How to SoftMod a Wii and play backup Wii, Gamecube and Wiiware Games

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 29, 2015

Duke Shirehill said:
I tried to install bootmii, I downloaded //bootmii.org/download/ . I packed it up and put it in the root of the sd card, but HBC did not find any files, so I put it in a map which was named app. but still will not find HBC. what am I doing wrong, is getting crazy on this

jag provade att installera bootmii , som jag laddade ner här //bootmii.org/download/ . jag packade upp den och la den i rot på sd kortet , men hbc hittade inga filer , så jag la den i en map som fick namnet app . men fortfarande hitar inte hbc det. vad gör jag för fel , börjar bli galen på detta

Does this help ??

To get bootmii to work you must first install it with letterbomb. To do this go into the letters section of your wii locate the letterbomb (it is red and has a bomb sticking out of it) when you open it select the bootmii installer (It should be under the homebrew channel) Next time you open bootmii from the home brew channel it should load properly and not get stuck on a black screen. Note the wii controller will stop working this is normal you can use the buttons on the wii console to navigate the options. After you settup bootmii the controllers will work again.
Also if you have started bootmii before installing it from letter bomb and you are stuck on a black screen it is safe to turn of your wii.

Jordie · Feb 10, 2015

Hi, thanks for the awesome tutorial and videos. I got everything to work as only for wii games. Lately most of the games have stopped working with USB loader GX and I am getting a black screen on 7/9 games that were previously working. I am sure I have the latest version as well, please advise what can be done.

Thanks

ribjoint · Feb 12, 2015

quick question, i have a wii modded using the video tutorials in steps 1 and 4. i would like to install priiloader to stop the disc channel nagging me to update. can i do that on my system as it is now?

Duke Shirehill · Feb 12, 2015

ribjoint said:
quick question, i have a wii modded using the video tutorials in steps 1 and 4. i would like to install priiloader to stop the disc channel nagging me to update. can i do that on my system as it is now?

yes
Ja

ribjoint · Feb 12, 2015

thank you. :=

viperfang123 · Feb 18, 2015

My wii is stuck on the version after priiloader

Duke Shirehill · Feb 18, 2015

viperfang123 said:
My wii is stuck on the version after priiloader

stuck how

somewhereovertherainbow · Feb 19, 2015

Jordie said:
Hi, thanks for the awesome tutorial and videos. I got everything to work as only for wii games. Lately most of the games have stopped working with USB loader GX and I am getting a black screen on 7/9 games that were previously working. I am sure I have the latest version as well, please advise what can be done.

Thanks

You can try installing the latest version of d2x with wii mod, d2x-v10beta53-alt .

You find the d2x file @ https://code.google.com/p/d2x-cios/downloads/list
Pick d2x-v10beta53-alt.zip and then install it like you did with the previous d2x file in step 5 .

Support,
A wiki over features in d2xv10 and d2xv10-alt + more specific what v10 does in comments field.
https://code.google.com/p/d2x-cios/wiki/How_to_choose_d2x_distribution

And DO NOT install anything from d2x google page with the name vWii in it
vWii stands for Virtual Wii and is ONLY used with WiiU

OBS! To Everyone!
If your USB-hhd isnt detected after following step 5, try to install v10-alt as mentioned above.
v10-alt has more usb support and could be the reason USB Loader GX cant detect your device.

ribjoint · Feb 22, 2015

i have modded through to step 4 plus did the emunand dump, i dont want to install dios mios so i skipped step 5. i was thinking of using d2x-cios installer to install d2x10-alt. all the instructions say to install to 249(56) and 250(57) will this screw up anything on my system the way i have it now? here's my syscheck

SysCheck v2.3.2 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 151581110
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Norway (96)
Boot2 v4
Found 86 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[38] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/19/2015.

somewhereovertherainbow · Feb 22, 2015

ribjoint said:
i have modded through to step 4 plus did the emunand dump, i dont want to install dios mios so i skipped step 5. i was thinking of using d2x-cios installer to install d2x10-alt. all the instructions say to install to 249(56) and 250(57) will this screw up anything on my system the way i have it now? here's my syscheck

SysCheck v2.3.2 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 151581110
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Norway (96)
Boot2 v4
Found 86 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[38] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/19/2015.

No.

The reason I tell people to install IOS249[56]-d2x9b47.wad in step 5
is that I find many Wiiware games didnt work for me with alt-10 .

However lots of people has commented that their USB HDD cant be found
therefore i recommend this people to try d2x alt-10 instead as it has
better compability with USB HDDs .

I swap between installing the d2x mentioned in step5 and the d2x10-alt version
many times. and my Wii runs perfectly still.

I guess you have to reinstall diosmios if you swap d2x file but im not sure.

ribjoint · Feb 22, 2015

thanks, im not really bothered with dios mios. nintendont works fine for me. im running wii games no problem from a usb thumb drive at the moment but the hdd i want to use isnt being detected.

ponyseizures · Feb 28, 2015

Thanks for the tutotial, Stephanie, it's very easy to follow for newcomers!

I'm just stuck at one small part. In step 4, you said skip HighTeckMan's video from 10:00 to 13:00. In that time frame, do we follow step 5 or do we just try to continue on with what he does in the rest of that video? Because I tried the latter and I got an exception in USB Loader.

Also, do you know if it's okay to use USB Thumb Drives rather than a hard drive?

somewhereovertherainbow · Mar 1, 2015

ponyseizures said:
Thanks for the tutotial, Stephanie, it's very easy to follow for newcomers!

