I followed your direction's to a "T", and when I power on my Wii, the Blue LED around the Disk come's on, and the Green light on the power button Comes on, but the screen is still Black. Nothing..
This is really late but this is a really poor tutorial. There are around 7 different types of bricks: theme brick, banner brick, semi brick, full iOS brick, low level brick (no solution to recover it other than giving it to a NAND programmer), error 001 brick (only for Korean wiis with no solution to recover it other than giving it to a NAND programmer), ...
Man i've done everything just like you did on this vid and i must say I LOVE YOU, my wii went completely full bricked when my ex. friend get to play on his house and did deliver it for me bricked, after look for a clue in many many sites, foruns i've ended up on your vid, and after a few tests i DONE IT, must thank you very much for helping us out, and now my 2 years son will have some good experience with me playing mario and some nintendo exclusive jewels, for those that are not reaching the bootmii screen just like i did when i first try this tutorial i must say check the sd cards, i think mine were good when i did my first try and it was not, buyed a new one tried again and IT WORKS, just dont give boys, it worth a shot BYE.
Wow this guide was very easy to understand, simple, and very professional. Good Job! I don't think I've ever seen a how to as good/simple as yours before!
Try this (pictures not available though; use the video scroll to follow along with those)- www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/324-Format-Wii-NAND-Using-Comex-NAND-Formatter
I did everything as in the video but the black screen remains. At this point I don't know what to do. Does anyone may know another method to fix this or as in why this method doesn't work?
Thanks man please I have a Korean wii showing error 003 please I need help i wants you to tell me weth your experience the most easy way to fix it and thanks again for you brilliant work
Let’s imagine that it happens to me, but I have a lot of game savefiles. Question; If I backup my savegames to the SD card BEFORE the brick, then i brick my console, and do what you did, and then copying the backups again to the Wii, would it work?
Did you try checking Bluetooth or Wifi modules, my wii display just a black screen tomorrow will try this tutorial but if your wii works maybe u can tell me how do you repaired it
I got a similar problem as Will Brumley! I installed Bootmii and got those files in the bootmii folder in the sd card (armboot.bin, bootmii.ini, and ppcboot.elf), i cleaned the sd and followed all the steps but the screen remains black and no bootmii menu. Any suggestions?
Thank you for the video. I have a question. Can i do this process with Wii with "File Systems are corrupted" screen after Health and Care screen?? I couldn't get to the Maintenance Mode.
Will it fixes A blackscreen Mii Channel? Cause this is the only channel who's doing a blackscreen... Others are fine. I even tried to delete mii channel from a wad manager and reinstall 2 version of Mii channel to see and nothing worked. Still blackscreen for Mii Channel. Please reply to help me.
@@cappiecappie770 I tried my backed up nand on dolphin. Mii channel worked. It's weird I think some savedata are corrupted for the mii Channel. Before this, my Wii disc player stopped working since 2013 mid-game. When I insert a game it detects and its title but once starting it and passing the safety screen it's clicking. Doing DJing. I think it can't read the received data due to a unknown ?brick? Who knows.
I thought it was a pretty good tutorial but I couldn't get it to boot. One issue may be I am using win7 and when I copied the files to the SD card it complained about losing attributes (This happens all the time but its never an actual issue). I turned my Wii on for the first time in months after moving and it froze after a few seconds on the main screen with an eerie noise. Every time I restart it it tells me to push A to continue (as if setting up for the first time) and then it switches to the files are corrupt screen. I think its toast :(
Do not worry that much. From the symptoms of your wii, it seems to be a banner brick. Did this "system files are corrupted" message appear before following this video?
Hello, I really want to get this but when I click the link to wiihacks.com, it jsut redirects me to a random website. PLEASE PROVIDE ME THE LINKS I REALLY NEED THIS
Does anybody here still have the files that you need for the SD card? I have a first generation wii for many years with a black screen, i really really want to try this.
i have an bricked stock wii without any mods or homebrew , and i have no GC controller .can we do this process to unbrick the Wii without the controller??
If you can't update, then the problem might be with your internet. And as for the reading of DVD... the lens is probably broken. My wii doesn't read DVDs. You can use usb loader gx (a homebrew app that can be installed as a wad to the wii itself) and play your games on a usb or an external hard drive.
