Hacking Found a way to enable Wiiconnect24 on vWii. Good or bad idea?

[Alex4nder001]

So I started messing around with the homebrew browser in vWii mode, and ended up downloading an app called “Settings editor GUI”.

Apparently it allows you to edit the (v)Wii’s system settings file. It has the option to enable Wiiconnect24.

I haven’t tried this yet. I’d like to, so that I could possibly use Riiconnect64 (E.g. to use news/weather/votes/mii contest channel).

Do you think it could possibly brick my console? All I’m really doing is toggling a setting that’s normally inaccessible through the settings menu. Also, I did make a vWii NAND backup in case it does screw up my console.

(All screen pictures are taken from my Wii U).

 

[JacobM]

So I started messing around with the homebrew browser in vWii mode, and ended up downloading an app called “Settings editor GUI”.
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Apparently it allows you to edit the (v)Wii’s system settings file. It has the option to enable Wiiconnect24.
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I haven’t tried this yet. I’d like to, so that I could possibly use Riiconnect64 (E.g. to use news/weather/votes/mii contest channel).

Do you think it could possibly brick my console? All I’m really doing is toggling a setting that’s normally inaccessible through the settings menu. Also, I did make a vWii NAND backup in case it does screw up my console.

(All screen pictures are taken from my Wii U).

I'm pretty sure I tried to use Settings Editor GUI on vWii to access internet settings ~a year ago, but the setting menu was incompatible. If the internet settings option works, could you provide me with the version you are using? My best guess is activating WiiConnect24 will at worst soft brick your vWii. With the right files, you should be able to recover easily with FTPiiU. The challenge with editing vWii settings is that they are written over at every reboot. The system pulls the settings from whatever is on the WiiU NAND and converts/copies them over to the vWii NAND. Any settings you manually change would be written over at the next reboot.

 

[Alex4nder001]

Tried it, and I saw no visible damage to my Wii U. Also for some reason it's disabled again when I reboot.

 

[Ryccardo]

Also for some reason it's disabled again when I reboot.

The Vwii setting file is recreated (based on the matching WiiU settings) every time Vwii is started

Also your use of a homebrew vaguely imitating the official GUI design offends me

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so that I could possibly use Riiconnect64

Also, you would need to patch IOSes to disable/replace SSL certificates (patches which I don't think exist for Vwii IOSes), and yellow-light spotpass mode probably doesn't even attempt any Vwii-mode operations anyway...