G'day all, been coming here for a long time, but first time i've actually needed to ask a question i could already fine answered elsewhere
Righto so i've got a Wii with 3.3E firmware, i havn't really been keeping up with loaders and such so everythings a fair bit out of date (all the IOS's aswell as HB's and so on)
My sister had a Wii with the same firmware (3.3) that accidently got updated to 4.2 and i spent today rehacking HBC/etc onto it (They didn't really want to pull out the original games cause you know how children under 3 are with "good" things)
So to cut a long story short i got it all up and running but it got me thinking, is there any benefit for me to upgrade to a higher firmware? Her's pretty much functions exactly the same as it did on 3.3 (Though, there is 1 game, the new "Cricket Wii" game, won't boot, but if you reboot with the loader it'll load in the disc channel then die when you try to launch the game, though on my console, even with old launchers, its works perfectly?)
Been hunting around and i see 4.2 is pretty much an "anti-HB" update so no real reason to update to that right?
Though i saw 4.0/4.1 are the ones that introduce SD card related goodies and reported as "boosting wii performance" aswell as bug fix's, so would it be worth upgrading to 4.1 maybe? Use wanikoko's firmware upgrader? does that basically upgrade your console to 4.1 just without the nintendo nasties?
Or should i do a upgrade to 4.2 via nintendo's updater (i did see that some consoles were getting bricked from that tho?), then just downgrade from 4.2 to 4.1? (upgrade > install everything then downgrade as per
this guide, which is what i used to recrack my sisters wii)
Or should i just stay at 3.3? Do all the IOS's that are released (for anything, like the 249/222/223's and all those for usb loaders and such) pretty much import all the features i'd get in 4.0+ anyway?
BTW with the new super mario bro's, do you need v4.2 to play it? or will it play on any version (I intend on buying it, but i don't want it to need me to upgrade to 4.2 or something !) or even is there a better chance for a backup to work via a loader on the newer firmware compared to the old firmware or what?
Would really like some advice on which way to go on all this
ps, is CIOScorp worth putting on even with all the "risk's" stated in the readme? Or should i just stick with Neogamma and Softchip? (I use channel forwarders so the ability to load directly from disc channel isn't really a deciding factor here)
oh, one last thing, FTPii, has anyone has issues with this not being able to mount the drive when booting up for Wifi dumping? My sisters wii wouldn't mount the drive, kept hitting errors though i forget what they were (the wii's no longer at my house to check) when booting up, it'd do the network bit fine, then try to mount and die, i dunno if i just missed something in that guide above (ie truncha hack reenabling and all the cios installs) or if its something to do with v4.2, i didn't try any other wifi dumpers soi dunno if its just FTPii (was latest version too)
Anywho, any replies would be greatly appreciated, cheers
