Hacking Bricked after Waninkoko's Firmware Updater 4.0

[res1]

I apologize if this has already been addressed. I searched but couldn't find a solution.

Using Waninkoko's Firmware Updaters 4.0 I seem to have bricked my Japanese Wii, with a legacy Wiikey. Everything was going fine at first. However, after the Photo Channel I got an error and a black screen. After resetting I still get a black screen.

Is there anything I can do at this point, like using a SaveMii or am I screwed? Thanks.

 

[wingzrow]

Well if it's a japanese system could it be you installed the american firmware on it causing the brick?

As far as what you should do in the future, be sure to install a save menu on your wii that your system will auto boot to if the system menu gets corrupted. My wii was bricked earlier today but I saved it because I was able to go into the homebrew channel in the save menu and reinstall 3.2

 

[res1]

Well if it's a japanese system could it be you installed the american firmware on it causing the brick?

Thanks for your reply. As far as I could tell Waninkoko's updater downloaded the Japanese firmware.

 

[kashin]

What do you mean by ''As far as i could tell'' ?
Do you remember actually selecting the proper (J) firmware?

 

[Bladexdsl]

wans updater never works for me it always fails on ios38 content #15 error ret=1 fuck it must not work on Australian PAL. it never bricked lucky though I'm not touching this again.

 

[res1]

What do you mean by ''As far as i could tell'' ?
Do you remember actually selecting the proper (J) firmware?

Sorry for not being clear. Yes, it said (J).

 

[HaloBenish]

Your not the only one, bricked mine too. I got a black screen saying the system files are corrupt (with part of the letters missing) but I somehow managed to get back into preloader and I ran CIOS downgrader to resort to 3.2U and all is well now, just not gunna run that program ever again.

 

[bebs]

As far as what you should do in the future, be sure to install a save menu on your wii that your system will auto boot to if the system menu gets corrupted.

what do you mean?

is it possible to install a save menu?by what?

 

[phaerun]

Dunno why that happened to you guys, but it worked like a charm for me. it put the 4.0E. then i overwrote the IOS 61 and 60 with the patched versions and now I am happy camper.

 

[cthg]

it bricked my wii

it said the install was successful and I press a button to restart didn't restart.

cold boot: black screen...!

 

[kimikal27]

many bricks?
cool... learn how to read and be patient

 

[cthg]

many bricks?
cool... learn how to read and be patient

I freaking did waninkoko's updater
that's supposed to work!

 

[kimikal27]

your suppose to read as well ...

if you had, you would not have bricked your wii

 

[cthg]

your suppose to read as well ...

if you had, you would not have bricked your wii

who said that waninkoko's updater bricks wii's?

 

[kimikal27]

your suppose to read as well ...

if you had, you would not have bricked your wii

who said that waninkoko's updater bricks wii's?

you not reading bricks wii's not waninkoko's updater

 

[Dr Eggman]

Ha, i just used it after reading all this and when it said press a button to restart my wii was on a black screen and i almost pissed myself. But luckily the sysmenu loaded and no brick or semi-brick!

 

[HaloBenish]

It didnt bother me that much because cios downgrader fxed everything. Wii Works fine now

 

[Chinman]

after the restart i got a system files corrupted message too, but worked out it was a guitar hero custom disc i had that was in the wii, took it out and rebooted and everything was fine for me. however the sd games failed to launch, possibly cos i use a microsd in an adapter rather than an actual sd card, so i reverted back to 3.2e. yay i got starfall back too

 

[res1]

Has anyone stuck with a black screen (no text) been able to resolve this?

 

[DarrenSW]

Black screen here too. UK PAL, was 3.4E, now... nothing

Oh, and I can and did read