BetterWorldz
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Mejilan said:
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That makes a world of difference.
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That makes a world of difference.
Yep, right now Bootmii is a feature-incomplete beta, but it provides great protection what with the pre-boot NAND backup/restore (if installed as boot2). There's no reason to actually utilize the Bootmii menu on a consistent basis, so you can easily streamline your way out of it for now.
Your SD card is probably incompatible. Try copying the bootmii directory on the SD card to a different card.cw_sasuke said:
Thanks for handling that. The wording is clearer nowFuzzy said:
Just reboot your Wii with the SD card that it created the bootmii directory on (or copy that directory to another card as per above) to see BootMii then. Some SD cards are unfortunately incompatible right now.Bluemercury said:
There is an uninstall option in the Installer for the beta2 version of BootMii. You could try that. And you did install beta2, right?CTLance said:
Melhisedek
Member
Installed cIOS rev 13c and my HD couldn't get mounted, reverted to v10 and all is fine again. Any ideas why?
Using Configurable USB loader latest version
Using Configurable USB loader latest version
Melhisedek
Member
Sorry about that it was ver 13b 
Does it matter what port USB drive is connected to? (Have no idea which one I used will check later) Which one is outer if Wii is on its side and when I look at it from the front (Wii bottom is to the right)
Does it matter what port USB drive is connected to? (Have no idea which one I used will check later) Which one is outer if Wii is on its side and when I look at it from the front (Wii bottom is to the right)
Melhisedek said:Sorry about that it was ver 13b
Does it matter what port USB drive is connected to? (Have no idea which one I used will check later) Which one is outer if Wii is on its side and when I look at it from the front (Wii bottom is to the right)
It does matter as the fix works by making only one USB port 2.0 compatible. By 'outer' I mean the one closest to the edge of the Wii, which never changes no matter how you orient your console
.gregor7777
Banned
Just got a brand new Wii.
Got prompted to update to I presume the newest firmware.
Should I install HBC first on whatever firmware I'm on now or should I update first then install HBC?
From what I'm reading I might as well just install HBC first. I can't find anything that says I shouldn't.
Got prompted to update to I presume the newest firmware.
Should I install HBC first on whatever firmware I'm on now or should I update first then install HBC?
From what I'm reading I might as well just install HBC first. I can't find anything that says I shouldn't.
gregor7777
Banned
Clipper said:I think this will be an LU64+ Wii, so you will be much better off to install any homebrew stuff you want now and then update. Use this:
Cool, that site is great. Awesome work.
I'm not sure what you mean by LU64+ Wii (that's probably a version number/code?), or why that would mean I'd be better off loading HBC first before I update firmware, but I'll take your word for it.
I have all the files I need, so I'll go ahead and start installing.
GodfatherX
Member
alright, so im on v3.0U, used the twilight hack
I have no issues at all using my wii for anything on my SDTV, but when I hook it up to my Samsung 1080p DLP and go to launch a back up and it turns my tv off, and the system itself has to be unplugged in order to turn it off (power button doesn't work), I am using the composite cables that came with my Wii, it is a launch system.
any ideas at all?
pretty sure my HDTV turning itself off is not a good thing for it, so until I get this resolved im leaving it hooked up to my SDTV
I have no issues at all using my wii for anything on my SDTV, but when I hook it up to my Samsung 1080p DLP and go to launch a back up and it turns my tv off, and the system itself has to be unplugged in order to turn it off (power button doesn't work), I am using the composite cables that came with my Wii, it is a launch system.
any ideas at all?
pretty sure my HDTV turning itself off is not a good thing for it, so until I get this resolved im leaving it hooked up to my SDTV
Decided to hit up a SMG Luigi replay, like mentioned in that new thread dedicated to it.
Over the weeks I had heard that SMG could be problematic.
I've specifically seen posts that mention the occasional freeze (possibly spin-down) even with those that are using my HDD (Seagate FreeAgent Go) set to never spin-down.
I've had the game powered on uninterrupted for the last 3 hours with absolutely no issue. (10 stars with Luigi already!) I even left the game paused for about 45 minutes as I went down the corner to pick up my laundry, fold it up, put all away, and do various other minor chores around the house. That gave the drive more than enough time to supposedly spin-down (despite the setting being disabled) and/or for the game to fuck up.
And it didn't. So I think those random reports out there might just be full of shit. That, or they hit other select incompatibility issues, which is always possible when you're hacking work-arounds like these.
I guess what I'm saying is to not let those reports out there bug you. I'm having a killer time (re-)playing this, shooting for turn my 120 Mario file to a 242 Mario/Luigi file.
