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[davidsl_128]

Greetings. I just got into the rom/emulator thing a couple of weeks ago with my DSi.

I have already upgraded to 4.0, I did it before I knew I shouldn't. I have a couple questions for Wii emulation:

1. If I buy a new Wii, will it still have 3.4?
2. Can I xfer VC games from my current Wii to my new one?
3. Can you still play games online with 3.4 or do you have to upgrade?
4. Can you buy games from the VC with 3.4, so you don't have to upgrade to 4.0?0
5. Is there any other way to "downgrade" now other than getting a new Wii at the store?

Thanks in advance for your help, this is a great site.

WW

Maybe some of my answers are wrong, but here it goes:
1- Probably. New Wiis usually don't come with up to date firmware; at least the new Wiis I have softmodded (about 10) were always an update or two below the new one.
2- Not by yourself. You can take it to an official Nintendo Store/Repair Center/whatever they'll transfer your stuff, but maybe they'd update your Wii to the new firmware in the process.
3- Newer games that use the new IOS like MadWorld or NFS won't work, but you can manually install these IOS using the Wad Manager and then they'll work.
4- I'm not sure about this one, but I think that you need the new firmware to use the Shop Channel. Sorry

5- There's currently no way to downgrade a 4.0 Wii, but the guys in Team Twiizers said that they had found other exploits to run homebrew in those. You should probably wait until one of these exploits is released.

Well, this is the first time I post to answer something instead of asking something in this topic

Hope this helps

 

[Deleted User]

whats the fastest way to get from 3.1e to 3.4e?


Update with a game that has 3.4 on it.




for e.g. would that be what?


Madworld, Pikmin

I know I'm going to get a swift ass kicking for this, but here goes nothing:

I was pretty up on things w/ the twilight hack and wads and things, all the way up through gamma and the gamecube loader. However, I have been busy playing games and working and I just recently found out that there is usb loaders available. Where in the world do I start? Seems like there are a million of them, and I'm not sure how to go about it. I would like the most stable version/best one out there but it seems, from reading up on some of them that they all seem to claim to be "the best".. Can someone point me to a good one, that has a good readme/walkthrough and has a list of what i'll need?

Thanks in advance, I know this has to have been asked a million times, but I just keep finding more questions and less answers.

Check the stickies, there's even a Bible for it.

Okay I have a softmodded Wii with 3.2U. I merely want to access the Wii Shop channel, which as of the 4.0 update, I cannot do so. I don't really care for the SD channel as I do not have any large SD cards anyway.

What exactly do I need to get access to the Wii Shop without updating?

If it helps I only have IOS16, 38 and 55.

Edit: And if I did want the SD channel what would I have to do for that?

So you want:
1)Shop Channel to be working
2)SD Channel

What you have to do, is run Waninkoko Upgrader. With it, you can get to 4.0 and keep 3.2's trucha IOS in tact.




Posts merged

Very new but a good grasp on Wii software modifications.
This is my issue:
2 days ago downgraded from 3.4U to 3.2U and all went well. Installed Homebrew 1.0.1 and currently has IOS36 V12.18. I installed backup loader and able to play backedup games and use many other applications.

I'm trying to install SDUSB_loader_v1.5, dvdx and Mplayer (tried mplayer-ce, mplayer-wii). Anyway I've tried to do it I get errors. For example:
DVD stub Installer v0.2
Error - 2011 installing DVD stub ticket
Error - 2011 installing stub

In the WAD folder there are the following installed wads:
IOS16-64-v257-prod.wad
IOS38-64-v3609.wad

Maybe I'm going about it all wrong and any help would be appreciated. My goal is to be able to (1) Play Origional DVDs from the dvd drive (backup up DVD-r would be even better) and (2) Use my 30gb FAT usb drive to store movie files and play them through the Wii. I would be REALLY impressed If I could use my 1TB FAT drive to play movies of different formats and be able to store and play my backed up games from it?

