Tutorial Modify ANY Wii 4.3 & below

[burritoboy9984]

Anyone still have the previous 11 October 2010 version of the 42mod.zip?

Been modding several Wii's over the last few weeks, all smooth sailing with the previous version ... the latest -

1) YAWM won't run with USB hard drive connected (Exception DSI ...)

2) Once unplugged, and all update steps completed, still won't run USB Loader GX from USB Hard Drive (sometimes gets to menu but no games run).

3) Prilloader won't boot directly to USB Loader GX

So yeah, looking for the previous 11 October 2010 version of the 42mod.zip?

1. That is the first issue of this I have heard, could explain some of the past peoples errors that we couldn't nail down. I will see if I can mess with it over the weekend. Everything is on the sd card, right? You are just saying when a usb drive is plugged in it errors out?

2. The problem isn't with the updated guide. The end result from the previous and the current guides are identical when followed correctly.

3. Again, nothing was actually changed in the end result. This is not the updated guides fault.

-Erik

 

[AndrewZorn]

I need help,
I followed these instructions but cannot get certain aspects to work and do not really understand what I'm doing (this is harder than PSP modding).

For one, I cannot get my external HDD properly recognized. With CFG, I get a "partition auto not found". If I try again, it just shows "no games".

Things work fine from a USB flash drive, kind of... I can play a backup of Zelda, but not Super Mario Galaxy 2... it goes straight to a black screen with a buzzing noise.

Is there anything about this guide that isn't up-to-date? Maybe I need to update something to be able to play a newer game like Galaxy 2?

My Wii is a brand new one that came with 4.3u.

 

[burritoboy9984]

I need help,
I followed these instructions but cannot get certain aspects to work and do not really understand what I'm doing (this is harder than PSP modding).

For one, I cannot get my external HDD properly recognized. With CFG, I get a "partition auto not found". If I try again, it just shows "no games".

Things work fine from a USB flash drive, kind of... I can play a backup of Zelda, but not Super Mario Galaxy 2... it goes straight to a black screen with a buzzing noise.

Is there anything about this guide that isn't up-to-date? Maybe I need to update something to be able to play a newer game like Galaxy 2?

My Wii is a brand new one that came with 4.3u.

What kind of formatting do you have? Try setting the options in the config settings...

Sounds like a bad rip perhaps... Everything should be up to date...

-Erik

 

[ultim]

4.3 exploit only works with normal SD Cards and not SD HC?

 

[Ignoramus]

Hello people,

I desperately need some help, as I think I have seriously messed up the softmod attempt of a friend's Wii.

The Wii is running system menu 4.2E, and I tried to update it following a guide on another forum.

While trying to softmod the Wii, I accidentally removed a stubbed IOS (I believe it was IOS 4, though I'm not 100% sure).
The stupid thing is that I didn't have a nand backup at that moment. I did make one before I continued, but that doesn't help much now, I guess.
As the removal didn't appear to have any negative effects at the time, I continued the update and finished all the steps (TruchaBug, cIOSs and cMIOS, Hermes, Priiloader, ...)

I'm not sure if that is the cause of my problems, or if something else went wrong somewhere, but I currently have the following situation:

* I can start the Wii and run the Homebrew Channel, and I can start homebrew apps from it (both from SD card and from the external USB hd), but:

- when I try to play a game (like Mario Kart) from the original disc, it says I need a system update (that disc worked before I started on the softmod).
- when I try to play a game from my USB harddisk, I get "ERROR #002":

- When I try to use DopMii's SysCheck for scanning my system internals, it gives an Exception (DSI)
- Ditto when I scan the IOS's using Pimp my Wii - which says 250, 249 and 236 are ok, then ends with Exception (DSI) on 224.

Does this sound familiar to anyone, and can anyone tell me the safest path to either fix this problem, or just restore everything to the original state and start over?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[ultim]

i have having issues running YAWM Multimod Batch, exception dsi. my syslog


sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 44659113
Boot2 v4

Found 112 titles.
Found 46 IOS on this console. 16 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS249 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2010/12/19.