I'm just stuck at one small part. In step 4, you said skip HighTeckMan's video from 10:00 to 13:00. In that time frame, do we follow step 5 or do we just try to continue on with what he does in the rest of that video? Because I tried the latter and I got an exception in USB Loader.

Also, do you know if it's okay to use USB Thumb Drives rather than a hard drive?

At this time frame, we follow step 5 -
We skip the segment in step4 after 10:00 - as it contains how to install a different Backup Manager for Wii.

What kind of exception are you getting, can you describe it more?

And, Wii accepts USB Thumb Drives but as I mentioned eariler you might need to install another d2x file - just go afew posts up... about d2x v10.
d2x v10 accepts more types of USB devices .

heres a compability list of USBs,
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List

Maximilious · Mar 2, 2015

Awesome thread with tutorials, thank you! Just a quick question though - I'm getting a Wii from my buddy soon and I'm not sure what the FW version on it is yet. From what I can find, 4.3 is the FINAL FW released by Nintendo for the Wii. Is this correct, and will I be okay connecting to the internet to install the latest update via system settings?

somewhereovertherainbow · Mar 3, 2015

Maximilious said:
Awesome thread with tutorials, thank you! Just a quick question though - I'm getting a Wii from my buddy soon and I'm not sure what the FW version on it is yet. From what I can find, 4.3 is the FINAL FW released by Nintendo for the Wii. Is this correct, and will I be okay connecting to the internet to install the latest update via system settings?

Yupp.
its recommended to update your Wii from Settings before installing Homebrew, if u want to softmod it.
Just make sure your Wii isnt softmodded already.

Maximilious · Mar 3, 2015

stephaniie said:
Yupp.
its recommended to update your Wii from Settings before installing Homebrew, if u want to softmod it.
Just make sure your Wii isnt softmodded already.

Great thank you! It's not softmodded - yet! I'm staging my SD card and external drive while I wait for him to drop the Wii off. The video tutorials you posted are a lifesaver. FYI, the SNES video was taken down off of youtube but the rest are working. I'm sure there's another place to figure out how to do it. Once I have the softmod and wad's and the homebrew channel all figured out it should be easy to find/install one for snes and get it working.

Kallamari · Mar 4, 2015

I tried this guide and 6-7 others to get gamecube games to run but my Wii simply refuses to do so.

Every time I try to load a iso File for F-Zero I get a black screen after I selected it in either Wiiflow or Dios Mios. I checked the compatibility List but the game is not on it.

Now i was thinking of testing my Dios Mios with another game but I dont know wich one is the best for that purpose.

So, what would be the best game to test if Dios Mios is working correctly?

As USB HDD I use a 2TB Western Digital MyBook, formatet in Fat32 as told on page 1 of this thread.

P.S.: Installing my Wii Library worked like a charm, playing them from USB HDD aswell, but when I try to install one of my Gamecube games I get a black screen aswell.

somewhereovertherainbow · Mar 5, 2015

Kallamari said:
I tried this guide and 6-7 others to get gamecube games to run but my Wii simply refuses to do so.

Every time I try to load a iso File for F-Zero I get a black screen after I selected it in either Wiiflow or Dios Mios. I checked the compatibility List but the game is not on it.

Now i was thinking of testing my Dios Mios with another game but I dont know wich one is the best for that purpose.

So, what would be the best game to test if Dios Mios is working correctly?

As USB HDD I use a 2TB Western Digital MyBook, formatet in Fat32 as told on page 1 of this thread.

P.S.: Installing my Wii Library worked like a charm, playing them from USB HDD aswell, but when I try to install one of my Gamecube games I get a black screen aswell.

Option 1 - check if your USB device is cluster size 32kb .

Alternatively, connect the drive to your pc. Open up Notepad and type "hello" (no quotes) and save it to your drive. Right-click on the saved file, click Properties and look at the "Size on Disk". If it says 32kb then your drive should be formatted correctly. Anything else Dios Mios won't work correctly.

Option 2 - Try another gamecube game. I have got zelda Wind Waker to work and Paper Mario : The thousand-year door. See if another game give up a blackscreen as well .

Option 3 - If option 1 is cluster size 32kb and no other games work. Try using a different Usb HHD or your SD card. If you gonna use SD card - change Diosmios to diosmios lite. Theres instruction how to change to diosmios lite in step5's spoilers window .. GL

Maximilious · Mar 5, 2015

Kallamari said:
As USB HDD I use a 2TB Western Digital MyBook, formatet in Fat32 as told on page 1 of this thread.

I'll also add that a 2TB drive formatted as FAT32 is not ideal. I would set up two partitions on it, one being FAT32 and another being NTFS or exFAT. Or even getting a second smaller drive. I'm using a 250GB and am holding all of my GC/Wii backups without any space issues.

Kallamari · Mar 5, 2015

O.o

250 GB is kind of small, my Wii collection right now breaks the 100 GB and I am still planing on getting more games since you can get them for basicaly nothing at e-bay or fleamarket. Given, that gamecube games have roughly 1 GB I could fill up another 30+ with them.

What HDD are you using?

Anyway, the Fat32 is formated like the guide described, did it twice just to be on the safe side.

Will try the splitup in smaller partitions, could I create one partition for Wii games and one for Gamecube?

EDIT: To solve the potential HDD Problem, would it be better to try single games with an USB Stick or are HDD best?

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