Hacking Bootmii Boot2 25th red Wii

creedof69 · Mar 7, 2024

Hi everyone, I own a white Wii hacked for years with a defective disc drive. I use it with USB loader gx etc and bootmii on boot2.
So I planned to buy an other one in order to use some Wii and GameCube games from disc, make proper dump etc. And I say why not the red Wii ?

After many reading, my question is. Is it possible, in 2024 to install bootmii as boot2 on a red Wii ? I heard something about sdboot...

Thanks for future answer

XFlak · Mar 7, 2024

Bootmii boot2, no

SD boot, yeah probably, but sd boot in its current form will refuse to boot without an SD card with appropriate files on it, so if u ask me it's actually more of a brick risk, because if the sd card slot dies then u lose all functionality until the hardware is repaired

In theory there's work being done inspired by sd boot, that if accomplished could install something like bootmii boot2 on all wii's, but even if it can be done, unless it can be reverse engineered somehow or recreated using content from NUS, it can't work without either blatantly violating copyright laws and redistributing sd boot (or a modified version of it), or by requiring you source it yourself in order to actually use whatever tool is potentially released

I wouldn't hold my breath

truemaster · 2024-08-22T14:31:14+0100

sdboot cease of development is dissapointing. they didnt had to include the copyright wads. but everything else. and leave up to the user to source the copyright wads from the nintendo leak.

KleinesSinchen · 2024-08-23T06:34:37+0100

Cheating: Swap an old Wii motherboard with BootMii@boot2 into the red shell.

Otherwise I'd prefer a hash collision attack in order to replace boot1 over various hurdles with copyrighted content. SHA1 is somewhat broken with a practical exmaple of a known exmaple of chosen prefix collision.

Still no source for the used tool to my knowledge.

A custom boot1 would less likely to be an easy target for copyright trolls like big N is one.

tech3475 · 2024-08-23T06:52:13+0100

IIRC SDboot had other issues, such as being restricted to non-SDHC cards.

This would mean you're limited to 2GB and in this case getting a fake card could lead to a semi-brick.

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