Hacking Bricked Wii won't even send video signal to tv"

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to get it off right now... i know pretty much nothing,

to get it set off:

I have a 4.0U Firmware, i had HBC installed,
my wii is old, Pre LU64

My wii was bricked using IOS60 Patcher (but nintendo now makes that a stub ios?)
it sends nothing to my tv, yes everything is plugged in.

i got advice from one friend that said to take apart a controller, and got rid of the nib, held it down when starting wii... and no, that doesnt work ethier

did i just get screwd out of $250?
 

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Taking apart a controller? What is he talking about? That's not gonna have any affect on the software of the system, and that's what's fucked up with your Wii.

If it goes straight to black without BootMii or anything, than you're pretty fucked. Although most bricks go to the health and safety screen before going to black, unless you fucked up BootMii.

You can either send it to Nintendo for a repair (although they'll probably send it with the latest firmware, which sucks) or buy a modchip, install it, and use an unbricking DVD (I think you can do that).
 

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how wuld i go about sending it to nintendo? wouldnt they not send it back period if i bricked it? btw i got this wii around Mario Strikers Charged era....? o.O
 

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IOS60 patcher is a brick tool. He stubbed his menu IOS...if no bootmii/boot2 it's time to call Nintendo.

EDIT: Missed Korny's 2nd post. They'll take it and likely send you a new one. If they ask what happened, tell them it bricked during an update.
 

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im sorta pissed... lmao, i just wanted to play mkwiii d.d

idk if i want anuther wii r__r

lol do you guys have a number to call? o.O cause theres shurely 1000s of nintendo numbers,

btw: wuld nintendo send me a new wii, like one i could take to Walmart and return? o.O
 

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Guild McCommunist said:
Taking apart a controller? What is he talking about? That's not gonna have any affect on the software of the system, and that's what's fucked up with your Wii.

Really? SaveMiiFrii doesn't ring any bells for you?
 

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Acorn if you send your Wii to Nintendo they'll find the homebrew channel on it and charge you $80 and what they'll send you back will be a Wii with no hope of ever being able to load backups
 

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wiiztec said:
Acorn if you send your Wii to Nintendo they'll find the homebrew channel on it and charge you $80 and what they'll send you back will be a Wii with no hope of ever being able to load backups
100% bullshit
he has a unrecoverable brick
nintendo not even going to look at his wii.
theyre just going to exchange it.
why spread lies?
 

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xzxero said:
wiiztec said:
Acorn if you send your Wii to Nintendo they'll find the homebrew channel on it and charge you $80 and what they'll send you back will be a Wii with no hope of ever being able to load backups
100% bullshit
he has a unrecoverable brick
nintendo not even going to look at his wii.
theyre just going to exchange it.
why spread lies?

Nintendo can recover a Wii from any brick and even if they couldn't the second part about what I said is most definately true Nintendo will update his Wii to 4.2
 

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wiiztec said:
Nintendo can recover a Wii from any brick and even if they couldn't the second part about what I said is most definately true Nintendo will update his Wii to 4.2
they can, but they wont.
you dont understand the process of what goes on when you send your wii in.
nintendo doesnt even see/care about your wii.
they just hire some thrid party company to send you a refurbished wii, and flash the NAND of your old Wii and give it to someone else when another order comes in.
 

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mmkay, thanks for the help, ill call later today wen i get back frum work.... i know freinds that have wiis that are like on 3.0, they wuld trade me for a refurbished one so thats not a problem...

but wuld they send me a new one for free? o.O or would it be like a $50 charge (or the $80 one that wiiztec wuz saying) .__.
 

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Update: called nintendo, the guy wuz like: okay, is it plugged in, lets try it again, okay one more time... ok good still not working? mhmm, so lets see...

long story short: theyre sending me a shipping label and are going to send me a refurbished wii....
 

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wiiztec said:
xzxero said:
wiiztec said:
Acorn if you send your Wii to Nintendo they'll find the homebrew channel on it and charge you $80 and what they'll send you back will be a Wii with no hope of ever being able to load backups
100% bullshit
he has a unrecoverable brick
nintendo not even going to look at his wii.
theyre just going to exchange it.
why spread lies?

Nintendo can recover a Wii from any brick and even if they couldn't the second part about what I said is most definately true Nintendo will update his Wii to 4.2


Just shut up....
 

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Yeah, nintendo has been getting so many bricks from their 4.2 update that they won't even bother to check
smile.gif
 

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