Unfortunately I don't have anything useful to say other than I hope you succeed and later post how you did it. I'm planning on doing something similar myself eventually.
Try with another SD card because yours may be broken. Or try again. Unless it has successfully verified the NAND backup, you can't be sure that it's OK.
It's safer to first update your firmware to latest version (4.1) and then follow this guide, especially if you have 3.4 installed.
And as the guide says, this will work on ALL Wiis released so far.
Does that link even work for PAL Wiis? Did it have a PAL option or does it only install the US firmware? Don't want to hardbrick my Wii.
And yes I think you must re-install PreLoader each time you update the firmware.
EDIT: I updated to 4.0E using that link and got it working. Had to...
I have the same problem as you (only I have 3.4E). My post is a couple of posts above yours. If you manage to solve it, please post detailed instructions here.
Hello all!
My Wii's system menu is corrupted. I'm pretty sure it happened after I installed Preloader.
PAL (european) Wii
3.4E firmware
boot2v4 (aka LU64+, though my serial is LEH265xxxxx)
I followed this guide to the letter as far as I know (except I installed USBLoader GX instead of...
Yes, this should work because there's no way Nintendo checks the garbage. The discs are 4.7GB big (or twice that for dual layer games), and it would take a LONG time to check all of that before letting the game run. So of course the Wii only checks the signature for the data it actually reads...
Thanks for letting us know that you and your friends have decided that it's a fake. That way the rest of the world don't need to decide for themselves. You saved us a lot of time.
Wii isos can now be decrypted:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/nintendo-news/...ols-v0-1-a.html
That's good for at least two reasons:
1. Now we know where the real data and garbage data are located (smaller files for you pirates)
2. People with reverse engineering skills could possibly find some...
The Wii DVD drive descrambles the DVD contents. It's doing exactly what the GC DVD drive did. Once unscrambled, the Wii firmware decrypts whatever it finds on the disk.