Hacking Best Way to Mod Any Wii: ModMii for Windows: Official Support Thread

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@all,
As some of you may or may not know, there have been issues around using a modmii created emulated nand to launch neek and have access to the shop channel or wiiconnect24 (unable to accept EULA). The weird thing was that it worked for some but not others.

obcd has done some testing on the issue, but now we need people to verify his findings

He discovered that if you have a themed system menu installed to your emulated nand on first boot you will encounter errors when trying to accept EULA, access the shopping channel or use wiiconnect24. Replacing the theme with the original nintendo theme afterwards does not fix the problem (ie. it seems like the standard theme needs to be in place for the first boot when files on the emulated nand are being expanded).

If you are not using a themed system menu the first time you load your emulated nand, everything works. And if you were to install a custom theme to the emulated nand after first boot it will continue to work.

I'm not sure if using the serial from your real nand to create the setting.txt is a factor here, so that's something else that needs to be tested.

Basically, we're looking for people to test if they can accept EULA, access the shopping channel and use wiiconnect24 under the following scenarios:

1) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek without a custom theme and using the serial # from your real nand to create setting.txt
2) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek without a custom theme and using the default serial # to create setting.txt
3) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek with a custom theme and using the serial # from your real nand to create setting.txt
4) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek with a custom theme and using the default serial # to create setting.txt

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to test this for us. When replying, feel free to reference the Scenario # instead of having to type out the whole scenario again.

edit: here's some more info

For those who might consider trying the test with accepting the Eula on a themed menu. The issue only occured on a 4.3 system menu.
The 4.2 worked. I only tested with the E nand, and I always used my own serial to create the setting.txt
If I use the default serial, the connection test fails with an error. (The one you need to run after you made your connection setup.)
 

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For the DarkWii Red Theme:

1. Are there any links that show what the no-spin, spin & fast spin options look like?

or

2. If I choose no-spin from the wizard, can it be changed later from within the theme?
 

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For those who might consider trying the test with accepting the Eula on a themed menu. The issue only occured on a 4.3 system menu.
The 4.2 worked. I only tested with the E nand, and I always used my own serial to create the setting.txt
If I use the default serial, the connection test fails with an error. (The one you need to run after you made your connection setup.)

@[member='ca032769']
It's possible to switch from the standard menu theme to one of the colored theme by copiing one file over from one nand to another.
It's one of the app files in the title/00000001/00000002/content folder. For sysmenu 4.3E it's the 0000009A.app.
I don't know how to download those files without modmii creating a nand for you. It takes a little more time and you can delete the nand
afterwards. modmii won't download the stuff again it already has downloaded.
 

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@[member='ca032769'],
I don't have any links showing what the spin animations look like, but the wii theme team thread might have them, not sure. Basically when you move your pointer over a channel it's the spin effect that the channels does. I'm sure some of the videos have that effect and others don't, but I'm not sure which ones.

You can change the theme\effect at any time.

If the theme is being applied to an emulated nand u can do as obcd suggested or use ModMii's emulated nand modifier (which is easier, but you'd learn more by doing it manually how obcd described it).

If the theme is being installed to your real nand, you can download the appropriate *.csm theme from ModMii's download page 3 and install it using mymenuify mod. If you need help doing this you can run ModMii's wizard and tell it your wii is already modified, then say no to all the questions except say yes to the theme you want to install (this will download the appropriate files for you and build you a guide on using mymenuify).
 

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@all,
As some of you may or may not know, there have been issues around using a modmii created emulated nand to launch neek and have access to the shop channel or wiiconnect24 (unable to accept EULA). The weird thing was that it worked for some but not others.

obcd has done some testing on the issue, but now we need people to verify his findings

He discovered that if you have a themed system menu installed to your emulated nand on first boot you will encounter errors when trying to accept EULA, access the shopping channel or use wiiconnect24. Replacing the theme with the original nintendo theme afterwards does not fix the problem (ie. it seems like the standard theme needs to be in place for the first boot when files on the emulated nand are being expanded).

