Hacking now repairing, DO NOT POWER OFF

[thecyanaura]

Has anyone gotten this message and what exactly does it mean? I put preloader 029 on my wii last night and cleaned up my sd card a bit this afternoon, but i don't know why it's doing this.

it's been stuck there for about fifteen minutes.

thanks for any replies in advance.

 

[sess]

Preloader's April Fools joke. Press A on Wii Remote.

 

[feidhlim1986]

Someone should have Stickied about this joke hours ago.

 

[thecyanaura]

f'n awesome! ! that got me good. up until a few minutes ago I had no problems at all with modding my wii. i about had a heart attack.

and i swear i did a search too, but couldn't come up with anything normally i wouldn't start a new topic for something trivial.

thanks!

 

[Bladexdsl]

you've been had!

 

[kedest]

Well at least april 1st is over in Europe. So only a few more american topics and we're done

the joke sure did the trick. it scared a lot of people.

 

[spawn844]

Bricked a few too

 

[kedest]

Bricked a few too

yeah that's the less funny part.

 

[oneleggedjack]

did nintendoliky ever return his wii? hope so, that was some lame shit, funny as all might hell, but lame because of the brick

 

[thecyanaura]

how exactly did it brick some ppl? did it brick ppl when they powered off instead of pushing a?

 

[kedest]

how exactly did it brick some ppl? did it brick ppl when they powered off instead of pushing a?

The preloader prank by itself is harmless. But some people really thought something was wrong and deleted certain files from nand in hope to fix the 'error'.

 

[thecyanaura]

just saw that a few threads down.

sorry again for creating a new thread. I'm usually a big proponent of forum etiquette.

 

[Bladexdsl]

april 1st has come and gone here good riddance

 

[Col70]

Jopking aside about this though - when I booted the sys menu up, after i figured it was a wind-up, some of my channels had been deleted (wads that I'd installed) - was not happy

 

[Mor13id]

Is there another way to fix this? I hadn't used my wii for a while and don't have any wii remotes synchronized to it...

 

[FenrirWolf]

Fix what, this error? It shouldn't even affect anything since it's not April 1st right now.

 

[Mor13id]

I just got it right now. It says

"Now repairing...
DO NOT POWER OFF"

 

[FenrirWolf]

That's weird. Have you tried unplugging it for 10 minutes and trying again? That solves syncing issues sometimes.

Also, this "joke" is the reason why I'm never touching Preloader.

 

[ften]

Is there another way to fix this? I hadn't used my wii for a while and don't have any wii remotes synchronized to it...

Turn the Wii on and wait 24 hours or if your impatient switch your non-synced Wii's bluetooth module into a function wii, sync your Wii-mote and then switch the module back... see below for complete details;

http://fathertom.net/hardwii/?p=481

I had the same issue with one of my Wii, I do a lot of repair/hardware testing, so my Wii thought it was April 1st when I put it back together a few days later.

-FTen

 

[Mor13id]

Well, I don't have another wii. So I guess my only option is to leave it on for 24hrs...

*crosses fingers and hopes this works.*
Thanks.