+BLADE XD PRODUCTIONS What do you mean exactly? Like it's just frozen? If that were the case then you can try and hold the power button until the screen turns black and then turning it back on again, however, I am not sure if this will work. :/
yeah and well i was trying to revive my wii but its seems the SD port its wasted or something because it doesnt want to show the bootmii or something just a blackscreen and 2 years or 1 year ago i think i fried the comex nand formatter V2 by DARKMATTER/PABLO ACZ the program when correctly to the point of formatting and on installing the wads its just froozen everytime and then maybe i think it was for the SD port what can i do?
I just wanted to reinstall the stock firmware so I can completely redo the process. When I hacked my Wii, I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing, as I was a freshman in highschool when I first started modding. And now I can't back up my old Wii games to external storage, and USBLoaderGX can't find my flash drives anymore This will essentially give me a 'fresh-out-of-the-box' Wii right?
Hey my wii isn't reading CDs I insert a CD to my wii and press the icon to open it and then it's a black screen nothing loads the only CD that works is the stock CD that came with the wii please help
I was trying to download a game off a website for a video. but when I turned my Wii back on, it was dead. Everything was gone. All my save files are still in the Wii, with no way to get them out. And I tried to follow this tutorial to get them back, but the link doesn't work. Now my Childhood Wii is bricked with no way to fix it without Nand formatter :( I just hope somebody still has the download archived...
I was being dumb and installed wii menu 1.0 from vimms lair and after i tried to boot a game in the disc drive my wii said failed to update then went to a black screen and this didnt fix it does anyone have any fixs?
Can someone do a update tutorial in 2024? My brother's Wii got bricked and I'm trying to fix it using this method and we got BootMii on the thing. Idk how it got bricked. Think one of my brothers got it like that. Does anyone have the files in this video by chance thats safe to download? Eero is blocking it sadly. :(
+infocannon How do i do it without a GCN controller because i have the newr black wii that doesn't support GCN controller. Do i have to buy that SSB4 GCN adapter and the GCN controller to work for mine or am i just screwed?
Just for a fyi it is important for the verification process in bootmii when you are backing up your nand because it fixes any bad blocks that are found.
hey..appreciation from pakistam with a slight query. well i have a nodded wii and i happened to update it..(very naive of me) well nowy wii is bricked and and when i turn it on it says this console blah blah ..and thats it..doesn't bootup.please help..am trying to revive my wii..please
i have done everything that you said, but when i insert my SD card on the wii with all the files, it doesn't go to the bootmii menu it just stay with the black screen, it means that is not this kind of bricked ? or is it that i'm not giving enough time to install the bootmii menu ? how long it should last ?
Mich Dos Ramos its means you didn't have bootmii installed before. Another way if you had prilloader installed press he power then immediately hold down the reset if nothing shows up. Then it's a goner
You can't do anything. However if you have a red wii or bought a model that was made after 2010 or if you have a wii mini, then the firmware SHOULD be (not saying it definitely is) 4.3 (the latest firmware)
So i installed a theme and going into the Wii settings crashed and bricked it. followed your guide but even with the files on the SD card I still just get black screen when i turn it on. any thoughts?
You should not have done that. Somehow you bricked it even worse. A theme brick isn't that bad if you had priiloader installed. But now it's either a low level brick, or a full system menu brick. A full system menu brick would be recoverable if you had bootmii installed as boot2. But that's only possible if you bought your wii before 2008. So neither of those bricks are recoverable using software. You need a NAND programmer to flash the NAND memory chip inside the wii. And even that is a real pain cuz you need to solder a lot of wires and need access to wii's keys. I think you should press F and say that it gave up the ghost.
Hi. Will this working for modded wii? I received modded wii and no signal to tv output. Inside have sd card and show some files i believe related to modded wii. But bootmii is not showing.
Why didn't you return it? That's the first thing you would do! If it's broken, then you had the right to have your money back! And if they show that it used to work, did you plug in every port correctly?
I connected my hacked wii on the internet for the first time and it asked me for a system update .. i clicked yes and i think it failed .. my wii stays on the priiloader when i turn it on .. if i choose system menu, it says error autobooting system menu .. help me please .. i want my system menu back ... thanks a lot ...
+InfoCannon i think i need to buy one .. i cant find any on our local game shop because its phased out .. no supplies in the Philippines .. and another thing, when i click on the nandfor file, the screen turns black and my tv says no signal .. tnx for your help man ..
