Hacking Best Way to Mod Any Wii: ModMii for Windows: Official Support Thread

XFlak · Jan 8, 2020

Yes and yes

drewbot02 · Jan 8, 2020

XFlak said:
Yes and yes

Used it today, wasn't able to fix writing to my drive from the wii but I'm willing to accept my hdd just doesn't work that way. Truly a magic app, and awesome to use!

Thank you so much!

2urtle · Feb 18, 2020

I have just bought another wii from fleebay (haven't had chance to plug it in yet). But I have noticed an abundance of larger capacity sd cards for sale on the same site with lots of games etc... I have also seen on nintendo site there has been an update for the Wii with combatibilty for upto 32gb cards.
I haven't read all of the pages on this thread, but the general rule was no bigger than 2gb and don't update. Has this changed?

It is quite possible I will be back after the weekend with issues from the new wii... my old one is still working fine I am just trying to find a way to get my aging father to move a little more for health reasons.

Foxi4 · Feb 18, 2020

2urtle said:
I have just bought another wii from fleebay (haven't had chance to plug it in yet). But I have noticed an abundance of larger capacity sd cards for sale on the same site with lots of games etc... I have also seen on nintendo site there has been an update for the Wii with combatibilty for upto 32gb cards.
I haven't read all of the pages on this thread, but the general rule was no bigger than 2gb and don't update. Has this changed?

It is quite possible I will be back after the weekend with issues from the new wii... my old one is still working fine I am just trying to find a way to get my aging father to move a little more for health reasons.

The Wii is compatible with SDHC cards up to 32GB as long as you have Wii Menu 4.0 or higher installed, Nintendo does not guarantee compatibility with bigger cards, and I'm not sure if there's a homebrew workaround. Not sure why you'd need that kind of card though since USB HDD is a far superior form of storage.

XFlak · Feb 19, 2020

In my experience Sdhc works for most things, but SD has better bootmii compatibility for making a nand backup

ca032769 · Feb 19, 2020

2urtle said:
I have just bought another wii from fleebay (haven't had chance to plug it in yet). But I have noticed an abundance of larger capacity sd cards for sale on the same site with lots of games etc... I have also seen on nintendo site there has been an update for the Wii with combatibilty for upto 32gb cards.
I haven't read all of the pages on this thread, but the general rule was no bigger than 2gb and don't update. Has this changed?

It is quite possible I will be back after the weekend with issues from the new wii... my old one is still working fine I am just trying to find a way to get my aging father to move a little more for health reasons.

@Foxi4 is correct. As long as the Wii is on 4.0 or higher larger cards will work. If it's lower than 4.0 you'll need to find a 2GB card to do the mod, but then you'll be on 4.0+ after the mod.

I personally choose 4.3 for all of my modded Wii's and have done over 50 of them. I have also been using 256GB SDXC cards since 2015 and they work great. One of these days I'll upgrade to a 512GB or 1TB, but only after prices come down a bit more.

Here's an Amazon link to the 256GB I bought, but they seem pricey right now. There are probably others with a better cost, I bought mine on sale in 2015 for $87.99: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FF90EZM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

2urtle · Feb 22, 2020

Thank you all for the replies. I had not realised the larger SD compatibility.
So I have now just plugged the Wii it all seems to work. (I had to youtube removing parental lock first.)
Then followed the slow memory recall and feeling stupid when not seeing how to do things (where to type the MAC address for letter bomb).
Anyway it seems to work now. There seemed to be an issue with loading wiiflow from priiloader, but it started working when I copied the wiiflow folder from my own Wii SD card.
Thanks for the MODMii software and a community that is still willing to help.

XFlak · Apr 8, 2020

first post updated with new ModMii website since the old one got taken down
https://xflak.com/modmii/

Thanks goes out to DeadlyFoez who bought me my very own domain : )

Cyan · Apr 8, 2020

say hello and thank him for me!
(even if we never really talked together, he is still a friend and part of us)
It's nice to have your own domain now.

I'll ask here, as you probably didn't get the notification in the other thread.

is modmi compatible with riiconnect24 patched cIOS31 and cIOS80?

I mean, if a user has riiconnect24 patched IOS, and follow modmii to re-softmod, or provide a syscheck to udate the console, it'll replace these IOS, but the channels will not work anymore until the IOS are patched and reinstalled back.
is syscheck properly reporting these riiconnect24 patched IOS? I don't remember seeing any info about riiconnect patched IOS on syscheck.
is modmii re-patching them if the user already had them?

I tried to look at the source but didn't find any references to riiconnect. Maybe I didn't look at the right place, or outdated sources?

I guess it won't banner brick if the interactive-banner channels can't access the network, or tries to display bad info, right?
in that other thread, the user said it seemed like banner brick after updating with modmii. deactivating the network fixed his banner brick, which I find strange. I only thought about riiconnect, but maybe I'm wrong. he didn't reply so I don't know.

XFlak · Apr 8, 2020

I'm not very familiar with riiconnect24. If riiconnect24 custom IOSs appear the same in a Syscheck as those installed by ModMii then modmii's syscheck updater wizard won't have you overwrite anything. I doubt they are reported the same though so chances are ModMii will have you install its preferred version of IOS80 and 31

My advice? Use modmii first, then set up riiconnect24 after. If doing in the reverse order you may need to omit installing conflicting WADs or risk breaking riiconnect24 and have to set it up again.

