I saw this post from @JoyBunny about a month ago...
Not long after the owners sent me their wii along with a note stating that the previous owner said that HBC was installed, which doesn't sound quite right.
I took the wii apart and dumped the nand. I then injected bootmii into boot2, using a boot2v4 from my tech wii. I then went and put the wii all back together and and booted it up. From there I used bootmii to dump the nand so I would have multiple copies from multiple sources, and it also let me get the keys.
Here are a few interesting things to notice in these pictures below.
The label on the wii itself does say that this is a USA console, and the serial number confirms that.
Bootmii does report this as a 1.0 SM wii, but also reports the wii as having boot2v2 installed when I in fact installed a boot2v4 instead. I have had this happen before and Marcan explained to me why.
As you can see in the screenshot from ShowMiiNand, there are only 3 IOS's installed, and everything is reported as being the japanese regions of the channels. I am not sure if that is because those are universal channels or whatever. I never bothered getting deep into the software side of the wii. I was always more a hardware guy.
I tried launching the hackmii installer from bootmii and it would just launch the system menu instead. I haven't been able to find anything that I can launch from within bootmii.
I want to see if we can get homebrew running without having to do an online update.
But as you can see, this wii is very interesting.
If anyone has any good ideas or if anyone wants any other info about it, just ask.
Thank you.
I have a System Menu v1.0 Wii I recently bought secondhand. I thought this my be a rare, never-updated Wii console, but I have no idea how to get a nand dump from it without hardmods. Anyone have ideas?
Not long after the owners sent me their wii along with a note stating that the previous owner said that HBC was installed, which doesn't sound quite right.
I took the wii apart and dumped the nand. I then injected bootmii into boot2, using a boot2v4 from my tech wii. I then went and put the wii all back together and and booted it up. From there I used bootmii to dump the nand so I would have multiple copies from multiple sources, and it also let me get the keys.
Here are a few interesting things to notice in these pictures below.
The label on the wii itself does say that this is a USA console, and the serial number confirms that.
Bootmii does report this as a 1.0 SM wii, but also reports the wii as having boot2v2 installed when I in fact installed a boot2v4 instead. I have had this happen before and Marcan explained to me why.
As you can see in the screenshot from ShowMiiNand, there are only 3 IOS's installed, and everything is reported as being the japanese regions of the channels. I am not sure if that is because those are universal channels or whatever. I never bothered getting deep into the software side of the wii. I was always more a hardware guy.
I tried launching the hackmii installer from bootmii and it would just launch the system menu instead. I haven't been able to find anything that I can launch from within bootmii.
I want to see if we can get homebrew running without having to do an online update.
But as you can see, this wii is very interesting.
If anyone has any good ideas or if anyone wants any other info about it, just ask.
Thank you.