTAL CONTROLS. For the heck of it I chose to update to 5.5.2 and it let me do that without issue. After the update I still have the problem accessing PARENTAL CONTROLS.
3) Researching the issue a bit I found that some consoles were apparently corrupted by Super Smash Bros. I went into system settings and started deleting game saves and downloaded games. It let me do that until I got to Smash Bros. When I try to delete game saves for that game it crashes causing a memory error.
So, assuming I can get the PIN to unlock the system, I’m hoping to be able to reformat the system, create a new NNID, download the needed DS game for Haxchi/CBHC and use the system in that manner.
Does anyone know if this would be possible or would whatever is corrupted on the internal storage prevent me from using haxchi and playing games from an external hard drive?
If I can get her PIN I am definitely going to try to hack it and will post whether it was successful or not. If anyone has any knowledge or advice I’m open to any suggestions before proceeding. J
Thanks in advance! -Rick
The system is a black 32gb unit and had 5.5.1 on it. There were multiple profiles on the system and quite a few games installed. The owner said that it was giving memory errors (she couldn’t tell me details other than that). So I took it home and here’s what I found:
1) System boots fine, I can click on games and navigate fine. I was going to try and reformat it but it was password protected (I’m hoping she has the pin). When I went to open the PARENTAL CONTROLS panel it crashed with the memory error! I had to shut down and restart.
2) It crashes every time I try to go into PARENTAL CONTROLS. For the heck of it I chose to update to 5.5.2 and it let me do that without issue. After the update I still have the problem accessing PARENTAL CONTROLS.
3) Researching the issue a bit I found that some consoles were apparently corrupted by Super Smash Bros. I went into system settings and started deleting game saves and downloaded games. It let me do that until I got to Smash Bros. When I try to delete game saves for that game it crashes causing a memory error.
So, assuming I can get the PIN to unlock the system, I’m hoping to be able to reformat the system, create a new NNID, download the needed DS game for Haxchi/CBHC and use the system in that manner.
Does anyone know if this would be possible or would whatever is corrupted on the internal storage prevent me from using haxchi and playing games from an external hard drive?
If I can get her PIN I am definitely going to try to hack it and will post whether it was successful or not. If anyone has any knowledge or advice I’m open to any suggestions before proceeding. J
Thanks in advance! -Rick