Over the weeks I had heard that SMG could be problematic.
I've specifically seen posts that mention the occasional freeze (possibly spin-down) even with those that are using my HDD (Seagate FreeAgent Go) set to never spin-down.
I've had the game powered on uninterrupted for the last 3 hours with absolutely no issue. (10 stars with Luigi already!) I even left the game paused for about 45 minutes as I went down the corner to pick up my laundry, fold it up, put all away, and do various other minor chores around the house. That gave the drive more than enough time to supposedly spin-down (despite the setting being disabled) and/or for the game to fuck up.
And it didn't. So I think those random reports out there might just be full of shit. That, or they hit other select incompatibility issues, which is always possible when you're hacking work-arounds like these.
I guess what I'm saying is to not let those reports out there bug you. I'm having a killer time (re-)playing this, shooting for turn my 120 Mario file to a 242 Mario/Luigi file.
OK, so I think I'm done with adding stuff to the GWHT for the time being. All the stuff I originally planned to have up there is now listed.
Again, if anyone wants to help maintain the site, please apply using the link on the Welcome page. Additionally, if there is something I have missed that you'd like explained a little more or there is some confusion, please use the discuss links at the bottom of the page to let us know so it can be fixed.
Also it would be great if we could have the logo from my posts above added to the OP if possible.
Again, if anyone wants to help maintain the site, please apply using the link on the Welcome page. Additionally, if there is something I have missed that you'd like explained a little more or there is some confusion, please use the discuss links at the bottom of the page to let us know so it can be fixed.
Also it would be great if we could have the logo from my posts above added to the OP if possible.
Clipper, I feel absolutely horrible that I haven't contributed to the wiki at all yet. I still plan to, if you'll continue to bear with me a bit. If nothing else, I intend to read over it all and propose possible improvements/rewordings. This weekend has turned into something I haven't really done in the longest time. An almost purely gaming weekend.
For what it's worth, you have inspired me to pursue a similar wiki for PSP homebrew/custom firmware needs, instead of the dinky thread I'm currently maintaining (and had been puttering away with redesign concepts for months now).
Great job, mate.
For what it's worth, you have inspired me to pursue a similar wiki for PSP homebrew/custom firmware needs, instead of the dinky thread I'm currently maintaining (and had been puttering away with redesign concepts for months now).
Great job, mate.
gregor7777
Banned
Here's the issue I'm running into. I'm at 4U first of all.
My machine is an LU63, and I'm trying this:
http://gwht.wikidot.com/ios249
At step three, on the third and final step, my system locks up with a blank screen every time. So as advised, I skip past that and go to step 4, but it doesn't allow me to select which wad I want to run. It shows the two, and I can scroll between them, but I can't select one.
Does anyone have an idea what's wrong?
EDIT WM 1.4 seems to allow me to run them...I'll post back.
My machine is an LU63, and I'm trying this:
http://gwht.wikidot.com/ios249
At step three, on the third and final step, my system locks up with a blank screen every time. So as advised, I skip past that and go to step 4, but it doesn't allow me to select which wad I want to run. It shows the two, and I can scroll between them, but I can't select one.
Does anyone have an idea what's wrong?
EDIT WM 1.4 seems to allow me to run them...I'll post back.
Mejilan said:
No problem. You did say you were busy this week, and I did want to try to get most of it up myself to demonstrate a consistent style and level of info. And have fun setting up the PSP Wiki.
I'm actually surprised how easy this whole experience has been. I'd never even edited a Wiki page before and now I have a whole site completed in less than a week and only a few hours actual work all up (much of that time spent redoing installations to get the really simple step-by-step tasks). The Wikidot tools aren't that much different than forum posts and makes everything pretty easy to do.
gregor7777
Banned
So for some reason no matter what I try I have to use WM 1.4 to install things. But that seems OK, I got CIOS 9 installed and just now need to update it to 13 or whatever the most recent version is.
GodfatherX
Member
anybody even ever heard of my issue before?
gregor7777
Banned
Clipper said:
Nope.
First thing I did was the bannerbomb/homebrew channel install. Next step was the DVDX 3 step install. First two stages worked fine but this would lock up on step three every time. Never did get that installed.
That's when I started running into issues with 2011 errors. Every cios installer would error out with 2011 when it came to installing the WAD, and the 1.3 versions of the custom installers wouldn't let me move past the wad selection stage.
So, what I ended up doing was putting WM 1.4 on a card with the wad file for cios 7. Installed that, then tried installing 9 the same way and it worked.
