Post last updated: 19th of August 2011, but before that it was February 2010. If the screenshots don’t exactly match up (i.e. Says to install WAD Manager v1.5 mod3, screenshots have v1.4 etc) – don’t panic, I’ve just updated the article but not the screenshots. Also, I’ve added mention to using LetterBomb instead of BannerBomb, but I don’t have step by step directions for it – google is your friend. Well, how about homebrew (user created apps/games), downloaded games (i.e.

Wad files) and downloaded ISOs? You will need: – A Wii (hopefully with firmware 3.XE or 3.XU, where X is 1, 2 or 3) – A Wii-mote – (if you’re hacking a new [2008 and onwards] Wii and want to back up the system memory) A Gamecube controller – A SD card [ NOT a SDHC card, as you need 4.0 firmware or higher to use those].

Nysid Advanced Member. Sep 22, 2007. Code: #14 Aug 1, 2008. Download Wii DVD Dumper (Custom IOS) 1.1 (322.8KB) for Wii+U. The file '[2881]CIOS_DVD_DUMPER_V1.1.ZIP' can be downloaded instantly from our Wii+U Homebrew Homebrew.

The SD card must be formatted in format and at least 1GB in size. – An internet connection your Wii can use – An hour or two to get it all sorted You will NOT need: – A copy of Zelda: Twilight Princess Optionally can be used to control BootMii option selection & fix a bricked Wii: – A Gamecube controller Please Note: I’ve put together ALL the files I used to hack the Wii as a single zip which you can find – please read the included readme.txt for usage instructions. Also, as this post ages there might be newer version of files, so you might want to get each bit yourself to have the latest versions. The Wii hacking files have been updated on 10th January 2010 to include latest revisions of cIOS installers + apps (WadManager v1.5 mod 3, Hermes CIOS 222 v4, Trucha Bug Restorer v1.1, USB Loader GX r815, BootMii 0.60 beta, Preloader 0.30 etc). Also, instead of just following this guide step by step as you go along, I’d -STRONGLY- recommend reading through the entire thing so you’re pre-warned about bits and pieces and -THEN- going through it step by step, looking ahead occasionally so you’ve got the right files on your SD card for the step, and maybe the step ahead. FINAL WARNING(S): In the highly unlikely event that you brick your Wii – it’s not my fault.

Also, never remove a SD card from a powered on Wii – it can (and will) corrupt the partition on the card and you’ll need to reformat it (not quick-format). If your SD card suddenly becomes read-only and you haven’t accidentally slid the lock/unlock slider to lock – this is exactly what you’ve done. With that out of the way – let’s get this show on the road! =D Step 1 – Get a suitable exploit Go to and get the BannerBomb hack. Get the first file (), extract it, and move the folder named private to the root of your SD card. Update: If you have a recent Wii with stock firmware of 4.3 or later then you need to use the exploiter, and not BannerBomb. Substitute as appropriate for the rest of the article.

Step 2 – Get a boot agent Go to and download HackMii Beta 2. Extract it, rename the “Installer.elf” file to “boot.elf” and place it in the root of your SD card. Step 3 – Prime your Wii Make sure your Wii is able to connect to the Internet, turn the Wii off, insert the SD card, then boot up the Wii. Step 4 – Prep the exploit Go to the Wii button (bottom left at the system menu), then Data Management Channels SD Card. A box will pop up saying Load boot.dol/boot.elf – click [Yes] Step 5 – Run the exploit Update: If you’re using LetterBomb instead of BannerBomb, use your own common sense with the following instructions. Press the 1 button to install the BannerBomb exploit.

