Hacking Clean you Wii messageboard without formatting

[Hielkenator]

This is a way to clean your Messageboard without having to format you Wii system.
To be clear: you will NOT save any space on your Wii nand.
The space reserved for the message board will always be 20mb regardless of it containing any information.
This is purely a way to clean you messageboard and a way to fix a "mailbrick".

step 1: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PROPER BRICK PROTECTION BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS PROCEDURE! preferably bootmii@boot2 with a recent bootmii nand dump at hand.

step 2: Create a NAND with modmii nand builder to obtain a clean cdb.vff file(this is the file that contains all wiimessageboard data) standard location: C:/Modmii/copy_to_usb:/nands/pl_eu/ title/00000001/00000002/data/cdb.vff ( 20mb )

(if you are gonna use Wiiexplorer, copy cdb.vff to your sd on a location where you can easily find it later in step 4)

step 3 : On your Wii, dump cdb.vff with fstoolboxmini. This file is saved to the FStoolbox folder on the ROOT of your SD card SD :/FStoolbox/ title/00000001/00000002/data/cdb.vff (20mb)
You can optionally save this file if you ever want to restore an older messageboard.


step 4 : Replace the dumped cdb.vff on your sd card with the one you created from modmii using Wiixplorer or your PC ( you could keep the clean file safe for future reference)

step 5 : Flash the fresh cdb.vff to your nand with fstoolboxmini. ( browse to cdb.vff and press + button) title/00000001/00000002/data/cdb.vff

Result: a perfectly clean messageboard.

Apps and tools:

Modmii : http://modmii.zzl.org/
FStoolboxmini : http://usuaris.tinet.cat/mark/2011/8/fs-toolbox-041-mini
Wiiexplorer: http://code.google.com/p/wiixplorer/ (optional)

PS: Is it legally allowed for fresh cdb.vff to be shared?

 

[noveli]

Nice Post! I've been struggling with this issue for awhile now. My Wii originally bricked during a system update and I was still able to get in using maintenance mode. I used Bathaxx to softmod and since then, I've been trying to fix whatever caused the issue without losing all my data.

P.S. I hope it's legal because I'm not able to create a clean cdb.vff on my mac, so if someone can upload one, that would be awesome.

 

[drfsupercenter]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0m4f16

There's a link to the blank cdb.vff file

Just did this on my Wii U's vWii and it worked great, nice guide.

--EDIT--

That's from USA region, I'm not sure if it matters but if you have a PAL console you might want to verify it works.

 

[elenarguez]

Oh my god I'm so sorry to refloat but I have to say I've been using the message board since 2007 so imagine how many messages there will be
Thank you so much!