Hacking vWii — every title hangs on black screen when launched normally through the Wii Menu (fully stock, freshly restored)

StateOfTheArt · 2026-08-10T02:44:47+0100

Hi, hoping someone can help me figure out what's actually wrong here.

On my modded Wii U, any title launched normally through the vWii Menu hangs on a black screen indefinitely and never loads. This affects Wii Channels, the Homebrew Channel, etc.

What I've tried so far:
- Ran vWii Decaffeinator in Aggressive mode, then completed a full official System Update afterward.
- Reinstalled the Homebrew Channel afterward via the vWii Compat Installer (Aroma-side). It now shows correctly on the Wii Menu.
- Clicking the Homebrew Channel icon from the actual Wii Menu still hangs/never loads.
- However, launching Homebrew Channel directly through Aroma's own boot menu works perfectly (loads and functions normally).
- So the problem seems specific to launching titles the normal way, through the vWii System Menu — not to the titles or IOS themselves, since a freshly-installed title runs fine through a different launch path.

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 report:
- Runs on vIOS58 (rev 6432), Region NTSC-U, System Menu 4.3U (v609)
- 39 titles found, 31 IOS found, 0 stubs
- All IOS show "No Patches" except IOS58 (USB 2.0, which I believe is stock on vWii)
- SysCheck reports "Homebrew Channel is not installed" despite it being visibly present and launchable via Aroma, not sure why.

Any help figuring out what's actually going on, or a similar recovery tool, would be massively appreciated. Happy to provide anything that would help, just let me know what's useful.

neverendsDull · 2026-08-10T03:18:35+0100

StateOfTheArt said:
All IOS show "No Patches" except IOS58 (USB 2.0, which I believe is stock on vWii)

All shown as "No patches"? should be something like this:

Code:

vIOS9 (rev 1290): No Patches
vIOS12 (rev 782): No Patches
vIOS13 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS14 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS15 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS17 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS21 (rev 1295): No Patches
vIOS22 (rev 1550): No Patches
vIOS28 (rev 2063): No Patches
vIOS31 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS33 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS34 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS35 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS36 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS37 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS38 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS41 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS43 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS45 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS46 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS48 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS53 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS55 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS56 (rev 5918): No Patches
vIOS57 (rev 6175): No Patches
vIOS58 (rev 6432): USB 2.0
vIOS59 (rev 9249): No Patches
vIOS62 (rev 6942): No Patches
vIOS80 (rev 7200): No Patches
vIOS249[56] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta1-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS250[57] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta1-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS251[58] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta1-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS512 (rev 7): No Patches
vIOS513 (rev 1): No Patches
Report generated on 02/01/2025.

at least ios 249-251 should be d2x... did u install them? installing hbc under aroma with compat installer is not enough. So just post your complete sysreport.

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