How to SoftMod a Wii and play backup Wii, Gamecube and Wiiware Games

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 2, 2015

scooter
1.
As penguin98 said.

Some will work but some might not. When I first created the guide a few years ago I didn't have that warning. But allot of people where having issues and 90% of the problems ended up being Micro-SD card related. So that is why I added the do not use a Micro-SD card warning in my guides.

If the guy that is modding your system has modded previous systems using a micro-sd card then it shouldn't make a difference in the end. As long as it works it is fine.

2. you can remove the files when you installed hbc BUT, the folder /bootmii/in SD card ia used when u launch your Wii , if u installed the best option in hbc , so bootmii folder is useful to save

scooter1376 · Jan 2, 2015

stephaniie said:
scooter

btw im planning to do the softmod myself

i have a 1gb sd can i use that instead?

regards scooter1376

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 2, 2015

I think i should take the role as Mom here.

Yes, if your SD isnt SDHC it should be ok.

If your card however is SDHC i would buy a normal SD instead.

SD can be bought in most online electronic stores and cost not much,
and if you use SDHC and step 3 in this guide goes wrong you could end up
with a broken Wii. That is more expensive then buying a new SD card.

N4M3LE5S · Jan 2, 2015

scooter1376 said:
hi Stephaniie

first of thnx for the step by step i have a few ??

1. can i use a micro sd just as long as its a normal sd?
2. do i keep the files on the sd from when i install HBC when i continue or do i delete them?

best regards

scooter1376 (aka mathias)

use modmii that will answer your questions

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 3, 2015

N4M3LE5S said:
use modmii that will answer your questions

Hah Hah Hah..

Brent Yazel · Jan 3, 2015

I just followed these instructions to a "T" up to and including step #4. This is on a used wii that was never softmodded. I previously had a wii that was modded with a harddrive but it ended up bricked because I followed some outdated procedures. Now I plugged in the harddrive that already has all my games on it and loaded USB Loader GX. This is the result. Can anyone help me fix this, please?

edit: apparently embedding the image doesn't work. Here is the link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/13f3h1evw6qzcyn/0103151235a.jpg?dl=0

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 3, 2015

Download, make and post a Syscheck - Brent

How to make a Syscheck instructions,
https://gbatemp.net/threads/posting-a-system-check.300279/

Adeka · Jan 3, 2015

That's just a stack dump. It's not bad. It just means something is wrong

Brent Yazel · Jan 3, 2015

Here is my Syscheck

SysCheck v2.3.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.200702
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 114578191
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 60 titles.
Found 46 IOS on this console. 14 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[38] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 01/03/2015.

I appreciate the help.

slickric · Jan 5, 2015

Run ModMii and chose The SU option. It will check your syscheck and tell you what files are missing and then download them for you.

Make sure you're running the latest USB loader as well

Brent Yazel said:
Here is my Syscheck

SysCheck v2.3.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.200702
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 114578191
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 60 titles.
Found 46 IOS on this console. 14 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[38] (rev 20, Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 01/03/2015.

I appreciate the help.

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 5, 2015

Yeah, use modmii it great for wolving probleme. no joke.

LEDuser · Jan 5, 2015

Hi,

I'm sorry if I misread any post but I'm very new to gaming consoles and I recently bought used Wii and I want to update it.

When I got it I connected it to wifi and I tried to update everything (normal thing for me). I successfully connected to the internet but I got error 32004.

I was browsing on internet and I found out that I maybe have softmodded Wii. If I hold reset button while power on I got white screen where it says IOS v60, Systemmenu v450, priiloader v0.3b (r48M).

Now I can't update it to 4.3 and I don't know how to upgrade and unlock it. I'm also interested in USB loader GX.

Can you guys please help me with that. There are many things written around it but since I think I have unlocked Wii I'm quite afraid to do it because I don't want to brick it.

DjoeN · Jan 5, 2015

stephaniie said:
I have a solution.

To play gamecube games from USB you need - diosmios - .

To install diosmios look up my guide and step 5, i explain there how to get use wiimod and install cios249 and diosmios .
Diosmios is found on dmlizard , shown in video for step5.

HOWEvER - if you have orginal gamecube games. Diosmios isnt the only option...But Devolution .

https://gbatemp.net/threads/devolution-public-release.330554/

Devolution ask you to put your orginal gc disc in once, and then never again. Its a perfect solution for gamecube lovers who wants too use USB and not Discs.

Gamecube games -> Nintendont

LEDuser · Jan 5, 2015

I forgot to add a picture of the menu.

Is there any way to remove it and update Wii via nintendo?

