I looked up what you recommended, and it does seem to be a very high quality drive, but it has SO MUCH SPACE. Is there a version that has less than 500 gigs? thanks.
Hey guys,
I'm sure there's been at least 300 other people that have asked similar questions here so please bear with me. I've finally gotten my Wii out of the box I've kept it in over 2 years in order to finally play some games.
But when I turn my Wii on with an SD card, I just get a black screen and repeating blue flashes along the Wii's disk slot/tray. When I turn my wii on without the SD card, however, I can freely access the system menu.
Something to note is that without the SD card, I'm still able to access Priiloader. But with the SD card, I can't (this might just be due to me fucking up by pressing and holding the RESET button either too early or too late)
I have a NAND and key backup from when I first installed BootMii back in 2015. I did a chkdsk /f on the SD card, and while it worked after with the card in, I put the SD back into my computer to back everything up and reformat the whole drive to deal with some corrupt or undeletable files (I obviously then placed everything back in the SD card). From what I know, no major files were corrupted (like the nand.bin).
Is this a brick? And more importantly, can it be fixed?
I'm sure there's been at least 300 other people that have asked similar questions here so please bear with me. I've finally gotten my Wii out of the box I've kept it in over 2 years in order to finally play some games.
But when I turn my Wii on with an SD card, I just get a black screen and repeating blue flashes along the Wii's disk slot/tray. When I turn my wii on without the SD card, however, I can freely access the system menu.
Something to note is that without the SD card, I'm still able to access Priiloader. But with the SD card, I can't (this might just be due to me fucking up by pressing and holding the RESET button either too early or too late)
I have a NAND and key backup from when I first installed BootMii back in 2015. I did a chkdsk /f on the SD card, and while it worked after with the card in, I put the SD back into my computer to back everything up and reformat the whole drive to deal with some corrupt or undeletable files (I obviously then placed everything back in the SD card). From what I know, no major files were corrupted (like the nand.bin).
Is this a brick? And more importantly, can it be fixed?
Last edited by RockmanYoshi,
I'm using a 4TB Western Digital Passport that works great and runs about $135 shipped. Cost is good but you're not going to like the size of the drive. I'd say go for the 4TB just to have the expansion in the future.
To get more what you're looking for and seeing USB Loader GX does not run Wii games off of the SD card, why not switch over to WiiFlow Lite or CFG USB Loader (Discontinued but still works great) then and just buy a 64Gb or 128GB SD card to run everything? No hard drive needed at all if you do this. I'd opt for the 128GB because you might want other stuff like GameCube's or Emulator's at some point. You can use FAT 32k Formatter on the SDHC or SDXC cards to format them as FAT32 32k clusters.
Not sure about the 64GB but I recently picked up a 128GB SD card for less then $30 off Amazon.
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Yes the larger WD drives will work, you just need to change them over to MBR and format them correctly. See the link in my signature on how to do it.
Last edited by ca032769,
Hello.
Please can you try to read the SD Card on an PC ? And could you be so kind and post an screenshot from the Folder/Content of it please ? To get sure it is not the SD Card itself.
Thank you.
Hello.
Please can you try to read the SD Card on an PC ? And could you be so kind and post an screenshot from the Folder/Content of it please ? To get sure it is not the SD Card itself.
Thank you.
This is the root folder of my sd card if that's what you're looking for (August 2015 was when I originally homebrewed my Wii, June 17th was when I reformatted and backed up my SD card.
Thank you.
Can you copy this content to another SD Card and try this one please ? To exclude that maybe your SD Reader from the Wii is broken.
Thank you.
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Sounds like your booting into bootmii but the video mode isn't being displayed on your wii. Use a bootmii config editor or manually edit it in notepad to try a different video mode.
Edit: or just rename the bootmii folder to something different, but you will want access to bootmii for brick protection so just renaming will solve the immediate problem of loading the system menu but not the root problem.
Edit: or just rename the bootmii folder to something different, but you will want access to bootmii for brick protection so just renaming will solve the immediate problem of loading the system menu but not the root problem.
Last edited by XFlak,
Thank you.
Can you copy this content to another SD Card and try this one please ? To exclude that maybe your SD Reader from the Wii is broken.
Thank you.
I'll try that later today, thank you.
If it was just video mode that wasn't loading properly, wouldn't I still be able to use the wiimote (and wouldn't the disc tray not keep flashing repeatedly?). Anyways, renaming bootmii worked it seems, but I'd like to keep that on.
My bootmii.ini looks like this.
# BootMii config file
# Created by bootmii config editor
# Video mode, possible settings:
# NTSC, PAL50, PAL60, PROGRESSIVE
VIDEO=NTSC
# Autoboot, possible settings:
# SYSMENU, HBC
AUTOBOOT=HBC
BOOTDELAY=3
I'm in North America, so NTSC seems right. I'll tweak around with autoboot and bootdelay and see if that helps.
Last edited by RockmanYoshi,
Got a breakthrough! I found the older bootmii files that I had right after 2015 and put them in the bootmii folder. The Wii launched with the SD card in!
However, I won't say I fixed it yet, until everything seems safe.
However, I won't say I fixed it yet, until everything seems safe.
Is there a way to remove or hide pre-installed channels such as Mii Channel, Photo Channel and Wii Shop Channel? How to it? I prefer the safer way. Thanks!
Hi,
I am looking to buy my first Wii for my 4 year old.
Can any Wii be modded or do i need to check the firmware? As far as i can see 4.3 is the latest firmware and that can be modded.
