Hi all,
I recently bought an used 4.2J and tried hacking it following through modmii's custom guide.
Both BB v2 and str2hax run smoothly, but when the time comes to launch the hackmii installer, the wii freezes in a black screen and the disk drive flashes blue endlessly.
After trying this several times, I decided to see if updating the system to 4.3J and factory resetting it would help.
Ran into a small issue in the first update try, even though I didnt interrupt it or the wifi signal stopped or anything, the update ran into an issue;
anyway, on a second try, the system claimed update was complete and checking for updates returns "system is up to date", so I think the update finished with no issues.
Again, re-ran modmii custom guide, now set to 4.3J and using letterbomb or str2hax, but the same issue remains, the wii freezes in a black screen and the disk drive flashes blue endlessly when the time comes to load the hackmii launcher.
I saw some posts here and reddit saying that the IOSes could be screwed up, so I deleted the boot.elf and using the boot.dol from YAWM from modmii, I installed all IOSes available in the wad folder in the modmii pack the system allowed. some of them, notably the cIOSes, but also some others, I could not install due to 2011 error, but notably most of them installed fine. I later confirmed that the IOSes in the wad folder matched the latest version of the system, so I believe there were no issues in doing so.
still same issue; whats new is sometimes the disk drive won't flash blue when I load hackmii; some times it still does though. doesnt change that I'm stuck in a black screen.
Later I downloaded all non-stub IOSes from NUS downloader; it was mostly the same as the custom pack from modmii, except for IOS 80. I installed it fine, but again no changes.
I ran Wii Mod Lite and checked the IOSes. Most of them are shown as cyan, they are clean and appear to be the latest version; ios 59 and 62 are green (installed) and they are kinda unusual, but I've read they are used by some Japanese games, so I believe this is not the issue. Unfortunately, these IOS are not available in NUS downloader nor in the modmii custom pack, so I could not update them through the wad installer.
Anyway, since none of this appears to be work, I was looking for posting pointing to issues running hackmii and I found a post where Xflat suggests running casper2bootmii and doing a full nand flash (nuclear appraoch as he says), so the system would run as new. I deleted all files in the SD and only kept the casper2bootmii files + letterbomb; casper2bootmii loads fine after the exploit, there's a screen with some text, but on the next second, the system either resets or runs in an error where there is some new text, but it's unfortunately completely unreadable, as the text is all strikethrough, very weird......
I'm running out of options
I also thought about trying the old method and maybe installing cIOS manually, but I could not get it to work as I don't have trucha bug in any of the IOSes nor any other nand access method...
I also tried to run the cIOS installer from the exploit (it freezes in a black screen) or from Wii Mod Lit, but it runs in an error.
By the way, looking at IOSes versions, it appears cioscorp was never installed, all ios versions are the latest in line with 4.3J, except for ios 59 and 62, versions are slightly weird, but I could not find the latest version.
Do you have any suggestions on what I could do? I am fine with the nuclear approach and, but I can't get casper2boomii to load...
are there any alternatives to using hackmii?
Not sure if this helps, but I bought some games when I bought the wii and I decided to try some of them now to see if they work and if it would help understand the issue
Muramasa: The Demon Blade - game runs fine
TALES OF SYMPHONIA: Dawn of the New World - game runs fine
Xenoblade - disk reads; see the image of the game; click play and the wii freezes in a black screen
super paper mario - same as Xenoblade
Starfox Adventures (GC game) - same as Xenoblade, except there is no image of the game, but the console correctly recognizes it as a GC disk
Forgot to mention, but I did all tests using 2 different micro sd cards and confirmed the lock was not on.
Update: I've noticed that the system is generally capable of loading boot.dol apps, but not boot.elf.
I was able to successfully load cleanrip, mymenuifymod, nintendont, priiloader and priiloader_launcher from YAWN on letterbomb
unfortunately none of the apps are really useable as I dont have nand access, the apps open up and return errors due to restricted nand access.
hackmii and casper2bootmii are both boot.elf and wont load/freeze with errors
I recently bought an used 4.2J and tried hacking it following through modmii's custom guide.