+02052010rhenz Lesson learned: NEVER update with an exploited Wii! Install MyMenuify for Wii, install a 4.3 WAD theme, boot HBC with Priiloader, boot MyMenuify, select the WAD, and you're done.
ᗰ20 ᗯO̸ᒪᖴ you installed an incorrect theme for mymenufy probably a theme that only works on 4.3E or an earlier version of the wii system menu if you have bootmii files or priiloader then all you have to do is press reset and power at the same time and I priiloader/bootmii menu will pop up
Hola amigo tú sabes alguna forma de ayudarme con una WII MINI ... NO me da imagen ... Por qué le instalé los Cios y iOS de la WII NORMAL ... GRACIAS ...
Does this work for a banner brick?When I turn on my Wii I get the warning and safety thing then when I press A it doesn't load the Wii menu.I know I have Bootmii installed since I did make a Nand backup with it when I was softmodding it,I did everything that you did,and I still can't get into Bootmii.Please help.
I need help. I modded my wii u. I also hacked the wii side of my wii u. I installed a wad file on the wii side. Now my wii u won't go past the black screen. It plays fine in the wii u side. Just the wii side giving me trouble. Is there way to fix this. Delete the wad file
I'm trying to get hold on the 4.1-Nand_Formatter2.rar and the SettingEdit.rar file. All links seem to be inactive or disappeared. Who can give me a working link please?
I know this is an old video but I downloaded the homebrew channel, installed some N64 games and it worked fine. Now I turned it on and only get a black screen, I did have it connected to the wifi so not sure if that was a problem. Could this be used to fix it or any ideas what happened? Thanks
No, it will not work because 1. You can’t install bootmii and 2. You can’t install priiloader. Attempting to do so would brick the wii mode. What precisely caused the black screen?
You can use vwii nand restorer which does the Exact same thing as the nand formatter you can follow nintndoU's guide of unbricking your vwii BUT BE WARNED THIS WILL WIPE ALL AND I MEAN ALL YOUR SAVE GAMES!!!
My wii is still blackscreen after I followed this step and I can't get to priiloader anymore :( Edit: the bluetooth module was bad the reason why i got black screen and i replaced it now it works so glad i made a backup of nand on bootmii :D
Hey man, your tutorial is great but I still got a black screen when I put the sd card in. Are there any boot sounds of the wii? Cause the one I got just does something with the optical drive and then there's silence. The green led is flashing though.
Hmm, yeah I have been having this same problem lately as well. I'm working on trying to get this fixed. In the meantime, try and format the SD card, re download the files, and try again. Do you remember FOR SURE if you installed bootmii?
Try holding reset button and hit power button and keep holding reset button down until bootmii pops up. Thats the way I have to work mine, of course mine is 4.3u. Dont know if that matters.
Hi, I did as instructed your tutorial but did not get Bootmii menu-still blank screen. All files on the SD bootmii folder are as you describe below to Will Brumley except bootmii does not have the extension .ini, it just has the folder bootmii. Is this an issue? Also, can you explain ios vs Boot2 installation? I'm not sure if I'm installing ios or Boot2.
+Curt Montag So bootmii can be installed as either boot ios and boot2. Boot2 can be installed on wiis that were manufactured approximately after 2007. Boot ios is a more modern version of bootmii and boot2 is older. As for the file extension ".ini" you can enable file extensions in windows explorer to see it. As for the screen remaining blank, did you make sure that you inserted the sd card first BEFORE you turned the wii on? You could try to re download the pack, or formatting your card to FAT32 inside windows explorer. Let me know if you need any more help.
i still get black screen for me after the format :( . i do not have a nand backup so i cant restore it that way either but it did somehow downgrade to 4.1 my wii as it was 4.2 and i checked. tried other ways via priloader without nand here for example ua-cam.com/video/CmUEjEBJez0/v-deo.html but didnt work plz help
used Gamecube controller for $10...god bless your local gamestop
I suppose!
najam din I know right!!!🤣that shit is still expensive
Me be 60$
Dkoldies: $600 for used gamecube controller.
@@creeper2671 lol
I followed your direction's to a "T", and when I power on my Wii, the Blue LED around the Disk come's on, and the Green light on the power button Comes on, but the screen is still Black. Nothing..
