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Prevent Bricked Wii
Have you bricked your Wii, if not and your thinking of installing the Homebrew channel on your Wii then maybe you should take consideration into the things you can do to prevent your Wii being bricked
Never update you wii console
Under no circumstances should you update or think of updating your Wii console if you intend on installing the Homebrew channel. updating online can be a big mistake when dealing with softmodding your Wii. Online updates are designed to patch Wii’s so they can’t be modded or hacked. It is also important that you never update your Wii from a disk update. If something where to interrupt the install process and crash the Wii, this could leave you wih a bricked wii. Bad disk burns and corrupt data have left any without a working console.
If you unisatll the Wii system you will have no menu to navigate. this is not a good idea even if you’r not hacking you’r Wii to play backup games. This also includes deleting system menu IOS files. These ISO files include Ios30, Ios50, Ios60, Ios70
Menu themes a bad idea
Think twice when loading a system menu theme, these Wii themes have a bad habit of sometimes deleting your system preloader, bricking your wii and rendering yor wii useless. This usually happens due to the theme being incompatible with the system preloader. If you must install custom themes make sure you at least use bootmii loader as this will load as boot2.
Never Ever delete any IOS files that has a number lower than 200
theses IOS files are wii system files and are need by the wii to function. Never uninstall these IOS files as you will be sure to brick you Wii.
Do not downgrade Wii, then upgrade without first deleting the stubbed IOS files
if you have downgraded your wii then will need to install the following IOS files to prevent you’r wii from being bricked.
For version 4 wiis or above you will need to install: IOS60-64-v6174.was
and for 3.4: IOS50-64-v4889.wad
This happens because when your wii was updated the update stubbed all the system ios fles for lower system menus. This means that when you upgrade with stubbed files you’r Wii will be bricked. It is reccomened that you do not downgrade your Wii as it is not a neccesity, if you do dowgrade and then upgrade you sysem menu be sure to install the system IOS.
DO not format your Wii
By formatting your Wii you are going to delete all you’r Wii hack files. softmods gamesaves and the Homebrew channel will be deleted. Formating your Wii after twilight hack and Homebrew have been installed can result in your Wii being bricked.
Do not downgrade Wii system menu files for newer version Wii’s
Wiis consoles below version 3.4 dont support new Wii hardware, by downgrading a newer version Wii can result in your console being bricked. E.g. by downgrading a 4.1 wii to 3.2 may brick your Wii
Do not downgrade system IOS files for newer version Wii’s
Reports show that newer version Wiis are affected by downgrading IOS files, the problem is apparently when people downgrade IOS files to enable the trucha bug. This of almost always leads to your Homebrew application loading a black screen particularly when Downgrading Ios36 to Ios36-v1042. A better option for enabling the trucha bug would be to use Dop IOS Mod of TBR.
Know where your WAD’s are from
It has been known that bad WAD’s can brick your Wii console. It is very important that you check the sources from where your WAD files originates. Try only to download WADs form a good source that is reputable. check comments and verify is authenticity.
Dont install cIOSCORP- Unless your an expert
This system mod is very complex and unless you really know what your are doing it is verly likely that you could brick your wii, very simple.
Dont upadate your Korean region changed console
korean Wii’s usually start with a serial number that has LKM as the first three digits. If you happen to update this version Wii you will recieve an error 003 which cannot be fixed as of now. Korena Wiis should take a preventative measure and install cIOS70-v6174-v3.5.wad which stops error 003 from happening in occurance of the korean Wii being updated. Its best just not to update this version.
Never follow any old guide
Make sure you have a good source of information Use our guides to be safe. There are many outdated guides circulating the internet. Using the wrong guide with your Wii can again result in a brick. dont just follow any old guide on youtube. Dont forget it is most important to know what version Wii console you have before you start to research and hack you’r Wii console.
I agree with most of everything you have posted here. The only issue I see is the part where you say dont follow an old guide, I do agree with. But why do you have the twilight princess hack listed as a way to go about adding the HBC and apps? The bannerbomber method is so much simpler quicker and more relaible. I tried to figure out how to load up the guides for submission but I cannot figure it out.
I have 2 excellent guides. One for 3.1-4.1 Firmware consoles and one for 4.2 Firmware consoles I think would be of great help
Posted on March 29th, 2010 at 12:11 am
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Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 7:50 am
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 at 3:28 am
You’ve done it once again! Great read!
Posted on May 30th, 2010 at 11:28 am
If only more people would hear about this..
Posted on May 30th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
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