Hacking Wii Menu 4.2 Released

[sphere9]

This confuses me, if I update will it strip any vc games I have installed with the wad manager? Because I've been planning to get rid of all of those anyway.

Anyone?

Nope, they'll stay there. get rid of them with Wad Manager or something.

@nknave: They didn't skip IOS250, but their attempt at overwriting it should have failed since the installed cIOS has a higher version number than the stub Nintendo tried to replace it with.

Alright thanks.

 

[ArugulaZ]

Wow, what a burn. Fortunately (...?) I can't get a wi-fi signal in this area, so this won't affect me the next time I blow the dust off my Wii and play it. Still pretty awful for anyone who DOES, though.

How's this affect hacked Virtual Console channels?

 

[nknave]

This confuses me, if I update will it strip any vc games I have installed with the wad manager? Because I've been planning to get rid of all of those anyway.

Anyone?

Nope, they'll stay there. get rid of them with Wad Manager or something.

@nknave: They didn't skip IOS250, but their attempt at overwriting it should have failed since the installed cIOS has a higher version number than the stub Nintendo tried to replace it with.

I understand this 0xFFFF, and I'm aware that It's updated on a Previously SoftModded Wii, we should be able to reinstall few things.

My test was basicly aiming of what it would be like for a Virgin 4.2 rather than an modded accidently (not really) updated Wii.


Thanks BTW.

 

[Inferior_Design]

A little paranoia is very healthy

Exactly my view.

lol @ pot jokes.

 

[Xiphiidae]

*snip*

 

[zektor]

For me it's more of a temp workaround until the Hackmii update is out. When that happens, I'll just install a clean system menu 4.2 to ensure everything's working fine.

It is a temp workaround at best. It is a semi-dirty hack, but it does indeed work. I would suggest keeping a bootmii nand backup of your working previous system (ie: v4.1) however, should you need to go back before the hex hack.

On a somewhat off topic:

Sometimes I post thinking that everyone is responsible and that they know what they are doing to an extent. But then I come to realize that this thread is being viewed by literally hundreds of people that do not know what they are doing at ALL. To make it clear:

I do NOT recommend using the system menu 4.2 hex hack. Does it work? Yes, it does. But it is extremely dangerous and there is a very good chance you will brick your system. If you don't care, do what you want. I obviously don't care about playing around with things, and it worked for me. Does not mean it will work for you. Best bet really is to wait for TT to release something fully tested and supported.

 

[Monster Hunter]

Lmao...I know what HBC is. Do you even know who made the HBC?

Umm, he's one of the guys who made it. XD

"The Homebrew Channel. It's copyrighted by us (that is, Team Twiizers)"

 

[marcan_troll]

Lmao...I know what HBC is. Do you even know who made the HBC? IF your distributing HBC without there permission thats on you. If you read there license and you continue to distribute then thats all on you. Im talking about in general that modifying the Wii is not illegal, and you come out and say HBC is illegal when the HBC developers allow themselves to distribute it to the public. They are under the GPL license (General Public License). So if you want to get technical, theres your answer.

Dude, you really don't get it. I'm one of the HBC developers. Of course HBC is legal. No, it is not under a GPL license. If you want HBC, download it from the bootmii size (where the combined installer is hosted). Of course that's legal (well, modulo dodgy reverse engineering issues with libogc, but I won't get into that again). What's not legal is for someone other than us to distribute HBC. Distribute. Host, copy, put on their webserver, sell, whatever. If you want HBC, get it from the official site, period. You said it yourself: "IF your distributing HBC without there permission thats on you". That's my point. I'm one of them, you need to get permission from US.

In other news, I see the random "but will this remove my warez hax" posts are back. I'm going home. If anyone really cares enough to continue this conversation, they can open another thread and ping my email.

 

[zektor]

Lmao...I know what HBC is. Do you even know who made the HBC?

Umm, he's one of the guys who made it. XD

"The Homebrew Channel. It's copyrighted by us (that is, Team Twiizers)"

And exactly who do you think that team consists of?

