Hacking Bricked Wii Family Edition

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

I was installing WAD's and accidentally selected the Wii Startup Menu WAD. It shows no signs of life other than the disk drive loading up and power light. What can I do? It had Priiloader and BootMii, with a backup.

 

[worm28]

Try holding reset while powering on your wii and see if it boots into priiloader if not i think your screwed.

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

Nothing.

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And well.. I did some digging and I think it's done for. I then, saw SaveMii, and got my hopes up. Germany site closed. It was perfect, I even had relatives who could send me the SaveMii!!! I then did MORE digging and found SaveMiiFrii.


Could this fix it?

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Oh wait. I'm dumb.

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Or wait..
https://olx.ba/artikal/50525245
I could solder these on!

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I was installing WAD's and accidentally selected the Wii Startup Menu WAD. It shows no signs of life other than the disk drive loading up and power light. What can I do? It had Priiloader and BootMii, with a backup.

BootMii as boot2, or IOS? BootMii as IOS doesn't provide any brick protection sadly. Priiloader would've been replaced by the startup menu.
There's no software way to fix it if you don't have BootMii as boot2, that leaves a hardware flasher as the only option (probably not worth the trouble, it's a difficult solder job, the flashing hardware can be hard to find and Wiis are cheap)

 

[XFlak]

Unfortunately it sounds like u didn't use yawm modmii edition, otherwise it would have given u the option to retain priiloader when installing a new system menu

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

BootMii as boot2, or IOS? BootMii as IOS doesn't provide any brick protection sadly. Priiloader would've been replaced by the startup menu.
There's no software way to fix it if you don't have BootMii as boot2, that leaves a hardware flasher as the only option (probably not worth the trouble, it's a difficult solder job, the flashing hardware can be hard to find and Wiis are cheap)

Crap

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What about this?

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Again one of these? "I accidentally…"

RVL-101 has not BootMii in boot2; No Priiloader anymore → Exitus from software side.

So sad people are actively trying to reduce the number of working Wii consoles. Common (stupid answer) "Hey, Wiis are cheap. Get another one. No big deal." → minus 1

It had Priiloader and BootMii, with a backup.

Restore the backup with an Infectus.


Yes, I know.

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

So sad people are actively trying to reduce the number of working Wii consoles. Common (stupid answer) "Hey, Wiis are cheap. Get another one. No big deal." → minus 1

I hate this too. It's like they are still made.

I don't have an infectus, Also what about the video?

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Also what about the video?

To be honest I don't feel like watching every clickbait "tutorial" video out there¹. Usually those >10 minute videos try to monetize and contain so little information that they would hardly fill a paragraph – either with annoying spoken instructions or even worse: useless music and written instructions with the mouse pointer circling five seconds around anything the viewer is supposed to click on.

To my knowledge there is no software based entrypoint in the situation you have described. If that video does contain such a thing I'll be glad to unblock YouTube and learn (no sarcasm!)




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¹And my script blocker makes them look like this:

Spoiler

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

I just watched the tutorial and realized it's just junk.

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I mean with this knowledge you told me

 

[XFlak]

Sorry this happened to u

Next time use modmii

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

Yeah..
What do I do with the Wii now? I'm not familliar with anyone who could fix my issue in my country

 

[JuanMena]

Yeah..
What do I do with the Wii now? I'm not familliar with anyone who could fix my issue in my country

Use your imagination!
A Wii can be utilized in many ways, for instance, as paperweight, ashtray, a coaster for your mug, as a chopping table, use the disc drive slot to store money, use it as USB dongles, a fancy kaychain...
That's all I can think off now.

...accidentally selected the Wii Startup Menu WAD.

Sure...

 

[SylverReZ]

Yeah..
What do I do with the Wii now? I'm not familliar with anyone who could fix my issue in my country

Maybe buy another Wii. They cost very little in bargain bins and flea markets, somewhere around 5 to 10 bucks.

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

Maybe buy another Wii. They cost very little in bargain bins and flea markets, somewhere around 5 to 10 bucks.

So sad people are actively trying to reduce the number of working Wii consoles. Common (stupid answer) "Hey, Wiis are cheap. Get another one. No big deal."

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

Sorry this happened to u

Next time use modmii

About YAWM ModMii, no matter which System Menu WAD I install, Priiloader will always be there?

 

[XFlak]

It should always prompt u if u want to retain priiloader and give u the option

 

[The Real Jdbye]

So sad people are actively trying to reduce the number of working Wii consoles. Common (stupid answer) "Hey, Wiis are cheap. Get another one. No big deal." → minus 1

I would agree with you except for 3 reasons:
- Wiis sold in large amounts, we are not at risk of running out of working Wiis for decades, and when we do it will be for other reasons such as disc drives dying en masse. For every person still interested in owning/collecting/playing a Wii there are probably several working Wiis that are just gathering dust. So it's really a moot point.
- A bricked Wii is still good for parts to repair faulty Wiis, and one bricked WIi could potentially be used to repair multiple faulty ones, so nothing is even necessarily being reduced.
- It just doesn't make financial sense if you don't already have the flashing hardware. Leave the job to someone who does.

If this was a less ubiquitous console, I would totally agree.

I never suggested they throw away the bricked Wii and obviously they shouldn't, there are still usable parts in it. Even if OP doesn't fix it themselves, somebody will buy it off them who may have the patience, tools and skills to do it, or if not, then to use it for parts. Either of which is perfectly acceptable.

 

[tech3475]

One option to consider if you're unable/unwilling to hardmod to restore the NAND is to find a broken Wii where the mobo is fine but it's the ODD or something which is faulty and it's being sold as spares/repair.

Bought a region modded SFC where the case was disintegrating but I reused my old broken SNES's case to make a working system.

Also you can use the NAND dump with Dolphin to at least recover any saves, etc.

 

[AfanGotTheWiiOn26December]

On Reddit I saw someone suggested BlueBomb. But:
- don't you need to be able to access the Wii Menu/atleast show something? He said if I have the sync button it's all that matters
- if it worked, how could I boot the homebrew channel? I was thinking, maybe converting a .dol of a WAD manager, and installing the CORRECT Wii Menu WAD or just finding an .elf WAD manager. I think a Priiloader installer .elf could work, too.

Please help. It has nothing important on it, but I wanna see if I can do anything before "parting' it