Have you check the BT module? ua-cam.com/video/VZArwl-A-Mg/v-deo.html
Same issue and mines not even modded
This is really late but this is a really poor tutorial. There are around 7 different types of bricks: theme brick, banner brick, semi brick, full iOS brick, low level brick (no solution to recover it other than giving it to a NAND programmer), error 001 brick (only for Korean wiis with no solution to recover it other than giving it to a NAND programmer), ...
@@arashkmahshidfar7780 This works to banner brick? I didn't install anything like bootmii before the brick
@@MystiqEevee HOW DID YOU BRICK IT?!?!?!??!?!??
Hello,
I know it's too late to ask, but the link you provided for the NAND formater is dead. Could you please re-upload again?
Man i've done everything just like you did on this vid and i must say I LOVE YOU, my wii went completely full bricked when my ex. friend get to play on his house and did deliver it for me bricked, after look for a clue in many many sites, foruns i've ended up on your vid, and after a few tests i DONE IT, must thank you very much for helping us out, and now my 2 years son will have some good experience with me playing mario and some nintendo exclusive jewels, for those that are not reaching the bootmii screen just like i did when i first try this tutorial i must say check the sd cards, i think mine were good when i did my first try and it was not, buyed a new one tried again and IT WORKS, just dont give boys, it worth a shot BYE.
Wow this guide was very easy to understand, simple, and very professional. Good Job! I don't think I've ever seen a how to as good/simple as yours before!
Thank you very much!
Thanks, man. I was scared shitless that I would brick my Wii with the hbc but now that I know I can fix it if it happens, I'm fine. Thx.
I think in Bootmii you can also use the power and reset buttons to navigate BootMii
Any ideas on what I can do to retrieve my save files from a bricked wii before I attempt a fix?
So, the WiiHacks Thread keeps sending me to random websites
Same my wii just got bricked but it had priiloader on it
Try this (pictures not available though; use the video scroll to follow along with those)-
www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/324-Format-Wii-NAND-Using-Comex-NAND-Formatter
its just for advertisments just press skip ad
@@reidchave7192 it says "502 Bad Gateway" PLEASE HELP
Thanks for this! I had given up on my Wii and moved all the data over to the other one, but now I can finally play on both!
where did you get the data from wiihacks its offline or not?
@@kyrieatinbound1099 Mr Me found a working link here: www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/324-Format-Wii-NAND-Using-Comex-NAND-Formatter
@@SonicMach5 thx !!
i was on the homebrew channel and i clicked exit to system menu and got a black screen. hope this tutorial works
i have no display output on my wii, it turned on, but black screen
Same Here Rn
I did everything as in the video but the black screen remains. At this point I don't know what to do. Does anyone may know another method to fix this or as in why this method doesn't work?
Having the same issue. I didn’t install bootmii
You could have a low level brick
*trys to turn on wii and bootmii doesn't show up*
Me: YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD *loads priiloader*
crisdebo0723 did that work XD
@@cleothebirb7973 We'll never know
@@cleothebirb7973 that happened to me and it did work
and if you dont have preloader?
Is thant mongus
Hi Andrew
The Link you provided (wiihacks) does not work. Is there any alternate way to download the file.
Thanks in advance.
the file or data download is expired are no longer on line please update page wiihack is not working
Thanks man please I have a Korean wii showing error 003 please I need help i wants you to tell me weth your experience the most easy way to fix it and thanks again for you brilliant work
Let’s imagine that it happens to me, but I have a lot of game savefiles. Question; If I backup my savegames to the SD card BEFORE the brick, then i brick my console, and do what you did, and then copying the backups again to the Wii, would it work?
When i tried, my wii just kept in black screen. Didn't opened no screen after SD card in Wii.
Did you try checking Bluetooth or Wifi modules, my wii display just a black screen tomorrow will try this tutorial but if your wii works maybe u can tell me how do you repaired it
I got a similar problem as Will Brumley! I installed Bootmii and got those files in the bootmii folder in the sd card (armboot.bin, bootmii.ini, and ppcboot.elf), i cleaned the sd and followed all the steps but the screen remains black and no bootmii menu. Any suggestions?
Thank you for the video. I have a question. Can i do this process with Wii with "File Systems are corrupted" screen after Health and Care screen?? I couldn't get to the Maintenance Mode.
