Hacking Gaming Hardware Misc Bricked my Wii U trying to downgrade home button menu

SkyeDoesThings

SkyeDoesThings

Member
OP
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Mar 28, 2024
Messages
6
Trophies
0
Age
22
XP
39
Country
United States
A friend of mine told me how he downgraded his home button menu on his Wii U so I tried to do it and now my Wii U is bricked and wont boot past the Wii U logo. I'm trying to boot into UDPIH but for some reason nothing shows up however the recover_ menu is still there and functional. Help would be appreciated thanks!

Fixed the issue by rebuilding MLC
 
Last edited by SkyeDoesThings,
T

thebigC

Member
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Apr 4, 2024
Messages
15
Trophies
0
XP
69
Country
United States
Do you have a nand backup of this Wii U?
Post automatically merged:

You have to plug the usb in at a certain time for UDPIH to work. I recommend the video by Voultar about unbricking Wii Us.
 
Last edited by thebigC,
SkyeDoesThings

SkyeDoesThings

Member
OP
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Mar 28, 2024
Messages
6
Trophies
0
Age
22
XP
39
Country
United States
thebigC said:
Do you have a nand backup of this Wii U?
Post automatically merged:

You have to plug the usb in at a certain time for UDPIH to work. I recommend the video by Voultar about unbricking Wii Us.
Click to expand...
Yeah i've tried the menu is there but i cant see it
 
T

thebigC

Member
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Apr 4, 2024
Messages
15
Trophies
0
XP
69
Country
United States
By saying the menu is there do you mean it is on the sd card but the Wii U doesn't output to your display? Is the sd card FAT32 and is recovery_menu in the root of the sd card?
 
SkyeDoesThings

SkyeDoesThings

Member
OP
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Mar 28, 2024
Messages
6
Trophies
0
Age
22
XP
39
Country
United States
thebigC said:
By saying the menu is there do you mean it is on the sd card but the Wii U doesn't output to your display? Is the sd card FAT32 and is recovery_menu in the root of the sd card?
Click to expand...
recovery menu is on the root and it doesnt show up on the gamepad or tv however it is loaded only the wiiu logo shows up
 
T

thebigC

Member
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Apr 4, 2024
Messages
15
Trophies
0
XP
69
Country
United States
That is a very strange issue you are experiencing. Your nand may be bricked beyond what you can fix with UDPIH and you may have to do a more in-depth fix which will require soldering skills and a nand backup that you hopefully already made. I am not a Wii U expert by any means but it seems likely that your brick requires a full nand restore.
 
SkyeDoesThings

SkyeDoesThings

Member
OP
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Mar 28, 2024
Messages
6
Trophies
0
Age
22
XP
39
Country
United States
thebigC said:
That is a very strange issue you are experiencing. Your nand may be bricked beyond what you can fix with UDPIH and you may have to do a more in-depth fix which will require soldering skills and a nand backup that you hopefully already made. I am not a Wii U expert by any means but it seems likely that your brick requires a full nand restore.
Click to expand...
alright
 
T

thebigC

Member
Newcomer
Level 1
Joined
Apr 4, 2024
Messages
15
Trophies
0
XP
69
Country
United States
YosMakii

YosMakii

New Member
Newbie
Level 1
Joined
Oct 22, 2023
Messages
3
Trophies
0
Age
18
XP
43
Country
Mexico
SkyeDoesThings said:
A friend of mine told me how he downgraded his home button menu on his Wii U so I tried to do it and now my Wii U is bricked and wont boot past the Wii U logo. I'm trying to boot into UDPIH but for some reason nothing shows up however the recover_ menu is still there and functional. Help would be appreciated thanks!

Fixed the issue by rebuilding MLC
Click to expand...
I just recognized you
 
Last edited by YosMakii,

Site & Scene News

Go to forum More news

Popular threads in this forum

Homebrew Tutorial  SDUSB - The modern way to play Wii U games from SD - at full speed

Tutorial Homebrew app  USB Partition - Use partitioned USB HDDs with the Wii U

Hacking Homebrew Tutorial  How to get Nintendo TVii icon back without downgrading + extras

Unable to dump OTP.bin

Very annoying that Nintendo never fixed this bug

Wii U (bricked) Mii Maker

Using a single external partitioned hard drive.

A Couple of Questions about GameCube Games

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, Reason how I found Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/249365
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, the other game where I found newgrounds is new york shark
     +1
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Spoke to Tom Fulp the other day, if he can find his old Newgrounds site content like the mini Flash animations from the 2000's that played on the portal.
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    So far no response, but he did say that he'll find them. Wayback Machine doesn't have em.
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, atleast the 1999 versión of pico's school is avaliable (the difference between it, the 2006 versión and the 2016 versión is that the speed of the game depends of the speed of your computer and that it had the og soundtrack)
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, Another being Pico VS Bear, the original 1999 version before Jim Henson filed a DMCA takedown.
     +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    The 2006 versión was made when the flash portal was made
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Many people thought it was lost, but was discovered that he hid it on the same page.
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    https://tcrf.net/Pico_VS_Bear
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, although the "secrets" system where the game was has been removed. Also pico vs uberkids had a netplay versión that was shutdown, although the swf file has been found
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, Nope. There are two download buttons on the same page, where you can download the original under a file called "bear.exe". "bear2.exe", however, is the updated game in a Flash projector. P.s. this was on the archived Pico page from 2000.
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, That's been there for a long time, too. People who search for lost media don't look hard enough lmao.
     +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, also the pico 2 demos used to be only for the newgrounds patrons but they are on internet archive too (https://archive.org/download/picos_school_2)
     +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    Iirc the demos were removed from newgrounds in 2022
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, or well only the demo with mindchamber's style was on newgrounds
     +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    Fun fact @SylverReZ: iirc one of the goals on the fnf Kickstarter stated that pico 2 would be finished but the Kickstarter didnt get enough money for that goal to be fullfiled
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Xdqwerty, FNF sucks, their community is toxic as hell.
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    @SylverReZ its a single player game
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @The Real Jdbye, Yea but it has a shitton of mods with their own songs and stuff
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @The Real Jdbye, and quite a lot of people involved in those mods get cancelled
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Newgrounds wasn't the birth of FNF; rather, it was games where you beat up celebrities and parodies.
     +2
  • a_username_that_is_cool @ a_username_that_is_cool:
    FNF was born from Game Jams
  • a_username_that_is_cool @ a_username_that_is_cool:
    Specifically Ludum Dare 47
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ, and Sonic fights a la dragón ball z
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty: