Can new wiis right off the shelf be modded?

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  1. the_rob

    the_rob Member

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    I've modded a few using larry's guide which all went smoothly (except one mistake I made which I was able to fix) but they were all at least a year old. Somebody I know wants to go buy one now and get me to mod it, just wondering if there's any serial he should avoid or anything? NTSC btw. Thanks.
     
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    new wii = usb loader only. new drives are unable to read from backup discs
     
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    Oh, thanks. Wasn't aware of that. What about sd card reading, like neogamma? Is that a no go as well as discs?
     
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    SD card reading is still here, just got a Wii with system menu 4.0u on christmas, softmodded the next day. Everything works perfect.
     
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    Darknytes,

    What does the serial # start w/ on your Wii? I bought ours 2 wks. before Christmas and the serial # starts w/ LU70 and a buddy could not get it soft-modded.
     
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    As cee43ja1 said: New wii is USB loader only. All homebrew works fine, it's just that the drive cannot read burned disks. Backup games need to be played from a USB drive or an SD card.
     
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    My serial# is LU39. All wiis can be softmodded even systemmenu 4.2
     
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    just got my friend wii. the serial is a LU73XXXXXXX
    i am guessing it has the d-32 or whatever drive.
    i have a wii that i soft modded and have a few backups on. tried same backups on the newer wii(system 4.2U)all went well except dvd error code 1101 or close to that.
    i know its not the gamma cause when i reboot the screen turns green and it will load originals too.
    i have tried verbatims and memorex burnt@x2 or x4 dont really remember.

    anyone have a good guide for a usb loader. going to go get a external usb HDD. does size matter?
    thanX
     
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  9. Darknytes

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    Good USB loader guide for wii 3.4-4.2 at wiihacks.com
     
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    I used Larry's guide;
    http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f...32_partition_no_wbfs_partition_needed-822897/
     
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    I literally bought a Wii yesterday from Microcenter in Southern California. I was able to soft mod it, but it was definately a bitch im on firmware 4.2U. In a lot of the guides where they tell you to use IOS249, with mine I had to use IOS250. Still having some issues with dvd games, I am in the process of formatting and setting up a USB loader.

    So far I've got TMNT Smash Up (PAL) and Sonic + Mario winter olympics (NTSC) working on dvd... Only other one I tried with Sports Resort ( didn't work green screen).
     
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