I read many how to's and watched many Youtube videos (which is how I learned to downgrade the Wii and install the homebrew channel) and I doesn't seem to go as smoothly as the videos show.

Thanks

This is a problem. You shouldn't follow youtube videos. They are either:
1)A cause for main problems
2)Outdated

One thing you should follow is the guides here rather than the youtube videos. That way, we can analyze what's your problem and report back to you.

Have you installed a cIOS? You haven't? You gotta install it first. And install the latest one (cIOS 36 rev9/10)

Have you ran IOS Downgrader? Run it.

One of those should fix your problem

QUOTE(Cue2 @ Apr 24 2009, 03:05 AM)

Thanks tj_cool, that clears some things up.

As for the second question, the reason I asked was because I had read that I needed cIOSv36 or higher and thought that cIOSv37 was its successor making cIOSv36 obsolete. I guess I will just hunt down both then. Thanks again.

1 more question does this then mean if I perform an official firmware update it will overwrite some IOSs and even some cIOS or simply create new ones?

Don't hunt down both. cIOS 36 is the better, and its rev10 is the newest. Get that (Or cIOS 36 rev9 since people have been reporting issues with rev 10)

Yes, when you perform an official update, a newer IOS will replace the older ones. But unlike IOS, cIOS is installed at a very high number, which is 249. For now, Nintendo has yet to create an IOS which has the number 249. So, it won't get overwritten.

QUOTE(Geddes321 @ Apr 24 2009, 04:42 AM)

I've got stuck between 3.4 and upgrading to 4.0. The system shows 3.4e but I can't get HBC to work - when I run HBC it boots back to system menu. From reading one of the other guides it mentions that it might be due to a missing IOS file.

I've run anytitle deleter and got a list of IOS's can anyone tell me if I'm missing a file or if there is a guide to downgrading back to 3.2 without running HBC?

List of IOS's

5 16 254 51 10 50 36
28 22 14 37 33 35 34
31 20 30 21 17 15 13
12 11 9 4

Other stuff title deleter shows (in case it's a root of my prob!)
mios
bc
sysmenu

There's a thread like this somewhere. I suggest you search for it.


QUOTE(WinstonWolf @ Apr 24 2009, 06:49 AM)

Greetings. I just got into the rom/emulator thing a couple of weeks ago with my DSi.

I have already upgraded to 4.0, I did it before I knew I shouldn't. I have a couple questions for Wii emulation:

1. If I buy a new Wii, will it still have 3.4?
2. Can I xfer VC games from my current Wii to my new one?
3. Can you still play games online with 3.4 or do you have to upgrade?
4. Can you buy games from the VC with 3.4, so you don't have to upgrade to 4.0?0
5. Is there any other way to "downgrade" now other than getting a new Wii at the store?

Thanks in advance for your help, this is a great site.

WW

1. Yes, it is most probable. No Wiis have been shipped that has 4.0 on it.

2. no..... you can't.

3.Yes, you can still play online with 3.4

4.Yea, but that requires some homebrewing. Run WiiSCU and install IOS 61 (With trucha bug) and install Shop Channel

5.Yes, there's a guide somewhere round here, look for it

.

(Had to double post, Posting restrictions)

 

[john.jingle]

I'm having some trouble loading some MultiIso games on my gamecube backup launcher.
First was that the screen turns black and white and flickers whenever I insert a multigame dvd. But this was easily remedied by inserting a working non multi iso game that is also the same region as the multigame and then ejecting the dvd back out and then inserting the multigame dvd.
Then, there's the bigger problem, MGS:TTS. This is a multigame iso that is NTSC-U and unshrunk. I made it a multigame .iso file and then burned it on a DVD at 2.4 speed. Everything is going well and I did the first trick said above to bypass the whole black and while flickering screen but I can't get passed the KONAMI logo... Help!

 

[FunkyFlyChicken]

Hello, I have a question I am hoping someone can answer for me.

