Wii 4.2E softmod tutorial. Easy to follow guide.

[rangersmith]

Doing nand back up and it is stuck half way, is it alright to power off and start again.

Cheers

[wilmatic]

Step by step. It works with 4.2U. and i just received my wii for christmas as i got lucky and it plays Bkdup disc. Thanks now i just need to find a easy tutorial for usb loader gx channel

[tobb3]

anybody else having trouble playing mario kart with this softmod? (using backup cd's)

says it cant read the disc...hmzz

[petrocles]

I have wii version 4.2E

I tried to follow the guide but when i attempt to load Trucha Bug restorer i have the following problem when attempting to downgrade IOS15;

preparing downgrade of IOS15 from revision: 523 to: 257
getting IOS15 revision 523...
load from IOS from sd card
checking titleid and revision...
loading contents...done
reading file into memory complete.
decrypting IOS...
checking hashes...
getting IOS15 revision 257...
load IOS from sd card
checking titleid and revision...
loading contents...done
reading file into memory complete.
decrypting IOS...
checking hashes...
wrong hash for content 1
could not open file: sd:/IOS15-64-v257.wad.out.wad
error reading IOS into memory
downgrade failed
press any button to exit...


any ideas or do i need to provide further information?

[paulmilly]

please help

Hi,hope someone can assist with ongoing (operator?) errors on this.

I started to work on my wii last week and after a few attempts managed to get Homebrew installed. This was done with the assistance of bruv in law Paul but process stopped when he had to go back down south!

Anyway having received direction via Paul and this forum (http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...y-4-2-wii.html) I encountered the problem above now seemingly overcome, however a further issue has arisen.

Searching on here has only served to scare me that I've missed something. I keep coming across alternative direction that seems to differ subtley from what I've done so far.

The problem now is that at section 5b the wii stops communication with the controller (controller turns off, when turned back on all 4 lights flash and it doesn't register with wii) so i'm not able to proceed.

[Step 5 - Install and Patch A Few More IOS
b) Load up homebrew channel once more, then load up WAD Manager. Load IOS249 -I get to here then stop!]

I suppose it's a 2 way question:
i) how can i get around this problem , or if not
ii) can i restart the whole process again with no detrimental effect (for example using http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...tem-menus.html - which i found as an alternate process?)

Sorry for full history but I thought the more info the better - all constructive advice greatly appreciated

[dell_xps]

Hi m8, dont take this the wrong way but you are asking for help using another tutorial from another forum.
The only advise I can give is, use this tutorial, you have the homebrew channel installed so skip that part, download the files you need onto your SD card and take it from there.
HTH

[JockeGbg]

Followed the guide and everything seems to work just fine with no errormessages. However I have not yet tried to play any "backups" because I have to buy a USB-hdd. (I have a new Wii that won't let me play dvd-copies)

I did try to enter the ULoader-menu and it works fine but when I exit out of ULoader, I get Exception (DSI), Stack Dump and Code Dump messages filling my screen. The only way to get out of this is to restart Wii pressing the powerbutton.

Have I missed something?

[dell_xps]

Followed the guide and everything seems to work just fine with no errormessages. However I have not yet tried to play any "backups" because I have to buy a USB-hdd. (I have a new Wii that won't let me play dvd-copies)

I did try to enter the ULoader-menu and it works fine but when I exit out of ULoader, I get Exception (DSI), Stack Dump and Code Dump messages filling my screen. The only way to get out of this is to restart Wii pressing the powerbutton.

Have I missed something?

Never had that error m8, maybe someone else has ??, let us know how you get on when you get a hard drive.

[kayyy]

Thanks for the tutorial Dell_XPS.
It worked wonders for me it would seem..
I have followed all of your steps & all seems ready & set to go..

Thanks again..

I will try burning dvd-r's & hope that I can play them on my Wii, however, I so have a black 4.2e which is new & I heard the only way is to load games via HDD or some sort of USB pen drive..

I don't really want to do that but if I have no other choice then that's what I got to do.. Thank you so much as every other tutorial I looked at just wasn't worth me looking at as something was always missing or felt like it had a grey area..

This was so simple to follow & everything worked 1st time for me..

[rangersmith]

I thought the same, have always run from back up discs, but since using this guide I now use a 16 gb USB pen drive which is great, multiple games in place and load much quicker than discs. I would say give it a go.

Thanks for the tutorial Dell_XPS.
It worked wonders for me it would seem..
I have followed all of your steps & all seems ready & set to go..

Thanks again..

I will try burning dvd-r's & hope that I can play them on my Wii, however, I so have a black 4.2e which is new & I heard the only way is to load games via HDD or some sort of USB pen drive..

I don't really want to do that but if I have no other choice then that's what I got to do.. Thank you so much as every other tutorial I looked at just wasn't worth me looking at as something was always missing or felt like it had a grey area..

This was so simple to follow & everything worked 1st time for me..

[jgkthompson]

I'm going to try it

I have already trie one but could not get the back section to work. Kept on getting a SD caed WAD read error.

[paulmilly]

Hi M8, fair point , I have already tried installing the cios can i restart the whole process again(not including homebrew) with no detrimental effect/ will it work to go straight in with the sd pack from here or is there something i need to do first? could i break my wii?

many thanks for your help and time.

[JockeGbg]

Followed the guide and everything seems to work just fine with no errormessages. However I have not yet tried to play any "backups" because I have to buy a USB-hdd. (I have a new Wii that won't let me play dvd-copies)

I did try to enter the ULoader-menu and it works fine but when I exit out of ULoader, I get Exception (DSI), Stack Dump and Code Dump messages filling my screen. The only way to get out of this is to restart Wii pressing the powerbutton.

Have I missed something?

Never had that error m8, maybe someone else has ??, let us know how you get on when you get a hard drive.

Bought a 320Gb USB-HDD today and tried loading some games with ULoader and it worked perfect.

As long as I don't exit ULoader-menu there are no problems.

By the way is there a way to return from a game directly to ULoader-menu without going back to the Wii menu first?

[Raccoon]

Hello!

I?m a total newbie, haven?t even got my Wii yet.
What I wonder is if you can still play originals as easy as before moding? I have ordered a black edition, can I change
the DVD motherboard to an older i.e. D2C motherboard, softmod it and then read backup DVD?s?

[meetfufu]

cios rev 15 wad file?