ah yeah that's what i feared. i'll keep looking around for a bit but i'm probably stuck unless i can find some lesser known method.. i was considering talking to nintendo to see if i could maybe send it in for a factory reset but even if i could do that i'm not sure if that would fix the fact that the region was modified. if the system really is done for i guess that's all i can really do, i appreciated the suggestions either way! so thank you for responding :>
if you had a NAND backup, you could replace the file. it would require a hard mod. beyond that, I'm not really sure. Nintendo might fix it, but it would probably be cheaper just to buy a new console. two thirds of the total cost is the game pad, so you might be spending around $60 for just the system as opposed to $125 to fix it with Nintendo. I think read that the wii u - Nintendo is no longer fixing them. they hate the console that much. lol if so, it makes the decision easier.