Mikecolt · Jan 8, 2015

Hey players,

I'm a newcomer here so i hope you will be nice to me =)

I have a bit of a problem now with my VCgames. How I feel at the moment is like "if it works, don't fix it" -type of problem. Alright so here it goes:

For me everything worked fine when i had two seperate usb-sticks: one with NTFS format where was all my wii games, and one with FAT32 format, where were all my VCgames, roms and others games basicly. And what I wanted in order not to swipe these usb sticks all the time was that I buy an external HDD and have two different partitions, one with NTFS and one with FAT32.

Alright, everything worked fine, i copied my games to their right partitions except that i couldn't copy&paste the GxEmunand folder to FAT32. And then i started to think that what's wrong with this? So my first mistake: I thought that it might help to copy&paste the GxEmunand folder if I take "read-only" tap off. Well, i was wrong and then everything was basicly corrupted.

Ok so i fucked up but i decided that alright, i'm just gonna copy then again to my HDD using ShowMiiWads. I do the basic drill, extract it into NAND and everything works fine. I boot my wii and it even shows up there. I though that "phew, thank god everything seems to work out". And then i do the basic stuff, video mode forced to NTSC and hit play. Now i've tried five games and all i get is a black screen and it doesn't go any further. I'm now helpless what to do.

I'm using GX loaderUSB, rev1233, IOS249 (rev 21008) + AHB, d2x v8final base37.

Any help or tips would be great!

I was thinking that should i install this? IOS249[56]-d2x9b47.wad I just can't find this file anywhere....

//EDIT:

Alright with a bit of research i found the right place to find all the necessary files for cios installer.

Although, even i've now this IOS249[56]-d2x9b47.wad installed it doesn't work. The same black screen. and videomode NTSC. So please, other tips?

jkimrey · Jan 18, 2015

wiibrew.org seems to be down for me. Hopefully that is just temporary?

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 18, 2015

Mikecolt said:
Hey players,

I'm a newcomer here so i hope you will be nice to me =)

I have a bit of a problem now with my VCgames. How I feel at the moment is like "if it works, don't fix it" -type of problem. Alright so here it goes:

For me everything worked fine when i had two seperate usb-sticks: one with NTFS format where was all my wii games, and one with FAT32 format, where were all my VCgames, roms and others games basicly. And what I wanted in order not to swipe these usb sticks all the time was that I buy an external HDD and have two different partitions, one with NTFS and one with FAT32.

Alright, everything worked fine, i copied my games to their right partitions except that i couldn't copy&paste the GxEmunand folder to FAT32. And then i started to think that what's wrong with this? So my first mistake: I thought that it might help to copy&paste the GxEmunand folder if I take "read-only" tap off. Well, i was wrong and then everything was basicly corrupted.

Ok so i fucked up but i decided that alright, i'm just gonna copy then again to my HDD using ShowMiiWads. I do the basic drill, extract it into NAND and everything works fine. I boot my wii and it even shows up there. I though that "phew, thank god everything seems to work out". And then i do the basic stuff, video mode forced to NTSC and hit play. Now i've tried five games and all i get is a black screen and it doesn't go any further. I'm now helpless what to do.

I'm using GX loaderUSB, rev1233, IOS249 (rev 21008) + AHB, d2x v8final base37.

Any help or tips would be great!

I was thinking that should i install this? IOS249[56]-d2x9b47.wad I just can't find this file anywhere....

//EDIT:

Alright with a bit of research i found the right place to find all the necessary files for cios installer.

Although, even i've now this IOS249[56]-d2x9b47.wad installed it doesn't work. The same black screen. and videomode NTSC. So please, other tips?

Two things you can do.

1. Re-install emunand and install the games to new emunand with showmiiwads again
2. Install a game to showmiiwads. If it works, you can with 95% install the wad of th game to your real nand with Wiimod or MMM. USb loader gx's isnt perfect for VCgames, so i done that myself for 3-4 wiiware/vcgames.

Duke Shirehill · Jan 24, 2015

I tried to install bootmii, I downloaded //bootmii.org/download/ . I packed it up and put it in the root of the sd card, but HBC did not find any files, so I put it in a map which was named app. but still will not find HBC. what am I doing wrong, is getting crazy on this

jag provade att installera bootmii , som jag laddade ner här //bootmii.org/download/ . jag packade upp den och la den i rot på sd kortet , men hbc hittade inga filer , så jag la den i en map som fick namnet app . men fortfarande hitar inte hbc det. vad gör jag för fel , börjar bli galen på detta

tehbeast87 · Jan 29, 2015

Thank you for the easy to follow guide on this. However, I am having an issue during installation. When attempting to open WAD 1.7 the screen comes up with a disclaimer asking to press A to continue or B to cancel. I press A on the Wavebird and nothing happens. One time I received a dump message with a bunch of letters and numbers, another time the screen went all wacky and was flickering. Any suggestions on how to get the WAD manager working?

somewhereovertherainbow · Jan 29, 2015

Yup.

Don't use Wavebird. Use a gamecube controller or a wii controller.

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