If your Wii freezes with a black and white memory dump, or just plain freezes for a couple of minutes at this point you need to go get the next recommended version of the BannerBomb exploit in the list provided in step 1, replace the private folder on your SD card with the one extracted from the different BannerBomb exploit zip (), and try again from Step 4. If this doesn’t work either, pick the next BannerBomb exploit zip and wash/rinse/repeat. Step 6 – Install useful software Once HackMii is running, it will offer you the opportunity to install The Homebrew Channel, DVDX and BootMii – install them all! Note: When you install BootMii, I’d recommend installing it as boot2 instead of an IOS file – it just means that it’ll be available should you somehow manage (however unlikely) to mess up your Wii, and you’ll be able to recover things to a clean state. Updated Note: Newer Wiis (2008 and newer) come configured so that you cannot install HackMii as boot2 – you have to install as IOS. Don’t worry though, we can still back up your system memory, and later, get preloader installed for recovery (should we ever need it) after we’ve restored the Trucha Bug. From the site: What does “The installed boot1 version prevents a boot2 install mean?

Are you going to fix it? No, it can’t be fixed.

Installing as boot2 is the most useful way to install BootMii, but it requires that we exploit a particularly silly bug in a part of the system that can not be changed under any circumstances. Nintendo finally fixed this bug in new Wiis that were released sometime in 2008. We have looked for a suitable replacement for this exploit, but have not found one, and it does not seem likely that anyone ever will. Step 7 – Backup your original (stock) system Now you have BootMii installed, restart your Wii and you’ll be greeted with the BootMii screen with 4 icons – at this point you can either use a Gamecube controller to navigate, or use the Power button to move to the next selection, then the Reset buttom to select an option. Navigate until the the far right Settings icon is selected, then push the A button on Gamecube controller (or the Reset button on the Wii) and you’ll see options depicting writing from a chip (on left) and writing to a chip (2nd from left) – pick the left one to back up the system memory of your Wii so you’ve got it available in case something wonky happens w/ your Wii. It’ll take about 10-15 mins to back up the system memory to a file called nand.bin on your SD card.

Once this is done, go back to the top BootMii menu and load the System Menu as normal – you’ll see the Homebrew channel there with lovely bubbles for you to pop. =D Updated Note: When hacking a new Wii where BootMii had to be installed as an IOS instead of boot2, I wasn’t able to use the buttons on the Wii to navigate the BootMii menu to backup the system memory, instead I had to use a Gamecube controller, which worked fine. You should be able to use the Power button to change selections, then the Reset button to actually select your option, on one Wii I hacked this didn’t seem to work so I just used a Gamecube controller, but it could have been I’d just forgotten you need to hit the Power button to change selections, as it’s a pretty un-intuitive thing to do Step 7.5 – Re-introduce exploits Newer Wiis come with the Trucha bug (i.e. Fakesign) fixed – but we need it to softmod our Wii properly, so we’re going to have to re-introduce the bug by installing older IOS files using. Grab yourself a copy, place it in a folder in your “apps” folder on your SD card with the.dol file renamed to boot.dol, watch on how to use it, and follow along until you’ve successfully restored the Trucha bug, so you can install custom firmware in step 8 below. Updated Note: When I used Trucha Bug Restorer, after downgrading IOS 15 as shown in the video the Wii wouldn’t connect to the network to download the older version of IOS 36 to patch, so I ended up using to get a copy of which I placed on the root of my SD card and then pointed TBR at that instead of using the network connection, it then updated fine and I restored IOS 15 via network connection as per the video instructions.

Step 8 – Install custom IOS’ Get and run Waninkoko’s Installer as an app (i.e. Create a folder on SD card called “apps”, inside this create a folder like “cIOS38-Installer”), place the file in this folder and rename it to boot.dol. Run the installer through the Homebrew Channel and it’ll install and patch a bunch of IOS files, including IOS 249 which is needed to run loads of stuff. Updated Note: If you get error = -2011 during the install process of this, you need to go back to step 7.5 above and make sure the version of IOS 36 installed is the hacked cIOS version with the Trucha bug. Great guide bud, seems to cover all the bases.

