No option for bootmii / priiloader questions

[Homeslice]

I modded my wii ages ago (10+ years) and am just now coming back to it.

I am trying to make a NAND backup but cannot get the option to launch bootmii. So I tried reinstalling it, couldn't install as boot2 so I just did an IOS. Still no dice on any option in the homebrew channel.

I also believe I never installed priiloader, holding the reset and power button boots the wii as normal.
In wikibrew I see this mentioned: "It is recommended to install Priiloader only on a Wii with unmodified IOSs."
Not really sure what this means, my buddy told me DIOS MIO is ancient and to just install nintendont. For some reason, wiiflow was broken after some changes, so I switched to usbloadergx and I had to use the d2x cIOS Installer to get my games working. I also see some IOS58 app on my HBC which I likely used those 10+ years ago.

Did any of these modify my ios in a way it'd be risky to try installing priiloader? I feel naked without any brick protection or NAND backup.

 

[MysticStarlight]

First things first, run "Syscheck ModMii Edition" and post the results here.

Since you modded your wii a decade ago I'd recommend updating your softmod with ModMii (a Windows app). Also take a look to this guide: wii.hacks.guide

 

[Homeslice]

First things first, run "Syscheck ModMii Edition" and post the results here.

Since you modded your wii a decade ago I'd recommend updating your softmod with ModMii (a Windows app). Also take a look to this guide:

I'm actually an idiot, I was hitting "prepare sd card" instead of install bootmii as an ios. Oops .

I'll run a syscheck when im off work. I see wiihacks page on priiloader doesn't mention anything about modified IOS, but wiibrews wikipage on it does.

 

[Ryccardo]

I see wiihacks page on priiloader doesn't mention anything about modified IOS, but wiibrews wikipage on it does.

Know the biases of who you're getting advice from - I hate "GX" homebrew for their poor ripoffs of the official UI, Wiibrew has always had an anti-CIOS agenda and doubled down on it since the discovery of AHBPROT

Yes, CIOS or not does not particularly matter (not to the installer, which will prefer AHBPROT anyway, and not to Priiloader itself even though there are other benefits to having a trucha-enabled Wii Menu IOS, like the ModMii-recommended patched & tirleID-changed IOS60);
besides BootMii-IOS can't restore a backup without a GC controller and to even get there you need to use something else... like Priiloader, but if you can do that you can run other homebrew that you can use to fix the actual problem you got into

 

[Homeslice]

Here's my syscheck:

Spoiler

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 135170374
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 119 titles.
Found 49 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS248[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta3): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta3): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta3): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta3): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10 (DIOS MIOS Lite 2.11+)
Report generated on 05/17/2025.

Looks like I already had modmii installed on my SD card too.

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

Given your syscheck report, it's correct, but you're missing Priiloader.

Highly recommended ==> install Priiloader ==>
https://wii.hacks.guide/priiloader.html

And good luck and enjoy your Wii gaming!

 

[Homeslice]

Hello,

Given your syscheck report, it's correct, but you're missing Priiloader.

Highly recommended ==> install Priiloader ==>


And good luck and enjoy your Wii gaming!

Thanks, looks like the wikipage I saw just meant a modified ios 80, which I haven't touched.

 

[jeannotte]

I saw just meant a modified ios 80, which I haven't touched.

Whether iOS 80 is modified or not, you can install Priiloader ==> it's an added layer of security.

Isn't this what you saw? ==>
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Priiloader_Wii

 

[Homeslice]

Whether iOS 80 is modified or not, you can install Priiloader ==> it's an added layer of security.

Isn't this what you saw? ==>

I can't post the link, but it's wiibrew.orgs wiki page on priiloader mentions it. I can't post links yet cus new.

 

[XFlak]

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Priiloader

No mention of Ios80 as far as I can tell.

It doesn't even matter what it says, in practice it requires a vanilla system menu (with or without themes are both fine), but a patched system menu ios doesn't prevent u from installing priiloader

 

[Homeslice]

No mention of Ios80 as far as I can tell.

It doesn't even matter what it says, in practice it requires a vanilla system menu (with or without themes are both fine), but a patched system menu ios doesn't prevent u from installing priiloader

I found the ios80 thing being mentioned somewhere else, probably outdated info. Can't even remember where I saw it now.

"It is recommended to install Priiloader only on a Wii with unmodified IOSs." Was the excerpt from the link that confused me. I already installed it no issues.