How did you brick your Wii from a failed IOS35 install? No System Menu depends on it, and many things don't use IOS35. Including more information (i.e.- if you have an LU64 Wii, System Menu, etc.) would be more helpful.

Guides will instruct people to downgrade IOS35 so other things can be downgraded or installed.

 

Did you try installing Startpatch and blocking disc updates?

 

SaveMii does nothing, and it has a red light instead of a green light, so I think I'm hosed.

This crap is killing me though... On my friend's Wii, I did all the same stuff except install cIOS, and Punchout works like a charm. Then I install a wad file (Tetris Attack), and now Punchout needs a damn update. I don't know if Punchout has some sort of magic h4x0r detection and is trying to hose me, or what, because I SHOULD NOT have to update anything to play it, considering I was playing it earlier.

Oi

EDIT: I don't know anything about Starpatch. I'll look into it as long as it's something that can be installed on 4.0. And I know I'm on 4.0 because of the SD card icon down at the bottom.

 

Well, I can't explain otherwise why Punchout demands an update after installing cIOS (or Tetris Attack), even though it played fine just earlier... This has now happened on my bricked wii, my friend's wii, and my brother's. I figure, since I installed tetris attack with cIOS249, that might explain it. Or maybe cIOS is downgrading other IOSes when I install it? Then, installing a new IOS35 on top of a downgraded one kills the wii?

Or, if I install a new IOS35, while having channels on my system that were installed with a downgraded IOS35, would that explain the brick? Do these channels "still use" the IOS I installed them with, and freak out when it's not the downgraded one? I don't see how that could cause a full brick, though.

For what's it's worth, I took another look at the IOS35 from Punchout, and it's not a stub (1.6megs IRC), so the sabotage theory is probably out. My current theory is that installing cIOS does something to your other IOSes, OR Punchout is attempting to use/check IOS249 as an anti-piracy measure.

EDIT: The thing that gets my goat is that if Nintendo is trying to go after pirates, they got the wrong guy... I ALWAYS buy the discs for the ISOs I rip (for both Wii and PSP), and I prepaid for every chapter of FF4: After Years before downloading the leaked DLC. I probably buy more games now that I have hacked consoles, since they are more convenient to play (from hard drive / memory stick).

 

i got a us wii (modded with a chip) with no settings or semibrick they call. i run the punchout and it ask for update. I updated it after it was finished its still semibrick, now i got a double channel which mean the game is pal. I check the wii version with savemiifrii and its 3.4 I do the fix for the 3.4 and i downgraded the ios manually. Then i update it to 4.0 and install preloader29 , i removed the double channel also and everytime i run the pal punchout no more update pops out everything works fine. I don't think its because of that ios35 which you extracted and installed it manually that cause you a problem. System menu 4.0 doesn't rely on ios35 as what others have said.

 

Forget trying to downgrade ios35.

Instead get trucha bug restorer and run it.
Then install your cios
then whatever backup loaders you want.