Pi Pico how to boot into recovery menu instead of minute?

[GlueTenFree]

Hello.

I modded some WiiU's a couple of years ago and I dusted them off because I'm about to get rid of them.

I did some things to them and I don't remember everything I did with the firmware.

I only have Japan region gamepads and one of them does not have a synced gamepad to it.

I installed the Nand-Aid on all of them.

I also installed the Pi-Pico mod on all of them. But for the Pi Pico mod I cut the 5v trace to the left front USB port and wired that into the Pi Pico as the power.

To get the recovery menu or minute to boot, I have to jump the 5v supply from the right USB port to the left one. I hand-made a PCB to do this.

It just boots into minute. I can't get it into the recovery menu even though I can see the exploit work (ie the Pi Pico is doing it's job). I tried editing the minute ini file to not autoboot but it doesn't work. It still boots into minute. I synced the Japan gamepads to the other ones so I know I've done this before.

I am just trying to sync a Japan region gamepad and I don't want to spend 10 hours on that before I sell it. I just want to get this done and be done with it. Why the heck does minute take over when you install it? How do I just boot the recovery menu? I tried just putting recovery_menu on the SD card but the exploit freezes. I see the blinking lights on the power button but then it goes red.

I don't want to install Aurora or some other piracy thing.

The only thing on the SD card is recovery_menu.

Thanks for your help.

 

[SDIO]

I modded some WiiU's a couple of years ago and I dusted them off because I'm about to get rid of them.

I did some things to them and I don't remember everything I did with the firmware.

Then it would probably best to reinstall the firmware, to make sure it is clean.

I only have Japan region gamepads and one of them does not have a synced gamepad to it.

You can use DRXUtil to change the region of a gamepad to whatever you need. I would recommend having the gamepad region match the console when you sell it.
Also you can use the payloader ios plugin to load into Aroma, which removes the region lock and allows syncing of any region gamepad.

I installed the Nand-Aid on all of them.

Why? That one even has a Toshiba eMMC?

I also installed the Pi-Pico mod on all of them.

Why? There is ISFShax for most needs.

But for the Pi Pico mod I cut the 5v trace to the left front USB port and wired that into the Pi Pico as the power.

Why did you cut the power for that and not just have it in parallel? Also to USB Power would turn on too late anyway for defuse.

Why the heck does minute take over when you install it? How do I just boot the recovery menu? I tried just putting recovery_menu on the SD card but the exploit freezes. I see the blinking lights on the power button but then it goes red.

You defused it. The purpose of defusing is to load minute... Which it does. From there you can boot the system. UDPIH would work after you start booting into the system. To not have to navigate the minute menu you can configure the autoboot. But you don't need UDPIH or the recovery_menu anyway. Also UDPIH only works on the front USB.

 

[GlueTenFree]

Then it would probably best to reinstall the firmware, to make sure it is clean.


You can use DRXUtil to change the region of a gamepad to whatever you need. I would recommend having the gamepad region match the console when you sell it.
Also you can use the payloader ios plugin to load into Aroma, which removes the region lock and allows syncing of any region gamepad.


Why? That one even has a Toshiba eMMC?


Why? There is ISFShax for most needs.


Why did you cut the power for that and not just have it in parallel? Also to USB Power would turn on too late anyway for defuse.


You defused it. The purpose of defusing is to load minute... Which it does. From there you can boot the system. UDPIH would work after you start booting into the system. To not have to navigate the minute menu you can configure the autoboot. But you don't need UDPIH or the recovery_menu anyway. Also UDPIH only works on the front USB.

I cut the power to it so it's not always powered.

Then it would probably best to reinstall the firmware, to make sure it is clean.


You can use DRXUtil to change the region of a gamepad to whatever you need. I would recommend having the gamepad region match the console when you sell it.
Also you can use the payloader ios plugin to load into Aroma, which removes the region lock and allows syncing of any region gamepad.


Why? That one even has a Toshiba eMMC?


Why? There is ISFShax for most needs.


Why did you cut the power for that and not just have it in parallel? Also to USB Power would turn on too late anyway for defuse.


You defused it. The purpose of defusing is to load minute... Which it does. From there you can boot the system. UDPIH would work after you start booting into the system. To not have to navigate the minute menu you can configure the autoboot. But you don't need UDPIH or the recovery_menu anyway. Also UDPIH only works on the front USB.

I did all of those things because I wanted to. I forgot that the pi pico inside the console is only for defuse. I found my other pi pico with the recovery menu firmware on it and it worked. My bad.