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Deleted user 12 January 2011 19:29:50

So, is running GC backups a possibility yet?

MrSemprini 12 Jan 2011 20:33:02 9,671 posts
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Has been for several years although you can't do it from the usual USB loaders, you need something like WODE for that. Without it you can only play disc backups which is kind of pointless if you have the original anyway.

Dan234 30 Jan 2011 17:07:18 2,255 posts
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If you can't get hold of LEGO Indiana Jones to run an exploit, you can try now try LEGO Batman instead...

http://wien.tomnetworks.com/wii/

andijames 31 Jan 2011 14:53:56 2,912 posts
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Ahh excellent! I might grab a copy of this quick before it becomes stupidly hard to get hold of and the prices goes off the chart! Just in case it's needed in the future

Dan234 8 Feb 2011 18:50:03 2,255 posts
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Or LEGO Star Wars (it says it's for the original Lego Star Wars game)...

http://hackmii.com/2011/02/return-of-the-jodi/

Deleted user 10 February 2011 11:35:59

OK, so, I want to install some channels, namely snes9x, genesisplus and configurable USB loader.

How do I go about this? I have WAD Manager and all that.

andijames 10 Feb 2011 11:52:00 2,912 posts
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Have a look at the GAF tutorials they're pretty good for all that stuff. I did the configurable USB one and it worked out nicely

Although wiiflow is rather good too!

Linky clickety click.

MrSemprini 10 Feb 2011 18:16:57 9,671 posts
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CrispyXUK64 wrote:
OK, so, I want to install some channels, namely snes9x, genesisplus and configurable USB loader.

How do I go about this? I have WAD Manager and all that.

I would advise against installing these as full channels, certainly for Config Loader as this gets a lot of updates and your channel would be rapidly out of date. The best thing to do is install a small forwarder to the app on your sd card - the latest build of it is here.

If your WAD manager is ancient you may need a newer one but give it a go.

Kay 7 Jul 2011 15:49:24 21,321 posts
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I think I'll finally be giving this a crack over the weekend - I've been meaning to for a long time, but the process always seemed a little complicated and risky to me. Having read up on it quite a fair bit (including the GAF tutorials), seems it's actually quite a simple and easily reversible procedure, so I might as well.

I'm still on 4.2, so am I right in thinking that I won't need to use a game for an exploit? Also, I take it SNES emulation is pretty much perfect on this, and will come with all the usual filters and stuff that you'd expect from an emulator?

MrSemprini 7 Jul 2011 18:17:59 9,671 posts
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You don't need a game for 4.2.
Not sure about the SNES stuff but it was pretty good when I last used it.

Dan234 7 Jul 2011 19:19:15 2,255 posts
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Not as reversible as you think, Nintendo's service centre has a disc which they can use to check if there's traces left behind of stuff they don't like and if they find something they won't touch it with a barge pole.

http://hackmii.com/2010/04/check-disk-for-pre-repair-process/

Although if your version of the Wii allows you to install BootMii in boot2 then...

1. Run the HackMii installer with BannerBomb and install BootMii to boot2.
2. Reset the Wii, make a copy of the entire flash to SD card in the BootMii menu.
3. Copy the backup from the SD card to the computer just in case.
4. Rerun the HackMii installer with BannerBomb and this time install the Homebrew Channel.
5. Then install emulators, etc...

and later on if you need to send it back to Nintendo you can restore the backup with BootMii. If it was a software problem then it will probably be fixed just by that. If it's something like a broken disc drive then update online to 4.3 which will overwrite boot2 and then send it off to them. I'm 99.9% sure they won't be able to tell what you've done with it.

BurnoutJunkie 7 Jul 2011 21:17:37 1,222 posts
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I know jack all and I managed to follow the GAF tutorial, so if you're thinking about it, give it a shot. My Wii is a North American one but have already played the PAL Disaster Day of Crisis game and will be picking up some other PAL exclusives. Also, playing off the HDD is so convenient.

