I have recently used the amazing newbie guide of nabster92 to softmod my 4.2E Wii.
This had got me to the point where I could use NeoGammaR7 to launch backup games.
Now up until this point I have had WiiConnect24 off while I had been installing the HomeBrew. But I like Wii news and Weather so I thought I would use StartPatch to kill online and disk updates and then turn WiiConnect24 back on.
So this morning I ran StartPatch 4.2.6E.rar on my Wii and installed the following patches
Disable Disc Region Checks 1 to 5
Disable HAXX, DVDX, R2DX checks
Block Disc Updates
Block online Updates
Auto press A at Health screen
All the patches seemed to apply. No errors were returned. And indeed there was no need to press the A at health screen on reboot of the wii.
So I was feeling all confident now that Block online updates patch was in place. So I decided to turn WiiConnect24 back on. And it worked. I downloaded the latest news and weather. Right before I left for work I was playing a game loaded using NeoGammaR7. But when I came home from work this same disk would not play the game. The game would load up to point and then "the game disk could not be read. consult the Manual."
So I restore my NAND backup using BootMii and then suddenly I can play the game again.
So either WiiConnect24 or a game my 8 year old played durring my 8hr absence killed the ability of my Wii to play backup disks.
So what is the "Block online updates" or "Block Disk updates" actually blocking?
For me it does not really seem to work
Is my experience unusual?
ps I have cIOS Rev 14 installed in IOS249 and IOS250 I have Truncha bug in IOS 250, IOS249 and IOS36 HBC 1.0.6
This had got me to the point where I could use NeoGammaR7 to launch backup games.
Now up until this point I have had WiiConnect24 off while I had been installing the HomeBrew. But I like Wii news and Weather so I thought I would use StartPatch to kill online and disk updates and then turn WiiConnect24 back on.
So this morning I ran StartPatch 4.2.6E.rar on my Wii and installed the following patches
Disable Disc Region Checks 1 to 5
Disable HAXX, DVDX, R2DX checks
Block Disc Updates
Block online Updates
Auto press A at Health screen
All the patches seemed to apply. No errors were returned. And indeed there was no need to press the A at health screen on reboot of the wii.
So I was feeling all confident now that Block online updates patch was in place. So I decided to turn WiiConnect24 back on. And it worked. I downloaded the latest news and weather. Right before I left for work I was playing a game loaded using NeoGammaR7. But when I came home from work this same disk would not play the game. The game would load up to point and then "the game disk could not be read. consult the Manual."
So I restore my NAND backup using BootMii and then suddenly I can play the game again.
So either WiiConnect24 or a game my 8 year old played durring my 8hr absence killed the ability of my Wii to play backup disks.
So what is the "Block online updates" or "Block Disk updates" actually blocking?
For me it does not really seem to work
Is my experience unusual?
ps I have cIOS Rev 14 installed in IOS249 and IOS250 I have Truncha bug in IOS 250, IOS249 and IOS36 HBC 1.0.6