Hacking Bricked after Waninkoko's Firmware Updater 4.0

res1 · Mar 27, 2009

I apologize if this has already been addressed. I searched but couldn't find a solution.

Using Waninkoko's Firmware Updaters 4.0 I seem to have bricked my Japanese Wii, with a legacy Wiikey. Everything was going fine at first. However, after the Photo Channel I got an error and a black screen. After resetting I still get a black screen.

Is there anything I can do at this point, like using a SaveMii or am I screwed? Thanks.

wingzrow · Mar 27, 2009

Well if it's a japanese system could it be you installed the american firmware on it causing the brick?

As far as what you should do in the future, be sure to install a save menu on your wii that your system will auto boot to if the system menu gets corrupted. My wii was bricked earlier today but I saved it because I was able to go into the homebrew channel in the save menu and reinstall 3.2

res1 · Mar 27, 2009

wingzrow said:
Well if it's a japanese system could it be you installed the american firmware on it causing the brick?

Thanks for your reply. As far as I could tell Waninkoko's updater downloaded the Japanese firmware.

kashin · Mar 27, 2009

What do you mean by ''As far as i could tell'' ?
Do you remember actually selecting the proper (J) firmware?

Bladexdsl · Mar 27, 2009

wans updater never works for me it always fails on ios38 content #15 error ret=1 fuck it must not work on Australian PAL. it never bricked lucky though I'm not touching this again.

res1 · Mar 27, 2009

kashin said:
What do you mean by ''As far as i could tell'' ?
Do you remember actually selecting the proper (J) firmware?

Sorry for not being clear. Yes, it said (J).

HaloBenish · Mar 27, 2009

Your not the only one, bricked mine too. I got a black screen saying the system files are corrupt (with part of the letters missing) but I somehow managed to get back into preloader and I ran CIOS downgrader to resort to 3.2U and all is well now, just not gunna run that program ever again.

bebs · Mar 27, 2009

wingzrow said:
As far as what you should do in the future, be sure to install a save menu on your wii that your system will auto boot to if the system menu gets corrupted.

what do you mean?

is it possible to install a save menu?by what?

phaerun · Mar 27, 2009

Dunno why that happened to you guys, but it worked like a charm for me. it put the 4.0E. then i overwrote the IOS 61 and 60 with the patched versions and now I am happy camper.

cthg · Mar 27, 2009

it bricked my wii

it said the install was successful and I press a button to restart didn't restart.

cold boot: black screen...!

kimikal27 · Mar 27, 2009

many bricks?
cool... learn how to read and be patient

cthg · Mar 27, 2009

kimikal27 said:
many bricks?
cool... learn how to read and be patient

I freaking did waninkoko's updater
that's supposed to work!

kimikal27 · Mar 27, 2009

your suppose to read as well ...

if you had, you would not have bricked your wii

cthg · Mar 27, 2009

kimikal27 said:
your suppose to read as well ...

if you had, you would not have bricked your wii

who said that waninkoko's updater bricks wii's?

kimikal27 · Mar 27, 2009

cthg said:
kimikal27 said:

your suppose to read as well ...

if you had, you would not have bricked your wii

Click to expand...

who said that waninkoko's updater bricks wii's?

you not reading bricks wii's not waninkoko's updater

Dr Eggman · Mar 27, 2009

Ha, i just used it after reading all this and when it said press a button to restart my wii was on a black screen and i almost pissed myself. But luckily the sysmenu loaded and no brick or semi-brick!

HaloBenish · Mar 27, 2009

It didnt bother me that much because cios downgrader fxed everything. Wii Works fine now

Chinman · Mar 27, 2009

after the restart i got a system files corrupted message too, but worked out it was a guitar hero custom disc i had that was in the wii, took it out and rebooted and everything was fine for me. however the sd games failed to launch, possibly cos i use a microsd in an adapter rather than an actual sd card, so i reverted back to 3.2e. yay i got starfall back too

res1 · Mar 27, 2009

Has anyone stuck with a black screen (no text) been able to resolve this?

DarrenSW · Mar 28, 2009

Black screen here too. UK PAL, was 3.4E, now... nothing

Oh, and I can and did read

Hacking Bricked after Waninkoko's Firmware Updater 4.0

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Master PieRat

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

I am THE Eggman.

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member

Member

Similar threads

Popular threads in this forum