Hacking Safely Downgrade to 4.2?

[tufkal]

I will be working on a friend's system this weekend, and he has a brand new black 4.3U Wii. He wants homebrew enabled. I've modified several 4.0/4.1/4.2 Wiis with successfully with just about everything.

From what I can gather on several forums and several posts, the Hackmii installer, Priiloader, and other critical things haven't been updated yet. But using SSBM stack exploit, I could load up loadmii and then load MMM, replace IOS41 with an older version, then use the TBR, and from there I could downgrade the entire system to 4.2 or 4.1.

Is this safe to do? What would the process entail?

 

[BBking83]

Dunno...

 

[kimikal27]

i think u should stand-by for a bit, soon enough there will be a proper hack for 4.3
i dont think it's very safe to downgrade now, but i know there was a thread with some kind of TUT for it

 

[WiiCrazy]

To downgrade to 4.2 remove stub IOS 70 and install a functional version of this ios.. Then install system menu 4.2...

This way the only risk is if you can't install system menu fully then you'll be presented with a semi-brick... Chances are slim this will happen though...

ps: but of course do this if you really know what you are doing... otherwise wait for everything to be compatible with 4.3

 

[cheez203]

I think if you downgrade a wii that is Lu64+ it will brick due to some new software or hardware or something. Im not entirely sure.

 

[WiiCrazy]

I think if you downgrade a wii that is Lu64+ it will brick due to some new software or hardware or something. Im not entirely sure.

He wants to downgrade back to 4.2, LU64+ stuff is just out of question.. IOS 70 is pretty new and you won't find any revision of it that's not compatible with those new wiis...

 

[mauifrog]

It is safe, just don't do it during a thunder storm or lose power or anything like that. Just be sure to do it right. I would go for 4.1, but that is me. Just follow a decent guide with good reviews.

 

[WiiCrazy]

If you want to go back to 4.1 install non-stub copies of both IOS 60 and IOS 70....