Hi guys, so I bought a new Wii about a week back and I planned on fully softmodding it. I checked the serial before I bought it on the box, LU39, awesome. It should work with bootmii loading in boot2. Well, I was wrong. For some reason, this wii can only handle bootmii has an ios. If anyone could help me or explain the reason why a LU39 Wii won't accept bootmii in boot2 even though it's an older model, I would appreciate it.
However,I decided that I would accept this fact and I'll install bootmii as an IOS and include preloader with it, since it's better than nothing (please note this wii is still a virgin, I haven't actually modded anything about it yet).
Next up, how easy is it to actually brick something and how do bricks happen? Should someone that plans on just playing backups be worrying about bricks? Any tips on avoiding bricks are appreciated, too. If the Wii is to brick, can preloader + bootmii IOS actually do something to help? Or are they pretty much useless?
Now, I still have the 40$ 2 year Best Buy warranty on this (there's also the 30 day return policy). However, the warranty states that unauthorized modifications are excluded from coverage. So my question is, on a bricked Wii with preloader, Bootmii IOS (and a NAND file which is useless unless with boot2), is there any way to remove the Homebrew Channel and all other "unauthorized modifications" done so that the Wii would be in acceptable conditions (as in they won't be able to know it was hacked and I can lie to them about it just freezing or whatever) to return and get an exchange?
The serial # has nothing to do with bootmii installing as boot2 or not. It's basically luck of the draw. I have modded quite a few Wii's and only a handful of them could install as boot2. But don't worry about it, install preloader and bootmii as ios and make a backup and you're good to go.
As for bricking your wii, there's a lot of ways to do that. Most importantly, do not delete anything unless you're 100% certain of what you're deleting and what it will do. Also, don't update from a disc that's not the same region as your Wii. But if you have preloader and bootmii/ios and a backup of you NAND then you can restore.
