Alternate Re-virginizing method? Engineered NAND

The best way is to install all the latest ios so they are all on official unmodded versions just in case one of them might have been modded for some reason, next is remove any custom channels, cios, bootmii and all that stuff

What I did which you could do the next time around is make a nand backup of the wii just after you installed bootmii but before you done all the modding, this way all you have to do when you send it to nintendo is restore from that nand then uninstall bootmii and hbc and then you got a clean wii without having to go through all that fuss of making sure everything is uninstalled

edit there was a subject on this a while ago on the hackmii blog where someone removed everything yet nintendo still knew that he modded his wii so it voided is warranty, TT said they will be looking at that persons wii to see what nintendo could have seen to come to that conclusion but thats all I know, I dunno what they found or if they found anything for that matter so look that up

edit heres that blog post about it: http://hackmii.com/2010/04/check-disk-for-...repair-process/

 

Quoting myself from my post HERE

 

Im glad my warranty ran out ages out, I would hate to go through this just to send it back to nintendo, now im just praying everyday that some hardware issue doesnt crop, well not for a while, my friend has had his wii since release and supposedly he has had no hardware problems

 

You may as well send it to nintendo as you got nothing to lose as you will need to fix it or replace it anyway just something to gain if your revirginizing is a success and they cant tell whether its modded

 

using whatever version of the nand formatter i made that got leaked does, in fact remove all traces of hamebrew except [email protected] but it also removes the stuff that is only put there at the factory. the nand formatter only erases the filesystem and starts installing titles. it doesnt not take into account these things that were put there at the factory.

such things also need to be installed in the correct order as well, as there is a list in your nand of every title ever run on it and it is in order. it would be pretty easy for them to detect not only the presence of certain files, but also the absence of these things that should be there. there isn't any evidence yet that they do check for this stuff, but it isn't rocket science so it may be coming.

so, without a nand dump youve taken before there was ever homebrew on your nand or tools not publicly available, there is no such thing as re-virginizing a wii. you have popped its cherry. it cant be unpopped.

 

factory bad blocks SHOULD not be an issue with the nand formatter as it works on the file level. i didnt touch any of that part of the code from comex, so it is handled exactly in the same way. the bad block stuff needs to be taken into account when dealing with the nand on the block level like backupmii does, ignoring the actual files in the filesystem. bad blocks are an issue if you try to write the system menu or something important to a bad block.

the "installing stuff in the right order" mumbo-jumbo is referring to the uid.sys. there is evidence of all the factory setup discs used to install your ioses and stuff originally. when you install stuff with the nand formatter, you dont get these entries in the uid. there is also test log file(s) that are not taken into account.

 

@ Pune, is this the comex's nand formatter mod that you recommend using? Or is there a better mod somewhere? Obviously using the nand formatter generally isn't recommended (or only as a last resort), but if some1 has already decided to use the nand formatter, I'm just wondering which release you recommend people use.

It seems like your mod got leaked against your will in the first place, so if you don't want to share, I'll understand...

Thanks!

 

If considering opening the Wii, why not try to address the actual problem (the video port)? Maybe a little bit of solder will fix everything.

And if soldering it doesn't fix it, it'll probably brick it.

 

well, i wrote it by request deadlyfoez and sent it to him. i didnt feel bad giving it to him since he has nand backups and a flash programmer and can undo any damage it may cause should it not work. but i never tested it personally. i never even put it on my SD card. i cant say that it works or not. it apparently works at least part of the time, since they used it in this guide. i havent heard of anybody actually going behind it and verifying that it did what it is supposed to do.

as far as recommendations, i suppose that if this one works like it should, then i would say to use it. but i dont recommend anybody try to use it for the purpose of reflowering anything or trying to make it look like their wii is in "stock" shape. that is not its purpose.

 

I sent my homebrewed wii into Nintendo. Just did removed my custom channels, sent it in, got it back working fine. They didn't say anything about.

 

thanks man, I'll keep this version of the formatter for my records. I doubt I'll ever need to use it, but it could come in handy for certain situations. But rest assured, I will NEVER recommend someone use comex's nand formatter to "re-virginize" their wii. Hell, I'll never recommend anyone ever attempt to revirginize their wii in the first place, like you said, one u pop the wii's cherry, it can't be unpopped!

 

i can confirm this works quite well.
have used it several times to redo wii's.

excellent tool to have