 

[urherenow]

@Monster Hunter
dude.. shut your pie hole. Marcan IS one of the developers you nitwit

Didn't you get that little clue when he said

It's copyrighted by us (that is, Team Twiizers)

and dang it zektor.. you nija'd me

oh crap.. so did Marcan. He replied faster than both of us

 

[mdp_1992]

What are the chances of bricking the wii if bootmii failed to install?

Should I reinstall clean sm also when hackmii and bootmii will be released? seing as how i messed...

 

[xzxero]

Lmao...I know what HBC is. Do you even know who made the HBC? IF your distributing HBC without there permission thats on you. If you read there license and you continue to distribute then thats all on you. Im talking about in general that modifying the Wii is not illegal, and you come out and say HBC is illegal when the HBC developers allow themselves to distribute it to the public. They are under the GPL license (General Public License). So if you want to get technical, theres your answer.

Dude, you really don't get it. I'm one of the HBC developers. Of course HBC is legal. No, it is not under a GPL license. If you want HBC, download it from the bootmii size (where the combined installer is hosted). Of course that's legal (well, modulo dodgy reverse engineering issues with libogc, but I won't get into that again). What's not legal is for someone other than us to distribute HBC. Distribute. Host, copy, put on their webserver, sell, whatever. If you want HBC, get it from the official site, period. You said it yourself: "IF your distributing HBC without there permission thats on you". That's my point. I'm one of them, you need to get permission from US.

In other news, I see the random "but will this remove my warez hax" posts are back. I'm going home. If anyone really cares enough to continue this conversation, they can open another thread and ping my email.

burn!

peace out marcan, nice to hear from you.

i wonder if monster hunter will even post back.
Xiphiidae, apparently.

but after we can install HBC with this new hackmii installer, will we be able to install cIOS and get trucha back in? or are those things you guys dont really care about?

 

[Monster Hunter]

Lmao...I know what HBC is. Do you even know who made the HBC?

Umm, he's one of the guys who made it. XD

"The Homebrew Channel. It's copyrighted by us (that is, Team Twiizers)"

And exactly who do you think that team consists of?

Did you not see that i was agreeing?

 

[illinialex24]

Hi Marcan, amazing work on Homebrew. Good luck on your next Hackmii installer and I'm glad I haven't hosted anything back when I was clueless in the TP days.

 

[Monster Hunter]

No i am gonna post back, sure i feel like an idiot, but i was fed with false information apparently. So it's whatever lol.

xzxero: That was def. not a burn, he was just explaining to me in a suprisingly honorable way. So stfu.

 

[OncleJulien]

Did you not see that i was agreeing?

agreeing...

youre doing it wrong.

 

[xzxero]

No i am gonna post back, sure i feel like an idiot, but i was fed with false information apparently. So it's whatever lol.

apologize, you tried arguing with a guru!

 

[zektor]

peace out marcan, nice to hear from you.

Agreed. This was actually the first time speaking to him, and it was actually a very useful and insightful conversation. He certainly knows his stuff, and gave me some pretty good knowledge on certain things. I have seen flaming going on regarding him in the past and just didn't understand why. I still don't. Seems like a nice guy to me.

 

[9th_Sage]

But in all seriousness I do agree that some of the mods people put out are pretty silly. I still don't see the appeal of having something like cioscorp turn your Wii into delicious Scrambled IOS just to load a burned game from the disc channel. >_>

I know I'm a few pages late and a dollar short, but I have to say that this is the single best description of cIOScorp I've ever seen. You definitely win several Internets for this.

 

[Ssseth]

On a somewhat off topic:

Sometimes I post thinking that everyone is responsible and that they know what they are doing to an extent. But then I come to realize that this thread is being viewed by literally hundreds of people that do not know what they are doing at ALL. To make it clear:

I do NOT recommend using the system menu 4.2 hex hack. Does it work? Yes, it does. But it is extremely dangerous and there is a very good chance you will brick your system. If you don't care, do what you want. I obviously don't care about playing around with things, and it worked for me. Does not mean it will work for you. Best bet really is to wait for TT to release something fully tested and supported.

Guilty as charged so yes please keep this in mind.

One thing I can say though, I definitely wait and read a lot before I make any changes. I'll let the other folks make all the mistakes first and then learn from them.