Hardware Use a Raspberry Pi as Wii Nand?

[DRAGONBALLVINTAGE]

I have a bricked Wii (bad wad) and was looking online at Wii Nand Replacement, and I saw a hackaday post with someone using two nands https://hackaday.com/2008/06/06/wii-dual-nand-flash-hack/ and others where they remove the nand and replace it with another.

I had a Idea!

What if I solder a Pi to the Wii Nand, Find a program that dumps the nand on Pi, and either delete the bad wad or replace it with a nand.bin. Is this possible? How hard will it be? Could I delete the bad wad?

Thanks

 

[DRAGONBALLVINTAGE]

Anyone?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I'm not aware of anyone ever using a Pi to dump/flash a Wii NAND, likely because it lacks most of the necessary hardware to do something like that. You can't just solder some wires to the NAND and to the Pi and expect it to be able to read/write to anything. You would need something to read the TSOP48 chip...at which point, you would just use that, and a standard PC, not a Pi.

If you didn't take any anti-brick precautions whatsoever (Bootmii/Priiloader), you have basically 2 decent options: You can reflash the NAND using a NAND flasher (an Infectus2, for example), or you can replace the Wii. There is a Temper here who replaced a Wii's NAND with a NAND from a donor Wii, but that's more like a "I'm bored" project, not really a viable repair operation.

 

[DRAGONBALLVINTAGE]

I'm not aware of anyone ever using a Pi to dump/flash a Wii NAND, likely because it lacks most of the necessary hardware to do something like that. You can't just solder some wires to the NAND and to the Pi and expect it to be able to read/write to anything. You would need something to read the TSOP48 chip...at which point, you would just use that, and a standard PC, not a Pi.

If you didn't take any anti-brick precautions whatsoever (Bootmii/Priiloader), you have basically 2 decent options: You can reflash the NAND using a NAND flasher (an Infectus2, for example), or you can replace the Wii. There is a Temper here who replaced a Wii's NAND with a NAND from a donor Wii, but that's more like a "I'm bored" project, not really a viable repair operation.

Thanks gonna look into Infectus2.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

TBH, it's probably not worth the time or money. Wii's are dirt cheap these days, you could probably pick up a replacement Wii for cheaper than the Infectus.