A friend of mine had an LU64 wii and I thought "how hard can it really be to hack it? I hacked my pre-LU64 wii without a problem"... if you don't know what you are doing (and don't research it properly) it can be tricky.
Ok, so what I did, googled around found several different methods of installing... so I installed homebrew channel using bannerbomb and hackmii v2 beta and that went super smooth. I then used the trucha bug repair tool to do it's 3 step process (patch IOS15, patch IOS35, unpatch IOS15) and it went smooth. I then installed the LU64.wad (as all the tutorials told me to), then installed cIOS36 v14 and finally installed a channel for the neogamma loader. Everything went super smooth. well, except for bootmii since it is an LU64 it wouldn't install as a boot2, had to install it as an IOS which in turn makes the nand backup useless.
At this point I tested some backup games and most of them worked and overall I was happy. So I thought, "hey, I should install preloader 0.29 so that I can remove the update check"... and I imagine all of you who have an original LU64 are cringing at that... I missed a step... I didn't update out of system menu 3.4... preloader killed the system menu. Thankfully I had the homebrew channel installed already and I was able to recover. How did I recover? After several hours of trying to reinstall what I did above in hopes that one of the tools would grab IOS50, I tried something else. It was surprisingly easy. First grabbed NUS downloader and used that to grab system menu 3.4 and pop it into a WAD. Then loaded HBC from the preloader and used WAD manager 1.4 to install that WAD and poof... preloader was gone and the wii booted. Since this wasn't my wii and the backups worked in most cases (wii sport resort gives a 002, ghostbusters gives 002... basically any newer game gives 002... I assumed it needed system menu 4.0, but don't know for sure...) I shut it down and said "here ya go... enjoy".
Hopefully some of you "click happy" people like me can learn from my mistake.
The lesson from the LU64 newb: If you don't know what you are doing, don't guess with someone elses wii.
Take a look at this HERE. It claims this patch will let you install Preloader .29 on LU64/65 systems.
The newer games should work if you have cIOS38_rev14 and NeoGamma R6 with #002 error fix set to enable.
Also a NAND backup of the system (even if Bootmii is installed as an IOS) is still valuable. There have been some that have been able to unsolder the NAND off the Motherboard. Then use a programer to write the NAND backup back to the NAND and recover the Wii system that way.
Originally posted by larrylje: Take a look at this HERE. It claims this patch will let you install Preloader .29 on LU64/65 systems.
The newer games should work if you have cIOS38_rev14 and NeoGamma R6 with #002 error fix set to enable.
Also a NAND backup of the system (even if Bootmii is installed as an IOS) is still valuable. There have been some that have been able to unsolder the NAND off the Motherboard. Then use a programer to write the NAND backup back to the NAND and recover the Wii system that way.
oh, good call with the NAND backup. I have the tools for that at work. So I did have cIOS38_rev14 but I had installed DjTaz_gamma_Loader for the channel. I imagine that that probably runs off of NeoGamma R3, which seems to be the latest NeoGamma on a channel. She has no SD card for her wii, so I had to get things set up without one. But good to know that the newer games are having issues due to NeoGamma not the system menu version. So (if I understand things properly) system menu 4.x is mostly for the SD loading and minor speed improvments.
Hopefully I don't need to use a programmer and reflash the NAND by hand, but it's good to know that that does work.
Thanks for the info.
The Gh0ce_>0
Originally posted by larrylje: The NEW AND IMPROVED SOFTMOD GUIDE has NeoGamma R6 as a WAD file for channel instillation.
oooo... next time she is in town, I will have to pop that on for her. I have another wii to do for a friend, but I have yet to hear what the serial number is :(
Side note: the issue I had with preloader wasn't the LU64 (the LU64.wad was supposed to fix that)... it was that I ran it on system menu 3.4 which is not supported by preloader. 3.2, 4.0, and 4.1 are the only ones supported (from my understanding).
The Gh0ce_>0
I think I had the issue that your describing. Let me see if I understand correctly that you have the same issue:
Problem
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Can't access the system menu, the preloader is working but all you see is 4.1USA in the bottom left corner. You can access the preloader menu by holding reset. The thing is, this happened for me when I did update out of 3.4 I updated to 4.1. I was basically following this guide(http://my.afterdawn.com/larrylje_redwings/blog_entry.cfm/3810), up to and including step 5. Yet being dumb and not reading the top, forgetting to check my serial.
Remedy
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Assuming you have HBC installed you can:
0. Use NUS downloader to grab system menu 3.4 and pop it into a WAD (pop it into a wad my checking Pack -> Wad)
1. Turn on the wii, holding reset to bring up the preloader menu
2. Load HBC and Wad Manager 1.4 to install the wad
If you seem to be having the same issue as me then I think I will give this a shot.
Thanks for the help.
P.S. Sorry for the redundancy. I'm just trying to be sure and I'm a bit new to it.
