My Wii U soft bricked

[AhmetOmer]

Hello. I did buy a Japanese Wii U and i did change region with minute menu guide. Then, i wanna did vWii region change but i guess i did wrong things. First of all, my vWii turned brick, whenever i open vWii, console was restart to Wii U menu.

No matter what I did, I couldn't save the vWii. That's why I formatted the console, but the minute menu was still there and the console was not starting in Japanese, it was setting up in English. I tried turning on the vWii anyway but it was doing the same thing again. Then I deleted everything on the SD card and formatted the console again. But this time, I entered the internet password incorrectly while doing the setup, so I was too lazy to enter it again and decided to log in later. When I opened the console again, this was the view I saw. When I press OK, the console restarts and comes to this menu again. So it doesn't update. I also held down B while the console was booting, but until the Wii booted, this screen appeared again and I couldn't do anything else except press OK.

 

[Alexrose]

I'm assuming if you were following the guide that your vwii bricked because you used decaffeinator to remove the system menu, and because you had minute installing you were blocking updates so you couldn't do a system update afterwards? The solution to that is to use an old version of wafel

I don't know about your gamepad issue, or whether you have actually removed minute from your system (maybe not if it's installed to boot2 or you used ftpiiu to make the hax folder), but as a first measure I would put all the minute and aroma files back onto your sd card to see if you can get back to there. since you changed the region, and you can't change a gamepad reason, and you turned off aroma, now your wii u is incompatible with your japanese gamepad. maybe you could pair to a wiimote instead?

if all else fails it's probably not "bricked" you would just have to connect it to a gamepad from your region and hack it again. as well, in future if you want to reverse a problem like this you can just restore from nand since you presumably followed the step to back up the nand when you installed isfshax

 

[AhmetOmer]

I'm assuming if you were following the guide that your vwii bricked because you used decaffeinator to remove the system menu, and because you had minute installing you were blocking updates so you couldn't do a system update afterwards? The solution to that is to use an old version of wafel

I don't know about your gamepad issue, or whether you have actually removed minute from your system (maybe not if it's installed to boot2 or you used ftpiiu to make the hax folder), but as a first measure I would put all the minute and aroma files back onto your sd card to see if you can get back to there. since you changed the region, and you can't change a gamepad reason, and you turned off aroma, now your wii u is incompatible with your japanese gamepad. maybe you could pair to a wiimote instead?

if all else fails it's probably not "bricked" you would just have to connect it to a gamepad from your region and hack it again. as well, in future if you want to reverse a problem like this you can just restore from nand since you presumably followed the step to back up the nand when you installed isfshax

Unfortunately, I deleted everything on the SD card. So Minute etc. There is nothing as a backup. That's why I can't put it back. I also tried it with Wiimote, but the screen is still the same. And I think minute is still there because the power light is slightly purple, again, before minute it was blue. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, I need to be able to log in to the console in order to install isfshax. Also for Nand solution.

Post automatically merged: Aug 3, 2024

I drained the gamepad's battery and turned on the console, this time it worked. Of course, since I'm deleting everything, I'll start all over again. But I need to be able to do this without a gamepad. Because the moment I connect the gamepad, it does the same thing again.

 

[Alexrose]

@AhmetOmer a wii remote should be able to pilot the menu without a gamepad. but.. you can just put the stuff back on the sd card. other than your memory dump (which you've deleted and which you should always back up), there's nothing special about the files on your sd card, you can just follow the same guide and put the same files on again and assuming isfshax is still installed it will just work

 

[SDIO]

Just put minute, stroopwafel, payloader, isfshax patch V1 and aroma back on the SD. Aroma removes the gamepad region lock, so that would work again.
Once you are at the Wii U menu, shutdown again, remove the payloadloader plugin, so it boots without aroma and then do the update.
After the update put the payloadloader plugin back, if you want Aroma and also put the latest version of the isfshax patch back

 

[Alexrose]

You can also just temporarily use stroopwafel version 1.0 and that won't disable updates from minute. After that, if you boot without an SD card in and you followed the steps on getting it to boot, Aroma shouldn't boot so it won't block the updates and you should be able to update. I did this the other day on a JP Wii U, worked great

 

[AhmetOmer]

A few days ago I tried installing Aroma without a Gamepad. Because the moment I connected the gamepad, it did the same thing again. But after installing Aroma, I could guess that this problem could be solved. The problem is; I need to exploit to install Aroma. In order to exploit, I need to enter the browser. I also need a gamepad to enter the browser because the browser interface is not visible on the TV screen, only the theater curtain is visible.

I asked a friend of mine who has a gamepad for the European region to lend it. I think the console is still in the European region, because as I said; Even if I format it, the console does the setup in English. After exploiting with my friend's gamepad, I hope my Japan gamepad will also work without any problems. More precisely, I hope my friend's Gamepad does not experience this problem.

 

[SDIO]

You could just have done like you were told and load aroma via the payloadloader plugin and use your gamepad