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Hacking PRELOADER IS NOT A RISK

All I know is my Wii bricked after I changed the setting to boot to the System Menu instead of Preloader. I don't know if preloader is the cause but that was the very last thing I did before the brick occurred. I for one can see where the hesitation comes from.

Now that I got a refurb Wii back today with 3.2U on it, I have to decide if I want to use Preloader again.. still contemplating.
 
acg12xu said:
All I know is my Wii bricked after I changed the setting to boot to the System Menu instead of Preloader. I don't know if preloader is the cause but that was the very last thing I did before the brick occurred. I for one can see where the hesitation comes from.

Now that I got a refurb Wii back today with 3.2U on it, I have to decide if I want to use Preloader again.. still contemplating.
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So you had to get another Wii? How much?
 
Link5084 said:
acg12xu said:
All I know is my Wii bricked after I changed the setting to boot to the System Menu instead of Preloader. I don't know if preloader is the cause but that was the very last thing I did before the brick occurred. I for one can see where the hesitation comes from.

Now that I got a refurb Wii back today with 3.2U on it, I have to decide if I want to use Preloader again.. still contemplating.
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So you had to get another Wii? How much?
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It was $75 for the replacement. Unfortunately I didn't backup my saves (stupid me) and now they're all gone and it wont let me copy legit VC games from my SD card. However, all the VC games were copied to my SD when I had 4.0U on my old machine, so I don't know if that's the reason why they wont copy back. The next thing I want to do is access the Shop Channel to see if I can redownload but I haven't decided exactly how I'm going to update my Wii yet.

For the record, I'm not blaming Preloader because I'm not counting out the fact that I may have done something stupid. I'm just saying that's the very last thing I did with my Wii before it got the black screen of death. If I can't get my legit VC games back Nintendo is going to hear from an angry customer though.
 
You could just have reinstalled preloader. That would have fixed your issue.

@All who said preloader killed pirated channels...I really doubt it. Preloader dones't even touch channels, and their is no way to tell it is pirated.
 
actually posts in capital letters are much, much, much more not annoying
 
icefireicefire said:
You could just have reinstalled preloader. That would have fixed your issue.

@All who said preloader killed pirated channels...I really doubt it. Preloader dones't even touch channels, and their is no way to tell it is pirated.
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I tried SaveMiiFrii and it didn't work at all. I admit I didn't try holding reset when powering on because I wasn't aware of that feature. Would that have possibly worked for a Black Screen Of Death?

I'll be more cautious this time around if I decide to use Preloader, so I want as much info as I can get! My wallet doesn't want to trash $75 again
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I like preloader, I just wish Crediar would release the source.

After that little April Fools joke, I'm not sure I trust him.
 
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f you got a banner brick, how do you recover from preloader?

lol does a one legged duck swim in a circle?
LOL

heres a vid i did intentionally bricking while buby78 and i were playing with CSM's for a few weeks on icefires site wadder.net I was testing a mym script that a friend made on wadder "remember i dont recommend you do this for demonstration ect (this was a beta test for a contributor)



so there is your answer
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surely does as icefire stated just reinstalling a proper system menu will get you on your way
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thats all i did with the tweak toy really
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fix the messed up file by overwriting it
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QUOTELETS ALL MAKE THREADS IN CAPITAL LETTERS! ITS ABSOLUTELY NOT ANNOYING!
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read my sig...ya hypocrite LOL!
 
vettacossx said:
QUOTE said:
f you got a banner brick, how do you recover from preloader?
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heres a vid i did intentionally bricking while buby78 and i were playing with CSM's for a few weeks on icefires site wadder.
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You don't happen to have a vid of a recovery from Black Screen Of Death do you? If you do, I'd like to see it.
 
lol nope as i said this happened when using a beta script however i was able to recover so i thought i would " reproduce" the brick while recording seems i was able to recover from it the first time
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the second brick was for educational purposes for people who ask me on youtube.. "why is preloader important?"............. its like.....wii insurance!!! lol
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What does happen in preloader if you use the format option in the settings menu?

And preloader might be able to recover from more bricks than starfall, but removing the system menu or its IOS is still a full brick. So it's far from being fool proof.
 
What does the "Return to" option do in preloader? I know autoboot starts up when you turn on your Wii to either Preloader or System Menu.
 
only reason i've yet to get preloader on my wii is i have not seen a good install reference for the fil;es i need and to satrt from the point wher i already have homebrew channel and the backup loaders, nothing else. anyone point me at a good one?
 

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