GAF Wii Homebrew thread: Homebrew, emulators, USB disc installs! Easy tutorial!

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I think I just bricked my Wii. That fucking bootmii app makes it so easy to do.

I made my bootmii backup. I then transferred everything to my Wii U. I then went back to the old Wii and went into the bootmii menu to begin the process of restoring everything.

In a split second mistake I hit the button that began making a new backup of the Wii as it was now, empty. I instantly recognized my error and started pressing buttons to see if it would stop. It would not. So I immediately unplugged the console thinking that was my only hope of not overriding my backup file.

I turned it back on and everything booted fine. I went into bootmii and did the restore, and it indicated it was successful. Unfortunately when I attempted to restart it told me the system files were currupted.

So I guess it probably deleted part of my backup, and it restored that corrupted backup, and now the console is borked. Interestingly enough I can still boot into the bootmii interface, so maybe I'm not totally screwed?

halp?
 
Clipper said:
There are instructions for backing up your NAND with BootMii on the BootMii page of the tutorial. Restoring it is just as simple.
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Is it possible to do a NAND backup and then restore it to a different Wii? In other words, can you do for yourself what Nintendo makes you send your system in to do, and move all your stuff to a new Wii if yours breaks or has problems?

I can only imagine Nintendo will not provide that service forever, and I fully intend to have a Wii for the next 30+ years, just like I still have all my other systems back to the 2600 - some of which have died and been replaced.
 
Leondexter said:
Is it possible to do a NAND backup and then restore it to a different Wii? In other words, can you do for yourself what Nintendo makes you send your system in to do, and move all your stuff to a new Wii if yours breaks or has problems?

I can only imagine Nintendo will not provide that service forever, and I fully intend to have a Wii for the next 30+ years, just like I still have all my other systems back to the 2600 - some of which have died and been replaced.
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Not really. Console specific keys and stuff. There are things like this but the caveats are huge to the point of making it impractical.

As for the second point. IIRC the Wii system calender doesn't go as far as 2043...
 
So my Wii is saying it's system files are corrupted, but I can still boot into bootmii.

Is there any chance I can restore the console to working order?
 
BruiserBear said:
So my Wii is saying it's system files are corrupted, but I can still boot into bootmii.

Is there any chance I can restore the console to working order?
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Didn't you store the first NAND backup you've made on your pc/mac or somewhere safe? Copy that one on your SD card, load bootmii and restore using your original NAND backup.
 
I'm trying to install Dios Mios to begin ripping my GCN discs, and right now I'm hung up on one of the directions that the Wiki says to do. "15. Set DML Version to DM." No such setting exists under the System settings. I've installed Dios Mios 2.6 and updated Cfg to 70r51, so I think I have all the newest files handy. Anything I'm missing?
 
Just throwing this out there: I'm still looking for more guidance on the whole Wii/Wii U homebrew and the transfer process. We could benefit from comprehensive instructions on this. Does this exist anywhere yet?

Ultimately I'd like to keep all the digital games on the Wii after I transfer them to Wii U, and I'd like to run USB loading on the Wii U.

And it brings up questions like.. Can I still buy a game in the Wii U Wii mode shop and transfer it back to my real Wii somehow??
 
ConradCervantes said:
I'm trying to install Dios Mios to begin ripping my GCN discs, and right now I'm hung up on one of the directions that the Wiki says to do. "15. Set DML Version to DM." No such setting exists under the System settings. I've installed Dios Mios 2.6 and updated Cfg to 70r51, so I think I have all the newest files handy. Anything I'm missing?
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In CFG USB Loader, there is a global options tab that lets you select which version of Dios Mios (Lite) you want to use.
 
BocoDragon said:
Just throwing this out there: I'm still looking for more guidance on the whole Wii/Wii U homebrew and the transfer process. We could benefit from comprehensive instructions on this. Does this exist anywhere yet?

Ultimately I'd like to keep all the digital games on the Wii after I transfer them to Wii U, and I'd like to run USB loading on the Wii U.

And it brings up questions like.. Can I still buy a game in the Wii U Wii mode shop and transfer it back to my real Wii somehow??
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You're going to have to use bootmii, as I asked about on the previous page. Just read my story and learn from my example. It's pretty simple.

Once you transfer your content to the Wii U, you can never move something back to the Wii. Maybe if you hacked the Wii mode on your Wii U?
 
Shit, I missed the part in the DM tutorial where Clipper says we have to manually update Cfg. I did it from within the app. Do I just flush out the SD card of the update and swap in a downloaded version from my PC?
 
