Hacking Wii randonly slowing down mid-game

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Hi all!

I've soft-modded my Wii back in 2017 and never had any issues with it, other than not being able to progress after some point in The Advetures of Tintin: The Game (I don't know the reason, but using a original copy of the game solved the issue).

I moved houses in 2022 and up until some point in the middle of 2023, I've left the Wii sitting on a box somewhere for about maybe a year. After booting it up again, I've tried to load Kirby’s Dream Collection Special Edition off my USB stick, but it woudn't work (I've never tried the game before, to be clear). So I tought it was time to update the hacks I've done to it, and so I did. I don't really remember how I went about it, but afterwards I was now able to play said Kirby game. But now an issue was present, I got some slowdowns midplay Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. And later on I've noticed this slowdowns also occurred on F1 2009 and also on Super Mario Bros 3 from the Super Mario All Stars Collection (specifically on the first "sky" level on the first world - I guess it's labeled lvl 4).

This slowdowns all of a sudden were plaguing all levels on Super Mario Bros 3 (and if I recall correctly, other games too - but my memory might not be spot on here) and I didn't know what to do. I tought I've made something wrong while soft-modding the console again. But I didn't know what to do, so I've left the console sit untouched for some months, unplugged from the wall. When I came back to it, the slowdowns got better, but they still happened. So I've tried using MODMii, in the hopes that re-hacking it again would take care of these slowdowns. So I followed all it's steps, but unfortunatelly, it didn't solve the issue. And what intrigues me even more is the fact that the slow down that I've mentioned present on level 4 of the first world of Super Mario Bros 3, happens almost every time I try this level, but seldomly the game runs smooth and doesn't have any noticeable slowdown. On a side note, at the end of this level, when you get to the part where the background stops moving automatically, the slowdowns go away and the game always runs fine.

Guys, can you help me think of a solution for this problem? I've noticed the Wii gets a little warm after sometime playing, but I don't think it's too hot or anything hotter than it ever was before. I'm considering getting the Y tri winged screwdriver in order to open it up and dust it off, but I'm afraid it won't solve the slowdowns, so I'd like to check with you if you have ever had a similar problem, or maybe I'm not seeing something and you guys can enlighten me.

Thanks in advance,
Gus
 

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Hey guys, thanks a lot for your input. I've tried a different USB stick, formatting it to FAT32 32kbytes of cluster size. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the issue. Any other ideas? I was checking the files on my computer and I've found what I used to update the hacks on my Wii (previously to using MODMii), it's name is "Pimp My Wii". I'm not entirely sure, but I believe this slowdowns at some specific levels/points in games started happening after using it.
 

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Hey guys, thanks a lot for your input. I've tried a different USB stick, formatting it to FAT32 32kbytes of cluster size. Unfortunately, it didn't solve the issue. Any other ideas? I was checking the files on my computer and I've found what I used to update the hacks on my Wii (previously to using MODMii), it's name is "Pimp My Wii". I'm not entirely sure, but I believe this slowdowns at some specific levels/points in games started happening after using it.
>USB stick
This might be your issue. Try a USB HDD/SSD, or using the internal SD slot.
 
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ModMii should have overwritten any pimp my wii hacks at play here, but to be certain you can share a Syscheck here, or drag and drop your syscheck.csv onto modmii.exe and it will tell you what to do
Hey, thanks a lot for this help. Here is the id with the report: mziJBVUn (I uploaded it to the syscheck system).

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 73006815
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Brazil (16)
Boot2 v4
Found 137 titles.
Found 50 IOS on this console. 8 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 404): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 404): Stub
IOS11[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 404): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 404): Stub
IOS52[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202 (rev 404): Stub
IOS222 (rev 404): Stub
IOS223 (rev 404): Stub
IOS224 (rev 404): Stub
IOS248[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 03/29/2024.

>USB stick
This might be your issue. Try a USB HDD/SSD, or using the internal SD slot.
Will try that!
 

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Syscheck looks good. As much as I like to dump on pimp my wii it doesn't appear as if there's any traces of it left over, so I don't think modmii or primo my wii is to blame.

Maybe try an SD card or using a dif USB port?
Hi XFlak, thank you again for your help. I was not able to switch to USB 1, in my system only USB port 0 is working for whatever reason. But I've managed to load Super Mario All Stars from the SD card and the slowdown was still present at level 4 of the first world. I don't want to abuse your helping hand, but any other idea?

Thanks a lot in advance
 

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Ruling out the obvious software issues it might be coupled with that it occurs when using sd and usb, I wonder if it's somehow hardware related. Unfortunately I'm not much of a hardware guy, aspiring/amateur maybe, so I'm out of ideas.

Hmmm, have you also tried multiple games/rips? I could be a handful of bad rips if your testing the same games even across multiple devices
 

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