Are chipped Wii's useful at all here in 2020?

Neat, I didn't know the Mini could be hacked. But I think I'll try a LEGO game (certainly easier than rebuilding a Smash iso), because I have piles of 2GB SD cards and blank DVDs, and zero Linux PCs nor bluetooth adapters.

 

Haha, I've got none!
There are no Japanese Lego games to be had for free on the internet, as far as I can see. I tried that Yugioh game, and it needs elf files too. I tried poking at scrubbing Smash Bros, and even though I'm content with breaking the damn game, scrubbing it would take hours (maybe more than a day) of constant tedious clicking. I found a elf for SysCheck162, and it crashes in less than a second with some FAT SD card error (I fed it several different cards with different FAT formats even).

So that leaves me 3 options
1) Install Linux on some PC and borrow a bluetooth adapter from someone
2) Buy a DL DVDR to burn Smash
3) Give up
4?) Just fucking guess some wads to install to make Hackmii function and force HBC on? That'd let me run syscheck, but that's a cart before the horse moment...

 

Neat, I've never read up on those exploits either. Nice to see a variety of access points, but in my case, no settings means no internet connection so those can't run.

Anywho, opttiiiiooooonn fffoooouuuurrrrr! I installed a clean copy of ios 58 (using Wadmanger v1.0's awesome elf version) and Hackmii finally works. Slapped on HBC and Bootmii as boot2, and have a backup. So now I can freely do stupid whatever. Ran Syscheck, and I think even I can see why Hackmii didn't work:

Spoiler

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

Region: NTSC-J
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 59965773
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Japan (1)
Boot2 v3
Found 57 titles.
Found 21 IOS on this console. 1 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 3): Stub
IOS9 (rev 516): Flash Access
IOS10 (rev 518): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS11 (rev 10): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 6): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS13 (rev 10): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS14 (rev 257): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS15 (rev 257): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 512): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS20 (rev 12): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 514): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS22 (rev 772): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS28 (rev 1288): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS30 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS33 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS34 (rev 1039): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS35 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS36 (rev 1042): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS80 (rev 6943): No Patches
BC v2
MIOS v5
Report generated on 08/04/2005.

I guess the next step is to simply run Modmii and pile on all the new ios files it wants, and then see how it runs.

Edit: Launched Modmii, sneezed whilst typing "I Agree" and hit enter. The program closes. Kek, that's perfect

Edit 2: Ran though everything Modmii provided, and the damn Settings menu is still blocked off... Syscheck:

Spoiler

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

Region: NTSC-J
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 59965773
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Japan (1)
Boot2 v3
Found 84 titles.
Found 46 IOS on this console. 1 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 3): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 518): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
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
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): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
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
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, 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
IOS249[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
BC v2
MIOS v10
Report generated on 08/04/2005.

Any point in replacing ios 10? It appears to be a stub?

 

Oh wow, I didn't even notice that.

Edit: It's fixed, all is well!
The various issues I had with the chipped drive tossed in my US Wii are not present on the Japanese Wii. I did randomly see a decade old internet post somewhere suggesting chips had to be soldered up slightly differently for different regions, perhaps that was the issue? Who knows, but all is well now so I don't care to figure it out.