 

[burritoboy9984]

4.3 exploit only works with normal SD Cards and not SD HC?

correct.

Hello people,

I desperately need some help, as I think I have seriously messed up the softmod attempt of a friend's Wii.

The Wii is running system menu 4.2E, and I tried to update it following a guide on another forum.

While trying to softmod the Wii, I accidentally removed a stubbed IOS (I believe it was IOS 4, though I'm not 100% sure).
The stupid thing is that I didn't have a nand backup at that moment. I did make one before I continued, but that doesn't help much now, I guess.
As the removal didn't appear to have any negative effects at the time, I continued the update and finished all the steps (TruchaBug, cIOSs and cMIOS, Hermes, Priiloader, ...)

I'm not sure if that is the cause of my problems, or if something else went wrong somewhere, but I currently have the following situation:

* I can start the Wii and run the Homebrew Channel, and I can start homebrew apps from it (both from SD card and from the external USB hd), but:

- when I try to play a game (like Mario Kart) from the original disc, it says I need a system update (that disc worked before I started on the softmod).
- when I try to play a game from my USB harddisk, I get "ERROR #002":

- When I try to use DopMii's SysCheck for scanning my system internals, it gives an Exception (DSI)
- Ditto when I scan the IOS's using Pimp my Wii - which says 250, 249 and 236 are ok, then ends with Exception (DSI) on 224.

Does this sound familiar to anyone, and can anyone tell me the safest path to either fix this problem, or just restore everything to the original state and start over?

Thanks in advance for any help!

The 002 error is probably from an outdated cios/usb loader. The update from Mario Kart is from a missing ios (Just an fyi, you can always use neogamma to launch originals even without the updates). But on to a fix.

Download the up42 for your region, format the sd card, copy over the files, go to the hbc and launch YAWM Batch. Let it install ALL the wads. Then follow the Modify 4.2 section. Then try again, if the 002 error continues, try another usb loader and let us know if it is the same result (which it shouldn't be).

QUOTE(ultim @ Dec 19 2010, 06:36 AM)

i have having issues running YAWM Multimod Batch, exception dsi. my syslog


sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 44659113
Boot2 v4

Found 112 titles.
Found 46 IOS on this console. 16 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS249 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2010/12/19.

Do you have a USB drive currently connected? If so disconnect and please let us know if this fixed the problem. If not, delete the wm_config.txt file found in /wad and select IOS236 at the first prompt and sd card at the second prompt and it should work.

Please let us know so we can make this better.
-Erik

 

[Ignoramus]

Download the up42 for your region, format the sd card, copy over the files, go to the hbc and launch YAWM Batch. Let it install ALL the wads. Then follow the Modify 4.2 section. Then try again, if the 002 error continues, try another usb loader and let us know if it is the same result (which it shouldn't be).

Thanks. I got the files (for 4.2E), but when I did the YAWM Batch update, I received one error:

IOS70-64-v6687 failed: error -1035

Is there a workaround/fix for that?

 

[burritoboy9984]

Try downloading and running syscheck and post the results... It can be found in the 42mod pack.

-Erik

 

[AndrewZorn]

I am so frustrated by this. I really need some help because I am apparently a complete idiot at this.

Games play fine from a USB flash drive.

I finally got the hard drive mounted... and finally got games to appear... but terrible behavior.
Out of four times launching NSMB, twice the controller LEDs flashed constantly and the controller would not connect. Once, it got all the way into the game, but then went to a black screen after. Once it would not load at all.

EDIT and now the Wii is desyncing the controller every time I start NSMB.

Why is this so inconsistent?

I really want to be able to stop using an SD card for the apps/etc folders.
I also don't understand how to use a channel forwarder.

This is so much more complicated than modding other systems. I can't believe how many hours it has taken me to get half-assed functionality.

 

[Ignoramus]

Try downloading and running syscheck and post the results... It can be found in the 42mod pack.

