My trajetory of safe-upgrading + HELP ME!

So, hello everyone. I'm glad to have joined a forum with so many knowledgeable friends.

I remember when I bought my Wii last year, in August. It is hardmodded, with a D2CPro or a D2CKey, I can't remember which. I also remember that, back then, I could use full SD features of WAD-installed VC games or WiiWare. I could move them over to the SD card, move them back to the Wii... It was awesome. This could mean that I was using v3.2U... but I think I have used 3.3U since the day I bought it. Or at least I thought... Yeah, I guess I was on 3.2U if that kind of thing still worked.

But then, something happened. About two weeks after I got the console , if I recall correctly, I upgraded using a Mario Kart Wii disc. I was such a noob. I wish I could send a clone to the past. But no big deal... anyway, I was oficially on 3.3U. My Wii Menu Config used to say I was on 3.3U since then, so maybe that was what has led me to believe that I had always used it. Anyway, everything was still working fine. The Mario Kart Wii worked, all the discs I had worked, HBC was already installed, it could still install Wads...

I noticed something cwappy though. The inability for the Disc Channel to boot some of my games (I thought it was pure chance, but then I figured all of those discs were whether edited games or region changed - you all know what this means... trucha). No problem, used Gecko OS. I still use it.

And something even more cwappy. The SD features. Couldn't copy anymore. Couldn't move it anymore.

But it was no big deal back at the day. I started using Wad Installer for every single VC/WW I wanted to play, instead of copying straight from the SD card like I used to do on 3.2 (yeah, I installed them all, then just moved them over to the SD card back on the day).

Then the 23th of October came in, and I used the IOS51+Shop installer. Ok.
Also, I used the Mii Channel Updater along with it. So it was more like late November, not October.

Now 4.0 is here... So what I did was installing the cIOS249 rev. 9, that I found out I had never had (checked it using AnyTitleDeleter). I also deleted the VC games I had installed, and Nintendo Channel and Internet Channel (never liked them anyway). I was told that I needed to install the custom IOS before upgrading, so I could still use Wad Manager on 4.0. So that was what I did; because, if I can't use Wad Manager, it's just like a bricked Wii for me. It would break my heart completely.

Installed cIOS249, I ran Waninkoko's Firmware 4.0 Updater. OK, downloaded eveything, installed everything, took about half an hour. Okay, I'm on 4.0 now.

Original games from Disc Channel still works.
Backups from Disc Channel still works.
Trucha disks freezes my Wii, but works using GeckOS.
WAD Manager works.
Install wads. They work fine.
Didn't check the Shop Channel, don't care enough.

But... I moved some channels to the SD card. Namely, My Pokémon Ranch and Excitebike. Excitebike I had just installed, testing the Wad Manager. My Pokémon Ranch was with me all along since Wii Day One. THEY DON'T COPY BACK, just like they did on 3.3U. Even tested it on a formated SD.

What can we conclude from that? That the Wii is exactly the same as it were before 4.0-upgrading, which is a VERY good thing. It did exactly what it says that it does. But, that's not good enough for me - it doesn't solve my problem! I shouldn't have upgraded to 3.3U back when I was a newbie. Today, I could still be enjoying trucha-discs straight from Disc Channel, and I could be copying channels to SD like a mad man - which also means using the SD Card Menu to boot them straight from it. But I threw it all away. There is no hope for me.... or is it!?

I've heard of a Downgrader. Well, I should have used it after installing cIOS249, and before lauching 4.0 Updater. Did I mention that I wish to send a clone to the past?

So now, I need a few answers. I am determined to make up for the past, fix my errors, and get that SD Card Menu working! Of coursing, telling my story along with it

If anyone wants to help, feed me with answers for these questions:

1) Is there a easy-to-use installer I could boot RIGHT AT THE STAGE I'M AT that overwrites some specific IOS's, and installs ones with those two very useful features that everyone loves? (Trucha and SD, it is). That would be useful as hell.

2) If not, I guess the hard way means Downgrading. Is it possible at the stage I'm at?

3) If yes, please give me some tips, advice, things I need to be sure to have, etc. Help me build this successful, interesting and useful story.

Looking forward to it!

 

When I upgraded to 4.0, I wasn't asked if I wanted to install some thing or the other. It just did everything... And I wouldn't be so sure that enforcing the non-upgrading of IOS61 would have helped. It would still use the version I had, from 3.3U, which already blocked trucha signed wads to be copied to the SD card, right? That's what I understand from it, anyway.

 

I've heard somewhere that downgrading from 4.0 is hard. I am scared.

 

Now I've heard it's impossible for the moment. I really really really should have downgraded before updating.

 

I will now do as drmarvin said, and find the IOS 60/61 + Shop installer, and only install IOS61. I can't find it anywhere though...

 

Yeah yeah, I used the 60+61+Shop installer, but I was told to only download, install and patch the IOS60. That's what I did. Works great now, trucha *AND* SD

 

It was a typo... please LEARN 2 RESPECT