I think its time to submit some of these to wiihacks.net and tehskeen in the guides section. High Calibre work. After all this buggerizing around, you do realise a mod chip now takes less than 10 mins to install and now adays you dont even need to solder the frikkin’ things in. Yes it costs, but i can’t brick my nand with a modchip:D Two Things – If only you knew someone who had a USB Gecko you could take real screenshots instead of needing the camera (Makes your life easier as dont have to hole camera with one hand, wii mote with the other and press buttons with your imagination) and Secondly, you dont HAVE to have a GC controller to naviagate the BootMii options – The Reset and Power buttons on the front of the wii can be used. Reset I think changes options, holding power is like pressing A or something like that RTFM:D Something else might be worth looking into that might save some headaches, with the use of preloader (Used to run programs on startup) and some other software that name escapes me, it might be possible to have the disc channel load backsups without needing back launcher.,,,, ahh i remember CIOSCORP:D Good luck and thank god for NAND backup ohhhhhhhhhh new cios means nand can be run from SD card w00t even easier to break. Did a CiosCorp install today on a bootmii boot2 incompatible wii.

For this preloader is required to get me to the HBC channel should something go wrong as the only option is to install bootmii as an IOS. In you guide you install preloader I’m wondering why you do this as pre-loader is not required to softmod th wii if your using a backup launcher and if you have bootmii installed, unless you want to really really really turn off BGM and health screens, why run the risk of bircking when there simply is no need? God i’m a mardy git today Was more excited about CIOSCORP install piece of piss but thank you for the guide, and single download zip file, saved me sourcing the crap from elsewhere. I can gift you the CIOSCRP stuff too if you like. Ohhhhhhhhhhh in other news DVD43 the culprint behind 360 ripping issues. Cheers Mouse Out •. Hey Mouse, I install preloader because I want to have as many recovery options available as poss, and being able to hold down Reset during boot to get to preloader, where I could launch any number of fixy things (including BootMii) helps me sleep like a baby.

Also, I really, REALLY do want to turn off the background music:) Good job w/ CIOSCORP – but I think I’ll leave mine for the time being – looks a bit dicey to overwrite all orignal copies of IOS’s w/ hacked ones Prolly perfectly safe n’ all, but if I don’ need to I’m not gonna. Glad guide could be of use! If you follow these instructions carefully, it will NOT brick your Wii. The only situation that has the potential capacity to brick it is if you install firmware from a game which is from a different region to your Wii. That is, if you have a PAL Wii, don’t install NTSC or Japanese firmware.

If you have a NTSC Wii, don’t install PAL or Japanese firmware, etc. If you take a look at third screenshot in Step 13 of the guide you’ll see a list of options available from preloader, one of which is “Skip disc update check” – with this option enabled, the Wii will never ask you to install firmware from a disc. Also, you can remove the update partition of any (DVD) game using Wii Scrubber, so it’s not even there to being with. Finally, if you look carefully at step 7 you’ll notice that we’re backing up the system memory of the Wii to the SD card, so should you somehow manage to install something you didn’t mean to, and because preloader starts as boot2 (that is, BEFORE the wii system menu even starts to load), you can always use BootMii to restore your system memory to a working state from the nand.bin backup.

Personally, I think that’s safe enough. Bannerbomb says that it’s compatible with firmware v4.1 – so you should be okay there. What I’d do then though is downgrade the firmware to v3.3 with, then upgrade to the v4.0 custom IOS then custom v4.1 custom IOS as detailed above.

This should re-introduce the trucha bug and as many “security” flaws as possible that let us do exactly what we want with the hardware that we own! And no, soft-modding the Wii will have no effect on your MotionPlus games (mine work fine!), though if you’re launching a rip of your GH5, you may have to do it through NeoGamma with some RTZP.dol shenanigans – will make sure I post something up about extra MotionPlus hoop-jumping this weekend.