-Erik

Here they are:

sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.2E (v482)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: *********
Boot2 v4

Found 75 titles.
Found 45 IOS on this console. 4 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 14889): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16687): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249 (rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v4

Report generated on 2010/12/19.

 

[burritoboy9984]

I am so frustrated by this. I really need some help because I am apparently a complete idiot at this.

Games play fine from a USB flash drive.

I finally got the hard drive mounted... and finally got games to appear... but terrible behavior.
Out of four times launching NSMB, twice the controller LEDs flashed constantly and the controller would not connect. Once, it got all the way into the game, but then went to a black screen after. Once it would not load at all.

EDIT and now the Wii is desyncing the controller every time I start NSMB.

Why is this so inconsistent?

I really want to be able to stop using an SD card for the apps/etc folders.
I also don't understand how to use a channel forwarder.

This is so much more complicated than modding other systems. I can't believe how many hours it has taken me to get half-assed functionality.

NSMB uses a new (at the time) time of AP protection, and must be booted using either a patch or a program that has the fix built in. Try using configurable usb loader, and I bet it works

For the forwarder, grab a forwarder channel, install it using a wad manager, place the boot.dol for the app (usb loader) on the usb drive in the location the forwarder you downloaded is looking for it, and it will run

It really isn't more complicated than other systems once you know what you are doing. The wii is actually the easiest of any console ever to hack imo.

QUOTE(burritoboy9984 @ Dec 19 2010, 07:02 PM) Try downloading and running syscheck and post the results... It can be found in the 42mod pack.

-Erik

Here they are:

sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.2E (v482)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: *********
Boot2 v4

Found 75 titles.
Found 45 IOS on this console. 4 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 14889): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16687): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249 (rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v4

Report generated on 2010/12/19.

Looks like you are ok. Follow the Modify 4.2 part. Then try the usb loading.

-Erik

 

[AndrewZorn]

I am so frustrated by this. I really need some help because I am apparently a complete idiot at this.

Games play fine from a USB flash drive.

I finally got the hard drive mounted... and finally got games to appear... but terrible behavior.
Out of four times launching NSMB, twice the controller LEDs flashed constantly and the controller would not connect. Once, it got all the way into the game, but then went to a black screen after. Once it would not load at all.

EDIT and now the Wii is desyncing the controller every time I start NSMB.

Why is this so inconsistent?

I really want to be able to stop using an SD card for the apps/etc folders.
I also don't understand how to use a channel forwarder.

This is so much more complicated than modding other systems. I can't believe how many hours it has taken me to get half-assed functionality.

NSMB uses a new (at the time) time of AP protection, and must be booted using either a patch or a program that has the fix built in. Try using configurable usb loader, and I bet it works

For the forwarder, grab a forwarder channel, install it using a wad manager, place the boot.dol for the app (usb loader) on the usb drive in the location the forwarder you downloaded is looking for it, and it will run

It really isn't more complicated than other systems once you know what you are doing. The wii is actually the easiest of any console ever to hack imo.

I've only ever used Configurable USB loader...

NSMB works fine when I load it from a USB flash drive. If I load it from my NTFS HDD, the controller desyncs every time.
Zelda works fine when I load it from a USB flash drive. If I load it from my NTFS HDD, the game starts to a black screen.
I got Galaxy 2 to work finally.
Super Smash just returns a -1 when loading from my NTFS HDD.

I just don't see what I'm doing wrong to get a different result from the HDD than I get from my USB flash drive.

 

[Ignoramus]

Looks like you are ok. Follow the Modify 4.2 part. Then try the usb loading.

-Erik

Thanks a lot for all your help, Erik. Everything up & running now!


[Edit] oops, spoke a bit too soon. It appears that several games off the harddisk do work when started with Configurable USB Loader, but not when started with USB Loader GX
I still get the Error #002 if I try to start them with USB Loader GX. Any ideas about that?