That's where I'm at now. I'll see if I can find the wad for cios 13 and install that tonight.
So anything WM 1.3 based seems to not work at all on my system. 2011 errors every time. I don't know what version the cios 13/b installer is based off of but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 1.3.
In the end installing 9 may have been totally unnecessary. I installed it merely because I had it available, whereas I couldn't locate the wad for 13/b easily. I would probably recommend just installing 7 with WM 1.4, then moving up to one of the higher versions using 1.4 and the actual wad file for 13/b.
EDIT: also, I wanted to point out that this information:
Mejilan said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=15952727
...was extremely helpful. That's info that should be in the GAF wiki if it isn't already, IMO.
I was going to add a page but it looks like I need to be accepted as a member.
phalestine
aka iby.h
Anony said:
hmm, that might be his problem. When my wii was hooked up to my projector, the wii would boot up 480p, but when I launched a game that was 480i the projector would lose signal for about 10 seconds.
try different games and see if thats the problem.
hey guys I have a quick question, I currently have system menu 3.2 on my wii. Should I upgrade it, and if so, how do i go about upgrading it? Also, can someone explain too me what a IOS is? How do i update the IOS? Is their a way too remove an IOS, or is it better too just keep them on their?
Why didn't anybody tell me???
Drat, the necessary files are on my PC. Just typical. Has anyone tried this?
Drat, the necessary files are on my PC. Just typical. Has anyone tried this?
Do you already have homebrew running on your Wii? If so click on this linkXSX said:
The answer was on the last page but here it is again:
Mejilan said:
Whenever you update your Wii through Nintendo's firmware IOS are updated. I'm pretty sure removal of an IOS that the system needs to run will cause a brick. I advise not to mess around with IOS unless you know what you're doing.
If you need any help with anything related to homebrew please click on the banner below:
Bluemercury
Member
Mejilan said:
Sorry for my ignorance, but i updated the hbc and installed as boot2 so if i understand correctly this runs automatically if its set as boot2?
Great tutorial site!
I used it to get back into gaming with my Wii.
I had Punch-Out!! wrapped for weeks because I didn't want to update. (though now i see it would have been ok)
Question about backing up the Wii itself with BootMii.
Should I use a clean, different SD card? Or is the one I've been using for saves, homebrew ok?
I used it to get back into gaming with my Wii.
I had Punch-Out!! wrapped for weeks because I didn't want to update. (though now i see it would have been ok)
Question about backing up the Wii itself with BootMii.
Should I use a clean, different SD card? Or is the one I've been using for saves, homebrew ok?
It's mother-effing Freespace 2, for the Wii. You download the executeable, add the files from your installation, put the whole shebang on an SD card or external drive, and bam. Freespace 2 on the Wii. Sounds awesome. I don't have enough storage space at the moment, but I will try it sooner rather than later.wrowa said:
And i you don't know what Freespace 2 is.. uh... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIWdolT9xY
Edit: This one is pretty nice too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r08pQHjF1X0
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
I have the gaf tutorial open, but I just want to double check so I don't fuck up. Should I install the usb loader first and then upgrade to system 4.0, or vice versa. I'm on 3.2 with HBC already via the old Twilight Hack.
Bluemercury
Member
Clipper said:
what does it do in the boot2 mode? it automatically makes the bakcup?
No, you have to do the NAND backup yourself. It takes a while to back up all 512 MBs.
The benefit to installing Bootmii as boot2 is that it loads BEFORE the System Menu.
So if you do something to somehow brick your Wii, you'll still be able to get into Bootmii and restore your NAND (if you backed it up previously).
If you only have Bootmii installed as an IOS, then you're much more vulnerable to bricks, and realistically will not be able to recover from many of them.
The benefit to installing Bootmii as boot2 is that it loads BEFORE the System Menu.
So if you do something to somehow brick your Wii, you'll still be able to get into Bootmii and restore your NAND (if you backed it up previously).
If you only have Bootmii installed as an IOS, then you're much more vulnerable to bricks, and realistically will not be able to recover from many of them.
That's spindown. Tell him to install a new cIOS and it will fix it.dk_ said:
I know you have the tutorial open already, but: http://gwht.wikidot.com/upgradeOldschoolgamer said:
cIOS38 13 and 13b (13 works better but only some loaders support it). Both have bugs that make it difficult to restart games without resetting the console, though.dk_ said:
Alternatively, Hermes' IOS223 also has a good chance of fixing it. It doesn't have the restart bugs and fixes spindown issues on most, but not all, drives. Configurable USB Loader supports it.