I don't want to turn this into an "i'm an idiot" post, but i'm having a hell of a time with something that seemed so easy to do. I'll try explain what happened and where im at.
First, my WiiU was previously CBHC hacked. But that's as far as i had ever gotten it. I was always just too busy to even get any games loaded onto it. Last night i came across the Pence video on youtube and i watched the entire hour and it seemed like it was exactly what i had been hoping to do with easy to follow instructions (even for removing the CBHC hack).
However what was not clear to me until much later in my frustration was that I was s supposed to download a rar (Wii U SD CARD Tiramisu) that would have had everything i need for getting all the way through the process. But the first thing they tell you is that you need these "Nanddumper, PayloadLoader Installer and Base-Tiramisu., plus the 01 sigpatches.rpx file". So i downloaded those, threw them into the root of my existing sd card... NOT the rar of their SD card i was supposed to download first. I misunderstood that.
But I managed to get the wiiU hacked seemingly fine. then the vWii was going fine until i had no apps listed in the homebrew channel. I though it was going to just go to the homebrew store like the wiiU. So i started scouring for answers as to why i only had bubbles. And i know i screwed things up somehow. After a reboot, i got this message "Failed to load sd:wiiu/payload.elf Starting the console without any modifications"
I know for a fact that payload.elf is there. I reformatted the card, copied the files back over, same message. I can't get into the environment loader at all. So i can't uninstall the payloadloader to start over. I'm tearing my hair out. I though i could just go through the whole process and it would just reinstall things but the exploit.xyz gives me a message about a FAT32 formatted sd card is needed etc, which it is. I'm stuck here :/