Hardmod to unbrick Wii? (I have pre-brick backup)

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Seems my only option is to get a modchip. It looks like I could buy that one modchip for $110 CAD, or I could buy myself 5+ broken but fixable Wiis for the same price lmao.

I guess I'll buy the latter and use this Wii for parts.
 

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I've got a bricked Wii (no bootmii as boot2) and backups of "keys.bin" and "nand.bin".

Is it possible for me to preform a hardmod to fix the Wii? I'm decent at soldering and I've got lots of time.
which brick do you have? (just tell me what happens when you open the console)
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what kind of brick do you have?
 
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Greetings! Excuse me for breaking into this topic, but I've got the same question - is it possible to revive a bricked Wii that's not compatible with BootMii? What I've got is a Teensy 2.0++ programmer and whole backup of nand.bin and keys.bin. Can someone help me with wiring diagram? I tried to flash it with a NORway.py script (slightly modified to allow flashing the Samsung chip on the Wii board), it went okay (flashing went okay at least :-D ), but Wii sadly didn't turn on. And probably I'm missing something - the NAND is 528MB large, but the NAND chip is just 512MB. Where does the last chunk of 14MB go?
Thanks in advance...
 
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No video output, very little disk drive noise.
It just turns on and spins.
hey sorry for taking so long to replay you might have not inserted the av correctly but if you have inserted the av cable correctly try opening if priiloader doesn't work or you haven't installed it then I'm afraid you're out of luck
 
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I'm sure it's plugged in and that the cables are fine, and again, no priiloader.

I've already started using parts from it anyways, so no point in trying to fix it now.
Well if you ever get a wii in the future just remember to install priiloadrer
 
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Seems my only option is to get a modchip. It looks like I could buy that one modchip for $110 CAD, or I could buy myself 5+ broken but fixable Wiis for the same price lmao.

I guess I'll buy the latter and use this Wii for parts.
Hi,
What modchip, I am trying to fix my two korean wiis but i need to buy a modchip and cant find a website to buy from
 

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I forget what the mod chip was called, and it was pretty hard to find one. Search something along the lines of "wii nand flashing" and something will come up eventually.

I don't think there are any people still making modchips so you might have a bit of trouble tracking one down.
 

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An infectus would work, but definitely hard to find. With it you can remove the nand from your wii, connect it to the infectus, then connect that to your PC, then use specialized software to restore a nand backup

Without a nand backup I don't think even this method would work. Not unless the wii is capable of installing bootmii as boot2, then u can flash that manually to the nand (again, challenging, I would really only trust DeadlyFoez to do this). Then u can access bootmii boot2 on the console which opens up a lot of repair possibilities
 
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