Anyways, best o’ luck w/ the modding + if you’ve got a moment let me know how it all turned out! (Might have to mod a newer, v4.1 from the factory Wii soon – and if you had to jump through any extra hoops to get it all working I’d love to hear about ’em!) Cheers, r3dux •. I have fitted a FlatMod chip to my Wii v3.4E and it works great but I have looked all over for a way to run ISO games from a USB External hard drive I have found loads of info on this and it can be done through homebrew and other apps and thats all I want it to do.

I have followed lots of guides but can not ever get my Wii to boot anything from the SDCard but it will show the photos in the photo channel I am really stuck on how to get the thing to install the homebrew in the first place it dose not even give the option to run the boot.dol / elf file in step 4 at all any ideas? All the files are on the SDcard all in the right place and everything even tried formating to FAT16 / 32 & NTFS copied the files over again and still nothing just a menu screen that seems to meen the SDcard is empty?

Hey sKittleZ – Is the error writing on the screen stuff like ret = -1 or more like a memory dump / stack trace? A whole heap of letters and numbers in columns) The ret code stuff will likely be more about not finding a network connection to DL the 4.0 firmware than anything else. As I don’t know what firmware you’re currently running, it could be that you have a official 4.0 or 4.1 firmware already installed, in which case you might have to downgrade your firmware to 3-point-something to reintroduce some security flaws, and then install the 4.0 then 4.1 custom firmwares. To downgrade your firmware before trying the upgrade, use. Cupcake, you need of DVD drive on a PC to read original Wii discs (i.e. To make backups) – but – the Wii itself can read the discs fine, so we can use that to do the backups!

You’ve got two choices depending on whether you have a USB hard-drive (or even a usb memory stick >4GB) – lets go with the non-usb method first (your Wii has to be connected to your home network for this first method to work): 1.) Grab a copy of DVD Dumper from here (direct link). 2.) Install it using wad manager and run it, insert an original Wii DVD. 3.) The Wii will now be acting as a web-server, and will provide you with a link to use where the Wii will stream your game for you just like you were downloading it from the net. 4.) Download the file using Firefox or or whatever and you’ve got yourself a ripped game.

The downside of this is that it’s a slow download. As the Wii rips at about 200K/Sec (or there abouts) – you’re looking at about 4 hours to rip a single game A much better solution is to go with the USB drive method: 1.) Grab a USB hard drive (compatibility list ). 2.) Plug it into your PC. 3.) Grab a copy of. 4.) Format the USB drive using WBFS Manager ( note: if you want to keep some space aside on the drive as fat32 for use w/ nand emulation and such you’ll need to divy up the drive into partitions before using WBFS!). 5.) Grab and install a copy of 6.) Plug the USB drive into the Wii (try other USB port if not recognised at first) and and just run USB Loader GX and slap a disc in and it’ll ask you if you want to rip it to your drive.

Takes about 20 mins for a 4GB game, and you can download the covers for the games you’ve got installed and select ’em from a pretty list. Cupcake – Are you able to run BootMii (or did you during the install process) so that it looks like the screenshot in Step 7? Things to look at: – Do you have the BootMii application file as boot.elf on the root of your SD card?If you’ve downloaded a.dol version it should be called boot.dol. – Do you have a bootmii (CaSe SeNsItIvE!) folder in the root of your SD card? If you’ve changed the directory to something like REMOVE-CAPS-TO-ENABLE-bootmii (see Step 14) – just remove the CAPS to re-enable it!:) Failing that, try putting the BootMii.elf or.dol file in the apps folder in your SD card and launch it through the Homebrew Channel maybe?

Hope ya get it sorted! Savbeowulf – if your Wii is already softmodded and can run the Homebrew Channel, then you’re fine to play disc backups through something like NeoGamma. If your Wii isn’t softmodded, you can do so using the above method. Once softmodded, you can grab NeoGamma as a.dol and run it through the Homebrew Chan, or get it as a WAD () and install it as a channel (through wadmanager).

