where has this been confirmed, i recently purchased a wii about 1 week ago (just dug up the receipt) and it has a LU646 serial and i soft modded it with no problems....
may i point out because you bought it in your area and its still not the "bad wiis" this does not mean EVERYONE will have the same experience because as i have said out of 30 this month only ONCE did i run into this rare stuburn version of 3.4 and this person did a system update (after already having gamma and HBC installed, softmii starfall and preloader hacks cioscorp the works!) and though he was (or so it says) on 3.4 after the network update (he setup his net connection..tested the connect it prompted the update he agreed (crazy as that is) and then called me to say ALL DISC he tried to load JUST gave a black screen same with brew apps and when i tried to run Preloader it was disabled after the network update
QUOTEVersion 3.4 of the System Menu was announced on November 17, 2008, by Nintendo sending notices to the Wii Message Board. The announcement lists these changes:
* USB keyboard support in Mii Channel
* Enhanced parental controls
* Twilight Hack version 0.1beta1 cannot be copied to the console.
* Nintendo's Network Policy has been rephrased.
Two other changes have been noted:
* Improved SD card read/write speed
* Improved disc reading
Update appears to include IOS50 (used by menu) and IOS254 (a copy of IOS9, to block PatchMii).