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    Hardware Possibly bricked Wii- I have a few questions

    Does anyone have an answer to question 2 or 3- or especially: can I buy a new Wii and easily replace the optical drive with the one in my broken Wii, allowing the new Wii to play backup discs?
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    Hardware Possibly bricked Wii- I have a few questions

    There was no file called bootmini.elf on my SD card and I don't have the original BootMii installer package that I used so I downloaded a fresh one and used the bootmini.elf from that- don't know if it was the same version as I have installed or if that matters. Basically when I try to load...
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    Hardware Possibly bricked Wii- I have a few questions

    Okay well thanks for the tip- I tried the GameCube D-pad thing. It's kinda tricky as pressing the D-pad buttons triggers the BootMii menu to navigate left and right and cancels the little 3-2-1 countdown to booting into the Wii. I've tried pressing them down the moment the countdown finishes but...
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    Hardware Possibly bricked Wii- I have a few questions

    I can't get past BootMii - I can navigate the BootMii menus but as soon as I try to launch either Homebrew Channel or Wii home screen it all goes black...
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    Hardware Possibly bricked Wii- I have a few questions

    Hi guys, I'd appreciate anyone's opinions on this, I have searched for answers but not really found anything: I have a launch-day bought UK Wii which was fitted with a WiiKey when they first came out (by a professional). I've installed Homebrew Channel, BootMii etc quite a while ago. It was...
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