fwiw remembering my wii abilities are severely limited, to be dragged out a couple of times a year when my son can't get a game to run, I finally got the scrubbed version of Klonoa US to work on my son's PAL console which has wiikey 1.9, 3.4e and geckoloader, by using a brick blocked image and the disc channel.
As I said my wii knowledge is minuscule and I thought a scrubbed image would have updates removed and blocked so it surprised me that this worked.
The disc channel wanted to update my console something I have an aversion to as it is an ntsc game and a pal console, since a memorable 'half bricking' caused by doing exactly that many moons ago. The loader gave me the dreaded #002 blue screen which is another unappealing wii initiative. Probably means the console believes it needs some ios or another but I haven't indulged in much firmware or ios butchery on this console ( I reserve that for the wiis of unwitting grown-ups far less likely to break down into annoying sobs when their prized gaming console ceases functioning and anyway why don't they themselves, trawl through the screeds of garbage littered with occasional gems that is needed to uncover how to make your wii play a new non local game?), so I am somewhat surprised at the error.
NTSC Wolverine did the same (in disc channel wanted to update and gecko #002) so it is pretty apparent that some dashed piece of nintendo coding or another is not in attendance. The fact that the game works off a mod chip without the update shows just how superfluous the thing must be.
I haven't tried to load the game with gecko yet because this worked and afaik there is nothing done by brick-blocking that could prevent the #002 error which I got with gecko even after trying the pal60 force recommended here by someone.
I hafta say that my days of continuously meddling with the console files are at an end. It strikes me that what with all of the updating and down dating going on along with about a zillion different loaders cIOS's and other homebrew tools plus wii's own continuous official updating it has become really difficult to know exactly what state your console is in.
Witness the range of different outcomes peeps are getting from one game here in this thread.
It is far too late for me to start proper documentation now but if I had known that myriad different hacks cracks and dates were gonna be used I would have kept a proper record from the outset.
Is there any prog that will tell an ignoramus exactly what has been loaded into their wii?