Newer games work fine AFAIK – sometimes you might need to tweak some bits and pieces to get a specific title to work, but most stuff will work straight off the bat, and if it doesn’t there’s always google;) Cheers! JokerNI, I’ve not come up against any of these probs, tho I’m on preloader 0.29 and am not fussed to go up a version as what I’ve got works fine atm. Maybe just don’t update it? As for the SD card thing, you could always try copying everything off the card to your PC, format the card, then put things back on the card piece-by-piece (i.e.

A folder at a time) to figure out what’s knocking the box over. Red Hindi English Dual Audio Movie Download more. Other than that, prolly google or gbatemp or tehskeen will have stuff about the issues you’re experiencing.

Hi Alison, I had a quick google – maybe the issue is related to the card being in read-only mode. This can happen if you move the little write-protection tab on the card, or if the formatting gets corrupted. If the card has the write-protect tab on, move it to the position where the card can be written to and try again. If you think the card formatting may have gotten corrupted (which can happen if you remove the card from the Wii while it’s still powered on), try copying your data off your SD card, reformat the card (not quickformat), copy the data back and try again. Update: Hmm, I’ve just had to mod a Wii for a mate, and it’s a newer Wii which won’t allow you to install HackMii onto Boot2, so I just installed it as an IOS, then, I had to run Trucha Bug Restorer to get the Wii to a point where I could install cIOS 36 Rev 14 (and enable all the cIOS 249 stuff). Will update the post on how to do all that stuff today.

JokerNI – Personally, I like preloader as it gives you a stack of options like never letting an original game try to force the reinstall of non-custom firmware before it’ll play, disabling that plinky-plink music, and allowing you to use region-free channels – amongst a whole heap of other bits and pieces (like being able to get to an alternate launcher incase the Wii OS gets tripped up on something), so if it was me, I’d use it. However, I haven’t researched it enough to say with any certainty whether it’ll absolutely safe and problem-free on firmware 4.2 – so if you dig around the net for a while and don’t come up with any horror stories, then you’re probably safe and can go for it. Rick – I have created a premade SD card folder with most all (see below) the files you need, including a brief readme.txt – it’s linked near the top of the article, man! Here’s the link. The only file it doesn’t contain is (direct link, btw), which I found I needed to properly use Trucha Bug Restorer. Update: IOS36-64-v3351.wad is now included in the hacking files set.

I’d try taking it from the top, making sure you cover every step – if you skip bits here and there because they’re not playing ball things will go awry, also, there are lots of guides available – try reading some others (linked in comments above, or just use google) and see if you have any luck with that. Rocksteady, your copy of Rabid Rabbits has a newer (or at least different) version of the Wii firmware on it to the one you’re the currently running, and the game wants you to upgrade your firmware. If you’ve put custom firmware on your Wii (Waninkoko, custom IOSs etc.), and you go ahead with the update, your custom firmware will be overwritten by the official Nintendo firmware on the disc. As I don’t have a modchip, I couldn’t tell you if it’ll make any difference to you – you’re already bypassing things through the hardware modchip to begin with, so it could all be fine. On the other hand, the updated firmware might change things so your modchip doesn’t work anymore and/or it bricks the Wii (though I’d find this pretty unlikely). You’d have to do some googling to find out.

If you modify your Wii using this guide we install something called Preloader which has options to disable disc update checks (so it’ll never ask you to update your firmware), but as you probably haven’t soft-modded it to run preloader, the easiest way for you to safely play your game would be to install something like DVD-Dumper (see reply to Cupcake on September 30th 2009 above) and rip your original game to an ISO image, then strip out the firmware partition using, burn the firmware-less version of the game and play that! However, to install DVD-Dumper, you’ll need to have the Homebrew Channel installed in the first place, which I don’t believe you can do with just a DC2 chip (correct me if I’m wrong!) So, if you’re concerned about the new firmware being installed, you could just do the full soft-mod, install preloader as part of the process, then enable to skip update check option and use your original disc.

