The Wii got knocked over by someone who was being careless. There was a HDD attached to USB port 0 at the time and now port 0 is very finicky. I mean if the Wii is positioned wrong, the HDD keeps turning on and off and can't be used. Turn the Wii a little bit and then the port is working again, as long as the Wii and HDD aren't moved.
Port 1 doesn't seem to have any problems. The HDD itself has no problems. Nothing else seems to be wrong except for port 0.
There's no visible damage but as far as I can tell I think it's the connection inside port 0 that got damaged (the rectangle with the metal strips on it probably got jarred when the Wii fell with the HDD attached there, is my best guess).
What are my options at this point? I want to continue to be able to use my Wii games over HDD instead of popping in discs all the time. That's the one thing I can think of that I know I've only ever been able to do over port 0.
I vaguely think I remember hearing at some point that there was a way to use Wii games on the other port too. But I think that interferes with emunand for some reason? Ideally I'd like to be able to continue using both, but through port 1 now. I don't use emunand anywhere near as often, so if I absolutely had to stop using one it would be emunand I'd drop.
I did a sys check to see what I already have installed. (see attached file).
1. Do I have the right cIOSes to be able to use Wii games/emunand over port 1?
2. If not, what would I need (and steps to take) to get whatever is needed installed? Keep in mind that I am very rusty at Wii modding as it has been years since I've had to do anything like that. I'm also not up to date on whether there's new tools or whatever.
3.Once I have what's needed installed, how do I set up CFB usb loader to be able to use port 1? Is that any different for other loaders?
4. How does this affect eumunand? I keep that setup in a different loader just for that purpose (dunno if that's weird but I find that more convenient than using one loader for both).
Okay, that aside I'm wondering about what would be involved in replacing the usb port. I don't know if I'm going to do that (sounds like it might just be risky, when one of the ports is still working fine).
Some research turned up this.
5. What would be needed to replace something like that? Would you have to solder (if so, I wouldn't even think about doing this). How risky is a replacement job like that?
Port 1 doesn't seem to have any problems. The HDD itself has no problems. Nothing else seems to be wrong except for port 0.
There's no visible damage but as far as I can tell I think it's the connection inside port 0 that got damaged (the rectangle with the metal strips on it probably got jarred when the Wii fell with the HDD attached there, is my best guess).
What are my options at this point? I want to continue to be able to use my Wii games over HDD instead of popping in discs all the time. That's the one thing I can think of that I know I've only ever been able to do over port 0.
I vaguely think I remember hearing at some point that there was a way to use Wii games on the other port too. But I think that interferes with emunand for some reason? Ideally I'd like to be able to continue using both, but through port 1 now. I don't use emunand anywhere near as often, so if I absolutely had to stop using one it would be emunand I'd drop.
I did a sys check to see what I already have installed. (see attached file).
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4. How does this affect eumunand? I keep that setup in a different loader just for that purpose (dunno if that's weird but I find that more convenient than using one loader for both).
Okay, that aside I'm wondering about what would be involved in replacing the usb port. I don't know if I'm going to do that (sounds like it might just be risky, when one of the ports is still working fine).
Some research turned up this.
5. What would be needed to replace something like that? Would you have to solder (if so, I wouldn't even think about doing this). How risky is a replacement job like that?
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