Hacking A suggestion for all softmodded vWii's

Alessa · Jun 12, 2015

billyk said:
I searched the forum but couldn't an answer. I didn't dump the vWii NAND or wads using Yet Another BlueDump Mod before installing d2x cIOS (249,250,251 only). I did dump the NAND after the fact, and could dump the cIOS,

Me too, i have the same problem,
How can i restore my vWii to it's original state?
Anyone has original dumps of fw 5.3.2 cIOS (249,250,251) wads, that i could use to restore them prior to d2x install?
Or do i need to use AnyTitle Deleter to delete them or something else..?

EmceeKerser · Jun 13, 2015

Alessa said:
Me too, i have the same problem,
How can i restore my vWii to it's original state?
Anyone has original dumps of fw 5.3.2 cIOS (249,250,251) wads, that i could use to restore them prior to d2x install?
Or do i need to use AnyTitle Deleter to delete them or something else..?

Maybe if you tried reading already existing threads you'd know the answer.

You cant restore a vwii to factory.
Read the stickies for the cIOS links. There is no such thing as 5.3.2 cIOS. cIOS is strictly vWii

Cyan · Jun 13, 2015

Alessa said:
Me too, i have the same problem,
How can i restore my vWii to it's original state?
Anyone has original dumps of fw 5.3.2 cIOS (249,250,251) wads, that i could use to restore them prior to d2x install?
Or do i need to use AnyTitle Deleter to delete them or something else..?

The "original" doesn't have any cIOS. You can't "dump a slot if nintendo didn't install anything to that slot".

Therefore, there's nothing to restore or reinstall to get a clean vWii without cIOS.
The only way to get a clean vWii back is to delete the cIOS manually (AnyTitleDeleter for vWii). But be careful as it's a dangerous tool and you could end deleting required data for vWii to boot.

Why do you want to delete cIOS you installed?
Keeping them doesn't block vWii or WiiU normal use.
It's not recommended to delete an IOS.

Edit:
Users shouldn't install cIOS randomly by following guides if they don't understand what they are doing, what they need, and why they need them.
I understand that guides are there to be as easy as it can for everyone to follow without understanding what is happening, but reading and learning what's possible first before hacking a console is always a good idea.

If you only wanted to launch homebrew or Gamecube backups, you don't need cIOS at all.
If you want Wii backups from SD or USB, you need ONLY ONE cIOS, not three of them.
Installing 3 cIOS while not needed them is a little absurd, waste of time and free space, multiplying risks of brick by 3, especially when you want to delete them shortly after installing them.

Alessa · Jun 13, 2015

Cyan said:
The "original" doesn't have any cIOS. You can't "dump a slot if nintendo didn't install anything to that slot".

Why do you want to delete cIOS you installed?
Keeping them doesn't block vWii or WiiU normal use.
It's not recommended to delete an IOS.

Edit:
Users shouldn't install cIOS randomly by following guides if they don't understand what they are doing, what they need, and why they need them.
I understand that guides are there to be as easy as it can for everyone to follow without understanding what is happening, but reading and learning what's possible first before hacking a console is always a good idea.

If you only wanted to launch homebrew or Gamecube backups, you don't need cIOS at all.
If you want Wii backups from SD or USB, you need ONLY ONE cIOS, not three of them.
Installing 3 cIOS while not needed them is a little absurd, waste of time and free space, multiplying risks of brick by 3, especially when you want to delete them shortly after installing them.

Yes it's exactly this, i followed a bad guide that didn't say i had to backup IOS to Wad before,
But now i want to sell my wii U basic to buy a premium and i need to restore it so that warranty can work.

It is pretty complicate stuff when you are new to it..,
I rushed the install of homebrew thinking it could be undone easilly but it seems it can Not be undone easilly ..
unless i use AnytitleDeleter and it is risky...and not not recommended to delete an IOS you said..

I wasn't even aware that there was any risk of brick installing cIOS, i woudn't have install them otherwise,
some guide say to install even more cIOS and give absolutly no explaination why.

FaTaL_ErRoR · Jun 13, 2015

Alessa said:
Yes it's exactly this, i followed a bad guide that didn't say i had to backup IOS to Wad before,
But now i want to sell my wii U basic to buy a premium and i need to restore it so that warranty can work.

It is pretty complicate stuff when you are new to it..,
I rushed the install of homebrew thinking it could be undone easilly but it seems it can Not be undone easilly ..
unless i use AnytitleDeleter and it is risky...and not not recommended to delete an IOS you said..

I wasn't even aware that there was any risk of brick installing cIOS, i woudn't have install them otherwise,
some guide say to install even more cIOS and give absolutly no explaination why.

Currently, if installed properly and the proper cios there is no risk. Now that's a big if. Tons of people follow old wii methods and those may not be exactly the same as vwii. Also some idiots make videos for softmodding the original wii and just go back and change the title and captions and for some reason think it'll work for vwii.
So, if you follow the correct instructions and follow them correctly there is bacially no risk. But since people sometimes can't seem to follow exact instruction or download wii stuff they have to tell you there is a risk of brick. Only because sometimes people fail to fully read or fully understand. As Cyan stated people really need to understand exactly what it is they are doing when soft/hard modding anything.
And here at GBA temp you will get nothing but the correct way to do things. And if you ask questions they will answer them to the best of their ability.
Best thing to do is either take pictures or keep notes on what you do to your console. This way when you are ready to remove them you can always go back and look.
This way you are for sure deleting the correct stuff and not some system crucial things.