Ooh, just thought of another option: If you know someone with a soft-modded Wii – you could get them to extract the disc ISO, scrub the firmware partition, then burn it for you would save you soft-modding your Wii if you didn’t want to go to all the effort. Or you could just d/l a pre-scrubbed copy =P The choice, as they say, is yours;) •.

After several failed attempts to get backup games working, I decided to revert back to my original unmodified system. However, during restore of my NAND, BootMii got about 9 boxes in and has frozen on me. I’ve let it sit there for a few hours now and nothing’s changed.

How big an issue do you figure it would be to power off and try the restore again? Or is there a workaround for this? If I can at all avoid bricking my Wii, I’d rather go that route By the way, if it helps at all, I’m (or WAS, I guess) running System Menu 4.2u, and I have my BootMii stuff and NAND on separate cards. Thanks for all the help earlier, by the way!:-D •. Well, after several painful Wii-free days of debating and hoping beyond hope that the restore process would right itself and everything would be good again, it wasn’t, and I finally bit the bullet and powered off.

Thankfully, the bootMii started right up, and my original NAND didn’t end up corrupting! I got it restored without a hitch! Needless to say, as soon as the whole restore process finished, I promptly backed it up a second time on to both of my PCs. Thanks for the guide and help, r3dux!

Hi r3dux, I’m sorry to take some of your time, it’s just I’ve realized that you rock at all things Wii, and I figured maybe you could give me some short advice. I have a flashed / chipped Wii. Homebrew channel and all, V4.1U I think. I have some games that are not working, such as Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, Call of Duty MW. I have read around that I’m supposed to change the IOS and such but I’m honestly terrified of playing around with it without being sure of what to doI don’t want to brick it. Is there anyway you could tell me how to do it without screwing up? I’m sorry if my question sounds dumb I will appreciate any help.

All the best and thanks in advance! Hey Adrian, Do you have custom firmware installed on the Wii? If you’ve just used BootMii to get the HBC on it and nothing else then you won’t have. Without having custom firmware (steps 8 through 10 in the guide above), you might just want to give this a go; if it works, great!

If it doesn’t just do steps 8 through 10 (you might need to also do step 7.5 to restore the trucha bug if things are acting up) and then try the steps in the GH5 guide. Oh, and to install wads (as req’d by GH5 guide), just grab something like Wad Manager 1.5, rename the.dol fille to boot.dol place it in the apps folder on your SD card and launch through the HBC. Hope this helps! Thanks for everything I just followed the GH5 installation and didn’t work, so I’m assuming I’m gonna have to do steps 8 through 10 above and THEN the GH5 guide. Now I have one question though. Like I said I’ve already messed with the Wii and can play back up discs and all that. Last time I updated my Wii before installing the HBC and modding it I updated it to 4.1 So my question is: If I use Wanninkoko’s Firmware 4.0 Updater will that be a problem?

I mean, I have 4.1 and not 4.0 Sorry If I’m a pain, it’s just like I said, I’m terryfied of bricking my Wii. Thanks and I hope this time it works! Best, Adrian •. Hey Adrurc, If the GH5 set-up article didn’t work, it’s probably because you’re firmware doesn’t have the trucha (fakesign) bug available, so to enable it you’ll need to do step 7.5 in the guide above and then re-try the GH5 guide to get Hermes’ cIOS 222 installed. I don’t think running Waninkoko’s firmware updater 4.0 will cause any problems at all. You could try just running Wanin’s 4.1 updater without touching the 4.0 and see if it works, if it doesn’t then run 4.0 and then 4.1 updaters, but before you do ANY of this, make sure you’ve run trucha bug restorer or NONE of it will work!

Hope this helps! God, this is embarrassing.

