Tutorial Modify ANY Wii 4.3 & below

[Tux']

So this thing is totally offline method now?

 

[dai-a]

So this thing is totally offline method now?

cios USB 2.0 needs internet for it to install.

 

[xzxero]

So this thing is totally offline method now?


cios USB 2.0 needs internet for it to install.

it does, but not if you have the files from my guide.

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QUOTE(Lordpoketehpenguin @ Oct 12 2009, 08:09 PM)

So this thing is totally offline method now?

yup completely offline the with the files pack from the guide.

if anything tried to connect online, you have an outdated file pack.

 

[transam81]

ok everything went good until the preloader.. now nothing works not the homebrew chanel not the system menu or the system hacks.ini, but the pre loader opens when the wii is turned on.. please help me

i do still have the back up of the bootmii folder


ok i got the homebrew chanel back by putting the hacks.ini on the root of the sd i was able to get to the hacks.ini and then i installed homebrew via bootmii via the preloader, by clicking installed file
and am now sitting at the homebrew channel not know what to do because it still wont go to the system menu

is there a way to start over and and this time not do the preloader?

did you have your question answered yet? when this happened to me i ran wad manager 1.5 from the HBC used 249 to install patched ios70.

 

[SoloDolo]

yea.

Root of SD Card: http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9967/47055426.jpg
apps folder: http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1148/68247585.jpg
wad folder: http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6209/29051852.jpg

just back up you nand.bin and keys.bin and erase everything else then fill it up with homebrew

Thank you.

 

[Crimson Fog]

I have a 4.2u wii that I need to get downgraded. I unpacked the newmod.rar to SD and when trying to do the Bannerbomb exploit, I dont get the "would you like to boot load.dol", I get no screen and a "?" as one of the available selections.

Any thoughts?

 

[dream_coder]

can someone please give me a quick step by step on installing a clean ios 30 using dop-ios and also if need be do i do the same steps for ios61? thanks

 

[transam81]

I have a 4.2u wii that I need to get downgraded. I unpacked the newmod.rar to SD and when trying to do the Bannerbomb exploit, I dont get the "would you like to boot load.dol", I get no screen and a "?" as one of the available selections.

Any thoughts?

1.turn on wii
2.press a
3.point wiimote at SD card icon at bottom of menu. u know the one on the bottom left.
4. press a
5.insert your SD card the SD card with banner bomb on it.
6.when you see "would you like to boot load.dol" select yes
7. follow on screen directions after that

 

[toss01]

4] Run Wad Manager [this step can be skipped if already on 4.1]
When it opens choose use IOS249. (it is probably already set to that)
Press A to leave NAND emulator disabled
Press A to open from SD slot.
Install System Menu-NUS-v449.wad [System Menu-NUS-v450.wad for pal users; System Menu-NUS-v448.wad for ntsc-j users] and exit.

Does this step install 4.1 or 4.2

I've got a 3.4E, what will using mod.rar leave me on?

 

[desideratus]

Hi.

Very cool and easy tutorial! Thx for that...

May you update the bootmii description for IOS installation. in the latest version it's possible to choose the items with power/reset like the boot2-version. In earlier versions of bootmii this was noch possible and make it maybe easier for people without gc-controller to backup nand when using the ios version.

Best regards.

Desideratus

 

[Mentallity]

Hi there! First of all I'd like to say that this is an ingenious guide.

Allthough I've run into a few problems. (The guide was updated last night so I'm going to try re-do the steps)
(I'm using net-install on everything, will also try the offline version when I'm done.)

First of all I got problems with the Trucha Bug Patcher crashing when I downgraded IOS15 and selecting IOS15 to patch IOS36 - To counter it I used IOS36 as the IOS to start with, downgraded, selected IOS15 to patch IOS36, then selected IOS36 again to Restore IOS15. (I was using TBR1.1 at that time, not the TBR1.0 Mod - I found out in the end that either way doesn't matter.)

Everything went well upto the point where I was going to use Dop-IOS MOD to "patch" IOS53 and 55, I also read somewhere in the guide that you had to patch Trucha into IOS60/70 as well if you wanted Preloader to run so I started by loading IOS36 to patch 53 and 55 first. Selected IOS53 and Dop-IOS MOD crashed. Text smeared over the screen so I reset and tried again. To no avail I thought I'd try out the regular Dop-IOS instead of the MOD which worked Brilliantly. Patched IOS 53, 55, 60 and 70. (I had previously run AnyTitleDeleter to delete IOS 22, 223, 249 and 250 without a problem.)

So after a lot of work I managed to patch everything according to the old guide followed by a few modifications on what software to use. Installed Preloader29 and configured it but there, everything went haywire.

It loads fine, I can get into the HBC, but it will not load the System Menu at all. I tried setting it to boot it automatically to no avail, even if I try to boot it through the Loader or HBC, all I'm getting is that my system files are corrupted.