Will it fixes A blackscreen Mii Channel? Cause this is the only channel who's doing a blackscreen... Others are fine. I even tried to delete mii channel from a wad manager and reinstall 2 version of Mii channel to see and nothing worked. Still blackscreen for Mii Channel. Please reply to help me.
You should do it now, because semi-bricks can make it very big
@@cappiecappie770 I tried my backed up nand on dolphin. Mii channel worked. It's weird I think some savedata are corrupted for the mii Channel. Before this, my Wii disc player stopped working since 2013 mid-game. When I insert a game it detects and its title but once starting it and passing the safety screen it's clicking. Doing DJing. I think it can't read the received data due to a unknown ?brick? Who knows.
eyy you was in the weegeepie collab!
@@cappiecappie770 k but it isn't the answer
i think you need to reset the whole system
HI Andrew
i did all your steps but now i don't even get into the basic menu. any chance i did something wrong.
all stays black
The link doesn't work anymore.... would you give me an updated link?
I thought it was a pretty good tutorial but I couldn't get it to boot. One issue may be I am using win7 and when I copied the files to the SD card it complained about losing attributes (This happens all the time but its never an actual issue). I turned my Wii on for the first time in months after moving and it froze after a few seconds on the main screen with an eerie noise. Every time I restart it it tells me to push A to continue (as if setting up for the first time) and then it switches to the files are corrupt screen. I think its toast :(
Do not worry that much. From the symptoms of your wii, it seems to be a banner brick. Did this "system files are corrupted" message appear before following this video?
Hey I have bootmii in a folder on sd card and screen still black does this mean what? I have armboot.bin and two other files in it
Hi Andrew, will I be able to retrieve all my wii games that I downloaded before?
So the wii straigh up does not work. When I turn the ocnsole on its just a black screen, no message, no anything. Just death
Hello, I really want to get this but when I click the link to wiihacks.com, it jsut redirects me to a random website. PLEASE PROVIDE ME THE LINKS I REALLY NEED THIS
Hi! the linck is missing on the discription. where do i get the files?
Does anybody here still have the files that you need for the SD card? I have a first generation wii for many years with a black screen, i really really want to try this.
Hi Andrew. Do I need to have BootMii installed on the Wii to be successful with this tutorial? I didn't install it before the Wii bricked.
Thanks,
idk (but i dont have a bootmii also yes)
Hi, can you tell me where to get 4.1u-Nand_Formatter2.rar for the Japanese region
i have an bricked stock wii without any mods or homebrew , and i have no GC controller .can we do this process to unbrick the Wii without the controller??
Um huge question I haven't seen yet but, upon doing this method, does all previous game save files be deleted?
That is correct. This will erase ALL...repeat ALL data on the wii and restore it to factory settings. Game saves included.
+InfoCannon OK, thanks.
I followed the steps until the end, everything went fine, but it doesn't read any discs nor let me update to 4.3
If you can't update, then the problem might be with your internet. And as for the reading of DVD... the lens is probably broken. My wii doesn't read DVDs. You can use usb loader gx (a homebrew app that can be installed as a wad to the wii itself) and play your games on a usb or an external hard drive.
any possible download site or link for the needed files..thank you
Does the data on any disk save to the disk, or does it save to the console?
on the wii
Furry
i got a question
what could happen if the program formatter got stuck?
+BLADE XD PRODUCTIONS What do you mean exactly? Like it's just frozen? If that were the case then you can try and hold the power button until the screen turns black and then turning it back on again, however, I am not sure if this will work. :/
yeah and well i was trying to revive my wii but its seems the SD port its wasted or something because it doesnt want to show the bootmii or something just a blackscreen
and 2 years or 1 year ago i think i fried the comex nand formatter V2 by DARKMATTER/PABLO ACZ the program when correctly to the point of formatting and on installing the wads its just froozen everytime and then maybe i think it was for the SD port what can i do?
@@BLADEZONEGT probably fucked throw it out buy a new used one they're like 50 bucks sometimes less
I just wanted to reinstall the stock firmware so I can completely redo the process. When I hacked my Wii, I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing, as I was a freshman in highschool when I first started modding. And now I can't back up my old Wii games to external storage, and USBLoaderGX can't find my flash drives anymore
This will essentially give me a 'fresh-out-of-the-box' Wii right?
