heres some help with bad wii wads!

[Flet241]

hello gamers, i will show you how to check if wads are bad with dolphin! *its very easy* heres how to tell

<------------------ THIS IS IF A WAD IS NORMAL AND WONT BRICK YOUR WII

<------------------ THIS IS IF A WAD IS A BAD ONE AND WILL BRICK YOUR WII

in order to find out if a wad is a good one just download a wad on the internet and then do this

this is if its a bad WAD

this is a good/normal WAD

 

[Flet241]

ALSO DO NOT ADD WADS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE THAT YOU HAVE A NAND BACKED UP AND BOOTMII IS INSTALLED WITH BOOT2 IF YOUR WII IS CAPABLE OF DOING THAT

 

[CMDreamer]

Simple, easy, yet efficient... Thanks!

Is thIs method 100% safe? (As in: if the WAD installed succesfully on Dolphin it will not -ever- damage the real NAND on my Wii)?

Just asking.

 

[XFlak]

This advice is a little bit misleading, I'm certain WADs exist that may not throw a Dolphin error but could result in brick on a Wii. For example, what about a system menu WAD for the wrong region? Or a stub IOS for the system menu IOS slot (which could be different between the Dolphin emulated nand and the real nand).

What you're suggesting will catch some "bad" wads, but not all.

Cheers

 

[Takokeshi]

If we're bringing Dolphin into the equation, I would at least Verify the wad for bad data, and cross-reference the title ID with system titles to make sure it's not going to be overwriting something useful.

 

[Flet241]

yeahh i shoulda said this but i think that this is a good way to check if wads WILL brick your system but i wouldnt use it for all wads

 

[ber71]

For supposedly official titles, the best way is a hash ckeck against the nointro database

 

[jeannotte]

This advice is a little bit misleading, I'm certain WADs exist that may not throw a Dolphin error but could result in brick on a Wii. For example, what about a system menu WAD for the wrong region? Or a stub IOS for the system menu IOS slot (which could be different

I thought the same thing, with the Wads, you have to be very careful.

 

[Flet241]

oh yeah to whoever is reading this if your wii has boot2 your safe from any bricks as long as you have a backup of your wii's nand

 

[XFlak]

actually if you have bootmii installed to boot2 u are safe pretty much even without a nand backup. But it's still recommended to have 1, as the recovery process might be simpler with it than without it.

The 2 things even a wii with bootmii boot2 are not safe from, is if boot2 gets updated\overwritten, then u don't have boot2 anymore and even the common cold could take it out (lol, jk). And the other thing is if something goes wrong writing to the seeprom (i.e. if something goes wrong when running the koreankii homebrew app to remove the korean key from the seeprom)