I have a softmodded Wii, and I just decided to check out Waninkoko's USB Loader. I have 1.5 loader installed on the Wii, and I have WBFS Manager installed on my PC. I have been able to successfully put backups of game discs on SD Card/USB drives, but I cannot figure out how to do WiiWare games.

Is there a way for the USB/SD Loaders to load WiiWare games off of the SD Card directly? Due to downloadable songs from Guitar Hero, I have very little Wii System memory left, and because my Wii is softmodded (3.2e firmware), I don't think I can run them off of SD card otherwise.

Any help/info would be appreciated.

 

[icebrg5]

Hello, I have a question I am hoping someone can answer for me.

I have a softmodded Wii, and I just decided to check out Waninkoko's USB Loader. I have 1.5 loader installed on the Wii, and I have WBFS Manager installed on my PC. I have been able to successfully put backups of game discs on SD Card/USB drives, but I cannot figure out how to do WiiWare games.

Is there a way for the USB/SD Loaders to load WiiWare games off of the SD Card directly? Due to downloadable songs from Guitar Hero, I have very little Wii System memory left, and because my Wii is softmodded (3.2e firmware), I don't think I can run them off of SD card otherwise.

Any help/info would be appreciated.

Update to 4.0 and you can use official nintendo feature of running vc/wiiware from sd cards.
The usb/sd loader can not do it at the moment.

If you do update to 4.0 make sure you have the proper stuff installed before doing so.
Just check out the guides on the board.

 

[Sir VG]

Somebody was asking me if it's possible to downgrade from 3.4 to 3.2 without needing internet. Only ways I know require internet. Just checking to make sure I'm not missing a method.

 

[wiimanizer]

how do i gain much more memory space on the wii? cause right now, after moving a few wiiwares to my sd, i still got 2 left on the wii but i have no more space on my sd card[2.6 MBs left], so i have like 800 something blocks left on the system. what is there that i can safely delete besides material for hacks and save data?

 

[MADKATZ99]

plz halp

Madworld NTSC on a 3.4E PAL wii is giving a black screen after start-up...

I'm no good with gecko, I have a wiikey 1.9g I think so I thought I wouldn't have to patch it with regionfree... would that solve the situation?

EDIT: The ISO is clean, I havn't touched it.

 

[wiimanizer]

another question to add...
ive been DLing ssx blur ntsc for weeks now and its stuck at 98.9% and never budges from there.
same with excitebots, except i DLed today and it started DLing like real fast and stopped moving at 4.8%. whats the deal here?

 

[Sportsmaniac1322]

another question to add...
ive been DLing ssx blur ntsc for weeks now and its stuck at 98.9% and never budges from there.
same with excitebots, except i DLed today and it started DLing like real fast and stopped moving at 4.8%. whats the deal here?

That usually means that the people aren't seeding. Either wait it out or find another download.

I have a question as well. I need to dump an NTSC SSBB, and I'm having a bit of trouble. I've tried dumping via the USB loader, but that's still pretty unstable. I also tried dumping with Waninkoko's DVD Dumper 1.3, but for some reason it wouldn't send the index.html file over WiFi, and it also wouldn't mount my USB flash drive. What method does everyone else use (and I want a full DVD9 copy, since I'll be burning it on a dual layer disc).

 

[wiimanizer]

how do i gain much more memory space on the wii? cause right now, after moving a few wiiwares to my sd, i still got 2 left on the wii but i have no more space on my sd card[2.6 MBs left], so i have like 800 something blocks left on the system. what is there that i can safely delete besides material for hacks and save data?

 

[Sportsmaniac1322]

how do i gain much more memory space on the wii? cause right now, after moving a few wiiwares to my sd, i still got 2 left on the wii but i have no more space on my sd card[2.6 MBs left], so i have like 800 something blocks left on the system. what is there that i can safely delete besides material for hacks and save data?

It's up to you to decide what you think is worth having on your SD card. You should probably just get a new one anyways. A 2GB costs less than $10 now, so they're highly affordable. The Wii also accepts SDHC now, which means you can go up to 8GBs if you want to (and those aren't all that expensive either).

