Tutorial Modify ANY Wii 4.3 & below

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hi great guide, i was wondering if i install the wad for cIOS rev 10 instead of 14 or 15, would this still work? or will i brick this wii?. My reason is on my other wii i have ciosrev10 and everything works perfectly and heard about problems with 14 and especially 15.
 

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Hey, i think this is the best guide i've come across so far.

I got my wii with 4.0 already installed, and i needed sdhc support so i installed 4.2 without question, when i first got my wii.
(before any modding at all)

But after following your guide, i am having a problem getting anything that uses wbfs partitions to recognise my 6gb sdhc card.
Both of Waninkoko's 1.4 and 1.5 sd/usb loaders have problems with it.

I know it works, because the first guide i followed to softmod my wii (some youtube thing, really cant remember, which is a pain in the but)
got it working using the 1.4 sd loader, and i could backup my games to my sd card ON the wii.

But now, im lucky if it even mounts the damn thing. 9/10 times i get a ret -1 error, and my wii resets. And when i dont get this error, i get no wbfs partition found, press a to format. (there is a partition because i used wbfs manager, and have a game on there [lol, just wii sports if anyone cares
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]) So i press A, and i get another error, saying something along the lines of no partition found.

I have tried to use NeoGamma R7 and i can sometimes see it load a game (takes almost all the retries tho) and then i press A to load the game, and i get connection to wbfs lost.

Anyone have any ideas ?? Is this just my sd card ?

thanks for any thoughts anyway.

oh, p.s. if i just in a 64mb sd card it always works first time...
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I'm not really sure why my virtual console and Wiiware games aren't working through SD card menu. I've installed "IOS70-64-v6687[TB+ES_diV+NAND].wad", still no luck. I believe I had an old modify.zip when I followed this guide. Not sure if I need to go through this guide again with the latest modify.zip that I have? I posted about this awhile ago, but never got help. I'm wanting to copy over my "private" folder that was on my other Wii. The games are showing on the SD card menu, but I can't load them.
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thats because you dont have the ticket and title installed onto your wii, your wii will refuse them either way.

you must install the WAD file with WAd manager to install the ticket and title.
 

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xzxero said:
thats because you dont have the ticket and title installed onto your wii, your wii will refuse them either way.

you must install the WAD file with WAd manager to install the ticket and title.
Thanks for the reply xzxero. I had a feeling that was the route I would have to take. Installing each wad of the games to my Wii then trasnfer to my SD card. I'll be doing this later.
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meeces2911 said:
Hey, i think this is the best guide i've come across so far.

I got my wii with 4.0 already installed, and i needed sdhc support so i installed 4.2 without question, when i first got my wii.
(before any modding at all)

But after following your guide, i am having a problem getting anything that uses wbfs partitions to recognise my 6gb sdhc card.
Both of Waninkoko's 1.4 and 1.5 sd/usb loaders have problems with it.

...WORDS...

Odd, i just had a random idea to format the sd card with the camera again. And now guess what ? The wii recognises it
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Man, windows just loves to screw everything up doesnt it >.
 

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Guys I've done every thing to the Tee and it works. But when I intsalled the corpv3.5M and it's extra's I still can't play my original japanese games. When it finish's up loading the cIOSCorp it says "30 files uploaded good. So whats the deal, I've done this numerous times on my buddies Wii's back on 4.0 perfect.
Can i get some help guys.


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Also I've noticed that when I'm in the priiloader menu. It says I'm on IOS v70 Systemmenu v481.
Also it says when I go to "System Menu Hacks" Couldn't find any hacks for System Menu version : v481.
I'm using priiloader v0.1 (r 15)


Oh yeah it didn't turn my HBC upside down which I guess is a good sign that it didn't work all the way.

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Okay so I updated to 4.2E from 3.3E. Followed all the "modify 4.2 steps". Then downgraded to 4.1E. On the downgrade the system menu obviously fails to load as the default setting is IOS60 which the patched version was not included in the guide as I did it before you updated
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so my preloader is set to load with IOS70 even though im on 4.1(not sure if that matters). My question is, if i install cIOSCORP v3.5 will it install successfully with no upside down HBC or errors? Will i have to trucha sign any of the IOS's again? Ty for any help
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The one thing I don't understand is when it says in the guide to proceed to install all IOS 36 files, does that mean every single IOS file included in the WAD folder?
 

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Bainge said:
The one thing I don't understand is when it says in the guide to proceed to install all IOS 36 files, does that mean every single IOS file included in the WAD folder?
yes there are 36 different IOS files that need to be installed
 

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Thanks for the quick reply, I got confused by the wording (My own fault) as I was thinking it was saying the rest of the IOS36, rather than the amount of 36 other files. Thanks bro. My Wiikey ran its course and here you are to the rescue
 

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I used your guide before it was recently updated with new content.

My question:
If I already installed the previous (update to 4.2) and then (modify 4.2), Can I reapply the new "updated" (update to 4.2) and then (modify 4.2). In same order as if it was never modified? Or will I get bricked?

Would I just use them like I never modded my system or are there steps I need to do first?
 

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unknownwill said:
sorry im new to this. but willing to try.

NTSC-J
NTSU
PAL

which one should i use. or all?

US Set
NTSC = USA

QUOTE(DEFIANT @ Nov 26 2009, 09:18 PM) I used your guide before it was recently updated with new content.

My question:
If I already installed the previous (update to 4.2) and then (modify 4.2), Can I reapply the new "updated" (update to 4.2) and then (modify 4.2). In same order as if it was never modified? Or will I get bricked?

Would I just use them like I never modded my system or are there steps I need to do first?
you dont really even have to bother with updating.
i didnt add anything essential, only cIOSrev15
which gives disc loading problems.
 

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does anyone have a rapidshare link to the new updated pal zip file?
im getting horrible 15kb speeds for the megaupload version and its a 2 hour download time
 

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I'm not sure, but I didn't see the files dl link in fist post?
Am I supposed to e-mail for them?

Awesome guide, and I sent a e-mail requesting the files
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EDIT: ok, it looks like you do have to email for the files. I sent a second email, ith my wii details. (the first email i forgot to send my details)

Anyway - look forward to hearing from you
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THANKS again man
 

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I've done everything and all seems to be working but i keep getting one error on start up!

"Couldn't find hacks.ini on fat or nand"

Any help on how i remedy this problem?
 

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