BruiserBear, have you tried restoring from the backup again? Perhaps it wasn't corrupted by the partial backup and just didn't restore properly. It doesn't seem like it could do anything worse to try again.

Unfortunately, unless you have a complete backup of your Wii somewhere, I don't know what else you could do. I think there might be ways to reformat the Wii, but I'm not really sure. You can perhaps try using BootMii to launch Dop-Mii and then reinstall the System Menu to see if that helps.

ConradCerventes, you just need to update the .dol file, as per the instructions for manually updating in the tutorial.
 
Clipper said:
BruiserBear, have you tried restoring from the backup again? Perhaps it wasn't corrupted by the partial backup and just didn't restore properly. It doesn't seem like it could do anything worse to try again.

Unfortunately, unless you have a complete backup of your Wii somewhere, I don't know what else you could do. I think there might be ways to reformat the Wii, but I'm not really sure. You can perhaps try using BootMii to launch Dop-Mii and then reinstall the System Menu to see if that helps.

ConradCerventes, you just need to update the .dol file, as per the instructions for manually updating in the tutorial.
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I tried the restore again, after it failed the first time. Got the same result. My assumption is that when I stopped the mistaken overwrite it screwed up my original file.

I'm just hoping there is a way to basically do a "fresh install" of the console OS? Because I can get into bootmii, if I can just put a fresh file on that SD card, I would think I could apply that to my console from that menu.
 
BruiserBear said:
I tried the restore again, after it failed the first time. Got the same result. My assumption is that when I stopped the mistaken overwrite it screwed up my original file.

I'm just hoping there is a way to basically do a "fresh install" of the console OS? Because I can get into bootmii, if I can just put a fresh file on that SD card, I would think I could apply that to my console from that menu.
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Though they should be taken with a grain of salt and could make things worse (though "worse" is debatable, in this case) there are instructions around on using a NAND formatter from bootmii to create a current backup (corruption and all) and use that information to format the NAND. Then you use a disc or another method to reinstall the system firmware.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying this will work, but it seems like your only real option other than sending ti to Nintendo and likely paying the repair fee.
 
A friend asked help to get homebrew working ... because she was having problems with bannerbomb (aparently was an used wii that someone made a lkoader channel and deleted the homebrew)

So I did what was the most reasonable thing to do : I Upgraded her wii on the internet and used Letterbomb xD
 
BocoDragon said:
Just throwing this out there: I'm still looking for more guidance on the whole Wii/Wii U homebrew and the transfer process. We could benefit from comprehensive instructions on this. Does this exist anywhere yet?

Ultimately I'd like to keep all the digital games on the Wii after I transfer them to Wii U, and I'd like to run USB loading on the Wii U.

And it brings up questions like.. Can I still buy a game in the Wii U Wii mode shop and transfer it back to my real Wii somehow??
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My understanding of the system transfer is it effectively deletes the Wii shop account on the Wii to transfer it to the Wii U (I say effectively as I thought if you had the game on Wii U you would keep it on Wii and you can merge multiple Wiis) then deletes all the license certificates for the stuff transfered (channels etc). It can't touch stuff on an SD card but without the certificates in the NAND it can't launch.

If you back up before the deletion happens then restore that you'll keep the channels. However, if you ever access the Wii shop, the connection process checks server side what you own and deletes the certificate for anything you no longer own (this is what happened to people who requested refunds for The Last Ninja 3*) which in this case will be everything.

I'm guessing the Wii Shop account on the Wii U is a new account (could someone who has done the transfer check account history on the Wii U Wii Shop, does it have all the purchases made on date of transfer or the exact dates on the Wii) or is the old account and the account now on the Wii is a new one. Either way they're probably separate which would make the answer to your second question is no.

*-And also same thing happens on the DSi shop. Dragona managed to get a refund on Base 10 due to it being unplayable to left-handed people. She connected to DSi shop, had the points back and no longer owned the game.
 
ConradCervantes said:
I got Wind Waker to work finally, but every so often it'll lock up, particularly during combat. Anyone else run into this problem?
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There are more reports of this happening. The reason is not totally narrowed down, but it might have something to do with the latest version of DM (2.6). Actually, this version has been reported to break other games too.
 
Just a quick question.

I'm from the UK and bought all my games there. I ripped them to a hard drive and used USB loader. I moved to Japan last year and just set it up on my new Wii. Problem is I've tried a few games and some are black and white whilst others have a distorted image. I know it's something to so with PAL/NTSC, 50hz/60hz.