Both BB v2 and str2hax run smoothly, but when the time comes to launch the hackmii installer, the wii freezes in a black screen and the disk drive flashes blue endlessly.
After trying this several times, I decided to see if updating the system to 4.3J and factory resetting it would help.
Ran into a small issue in the first update try, even though I didnt interrupt it or the wifi signal stopped or anything, the update ran into an issue;
anyway, on a second try, the system claimed update was complete and checking for updates returns "system is up to date", so I think the update finished with no issues.
Again, re-ran modmii custom guide, now set to 4.3J and using letterbomb or str2hax, but the same issue remains, the wii freezes in a black screen and the disk drive flashes blue endlessly when the time comes to load the hackmii launcher.
I saw some posts here and reddit saying that the IOSes could be screwed up, so I deleted the boot.elf and using the boot.dol from YAWM from modmii, I installed all IOSes available in the wad folder in the modmii pack the system allowed. some of them, notably the cIOSes, but also some others, I could not install due to 2011 error, but notably most of them installed fine. I later confirmed that the IOSes in the wad folder matched the latest version of the system, so I believe there were no issues in doing so.
still same issue; whats new is sometimes the disk drive won't flash blue when I load hackmii; some times it still does though. doesnt change that I'm stuck in a black screen.
Later I downloaded all non-stub IOSes from NUS downloader; it was mostly the same as the custom pack from modmii, except for IOS 80. I installed it fine, but again no changes.
I ran Wii Mod Lite and checked the IOSes. Most of them are shown as cyan, they are clean and appear to be the latest version; ios 59 and 62 are green (installed) and they are kinda unusual, but I've read they are used by some Japanese games, so I believe this is not the issue. Unfortunately, these IOS are not available in NUS downloader nor in the modmii custom pack, so I could not update them through the wad installer.
Anyway, since none of this appears to be work, I was looking for posting pointing to issues running hackmii and I found a post where Xflat suggests running casper2bootmii and doing a full nand flash (nuclear appraoch as he says), so the system would run as new. I deleted all files in the SD and only kept the casper2bootmii files + letterbomb; casper2bootmii loads fine after the exploit, there's a screen with some text, but on the next second, the system either resets or runs in an error where there is some new text, but it's unfortunately completely unreadable, as the text is all strikethrough, very weird......
I'm running out of options
I also thought about trying the old method and maybe installing cIOS manually, but I could not get it to work as I don't have trucha bug in any of the IOSes nor any other nand access method...I also tried to run the cIOS installer from the exploit (it freezes in a black screen) or from Wii Mod Lit, but it runs in an error.
By the way, looking at IOSes versions, it appears cioscorp was never installed, all ios versions are the latest in line with 4.3J, except for ios 59 and 62, versions are slightly weird, but I could not find the latest version.
Do you have any suggestions on what I could do? I am fine with the nuclear approach and, but I can't get casper2boomii to load...
are there any alternatives to using hackmii?
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Not sure if this helps, but I bought some games when I bought the wii and I decided to try some of them now to see if they work and if it would help understand the issue
Muramasa: The Demon Blade - game runs fine
TALES OF SYMPHONIA: Dawn of the New World - game runs fine
Xenoblade - disk reads; see the image of the game; click play and the wii freezes in a black screen
super paper mario - same as Xenoblade
Starfox Adventures (GC game) - same as Xenoblade, except there is no image of the game, but the console correctly recognizes it as a GC disk
Forgot to mention, but I did all tests using 2 different micro sd cards and confirmed the lock was not on.
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Update: I've noticed that the system is generally capable of loading boot.dol apps, but not boot.elf.
I was able to successfully load cleanrip, mymenuifymod, nintendont, priiloader and priiloader_launcher from YAWN on letterbomb
unfortunately none of the apps are really useable as I dont have nand access, the apps open up and return errors due to restricted nand access.
hackmii and casper2bootmii are both boot.elf and wont load/freeze with errors
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