Hackers release application which leaves out new protection in v4.0 [Archive]

Zeus

03-26-2009, 02:35 PM

Wanikoko has released a new homebrew hack for the Wii that will essentially download and install all the new features in the official v4.0 Wii system menu update BUT leaves out the new protection which has been added by Nintendo. Full details are available at <a href="http://www.teknoconsolas.es/blog/waninkoko/firmware-updater-40" target="_blank">Teknoconsolas.es</a>.

xghost360

03-26-2009, 02:55 PM

how is this ued via the homebrew channel do i need to make a folder called update
instructions seem almost none

wiggim

03-26-2009, 03:02 PM

how is this ued via the homebrew channel do i need to make a folder called update
instructions seem almost none

you honestly have no idea how to use homebrew with the homebrew channel? wow.. read a bit friend. its all in black and white at the source..

Eggman72

03-26-2009, 03:02 PM

bung it in apps in a folder called what you want..rename the dol to boot.dol then launch via brew channel may take a while to do depending on your connection speed...

goexplodex4

03-26-2009, 03:23 PM

Anyone try this or should i risk my console

tech3475

03-26-2009, 03:24 PM

anyone tested this yet on 3.2E?

Also does this affect starfall, wiikey and patchmii?

xghost360

03-26-2009, 03:25 PM

hello mate thank you for the help downloading the f/w now through the app
and wiggam its the first time i have used homebrew on the wii so please mate why the grief only asked for help

maxpowerr

03-26-2009, 03:41 PM

so can i do this on my modded wii without any ramifications?

Mordenkainen

03-26-2009, 03:51 PM

Depends. I think we need to wait to see if the preloader/starfall patch offsets have changed in sysmenu 4.0. Gotta assume that they have.

I would expect his tool will blow away starfall/preloader, but you could re-install it. The issue is having the right data in hacks.ini.

Morden.

For a "what will delete what on my WII" list, see Here (http://forums.maxconsole.net/showpost.php?p=1126131&postcount=16). Note that this is both an IOS and System Menu update.

tech3475

03-26-2009, 04:02 PM

I am going to leave this for now until new english reports come in.

Jester2000

03-26-2009, 04:08 PM

whats the new protection ???

hanz

03-26-2009, 04:16 PM

I am going to leave this for now until new english reports come in.

I installed it before and its working fine. Everything so far works except the TWL hack but it doesnt matter if you you already have the HMC installed already. i updated the IOS to the cIOS36 rev8 after it completed. Its great as you get everything 4.0 has but without the other fixes Nintendo did. Its worth it in the long run. Think of it as custom M33 fw that PSP's have.

joeks

03-26-2009, 04:17 PM

just installed this succesfully on my pal 3.1 wii. backuploader etc. still working like a charm.

tech3475

03-26-2009, 04:30 PM

anyone with starfall and patchmii tried this yet?

xshinox

03-26-2009, 04:31 PM

so can i do this on my modded wii without any ramifications?
i would like to know as well. i dont want to update to this custom 4.0 and my chip stops working, HBC stops working, hell everything stop working.

xghost360

03-26-2009, 04:42 PM

i installed it and it works great and i have a wiikey installed and all seems fine

xshinox

03-26-2009, 05:04 PM

i have a d2pro9 chip in my wii. i dont know if i should install this custom 4.0 i dont want to lose my ability to play my games, use starfall, HBC, other things.

does anyone have the d2pro9 and have installed this without any problems

hanz

03-26-2009, 05:32 PM

anyone with starfall and patchmii tried this yet?

not tried patchmii but starfall boots no problem, yet wont work due to 3.2 fw needed, etc.

tech3475

03-26-2009, 05:35 PM

hanz

03-26-2009, 06:03 PM

Just installed after removing starfall. seems fine, however world of goo wad installed game wont run of SD but wad still install onto NAND.

report:
1. wiikey v1 does work
2. wads still work
3. starfall does NOT work (tried reinstalling)
4. madworld wont boot without gecko
5. VC games work from SD but wiiware (world of goo) does not, both with wads and games from shop channel.
6. IOS249 (unofficial) with gecko works

So basically the only reason to install this is for SD VC games and SDHC.

The first one is worth the loss of Starfall IMO for me.

Thought unofficial VC wads not downloaded from the shop channel would boot somehow from the SD using waninkoko's 4.0 installer. Its only official downloaded VC's from shop that work. Yeah, i miss SF too..i liked the hack to remove the health warning,etc..

tech3475

03-26-2009, 06:23 PM

Just found out why it worked, I actually copied and not moved the data so the data was still on the wii when I launched from SD.

I am sure a "fix" will come out.

Basically until this "fix" comes out it may not be worth updating unless you have a few legit VC games.

