Tutorial Modify ANY Wii 4.3 & below

[paulo1066]

Hi everyone,
Now that i have modified how do i play an official disc?
I have priloader on screen when i power up, i go to the system menu but when i put in wii sports it says 'if you press ok to update the system, if the console has been modified this update may detect and remove unauthorised content causing inoperability of the console'.
Should i have changed something in priloader?
In the guide it says 'Enable desired hacks & go into the settings & make to use the system menu IOS'. Which things do i enable as theres a list if them?
Thanks

 

[longtom1]

Hi everyone,
Now that i have modified how do i play an official disc?
I have priloader on screen when i power up, i go to the system menu but when i put in wii sports it says 'if you press ok to update the system, if the console has been modified this update may detect and remove unauthorised content causing inoperability of the console'.
Should i have changed something in priloader?
In the guide it says 'Enable desired hacks & go into the settings & make to use the system menu IOS'. Which things do i enable as theres a list if them?
Thanks

Enable the skip disk updates hack in priiloader

 

[paulo1066]

Cheers Tom, you little beauty

Its good to meet a nice geordie for once

lol
Thanks mate!

 

[dchampi]

I am doing something wrong. Can anyone help.

When installing cIOS & Patching the System Menu IOS with the Wad Manager I can't load all the wads specified in the directions. I can load all except the following:
cios222[38+37]-v4.wad
cios223[38]-v4.wad
cios249-v14.wad
cios249-v15.wad

I keep getting an error ret= -1035

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[T3chWarrior]

Thank you for the best wii modding guide I have come across.

 

[Lugger067]

I HAVE A WII 3.4E when i have done the first part with the update do i then do the next part of modify 4.2 or is that strictly for for thoughs that have 4.2 from new?

 

[longtom1]

I HAVE A WII 3.4E when i have done the first part with the update do i then do the next part of modify 4.2 or is that strictly for for thoughs that have 4.2 from new?

you can use the guide for any firmware

but priiloader has no hacks for 3.4 only for 3.2, 4.0, 4.1 or 4.2 firmware

 

[JumpsuitMaster]

Backup the Bootmii folder, NAND.bin, & keys.bin elsewhere & erase from the sd card.

What do you mean by this?

 

[DozerGuy]

Thanks again xzxero. Beauty.

 

[blazingwolf]

The email sent by simplistic mods returns a dead link, the update.zip link works, but the modify.zip doesn't. Has it been removed?

 

[xxwinexx]

So, it's been ages since I've hacked a Wii. I haven't touched mine since I got it working originally. Long story short, my brother got a Wii and asked me to hack it. I've followed this guide and been running into problems.

First things first. I got to the section on making a NAND backup and was unsuccessful. Whenever I attempted to launch Bootmii from the Homebrew channel, I got a black screen and my Wii disc surrounding light would blink ever 1-2 seconds.

I ended up skipping that step and continuing to restore the Trucha bug. I was able to accomplish this. I was able to also load all the cIOSes that were suggested for using a backup loader.

After doing all of this, I restarted the Wii. When I attempted to go back in and admire my handiwork, I am unable to go into progress into WAD manager and load any of the channels I want to. WAD Manager 1.5 loads up, but when I attempt to select IOS249, it instantly freezes. Any idea on what I've done wrong, or what I should do to fix?

you forgot to delete the stub IOS's

Looks like I did forget to do that.

Now, when I am going in to really any app, it is freezing. Any idea on what to do next?

 

[longtom1]

run dop-ios using IOS36 and delete the stubs then install the cIOS through wad manager using IOS36

 

[xxwinexx]

run dop-ios using IOS36 and delete the stubs then install the cIOS through wad manager using IOS36

Edit:

Ok. So I tried running dop-ios. Freezes on startup.

Any way I can just reformat, and start over?

 

[Scarmiglione]

Very in depth, but I'm having trouble near the beginning for some reason.

I got the update folder (though it wasn't a zip, just a regular folder) from the email listed for NTSC, America. Extracted it, got it on my card (with the boot.dol, private, wad, and apps folders in the root directory) of my SD card. I loaded it through both the way specified (going through the system, data management, channels, SD card) and by just directly clicking the SD icon on the frotn page, but I don't get the load boot.dol message. Instead, there is a block labeled ??? that does not run. I checked and made sure, and my Wii in fact is 4.2U, just in case. The SD is formatted to FAT, as well. And just to make sure, I redownloaded and tried it again, with the same problem.

Thanks for the help!

 

[TroyTheZombie]

very odd. Do you have another sd card you can try with? maybe your card isn't compatible with banner bomb.

 

[Kirby102]

Ok this is really not going well for me...

In an attempt to try and fix the NSMB problem that I had before (where it just errors instantly after Disc Channel), I downgraded back to 4.1E from the previous files in this guide, and it still errors!

Could anyone please help me, and potentially end my frustration.

 

[icebrg5]

Ok this is really not going well for me...

In an attempt to try and fix the NSMB problem that I had before (where it just errors instantly after Disc Channel), I downgraded back to 4.1E from the previous files in this guide, and it still errors!

Could anyone please help me, and potentially end my frustration.

What error are you getting?

What loader are you trying to play it with?

 

[Kirby102]

Ok this is really not going well for me...

In an attempt to try and fix the NSMB problem that I had before (where it just errors instantly after Disc Channel), I downgraded back to 4.1E from the previous files in this guide, and it still errors!

Could anyone please help me, and potentially end my frustration.

What error are you getting?

What loader are you trying to play it with?

When I put NSMB in the Wii and load it from the Disc Channel, it just gives me the "An Error Has Occurred" screen of death instantly. I'm using the Disc Channel (for simplicity reasons), and I don't want to use other loaders (NeoGamma and stuff).

It used to work on 4.1E when I downgraded it before, but now it doesn't

The reason why I downgraded was that I had this error on 4.2E as well...

 

[Scarmiglione]

very odd. Do you have another sd card you can try with? maybe your card isn't compatible with banner bomb.

I've tried it on one other one, but I'll give it a shot on one last sd card I've got

Also, I don't know if this is any help, but I downloaded bannerbomb directly from their site (abd6a_v200.zip) and got the boot.elf from downloading the homebrew V.6 from their site. That one loaded fine (from the same SD card) but said that there were no vulnerable IOS's to be found. I checked the forums here and found a thread for that, but when it said to use DOPIOS and use IOS 250 to install a fresh IOS 36, the IOS on my machine only went up to 249, according to DOPIOS. So I haven't tried that yet.

Edit: If it helps, the SD's I'm using are 2gig micro-SD's with a normal SD converter.

 

[Homebrew Ninja]

Ok this is really not going well for me...

In an attempt to try and fix the NSMB problem that I had before (where it just errors instantly after Disc Channel), I downgraded back to 4.1E from the previous files in this guide, and it still errors!

Could anyone please help me, and potentially end my frustration.

What error are you getting?

What loader are you trying to play it with?

When I put NSMB in the Wii and load it from the Disc Channel, it just gives me the "An Error Has Occurred" screen of death instantly. I'm using the Disc Channel (for simplicity reasons), and I don't want to use other loaders (NeoGamma and stuff).

It used to work on 4.1E when I downgraded it before, but now it doesn't

The reason why I downgraded was that I had this error on 4.2E as well...

Did you patch the iso file before burning it because you need to with that game.