Kay 8 Jul 2011 16:45:43 21,321 posts
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Cheers Dan - but that would only be an issue if I'd ever have to send the console in for repairs, right? I'm not too bothered about that, more concerned about reverting the Wii back to its vanilla state if a) if I feel it's not worth keeping it modded or b) something goes wrong during the process. I'm just mainly trying it for SNES emulation, and so that I can access the Wii Shop again without doing the official update.

Dan234 9 Jul 2011 14:31:20 2,255 posts
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You can use the same trick to revert the Wii to its vanilla state.

Or if you just want to uninstall the modded stuff disappear it's easy enough. You can uninstall the Homebrew Channel and any launcher channels you put in the System Menu (although I've just got the HBC and run everything from there and the HBC's pretty thoroughly tested so the chances of it going wrong are low).

There's a way of still being able to access the shop while staying on 4.2. You use...

1) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Shop_and_IOS61_installer

or...

2) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/DOP-Mii:_WiiBrew_Edition and use it to install the latest shop and IOS 61.

By the way, if you set up a parental controls PIN but don't put any other restrictions in the parental controls then you will get asked the PIN before updating over the Internet which stops you or someone else updating the Wii accidentally. I'm not sure if it asks you the PIN if you put a game discs with an update on them though.

Although sooner or later you're going to need to update to 4.3 because new games require the latest IOSes.

The latest IOS 58 is also a handy one to have too as it's used by the WiiMC media player, you can use http://wiibrew.org/wiki/IOS58_Installer or Dop-Mii. If you install IOS 58 you then can also re-install the HBC with the HackMii installer so the HBC can load stuff off a hard disk instead of the SD card.

Kay 9 Jul 2011 15:40:10 21,321 posts
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I thought you could safely upgrade to the latest firmware once you've installed the HBC or whatever?

Dan234 9 Jul 2011 16:56:53 2,255 posts
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You can, but didn't you say above that you wanted to stay on 4.2 and be able to access the shop? Just answering that question, guv.

If you were allowed to install BootMii in boot2, it might get overwritten if/when you update to 4.3. Other than that there'll be no casualties. No problem, just re-run the HackMii installer from the HBC which will still be in the Wii Menu and re-run the BootMii installer after updating.

In the case that you didn't want to update from 4.2 to 4.3 and you want to prevent an accidental update to 4.3 by a computer illiterate parter or gran or little brother then setting the parental controls PIN is a good way of doing it.

The same goes for 4.4 when it comes out, I assume that, as with the DSi, there will be some kind of update that will allow you to convert from the Wii Shopping Channel to the Wii U eShop that will also splatter homebrew.

Edit: Just remembered that before updating to 4.3 you'll want to remove BannerBomb from the SD card as 4.3 puts up a scary message if it finds it (but other that that no harm done, remove BannerBomb and it's gone).

Kay 9 Jul 2011 17:28:26 21,321 posts
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Ah, cheers. Not too bothered about the actual firmware, but I read that it's good to upgrade to the latest firmware because of newer IOSes and stuff.

Will I need to do anything special to the SD card before I start using it to install the homebrew? I've never used an SD card with the Wii before, so I'm guessing I won't need to back any folders up (the GAF tutorial mentions this) - since all my channels are saved on the Wii anyway.

Kay 10 Jul 2011 00:16:43 21,321 posts
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Okay, done. As is the case with these things, it's a very simple process as long as you read and follow the instructions carefully. Backed up my Wii's flash with BootMii first just to be careful, gained access to the Wii Shop again, and gave the SNES and Genesis emulators a try. As expected they work perfectly and come with a whole bunch of scaling/filtering options to make the games look decent on an HDTV. All I need now is a classic controller, or perhaps that SNES Wii controller.

I notice that everything is saved to the SD card, and it seems nothing was installed to the console itself. I'd rather have all the channels on the Wii menu though, instead of having to boot to the HBC each time in order to load the emulators. Is that safe to do? I'll also look into having the console boot straight into the Wii menu, instead of BootMii.

