Tutorial Modify ANY Wii 4.3 & below

pkastoff · Apr 6, 2010

does this work through a mac?

tj_cool · Apr 6, 2010

pkastoff said:
does this work through a mac?

It should cause all files are included already

EeZeEpEe · Apr 6, 2010

tj_cool said:
pkastoff said:

does this work through a mac?

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It should cause all files are included already

Mac user here and definitely does work because as tj_cool said it has all the files included. No need for NUS downloader.

toxegaju · Apr 6, 2010

new to this...

i bought a WII recently, and someone told me that the new WII's comes with a new drive that can't read the burned DVD's.. is this right???

Evil-Popeye · Apr 7, 2010

toxegaju said:
new to this...

i bought a WII recently, and someone told me that the new WII's comes with a new drive that can't read the burned DVD's.. is this right???

That is right, you won't be able to play your backups off a DVD. You can still play them through a USB loader though so it's not too bigger deal. Just buy an external harddrive or a large USB stick and you'll be good as gold

Otherwise you could replace the drive, so long as you knew what you were doing. It's easier just to load then off an HDD though.

TheApatheticOne · Apr 7, 2010

So..... I bought a Wii yesterday, NA, version 4.2U. I've spent the last three days reading the CompleteSoftmodGuide. The only venture Ive made into the homebrew scene was with my DSi, which went swimmingly.

However, I really want to get this modded, but Im scared. If I shaqfu this thing up, my wife will be a widow by her own doing.

So assuming I follow the guide off perfectly starting out (SDHC card, formatted to FAT32 since its all I have and I have 4.2), download and extract the boot.elf from the hackmii installer and put it on the root of the SDHC card, download the abd6a.zip (for 4.2) from the bannerbomb site and extract it to the root of the SDHC card as well, and immediately go in and back up my Wii's NAND..... its all gravy (aka cool) from there right? Even if I completely do something dumb, I can always rewind and get back to the point before I did said dumb thing?

Sorry if this is very noobish, but going into this pool for the first time, I just want some reassurance that it'll be okay!

EDIT: Also, looking at the guide, from that point, it looks like you are on your own to install whatever you like. What are the "mandatory" installs from that point? If Im looking to play my backups from a external hd, would downloading priiloader (to prevent disc updates) and then what? Do you download a launcher AND a loader? Is there any that work as both, or recommended setup?

EeZeEpEe · Apr 7, 2010

TheApatheticOne said:
So..... I bought a Wii yesterday, NA, version 4.2U. I've spent the last three days reading the CompleteSoftmodGuide. The only venture Ive made into the homebrew scene was with my DSi, which went swimmingly.

However, I really want to get this modded, but Im scared. If I shaqfu this thing up, my wife will be a widow by her own doing.

So assuming I follow the guide off perfectly starting out (SDHC card, formatted to FAT32 since its all I have and I have 4.2), download and extract the boot.elf from the hackmii installer and put it on the root of the SDHC card, download the abd6a.zip (for 4.2) from the bannerbomb site and extract it to the root of the SDHC card as well, and immediately go in and back up my Wii's NAND..... its all gravy (aka cool) from there right? Even if I completely do something dumb, I can always rewind and get back to the point before I did said dumb thing?

Sorry if this is very noobish, but going into this pool for the first time, I just want some reassurance that it'll be okay!

You can do that or just use this guide and get the modify.zip which includes all the files you need. It literally takes only 5 minutes to do with modify.zip. You can still use CompleteSoftmodGuide as a reference to understand what you're doing.

TheApatheticOne · Apr 7, 2010

EeZeEpEe said:
You can do that or just use this guide and get the modify.zip which includes all the files you need. It literally takes only 5 minutes to do with modify.zip. You can still use CompleteSoftmodGuide as a reference to understand what you're doing.

Thanks! I've been on this site bouncing around, I went straight to the guide and didnt even check that part of the post. Failed pretty hard at researching there!

toxegaju · Apr 7, 2010

Evil-Popeye said:
toxegaju said:

new to this...

i bought a WII recently, and someone told me that the new WII's comes with a new drive that can't read the burned DVD's.. is this right???

Click to expand...

