ModMii for Windows Official Support Topic

So with DeadlyFoez deleting his modmii guide videos are broken. This is already fixed in the beta release. Still chugging away at the update slowly slowly, definitely by the end of this month @ the latest unless I get hit by a bus or something it should be ready

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Thanks to @urmum_69 and @alexander1970 and @Larsenv and foxlet and clutz and JoostinOnline for their recent help!

 

Already done in the latest ModMii beta, hoping to release an official update soon.

If you (or anyone) want to test the beta send me a PM.

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So clearly I didn't finish by the end of January at the latest, lol. I ended up adding some new features that weren't supposed to be a part of this update, and now I need a bit more time to polish off the custom guides, website, etc. If I had to guess I'd say 1 to 4 more weeks (probably around 2). Sorry for the delays, lockdown life with 4 young kids... it's tiresome to say the least

 

Just a reminder to anyone having issues with ModMii, there are two known bugs in the latest official release. I should probably just quickly put out a quick bug-fix update... but right now I'm focused on the the next big update coming soon to a (home) theater near you!

Here are the 2 bugs and workarounds for them quoted from the first post of this thread, these won't be necessary for very long!!

 

already done, this is from the 6.4.9 changelog

I will be making some other changes to modmii's recommended cIOSs (i.e. the wii.guide guys and I are coordinating so we are aligned, so I will be recommending base 38 installed to slot 251 in the next update), but 249 will keep using 57 and 250 will keep using 56 (and the reverse will still be considered OK by ModMii)

Also, ModMii will be changing the default d2x version from v8-final to v10-beta52

edit: plus a veritable shit-ton of other changes to other things (pardon my French, lol). My rough (and maybe somewhat redundant) changelog\to-do list is over 50 lines long. I eventually have to clean that up too

 

Check these things:
-Make sure u have bootmii ios installed
-try just uneek or sneek without di to get those working first
-if using the original neek and not neek2o, and using +di, make sure u have a game extracted and saved to your device as well
-if nswitch or similar aren't working, make sure your bootmiineek folder on the SD card is getting renamed to bootmii, if not, double check the SD card lock switch is disabled (if applicable). If it's still not working, manually rename the folder to bootmii and launch "bootmii" from the hbc or priiloader or boot2, etc
-make sure HDD is plugged into port 0, the one nearest the edge of the wii
-you can try using your own dumped/extracted nand as an emunand if for some reason u are having problems with modmii's. Gx allows u to boot into uneek without an SD card btw, so that's pretty cool too

I'll be including more neek tips in the next modmii update, but no real new functionality aside from some minor tweaks

 

Could be an incompatible drive? Does the drive work for regular USB loading? You can double check how it's formatted that there is only 1 MBR FAT32 partition on the HDD.

But at the end of the day if the files modmii built for you are working on one drive but not this one, we know that's not the issue

 

Can you share a syscheck of what your Wii looked like before using ModMii (or after restoring your nand backup, same thing). Btw, if your syscheck contains a URL at the very bottom, you can use this to share it more easily if you like.

Also, are you trying to load backup discs from the disc channel? This is something that not all Wii's are capable of doing, but if your wii is old enough, it should be capable (even though usb-loading is way better). If your Wii used to be able to play backup discs, then you should still be able to do so (unless you have experienced some kind of hardware failure).

If you're trying to load backup discs from the disc channel, there are two methods, 1 is less invasive that I will describe first. Basically just follow your modmii guide as per usual, but make sure you enable the system menu hack "Force Disc Games to run under IOS249". This should allow capable Wii's to play backup discs from the disc channel without having to overwrite ALL your IOSs with patched versions like the more invasive option; DarkCorp (aka cIOS Corp). The one caveat is that all your disc games will run on IOS249; this should work for most titles, but there may be some that require a different IOS and may not work. Darkcorp will run games using the game's default IOS slot, which differ from game to game, and Darkcorp patches each of them (i.e. slot 36 has a patched IOS36, slot 37 has a patched IOS37, etc.) so compatibility may be slightly better than just using IOS249 since we're not using a one-size fits all cIOS (but again, the vast majority of games run fine with the recommended 249; which typically uses IOS57 or 56 as a base).

