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