I’m sorry I’m asking so many questions, but I can’t seem to get past Step 7.5 I start the TBR and follow the you tube tutorial, but after I’ve downloaded both IOS and I press A to start Step 1 (“Set the revision to 0”) I get the following error: Setting the revision to 0 Error: ES_AddTitleStart returned -1035, maybe you need an updated downgrader Error: could not set the revision down to 0 I’ve tried it with TBR 1.1 as well and I get the same error message. Thsi is so frustrating. Any idea why this might be? I have tried loading IOS from SD card and downloading them from NUS but I get the same result. Thanks for everything man, I really appreciate your time.

Hi there I was going through your tutorial and got stuck on the Custom IOS installer. I redid the Trucha bug thang and still continued to have a freeze at the same point: as soon as I chose IOS 249. So, the IMPORTANT thing: I went forward and tried installing the Preloader and found I was in a vicious cycle. When I told it to reboot to the main menu, I now get “The system files are corrupted. Please refer to the Wii Operations Manual for help troubleshooting. Which is uselss. What can I do from here?

Well, I’m not sure how you’ve managed to get to this point, but all’s not lost. Make sure you have the BootMii.elf installed on the root of your SD card and renamed to boot.elf, then boot the Wii holding down the Reset button to start Preloader. From there you can launch BootMii and restore your NAND from the backup you’ve made (In BootMii, the power button will cycle through options, reset will select the option).

This gets you a clean, bootable Wii. After that, re-do the guide. I’ve done it switching around the sequence so I’ve installed Waninkoko’s Custom Firmware 4.0 then 4.1, and then installed cIOS 38 Rev 14 (which gives you cIOS 249), and although it flipped the HBC upside down, a quick uninstall/reinstall of the HBC fixed that. Also, when you do the Trucha Bug Restore – after downgrading IOS 36 (prior to installing cIOS 38 Rev 14), make sure to re-enable the updated IOS15 as per the vid. Hope this helps.

Hi Susan, I don’t really understand which part you mean by “the brickproofing”. Do you mean making a NAND backup to restore the original system memory? (Step 7) Or blocking disc updates through preloader system hacks?(Step 14), or something else entirely? Which part did you do that came up with an error? Installing bannerbomb in step 5?

Give me more details and I’ll give you more help – fair?;) P.S. Yes, you should be able to run this guide on a Wii with firmware 4.0, but I’ve never had to try it on anything that started past firmware 3.4 – if it doesn’t work or some additional steps are needed you could always google “Wii 4.0 softmod” to find any info you need. Whenever I’ve had trouble connecting a Wii to the net via WiFi I’ve managed to resolve it by changing the channel the WiFi operates on, but quite why it’d stop working when it used to be okay is a mystery unless you’ve changed the router channel yourself recently!

If it were me, I’d change the WiFi channel – try a couple of different channels – and the see if the Wii can connect to that. If it can’t, drop the WiFi connection to be unencrypted and try again on different channels until it works. Richie Kotzen Gundam Rar on this page. The official troubleshooting procedure is – have a read & hope you get it sorted soon!

Hi Chappie, Nope, but 10 seconds on google says that the fix is to assign a static IP to your Wii, or disable your router’s firewall. Source: If you have to disable your hardware (router) firewall, then make sure you’re running a software firewall on any PCs connected to the router (or better still – just disconnect everything apart from the Wii, get the Wii connected and working, install IOSs as needed, then re-enable router firewall and re-connect any PCs you have). Another thing you might want to check is that your router is running a DHCP server (i.e. It’s handing out IP addresses) – if it’s not, then you might consider making it (i.e.

Enabling the DHCP on the router). No valid IP address == no connectivity. As a final resort, depending on the router (but most routers are able to do this), you can find out the MAC address of the network card on the Wii, and then force the router to hand out a specific IP address to the Wii, and then assign this specific IP address from within the Wii as the address the Wii should use (i.e. The address that will be stamped on the TCP/IP packets the Wii is sending & listening-for). Please don’t ask me how to enable/disable DHCP/Firewalls/Static-IPs on your specific make and model of router – this is something you’ll have to find out if you’re not sure how to go about it.

