Hey all, I'm a first time poster but long time lurker--I come on here all the time for tips and troubleshooting, and I'm usually very careful about scouring the forums and trying out a lot of stuff before I give up. So the fact that this is my first post means that I'm stuck in a tough spot and not sure what to do.
Right now on my NTSC-U Wii I'm running 3.2U with a WiiFree mod chip. (Yeah, the chip is outdated, but I've never, ever had any problems running any backup, including games with known 001 errors--I just Trucha Signed those and they were ready to go.) I've got Homebrew Channel installed as well, and any backups that don't work from the regular loader work through the Backup Launcher. I'm also running Starfall to block updates, with the rescue mode enabled.
So basically I purchased WiiFit and it wouldn't work. (So I was using a genuine copy and not a backup.) At this point I was running 3.3U without Starfall (obviously) but I had HBC installed and all my other backups were working. So I thought, what the hell, I should downgrade anyway, and I used cIOS Downgrader to downgrade from 3.3U to 3.2U. At this point I didn't realize there was a difference between the cIOS Downgrader and the IOS Downgrader (stupid mistake) so I ran only the cIOS Downgrader. I then installed Starfall with all the aforementioned features enabled.
So after doing all of this, WiiFit worked fine. (I also had Shaun White's Snowboarding Road Trip working with the balance board.) I played it a few times over a couple days without a problem. Then, the next day, I went to play it again, and it simply would not work (much like before I downgraded). Nothing had changed at all with my configuration, which was weird.
When I say WiiFit doesn't work, what happens is that the disc simply spins over and over and over without being recognized. It won't run in the main Wii menu loader, and it won't run through the Backup Loader either (the disc is recognized, but it simply stays on the loader screen without doing anything).
So I thought to myself--perhaps I just need the disc to perform the update. So I disabled the Update Check block with Starfall and allowed WiiFit to run the update--except, every single time I tried, only a few seconds into the update, the blue progress bar froze and I had to reboot the Wii. And believe me, I tried to do this several times, sometimes leaving it running for a couple hours. And I know it's nothing with my wireless connection, because I haven't had problems downloading any other updates.
So at this point, with WiiFit mysteriously not working and the update refusing to download, I followed all of the step by step instructions here in the 3.1-3.4 Twilight/Downgrade/Gamma Tutorial: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=118446 (Except for installing the Twilight Hack, since I already have that, and installing Gamma, since I have a backup loader.) I followed every single step, installed everything, and I even installed the Animal Crossing fix .wad...and nothing. WiiFit will not work. Everything else works.
(Oh, and I also tried copying WiiFit, running Brick Blocker on the .iso, and backing it up, and playing the burned copy, and that does not work either.)
So this is where I stand...does anyone have any ideas? I'm getting desperate here as I really want the game to work. Am I (stupidly) missing some sort of key step? Is it possible I just have a bad copy of WiiFit? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Right now on my NTSC-U Wii I'm running 3.2U with a WiiFree mod chip. (Yeah, the chip is outdated, but I've never, ever had any problems running any backup, including games with known 001 errors--I just Trucha Signed those and they were ready to go.) I've got Homebrew Channel installed as well, and any backups that don't work from the regular loader work through the Backup Launcher. I'm also running Starfall to block updates, with the rescue mode enabled.
So basically I purchased WiiFit and it wouldn't work. (So I was using a genuine copy and not a backup.) At this point I was running 3.3U without Starfall (obviously) but I had HBC installed and all my other backups were working. So I thought, what the hell, I should downgrade anyway, and I used cIOS Downgrader to downgrade from 3.3U to 3.2U. At this point I didn't realize there was a difference between the cIOS Downgrader and the IOS Downgrader (stupid mistake) so I ran only the cIOS Downgrader. I then installed Starfall with all the aforementioned features enabled.
So after doing all of this, WiiFit worked fine. (I also had Shaun White's Snowboarding Road Trip working with the balance board.) I played it a few times over a couple days without a problem. Then, the next day, I went to play it again, and it simply would not work (much like before I downgraded). Nothing had changed at all with my configuration, which was weird.
When I say WiiFit doesn't work, what happens is that the disc simply spins over and over and over without being recognized. It won't run in the main Wii menu loader, and it won't run through the Backup Loader either (the disc is recognized, but it simply stays on the loader screen without doing anything).
So I thought to myself--perhaps I just need the disc to perform the update. So I disabled the Update Check block with Starfall and allowed WiiFit to run the update--except, every single time I tried, only a few seconds into the update, the blue progress bar froze and I had to reboot the Wii. And believe me, I tried to do this several times, sometimes leaving it running for a couple hours. And I know it's nothing with my wireless connection, because I haven't had problems downloading any other updates.
So at this point, with WiiFit mysteriously not working and the update refusing to download, I followed all of the step by step instructions here in the 3.1-3.4 Twilight/Downgrade/Gamma Tutorial: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=118446 (Except for installing the Twilight Hack, since I already have that, and installing Gamma, since I have a backup loader.) I followed every single step, installed everything, and I even installed the Animal Crossing fix .wad...and nothing. WiiFit will not work. Everything else works.
(Oh, and I also tried copying WiiFit, running Brick Blocker on the .iso, and backing it up, and playing the burned copy, and that does not work either.)
So this is where I stand...does anyone have any ideas? I'm getting desperate here as I really want the game to work. Am I (stupidly) missing some sort of key step? Is it possible I just have a bad copy of WiiFit? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