Darkcorp is generally not recommended by anyone, as it patches pretty much all your IOSs, which can be problematic for some things, like getting the hackmii installer to run, and it's just not necessary since we have the priiloader method to accomplish the same thing (and since backup discs don't work on new Wii's anyway, and usb-loaders are superior). This method is not encouraged or supported by ModMii. In fact, unless you disable it in the options, ModMii will update your active IOSs in order to overwrite corp'd cIOSs with stock ones.

Following one of these 2 methods should allow older Wii's that are capable to play backup discs from the disc channel. Side note; you only need 249 and neogamma or a usb-loader to play backup discs not from the disc channel, the 2 methods I described are specifically for the disc channel to play backup discs.

Based on your syscheck, there's no reason why USB-Loader GX shouldn't be working, but here are some thing to try. First, make sure you are running the latest version of the loader, get it from here (this is the version that will be used by ModMii in it's next update). Also, try default GX settings, make sure it's loaded using IOS249 (iirc there's a version or a setting to have it run under IOS58)

A few other notes on your situation, see my bolded comments below.

edit: iirc all (or most?) non-white Wii's are not able to load backup discs or install bootmii as boot2

Edit2: if u want, since your wii already has the hbc, next time instead of using the main Modmii wizard u can use its syscheck updater wizard by dragging and dropping your current syscheck onto modmii.exe or modmiiskin.exe (or a shortcut to either) and it will make recommendations based on your unique syscheck report

 

Strange that your original syscheck didn't have a patched ios36, but the one after using modmii does, which doesn't make sense (unless you are accidentally leaving something out) because modmii wouldn't instruct you to install a patched ios36. You must have used mmm or some other tool to installed a patched ios36, or you got the wad from somewhere and installed it that way. Anyway, you don't need a patched Ios36.

That guide you linked to must've been run against the syscheck after using modmii, because it's only suggesting 236, 249 and 250 (which wouldn't be recommended in the next update, it would have said everything in that syscheck is up to date). If u use modmii's syscheck updater on the pre-modmii syscheck it will suggest installing priiloader and a lot of other IOSs and CIOSs. But on the bright side, u just gave me this really good idea to add to the next modmii update (Idea: embed original syscheck in a spoiler when generating syscheck updater guide so there's no question as to what the guide was based on... I can't believe I didn't think of this before, seems so obvious in retrospect)

Oh, and there are workarounds for posting links, like typing something like modmii(dot)github(dot)io. Not a big deal if u prefer to attach files it's all the same, just wanted to mention it.

Keep an eye on this post as I may add more with edits

Edit: rereading I see you actually said u dropped the syscheck pre-restore (I. E. After using modmii, before restoring the nand backup). So my apologies for correcting u on this when it was me that misread. But there isn't much point to this guide, you would want to drag your current syscheck (after restoring you nand backup), as then modmii would help take u from where u r now to where u want to be (which is basically where u were before restoring your nand). Once you're back here we can maybe try to troubleshoot things. I don't think using ohneschwanzenegger to install a fresh nand will solve your issue (you referred to this earlier, just not by name), but if we rule out other things first there's not much harm in trying especially if you have bootmii installed as boot2.

Edit: just to clarify, after using modmii, before restoring your nand backup, Wiiflow lite was working on all the scenarios that UGX and the disc channel failed?

If you are having issues with playing original discs from the disc channel, that might be an indication of some kind of hardware failure or damaged discs (given that both syschecks had all the stock IOSs installed necessary to play original discs).

What's strange is how UGX isn't loading backups off a HDD but Wiiflow lite is... maybe gx does some kind of check of the disc drive that Wiiflow doesn't and it's causing it to hang the same way your disc channel does? I really don't know. You would want to talk to Cyan or blackb0x about how gx works, and fledge86 about Wiiflow lite.

I know that if the disc drive hardware fails (or just a part of it, I can't remember, I'm not a big hardware guy, someone else please clarify what I'm thinking of) then basically nothing works. So if this does turn out to be early signs of hardware failure, consider yourself fortunate that Wiiflow lite still at least works for now.

Yet another edit: sometimes modern loaders have issues creating good backups, or so I'm told. Keep this in mind if u rip a game and it fails, try a different loader or "cleanrip" to make backups, then switch to your preferred loader for playback