Hacking What's Your Softmodding Experience?

[Swizler]

personally modded dozens of wii's with 100% success every time.

lu64+ models or not.

how did u get your hands on so many wiis?

 

[Malkierian]

Overall, I've had a fantastic time softmodding my Wii. Got bootmii/boot2, usbloader gx, gamma loader, and HBC, along with all IOSes fakesign patched, running 4.1U.

Only problems I've had so far are 1) applying themes to 4.1, as I can't find how to modify 4.0 themes to work on 4.1 (currenly, I've got Darkwii Extended on my Wii). If the DarkWii people had used mym's instead of a patcher, maybe I'd be better off.

2) Installing the fakesign IOSes was a real pain in the butt, but once I got it on there, I haven't regretted it.

 

[xzxero]

personally modded dozens of wii's with 100% success every time.

lu64+ models or not.

how did u get your hands on so many wiis?

Craigslist!!

aha and many family members also :]

 

[Lindfalas]

Only done so far about 50 with no problems.
I just started this year with Wii so

I do read alot before I do use any new stuff. Then I know what to do if something goes wrong.

Greetz

 

[r9delta]

It's gone fine. I've softmodded about 10 wii's more or less between me, family, or friends from the time that the Twilight Princess hack was first released. I don't fuck with stupid and risky shit like CIOScorp or custom themes and whatnot though. I just stick with a patched IOS60, the latest (or least buggy) cIOS rev. for USBloader or neogamma and leave it at that.

 

[xzxero]

It's gone fine. I've softmodded about 10 wii's more or less between me, family, or friends from the time that the Twilight Princess hack was first released. I don't fuck with stupid and risky shit like CIOScorp or custom themes and whatnot though. I just stick with a patched IOS60, the latest (or least buggy) cIOS rev. for USBloader or neogamma and leave it at that.

well really every homebrew app has its risks but backup your nand and your good sir.

 

[Retrievil]

Hardmod of course, is still better than a Softmod:

Hardmod:
Pro's:
- Can't be blocked by Nintendo.
- Can play off ANY game.
- Easy installation (Clip or use Drive chip)
- Homebrew free. (Doesn't matter if Nintendo block Homebrew from your Wii)

Con's:
- If a not open source modchip team stops with updating, it ain't possible to make your own updates on your mod chip.
(With open source I mean modchips as: Cyclo Wiz )
- You've got to pay for it.


Softmod:
Pro's:
- Everyone can update it whenever they want. (Like put in their own IOS DIP Module.)
- It's free

Con's:
- Can be blocked by Nintendo EASILY.
- Can't play all games, and in fact very less Gamecube games.
- And seems to disable compatibly with DVDX.
- Risky install.
- Lot's of bugs, and problems with burn speed.

I agree that a mod chip used to be a pretty good investment, however I have to disagree with a lot of your other points. It's a hell of a lot easier for the average person to follow a guide on this site and soft mod a Wii than install a mod chip, clip or not. Most people can't even figure out how to get a triwing screwdriver.

As far as the cons go for soft modding you are way off.

Nintendo can't block it any easier than a mod chip. If they can detect mods to the system files, they can certainly detect a mod chip.
Soft mod can play every game a mod chip can.
DVDX works perfectly with a soft mod.
No more risky than opening up your Wii and installing a mod chip. In fact it less risky imo. Nintendo will often fix a bricked soft modded Wii that is under warrnty. They won't do that if it's been opened like you need to do to install a mod chip.
There are little to no bugs now that the soft mod and supporting software has matured.
Burn speed doesn't matter because the majority of people with a soft mod are using USB Loaders. USB Loaders are the killer app. The reason to soft mod instead of get a chip. Why bother with a chip and burning games, when you can have a HD with hundreds of games at yoiur fingertips.

 

[oxMUDxo]

I've modded two Wii with the Zelda Hack I was very weary of what I installed and never had any problems.

Later I found out about BootMii so after installing it to Boot2 on both of the Wiis I really got in to installing things IOS, apps etc and I still haven't had to use them NAND backups....Yet.

Oh, and I agree to what Retrievil said.
Softmodding is the way to go!

 

[xzxero]

Hardmod of course, is still better than a Softmod:

Hardmod:
Pro's:
- Can't be blocked by Nintendo.
- Can play off ANY game.
- Easy installation (Clip or use Drive chip)
- Homebrew free. (Doesn't matter if Nintendo block Homebrew from your Wii)

Con's:
- If a not open source modchip team stops with updating, it ain't possible to make your own updates on your mod chip.
(With open source I mean modchips as: Cyclo Wiz )
- You've got to pay for it.


