Hacking [Guide] Fully Softmod Any Wii (everything you need)

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xzxero said:
thesaint08 said:
Hi, I am having trouble with trying to get the preloader installed.

My Wii has 3.4e firmware

I have got the Homebrew channel, but when I try and load the preloader, it gives the message"Failed to get ROOT current IOS(36) has the fakesign bug fixed."

I'm guessing i've forgotten something stupid.
Any ideas?
run the Trucha Bug Restorer steps to patch IOS36

Thanks for the prompt reply, will try that.
 

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hey guys,
I followed the guide I modded a 4.1u and a 3.4u now the 3.4u I had to update to 4.1 it will not read my sd card in home brew to let me install or see anything for that matter.it just goes black and stays. yes card is good it works in the other 2 wiis sitting here, but it wont work in the only one that i updated....any ideas Thanks
 

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jboy40 said:
hey guys,
I followed the guide I modded a 4.1u and a 3.4u now the 3.4u I had to update to 4.1 it will not read my sd card in home brew to let me install or see anything for that matter.it just goes black and stays. yes card is good it works in the other 2 wiis sitting here, but it wont work in the only one that i updated....any ideas Thanks
If you updated after you hacked, then you have to run TBR again as going from 3.x to 4.x installs over a lot of the IOSs with new, Nintendo ones.
 

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First thanks for the help,
second I followed the simplistic mod, which did say update after installing every thing except preloader and usb loader.Then lastly ,how can I get tbr to run if homebrew will not read my sd card .. Thanks in advance..
 

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the preloader link here was dead so i grabbed i from some whre else how can i tell the region it s set for its all nmbers in the hacks.ini file
 

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jboy40 said:
First thanks for the help,
second I followed the simplistic mod, which did say update after installing every thing except preloader and usb loader.Then lastly ,how can I get tbr to run if homebrew will not read my sd card .. Thanks in advance..Please follow one guide or the other. If you started with the simplistic guide, why would you post your question here? Mixing and matching parts from guides when you don't know what you're doing is a good way to mess something up.


QUOTE(thestudent @ Aug 14 2009, 01:56 PM) the preloader link here was dead so i grabbed i from some whre else how can i tell the region it s set for its all nmbers in the hacks.ini file
The region is based on whatever your current Wii SM is. And I just checked the PreLoader link and it's working fine.
 

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jboy40 said:
ummmm.........so you cant help me thanks
I didn't say you couldn't be helped. I just said if you started following one guide, keep to it. Whatever you did can be fixed if your Wii is still functional. Just pick one of the guides and go through it again (if you're not sure where you went wrong). Doing the guide again won't hurt anything as everything you install will simply overwrite whatever was there. So now that you have 4.1, just pick a guide and go through it again. Problem solved.
 

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jboy40 said:
ummmm.........so you cant help me thanks
he's tryin to help you prevent a brick.
it seems you cant help yourself.

if the homebrew channel cant read your sd card, you havent structured it right obviously.
have you tried another sd card?
 

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guys I get it, I get it, I am greatful for your help. yes I guess I posted in the wrong thread I am well aware of bricking, every 3rd post reminds us of that.I have been hacking and cracking going on 18 years .I am not trying to ruffel anyones feathers. I have posted 2 ?'s in the last year and a half. I almost didnt post the ? because I knew someone would do a little brow beating if I didnt cross my t's and dot my I's correctly.I actually figured out the answer to both before they were answered.I again am greatful guys but none of your remarks were helpful. with 2 guides for one thing and 6 different usb loaders 2 or three different backup loaders and a dozen or so other programs or cios's to install, mistakes will be made. Again I am greatful and sorry if I have offended anyone.
 

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ok it must have been my internet the rediret location for the file worked this time i grabbed a gamecube controller and am backing up my nand so far so good
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Do you press any buttons while it's waiting for you to read?

Try pressing 1+2 at the same time.
 

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ok 1 and 2 together did it i am trying to install the backup launcher as a channel for my son he is 9 but i dont have that file Backup Launcher-WBKL-2.wad listed in the guide any help ?
 

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thestudent said:
i have no file called Backup Launcher-WBKL-2.wad in anything i downloaded either did i miss something ?
Can you point out to me where you're finding this instance of the name?

I updated the link to the new NeoGamme R7 a few days ago and forgot about the new name in the file, but I changed it yesterday. You're the second person to tell me the old name is still there, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Is everyone else not seeing the same thing I am? Maybe try to refresh your page? If it's still there, quote it for me and clip out the extra nonsense so I can find it. Thanks.
 

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ok i refreshed the screen in the backup loader section and it fixed the name it did say
Extract both downloaded files.
Copy the file Backup Launcher-WBKL-2.wad into the wad folder on your SD card.
Rename the file WAD-Manager_v1.5.dol to boot.dol

but now it says
Extract both downloaded files.
Copy the file Neo_gamma_R7.wad into the wad folder on your SD card.
Rename the file WAD-Manager_v1.5.dol to boot.dol
also there are a lot of options i have to pick with the wadmanager should i leave them all default because it fails to load but i was missing that file that was renamed let me try again with the Neo_gamma_R7.wad
 

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Leave the first option to default.. it should load from IOS 249. Then tell it you want to pick from the SD card.. Then just click A on the WAD you want.. and it'll ask if you want to install or uninstall..
 

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worked great thanks for all the help i will continue to read i love the way teh preloader menu boots right away just in case things go crazy i got 4 copys of my nand.bin saved in various places audio on super mario galaxy is kinda scratchy during the movie scene's but these are cheap dvd-r's ill play around with that but i got neogamma loaded as a channel and all is well thanks so so much for your help
 

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Hi,

First of all thanks for this, its a very easy to read and grasp tut.

Just one issue I am having. Installed Bootmii as boot 2 and tried doin a nand dump but it fails all the time. Just says error. When I check the SD card its showing as full. So I freed up over 50mb on it and tried again. it failed again and checked again it was full but nothing else but the nand.bin was added I deleted off the SD card but still full can anyone help?
 

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