Hardware mod and USB loader

[orlandodawn]

Hi there

ive been given a Wii that has a hardware mod to allow playing backup disks. However I want to use the USB loader.

It has the HomeBrew channel on it and on the memory card there is a BootMii folder and that was it. I loaded the Usb loader software on it and tried to run it via Homebrew channel but it complained it needed a number of IOS's eg 222.

Thats the problem with been given a Wii that someone else has had a play with.

What is the easiest way of finding out what state its in? Im not sure how much its been modded at all.

I know its a UK 4.2 Wii and has the Homebrew channel installed and thats it..

I have seen some tutorials for completely softmodding including installing the Homebrew channel and I was hoping I could just follow the instructions for one of these (from after the point of installing HomeBrew)

Is it possible installing any of the cIOS's might interfere with the hardware mod or vice versa.

And any ideas how I can find out what hardware mod it has? Apart from opening the Wii? Perhaps some combination of buttons on startup that will bring me to a configuration page... ?

andy ideas would be appreciated.

cheers

[Keithuk]

Well I've never heard of a Wii thats been hardware modded interfering with a the softmod. You say its been softmodded and you have the Homebrew channel on the Wii menu. All you really need to do is install the required wads to make the USB Loaders work. Now this is generally cIOS249 for all 3 USB Loaders. What you need to do is add Multi-Mod Manager (MMM) 13.4 to the SD card and install all the wads in d2x v7 final by adding them to the wad folder on the SD card.

What you could also do is post a sysCheck report as directed in that link so we can see if any other essential wads are missing.

You can add all 3 of the USB Loaders to the SD card so you can see which one you like the best the you can add the forwarder channel so its always on the Wii menu.

You will also need a big enough USB Compatible hard drive to store these games. There are various ways to store these games on the HDD but I find WBFS Manager the simplest method to use.

[orlandodawn]

What an awesomly handy program..

OK Syscheck details below:

sysCheck v2.1.0b11 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS36 (rev 3351).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.2E (v482)

Homebrew Channel 1.0.1 running on IOS61
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 114019424
Boot2 v4
Found 81 titles.
Found 36 IOS on this console. 13 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 778): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 269): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 273): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 520): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 775): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 782): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1037): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1550): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3091): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3351): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 3869): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 3867): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5661): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6687): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS254 (rev 31338): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

magic!

[Keithuk]

IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS70 (rev 6687): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub

Compared with mine no main IOS's you need are

IOS58 - Needed for PriiLoader 0.7

Install the d2x v7 final wads that should give you

IOS245[37] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0

Now there are various ways to update these wads so lets try the easy way first. Download ModMii 6.0.3 extract the zip. Put your sysCheck.csv on the root of your drive as its easier than typing in its full location.

Run Modmii.exe from Windows and after you type in I Agree you see the menu options type in SU for sysCheck updater. This will check your sysCheck.csv to see which IOS's you have installed and check online if any need up dating. Any updates it finds will be added to the COPY_TO_SD sub folder just copy them to the SD card and install all wads with MMM.

[happy_highlander]

Compared with mine no main IOS's you need are

IOS58 - Needed for PriiLoader 0.7

Install the d2x v7 final wads that should give you

IOS245[37] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0

Now there are various ways to update these wads so lets try the easy way first. Download ModMii 6.0.3 extract the zip. Put your sysCheck.csv on the root of your drive as its easier than typing in its full location.

Run Modmii.exe from Windows and after you type in I Agree you see the menu options type in SU for sysCheck updater. This will check your sysCheck.csv to see which IOS's you have installed and check online if any need up dating. Any updates it finds will be added to the COPY_TO_SD sub folder just copy them to the SD card and install all wads with MMM.

You missed a biggy again keith...homebrew channel is only 1.0.1 and is running on ios 61 it should be version 1.0.8 running on ios 58. He will need to run the hackmii installer and reinstall hbc to ios 58 after he has updated the rest of the ios

[Keithuk]

You missed a biggy again keith...homebrew channel is only 1.0.1 and is running on ios 61 it should be version 1.0.8 running on ios 58. He will need to run the hackmii installer and reinstall hbc to ios 58 after he has updated the rest of the ios

Yes I did see that but thats because is an old softmod. The HackMii is the Homebrew installer the latest being 1.0.8 as you say.