Anthony Ramirez yes it will, it formats the nand and restores the stock firmware. do at your own risk
Hey my wii isn't reading CDs I insert a CD to my wii and press the icon to open it and then it's a black screen nothing loads the only CD that works is the stock CD that came with the wii please help
Hello
Andrew Evans the link of the page is fallen you are encouraged to upload the links by mediafiro or mega I await your response greetings.
www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/324-Using-NAND-Formatter-to-completely-Re-install-your-Wii
need to have already installed the bootmii, before having brick?
I don't think so
Did you fix your Wii?
I’m getting black screen when I try and load hbc via bootmii. Any clue why? But I can load hbc via Priiloader fine
What if theres a 2.4(USA) at the bottom corner of the black screen.
That means you have entered the recovery mode it as shows your wii firmware and country
@@ZachYTTheGamer after 3 years, only now i have known this
I did the NAND back-up and then selected SD but it opened to a blank screen. SD root is set up exactly as you described. Now what?
@Andrew Evans
I did not install Bootmii, or Priiloader, or backed up the Wii's NAND files.
Is it still possible to perform this process?
@mlgmatrix14756 How to know what version is installed? I bought a Wii with black screen , what can I do ? Thanks
I just got a wii that plays audio fine but no video comes up. Is my problem the same one you combat in the video or something else?
I was trying to download a game off a website for a video. but when I turned my Wii back on, it was dead. Everything was gone. All my save files are still in the Wii, with no way to get them out. And I tried to follow this tutorial to get them back, but the link doesn't work. Now my Childhood Wii is bricked with no way to fix it without Nand formatter :(
I just hope somebody still has the download archived...
My Wii turns on but is just a black screen its not modded with homebrew and I don't think it is bootmii is it fucked or can I fix it somehow?
What of you have a black wii (one that has no GameCube port)?
I was being dumb and installed wii menu 1.0 from vimms lair and after i tried to boot a game in the disc drive my wii said failed to update then went to a black screen and this didnt fix it does anyone have any fixs?
I just wanted to ask because my wii is bricked.Do i need gamecube controller to do this or i can use wii remote.Thanks.
problem i don't have bootmii or preloader on my wii when i turn it on just black screen
Can someone do a update tutorial in 2024? My brother's Wii got bricked and I'm trying to fix it using this method and we got BootMii on the thing. Idk how it got bricked. Think one of my brothers got it like that. Does anyone have the files in this video by chance thats safe to download? Eero is blocking it sadly. :(
ummm how would i go about this with out bootmii because i did not use bootmii and i got the black screen
When I attempt to install the wads in freezes and doesn't is this a common problem?
+infocannon How do i do it without a GCN controller because i have the newr black wii that doesn't support GCN controller. Do i have to buy that SSB4 GCN adapter and the GCN controller to work for mine or am i just screwed?
Just for a fyi it is important for the verification process in bootmii when you are backing up your nand because it fixes any bad blocks that are found.
It doesn’t fix bad blocks, it just check to actually make sure their bad blocks and are where their supposed to be
hey..appreciation from pakistam with a slight query. well i have a nodded wii and i happened to update it..(very naive of me) well nowy wii is bricked and and when i turn it on it says this console blah blah ..and thats it..doesn't bootup.please help..am trying to revive my wii..please
Good tutorial...Unfortunately for me, mine still freezes while the WAD files are installing
i have done everything that you said, but when i insert my SD card on the wii with all the files, it doesn't go to the bootmii menu it just stay with the black screen, it means that is not this kind of bricked ? or is it that i'm not giving enough time to install the bootmii menu ? how long it should last ?
Mich Dos Ramos its means you didn't have bootmii installed before. Another way if you had prilloader installed press he power then immediately hold down the reset if nothing shows up. Then it's a goner
Yep i did that and nothing shows Up, there's nothing more to do about It , it's gone, but thanks anyway c:
Is there newer links available? I wanted to fix a bricked wii I have laying around but you wiihacks link is broken unfortunately :(
i didnt know the version of my wii console, what must i do to check my firmware while my wii stiil blank screen?
You can't do anything. However if you have a red wii or bought a model that was made after 2010 or if you have a wii mini, then the firmware SHOULD be (not saying it definitely is) 4.3 (the latest firmware)
The link is dead or infected. Something of that nature. Can you possibly post these RAR files somewhere else?
