Bought a used Wii with homebrew. How to restore it to factory settings so I can mod it properly?

[heady summit]

Hello. So I bought a used Wii with the sole purpose to mod it using wii.guide. But to my surprise it already had the homebrew channel installed... I want to restore the console to factory settings in order to mod it from scratch (so I do everything properly according to wii.guide). Can anyone please show me the way?

[acoustic vessel]

Syscheck

!syscheck

?syscheck

/syscheck

What the f*** is the command to pull up the check to redirect him to the guide for a check

[spiral geyser]

To help troubleshoot your issue please run Syscheck and test all IOS on your Wii by following this guide:
https://wii.guide/syscheck

When it's done it will generate and display a syscheck.csv file.

If you have an SD, power down the Wii and insert the SD into a PC. Drag and drop the syscheck.csv file from the root of your SD into chat.

If you don't have an SD, you might get an error. Just continue until the report is displayed. You will need to upload the report and link the URL to chat or take photos of the entire report.

[spiral geyser]

I just have a pastebin app

[acoustic vessel]

Oh

[heady summit]

thanks @spiral geyser , I'm on it

[acoustic vessel]

Was I correct it was he supposed to do a syscheck

[spiral geyser]

Yes.

[spiral geyser]

There is actually no need to restore to factory settings, we can usually just delete or overwrite whatever is on there

[spiral geyser]

This actually won’t be that hard to fix. It’s probably about 2 years old

[heady summit]

sounds promising

[spiral geyser]

Get Wii mod lite https://wii.guide/wiimodlite put it in your apps folder on your SD card, launch it, go to iOS, and delete slots 224,236,247,248. When you are done Follow this Guide to Install Custom IOS https://wii.guide/cios.html

[heady summit]

on it. thanks. man you guys sure know your stuff 😄

[acoustic vessel]

I have three Wii I don't know why I've said this I got one from DK oldies and it was broken with a broken disk drive

Also I'm out using the Wii Connect clear tool because I had to use it once and it said something if I delete that thing and then it sends me back to the initial setup what does that mean

[spiral geyser]

Also, i noticed that your Wii was not installed with bootmii, which provides brick protection for your Wii. Get the Hackmii installer here: https://bootmii.org/download/ Extract the .zip file, copy the HackMii Installer folder to your apps folder. Then run the HackMii Installer via the homebrew channel to install Bootmii to IOS and boot2 if you can.
2. After installing Bootmii, follow this guide to use Bootmii to create a NAND backup: https://wii.guide/bootmii

Syscheck doesn’t tell me what version of priiloader is installed, but if it’s not 0.9.1 then it’s outdated and needs to be updated from here https://wii.guide/priiloader you can just overwrite the current version

[acoustic vessel]

Hey so I was looking in the Wii Connect 24 clear tool and it said if I delete a file it will do the initial setup what does that mean

[heady summit]

I should probably do the brick protection BEFORE I delete the ios slots, am I right?

[spiral geyser]

You aren’t really deleting them, you’re just turning them into stubs (basically unpatching them)

[spiral geyser]

I don’t know, I’ve never used the clear tool before

[acoustic vessel]

What would happen if I were to delete iOS would I kill my Wii and brick it

[spiral geyser]

If it’s used by the Wii, then yeah probably

The slots in the 200s are usually not used though unless it’s modified

[heady summit]

OK, so I'm running the hackmii installer now and it says BootMii Can only be installed as an IOS. The installed boot1 version preventsa boot2 install (-2)

should I install it as an IOS or just move to deleting those slots you mentioned?

OK @spiral geyser so let me just recap what I've done so far:

1. I've overwritten Priiloader on the SD (haven't run it though)
2. Installed HackMii, but it shows BootMii Can only be installed as an IOS. The installed boot1 version prevents a boot2 install (-2)
3. Haven't installed bootMii as an IOS (because I don't know if that's what I should do)
4. Haven't removed the slots yet (want to resolve the BootMii issue first)

[heady summit]

I'm going to bed. I will resume in the morning.

[acoustic vessel]

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Brick/IOS_brick is this what would happen if I deleted iOS

[spiral geyser]

Yeah just install as an iOS. Most Wiis can’t install to boot 2 anyway

Sorry i had gotten side tracked. I got called about a Wii related thing

[heady summit]

Ok, I'll get on it, just one more question: should I reinstall the homebrew channel with hackmii installer as well?

Or just leave the one I've got

[spiral geyser]

Your Homebrew channel is already up to date (1.1.2) so there is no need

[heady summit]

Hey @spiral geyser ! Thank you for all your help! I've done all that you told me, also I followed all the tutorials on wii.guide to complete the setup. Now I have wiiFlow installed and I will attempt to get some games going on the console. Thanks again!!

[heady summit]

Hey @spiral geyser I have one more issue. I used Wii Mod Lite to install a WAD file with Mario Bros (to test it out). It appeared on my wii menu screen. When I open it and start the game up I only get a black screen. No reaction from the console. I need to force shutdown to get it back up again. Do you know what might be the case?

I run the syscheck again, and this is the output:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Console ID: 81249189
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Poland (97)
Boot2 v4
Found 88 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/08/2023.

[acoustic vessel]

What tf is a stub ios

Those are the iOS is that Nintendo uses to block Homebrew I think

[heady summit]

just for the record - it turned out that using wii2hdmi does not support the display settings when playing vc games from the NES. Switching to the SCART cable solved the problem

[red charm]

^
HDMI in general does not support the video mode that NES VC and SNES VC use

So they will either not display correctly or not display at all

[red charm]

Also

although not that necessary

but you could update your cIOS to v11

[heady summit]

I used the tutorial on wii.guide. Followed the instructions to the letter

[red charm]

Wii guide for now has v10

not v11

Start by downloading the installer from here
https://wii.guide/cios.html

and then download d2x v11 here

https://github.com/wiidev/usbloadergx#cios-guide

extract the downloaded zip and move the v11 folder and ciosmap.xml file inside the d2x installer folder (you should have extracted the installer's zip by now); replace if asked

now follow the guide for installing cIOS (https://wii.guide/cios.html) but instead use these values

d2x v11 Slot 249 base 56
d2x v11 Slot 250 base 57
d2x v11 Slot 251 base 38

for the revision select the largest value

[spiral geyser]

I don’t really like the Wii 2 hdmi adapters anyway

[acoustic vessel]

Why it worked just fine for me

[spiral geyser]

Since they are sold by different brands it’s hard to tell which ones work good at all and which ones are shit.

[wraith viper]

all of them work, none of them upscale.

as they claim to do

[spiral geyser]

Tell that to the one I bought that ran in 15hz with noticeable input lag and wouldn’t let me change to 480p

[wraith viper]

💀

bad rng