Lord_Zycon said:
Hi All,
New Post April, 1st 2010
Darn I must be unlucky, bought a Wii for my Son's Birthday 30th March 2010, less than 2-days later I get:....
Now Repairing..............
DO NOT POWER OFF
And a 10-year old son in tears... Yeah really funny April Fool's joke! I thought a joke was suposed to be funny, don't see the humour in bricking a Wii, even if it is for 24-hours.
BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Ahem...
sorry about that. It's just that I can just imagine what's going on over there. It's just my sense of humor, that's all.
But serious: as you found out, your wii isn't bricked. It's just a joke from the creator. I can understand very well that you don't like it, but it teaches an important lesson:
don't mess with things you don't know anything about.
Hacking a wii involves some research, some testing and perhaps a bit of skill (the stickied tutorial should provide you with all that you need). Buying a hacked wii is usually frowned down upon here. Partially because 3rd parties make money that the ones who actually do all the hard work do it for free. But also because those 3rd parties are often too lazy to keep up with newer thingumies, and the customers often don't want to know about those things.
Take preloader. A very useful program, but it has its limitations. In a way, it's much better to discover that homebrew isn't perfect by means of this innocent joke than by a bug that would actually cause your wii some harm.
That's why there are updates. The solution is rather simple: install the latest version of priiloader. Normally, you should be able to install it straight over preloader, but remember what I said about messing with things you don't know anything about. It basically comes down to the fact that you're responsible for your wii. It may brick, it may be fine. It all comes down to how well you know what you're doing.
Oh, and something for your son: tell him never to update the wii (either from the disc channel or because some game asks him to), but in case it does happen, never to try to stop it the hard way. In normal cases, that should be fine. But considering that you've got a hacked wii, it isn't so much a "normal case" anymore, so it's harder to predict what will happen.
In that way, his tears aren't so bad. I bet he understands now that playing backups isn't without risk...
(and I know this all sounds more dangerous than it actually is...but it'll never be totally safe).
Cheers,
Wever