How To Repair Wii Software

Fault 003, an example of a Wii brick.

To brick a Wii is to impairment the panel in a way that it can no longer exist used properly, unremarkably across repair - as in 'A bricked Wii has all the electronic functionality of a brick'. To put information technology simply, fully bricked Wii consoles exercise absolutely zero. The term is oftentimes used in situations where modifying a system'southward firmware (without necessarily making any alterations to the machine's hardware) has caused it to go inoperable.

Fixing a brick generally comes in three steps; the first pace is identifying the brick, the second step is launching homebrew, and the tertiary pace is using this homebrew to load a recovery tool.

If a brick cannot hands be fixed, it is not recommended to trash the panel. As Wii's are no longer in product, many people will probably be interested in a bricked panel to repair or conduct research on. Instead of trashing the console, sell it online or ask a community (such as RiiConnect24) if they are interested in investigating the brick.

Contents

• 1 Identifying a brick
  • 1.1 Types of bricks
• 2 Prevention
• 3 Other recovery methods
  • 3.i Using a Recovery Disc
    • 3.1.1 Priiloader
    • 3.ane.2 Modchip
    • 3.i.3 Using a savegame exploit
    • 3.one.4 Using Blast Stack
  • 3.2 Using Priiloader
  • three.3 Using BootMii
    • 3.3.1 boot2
    • iii.three.2 IOS
  • 3.four Using a NAND Programmer
  • 3.five WC24 championship booting
  • 3.6 Sending it to Nintendo

Identifying a brick

To fix a brick, information technology must be identified first. If the Organisation Card boots fine, and then the brick is simply a semibrick.

If the wellness screen is the last screen seen, then the brick is either a imprint brick or a mail brick. To test this, hold + and - when pressing A; if the system still refuses to boot, it is a banner brick, otherwise it is a post brick.

If "Error 003" appears on the screen, then it is an Error 003 brick.

If an Opera error shows, then it is a System Menu brick.

If BootMii as boot2 still boots, then it is either a Organization Carte brick or an IOS brick, both of which have a like fixing procedure.

If Priiloader is installed, and information technology boots, then this is likely a System Menu brick, and can easily be fixed.

If all else fails, information technology is a low-level brick.

Finally, if an existing BootMii-boot2 installation fails to boot, and so this is a depression-level brick.

Types of bricks

Click the link for your brick blazon for further instructions on fixing the brick.

• Semibrick
• Imprint brick
• Mail brick
• Error 003 brick
• System Bill of fare brick
• IOS brick
• Depression-level brick

Prevention

• Only install updates for your own region.
• Play your ain region
  • Playing games or using Wii Menu channels from other regions shouldn't crusade whatever bug, just in infrequent circumstances something could become wrong
  • Games and Channels from other regions will not function without modification
• DO Non DELETE CRITICAL SYSTEM FILES
• DO NOT INSTALL SYSTEM FILE MODS
  • Unless, yous have a VERY good reason
• DO NOT INSTALL UNOFFICIAL CHANNELS
  • Unless, they come up from a TRUSTED source and REALLY serve a useful function
  • Malformed channels (especially the banner function) can make your System Menu crash on kicking
  • Loading apps from a SD Carte is much safer
• Ensure that you know what you're doing before you install or run whatever homebrew apps
  • Particularly, those with the "Homebrew Dangerous if Misused" banner on their folio
• Be VERY Careful WHEN USING:
  • AnyRegion Changer
  • Starfall
  • FirmWare Downgraders
  • Any Other System Tools
• DO Non Bear upon YOUR Wii'southward POWER SOURCE/BUTTON WHILE UPDATING/INSTALLING Organization CONTENT
  • (e.g. BootMii NAND backup)
  • ESPECIALLY DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM

Other recovery methods

If the methods above don't work, try these methods.

Using a Recovery Disc

Requires:

• Modchip

OR

• Priiloader

Priiloader

The disc cheque can be bypassed.

Modchip

This allows yous to boot Recovery Software from a disc.

NOTE: This method is outdated and has a lot of requirements:

1.) A semi-working System Card.

2.) A fully working System Carte IOS.

3.) ILLEGAL copies of the old repair disc.

• Won't work on updated systems, because IOS16 was stubbed and homebrew discs crave the Trucha Bug inside the correct IOS or that IOS has to ignore signing completely.