[Edit 2] ah, turning on the 'Error 002 fix' in USB Loader GX fixed that

 

[burritoboy9984]

I am so frustrated by this. I really need some help because I am apparently a complete idiot at this.

Games play fine from a USB flash drive.

I finally got the hard drive mounted... and finally got games to appear... but terrible behavior.
Out of four times launching NSMB, twice the controller LEDs flashed constantly and the controller would not connect. Once, it got all the way into the game, but then went to a black screen after. Once it would not load at all.

EDIT and now the Wii is desyncing the controller every time I start NSMB.

Why is this so inconsistent?

I really want to be able to stop using an SD card for the apps/etc folders.
I also don't understand how to use a channel forwarder.

This is so much more complicated than modding other systems. I can't believe how many hours it has taken me to get half-assed functionality.

NSMB uses a new (at the time) time of AP protection, and must be booted using either a patch or a program that has the fix built in. Try using configurable usb loader, and I bet it works

For the forwarder, grab a forwarder channel, install it using a wad manager, place the boot.dol for the app (usb loader) on the usb drive in the location the forwarder you downloaded is looking for it, and it will run

It really isn't more complicated than other systems once you know what you are doing. The wii is actually the easiest of any console ever to hack imo.
I've only ever used Configurable USB loader...

NSMB works fine when I load it from a USB flash drive. If I load it from my NTFS HDD, the controller desyncs every time.
Zelda works fine when I load it from a USB flash drive. If I load it from my NTFS HDD, the game starts to a black screen.
I got Galaxy 2 to work finally.
Super Smash just returns a -1 when loading from my NTFS HDD.

I just don't see what I'm doing wrong to get a different result from the HDD than I get from my USB flash drive.


I don't know, I would try formatting the NTFS partition and starting over. Are you running a Fat/NTFS partition on the usb drive? Also, what kind of usb drive is it? I'm talking about the hard drive, not the flash drive.

QUOTE(Ignoramus @ Dec 19 2010, 03:10 PM) QUOTE(burritoboy9984 @ Dec 19 2010, 09:15 PM)

Looks like you are ok. Follow the Modify 4.2 part. Then try the usb loading.

-Erik

Thanks a lot for all your help, Erik. Everything up & running now!


[Edit] oops, spoke a bit too soon. It appears that several games off the harddisk do work when started with Configurable USB Loader, but not when started with USB Loader GX
I still get the Error #002 if I try to start them with USB Loader GX. Any ideas about that?

Try the usb loader gx thread in the backup section, I haven't messed with it enough to give advice.

-Erik

 

[xzxero]

try setting the global 002 options in GX to "anti".

 

[AndrewZorn]

I am so frustrated by this. I really need some help because I am apparently a complete idiot at this.

Games play fine from a USB flash drive.

I finally got the hard drive mounted... and finally got games to appear... but terrible behavior.
Out of four times launching NSMB, twice the controller LEDs flashed constantly and the controller would not connect. Once, it got all the way into the game, but then went to a black screen after. Once it would not load at all.

EDIT and now the Wii is desyncing the controller every time I start NSMB.

Why is this so inconsistent?

I really want to be able to stop using an SD card for the apps/etc folders.
I also don't understand how to use a channel forwarder.

This is so much more complicated than modding other systems. I can't believe how many hours it has taken me to get half-assed functionality.

NSMB uses a new (at the time) time of AP protection, and must be booted using either a patch or a program that has the fix built in. Try using configurable usb loader, and I bet it works

For the forwarder, grab a forwarder channel, install it using a wad manager, place the boot.dol for the app (usb loader) on the usb drive in the location the forwarder you downloaded is looking for it, and it will run

It really isn't more complicated than other systems once you know what you are doing. The wii is actually the easiest of any console ever to hack imo.

I've only ever used Configurable USB loader...

NSMB works fine when I load it from a USB flash drive. If I load it from my NTFS HDD, the controller desyncs every time.
Zelda works fine when I load it from a USB flash drive. If I load it from my NTFS HDD, the game starts to a black screen.
I got Galaxy 2 to work finally.
Super Smash just returns a -1 when loading from my NTFS HDD.