Cyan · Jun 13, 2015

installing cIOS is not a high risk, but editing NAND is always a risk (install crash, power loss, wrong files or version installed, etc.)
I prefer guides which explains why doing something and let the user decide what to do, but if there's a lot of text to read it seems complicated to follow.
AnyTitleDeleter is more risky because it can delete anything. be careful no to press buttons too fast or on wrong choices.

Don't you know anyone who would like to buy an already hacked console? having access to game backups is certainly a selling argument.

Like Fatal_error said, I often give links to cIOS installer when telling users to install d2x, and they ALWAYS decide to download a different place or use their own version with bad installed files.....
Old guide is a thing, but users not listening is also an issue in brick risk.

You said you followed a guide which didn't tell you to backup IOS, but it's not an issue.
backing IOS up is only to restore them if they existed in the first place.
you could restore IOS58 if you patched or installed a wrong IOS58. but that's all.
You can't make a backup of something you don't have.

the cIOS are NOT installed on the console when you buy it, and there's nothing to backup.
You added files to the console, you didn't replace them.
to make it "clean" again, you need to delete what you added.

there are two methods:
- AnyTitleDeleter
- BlueDumpMod -> make a wad of the cIOS -> use a wad manager to select "uninstall". using this method, you can't uninstall something else by mistake.

Alessa · Jun 13, 2015

Cyan said:
- BlueDumpMod -> make a wad of the cIOS -> use a wad manager to select "uninstall". using this method, you can't uninstall something else by mistake.

Great, I will try this, i already made wads of all cIOS with BlueDumpMod, like it says in this thread,
but i didn't quite understand what to do with these Wads dump after..
It is great that you can use them to desinstall cIOS.
Thank you very much for the help clarifying that

You are right, i could sell the WiiU hacked,

but i am certainly interested also to try revert a console to it's original state..
for just in case i may have to do it someday with my Premium,
If there is an update that requieres an unmodified vWii to install the update..
or if i want to make warranty work also...

JoostinOnline · Jun 13, 2015

Alessa said:
Great, I will try this, i already made wads of all cIOS with BlueDumpMod

Did you dump all your IOS's too?

Alessa · Jun 13, 2015

JoostinOnline said:
Did you dump all your IOS's too?

yes, i dumped all the IOS and cIOS that were in the System Titles..

I hope i just didn't make some fakesign by mistake When prompted thow,
because when you do the same process so many times it's easy to missclic one button..

With BlueDumpMod i was doing :
1 → → → A B B B ↓
This 35 times...
it felt like playing Dance Dance Revolution..

The reward is worth it

JoostinOnline · Oct 13, 2015

The Beer Ticket check in the latest version of SysCheck HDE will help identify any wads packed with ShowMiiWads

danf3r · Feb 3, 2016

Sorry for the inconvenience but I have a problem

1. I finished the ios 58 dump my vWii with YABDM one by one they were created wads and chose not fakesign TMD and ticket as shown in the tutorial So far so good, the problem is that when you put the SD card to my PC's folder created YABDM tells me that is empty and no files inside, I need some program to show me the wads?

JoostinOnline · Feb 4, 2016

danf3r said:
Sorry for the inconvenience but I have a problem
1. I finished the ios 58 dump my vWii with YABDM one by one they were created wads and chose not fakesign TMD and ticket as shown in the tutorial So far so good, the problem is that when you put the SD card to my PC's folder created YABDM tells me that is empty and no files inside, I need some program to show me the wads?

Do you have a USB drive connected? Maybe it dumped the wads to that.

danf3r · Feb 4, 2016

Thanks JoostinOnline can finally copy the wads one by one from the (ios 58) to the pen drive USB, now you need to backup all ios, as there the option to load ios (ios 9 to ios 80)?

JoostinOnline · Feb 5, 2016

danf3r said:
Thanks JoostinOnline can finally copy the wads one by one from the (ios 58) to the pen drive USB, now you need to backup all ios, as there the option to load ios (ios 9 to ios 80)?

You don't need to load them, just dump them.

danf3r · Feb 5, 2016

JoostinOnline said:
You don't need to load them, just dump them.

Thanks for the help JoostinOnline :bow:

cooldasher · Feb 14, 2017

Sorry to reawaken an old thread, but this seemed like the place to ask this question and I haven't been able to find the answer by searching. I modified IOS80 to play games off of the SD card, but I've decided that isn't all that useful to me. I made a dump before modifying IOS80 with YABDM, but I'm not sure what the best program to reinstall the original IOS80 is. Do I just use something like YAWMM to install the wad of IOS80 from the dump? Is it that simple? Or do I need a special program to install wads for IOSs?

Thanks for the help!

JoostinOnline · Feb 15, 2017

cooldasher said:
Sorry to reawaken an old thread, but this seemed like the place to ask this question and I haven't been able to find the answer by searching. I modified IOS80 to play games off of the SD card, but I've decided that isn't all that useful to me. I made a dump before modifying IOS80 with YABDM, but I'm not sure what the best program to reinstall the original IOS80 is. Do I just use something like YAWMM to install the wad of IOS80 from the dump? Is it that simple? Or do I need a special program to install wads for IOSs?

Thanks for the help!

YAWMM works fine.

cooldasher · Feb 15, 2017

JoostinOnline said:
YAWMM works fine.

So, I can just install the original IOS 80 over top the modified one with yawmm? I don't need to somehow uninstall the modified one first?

JoostinOnline · Feb 15, 2017

cooldasher said:
So, I can just install the original IOS 80 over top the modified one with yawmm? I don't need to somehow uninstall the modified one first?

No. Never ever uninstall an IOS. You can overwrite them, just don't uninstall them.

cooldasher · Feb 15, 2017

JoostinOnline said:
No. Never ever uninstall an IOS. You can overwrite them, just don't uninstall them.

Thanks for the help!

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