Is my WII Toast?

[rspall]

Folk,

I have a US WII, originally ntsc with a D2C Pro chip installed.

Anyway, I accidentilly installed 3.0E (instead of 3.0U), and then my kids went and ran the WII update, which installed 3.3U from nintendo - automatic update from the WII menu. I was surprised that Nintendo let me do this!

Anyway, the screen went all wavy (PAL is different frequency than NTSC) and I went and erased system memory (WII configuration option).

NOW I AM STUCK!!

The WII boots, and the screen is still wavy (running at PAL rather than NTSC frequency), but I can just about make out the content and navigate. However the disk drive will not read ANY DISKS I have - reports that it cannot read the disk.

Is there anything I can do, or is the WII a brick?

ANY HELP APPRECIATED!!

Roger

BTW: I got myself in this mess by using the IOS downgrader and downgrading to 3.0E instead of 3.0U - I wasn't paying attention!! I didn't even know you could instal the PAL downgrade on an NTSC unit - DOH!!

From there the kids innocently applied the Nintendo update for a new game they wanted to try, and then I stupidly uninstalled the homebrew channel - which I can no longer reinstall as my ntsc version of Zelda will not work!

I live in Canada, so I have no way of purchasing a PAL version of elda, and don't even know if it will work on my 'hybrid' (originallly ntsc now with 3.3E on it) WII!

[rspall]

Folk,

A little progress...

Because my WII now thinks it is PAL (not ntsc), I realised I had to change the jumpers on the D2C to be in open region for PAL - as opposed to open region for US/NTSC.

Anyway, since changing the D2C jumpers I can now load disks again...

HOWEVER, whenever I try and run Zelda (for the twilight hack to put homebew back), the disk loads, It goes to the opening screen and when I click start the screen goes black and the disk keeps spinning. I wait 5 minutes and the disk never starts!

Where can I get a version of zelda that will work on my NTSC WII that thinks it is PAL - I am desperate to get my WII back and replace 3.3E with 3.3U!

Any suggestions for how to get homebew (and eventually the IOS downgrader) back on to my 'alive but in great pain' WII?

you can email me at roger@logicent.com

Thanks,

Roger

[DrLucky]

Folk,

A little progress...

Because my WII now thinks it is PAL (not ntsc), I realised I had to change the jumpers on the D2C to be in open region for PAL - as opposed to open region for US/NTSC.

Anyway, since changing the D2C jumpers I can now load disks again...

HOWEVER, whenever I try and run Zelda (for the twilight hack to put homebew back), the disk loads, It goes to the opening screen and when I click start the screen goes black and the disk keeps spinning. I wait 5 minutes and the disk never starts!

Where can I get a version of zelda that will work on my NTSC WII that thinks it is PAL - I am desperate to get my WII back and replace 3.3E with 3.3U!

Any suggestions for how to get homebew (and eventually the IOS downgrader) back on to my 'alive but in great pain' WII?

you can email me at roger@logicent.com

Thanks,

Roger

I would either try downloading a Zelda pal version, or go to the wiibrew forums and ask them for help, they run into stuff like this all of the time...

[rspall]

Thanks for the suggestion...

I have the (legitimate store bought) Zelda in NTSC / USA version, but it will not play on my 'sick WII'! I thought D2C allowed Region free playing of PAL / NTSC games - which is why I bought it, and it did let me play PAL games on my NTSC unit (when it worked)!

Where could I download PAL Zelda? I would rent it if any US store had a PAL version -)

Regards,

Roger

[rspall]

Folk,

Thanks for your help...

I acquired a PAL version of Zelda off Rapidshare, applied the Twilight hack, installed Homebrew, and use the IOS Downgrader to install version 3.2U of the WII firmware!!

Apart from having to drive almost blind (PAL signals look very crappy on an NTSC T.V. - although the older the T.V. the easier it is to view them) with WII navigation, it wasn't too difficult.

Finally, I switched my D2C chip (JP1/JP2) back to NTSC version by unsoldering/soldering and all now works again, and my kids are happy!

Regards,

Roger