Hardware Would it brick?

[dlf]

Probably a stupid question, but if I had backups of a old Wii's NAND, and put that on a new Wii's NAND, would that Wii brick? I'm thinking it most likely would but want to know first. And I somehow doubt it that the shop channel would allow me to redownload what I had purchased on the old Wii.

 

[farcry15]

no, bootmii will say that the nand dump came from another wii and won't let you go any further. there are tools to convert the nand dump to work on a different wii. but if your wii still works then why screw with it?

if you're just after wiiware/vc you owned previously, look for the wad of the game in question and install it with a wad manager

 

[dlf]

I don't have the Old Wii anymore. I was thinking of getting a new one and just using WADS anyway, except I doubt those are transferable to a SD card (as usable channels)

 

[Krestent]

I don't have the Old Wii anymore. I was thinking of getting a new one and just using WADS anyway, except I doubt those are transferable to a SD card (as usable channels)

You can patch the system menu IOS with the trucha bug to allow that. If you're getting a new Wii, it will be running 4.2 so the IOS that needs to be patched is IOS70.

 

[Zetta_x]

"Will it Brick?" Sounds like an epic youtube channel =P

I forget, but I did read a topic some time ago where someone attempted this and it didn't turn out quite as expected =P

 

[dlf]

Since I will replace my Wii, and probably want to run channels off the main menu & SD card (along with a hardrive) what size SDHC card would you all think I should get along with hardrive (500+ is good, 750 is better, more is better). I'll probably run SNEEK, a USB loader, and probably something else that runs WADS or uses WADS.

 

[dlf]

Sorry to bump & double post here, but after a month . . . So since I have a Wii running 4.2 and a 16 GB SDHC card. How would I get the NAND backup's to work on the new Wii (useable SD channels).

Does the transfer speed of the SD(HC) card make a difference to SNEEK (probably does), the one I have seems to VERY quick when in the SD menu. I guess I won't send it to Nintendo.