TLDR: How do I go about safely reinstalling my system menu on a 4.3u modded wii with what I believe is a mail brick?
4.3u Wii modded with Priiloader and bootmii as ios. I do have a nand backup as well. A few months ago my wii started giving me the "system files are corrupted" error right after the health screen. I've been able to hold + and - to bypass the error and enter in maintenance mode where everything worked fine. All I had installed was hbc with wiiflow and fceux and their forwarders. I've been trying to fix it now for a couple weeks and it's driving me crazy. I believe I've narrowed the problem down to the cdb.vff file that contains message board data. There is one entry in the message board from back in February and it's just a what you played today kind of message or whatever that is. Nothing since then. Here's what I've tried. Using a tutorial I found here on gbatemp I tried cleaning the message board with an app called fstools. The cdv.vff file should be about 20mb but every time the file that fstools copies to my sd card is only 384k. When I try to flash the new empty 20mb file back to the nand it will just give me an "fopen" error. I've made sure the meta file contains the correct access tags. It fails every time. When I browse to that file in wiixplorer, properties shows it's 20mb. When I try to copy, rename, delete, or do anything with that file it fails. I have the correct access permissions set for that too. I verified by renaming and copying a different file in the same directory. I've also tried doing a system memory format from the actual wii system settings thinking that would clear the message board. That also failed. It just hung at the formatting screen and after about an hour I finally just shut the wii off and started it back up. It did delete hbc and game saves but the message board entry from february is still there and the file still seems to be corrupted. I can't think of anything else to try so my next step is to just restore the system menu or do a nand restore. Problem with restoring the nand with bootmii is that it only aloud me to install bootmii as ios so in order to do a restore I think I need a gamecube controller to enter the konami code? Can I just somehow restore the system menu and would that possibly fix the problem? Really would appriciate any help from the experts. Thanks!
4.3u Wii modded with Priiloader and bootmii as ios. I do have a nand backup as well. A few months ago my wii started giving me the "system files are corrupted" error right after the health screen. I've been able to hold + and - to bypass the error and enter in maintenance mode where everything worked fine. All I had installed was hbc with wiiflow and fceux and their forwarders. I've been trying to fix it now for a couple weeks and it's driving me crazy. I believe I've narrowed the problem down to the cdb.vff file that contains message board data. There is one entry in the message board from back in February and it's just a what you played today kind of message or whatever that is. Nothing since then. Here's what I've tried. Using a tutorial I found here on gbatemp I tried cleaning the message board with an app called fstools. The cdv.vff file should be about 20mb but every time the file that fstools copies to my sd card is only 384k. When I try to flash the new empty 20mb file back to the nand it will just give me an "fopen" error. I've made sure the meta file contains the correct access tags. It fails every time. When I browse to that file in wiixplorer, properties shows it's 20mb. When I try to copy, rename, delete, or do anything with that file it fails. I have the correct access permissions set for that too. I verified by renaming and copying a different file in the same directory. I've also tried doing a system memory format from the actual wii system settings thinking that would clear the message board. That also failed. It just hung at the formatting screen and after about an hour I finally just shut the wii off and started it back up. It did delete hbc and game saves but the message board entry from february is still there and the file still seems to be corrupted. I can't think of anything else to try so my next step is to just restore the system menu or do a nand restore. Problem with restoring the nand with bootmii is that it only aloud me to install bootmii as ios so in order to do a restore I think I need a gamecube controller to enter the konami code? Can I just somehow restore the system menu and would that possibly fix the problem? Really would appriciate any help from the experts. Thanks!