What do I want to do?

I want to revirginize my wii.

Why?

because I have to send it back to nintendo because where the video cable connects has been jiggled loose and I see fuzz all the time. (tried diff cables, tvs, and power supplies)

How do I want to do it?
of course I am familiar with how to remove everything all cios, tickets, know how to have all pure IOS.. blah blah.. etc...
But what I want to do is make a NAND from scratch (like in ShowMiiNAND) and then be able to flash this 4.2 engineered NAND to my real NAND with bootmii. and then with bannerbomb uninstall bootmii from boot2.. thus having a completely virgin wii with no traces of hacks and tickets, etc. ever being installed.

Now I am pretty sure I am going to need to have my wii's key files from a bootmii dump... and I have to use a tool called betwiin I think to inject the keys of my real nand into the engineered NAND? This is where I am getting stuck!

Anyone with experience in these areas, Your comments and links will be greatly appreciated.

Would anyone care to share their knowledge on the subject?
Is this even possible? Is this really needed?

UPDATE: Did some more research... betwiin does not handle bad blocks.. My real nand has 4 factory bad blocks... This could be a problem
I have their locations if that information would help.

 

even if I do all the things you mentioned.. Nintendo (at least in europe) has a diagnostic discs that can still find traces of hacks that have been installed in the past. I hacked my wii the day the twilight hack and homebrew channel came out!

so this simply is not an option...
I need a CLEAN NAND. I am reading now about COMEX NAND formatter...

please anyone with experience... give me some advice on how to proceed!

 

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

 

I do NOT have the PUNE mod of comex nand formatter... cany anyone link me?

Has anyone used it successfully... and I do have bootmii at boot2v3? I think.. checking now

 

using whatever version of the nand formatter i made that got leaked does, in fact remove all traces of hamebrew except bootmii@boot2. 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.

 

thanks pune for the detailed reply. I am curious about factory bad blocks on my nand. How does your version of the formatter handle this? ALso can you please elaborate on what you mean by installing things in the correct order? How do I make my wii look slightly used?

after formatting nand? wont updating to 4.3 after uninstalling bootmii upgrade my boot2 version to a clean one?

or would it be better to use bannerbomb to run loadmii to run mmm or other homebrew to update boot2 version?

 

@ 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!

 

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.

 

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