Hey guys,



So here's my long, sad story. I bought my Wii from a friend about a year ago. He sold it to me for a very good price, but told me beforehand that it wouldn't play games. I thought I'd be able to fix it, so I took him up on the offer and bought the system. At this time, it was running 3.2u firmware, and was completely unmodified, at least to the best of my knowing. There was no Homebrew Channel on it. Also the official Nintendo default channels such as the Mii Channel, Weather, Forecast, and others that came with it were broken and threw up a black screen followed by "An error has occurred. Press the Eject button and power off" and WiiConnect24 would freeze with a black screen when I tried to enable it. However I didn't care too much, as my main intention was to hack the console, and so I upgraded from 3.2u to the current Nintendo 4.2u firmware. Then I used HackMii .6 to install Bootmii as Boot2 and IOS, and also installed the Homebrew Channel. I don't remember what version it was, but it wasn't 1.0.8 as I have now. I used the guide for 4.2u softmod on WiiHacks.com to do all of this. Once everything was installed, I still had the non-working channels and the Wii still wouldn't play disc games. A black screen bearing the words "An error has occurred" pops up when I insert a disc. It actually crashes the Wii system menu and everything.

I've had this problem ever since I bought this Wii, and have only been able to use homebrew software on it. I have installed USB-access IOSes to play music and read files off of USB and all, but I have not installed anything to boot commercial game files of of a USB drive. It may be illegal, and so I have not messed with it. I think it's pitiful that I'd have to stoop to pirating games just because I couldn't read normal game discs on my Wii. Lately I have become so frustrated I just kept my Homebrew Channel(1.0.8) and updated to Nintendo's official 4.3u firmware. I was hoping a new system menu from Nintendo would fix all the corruption or whatever that might be causing the disc read and channel errors.

I used the ModMii wizard to re-hack my 4.3u Wii to 4.1u, with a full soft-mod. I followed all directions ModMii gave me exactly, and everything installed correctly, except for Priiloader. It couldn't find some config INIs and therefore would not install. I still have the black screen channel problem and my Wii still won't play crap. I'm ready to throw it against the wall, but that won't solve anything. I even took it apart with my dad's help and replaced the laser in it. That fixed nothing. It's still broken like before, and I also saw that my friend may have gotten into the Wii before me, since we noticed some fingerprints around the laser area. I don't know what he did to the system. I just pray I can fix it. I don't really even know WHO did the system in, but oh well.

I should tell you I have a 4.2u unhacked NAND backup with the KEYS.BIN that I made shortly after installing BootMii as Boot2 for the first time. I hadn't hacked any more before making the backup. I should be safe in case something goes wrong. I already restored my Wii to that backup once, and have pretty much gone from there. After having to downgrade and upgrade my system menu so many times, I wanted to make sure I didn't screw up anything in my Wii. As I said, it's now running 4.1u system menu. ModMii made it install that(I chose 4.3u to 4.3u), and everything seems to be working as well as before. I REALLY REALLY want to play Super Mario Galaxy on my Wii, and would really appreciate any help to get this console working like new again. I don't know if the problem is hardware error or corruption in the software/firmware. It's not in the system menu, or upgrading would fix it. It's not the laser, or the new laser would fix it. It could be the drive assembly, but how am I supposed to know what is causing the problems?! Homebrew hasn't seemed to do much for it.

The weird thing is that after I wait awhile without using my Wii, which is very hard, actually, the channels will start working again. Sometimes I'm able to turn on WiiConnect24, and also am able to have unrestricted access to every single channel on my Wii. I usually have to wait a month or a week before this all works, but as you can see that is totally impractical for a general game-play schedule. Regardless of the working channels, my discs still error in the disc channel. It's a soft "The disc could not be read" or something error. WTF? I have some forwarder channels installed that link to homebrew, and all of those work 100 percent. Homebrew seems to be unaffected by my sad, diseased system.

So now I guess I will end by asking what I should do. It seems as if I am out of options and need to get a new system, but, is there hope? Thanks for reading, and I eagerly await your reply.



Labatryth

 

I really have no idea what could be wrong with your wii but I know one thing, I would certainly give usb loading a try. Do you know you can back up your own disks through most usb loaders? Or would you consider that pirating. Usb loading beats using disks anyday.

 

Here is my SysCheck Report


I am on 4.1u firmware.

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sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.1U (v449)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 45990255
Boot2 v4

Found 69 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 6 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
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 14889): Trucha Bug NAND Access
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): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16687): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS202 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS249 (rev 21003): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 21003): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v4

Report generated on 2011/03/14.

 

MultiModManager gives you the choice to install older versions, even if they are max'd out. Used it plenty of times

 

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=208281

The app itself is pretty self explainatory. The IOS manager lists all IOS's installed and their versions. The bottom of the screen gives you controls to delete, installer, upgrade and downgrade. The max'd out versions shouldn't be a problem. Give it a whirl and see how you go

 

Okay. But how on earth do I keep from deleting or updating the wrong IOSes? I didn't see a guide. I have one Wii, and I don't want to update or delete the wrong thing or it's all over for me.

 

nvm

 

How are you sure? And what kind of drive?

 

Alright! Thanks!

 

I cannot make backups with a non-working DVD drive. I will try SNEEK, but I can't even figure out how to begin this stuff. Guess I'll just have to take my time.