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How do I factory reset my Wii? It's homebrewed and has BootMii and Priloader, but those two can stay. Just wanna delete the whole RiiConnect, WiiLink thing. Do I just format Wii System Memory?
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Just realized. Don't wanna delete my Mii's. How do I do it now?
 
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Factory Reset on a Wii just deletes personal data - your miis and game saves and such. It's not likely to (properly) remove homebrew.

As for how to remove Riiconnect24... I don't know. I did a quick search, and found little beyond deleting the channel from the Wii menu (using stock Wii data manager > channels).
 
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If the channels go to how they were (the Disc, Mii, Photo, Shop, Weather, News) then I'm happy. I installed Savegame Manager GX and copied savedata and used Mii Extractor to extract my Mii's. I load all of my games from USBLoader GX, so I'll just reinstall that. Is that all?
 
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AfanGotTheWiiOn26December said:
If the channels go to how they were (the Disc, Mii, Photo, Shop, Weather, News) then I'm happy.
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No, that's not what format Wii system memory does. It just deletes the things that Nintendo (knew about, unlike homebrew, and) considered personal data: miis, save games, things you would get rid of before someone else got that Wii. It gets rid of Wii shop channel installs, but not all homebrew that installs as a channel. And it certainly doesn't (properly) undo homebrew system changes.

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/System_Memory_Format

If you mean will that happen if you remove the Riiconnect24 channel, I don't know.

Sorry I can't be more helpful. I'm a bit surprised that this well regarded software doesn't seem to have an uninstall option (documented).
 
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Exidous said:
No, that's not what format Wii system memory does. It just deletes the things that Nintendo (knew about, unlike homebrew, and) considered personal data: miis, save games, things you would get rid of before someone else got that Wii. It gets rid of Wii shop channel installs, but not all homebrew that installs as a channel. And it certainly doesn't (properly) undo homebrew system changes.

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/System_Memory_Format

If you mean will that happen if you remove the Riiconnect24 channel, I don't know.

Sorry I can't be more helpful. I'm a bit surprised that this well regarded software doesn't seem to have an uninstall option (documented).
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I think I will reset it and see what happens. My Mii's are backed up, my save data is backed up, everything else I can recover easily. Will update
 
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If you want to go back to full stock then you may have to do some extra stuff, and wii.hacks.guide has a guide on what all you need to do and where: https://wii.hacks.guide/wii-factory-reset

Also probably a good idea to read that entire page first before you try and make the blank NAND, there is a pretty decent chance of a brick otherwise.

Riiconnect24 also have their own Discord, so if you encounter a specific issue with their hardware it might be a good idea to drop in and ask for assistance directly at the source, so to speak.
 

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