Hey, can't find a dl for the nand formatter anywhere, could someone reupload or point everyone in the right direction?
does anyone know where i can get the nand formatter and setting editor now that wii hacks shut down?
I did everything u did but when i turned on my wii the screen was black help me please:(
So i installed a theme and going into the Wii settings crashed and bricked it.
followed your guide but even with the files on the SD card I still just get black screen when i turn it on.
any thoughts?
dimitriuss I'll go get the shovel...
You should not have done that. Somehow you bricked it even worse. A theme brick isn't that bad if you had priiloader installed. But now it's either a low level brick, or a full system menu brick. A full system menu brick would be recoverable if you had bootmii installed as boot2. But that's only possible if you bought your wii before 2008. So neither of those bricks are recoverable using software. You need a NAND programmer to flash the NAND memory chip inside the wii. And even that is a real pain cuz you need to solder a lot of wires and need access to wii's keys. I think you should press F and say that it gave up the ghost.
Instead of mine being a black screen I go to my Wii’s input and it says no signal does any1 know what’s wrong?
Will this work on 4.3U?
Hi. Will this working for modded wii? I received modded wii and no signal to tv output. Inside have sd card and show some files i believe related to modded wii. But bootmii is not showing.
Why didn't you return it? That's the first thing you would do! If it's broken, then you had the right to have your money back! And if they show that it used to work, did you plug in every port correctly?
I connected my hacked wii on the internet for the first time and it asked me for a system update .. i clicked yes and i think it failed .. my wii stays on the priiloader when i turn it on .. if i choose system menu, it says error autobooting system menu .. help me please .. i want my system menu back ... thanks a lot ...
+02052010rhenz Hey man, so can you still get to the homebrew channel through priiloader? If so you could probably boot into bootmii from there.
+InfoCannon yes i do .. is there any other way to do it without a gamecube controller? .. because i dont have one ..
+02052010rhenz There is no other way to do this than with a gamecube controller. Sorry. They are quite in expensive though.
+InfoCannon i think i need to buy one .. i cant find any on our local game shop because its phased out .. no supplies in the Philippines .. and another thing, when i click on the nandfor file, the screen turns black and my tv says no signal .. tnx for your help man ..
+02052010rhenz Lesson learned: NEVER update with an exploited Wii!
Install MyMenuify for Wii, install a 4.3 WAD theme, boot HBC with Priiloader, boot MyMenuify, select the WAD, and you're done.
Can you please help me my wii says the health and saftey (as usual) then when i press A its just a blackscreen so please help
ᗰ20 ᗯO̸ᒪᖴ you installed an incorrect theme for mymenufy probably a theme that only works on 4.3E or an earlier version of the wii system menu if you have bootmii files or priiloader then all you have to do is press reset and power at the same time and I priiloader/bootmii menu will pop up
Hola amigo tú sabes alguna forma de ayudarme con una WII MINI ... NO me da imagen ... Por qué le instalé los Cios y iOS de la WII NORMAL ... GRACIAS ...
so when i do this and my wii is back at default do i just put my sd card back in and have everything again or do i have to mod my wii again
+jntdac If you plan on re-installing the homebrew channel then yes you would need to re hack it.
oh okay thanks
Does this work for a banner brick?When I turn on my Wii I get the warning and safety thing then when I press A it doesn't load the Wii menu.I know I have Bootmii installed since I did make a Nand backup with it when I was softmodding it,I did everything that you did,and I still can't get into Bootmii.Please help.
Hold reset button in while turning on wii.
I gave up on that,I couldnt fix it,thanks anyways.
Mark Green NP
This works to banner brick? I didn't install anything like bootmii before the brick
+InfoCannon I did everything you said even buying the same exact sd card and i remember installing bootmii but nothing happens when i boot up my wii
What does the root of your SD card look like.
IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE ALL OF THE NECESSARY FILES ON THE CARD AND THAT YOU FOLLOW IT TO THE "T"
It has all the required files and im sure
I have to hold reset button while hitting the power button, then BootMii pops up.
after the back up I am not seeing the nand.elf file only nand.bin
I need help. I modded my wii u. I also hacked the wii side of my wii u. I installed a wad file on the wii side. Now my wii u won't go past the black screen. It plays fine in the wii u side. Just the wii side giving me trouble. Is there way to fix this. Delete the wad file
The only way to unbrigh your vWii is to decafè it
Is there another place to get these files? This link isn’t working
I'm trying to get hold on the 4.1-Nand_Formatter2.rar and the SettingEdit.rar file.
