Well, this one certainly takes the cake in all of the messing around I've done with Homebrew Channel....
First thing I should mention is that this isn't my first dance with HBC and the HackMii installer on a Wii. I own a regular Wii and I've done a lot to it over the years. Everything I've ever wanted to do worked just fine on it, for a very long time.
However, I just got a Wii U, and so far, it's been a completely different story. Now I'm in a huge jam and am seriously worried there is no way to fix what's happened, here.
First thing I did was to use SmashStack to boot up the HackMii installer on the virtual Wii of the Wii U. Worked like a charm, at first....
Then I had trouble running some forwarders, so I decided it was time to fix that up with some IOS installing. Here's where the problem comes in. So I installed the IOS's all fine and dandy, then found that some forwarder Wads weren't properly installing. Curious. So I switched to IOS236, and that did it... or so I thought. They installed.
So, while on IOS236 I backed out of MMM, intending to go back to the System. Complete freeze. Let it sit there for about 20 minutes. Nothin'. Tried the Wiimote, tried the buttons on the system, nothing. Something about this did NOT like that IOS I was on, that installed the forwarders (it was for the NES and SNES emulators I use, if you want to know). But being on this IOS, gave me that crash that froze everything. Had no choice but to just turn the whole system off.
So, I figure I would head back to the Homebrew Channel, and... black screen. Wha? Tried it about 3 more times. Just a black screen and nothing.
I started panicking at this point. Seems Homebrew Channel has completely frozen and locked up. Tried re-installing HackMii from SmashStack, go into created stages, the whole 9 yards, everything is fine up until the "Scam Warning" message, where it sits there, not doing anything. "Press 1 to continue" dosn't come up, or anything. I let it sit there, giving it the opportunity, nothing.
So, now I find myself unable to use Homebrew Channel, at all, to fix anything, and I find myself unable to re-install it. Is there ANYTHING that can be done?? Can't load the channel, can't re-install the channel. Is this it for me? :/ Dunno what the heck happened. Try as I might, I can't figure it out, aside from something about IOS236 made everything go heywire, causing the installer to not be able to patch itself, and unable to change the IOS, if it is, in fact, IOS236 causing this calamity. Am I up a creek, or what? :/
----UPDATE----
So, after searching around for a bit, I find this tidbit of info: "Hackmii installer freezing at the scam screen is caused by ios30-v1040 - ios35-v1042 being installed on a wii that will not function with those ios. The hackmii installer tries to load ios30-ios36 and the ios crashes resulting in the freeze. Simple fix, install cios30-v6174 -ios36-updated and the issue is fixed"
Uhhh. Uh oh. Since my Homebrew Channel that loads these things like cios installers, now cannot load past a black screen, and I cannot re-install, I have this sinking feeling, that by one sheer, quickly remarkable mistake in under only 5 minutes, I have completely and utterly fucked myself, somehow. ...so basically, in trying to teach a dog to sit, i've deleted the dog's legs, so the dog can't sit OR get up to sit back down. :/
First thing I should mention is that this isn't my first dance with HBC and the HackMii installer on a Wii. I own a regular Wii and I've done a lot to it over the years. Everything I've ever wanted to do worked just fine on it, for a very long time.
However, I just got a Wii U, and so far, it's been a completely different story. Now I'm in a huge jam and am seriously worried there is no way to fix what's happened, here.
First thing I did was to use SmashStack to boot up the HackMii installer on the virtual Wii of the Wii U. Worked like a charm, at first....
Then I had trouble running some forwarders, so I decided it was time to fix that up with some IOS installing. Here's where the problem comes in. So I installed the IOS's all fine and dandy, then found that some forwarder Wads weren't properly installing. Curious. So I switched to IOS236, and that did it... or so I thought. They installed.
So, while on IOS236 I backed out of MMM, intending to go back to the System. Complete freeze. Let it sit there for about 20 minutes. Nothin'. Tried the Wiimote, tried the buttons on the system, nothing. Something about this did NOT like that IOS I was on, that installed the forwarders (it was for the NES and SNES emulators I use, if you want to know). But being on this IOS, gave me that crash that froze everything. Had no choice but to just turn the whole system off.
So, I figure I would head back to the Homebrew Channel, and... black screen. Wha? Tried it about 3 more times. Just a black screen and nothing.
I started panicking at this point. Seems Homebrew Channel has completely frozen and locked up. Tried re-installing HackMii from SmashStack, go into created stages, the whole 9 yards, everything is fine up until the "Scam Warning" message, where it sits there, not doing anything. "Press 1 to continue" dosn't come up, or anything. I let it sit there, giving it the opportunity, nothing.
So, now I find myself unable to use Homebrew Channel, at all, to fix anything, and I find myself unable to re-install it. Is there ANYTHING that can be done?? Can't load the channel, can't re-install the channel. Is this it for me? :/ Dunno what the heck happened. Try as I might, I can't figure it out, aside from something about IOS236 made everything go heywire, causing the installer to not be able to patch itself, and unable to change the IOS, if it is, in fact, IOS236 causing this calamity. Am I up a creek, or what? :/
----UPDATE----
So, after searching around for a bit, I find this tidbit of info: "Hackmii installer freezing at the scam screen is caused by ios30-v1040 - ios35-v1042 being installed on a wii that will not function with those ios. The hackmii installer tries to load ios30-ios36 and the ios crashes resulting in the freeze. Simple fix, install cios30-v6174 -ios36-updated and the issue is fixed"
Uhhh. Uh oh. Since my Homebrew Channel that loads these things like cios installers, now cannot load past a black screen, and I cannot re-install, I have this sinking feeling, that by one sheer, quickly remarkable mistake in under only 5 minutes, I have completely and utterly fucked myself, somehow. ...so basically, in trying to teach a dog to sit, i've deleted the dog's legs, so the dog can't sit OR get up to sit back down. :/