Well, i fiqured I'd post here before i threw this out as a possible new thread:
I've had my wii since launch. I picked it up after camping out, brought a wiikey (orinigal) when they came out from divino, and had it installed.
It's worked wonderfully, and i've had it sitting in my closet since mario galaxy and all the FW update madness. I recently moved and decided to drag it out and play it again. I made some legit backup isos from legit copys of games and it ran them just fine. These games were World at war, pirates vs. ninjas dodgeball and fantasy aquarium world.
The wiikey was at 1.9
So, then a buddy wanted to play ghost busters, so i made a legit backup of my legit software, and we ran it, asks for an update, i say it's bad news and buddy says it's not. So i update to 4.0, and wo-o, none of my legit backups are running now, "unauthorized device detected."
I asked a friend about softmoding and downgradeing, and this is what she had me do: (Yes, an actual female.)
- Used bannerbomb to install HBC and DVDX.
- Then used the HBC to run no CIOS 4.0 Fix.
- Was then to run CMDVDX34, to downgrade, but un-beknown to me my wi-fi had died during the inital run. After restarting it i got the "Maybe you already ran this message?"
- So then went ahead and used wad manager to install the IOS35 of a copy obtained from a legit, owned game. She said this should be ok.
- Installed CIOS V.7 with the install set to IOS35.
- She then had me install CIOS 36 Rev 10 useing internet connection.
After all this my legit backups were working again, besides for new games..ghost busters and deadly creatures do not work, but world at war still works fine, as well as any older backups of purchased titles; such as dragon blade.
So, after trying a lot of things i read about CIOS Rev 13 a and updated to that (saying to use IOS 35, again, since said lady friend was no longer around and i assumed i was to do this again.). Still no go with the GB/deadly creatures, but i no longer get unautorized device error, just a disc read error. So i did some extra burns at both slower and faster speeds with speed with verifcations and still no go. I've also tryed neogamma 4, with this i can sometimes get GB to the loading screen, where it loads for a bit then gives me the disc read error, or it gives the apparently classic green screen, freezes at the wii-strap screen, or resets the wii. Deadly creatures just resets the wii.
Previous working backups (including dodgeball and World at war) boot fine from disc menu or neogamma 4, ethier way.
Did i screw up somewhere? Is there something simpler to do with the wiikey? Should i just use USB loader? Trying to avoid that since i dont have a spare USB HDD i can just wipe clean.
Thanks for any input.