That is right, you won't be able to play your backups off a DVD. You can still play them through a USB loader though so it's not too bigger deal. Just buy an external harddrive or a large USB stick and you'll be good as gold

Otherwise you could replace the drive, so long as you knew what you were doing. It's easier just to load then off an HDD though.

an SD card???
but i have still to do the softmofd guide right??

Tatsurou · Apr 7, 2010

I've been using 4.2U with no problems from this mod, but I'm trying to play the Monster Hunter Tri demo disc and it's asking for a system update. Am I able to update the Wii alright from the disc? Is there anything I can do to update the Wii without bricking it? Thanks.

EDIT:
I can launch the game fine from the backup channel.

TheApatheticOne · Apr 7, 2010

Out of curiousity, when I do the initial steps like loading bootmii and the HBC, should I disable the WiFi connection?

toxegaju · Apr 7, 2010

ok, i followe the guid and did all stuff....

now, what's the best USB loader???

The files that stayed on the SD card.. can i delete them??

Evil-Popeye · Apr 7, 2010

Tatsurou said:
I've been using 4.2U with no problems from this mod, but I'm trying to play the Monster Hunter Tri demo disc and it's asking for a system update. Am I able to update the Wii alright from the disc? Is there anything I can do to update the Wii without bricking it? Thanks.

EDIT:
I can launch the game fine from the backup channel.

When you turn on the wii hold reset so the priiloader menu comes up (I'm presuming you installed priiloader), go into system menu hacks and enable the 'block online updates' and 'block disc updates'. Never update through Nintendo.

Evil-Popeye · Apr 7, 2010

TheApatheticOne said:
Out of curiousity, when I do the initial steps like loading bootmii and the HBC, should I disable the WiFi connection?

It doesn't matter, you can disable it if you want to be ultra cautious but it's not going to make a difference unless you think you're accidentally going to click on system menu update in the wii's settings.

TheApatheticOne · Apr 8, 2010

Got everything up and running, playing backups already. That was almost too easy.

Thanks to everyone involved with this and everyone thats answered what turned out to be very simple questions. Youre all aces in my book!

toxegaju · Apr 8, 2010

i have Configurable USB Loader on my SD, but when i start it, it says
ERROR: custom IOS 249 could not be loaded.. where to get it?

And at the wad installer, when it ask the source i choose the WII SD SLOT, then when i press A, it fails to mount the device.. why?

Evil-Popeye · Apr 8, 2010

toxegaju said:
i have Configurable USB Loader on my SD, but when i start it, it says
ERROR: custom IOS 249 could not be loaded.. where to get it?

And at the wad installer, when it ask the source i choose the WII SD SLOT, then when i press A, it fails to mount the device.. why?

I presume you have cIOS 249 rev 19 from this guide installed? If so I think you have installed it to the wrong base IOS as applications don't support other base IOS's at the moment. Most applications are only supported by base IOS 38 at the moment and this guide installs cIOS249 with base IOS 57. You could re install cIOS 249 using base IOS 38 or just install cIOS 38 rev 17 which would save you some confusion if you are unsure what you're doing.

toxegaju · Apr 8, 2010

not really sure.. i followed the complete softmod guide.. so i'm not rue.... but i don't think so...

Evil-Popeye · Apr 8, 2010

toxegaju said:
not really sure.. i followed the complete softmod guide.. so i'm not rue.... but i don't think so...

How much of the guide did you do? Did you get up to Waninkoko's cIOS 249 and 250?

toxegaju · Apr 8, 2010

Evil-Popeye said:
toxegaju said:

not really sure.. i followed the complete softmod guide.. so i'm not rue.... but i don't think so...

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How much of the guide did you do? Did you get up to Waninkoko's cIOS 249 and 250?

i did this guide: http://sites.google.com/site/completesg/

but i think i deleted the Stub IOSs because of this on the guide:

Removing Stub IOSs
If you are on 4.2 (official update), there will be some unwanted (stub) IOSs on your Wii. Let's get rid of those first.

If you exited out of DOP-Mii, boot it again and press A to get to the Main menu.

Now choose the Top option (IOS: 36) and press A.

You will see another menu. Here, choose the top option again (IOS, BC, MIOS). You will see yet another menu.

* Go right to IOS202. Press - to uninstall it. Press A to confirm.
* Repeat this for IOS222, 223, 249 and 250.

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