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after the 1st update, i am not even sure what region the game come from as it was borrowed my wii is a PAL,

 

So then your Wii was semi-bricked with the first update and since then no update could fix it. That sounds pretty bad.

 

so am i 100% safe if i update my pal wii with pal metroid prime corruption and what do u guys mean by updating via internet. is it through the wii system

 

i have a semibricked jpn wii with internet connection

is there a way to download the update without the settings menu? through wii24connect maybe? or other way?

thx

mario iso was released

 

Help Please
I have a PAL Wii with Pal Wiikey
I have just try to the Metroid Prime 3, and it is trying to do an update, but it says that if i go ahead with the update it could damage my wii and wiikey. what do i do?? please help. the version i am on is v3.0e

 

poker i had the same problem. IF your machine is pal and the game is pal u can update without any risks of bricking. i updated and now im a happy metroid player

 

many thanks ddh, that has put my mind at rest cheers

 

no problems i faced the same. happy gaming!!

 

I didn't brick my PAL Wii with a USA Big Brain Academy but I did get the double channels. I'm still at 2.3 and don't know what a proper PAL update would do. Can anyone please help?

 

Hi to all! I found this thread really interesting, and this is what I experienced:

one of the games I tested after the installation of wiikey was "NTSC Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree"... I didn't know It could brick my PAL Wii! Now I can't get into the Wii Settings menu any more, but still I can play games. So my Wii should be Half/Semi Bricked.

Here's the notorious error:

"You tried to access the address marc:**/**/***/index01.html (I have EU/EU/ITA), which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web Address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page"

I've waited a long time for "Metroid Prime 3" PAL and its 3.0 firmware update but, once I updated my wii, nothing changed!

Should I wait for another Hardware update?

Tnx for your support!

 

if your wii is semibricked and you have wiiconnect 24 will an update in the mailbox (from nintendo) fix it

 

don't have any internet connection or service configured

 

Hi, first post here.
So let me get this straight, if u have a modchip installed and u want to update ur firmware to let's say, 3.0u it won't brick ur wii? but doesn't it give u a warning before u update saying it will? i dont have a chip installed yet but on future fimware updates will it brick ur wii if u have one.

 

I got a quick question, if someone could help me please ... will the Jap version of Super Mario Galaxy un-semibrick my Jap Wii, which was semi bricked with PAL Big Brain Academy?

Thanks!

 

Yes the Japanese version of Super Mario Galaxy should unbrick your Wii.

 

Thanks for the reply LeDav007, I'll give it a go.

 

OK,I'm new to all this Wii stuff and some things are troubling me.

I'm scared of getting my Wii blocked if i play backed up games online.

Yes,i did see the stickied guide but i can't say i understood it all and that's why I'd like to ask a few questions((please respond as if you were talking to a seven year old) :

I live in France and bought my wii here so if I were to "borrow" a Wii game from an American, Would it be playable on my wii?

What is a region brick?

Why do region bricks happen?

If i play online with a backed up game will my wii get bricked?


What's a region patch?


How do you enable a region free option on your Modchip?

If i buy i Wiikey will it work in my French Wii?

Believe me,I've searched for responses to these questions but the answers were always explained in an overly complicated manner.
Thank you.

 

hi all
I too am having the same problem as the person who posted just before me. I bought a wii in america and am living in ireland. Is there any way my wii could play european games on it and can anyone advise me on what you need to do to download games for the wii, do I have to put some chip into the wii first. Again I too am new to all of this so any help would be much appreciated.
thanks

 

Dear larrylje,
I have more than then year experience in firmware programming And I can tell you that every company will tellyou not to turn of the machine during the update.
1. When one piece of software is updating the firmware it recreates what is called the boot region of the main firmare. that serves to start the firmware. And this operation is done one millionesime of second compared to the complete update update time (time that is mainly used to copy files and other resources from th source), any good programer will first backup the boot record of the piece of software in other memory zone and so the probabilities that a disaster happen is very low. But companies will tellyou don't turn of the hardware to avoid complications with moorons that will panic when at the reestart of the unsucessful the system will ask: Last update try was interrupted, Do want to reestart the uptate from the begining? Y/N

To make it easy for you:
any piece of software is like a secuancy of numbers that start by 1 :
Example:
Old Firmware:
1a-2-3-4-5...

New firmware:
1b-3-5-7-9...

the only important numbers are: 1a and 1b.(main point of entrance: boot record)
So if you want to replace a firmware by another you have to do:

- Copy the -2-3-4-5... sequence in a sure place (1a still points to it)
- Copy the -3-5-7-9... sequence into the memory
- Replace 1a by 1b and make it point to "-3-5-7-9" sequence (very very very small time)


So my friend larrylje, Don't panic and let people that want to help, try to help.



ps.ah Internet in nowdays has been populated for such a newbies.

 

@topofired

Excellent post on the concept of firmware updates. Found it very interesting. One thing that I didn't really get clearly out of the post though - do you think it's OK to pull the plug during an update? Sounds like you do (since technically 1a is still pointing to 2-3-4-5, I would have thought 1b is copied over too along with 3-5-6-9 and then just replace 1a once all the copying is done, but a topic for another discussion), just wanted to be sure.

FYI, I've pulled the plug during the MP3 update to avoid the dup channels and it worked for me. I believe Nintendo's programmers aren't clueless and wouldn't write over the old firmware until the new firmware is fully loaded onto the Wii.