If you are not using a themed system menu the first time you load your emulated nand, everything works. And if you were to install a custom theme to the emulated nand after first boot it will continue to work.

I'm not sure if using the serial from your real nand to create the setting.txt is a factor here, so that's something else that needs to be tested.

Basically, we're looking for people to test if they can accept EULA, access the shopping channel and use wiiconnect24 under the following scenarios:

1) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek without a custom theme and using the serial # from your real nand to create setting.txt
2) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek without a custom theme and using the default serial # to create setting.txt
3) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek with a custom theme and using the serial # from your real nand to create setting.txt
4) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek with a custom theme and using the default serial # to create setting.txt

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to test this for us. When replying, feel free to reference the Scenario # instead of having to type out the whole scenario again.
Hello XFlak, tested it , here are the results:
1. Shopchannel works in cluding downloading, WC24 works and updating the Wii works (naturally EULA could be accepted).
2. Shopchannel works in cluding downloading, WC24 works and updating the Wii works.
3. Error 32004 with updating wii, message wiiconnect24 and wiishop not available if you try to open them.
4. Error 110213 with setting up internet, also nothing else is accessable after that, getting the message to setup a internet connection first.

I hope this helps..
 

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@all,

Basically, we're looking for people to test if they can accept EULA, access the shopping channel and use wiiconnect24 under the following scenarios:

2) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek without a custom theme and using the default serial # to create setting.txt

4) on a freshly built modmii emulated nand... load neek with a custom theme and using the default serial # to create setting.txt
ok here some test
scenario #2
nand 4.3u, without custom theme, serial #default by modmii.
no problem,accepting the EULA, and using the shopping chanell(downloaded some free stuff) and or the wiiconect24

scenario #4
nand 4.3u,with custom theme(orange) serial #default by modmii.
no problem, accepting the EULA, and using the shopping chanell(downloaded some free stuff) and or the wiiconect24
 

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The problem with the themes is that they're not compatible with 4.3e nands. I asume the themes are updated ones from a lower sm version. There the creators made a mistake and forgot about that ninty added some country's to the list. The themes don't have the extra country's in their list and that's how the enumaration gets f#cked up.

Selecting a language will asign a wrong # to it and that means it needs a dif EULA.
 

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OK, did some more tests: what happened after i applied the theme... (4.3E)
1) clean nand, no theme, own serial, with all settings done and everything works, after it was applied everything still works.
2) clean nand, no theme, default serial, with all settings done and everything works, after it was applied everyting still works.
3) clean nand, no theme, own serial, with no settings done yet, after installation no inet connection could be made.
4) clean nand, no theme, default serial, with no settings done yet, after it was applied i could set internet, accept eula and could access wiishop.

My suspicion is, what Overjoy also already stated, because languages are missing in the theme, you set the wrong country when you first configure the nand, everything is ok though when you set everything before you apply the theme to the nand.
I counted the languages in nand without theme and nand with theme, there is a difference of 11 languages..

weird thing though is number 4, i cannot totally explain that..but maybe it is because of the default ser.
 

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Maybe it's just me, but i figured it's worth a mention here. Ive had a ding-dang heck of a time getting Modmii to build a working UNEEK-DI with anything above rev69. With 70, 71, and 72 i get a black screen. Actually, i did get it to boot twice, but the DI overlay menu was really wonky.
So, for testing purposes i tried building rev72 with crediars sneek installer- and that worked.
I noticed the kernal.bin on the SD from Modmii(165kb) is a different size than the SNEEK installer(216kb) one.
 