I just don't see what I'm doing wrong to get a different result from the HDD than I get from my USB flash drive.

I don't know, I would try formatting the NTFS partition and starting over. Are you running a Fat/NTFS partition on the usb drive? Also, what kind of usb drive is it? I'm talking about the hard drive, not the flash drive.

I've formatted and started over several times now. It is a Seagate FreeAgent Go 500gb, which is on the compatibility list.

There's a lot of talk of different IOSes, do I need to get the 'Hermes' IOS, or change the IOS to start some of these games with? There are a lot of options and blindly changing IOS and error fixes isn't working.

EDIT so I read the instructions on installing the Hermes, and it says at the end I can then use mload-224, which is already on my list.
Is there not some big list of "settings to use for games"? I don't see why it's not an exact science, why I can't figure out how to start Super Smash Bros Brawl which is probably one of the more popular games out there.

EDIT wow. Against my wishes, I formatted the drive AGAIN... converted the games to WBFS AGAIN. Now I'm back to "no games". Really, what am I doing wrong? There has to be something not right, this is way too hit-and-miss. I'm giving up until I hear back from you guys, I've spent 10+ hours on this crap lately and can't make the progress than 12yr olds on Youtube have in 10mins. Everyone acts like the stuff should "just work" after the Wii is softmodded, this is not my experience AT ALL.

Is there some way I can get a system info dump to text file or something? I just have no idea what IOSes I have installed (or if I have them all installed?) (or what slots they are in?), what REVISION of these IOSes I have, what "(ret = -1) means, why games will only be shown on the HDD after hours of magic and who knows what...

 

[wimu]

Sorry if this was asked before. Yesterday i modded my friend's Wii which come with menu 4.3u, no problem but there is a way to run IOS 236 Intaller without Internet? cuz until i configure the Wifi always endup in a code dump. Also now he call because he wants to play his two retail game WiiSports and WiiSports Resort via Disc Channel however they asked for an actualitation. How can this be?His system was 4.3u the one with Shopping channel v20, to avoid this issue i install priiloader however i cannot launch HBC via it, i muss launch BootMii IOS first and then HBC.

 

[sdoc96]

I'm getting a reproducible dump error when performing #2 under the heading "Installing cIOS & Patching the System Menu IOS (The good stuff!)". It's slightly different each time but always occurs.
I got the same issue hacking a virgin 4.2E wii (aside from a hard mod Argon).
All worked fine until I got to the cIOS part - same as above. (BTW, I've hacked a few Wii's before - mostly using MMM or others)

QUOTE(burritoboy9984 @ Dec 14 2010, 11:20 AM) If it is when it starts up, please delete wm_config from the /wad directory and manually select ios236 and the sd card.

Thanks, manual selection resolved the problem for YAWM Multimod Batch. I can now also launch YAWM (standalone) without getting an immediate dump.

As above, deleting wm_config and using manual selection worked for me too. Thanks all for the above posts which helped me enormously.

 

[burritoboy9984]

What guide did you follow? Did you follow this one? If you have done stuff since but did originally follow it, re-follow the Modify 4.2/4.3 section that way we know you have the ios's we want you to have.

Delete all partitions on your usb drive. Create a Fat32 partition of however big you want. This will be for homebrew (settings etc...). Now create an ntfs partition with the rest of the space.

Format your sd card, grab this and extract it to the root of the sd card. If you want to install some forwarder channels, they are included in the /wad directory and can all be installed automatically by running YAWM Multimod Batch.

Then grab this, extract it to that cleanly formatted fat32 partition you created above. Now using Wii Backup Manager, choose the drive of your NTFS partition, and format it, then copy games to it.

Plug in the usb drive while the wii is off, power it on, go into the hbc and launch Configurable USB Loader.

Do all this, and if you are still having problems, it is either the drive, or the games.

-Erik