Recent content by Conundrum1911

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    Hacking Have fw 3.42 systems hit stores yet?

    Picked up a 320GB 'Move Bundle' last night (from Futureshop in Canada), and it had fw 3.3 preinstalled on it).
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    Hacking Black Wii question

    Are you sure? I have a white one I picked up around a year ago now (newer drive), and inserting a burned DVD causes the drive to spin down instantly. No spinning disc = no ability to read it to the HDD via a USB loader or any other means. EDIT: hahaha, CSI I think I hit submit the same...
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    Hacking Homebrew Channel Replaced System Menu?

    Priiloader or Preloader? Ever since I upgraded to Priiloader 0.2 (from Preloader .30) even with autoboot and return to set to systemmenu, it always starts up to Priiloader (but returns to the systemmenu properly).
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    Hacking RELEASE: v4.2 Safe Firmware Updater

    Thanks guys, this does look like the info I need. My only remaining question is does the info given in both guides work for a 3.4 upgrade to 4.2, or just 4.x to 4.2? Since I still have the ability to load wad manager via the hbc installing these wads to fix things should be trivial. EDIT...
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    Hacking RELEASE: v4.2 Safe Firmware Updater

    Sorry to have to post this (really feel like a noob atm), but I've looked high and low for the offline guide for this updater...reason being that I have a friend who is on 3.4U with preloader installed, which corrupted his system menu and now he can't get on wifi/edit his settings to use the...
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    Hardware Best Wii DVD-ROM chipset/board?

    Interesting, but both USB Loader GX and WiiFlow suite my needs on the HDD side of things, and unless this fixes the issues with the newer D3-2 drives I wouldn't really gain anything. Arguably, I'd rather pick up the "best" controller board that I can, and maybe WODE will even lower the prices...
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    Hardware Let hard drive plugged permanently

    No more than your mouse/keyboard would get on your computer lol. Only thing I would recommend is if your hard drive has a dual plug (2 USB plugs), I'd plug both into the Wii, so it draws normal voltage across both plugs (vs sucking double down 1 that "could" damage the Wii's USB over time...in...
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    Hardware Let hard drive plugged permanently

    I'm pretty sure a WD Passport is USB powered, so when you power off the Wii, the drive will power off too as it's own source of power is the Wii's USB. If it has it's own power adapter/plug however, best practice would be to shut it down when not using the Wii, so you are not putting more wear...
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    Hardware Best Wii DVD-ROM chipset/board?

    Essentially I have one of the newer D3-2 drives, and although I run 99% of my games off an attached HDD, I'd like to get the Wii's DVD drive "working", so I have the choice between using either/or (also want it for when friends bring over a game to play). With that said, does anyone know which...
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    Hacking WD Scorio (internal 2.5inch) in an approved Vantec bay?

    Nice, I was actually thinking about that exact drive, as a local store has it on sale today. I'll probably get their Vantec CX, that way I can be up and running tonight vs waiting on Amazon (although its nice to know I have a cheap alternative if it doesn't work).
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    Hacking WD Scorio (internal 2.5inch) in an approved Vantec bay?

    As the title says, can anyone confirm that a WD Scorpio (WD's line of internal 2.5inch/laptop SATA drives) woks without any spindown issues in an "approved" bay from the "acceptable USB drives" database? I do want to go WD as I don't trust Seagates (seen too many of them die over the years) and...
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    Hacking Media button not working

    For me, all I had to do was fix the NDS file's name. IIRC all I had to do is rename the moonshell nds file to .NDS (so put the extension in caps) and now it works. Make sure you are showing extensions in Windows in order to do this. Hope this helps...
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