Sonicandtails

So I was playing Brawl as I usually do when suddenly I noticed the ever so fun artifacting of an overheating Wii GPU. My back fan works, I tried putting the Wii on its side with the old USB fan I have for it. Nothing helped. I'm convinced it's toasting, and that sucks. WiiConnect24 hasn't been on for a very, very long time.

I'm going to have to send it in to Nintendo, if they'll even let me. I am not thrilled.

I've had the Wii since right around launch and have had a modchip in it for a few years as well. Taking that out won't be a big deal, but unfortunately I have to deal with the innumerable software modifications I have plunged in to my Wii. There have probably been many topics about this, but many were old and outdated, and I'm curious what we have these days to help.

I've written up a little list of things to do...

So my first step is to obviously remove the WiiKey. That I can do easily, and it won't look like I've been in there. But what about the rest of the junk I have? I would assume removing all the WADs and tickets for everything that doesn't belong should in essence make my Wii "non-hacked", right? What tools do you guys use for these things these days? I'm somewhat jaded and don't know where to start. Is it not possible to remove all traces in the first place? Any help would be great, and as soon as possible. This Wii sees tournament setups for Brawl and I need it for practice...

Note: I considered a gutswap as immoral as it is, but I would have to do some serious sleuthing for a place with a good return policy...

I'm quite familiar with console modification and flash carts, so I'm usually the guy people come to for problems. A co-worker asked me about his TTi suddenly not working on his DSi (1.4) despite having the newest kernel that fixed the 1.4 issue. It is indeed listed as Star Wars Lethal Alliance. Out of nowhere after trying to play SMT:Strange Journey a few times (Corrupt save over and over from the protection), it suddenly stopped working altogether. Attempting to boot the cart in the DSi simply gives the "An error has occurred. Press and hold the POWER button to turn the system off. Please refer to the Nintendo DSi Operations manual for details" error. I borrowed the cart and took a look at it. It's working fine in a DS Phat and a DS Lite. I updated it to the latest YSMenu to help him with his saving problems, but I know this won't help his DSi problem.

Now here is where things get weird...

The board inside this DSTT is blue. It's blue, plastic slot, and looks exactly like this picture: http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3599/dsc02382x.jpg

It takes DSi firmware, it appears to be legit until you look at the casing (Not in the picture, as it's not my picture). The casing reads "DSTT FOR NDS/NDSL". There is no "i" anywhere to be found on the cart. So okay, it's a DSTTi board inside of a DSTT case? Well, let's see what the DSTTi Fake Checker says! It reads: "Not DSTTI card. Only support DSTTI card."

He doesn't recall where he bought it, but I'm feeling that it's a fake. But I digress, despite those oddities, this thing was working but now is not. So does anyone have any idea what is wrong? I'll be picking up his DSi eventually to tinker with that a bit, but I'd love some input if this is a known problem with hopefully a fix.

I don't know how it got to this point, but if I run a GCN game legitimate or burnt (I have a modchip), after I power the system down it reboots right back to the Wii system menu. It's quite bothersome in fact, because I'll often leave the Wii on for 24 hours or more because I forgot to double turn it off :|

So any ideas? I'm running Preloader and Bootmii on 4.2 if that's any help.

This time, apparently the sound problems are fixed and things should be running much better then before.

[What's New 2.0.6 - October 21, 2008]
* Right audio channel corruption fixed (thanks cyberdog!)
* Low pass audio filter turned off (muffles audio)
* Changed to alternate audio filter
* PAL Timing corrected
* Cheesy/2X video filters fixed
* Qoob Pro modchip support for GameCube (thanks emukidid!)

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=3543

This time, apparently the sound problems are fixed and things should be running much better then before.

[What's New 2.0.6 - October 21, 2008]
* Right audio channel corruption fixed (thanks cyberdog!)
* Low pass audio filter turned off (muffles audio)
* Changed to alternate audio filter
* PAL Timing corrected
* Cheesy/2X video filters fixed
* Qoob Pro modchip support for GameCube (thanks emukidid!)

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=3543