Hardware SaveMii success rate

[EnigmaXtreme]

Im planning on buying a SaveMii in the case i do something incredibly stupid and I brick my Wii. But before I do I just wanna know, does the thing actually work? How many people who have suffered a brick been able to recover with this?

 

[DKAngel]

just use a gamecube controler its cheaper and does the same thing

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Ok so if im running 4.0 and I brick, I use SaveMii/Frii and i use a disc like 3.2 or something, cause I know no official disc will have 4.0. What will happen then?

Will I lose Homebrew Channel?
Will my patched IOSs be there?
Will it revert back to standard 3.4?

 

[ddp127]

a savemii(frii) only sets your wii to recovery mode, so it autoboots a disc, the only way to save yourself with it is if you can run the twilight hack, or have the ability to run trucha signed discs...

if you have a full brick, and you can recover using a wad manager disc, and install whatever you mis, like the system menu.

when you are recovered, it is most likely that your patched ios's and the hbc are still there

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Just to clarifiy I dont have a modchip or run preloader

 

[ddp127]

then there is no real need for a savemii, but i didn't say anything about preloader

if you just wait till bootmii, you will be save enough, and then there will be no need for a savemii

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Yeah Ive heard about BootMii, yet I dont really understand it?

 

[Wilson735]

I don't really understand BootMii either. Can someone shed some light on it?