If his main concern is getting the USB Loader working then surely the d2x v7 final will get that working for him.

[happy_highlander]

Yes I did see that but thats because is an old softmod. The HackMii is the Homebrew installer the latest being 1.0.8 as you say.

If his main concern is getting the USB Loader working then surely the d2x v7 final will get that working for him.

It will but he may still have problems as the d2x is designed to work with a patched ios 58 with hbc running on it....d2x may not install properly with hbc on 61. He needs to put the csv into modmii then install wads before running hackmii again to reinstall hbc into 58. He will get all the required files by selecting the wizard in modmii but only following the guide from installing wads then he can run the updated hackmii to reinstall hbc

[Keithuk]

I said he really needs to install IOS58 for PriiLoader which I've given the link to.

[happy_highlander]

I said he really needs to install IOS58 for PriiLoader which I've given the link to.

I know you did but he will still need to reinstall hbc to get it to work properly. He will still find that games won't load correctly. Don't ask me why cause I don't know for sure why. I just know that it is a compatibility issue

[orlandodawn]

thanks for all the info guys.

so the process should be:

1. Use ModMii with the SysCheck file to set the wads to copy to memory card
2. Install wads via MMM
3. Reinstall HBC using HackMii?

Is there anything I need to watch for when reinstalling HBC? Do I need to remove the old one first?

As mentioned before, this is a Wii that has been handed to me with HBC already on it. I have my own Wii that I softmodded years ago. And Im sure the process may have changed since then...

[happy_highlander]

thanks for all the info guys.

so the process should be:

1. Use ModMii with the SysCheck file to set the wads to copy to memory card
2. Install wads via MMM
3. Reinstall HBC using HackMii?

Is there anything I need to watch for when reinstalling HBC? Do I need to remove the old one first?

As mentioned before, this is a Wii that has been handed to me with HBC already on it. I have my own Wii that I softmodded years ago. And Im sure the process may have changed since then...

You are spot on...nothing to watch for just reinstall hbc straight over the top, by doing it after you have installed the new wads downloaded from modmii it will automatically install into ios 58

[orlandodawn]

Hey there

Do I install the d2x v7 final wads, then run syscheck again and put that through ModMii to get the updated wads. Or do I just run ModMii on the current syscheck file I have and install all the wads it puts in the wad folder?

Also, looking at the guide that ModMii generates it mentions installing the IOS236 patch and also PriiLoader but says I need Homebrew V1.0.7 for it to work. I believe I have 1.0.1.

After this then you install the wads.

Or do I need to just install all the wads generated in the folder with MMM via the current V1.0.1 HBC. Then do I need to run the IOS 236 patcher then reinstall HBC new version?

Apologies for the confusion...


cheers

[happy_highlander]

Hey there

Do I install the d2x v7 final wads, then run syscheck again and put that through ModMii to get the updated wads. Or do I just run ModMii on the current syscheck file I have and install all the wads it puts in the wad folder?

cheers

Use the syscheck you have then you can install d2x after you have hbc on the correct ios

[orlandodawn]

Use the syscheck you have then you can install d2x after you have hbc on the correct ios

Sorry mate..

Still trying to clarify the process. I have ran BootMii on the current syscheck file and copied all the files to the SD card.

So do I install the current wads first? Then HBC? Then install the dx7 wads?

And what about Priiloader and the IOS 236 update jobby?

cheers bro..

[happy_highlander]

Sorry mate..

Still trying to clarify the process. I have ran BootMii on the current syscheck file and copied all the files to the SD card.

So do I install the current wads first? Then HBC? Then install the dx7 wads?

And what about Priiloader and the IOS 236 update jobby?

cheers bro..

Do priiloader and wads in the order it tells you to in the guide then reinstall hbc then install the full d2x pack