I'm curious why you say Loadiine should be avoided. Most might argue that it's outdated or no longer the preferred method, but I think it has it's merits.Loadiine should be avoided, yes. You need games that are installable with WUP Installer.
WUP installations allow one to play a game as if it had been installed over the eShop with no loss of functionality. Loadiine has issues with loading times, compatibility, lack of online play, etc.I'm curious why you say Loadiine should be avoided. Most might argue that it's outdated or no longer the preferred method, but I think it has it's merits.
Understandable. I've been out of the scene for a while and wasn't sure if there was something more sinister. I like the fact that you can have a self-contained ecosystem on your sd card with Loadiine. I just got my system out of storage, only to find that it's a brick. Any games/saves on the NAND/USB drive are lost for good, but I can just put my SD card into a new system and have all my Loadiine games/saves exactly how I left them. That's quite a big plus in my book.WUP installations allow one to play a game as if it had been installed over the eShop with no loss of functionality. Loadiine has issues with loading times, compatibility, lack of online play, etc.
How did that happen?I just got my system out of storage, only to find that it's a brick. Any games/saves on the NAND/USB drive are lost for good
I honestly have no idea. The system boots to the Wii U logo screen and then just sits there indefinitely. At first, I thought it might have been something stupid I did hacking wise, but I saw that the same thing happened to a few other people no one found an explanation. I noticed that other people also said that it happened after their system sat unused for a long time (mine was about 2 years) and I least one mentioned that theirs was a Nintendo refurb, which mine was as well. There were also people who said that their system was never hacked, so my best guess is that it is caused by some component failure that affects a small percentage of systems. It anybody's guess though. I just order a used system with a pro controller on ebay for $50. I'd like to fix my system just for the satisfaction of doing it, but I'm not sure if it's fixable and $50 is too cheap for me to waste more time on it. In this case, I'm glad that most of my games were Loadiine.How did that happen?
What all did you do "hacking wise"? The Wii U might be recoverable.I honestly have no idea. The system boots to the Wii U logo screen and then just sits there indefinitely. At first, I thought it might have been something stupid I did hacking wise, but I saw that the same thing happened to a few other people no one found an explanation. I noticed that other people also said that it happened after their system sat unused for a long time (mine was about 2 years) and I least one mentioned that theirs was a Nintendo refurb, which mine was as well. There were also people who said that their system was never hacked, so my best guess is that it is caused by some component failure that affects a small percentage of systems. It anybody's guess though. I just order a used system with a pro controller on ebay for $50. I'd like to fix my system just for the satisfaction of doing it, but I'm not sure if it's fixable and $50 is too cheap for me to waste more time on it. In this case, I'm glad that most of my games were Loadiine.
Did you check the WiiU clock battery?First, Loadiine (obviously). I eventually did the "Brazilian method", which I think is Haxchi/WUP installer. I remember buying a DS game for Haxchi. I don't think I did cbhc, but I suppose it's possible that I did. One of the last things I remember doing on the system with formatting an external hard drive to use with the system. Just a few days before I got my system out of storage, I reformatted the external hard drive so I could use it to backup a laptop. I figured I wouldn't care about any of the games I might have on it. Then, when I couldn't get my system to boot, I thought that maybe I installed cbhc and then moved the DS game to the, now formatted, external hard drive. After reading up on it though, there are supposedly protections in place against moving the DS game. Then, after I read about about an unhacked system having the same issue, I figured that it was probably unrelated to hacks on the system. It's possible that I have a NAND backup on my PC somewhere. I don't specifically remember doing one, but if a guide explicitly told me to do it, I may have done one.
I haven't, but I probably should. At this point, I got the used system that I ordered from ebay, so fixing the other one isn't something I want to invest much more time into.Did you check the WiiU clock battery?
Not booting up after a while is pretty normal with flash media. Sometimes it just takes a few power cycles and warming up the NAND for it to come back to life.I haven't, but I probably should. At this point, I got the used system that I ordered from ebay, so fixing the other one isn't something I want to invest much more time into.