A long long time ago, I modded my Wii. I installed everything onto it, the SD card shows I have Priiloader 0.8, bootmii and maybe a nand backup. A while back, I tried playing the Wii with my family, but the version of the Wii was on 4.2E because I downgraded from 4.3E after messing up my system with a custom menu. Since I had priiloader, I fixed it easily, there was an option to reinstall the system menu to 4.2, so I went back to 4.2 and it worked. Then about half a year ago today, I tried playing a game on it with my family, some Hasbro Family Game Night disc, and the game said it needed to install an update to play it. Been a long time since I tinkered with the wii, so we just installed it because whatever I guess. Little did I know.
Then the entire screen went black and we thought "We'll just turn it on and off again" so we did and yep, still nothing, black screen. I thought "Ah its okay I get that priiloader thingy, I can fix this asap and get back to playing vidya with my family."
Yeah... so I did some research, and I suppose I must have a fully bricked system. I do have another Wii now, but I'm becoming more and more obsessed with wanting to fix that old white bricked Wii that's collecting dust on my shelf. I want to do whatever it takes to unbrick it, as a project. Have I tried holding down all the gamecube DPad buttons? Yeah, doesn't work. Maybe my controllers cant do that but honestly I don't want to break them or tear them apart, they're good controllers. I tried opening em with a screwdriver, but that didn't work either, they don't come loose, those screws are stubborn.
I read online that I might need to flash my nand back onto the wii or something, but I don't think I have a nand backup. I have a folder called "nand" on the SD card, inside is /title/00010000/52535045/content/title.tmd and s /title/00010000/52535045/data/RPSports.dat next to banner.bin, also a private folder but didnt look like there was anything in there apart from loc.dat. I don't see any nand.bin or keys.bin so I guess I'm screwed on that end. I'm unsure as to what my options are to fix this thing, but I am determined to do anything, hardware flashing, whatever. Maybe I should go order a cheapo gamecube controller and tear it apart or something. Or get a savemii dongle or whatever that is.
This is my first time writing here so maybe the curious could help me out, feel free to ask me questions or let me know if there are ways to soft unbrick my system by modifying files on the SD card or something like that. I'm not too bothered about fixing it, but I'd like for you to be helpful and not comment something like "nah ur wii f*cked bro
" even though yeah its probably true. I'm just in disbelief that such a silly and simple mistake could have caused the entire thing to just stop working. And now I have 2 Wiis, either I fix it or use it as a tea coaster, or a doorstopper. I haven't been able to find much of a walkthrough or a full guide to fixing a Wii that was bricked through a Disc Update. If theres any info you gents can give me regarding this issue that would be epic.
Then the entire screen went black and we thought "We'll just turn it on and off again" so we did and yep, still nothing, black screen. I thought "Ah its okay I get that priiloader thingy, I can fix this asap and get back to playing vidya with my family."
Yeah... so I did some research, and I suppose I must have a fully bricked system. I do have another Wii now, but I'm becoming more and more obsessed with wanting to fix that old white bricked Wii that's collecting dust on my shelf. I want to do whatever it takes to unbrick it, as a project. Have I tried holding down all the gamecube DPad buttons? Yeah, doesn't work. Maybe my controllers cant do that but honestly I don't want to break them or tear them apart, they're good controllers. I tried opening em with a screwdriver, but that didn't work either, they don't come loose, those screws are stubborn.
I read online that I might need to flash my nand back onto the wii or something, but I don't think I have a nand backup. I have a folder called "nand" on the SD card, inside is /title/00010000/52535045/content/title.tmd and s /title/00010000/52535045/data/RPSports.dat next to banner.bin, also a private folder but didnt look like there was anything in there apart from loc.dat. I don't see any nand.bin or keys.bin so I guess I'm screwed on that end. I'm unsure as to what my options are to fix this thing, but I am determined to do anything, hardware flashing, whatever. Maybe I should go order a cheapo gamecube controller and tear it apart or something. Or get a savemii dongle or whatever that is.
This is my first time writing here so maybe the curious could help me out, feel free to ask me questions or let me know if there are ways to soft unbrick my system by modifying files on the SD card or something like that. I'm not too bothered about fixing it, but I'd like for you to be helpful and not comment something like "nah ur wii f*cked bro
" even though yeah its probably true. I'm just in disbelief that such a silly and simple mistake could have caused the entire thing to just stop working. And now I have 2 Wiis, either I fix it or use it as a tea coaster, or a doorstopper. I haven't been able to find much of a walkthrough or a full guide to fixing a Wii that was bricked through a Disc Update. If theres any info you gents can give me regarding this issue that would be epic.