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Update to the latest version of ModMii (v5.2.1) and it will build neek fine again. Lower versions of ModMii will recognize r70 and up on googlecode, but aren't able to build it
 
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Update to the latest version of ModMii (v5.2.1) and it will build neek fine again. Lower versions of ModMii will recognize r70 and up on googlecode, but aren't able to build it
Ahh, looks like i inadvertently had the Modmii auto-update disabled and was still on 5.1.1 =P
Thanks OverjoY =)
 

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I hope someone can help. I tried the modmii for windows, didn't work, my Wii froze on the scam screen, so I tried the hackmii solutions didn't work either. I have a launch wii, bought it January 2007 system menu 4.3u, I'm using a 2 GB Maxell SD card I also used a 4 GB sdhc SanDisk card, tried letterbomb and smash stack exploits. The first time I tried installing hackmii installer I got "no vulnerable ios found so suck it" error message, now every time I try installing hackmii installer my wii freezes on the scam screen. When I tried the hackmii solutions I installed the wads but my wii still froze on the scam screen. I was told in some other forum that I have a brick wii even though I've never tried hacking it before. I’ll attach the logs and syscheck hope it helps. Thanks

sysCheck v2.1.0b5 by Double_A
...runs on IOS36 (rev 3608).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Homebrew Channel 1.0.0 running on IOS0
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 37029780
Boot2 v4
Found 60 titles.
Found 45 IOS on this console. 16 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): No Patches
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
IOS249 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/01/18.


HackMii v0.8 installer starting up
PVR = 00087103
running under IOS 58 rev 0x182061 titles are installed
Found IOS 254: revision: 0xff01*
installed BootMii/IOS: BM1.3 0x00000008
BootMii/IOS version sufficient
Found IOS 58: revision: 0x1820.
Found IOS 52: revision: 0x1700.
Found IOS 48: revision: 0x101c.
Found IOS 46: revision: 0xe17.
Found IOS 45: revision: 0xe17.
Found IOS 43: revision: 0xe17.
Found IOS 41: revision: 0xe17.
Found IOS 40: revision: 0xc00.
Found IOS 80: revision: 0x1b20.
Found IOS 250: revision: 0xff00.
Found IOS 249: revision: 0xff00.
Found IOS 223: revision: 0xff00.
Found IOS 222: revision: 0xff00.
Found IOS 57: revision: 0x171f.
Found IOS 70: revision: 0x1b00.
Found IOS 56: revision: 0x161e.
Found IOS 61: revision: 0x161e.
Found IOS 55: revision: 0x161f.
Found IOS 53: revision: 0x161f.
Found IOS 38: revision: 0x101c.
Found IOS 16: revision: 0x200.
Found IOS 60: revision: 0x1900.
Found IOS 51: revision: 0x1300.
Found IOS 50: revision: 0x1400.
Found IOS 10: revision: 0x300.
Found IOS 37: revision: 0x161f.
Found IOS 36: revision: 0xe18.
Found IOS 28: revision: 0x70f.
Found IOS 22: revision: 0x50e.
Found IOS 14: revision: 0x408.
Found IOS 33: revision: 0xe18.
Found IOS 35: revision: 0xe18.
Found IOS 34: revision: 0xe18.
Found IOS 31: revision: 0xe18.
Found IOS 30: revision: 0xb00.
Found IOS 21: revision: 0x40f.
Found IOS 20: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 17: revision: 0x408.
Found IOS 15: revision: 0x408.
Found IOS 13: revision: 0x408.
Found IOS 12: revision: 0x20e.
Found IOS 11: revision: 0x100.
Found IOS 2: revision: 0x201.
Found IOS 9: revision: 0x40a.
Found IOS 4: revision: 0xff00.
launching IOS 58 for the installer...

IOS launched...

IOS versions: Installer: 58, HBC: 58
starting preparations
 

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Hi, XFlak
The IOSes of new version wii are all different version with the old ones.

I have uploaded some of them to mediafire.com.
The link is for ios58, ios61, ios80.

The rest IOSes will be uplod later.
Hope this helps for wii hacking.

Thanks!!
 

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Hi, XFlak

I have uploaded all the IOSes of new version wii.
If anything wrong just let me know.

My network connection is unstable : (

Hope this helps.
 

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