4.2 Firmware Softmod Guide - All Systems Except For Korean

Hi just had to join to say thanks heaps for your guide worked perfectly.
it has to be the easiest and most up to date one i have found. oh just one more thing i read somewhere that the writing on the tv screen is hard to read i also had that problem untill i changed the picture mode to movie..just thought might help someone.

cheers

Nick.

 

this is the only working tutorial i found for 4.2u the rest are not fully good..lol

but the only thing is i did step by step with no errors!but neogamma and usb loder give me dvd read errors on copied games..-R


1020 but all my ios are all there..

is there a patch for this yet?

 

I tried to run backup DVDs without any SD Card, all of them works perfect; I assume the only reason to put the SD Card inside Wii is when you wish to work in the Homebrew Channel (restore, install something, make an ISO copy of your original game, etc.). Otherwise I don't see why to block in this way a 1G or 2G SD Card...

 

Try doing the guide again.

 

You don't need to have the SD Card in for the backup launcher to work.

 

i have finished the tutorial and now the originals work but the back-ups still don't thanks for the help now at least those work it is not my system i told the guy not to update he will just have to get him a hard drive lol thanks again man!

 

If he played backups previously then he can play them now if the system is modded properly.

The reason game disc don't work for some is due to the new drive the systems have. It has nothing to do with the 4.2 firmware.

 

yes, i understand about the new drives but his is old i dont know why it is not playing backups i've done the tut properly. The usb works with hdd and flash drives the origials work good i dont know whats up that is his problem i was just trying to help him out but you did help like i said from your tut the originals now do work again so hey thanks man!

 

What if I install this and for whatever reason I decide to uninstall it?
How difficult would it be?
And the procedure would be?

 

Don't do the softmod if for some reason you want to uninstall it. It can be done but I for sure am not going to spend time explaining how.

 

Sorry I missed the "ed" after install.
I did install this and it did not do what i expected it to do.
I want to play some pal games on a ntsc console. I can get the games to load but they are in black and white, it is the same with gecko. So at this time i would like to uninstall and maybe try to go back to 4.1 so my wiikey2 will do it.

Most of the games uploaded to the newsgroups are in pal and if you ask for ntsc you get screamed at. Where else can you d/l ntsc games at?

 

This was so easy to remove my 12 yr old could have done it. The program actually has a uninstaller built in then just delete the wad's that were installed in the menu.

Thanks

 

Just want to say thanks larrylje. I followed both the 4.2 softmod instructiosn and the USB loader instructions. Nice and easy to follow. Everything works like a charm!!

Excellent work!!

Thanks!
Leafy

 

i did but i found out with the serial that i have a
D3-2 a.k.a. D2Nothing v2 board..

so it is only usb loader that works..

 

You need to force NTSC in the loader settings for PAL.

 

I'm running into problems. My wii is hard modded with original wiikey, but had problems with a backup of an original game.NSMB...I upgraded to 4.2 to try the soft mod which erased the homebrew channel.
I'm following the guide step by step, but the hackmii screen kicks me out for not having a vunerable ios. I have tried the fix. That also kicks me out with the error that goatboy mentions on page one and roost81 on page 15 of the comments section:

" unable to set the revision to 0, ES_addtitlestart returned -1035 maybe you need an upgraded downloader"

Which files should you actually have on the card at the vunerable ios fix step as there are two different sets listed on the guide. One in the instructions, and one that lists what you should have on your card:
"IOS15-64-v257.wad
IOS15-64-v523.wad
IOS36-64-v3351.wad

So you should have (all in the root) of the SD Card...

private
boot.dol
boot_DOP_IOS_MOD.dol
IOS15-64-v257.wad
IOS15-64-v266.wad *
IOS36-64-v3094.wad *"

Did anyone actually figure this out? I have used two different mem cards now with no luck. Some help anyone???

 

You should have...

IOS15-64-v257.wad
IOS15-64-v523.wad
IOS36-64-v3351.wad

On the SD Card.

I fixed the discrepancy in the NO VULNERABLE IOS guide. Thanks for the heads up.

 

So what happens if we mod the Wii in version 4.2 and then a new version comes out? Do we have to not download the new version in order for our Wii to work? Or do we have to mod it every time a new version comes out?

I'm new to this whole world of modding so any answers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

 

Don't update when a new update comes out. Wait until word spreads if the update effects Homebrew. If it does then wait until a work around comes out for the new firmware.

 

Couldn't get this guide to work for me despite trying quite a few memory cards. Same error over and over. I was pretty careful to follow instructions exactly too. Maybe the fact that it was hard modded had something to do with it. Anyway, I searched around and found the guide here http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=171901
worked on my system. I'm not sure what the difference is, but thanks for your help.