Hacking Fully Bricked Wii

[Naughx]

Just backup your corrupted Nand with bootmii and create a new "fresh" nand with Giantpune's tool Ohneschwanzenegger. (Part of Wiiqt)

http://wiibrew.org/w...eschwanzenegger (Older version)

DLLs for Windows: http://www.mediafire...ow9bg9wsto5ak1w (Old)

If you want to compile it from the source code... (Lastest version) (With Qt http://qt.nokia.com/downloads)

http://code.google.c...source/checkout (With a Subversion Client)

Type "4.XU" -> USA/Canada
Type "4.XE" -> European
Type "4.XJ" -> Japan
Type "4.XK" -> Korean

Replace X by the system version you want... 1 or 3

1 = Best version

3 = Latest firmware version but lots of anti-homebrew features

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Check the Nand.bin you just created...

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/NandBinCheck

And restore with Bootmii the nand.bin you've just created...

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20 bad blocks is not that much... (But i've only got 4 )

Quote from here: http://bootmii.org/faq/


"Why do I have all of these "bad blocks"? Can I fix them?

This is completely normal; in order to bring down the price of NAND flash chips, all manufacturers will allow chips to leave the factory with a small number of bad blocks. It's similar to bad pixels in LCD panels -- it would be too expensive to throw away the whole panel (or in this case, the whole chip) due to a few bad pixels. With NAND flash, software usually remaps these blocks so you don't even notice, but BootMii works at the lowest level possible so we have to take these into consideration when writing our code. There are 4096 blocks; according to the flash chip manufacturer, at least 4016 blocks are valid (in other words, up to 80 blocks may be bad)."

 

[VashTS]

so have you tried just reinstalling all IOS and system menu files? thats my first idea, not sure if everyone else has the same ideas.

 

[Midna]

Interesting Naughx, i will take that under advisement. Preliminary research suggests that you can use Ohneschwanzenegger and stll retain your Wii Shop account. I'll look into it.

Also vashTS, i reinstalled most of my IOSs, but the wad manager froze at 2/9 for the system menu. This didn't appear to affect anything, and priiloader remained, but I'll try a few other things before doing that again

 

[Naughx]

^ Your Wii shop account won't get deleted

 

[BenRK]

If your Wii-shop account was deleted, I'll be the first to stand up for for you for extracting the games from the NAND and installing them again!

 

[Coto]

It would be curious to know the exact location per bad block(s) your NAND has.

 

[Anon10W1z]

@Midna did you read my suggestion?

 

[Midna]

@Midna did you read my suggestion?

I did, but Priiloader isn't set to load any different IOS.
It had garbled text on the system menu briefly even before it bricked though

 

[Hielkenator]

Dump your corrupted nand with bootmii.
Use ohneswansenegger to format your dump and rebuild rebuild your dump for bootmii.
Install your rebuild dump with bootmii.
I've done this several times, works fantastic.
You need bootmii @ boot2 in your case.

If that does'nt work, you wii is screwed.

 

[tueidj]

I think people are overlooking a) the wii initially wouldn't even power on and b) even bootmii (which doesn't use IOS or any other software from the NAND) is acting temperamental. This wii is most likely soon to be an ex-wii.

 

[Midna]

I think people are overlooking a) the wii initially wouldn't even power on and b) even bootmii (which doesn't use IOS or any other software from the NAND) is acting temperamental. This wii is most likely soon to be an ex-wii.

Yeah I'm prepared for that. Hell, it had a lot of unexplainable problems before this happened, too. Might as well try though.

 

[Hielkenator]

I think people are overlooking a) the wii initially wouldn't even power on and b) even bootmii (which doesn't use IOS or any other software from the NAND) is acting temperamental. This wii is most likely soon to be an ex-wii.

a)This was probably due to missing bootmii files.
b)Could also be a screwed bootmii dump/ sd card.
c) or Nand is really screwed. Matter of time before it breaks. But then again, who wants to live forever?
d)OP has Nothing to loose at this point, he's really save with bootmii @ boot2
e)There's always Murphy's law, offcourse......

 

[tronic307]

Did you try Dop-Mii to replace system menu and ios? Ohneswanzenegger is great, and you keep your Wiiware, but I had a problem with the system always wanting updates from the disc channel after using it.

 

[Midna]

Did you try Dop-Mii to replace system menu and ios?

Tried once, it froze. I don't want to try again because if it goes wrong i could potentially lose Priiloader which is basically my only lifeline right now

 

[DeadlyFoez]

I think people are overlooking a) the wii initially wouldn't even power on and b) even bootmii (which doesn't use IOS or any other software from the NAND) is acting temperamental. This wii is most likely soon to be an ex-wii.

Yeah, I missed that.

Usually when I get to a thread that is more than one page long then I start skipping things bc I don't care to read it all.

But, besides that, I've had my wii, on a few occasions, not power on at all until I unplugged it for a couple of minutes and then it worked again. We get a few threads every once in a great while with someone having the same issue and we tell them to unplug the wii and then it starts working again once they plug it back in.

 

[tronic307]

Never mind.

 

[Anon10W1z]

Can you upload the NAND? Maybe we could help you fix it. If your NAND runs on Dolphin, something else is probably wrong.

What? Man, FYI and AFAIK that's illegal.

 

[icebrg5]

If your getting the error about the backup being from a different wii then try this fix.


Another useful program that fixes the "Backup from another Wii" error when recovering your NAND is called Bootmii-KEYFIX.exe. Just run in the same folder as your NAND.bin and keys.bin

https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/downloads/Bootmii-KEYFIX.zip?attredirects=0



Hope that helps.

 

[Anon10W1z]

If your getting the error about the backup being from a different wii then try this fix.


Another useful program that fixes the "Backup from another Wii" error when recovering your NAND is called Bootmii-KEYFIX.exe. Just run in the same folder as your NAND.bin and keys.bin

https://sites.google...?attredirects=0



Hope that helps.

Wow, I didn't know there was a program like that. Thanks @[member='tj_cool']!

 

[Alexrose]

If you lost your keys.bin, dump a new NAND and the keys will be the same.

If the power button was orange are you sure it didn't get updated accidentally? Have you tried using anyregionchanger -> 3.2 again or anytitledeleter and looking if there's any dodgy titles?