Checking IOSs that may have been uninstalled? and other problems.

[Hiner69er]

Hi I am new to the Wii Hacks community and have a couple of quick questions...I believe I have made to simple mistakes with my newly purchased Wii in an attempt to soft mod. I followed the guides on this site to begin softmodding.

My first mistake was updating from version 4.1 to 4.2 right before I started. After reading the guide for 4.2's I decided to take a stab at it.

I got through the entire process but not without some errors. Mostly during the NUS downloading section of the guide. At one point too I got a black screen with the entire TV being full of white letter coded errors. I made the second mistake of removing stubbed IOSs , possible more than 10 of them being under IOS200 (I was in a rush and extremely excited with the process and frustrated when I wasn’t sure what to do and started toying around with the options).


I am wondering if this is the same as the regular IOSs and will cause my Wii a slow and painful death (as I learned is clearly stated in the more fleshed out guide and boldly found throughout the site)? I was also wondering if there is a way you can check which or how many IOSs have been removed or uninstalled? (Is there a difference?)

Other than these 2 mistakes my Wii has not "bricked" (yet). Maybe it is just a matter of time. I have installed everything in the guide including Bootmii, WAD Manadger, NeoGamma, USB LOADER, HACKMII and Priiloader along with some others mentioned in the guide...Unfortunately my only problem with Priiloader is I seem unable to load any hacks from the hacksmenu as I get an error saying hack.ini file not found on my SD card. I copied all the text of the preloader/hacks from the Wiibrew site into a text document, and then changed the extension to .ini. Still not recognized on the startup of my Wii (Priiloader menu).

I have also managed to play store bought disks using NeoGamma and backups (including Wii Sports Resort using USBLoader) with a 16GB Kingston USB flash drive and WFSB Manager (something software) on my PC with Windows XP. Unfortunately when I try to run backup games (tried Madworld and others) on disk using NeoGamma I get the common 1053 Error which I believe has something to do with the newer Wii console and the D3-2 chip issue.

Well so far everything seems to be running smoothly although I fear the slow and painful death mentioned before from the IOSs issue. I am still within my 30 day return/exchange on the console so I appreciate a reply as soon as possible. I am fully satisfied with the USBLOADER method and all the work everyone here has put into the guides, faqs and tutorials thoroughly written and put together.

Last thing I wanted to mention was that I did save a fully Perfect NAND (no bad sectors or blocks) backup on my PC hardrive before I started my modding adventure, that I am keen to reload if anything seems wrong with my system.

Please let me know if you think my Wii will survive in the long run, down the road. Thanks again for all you time and continued efforts, you guys all do an amazing job!

Cheers,

Hiner69er

[Tealc]

Removing IOS under 200 is risky but providd youb didn't touch several you will not have any long term problems. If it were to break then it would do so immediately after reboot. I'm actally surprised you found 10 you could delete. Do you know which ones you removed?

Avoid restoring NAND on bootmii/IOS as one slip and you would have an unrecoverabe brick. We are talking last resort use here ok.

Ensure your hacks.ini is actually hacks.ini and not hacks.ini.txt which is a common Windows issue becuase it hides known file extensions by default.

[cysmith16]

Signcheck will output a .csv file of the IOS you have installed. Some games may not work without the correct IOS but you can use NUS downloader or DOP-IOS-MOD to install any you need. A list of required IOS for certain games is on a thread in this forum somewhere.

[Hiner69er]

You both have helped me somewhat I will try to the .cos file suggested to check. I am happy to hear that my Wii will last in the long run but I don't exactly remember which "stubbed IOSs" I REMOVED, I believe they were 1,2,3,4,5,6, 10, 16, 22. I may have reset my system before anything took effect.

Could you please explain the difference between removing stubbed IOSs and Uninstalling the regular IOSs - because I did not mess with the regular ones.

I guess my last question would be - How do I get Gamecube backups (Super Smash Brothers Melee) to play on my Wii? What software/mod do I need?

I have gotten Wii backups to workout perfectly (over 10 of them, including the ones that are more resource hogs)

[Tealc]

The basic difference between stubbed IOS and regular IOS is that bricks tend to occur when you remove regular IOS. There are a few general flavours of IOS, System ones, Game ones and other ones. IOS30/50/60/70 are System IOS. IOS9, 21, 28, 33, 35, 37, 38, 53, 55, 56, 57 are known Game IOS.

Here's a thread detailing which games need IOS http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...s-use-run.html

And a thread showing which apps/VC/WW require IOS http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...s-wiiware.html

Stubs are mere placeholders, practically empty files designed to exist but that's about it.

For example IOS60 has two flavours.

IOS60 v 6174 is 1,910KB and is the all important System IOS for 4.0/4.1 System Menus. It is this IOS that is loaded every time the Wii starts, it is also this IOS that loads all data from System Menu that allows your Wii to do stuff. Incredible really considering it's size.

IOS60 v 6400 is 166KB and does nothing besides sit in your NAND taking up a little space. If you try and boot a 4.0/4.1 Wii with this IOS then you get a black screen and not even recovery menu would work.

There's not normally much point in removing stubs as they do consume very little space. I doubt if a Wii would run any faster but you might get a whole spare NAND block for your efforts.

[cysmith16]

I don't play gamecube backups but I'm sure you use Triiforce application and run them from SD or USB HDD.

[Tealc]

See the tutorials for guides on running Gamecube backups under softmod, or buy a modchip or WODE/Sun-driver.

[Hiner69er]

Where can I get signcheck? How do I install signcheck onto my wii?

[Hiner69er]

Thank you so much for all you help, I will look up the Triiforce application and how to install it onto the Wii, otherwise have an awesome day. I still don't understand how to install the preloader/hacks onto the wii tho. Is there a guide somewhere that shows how to do it and what happens if u recieve errors?

[Tealc]

Signcheck

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