 

[wiimanizer]

how do i gain much more memory space on the wii? cause right now, after moving a few wiiwares to my sd, i still got 2 left on the wii but i have no more space on my sd card[2.6 MBs left], so i have like 800 something blocks left on the system. what is there that i can safely delete besides material for hacks and save data?

It's up to you to decide what you think is worth having on your SD card. You should probably just get a new one anyways. A 2GB costs less than $10 now, so they're highly affordable. The Wii also accepts SDHC now, which means you can go up to 8GBs if you want to (and those aren't all that expensive either).

i know, im going to get one soon. my point though is towards the wii's memory. what things can i safely delete so that i can create more room for save data for the long run?

 

[FunkyFlyChicken]

Hello, I have a question I am hoping someone can answer for me.

I have a softmodded Wii, and I just decided to check out Waninkoko's USB Loader. I have 1.5 loader installed on the Wii, and I have WBFS Manager installed on my PC. I have been able to successfully put backups of game discs on SD Card/USB drives, but I cannot figure out how to do WiiWare games.

Is there a way for the USB/SD Loaders to load WiiWare games off of the SD Card directly? Due to downloadable songs from Guitar Hero, I have very little Wii System memory left, and because my Wii is softmodded (3.2e firmware), I don't think I can run them off of SD card otherwise.

Any help/info would be appreciated.

Update to 4.0 and you can use official nintendo feature of running vc/wiiware from sd cards.
The usb/sd loader can not do it at the moment.

If you do update to 4.0 make sure you have the proper stuff installed before doing so.
Just check out the guides on the board.

I read though that the update to 4.0 will allow Nintendo to automatically force install of any new firmwares, is this true? It's the main reason I was afraid to even bother asking about using that in order to utilize SD card for loading WiiWare. Thank you for your reply. If anyone knows tho if it's true that updating to 4.0 opens you up to auto-updates from Nintendo, please let me know. If it doesn't force future updates, maybe I will try it...

 

[Coolsnarf]

Hi,
I got 2 questions:

- I'm on 3.2E (at least my wii says that), but I can go into the Wii shop. Does that mean I did update to 4.0, or is that another update?
- Depends on the answer of the first one : If I am going to update to 4.0, should I delete Starfall from my Wii (and maybe other programs), or can I just let it there?

I know the first one is a little stupid, because I should be the one to know if I did the update, but because in the beginning the Wii shop didn't work I did some installs to get it working.

 

[tj_cool]

Hi,
I got 2 questions:

- I'm on 3.2E (at least my wii says that), but I can go into the Wii shop. Does that mean I did update to 4.0, or is that another update?
No your still on 3.2, you only have the right IOS and other files to make the shop work
- Depends on the answer of the first one : If I am going to update to 4.0, should I delete Starfall from my Wii (and maybe other programs), or can I just let it there?
Starfall doesn't work on 4.0 (get preloader0.29 instead) but other apps should work if you use waninkokos sys menu 4.0 updater

I know the first one is a little stupid, because I should be the one to know if I did the update, but because in the beginning the Wii shop didn't work I did some installs to get it working.

 

[icebrg5]

Hello, I have a question I am hoping someone can answer for me.

I have a softmodded Wii, and I just decided to check out Waninkoko's USB Loader. I have 1.5 loader installed on the Wii, and I have WBFS Manager installed on my PC. I have been able to successfully put backups of game discs on SD Card/USB drives, but I cannot figure out how to do WiiWare games.

Is there a way for the USB/SD Loaders to load WiiWare games off of the SD Card directly? Due to downloadable songs from Guitar Hero, I have very little Wii System memory left, and because my Wii is softmodded (3.2e firmware), I don't think I can run them off of SD card otherwise.

Any help/info would be appreciated.

Update to 4.0 and you can use official nintendo feature of running vc/wiiware from sd cards.
The usb/sd loader can not do it at the moment.

