Hacking Wii maintenance mode

[auyongtc]

Saw this over at maxconsole forum: http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=87528

While booting the Wii console, at the health warning screen, hold down - and + button while pressing A will get you into a so-called maintenance mode. Anyone have any luck digging further inside this mode? The topic starter there mentioned that if shop channel is launched from the maintenance mode, he portscanned a FTP server running on the Wii.

 

[paul1991]

It works for me, but whats the point? It function fine for me.

 

[modshroom128]

wow this fixed my half bricked pal wii.

kick fucking ass.

 

[PikaPika]

Why is nobody excited at this?

 

[James B.]

preeety cool. Any movement to like.. press all the buttons or something? I dunno. Its pretty cool. I have an unmodded wii, and a burnt copy of Scarface. But no dice. If it recognized it, I would have like died, but nah. The only annoying thing is, whenever you return from a channel, you have to turn off and turn back on to get back into maintenance mode. Its pretty cool, I must admit

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[kellyan95]

Well, all of Nintendo's systems have had a start up button combo to do something like this...

 

[PikaPika]

Well, all of Nintendo's systems have had a start up button combo to do something like this...

What are they for other systems?

 

[James B.]

hmm. Why do you think you can't access the message board?

 

[auyongtc]

wow this fixed my half bricked pal wii.

kick fucking ass.

really?

 

[link459]

Wow, this is a pretty big find.

Hopefully it will lead us to some bigger things.

 

[sdoc96]

wow this fixed my half bricked pal wii.

kick fucking ass.

Very good news indeed.

What exactly was your bricked status before? (just for informations sake)

 

[paul1991]

How do I unbrick a wii? Do I just boot into the mode or do I have to do more?

 

[thegame07]

wow this fixed my half bricked pal wii.

kick fucking ass.

Very good news indeed.

What exactly was your bricked status before? (just for informations sake)

don't get your hopes up modshroom is the type of person who would lie about that.

 

[PikaPika]

wow this fixed my half bricked pal wii.

kick fucking ass.

Very good news indeed.

What exactly was your bricked status before? (just for informations sake)

don't get your hopes up modshroom is the type of person who would lie about that.

Yeah, I don't even know why he'd have a PAL Wii to begin with.

 

[Spikey]

Has anyone found any useful purpose for doing this other than "OOOOOOO!!! I'm in a secret modez on mah WIIZ!"?

 

[kellyan95]

Well, all of Nintendo's systems have had a start up button combo to do something like this...


What are they for other systems?

I don't remember off the top of my head....if you held start when starting an N64, didn't you go to a memory managment screen? And the GBA had something about changing the color of the start text if you didn't have a game? I'm sure the others did too...

 

[science]

If you hold down Z when starting up the gamecube it makes some squeaky noises and a boinging noise. Really kiddish

 

[lagman]

If you hold down Z when starting up the gamecube it makes some squeaky noises and a boinging noise. Really kiddish

Try doing it with more controllers... Now that's a surprise, isn't it?

 

[Sonicandtails]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/son...ls/wiimaint.png

For those too lazy to do it.

Also, it deleted my record of playing BWii for an hour from the message board.

Also, my friend has 2.2U and cannot get it to work. I have 3.0U and it works.

 

[auyongtc]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/son...ls/wiimaint.png

For those too lazy to do it.

Also, it deleted my record of playing BWii for an hour from the message board.

Also, my friend has 2.2U and cannot get it to work. I have 3.0U and it works.

Oh noes, parents will start hating us for giving the kids chance to wipe off their usage records. *IF* the parents even care about that feature in the first place