ModMii by default installs a patched IOS60 to ALL system menu slots as version 16174 with all 4 patches applied. This protects consoles from accidental upgrades or downgrades made by incompatible consoles (I. E. Downgrading LU64+ wii's or updating region changed Korean wii's)

Cyan · Apr 8, 2020

I never tried riiconnect either, and don't think they appear differently on syscheck. at least, I never noticed based on all the syscheck posted by users.
Leseratte is part of the team, no? he is working on new cIOS (for mini, and wii/vWii too), and will update syscheck to detect his new cIOSes. He could as well add checksum for riiconnect IOS at the same time, that would be nice.

I was just wondering if it could cause a problem to replace these IOS with clean one (or cIOS60 in slot80), based on the user's report having a similar banner brick situation.
it was just in case you knew anything I didn't.

I think riiconnect needs latest version of these IOS (at least IOS31) so modmii shouldn't update it if the user provided his syscheck.
I'm not so sure about IOS80, as it probably got replaced with cIOS60.

I don't know if riiconect is still updated, or if these patches could be added to modmii as options.
it could be nice for completeness of modmii, no?

XFlak · Apr 8, 2020

It sounds like riiconnect24 patches ios31 whereas modmii installs the latest unstubbed clean version. So modmii's syscheck updater would overwrite this for sure. As for IOS80 if even the version number is something other than 16174 modmii will prompt users to update it. This we would need to check, the only way they would match is if the riiconnect24 team intentionally mirrored what modmii does to IOS80 (which is quite possible, all the best guides are usually on the same page)

Cyan · Apr 10, 2020

I found a riiconnect syscheck :

IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
no special mention to be riiconnect patched, so modmii would overwrite it.

if syscheck had the possibility to detect riiconnect and put it in the list, then it could be useful, like:
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Riiconnect

for now, there's nothing you can do.

XFlak · Apr 10, 2020

Cyan said:
I found a riiconnect syscheck :

IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
no special mention to be riiconnect patched, so modmii would overwrite it.

if syscheck had the possibility to detect riiconnect and put it in the list, then it could be useful, like:
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Riiconnect

for now, there's nothing you can do.

I wouldn't say there's 'nothing' I can do. I could have modmii detect 'IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access' and if found skip installing a clean IOS31

Do you know what riiconnect24's IOS80 looks like in syscheck?

Cyan · Apr 10, 2020

I found this one on another site:
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Acces NAND
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug, Acces NAND

so, it's not the same as yours
you could detect if both IOS31 and IOS80 are like that to determine if riiconnect is installed and skip them.
or ask for confirmation whether the user want to keep or replace them?

I don't know if riiconnect can be done on older sysmenu (IOS60 and 70), but so far I found only patches for IOS80.

edit:
I found this :
"You can use RiiConnect with System Menu Version 4.2x.Only the MAIL Function did not work."
not sure yet if it means "the IOS70 is not patched" or if it's patched but having mail function not working.
I need to find a guide to do RC24 on 4.1 and 4.2
Edit:
looking at the patcher's sources, it only check and patch IOS80 (not caring if you are on 4.1 or 4.2) so you end up with a non patched 60/70, and unused patched 80. so the IOS80 patch is only for the mail support and receiving notification from RC24 servers.

Alexander1970 · Apr 10, 2020

XFlak said:
I wouldn't say there's 'nothing' I can do. I could have modmii detect 'IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access' and if found skip installing a clean IOS31

Do you know what riiconnect24's IOS80 looks like in syscheck?

From my NTSC Wii:
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access

From my PAL Wii:
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug, NAND Zugriff

XFlak · Apr 10, 2020

alexander1970 said:
From my NTSC Wii:
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access

From my PAL Wii:
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug, NAND Zugriff

Those are different IOSs, look at the version number. Which one is from riiconnect24? The latter? The former looks like it came from ModMii

@Cyan or anyone really, can you check and see if installing modmii's system menu IOS (I. E. IOS80 v16174 (IOS60 v6174 patched)) still enables mail support and receiving notifications from RC24 servers?

ModMii enables all 4 standard patches to the system menu IOS so unless the riiconnect24 patcher does some unique patching, the system menu IOS modmii installs should still work with riiconnect24. If this is the case, IOS31 is the only IOS modmii needs to be careful not to overwrite to retain riiconnect24 support

Alexander1970 · Apr 10, 2020

XFlak said:
Those are different IOSs, look at the version number. Which one is from riiconnect24? The latter? The former looks like it came from ModMii

@Cyan or anyone really, can you check and see if installing modmii's system menu IOS (I. E. IOS80 v16174 (IOS60 v6174 patched)) still enables mail support and receiving notifications from RC24 servers?

ModMii enables all 4 standard patches to the system menu IOS so unless the riiconnect24 patcher does some unique patching, the system menu IOS modmii installs should still work with riiconnect24. If this is the case, IOS31 is the only IOS modmii needs to be careful not to overwrite to retain riiconnect24 support

Sorry,my Fault,excuse me,that was an older sysCheck:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U (original region: PAL)
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 92599898
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 98 titles.
Found 53 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[57] (rev 21, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 21, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 04/10/2020.

XFlak · Apr 10, 2020

So riiconnect24 uses a clean unpatched IOS80? U sure?

Alexander1970 · Apr 10, 2020

XFlak said:
So riiconnect24 uses a clean unpatched IOS80? U sure?

Checked all again a few Minutes ago,yes it is so.
Except it makes any Difference between an original "real" NTSC Wii and an PAL to NTSC Region changed Wii ?

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