Help , anyone able to advise me with the following situation I have come up with when trying to softmod my sons wii-
the wii is currently running on 3.4e firmware and I wish to update this to 4.1 e once softmodded.
to let you understand I have installed a drivekey into the unit to play games so thats takes care off that but fancied the idea off running the games off an external hard drive and obviously to enable this the homebrew channel / bootmii has to be installed.
okay carried out the following :
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This guide has now been updated to cover ALL wiis, 3.0-4.1 any region, and all LU64+ and foreign equivalents. (dunno about those Korean ones?)
LU64-65++ serial no. wiis still cannot downgrade their firmware - if you bought your wii this year then it most likely will be one, so don't downgrade it! You are safe to follow this guide though.
Make sure you do the steps in the right order or you could run into problems, and read the guide through a couple of times before trying it. Read ALL OF IT!
All you need is an SD card formatted to FAT32, an internet connection and these files: DOWNLOAD
Before you start make sure Wiiconnect 24 is off as it can stop bannerbomb working, you may turn it back on once you have completed the guide.
If you get errors during any of the steps format your card with this tool.
a). Put all the files from ?copy to sd card.rar? onto the root of the SD Card.
b). Insert the SD card into Wii.
c). Go to Wii Options, then go to Data Management > Channels > SD Card, then you will get a message saying "Load boot.elf?" , select 'Yes' and the Hackmii installer will run.
d). Install Bootmii as boot2 if you can, if not then install it as an IOS then go back and install the Homebrew Channel.
2. BACK UP YOUR NAND (OPTIONAL)
Making a NAND backup with Bootmii is highly recommended, it will recover your Wii from 99.9% of bricks.
Use the same SD card you used to install Bootmii and make sure there is at least 530mb free on it.
Bootmii is very fussy about what SD cards it uses, so avoid generic ones and try and use a Sandisk or similar.
a) Put the SD card into the Wii, if you installed Bootmii as boot2 then it will load, if it is installed as an IOS go to the Homebrew Channel, press 'home' on your wiimote and select 'Launch Bootmii'.
b) Use the power/reset/eject buttons to navigate the Bootmii menu and select the icon with the gears on it.
c) Now select the icon with a green arrow pointing from the chip to the SD card and follow the on screen instructions.
D) In about 10 mins you will have a NAND backup, it is normal to have up to 80 bad blocks so don't worry if you get some.
e) Put the SD card into PC and copy the NAND backup somewhere safe, you can now delete it from your card. If you installed Bootmii as boot2 then also copy the Bootmii folder to your PC and either delete or rename it, otherwise it will load every time you switch your Wii on.
If ever you get bricked then copy the bootmii folder and NAND backup onto your card, do steps a) & b) again, using Preloader to get to HBC if necessary, then select the icon with the arrow going from the SD card to the chip. It is not recommended to restore your NAND if you have Bootmii installed as an IOS.
3. GET A CIOS
The only difference is that you can select 'load IOS from SD card' instead of download from NUS.
a) Go to Homebrew channel and run Trucha Bug Restorer, load IOS36, press 1, read the warnings then select 'downgrade IOS15', select to load IOS from SD card then let it do its job, keep an eye on what it is doing and make sure you select 'load from sd card' when it asks & don't get any errors.
b) Run Trucha Bug Restorer again, this time select to load IOS15 on first screen using dpad left/right, then select the IOS36 menu & install patched (select 'yes' on all 3 patches) IOS36 to slot 36, again using IOS from SD card.
c) Run Trucha Bug Restorer again, load IOS36 and this time select restore IOS15.
d) Run cIOS38 r14 installer, select IOS36 as the one it should use and then select wad install.
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Was also advised that I would also need to do the following :
d) In the Preloader menu select Homebrew Channel (if you didn't install Preloader then just open HBC as normal), run Wad Manager 1.4, use default settings (IOS249 & SD card) and install these wads from the 'wad' folder:
Problem was with the last lot off instructions when I went into the homebrew channel ( did not install preloader ) and then selected the wad manager v1.4 choice I got the following screen :
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to show up so I can install them?? they are on the sd card as I can see them if I remove the card from the wii and view the contents off card within the pc just not sure how to access the files to load them ??
Hopefully once this is done I will then be able to go on and update to 4.1e and eventually on to install wiiflow !!
any advice would be so much appreciatted folks, really am a bit stuck and dont want to do anything myself until I get further advice as I say everything has installed fine within the rest off my guide just a bit stuck on the last bit !!