I thought of two more options you could try – starting in the order of easiest first: – Take your Wii around to a mates house with a working network connection and do it there, – Try to cut the router out of the equation. If you have a modem which connects to a router which then connects (either wired or wirelessly) to your devices, you might be able to go directly from the modem to the Wii, bypassing the router.

Although for this to work you might need to connect the modem to the Wii with a crossover cable, rather than a piece of normal ethernet. If you don’t have a crossover cable you could either make one (if you’re feeling brave), or if you’ve got an ethernet hub lying about you could put a straight cat5 (ethernet) cable from the modem to the hub, and then another from the hub to the Wii.

I’ve got a softmodded Wii running on 4.2. I use USB loader GX to load up my external which I have partitioned into WBFS, NTSC and Fat32 formats.

I usually use WBFS manager 3.0, Wii Backup Manager_build 73 and Wii Game Manager 1.5.0.2 to format files and transfer, load, backup etc. Is it possible to play PAL files? I’m pretty sure it is, but can’t seem to find a quick way to convert or load them. And, what is the best way to load/transfer.wbfs files onto my usb drive? I’ve been trying to do it through the back up and game managers, but only have partial success, and can’t figure out why some work and some don’t. Any help to end this frustration would be greatly appreciated.:) •.

I’ve got a PAL Wii and I can play most NTSC games on it (although some NTSC Wads refuse to play) – I’m not sure what kind of luck you’ll have to get PAL stuff running on NTSC though as it’s higher resolution and there might be chipset issues involved. You can definitely attempt to convert wads between formats but I’m afraid I’m not so sure about converting full games – maybe some options through the launcher (WiiFlow, USB Loader GX etc) could help. As for the.wbfs format question – I’ve never used it to transfer games; Instead I convert them to either.iso or.ciso (ciso is preferred as it means the ISO size doesn’t have to be the full 4.7GB if the game doesn’t use it) and then install from that format, which has always worked fine using Wii Backup Manager. I wrote up short article about wbfs file conversion which might help.

If you upgraded with the official Nintendo firmware then it’ll have removed all the CIOS (Custom IOS) files which allow the softmod stuff to work so you’ll have to replace them either by using this guide or maybe. If you haven’t updated using official firmware, then maybe try a different version of WAD Manager or re-download another copy from another source in case your version is corrupted. There’s lots about this on google (i.e., including rather clunky solution, but in the comments a guy says he fixed it by just using another wad manager.

Hope you get it sorted! Thanks for the reply i have a virgin wii not touched from the day i got it ver3.4e i got it unoffically to 4.0 then 4.1e all ok i installed HBC WAD MANAGER NEOGAMMA cISO ok my HBC will update through hackmii then when it restarts it wont update its in some loop so ill download a new HBC that should fix that my question is this i want to play burnt copies games on a dvd but with no luck i used IMGBURN on x4 speed but i used dvd+r and red i have to use dvd-r help my kids r kicking off on me to get it working and im trying to look like a cool dad H E L P thanks •. This one is Jan 2012: And this page lists all the wii softmod topics on gbatemp: I haven’t modded a Wii in a long time, so if I was going to do it, I’d just use this guide and letterbomb if the firmware already on the Wii was quite recent (which I’ve updated the article to mention). The NAND emulation article worked at the time – I haven’t tried it since, but assuming you just get the most recent versions of any software mentioned in the article (i.e.

CIOS 38, triiforce etc) it should still be fine. As for unbricking your first Wii, try this:.

The custom firmware is what will allow you to run games from a USB drive. If you replace it with stock Korean firmware your Wii will be returned to a standard, non-hacked state. However, if you replace the firmware with hacked Korean firmware (assuming you can find some), I see no reason why it would brick your Wii, as it’s a Korean version to begin with.

You’d have to carefully research this though, as I have zero experience in Korean Wii firmware. Comments are closed. Post navigation.