Homebrew Need help booting a Wii U modded by previous owner

[kaffe19]

I just got my hands on a pre-owned Wii U.

When i try power it on the Wii U logo appears, then the screen turns black showing -3 in top left corner.

I am new to this stuff but figured there the firmware might have been modified. So i put something called haxchi on a sd card and the console now boots in to the haxchi software. When i press the home button to get to the system menu it reboots to haxchi.

Any ideas how i can get it to boot in to the system menu. Or how i can proceed to make the console useful?

 

[Mnecraft368]

I just got my hands on a pre-owned Wii U.

When i try power it on the Wii U logo appears, then the screen turns black showing -3 in top left corner.

I am new to this stuff but figured there the firmware might have been modified. So i put something called haxchi on a sd card and the console now boots in to the haxchi software. When i press the home button to get to the system menu it reboots to haxchi.

Any ideas how i can get it to boot in to the system menu. Or how i can proceed to make the console useful?

You should probably ask for a refund. Selling modded consoles is illegal afaik.

 

[tastymeatball]

Did you try holding B when Haxchi is booting? He may mapped the sysmenu to the B button so it will boot when you hold B while haxchi is loading

 

[kaffe19]

You should probably ask for a refund. Selling modded consoles is illegal afaik.

I got the console in a lot with other stuff sold as is. So if i can't get it working that is OK.

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Did you try holding B when Haxchi is booting? He may mapped the sysmenu to the B button so it will boot when you hold B while haxchi is loading

Another problem is that i have no gamepad paired with the console. And it seems to be like you have to be in the system menu to pair one. I can navigate in haxchi with a wiimote though, not sure if holdning B on that does anything?

 

[tastymeatball]

Try downloading https://github.com/dibas/nnupatcher-hbl/releases and launching that from HBL. This should hoopefully bring you to the homemenu after appling a patch that lets you enter the eshop without beeing on the latest version

 

[DaTank45]

I believe -3 is an sd card issue. Can you take the sd card out and try to boot the wii u? You could also try taking the sd card out and copy the files to your pc. Then format the sd card to fat 32 with 32kb clusters and copy the files back to the card. If the card is larger than 32gb you will need a program like gui format to properly format the sd card. You also could copy the files to a new sd card.

 

[kaffe19]

@tastymeatball

I just tried this, no luck. After loading the patch it Wii U menu starts to load but then everything goes black.


@DaTank45,

-3 Is what I get without any SD inserted, I got the consol without any. After som searching I tried formatting a SD card like you said and installed haxchi to it. This is the only way i have got it to boot so far. Still can't reach the system menu.

 

[Tri-Z]

@tastymeatball

I just tried this, no luck. After loading the patch it Wii U menu starts to load but then everything goes black.


@DaTank45,

-3 Is what I get without any SD inserted, I got the consol without any. After som searching I tried formatting a SD card like you said and installed haxchi to it. This is the only way i have got it to boot so far. Still can't reach the system menu.

To start haxchi you’d have to be on System menu. I wonder if you have coldboot haxchi and it’s setup to auto boot an app. Maybe like mocha or something and cause it’s not on sd card that’s why ur getting error
What I’d do is dl the apps and put in Wii U/apps folder and if have the right app it’s trying to auto boot it should solve perhaps. You can press home button after the first two splash screens and if cbhc there’s a message at top of the screen. It will take u to cbhc menu. And if no press anything then it’s gonna auto boot what it was set to, but if u don’t have that app in the right spot it’s gonna error.
I see a lot of peep unecessarely do cbhc and mocha so I’m wondering if it’s set to autoboot mocha from within cbhc menu and since u no have it in apps ur getting as error
If can press home button when I said change it to sysmenu
Or maybe try putting mocha app in apps folder and see if it’s trying to autoboot that. I’m not sure why it would crash or go black screen after leave hblauncher and not just go to home menu with no sig patch

 

[kaffe19]

To start haxchi you’d have to be on System menu. I wonder if you have coldboot haxchi and it’s setup to auto boot an app. Maybe like mocha or something and cause it’s not on sd card that’s why ur getting error
What I’d do is dl the apps and put in Wii U/apps folder and if have the right app it’s trying to auto boot it should solve perhaps. You can press home button after the first two splash screens and if cbhc there’s a message at top of the screen. It will take u to cbhc menu. And if no press anything then it’s gonna auto boot what it was set to, but if u don’t have that app in the right spot it’s gonna error.
I see a lot of peep unecessarely do cbhc and mocha so I’m wondering if it’s set to autoboot mocha from within cbhc menu and since u no have it in apps ur getting as error
If can press home button when I said change it to sysmenu
Or maybe try putting mocha app in apps folder and see if it’s trying to autoboot that. I’m not sure why it would crash or go black screen after leave hblauncher and not just go to home menu with no sig patch

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried install mocha on the SD, nothing seems to change. I also tried load mocha from haxchi but it just takes me back to haxchi. Tried pressing home button on a regular wiimote but no difference. Is there anyway I can pair my gamepad without accessing the system menu?