I was wondering if there was a fix for this. Thanks!

Also I I'm playing on a HDTV with the red yellow white cable.
 
FreeMufasa said:
Just a quick question.

I'm from the UK and bought all my games there. I ripped them to a hard drive and used USB loader. I moved to Japan last year and just set it up on my new Wii. Problem is I've tried a few games and some are black and white whilst others have a distorted image. I know it's something to so with PAL/NTSC, 50hz/60hz.

I was wondering if there was a fix for this. Thanks!

Also I I'm playing on a HDTV with the red yellow white cable.
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Ugh. You're using a crappy composite cable :/
Go buy a component (red green blue for video + white red for audio) cable right NAO and set your Wii to 480p (progressive scan), you'll thank me later.
 
ConradCervantes said:
I'm trying to install Dios Mios to begin ripping my GCN discs, and right now I'm hung up on one of the directions that the Wiki says to do. "15. Set DML Version to DM." No such setting exists under the System settings. I've installed Dios Mios 2.6 and updated Cfg to 70r51, so I think I have all the newest files handy. Anything I'm missing?
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Same here. Dios Mios 2.6 wad.
I have no DML to DM settings, I've manually updated CFG with cfg70MODr51.
I tried to rip my F-zero GX NTSC-U to my PAL Wii on my FAT USB stick and it worked.
but the music craps out (never happened with Gecko via disc) and I can't find such problem on the internet (compatibility reports about FZero), I tried leaving the disc of the game inside the drive but same results.

Edit:
Music is fine booting from disc so maybe its the usb stck's fault, not fast enough? I need to avoid using the drive tho, it's dying.

Btw, still doesn't explain the missing DML to DM settings.
 
It's very possible the latest versions have different values for that setting. I'll need to check it out, I guess, but I have very little time to do Wii stuff right now.

As for the music thing, I was under the impression that DM still had issues with streaming audio, which might be your problem. I would think that would have come up in your searches, though, so I don't know for sure...
 
hikarutilmitt said:
It's accurate up until Dios Mios installation procedure, but even that is up to date, for the most part.
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Yeah it seems to have gone fine. Although I'm having trouble installing my Tatsunoko vs Capcom: CGOH disc. I think my disc drive is way too knackered- the noise my Wii makes is fucking loud as all shit, and the warning line keeps coming up over and over. Ugh.
 
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Why doesn't the highlighted option exist for me when I use DOP-Mii? The guide I am using doesn't mention that I need a stand-alone file.
 
I finally decided to give DIOS MIOS a shot. I got a GC game from my SD card to show up in the USB Loader. It won't load though and I get a memory card error before boot. The steps are all very unclear and I didn't even know where the games had to go because it's not explicitly state on any guides. What am I missing to get this to work?
 
I'm planning to do a transfer of my Japanese Wii to Wii U soon and then change the shop channel region on the old Wii to European for the C64 VC. Has anyone experience with this (European shop on NTSC system) and are there performance issues/bugs concerning frame/refresh rates?

I'm on the latest firmware.
 
Anabuhabkuss said:
Not sure if right thread. I homebrewed my wii to play pal version of xenoblade chronicles. Is there anyway i can transfer that save file to y wii u to play and play using the U.S disk?
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There is a save converter about for Xenoblade (info instructions). Convert European save to US save, copy save to SD card. Run Xenoblade US on Wii U then copy save onto Wii U.

extralite said:
I'm planning to do a transfer of my Japanese Wii to Wii U soon and then change the shop channel region on the old Wii to European for the C64 VC. Has anyone experience with this (European shop on NTSC system) and are there performance issues/bugs concerning frame/refresh rates?
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From what I understand VC Channels will either launch to a black screen and not run the game or require Gecko OS* (but even then the former can still happen). The fact you said Europe and C64 means it'll output in PAL 50Hz which I can't imagine non-European firmware (or just as importantly, TVs) being able to handle.

You would have more luck with the US shop (though there is a smaller number of C64 games).

Also you need some sort of region bypass patch to launch the channels (so startpatch etc).

*-HUELEN10 (or whatever his name was) got European Mario's Super Picross to run like this on US firmware (but that game will only output a PAL 60Hz signal). Then shortly after his Wii broke for was probably the 9th time...(so he lost the game as he couldn't re-download it).
 
Thanks! So I guess that means I'd be better off doing a full region change. Maybe I'll check the US C64 VC first, since 60 hz would be preferable anyway. So for example Japanese shop downloads run fine on US Wiis? Since it should then work the other way round as well.