Using a savegame exploit

If you do have a re-create of an exploit salvage ALREADY on the Wii, and an accurate exploitable disc, you can apply this to boot recovery software as well. This also requires:

• A semi-working System Menu.
• A fully working Organisation Menu IOS.
• Some way to still boot game discs.
• A recovery homebrew app on the root of the SD carte du jour, named kick.dol

If you do not already have a savegame exploit on the Wii's NAND, there's a method to get information technology on the Wii NAND after a brick:

• Spam the NAND with savegames until information technology'south nearly total. Alternatively, if you have internet admission on your Wii, Wii Shop access, and channels you can redownload (unless your NAND is already almost full), y'all tin download a bunch of channels until there's footling to no space left.
• Effort to install another channel, the Rabbids Become Home Aqueduct, the Mario Kart Aqueduct, or the Wii Fit Channel.
• Employ the choice to go to data management and re-create the savegame over. (And don't forget to delete the savegames/channels you lot spammed earlier when y'all're done!)
• Once the savegame is copied over, boot the game, employ the exploit, and use the recovery homebrew you copied before to recover the Wii from the brick.

Using Smash Stack

If you lot take a copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, you can kick recovery software too.

Requirements:

• Some way to kicking game discs
• A recovery homebrew app on the root of the SD card, named boot.dol

Simply copy the Boom Stack stages over to the SD carte, and load the level editor as usual.

Using Priiloader

Requires:

• Priiloader
  • Configured to boot something other than the Organization Carte

Simply kicking a recovery program the mode you would any other. if yous have Priiloader installed, only information technology boots to the System Bill of fare then try holding down reset when you turn on your Wii, afterward a few seconds of property reset the Priiloader menu should appear.

Using BootMii

Requires:

• NAND backup
  • BEFORE the Wii bricks

It's advised to backup your NAND correct after y'all install BootMii.

boot2

If you installed BootMii as boot2, then only go to the 2nd options screen and choose the second icon which can recover from the brick.

IOS

If yous installed BootMii equally part of an IOS, so you will demand Priiloader installed. Go to the HBC via Priiloader, then select Launch BootMii from the primary menu.

Using a NAND Developer

Requires:

• Soldering many wires to the Wii'southward motherboard

In order to utilise a NAND Programmer/Infectus to rewrite the flash directly yous will need to know your Wii's NAND keys.

WC24 title booting

WC24 title booting can be used to fix imprint bricks. The types of bricks this can set is similar to the "recovery mode" menu. That menu tin exist triggered by holding downwardly all D-Pad buttons on the GC controller plugged into slot iv, a tab within the controller needs removed in official GC controllers. Every time the file at the kicking post entry URL installed by wc24app is updated, every Wii that already downloaded the boot mail would download over again and wakeup for title booting again. The entry URLs that wc24app installs includes the consoleID, this can exist used to send unique content for one Wii. If you need the kick mail service content for the entry installed past wc24app to exist updated to fix your bricked Wii after information technology already downloaded and booted with the mail, contact Yellows8 on the talk page, or send an email to yellowstar6 at gmail dot com. To repair a Wii with WC24 championship booting, the following requirements must be met:

• Like the "recovery manner" menu, sysmenu IOS must be working correctly
• HBC must be installed since the kick mail would boot HBC, WC24 title booting can't kick discs.
• Sysmenu needs to be working without completely crashing to allow shutting downwards to idle/"standby" mode
• Before the brick occurs, y'all demand to run wc24app v1.1(currently from SVN or this build) on the Wii to install the boot mail entry, and to enable the WC24 title kicking flag. The title kicking flag is never cleared or set up after file creation past Nintendo software, this flag is merely cleared by Nintendo software on file creation. Nintendo proclamation postal service can't be intercepted and modified since that mail is RSA signed.(Modifying that mail is simply possible if the sysmenu IOS has the signature cheque patched or has the fakesign problems, and whatsoever other IOS that run when the mail is newly downloaded/downloaded when mail is updated would need the sig patch or have the fakesign problems.)

Sending it to Nintendo

This option is the least desirable for homebrew users, as Nintendo will likely send back a dissimilar console, with your personal settings/Wii Store account transferred and the latest updates installed. Additionally, Nintendo is no longer repairing any Wiis, so this is not even a concluding resort anymore.

Source: https://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Brick

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