Softmod:
Pro's:
- Everyone can update it whenever they want. (Like put in their own IOS DIP Module.)
- It's free

Con's:
- Can be blocked by Nintendo EASILY.
- Can't play all games, and in fact very less Gamecube games.
- And seems to disable compatibly with DVDX.
- Risky install.
- Lot's of bugs, and problems with burn speed.

I agree that a mod chip used to be a pretty good investment, however I have to disagree with a lot of your other points. It's a hell of a lot easier for the average person to follow a guide on this site and soft mod a Wii than install a mod chip, clip or not. Most people can't even figure out how to get a triwing screwdriver.

As far as the cons go for soft modding you are way off.

Nintendo can't block it any easier than a mod chip. If they can detect mods to the system files, they can certainly detect a mod chip.

Nintendo can't detect modchips, thats bull-ish.
When a modchip is installed, it becomes part of the Wii's DVD drive and it can't tell the difference between burned and retail disks.
As for system files, its possible but unlikely.

 

[ricky23i]

very easy everything goes according to plan but have not use the new method yet just by the twilight hack

 

[slaphappygamer]

i already hacked my ps2, dreamcast, psp, archos mp3 player (rockbox), and motorola razor. so, i was confident in what i was doing. it just took some time to get what order everything gets installed. my wii is setup nice, so im hacking my iphone now.

 

[gamerjr]

Ha... i remember finding out about the twilight hack within the 1st week of its release. i just randomly went to the wii boards on gamefaqs and it had a topic so i was curious and it took me forever to finally figure stuff out. but im happy with the results. (1st wii ever sold!!!!)

 

[Black_Knight_666]

My exp with soft modding has been pretty great

The only error i made was i accidently semi bricked my wii cos i stuffed up with installing wii menu themes

 

[vinzanity]

I Softmodded my Wii with no problems at all. With guides to follow step by step, where could i go wrong? Thanks GBATemp. There was just one instance wherein after I installed System Menu 449 (4.1U), My bluetooth module stopped working giving me a black screen at startup. Had it replaced and I'm back to hacking now. With Bootmii as boot2, CIOS Rev14, USBLoader GX and CFGLoader, Preloader and my Wii Motion Plus, it has been an enjoyable hacking experience. It's even better than my Xbox modding before

 

[originaljohn]

Generally very positive. The wii has moved from being a somewhat disappointing games console to a very attractive hobbie as far as the homebrew comunity is concered. Looking forward to future features. I am hoping that Nintendo do add more features worth getting though.

 

[IAMYourReason]

My experience was great! Of course, I have the original Wii (The week it came out) so I guess that one is the most compatible, but I might be wrong.

 

[LinkFan16]

The Wii is the first console I ever hacked and I have a mixed experience about hacking my wii(s). I bricked my first wii by installing cioscorp. At that time you had to obtain the needed ioses yourself and also had to pack the cioses yourself. I wasn't very experienced in packing wads, so something went terribly wrong and after installing my selfpacked files the wii was bricked. I could have kicked myself in my ass for not installing preloader before, but I learned from my mistake and on my new wii everything worked almost without any problems. And if there were problems, I just did a bit of reading an research and could fix the problems with ease.

 

[dsfanatic5]

I love the responses in this topic. Overall it seems that most people had a good experience, which is understandable conisdering we have this great website to provide knowledge and understanding. I've only modded the two Wii's I own, and the one I gave to my brother, but it's interesting that some of our members have softmodded a "LEGION" of Wii's. It's great though, since I know how much fun it is to try new softmodding techniques, and you really need a new Wii to test this, since your system is probably already pimped out.

I was hoping tha this topic would give the members a chance to pause, reflect, and share some of their experiences with softmodding the Wii. It was a success, and I really enjoy reading the responses. Moving forward, I hope that those few who bricked their systems will have a second chance with BootMii, and the decrypted NAND installations that are quicky becoming a solution. Perhaps in the near future, Wii hacking will be all too easy. Soon we will be able to download a "perfect" NAND, install it with BannerBomb, and call it a day. I only wonder if Nintendo will strike back hard if it becomes all too easy (not saying it's hard now, but...) to softmod the Wii. Cheers to the hobby that keeps me coming back for more

 

[Timmy5000]

I gotta say, minus the few experiments I tried, I got everything running smooth,
I started out using just USB loader, now have a couple of channels and preloader with Bootmii going smooth as hell, all on 4.1, and here is hoping that the next Nintendo system is as fun to hack as well, and @ DSfanatic5, your sig pretty much describes my what I do with my Wii now.

 

[elguapo75]

I've only done 2 Wiis so far,, no problems so far whatsoever thanks to this forum.
Just recently did my original PSP using the Pandora Battery trick, that was pretty cool, it amazes me that somebody figured that one out, that pin was kind of a pain to cut.
Other than that I don't have a lot of experience other than trying out a few different cards in my DS.