Hardware Wii RVT-R menu installer disc

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Hello I’ve recently purchased a Wii RVT-R wireless development system unfortunately I have no software for it and it doesn’t even have the menu installed is anyone with the NEC RVT-R writer willing to burn me a copy of the latest menu installer or is there any way for me to do it? Without modifying the system
 

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Unfortunately there's no real easy way to install anything on an RVT-R Reader unless you have a bunch of RVT-R blanks and an RVT-R Writer.

What you *could* do instead is install a modded retail Wii disc drive, then burn a Wii Menu Changer image onto a DVD-R and boot that. Obviously this requires disassembling the system, but it'll also allow you to burn any debug-encrypted game to DVD-R discs instead of requiring expensive RVT-R discs.

Note that you'll have to reinstall the original RVT-R disc drive if you want to dump RVT-R discs using CleanRip. (I don't know if any modchips support RVT-R drives, which is why I mentioned using a modded retail drive for DVD-Rs.)

Keep in mind that there's two key differences between retail Wii discs and RVT-R discs:
  1. The physical medium. Retail Wii discs use a different physical sector scrambling compared to RVT-R discs, and both are different compared to DVD-R.
  2. The encryption keys. Retail discs are signed using the retail certificate chain and use the retail common key, whereas RVT-R discs are signed using the debug certificate chain and the debug common key.
Using a modded retail drive bypasses the first requirement, since it lets you use DVD-R discs. The second requirement depends on the disc image. In the case of Wii Menu Changer, those images are all debug-encrypted, so a DVD-R copy will work on RVT-R Readers with modded drives.
 
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Thanks for your response it was very informative, I’m not going to tamper with the system but I have just got a deal on a Wii I suspect has a modchip because of a ribbon cable across its fan. I’m going to mess with it instead it only cost me 99p + £5 pp so don’t care about it much should be fun.
 

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