So through the Loader I booted up HBC, went to the loader installation and tried to re-install it but the problem still persisted. Then I got the brilliant idea that I should try and re-patch IOS 70 using Dop-IOS. I reinstalled it by letting the program download it from NUS, I didn't apply the bug to it and after it was done I restarted my Wii, taking out the SD Card first, only to find out that it didn't work at all. To make things better, it actually made things a whole lot worse. Loader wouldn't work anymore. (I only found out recently that I could've hold down the reset button while powering the Wii up to get into the loader) Not would the System Menu or anything else. I think I screwed myself over so I went to seek some help. But at this point on the day, most people in the modding scene is asleep or away.

I inserted the SD Card again, let BootMii start up and restored a Nand backup I had, so I'm back to square one again with Bootmii and HBC as the only things installed. (And of course, some prior IOS edits I've done in an attempt to apply Trucha to 36 and 236 - Deleting IOS 222, 223, 249 and 250.)

I'm currently using the European PAL version of Wii, fully upgraded because of my girlfriend. (System Menu 4.2E)

Where did I go wrong?

Cheers,
- Nieeru.

 

[FAII]

I followed the guide exactly. After doing step 2 with TBR, my HBC turned upside down like with my previous tries using a different method. However, unlike those attempts, when I installed PreLoader, PreLoader could load HBC as opposed to the previous attempts where PreLoader claimed HBC might not be installed.

My System Menu (3.4E) was still bricked. I did the Custom IOS38 installer but when I tried doing the Dop-IOS MOD, I couldn't find IOS 249. It just wasn't on the list. So I used my backup to restore my Wii.

 

[ante80]

I followed the guide exactly. After doing step 2 with TBR, my HBC turned upside down like with my previous tries using a different method. However, unlike those attempts, when I installed PreLoader, PreLoader could load HBC as opposed to the previous attempts where PreLoader claimed HBC might not be installed.

My System Menu (3.4E) was still bricked. I did the Custom IOS38 installer but when I tried doing the Dop-IOS MOD, I couldn't find IOS 249. It just wasn't on the list. So I used my backup to restore my Wii.

Try reinstalling HBC to make it use another IOS which isn't trucha signed (IOS36 in you case). This is what makes it turn upside down.
Instead of using Dop-IOS MOD, you could try the original DOP-IOS which only uses cIOS 249.

 

[RC89]

Hey there, i just fully readed the guide.
Im currently at 3.2E softmodded with preloader 0.29, hbc 1.0.3 cioscorp (an old version which i installed together with softmii 2.0), ciosrev14 installed and all other small things installed to get usb and backuploader running.
- At the moment considering updating, just want to know if there is an easier way to update than update to a 4.2 virgin wii, its a whole lot to install. Is it possible to use Firmware Downgrader mod by Attila? I read somewhere that this contains the fw 4.1.


- RC89

 

[xzxero]

Hey there, i just fully readed the guide.
Im currently at 3.2E softmodded with preloader 0.29, hbc 1.0.3 cioscorp (an old version which i installed together with softmii 2.0), ciosrev14 installed and all other small things installed to get usb and backuploader running.
- At the moment considering updating, just want to know if there is an easier way to update than update to a 4.2 virgin wii, its a whole lot to install. Is it possible to use Firmware Downgrader mod by Attila? I read somewhere that this contains the fw 4.1.


- RC89

just update to 4.2 via nintendo.

itll virginize your wii then follow the 4.2 guide.

 

[RC89]

Hey there, i just fully readed the guide.
Im currently at 3.2E softmodded with preloader 0.29, hbc 1.0.3 cioscorp (an old version which i installed together with softmii 2.0), ciosrev14 installed and all other small things installed to get usb and backuploader running.
- At the moment considering updating, just want to know if there is an easier way to update than update to a 4.2 virgin wii, its a whole lot to install. Is it possible to use Firmware Downgrader mod by Attila? I read somewhere that this contains the fw 4.1.


- RC89

just update to 4.2 via nintendo.

itll virginize your wii then follow the 4.2 guide.

Allrigt, thx alot.

 

[erikk1]

The nintendo update also gives you a chance to brick. (buggy boot2 update code)

 

[xzxero]

The nintendo update also gives you a chance to brick. (buggy boot2 update code)

the same brick chance as installing bootmii or using any of the programs used in the guide.
theres a brick chance for everything.

 

[erikk1]

No, the hackmii people wrote their own boot2-update code, because the nintendo code was so buggy. Installing bootmii is therefor much less risky then using the nintendo updater.

Other programs don't write to boot2, so they're even less risky.

 

[xzxero]

No, the hackmii people wrote their own boot2-update code, because the nintendo code was so buggy. Installing bootmii is therefor much less risky then using the nintendo updater.

Other programs don't write to boot2, so they're even less risky.

installing something to boot2 is just as risky either way with any code whatsoever.
everything we work with is risky.

right most programs dont even mess with boot2 but they modify IOS's and system menu's so they are still risky.