Edit: US C64 VC sucks, European not that great either but has the game I want and some more that are interesting.
 
I'm still hoping someone can tell me whether my bricked Wii is permanently bricked, or can be fixed?

I can access bootmii, but when I try and actually use the console it says the system files have been corrupted. Is it possible to load up a fresh install of the OS, since I can use bootmii?
 
BruiserBear said:
I can access bootmii, but when I try and actually use the console it says the system files have been corrupted. Is it possible to load up a fresh install of the OS, since I can use bootmii?
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There is no such thing as a fresh copy of the OS, but you might be able to reinstall the corrupt or missing IOS using DOP-Mii, or similar.
 
BruiserBear said:
I'm still hoping someone can tell me whether my bricked Wii is permanently bricked, or can be fixed?

I can access bootmii, but when I try and actually use the console it says the system files have been corrupted. Is it possible to load up a fresh install of the OS, since I can use bootmii?
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I did offer a solution earlier in the thread.

me said:
BruiserBear said:
I tried the restore again, after it failed the first time. Got the same result. My assumption is that when I stopped the mistaken overwrite it screwed up my original file.

I'm just hoping there is a way to basically do a "fresh install" of the console OS? Because I can get into bootmii, if I can just put a fresh file on that SD card, I would think I could apply that to my console from that menu.
Click to expand...

Though they should be taken with a grain of salt and could make things worse (though "worse" is debatable, in this case) there are instructions around on using a NAND formatter from bootmii to create a current backup (corruption and all) and use that information to format the NAND. Then you use a disc or another method to reinstall the system firmware.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying this will work, but it seems like your only real option other than sending ti to Nintendo and likely paying the repair fee.
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Guys i tired using DIOS-MIOS but now i cannot boot up gamecube stuff.

My games is shown in side my usb but when they load they just load into a black screen.

Samething when i load the disk from configurable usb loader or the offical disk channel.

Should i give up and load the wad to convert back to the original mios to play my games ?

I do want easy access to my games in my usb......


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Btw i cannot set the DIOS-MIOS to anything, there is no

Select System
Set DML Version to DM
Select Save Settings

:(
 
hey gaf, i got a euro wii and a japanese wind waker copy (disc), i tryed using gecko OS and CFG region free option, they both lead to a black screen when i try to boot the game, does anybody have any idea?
 
Holden said:
hey gaf, i got a euro wii and a japanese wind waker copy (disc), i tryed using gecko OS and CFG region free option, they both lead to a black screen when i try to boot the game, does anybody have any idea?
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Try holding B as the game boots. It might help to push A twice after doing that. The option there is to get it to use progressive scan. Sometimes, with a PAL Wii and US games, it might e the only way to get it going. Of course, your TV also should be set up with component cables or this technique won't work. Playing with the settings in Cfg for forcing video and language might also help, but might not.
 
Try holding B as the game boots. It might help to push A twice after doing that. The option there is to get it to use progressive scan. Sometimes, with a PAL Wii and US games, it might e the only way to get it going.
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Euh... that doesn't seem to be doing anything? Unless I'm doing it wrong.

Of course, your TV also should be set up with component cables or this technique won't work. Playing with the settings in Cfg for forcing video and language might also help, but might not.
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I'm using a capture card (dazzle) so ya i am using component cables.



Thanks for trying to help, i'm going to bed right now will try more stuff in tomorow ( other apps..) if you got more advice would be nice, thanks again.
 
I just noticed that on Sonic Colors on USB loader, the music skips on the map screen. It doesn't skip on the disc itself. I tried deleting and re-ripping the disc, it still skips.

Is this a known problem, or is there some IOS upgrade/alternative USB boot method I should try?
 
I just got Skyward Sword and it requires an update. How do I protect my Homebrew?
Also the Wii shop channel wants an update. What do I do?
 
pgtl_10 said:
I just got Skyward Sword and it requires an update. How do I protect my Homebrew?
Also the Wii shop channel wants an update. What do I do?
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Provided you've updated your homebrew in the last two years or so, just update. The updates have been safe and harmless for ages now.
 
Having some troubles ever since Ive done DIOS MIOS install. I kinda just want to remove it since I can play before off my discs and now I cant. Majority of the time it just turns the wii off when I try to load a GC game. Now I cant load a GC game at all (black screen or turns wii off). Any suggestions?


edit: think it might of been my hdd...put in fat32 drive and now it works

edit2: well still having issues with other drive in there now
 
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