Deleted user 10 July 2011 00:43:36

l.ping36 wrote:
suprise,thanks!

Still better than any of F_S's posts.

Dan234 10 Jul 2011 10:31:49 2,255 posts
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Kay wrote:
I notice that everything is saved to the SD card, and it seems nothing was installed to the console itself. I'd rather have all the channels on the Wii menu though, instead of having to boot to the HBC each time in order to load the emulators. Is that safe to do? I'll also look into having the console boot straight into the Wii menu, instead of BootMii.

If your emulator doesn't come with its own forwarder channel then you can use a generic forwarder channel (see post of mine on the second page). I'll leave other people to say if they've had problems adding other channels as I've just got the HBC but in theory it's fairly well understood at this stage how to add channels.

The only problem with generic forwarder channels is you have to be careful where you get your banner from as the Wii Menu has no error checking for bad banners and promptly crashes (= bricked console). This is how BannerBomb works by the way, it gets the Wii Menu to run code. Priiloader ( http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Preloader ) patches the System Menu so it can recover from banner bricks or you've got BootMii to fall back on.

If you want to avoid the BootMii countdown you can edit the .ini file on the SD card in the BootMii directory or use this...

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/BootMii_Configuration_Editor

Edit: Apparently Preloader's not being maintained any more but http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Priiloader carries on where the original left off.

MrSemprini 10 Aug 2011 12:10:23 9,671 posts
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For anyone still not modded up, the easiest exploit yet is now available.

Deleted user 13 August 2011 01:18:03

MrSemprini wrote:
For anyone still not modded up, the easiest exploit yet is now available.

Just done it, super easy! Ripping my daughter's games to an HDD now - no more scratched disks! \o/

Kay 6 Oct 2011 11:28:23 21,321 posts
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I had a spare hour last night, so thought I'd finally pop in and start Xenoblade... except it needed a disc update. Since I was still on 4.2 I followed the instructions to perform a "safe" update to 4.3, thinking that would solve the issue. But the game still wouldn't start without a disc update!

I'm guessing I'll need to use Starpatch, or a USB loader, to get round this, but I'd rather not install system hacks. Is there any other way to safely update the IOSes and stuff?

mikew1985 6 Oct 2011 11:34:52 15,598 posts
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You can disable the system from allowing updates through priiloader I think but it's so long ago that I did this that i'm not sure.

quadfather 6 Oct 2011 12:06:38 39,071 posts
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So if I use that easiest exploit yet, I could region-free my wii, download the project zero 4 english patch, and it'd work with my jap copy of it?

If you say yes, I'll kiss you all

Deleted user 6 October 2011 12:07:34

yes

quadfather 6 Oct 2011 12:10:43 39,071 posts
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\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

yay

I've had it for months and have been dying to play it!

/kiss

MrSemprini 6 Oct 2011 12:26:16 9,671 posts
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Kay wrote:
I had a spare hour last night, so thought I'd finally pop in and start Xenoblade... except it needed a disc update. Since I was still on 4.2 I followed the instructions to perform a "safe" update to 4.3, thinking that would solve the issue. But the game still wouldn't start without a disc update!

I'm guessing I'll need to use Starpatch, or a USB loader, to get round this, but I'd rather not install system hacks. Is there any other way to safely update the IOSes and stuff?

You'd need to know which updated IOS to install yourself. That would involve ripping the disc to an ISO and examining it in WiiScrubber. Once you know that you can use NUSDownloader to grab the files you require and install them using a wad manager.

Alternatively, get a USB loader going and it will just work. This guide should help.

DodgyPast 6 Oct 2011 12:55:55 9,353 posts
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I did a d2x install on mine ( US console ) and that got it up and running.

Really need to have another look at my machine at some point and clean it up as it's a mess.

How is the process for getting VC / Wiiware games working these days?

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