If you do update to 4.0 make sure you have the proper stuff installed before doing so.
Just check out the guides on the board.

I read though that the update to 4.0 will allow Nintendo to automatically force install of any new firmwares, is this true? It's the main reason I was afraid to even bother asking about using that in order to utilize SD card for loading WiiWare. Thank you for your reply. If anyone knows tho if it's true that updating to 4.0 opens you up to auto-updates from Nintendo, please let me know. If it doesn't force future updates, maybe I will try it...

That automatically force of updates was in the 3.4 update actually.So if you ever agreed to update to 3.4 from nintendo then thats when you agreed.

Even though thats when it happened when 4.0 came out it still prompted you to download the new 4.0 update.It never did it on its own without you knowing.

 

[Cue2]

Thanks tj_cool, that clears some things up.

As for the second question, the reason I asked was because I had read that I needed cIOSv36 or higher and thought that cIOSv37 was its successor making cIOSv36 obsolete. I guess I will just hunt down both then. Thanks again.

1 more question does this then mean if I perform an official firmware update it will overwrite some IOSs and even some cIOS or simply create new ones?

Don't hunt down both. cIOS 36 is the better, and its rev10 is the newest. Get that (Or cIOS 36 rev9 since people have been reporting issues with rev 10)

Yes, when you perform an official update, a newer IOS will replace the older ones. But unlike IOS, cIOS is installed at a very high number, which is 249. For now, Nintendo has yet to create an IOS which has the number 249. So, it won't get overwritten.

I see, thanks. So the cIOS number does not correspond to the IOS number to which it is installed. does this then mean both cIOS 36 and cIOS 37 install to IOS 249 overwriting each other. were they written to perform the same functions by different people?
I also assume that were I to update my firmware, preloader will no longer work since IOS30 and 60 would simply be overwritten but this will not cause a brick; correct?

 

[thefil]

Hello Wii Hackers. I come to you destitute and ashamed.

Here is my situation: I have a 4.0 Wii with homebrew channel installed. It's serial number is LU64+. It has no pirated games installed on it, nor am I interested in pirating anything.

This is the situation I want to be in: 4.0 firmware where I can still use HBC and Shop Channel, but also ISO Loader. Once again, this is not for piracy reasons. Hard to believe, but I just like having a bunch of games loadable for convenience. If possible, I would also like to be able to have each game in it's own neat little loader package, appearing on the Wii home screen. I also want to be able to use all my legally purchased WiiWare games. I don't care if illegal ones work or not.

Now I've done some research myself, and this is what I think my procedure has to be:

1) Use this to downgrade my Wii to 3.2U.
2) Install cIOS. Question: Which ciOS do I install? Is there a tutorial?
3) Upgrade to Wankinko's 4.0 Question: Is there a better alternative I should be considering?
4) Install ISO Loader following one of many tutorial Question: Is there a tutorial which will show me how to have each game show up on my Wii home menu?

Here's the big question: Can I follow this procedure with LU64+? Am I at a risk of bricking? Am I completely wrong?

Please help me! You're my only hope.

 

[Coolsnarf]

Hi,
I got 2 questions:

- I'm on 3.2E (at least my wii says that), but I can go into the Wii shop. Does that mean I did update to 4.0, or is that another update?
No your still on 3.2, you only have the right IOS and other files to make the shop work
- Depends on the answer of the first one : If I am going to update to 4.0, should I delete Starfall from my Wii (and maybe other programs), or can I just let it there?
Starfall doesn't work on 4.0 (get preloader0.29 instead) but other apps should work if you use waninkokos sys menu 4.0 updater

I know the first one is a little stupid, because I should be the one to know if I did the update, but because in the beginning the Wii shop didn't work I did some installs to get it working.

Ok, but should I first uninstall starfall, or can i just begin installing to 4.0?
And what is better anyway, should I stay at 3.2 or should I update to 4.0?