EDIT: This guide is much better to use: https://demo.hedgedoc.org/s/2mYWv0YvK#
No reason to use my guide now that this exists.

Spoiler: Old Obsolete Guide

Thanks to diddy81 for his custom themes and tools, it's possible to install custom themes on vWii! This wasn't originally possible by normal means, but thanks to this script you can easily inject a theme straight to your vWii. I take no credit for anything in this tutorial, I am simply projecting his work into a tutorial you can follow. His original post is HERE
You just need wupclient, Mocha CFW, and diddy81's themes & tools.



1) Download diddy81's script HERE
2) Extract the NTSC or PAL folder depending on your region
3) Download the latest wupclient from FIX94 HERE
4) Open the zip, browse to wupclient, extract wupclient.py and place it in the NTSC or PAL folder
5) Boot up Homebrew Launcher through either haxchi or browser, and choose Mocha CFW. It should reboot to home menu but with wupserver enabled
6) On your computer, open wupclient.py in a notepad. Scroll down until you see a line with an IP address, that looks like 192.168.1.50. Delete this and add your Wiiu's IP. Then save and close it
7) Install Python if you haven't already
8) Run the file called BackupxxxApp.py with Python, and it will automatically do all the work for you to download your vWii's .app file. It will take a while to finish
Note: Backup this .app file somewhere safe, in case you want to revert back to the original theme or want to use a different custom theme

9) Once it's done, download diddy81's ThemeMii Mod HERE and extract it to your computer
10) Download the theme of your choice from diddy81's thread HERE (Be sure it's your region and for 4.3!!!)
11) Open ThemeMii.exe and go to File>Open and choose the .mym theme file you downloaded in step 10
12) Click on "Convert to .csm" and choose the .app file we extracted earlier from your vWii on step 8
13) Save it as theme.csm and place it in the NTSC or PAL folder depending on what you have
14) With your Wiiu still on, run "Injectxxxtheme.py" and it will automatically inject the theme file for you. This will take much longer to inject, be patient (You may get an error at the end. Ignore this, it succeeded)
15) Once it's done injecting, launch vWii as usual and your theme should be there!

I thought it would brick

Yes through the normal conventional way of installing from Homebrew Channel using the homebrew app. But this injects the theme directly to vWii without being in vWii via IOSUhax. I tested it myself and got a red theme going in my vWii.

This is an alternate method for custom themes that works.

 

[randomperson21]

there is sound for me. I don't know what to do other than using one of @GaryOderNichts apps to fix corruption. I think the files are encrypted, so my file probably won't work for you.

also i cant open anything or it will say the files are corrupted.

 

[godreborn]

something must've gone wrong when your internet went out. I had no issues when I did mine. playing nsmb wii on the virtual console via usb loader gx at this very moment. I've had my vwii theme for years.

 

[randomperson21]

something must've gone wrong when your internet went out. I had no issues when I did mine. playing nsmb wii on the virtual console via usb loader gx at this very moment. I've had my vwii theme for years.

it might be my pc its very slow

 

[randomperson21]

Thanks to diddy81 for his custom themes and tools, it's possible to install custom themes on vWii! This wasn't originally possible by normal means, but thanks to this script you can easily inject a theme straight to your vWii. I take no credit for anything in this tutorial, I am simply projecting his work into a tutorial you can follow. His original post is HERE
You just need wupclient, Mocha CFW, and diddy81's themes & tools.



1) Download diddy81's script HERE
2) Extract the NTSC or PAL folder depending on your region
3) Download the latest wupclient from FIX94 HERE
4) Open the zip, browse to wupclient, extract wupclient.py and place it in the NTSC or PAL folder
5) Boot up Homebrew Launcher through either haxchi or browser, and choose Mocha CFW. It should reboot to home menu but with wupserver enabled
6) On your computer, open wupclient.py in a notepad. Scroll down until you see a line with an IP address, that looks like 192.168.1.50. Delete this and add your Wiiu's IP. Then save and close it
7) Install Python if you haven't already
8) Run the file called BackupxxxApp.py with Python, and it will automatically do all the work for you to download your vWii's .app file. It will take a while to finish
Note: Backup this .app file somewhere safe, in case you want to revert back to the original theme or want to use a different custom theme

9) Once it's done, download diddy81's ThemeMii Mod HERE and extract it to your computer
10) Download the theme of your choice from diddy81's thread HERE (Be sure it's your region and for 4.3!!!)
11) Open ThemeMii.exe and go to File>Open and choose the .mym theme file you downloaded in step 10
12) Click on "Convert to .csm" and choose the .app file we extracted earlier from your vWii on step 8
13) Save it as theme.csm and place it in the NTSC or PAL folder depending on what you have
14) With your Wiiu still on, run "Injectxxxtheme.py" and it will automatically inject the theme file for you. This will take much longer to inject, be patient (You may get an error at the end. Ignore this, it succeeded)
15) Once it's done injecting, launch vWii as usual and your theme should be there!




Yes through the normal conventional way of installing from Homebrew Channel using the homebrew app. But this injects the theme directly to vWii without being in vWii via IOSUhax. I tested it myself and got a red theme going in my vWii.

This is an alternate method for custom themes that works.

How do you use the backup.

 

[godreborn]

How do you use the backup.

probably the same way as a theme. with the injector python script.

 

[randomperson21]

probably the same way as a theme. with the injector python script.

i tried that but i need a csm file.

 

[godreborn]

just replace the file if you have issues. I showed you the code, so it should be as simple as replacing the file in that folder.

 

[Farresb]

ok thanksssss

 

[vwiihacker10]

Can you make a youtube tutorial?

 

[Dragon91Nippon]

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[DJZSwag]

I Know nobody will reply to me cause this thread is 6 years old, but what line is the ip address located?

 

[godreborn]

I Know nobody will reply to me cause this thread is 6 years old, but what line is the ip address located?

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that is my ip address to the router, so yours might be different.

 

[DJZSwag]

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that is my ip address to the router, so yours might be different.

Thanks

 

[godreborn]

you can easily change code for python by editing with IDLE (should be there if you right click it). if you have both python 2.7 and 3.6+ installed, it will be listed twice.

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also, be warning: wup server is very slow, so it might take 2+ minutes to transfer a 6+MB file or so. that's about around the size the file will be as I've already done this:

 

[DJZSwag]

NEW Problem:
So for some reason whenever i convert the theme to a .csm file, it says that the file is not a valid u8 archive. Can anyone help me try to fix this problem?

 

[godreborn]

hmm..don't recall that problem, but it's been many years. the vwii theme did survive from 5.5.1 to 5.5.5, since I updated a month or two ago. no issues doing that, but I did have to make the update folder again with the right privileges. I deleted it again after updating though.

 

[DJZSwag]

hmm..don't recall that problem, but it's been many years. the vwii theme did survive from 5.5.1 to 5.5.5, since I updated a month or two ago. no issues doing that, but I did have to make the update folder again with the right privileges. I deleted it again after updating though.

I think i do have a cause for this. The link that the guide gave me sent me to an adfly link, which i immediately backed out. So i used the ThemeMii from the wii guide website, which lead me to that error.

 

[pietempgba]

@MattKimura do you have a link to Diddy's thememii mod?

 

[godreborn]

@MattKimura do you have a link to Diddy's thememii mod?

link works, but here:

 

[daemonspudguy]

Slight issue with this guide. I use Linux and macOS exclusively, and ThemeMii and NUSDownloader don't exist for macOS or Linux.