All links seem to be inactive or disappeared.
Who can give me a working link please?
I know this is an old video but I downloaded the homebrew channel, installed some N64 games and it worked fine. Now I turned it on and only get a black screen, I did have it connected to the wifi so not sure if that was a problem. Could this be used to fix it or any ideas what happened? Thanks
Same thing just happened to me. Any luck?
Try pressing and holding power and reset button at the same time. It worked for me.
Could this work on a Wii U’s Wii mode? I have a similar problem where i go into wii mode and it has a black screen
No, it will not work because 1. You can’t install bootmii and 2. You can’t install priiloader. Attempting to do so would brick the wii mode. What precisely caused the black screen?
Real Big Oofer I was trying to get wii games backed up on my wii u on usb loader gx
You can use vwii nand restorer which does the Exact same thing as the nand formatter you can follow nintndoU's guide of unbricking your vwii BUT BE WARNED THIS WILL WIPE ALL AND I MEAN ALL YOUR SAVE GAMES!!!
AwesomeCousins 1426 well there was no save games to begin with so that’s fine with me
@@jeriahrosen101 OK Great!!
And if I get a black screen while installing bootmii?
should I use... bootmii? cuz...
Can you set the file in description ?
Link for Wiihacks is dead. Please help.
www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/324-Format-Wii-NAND-Using-Comex-NAND-Formatter i a bit late but maybe u stillneed it
@@kadir5625 Thanks kind stranger.
@@D4v3TT np
My wii is still blackscreen after I followed this step and I can't get to priiloader anymore :(
Edit: the bluetooth module was bad the reason why i got black screen and i replaced it now it works so glad i made a backup of nand on bootmii :D
Hey man, your tutorial is great but I still got a black screen when I put the sd card in. Are there any boot sounds of the wii? Cause the one I got just does something with the optical drive and then there's silence. The green led is flashing though.
Hmm, yeah I have been having this same problem lately as well. I'm working on trying to get this fixed. In the meantime, try and format the SD card, re download the files, and try again. Do you remember FOR SURE if you installed bootmii?
Yeah I did everything correctly :/ Thanks for your help though!
Try holding reset button and hit power button and keep holding reset button down until bootmii pops up. Thats the way I have to work mine, of course mine is 4.3u. Dont know if that matters.
the threads is full of annoying advertisement..cant get to the original page
wiihacks link leads to spam!! as of 11/3/19 this fix wont work with the website listed above.
should you try to install homebrew again afterwards ?
Hi, I did as instructed your tutorial but did not get Bootmii menu-still blank screen. All files on the SD bootmii folder are as you describe below to Will Brumley except bootmii does not have the extension .ini, it just has the folder bootmii. Is this an issue? Also, can you explain ios vs Boot2 installation? I'm not sure if I'm installing ios or Boot2.
+Curt Montag So bootmii can be installed as either boot ios and boot2. Boot2 can be installed on wiis that were manufactured approximately after 2007. Boot ios is a more modern version of bootmii and boot2 is older. As for the file extension ".ini" you can enable file extensions in windows explorer to see it.
As for the screen remaining blank, did you make sure that you inserted the sd card first BEFORE you turned the wii on? You could try to re download the pack, or formatting your card to FAT32 inside windows explorer.
Let me know if you need any more help.
+InfoCannon Yes, I did insert the card before turning on and as for formatting, it was already formatted to FAT32. Any other ideas?
Followed your instructions to a T, didn't work. Does anyone have a method that will actually work??
my boot me doesent even show up pls help
i still get black screen for me after the format :( . i do not have a nand backup so i cant restore it that way either but it did somehow downgrade to 4.1 my wii as it was 4.2 and i checked. tried other ways via priloader without nand here for example ua-cam.com/video/CmUEjEBJez0/v-deo.html but didnt work plz help
I want to homebrew my Wii but I’m scared if this will happen to me
hey, dude, i cant enter wiihacks, it just redirects me to an add, what do i do?