Is this the best guide for modding - (third link in post one - i cannot put a url as i am a new member)
For storing games, can i use a micro-sd card with and sd adapter? Does the card need to be a particular speed?
I am looking to buy my first Wii for my 4 year old.
Can any Wii be modded or do i need to check the firmware? As far as i can see 4.3 is the latest firmware and that can be modded.
Is this the best guide for modding - (third link in post one - i cannot put a url as i am a new member)
For storing games, can i use a micro-sd card with and sd adapter? Does the card need to be a particular speed?
@JavaRaven
Hello!
1. Any Wii (that is not the Wii Mini) can be modded, though I recommend 4.3 since it's the easiest.
2. I would recommend @XFlak's ModMii as a guide, and since it's a Windows program it can also give files to you for specific things. Though if you want a more normal guide, I would recommend the Complete Softmod Guide or wii.guide.
3. What do you mean specifically? Most SDs can work with any kind of Wii game storage (Channels and/or full games for USB Loaders) and usually at any speed.
Hello!
1. Any Wii (that is not the Wii Mini) can be modded, though I recommend 4.3 since it's the easiest.
2. I would recommend @XFlak's ModMii as a guide, and since it's a Windows program it can also give files to you for specific things. Though if you want a more normal guide, I would recommend the Complete Softmod Guide or wii.guide.
3. What do you mean specifically? Most SDs can work with any kind of Wii game storage (Channels and/or full games for USB Loaders) and usually at any speed.
Last edited by FancyNintendoGamer567,
Thanks for the fast response!
2 - I have a Mac, does that make it more difficult? Though i can run windows in a VM if that's better.
3 - The slower cards are cheaper, but do i need a fast card to load and run games from?
PS, where does the Wii store the game saves?
2 - I have a Mac, does that make it more difficult? Though i can run windows in a VM if that's better.
3 - The slower cards are cheaper, but do i need a fast card to load and run games from?
PS, where does the Wii store the game saves?
A Mac is fine. Class 10 UHS 1 work great. Preconfigured Wiis can also be purchased on eBay/Offerup.
Native Wii games store their save data on the Wii. GCN game saves (using nintendont) are stored on the drive they are launched from in the /saves folder. They can be launched from the SD card or USB. Any emulators present store their their save data in their respective directories on the SD card.
Native Wii games store their save data on the Wii. GCN game saves (using nintendont) are stored on the drive they are launched from in the /saves folder. They can be launched from the SD card or USB. Any emulators present store their their save data in their respective directories on the SD card.
@JavaRaven I think by default (in the Data Management menu) the saves are encrypted in data.bins which are in SD:/private/wii.
Thanks all.
Have started the mod process using ModMii. Have run through the various options that created the files to copy onto the sd card and have a html guide included on the disk (copied the text to pastebin dot com forward slash YSTyFbyr)
I have formatted the disk as MS-DOS (FAT) and master boot record, copied the files from within the "COPY_TO_SD" folder to the SD card) so the root of the card has 4 folders and 5 files. I have inserted this to the Wii and then turned on the Wii
I have moved onto the stage "Hacking your WiI / Installing The Homebrew Channel (HBC) and Bootmii"
This tells me to go to "Go to the "Messageboard" on your Wii and navigate to Yesterday. Click on the envelope with the pink Bomb icon."
I follow those instructions but after clicking on the envelope, i just see a black screen - have waited 10 minutes and nothing changes.
Have I done something obviously wrong?
PS, when I click on the sd card menu, I don't see any files, just 20 pages with grey boxes, no filenames or anything viewable.
I have also run through the Modmii app twice, carefully checking the settings each time.
Have started the mod process using ModMii. Have run through the various options that created the files to copy onto the sd card and have a html guide included on the disk (copied the text to pastebin dot com forward slash YSTyFbyr)
I have formatted the disk as MS-DOS (FAT) and master boot record, copied the files from within the "COPY_TO_SD" folder to the SD card) so the root of the card has 4 folders and 5 files. I have inserted this to the Wii and then turned on the Wii
I have moved onto the stage "Hacking your WiI / Installing The Homebrew Channel (HBC) and Bootmii"
This tells me to go to "Go to the "Messageboard" on your Wii and navigate to Yesterday. Click on the envelope with the pink Bomb icon."
I follow those instructions but after clicking on the envelope, i just see a black screen - have waited 10 minutes and nothing changes.
Have I done something obviously wrong?
PS, when I click on the sd card menu, I don't see any files, just 20 pages with grey boxes, no filenames or anything viewable.
I have also run through the Modmii app twice, carefully checking the settings each time.
Please try it again with an FAT32 formatted SD Card.Not to big (2 - 16 GB SD).Copy all files over to it you do not need to do ModMii again.
Thank you.
Thanks. Have used a Windows machine to reformat the SD card and have been able to install the homebrew channel.Please try it again with an FAT32 formatted SD Card.Not to big (2 - 16 GB SD).Copy all files over to it you do not need to do ModMii again.
Thank you.
The final part that I am now stuck on is loading an ISO. I take it out is not as simple as unzipping the files and copying them onto a USB thumb drive and putting in one of the usb ports on the back. As that is what I have done and get the message to please plug in usb drive.
Are there specific instructions to follow?
Can I put the roms on the SD card?
Last edited by JavaRaven,
Hello.
Thank you for your feedback on your issue.
The next step is to make and post an sysCheck here to see if your Wii is well modded and all IOSes are correct and usable.
Here is a great guide how to do that:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/posting-a-system-check.300279/
Thank you.
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