Or can someone else give a reason to keep 4.0 or should I downgrade to 3.2?

wiggim

03-26-2009, 06:45 PM

I am sure someone will figure out how to patch an IOS to allow 3.2U to run the 32GB cards.... hopefully..

lilskaterpunk

03-26-2009, 07:37 PM

Right on, not much of a Wii player anymore though.

Anil8tr

03-26-2009, 08:18 PM

No chip here and everything updated just fine. Went from 3.3U to 4.0U. B/U loader and HBC for the Wad installer work just fine. And that's all I really need as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for the hard work guys!

acem77

03-26-2009, 08:36 PM

HMC? should it be HBC?
I am running 3.2u now with a chip.
Is it even worth trying this? 3.2u seems to be the sweet spot for firmwares.
I guess v4 would give 32gig support and you can run VC/wii ware from the sd card?

jackoneil2000

03-26-2009, 08:47 PM

This is the most pointless update ever.

3.2 with CIOS36v8 is just fine. With all features enabled. Until games stop working why fix something that isn't broken? So you can have wiiware/vc on a sd card? load a 32GB SD card? wow.. big deal.

4.0 can't:
Copy twilight hack from SD card
Install DVDx (but can run it)
Install HBC (but it can run it)
Save files that have copy protection, that were copied to the SD card through any previously patched system menus, will NOT copy back
It will not allow you to use preloader, Starfall, cIOSCORP, or the various softmod packages available

With 3.2 just extract whatever future IOS wads you need from new games (like madworld ios38, 53, 55) and install them with wad manager. No system menu updates required.

swspjcd

03-26-2009, 11:29 PM

I installed the 4.0 update via the installer and it installed fine. It took about 20 minutes via wifi so be patient. The hbc still works and I can install wads from the sd card and you can use the sd manager to move them back *but* you can not play them from the sd card afterwards. Be forewarned. When I inserted Mario Tennis, it wanted to install a system update still. I did not let it. Any ideas why it would do that if I'm already at 4.0 and if everything will still work afterwards?

prso

03-27-2009, 02:00 AM

i personally will not be updating to v4 at the moment as its still at an early stage where it cannot run starfall,hbc etc but i think its rather unfair to say that this is pointless update as it is the next stage to the next stage of getting somewhere i.e starfall,hbc at the moment people want 32gc because of vc/wiiware so i think a big thank you should go out to the hackers who do these hacks/programs , they must work very hard and put a lot of effort into this scene so from my point of view please do not make statements like pointless and be harsh with these guys , without them most of us would be stuffed on here,just because its not for you dosent mean to say its not good for other people.

p.s.s sorry for going on one but i feelk like it had to be said , cheers

tech3475

03-27-2009, 02:01 AM

Is there a way to downgrade or should i wait for if someone patches the system menu to support wad vc games from sd?

BladeX

03-27-2009, 02:12 AM

doesn't work when it says downloading ios37 i get error-ret=1 :mad:

Captain N1

03-27-2009, 03:45 AM

can you still re-boot the system meny with hooks using gamma or gecko?

Anil8tr

03-27-2009, 05:23 AM

doesn't work when it says downloading ios37 i get error-ret=1 :mad:

I got that too. I just restarted the process again and it picked up where it left off and everything downloaded just fine thereafter.

BladeX

03-27-2009, 05:29 AM

nope never works for me it always fails on ios38 content #15 **** it must not work on australian PAL. :mad:

xergal

03-27-2009, 06:41 AM

nope never works for me it always fails on ios38 content #15 **** it must not work on australian PAL. :mad:

Oddly enough, mine gets to 15 and says done but then nothing else. It just sits there..

stanleyopar2000

03-27-2009, 07:45 AM

sooo...this Does NOT work right now??

tech3475

03-27-2009, 08:29 AM

It seems to be hit or miss, mine works and I had no problems (upgrading from 3.2E UK).

So is it possible to downgrade from this back to good old 3.2?

edit:
I just downgraded back to 3.2 using this: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=143120

Starfall works fine and there are no problems. I dont plan on upgrading back to this until someone allows for games installed from wads to run from SD or let madworld run from the disc channel rather than gecko.

but still, the hack is good work from the hackers and I am glad they are in the scene and give us the ability t downgrade as well (also thank you nintendo for such crappy security and flexible OS).

KingPepper

03-27-2009, 10:57 AM

Quote: (thank you Nintendo for such crappy security and flexible OS).
Hence why Nintendo sell so many Consoles, that explains a lot :rolleyes:

mixman4

03-27-2009, 11:15 AM

Devestated, everything was working ok, it was just installing everything as it should, then failed near the end. Bricked.

Don't suppose anyone knows how to fix this?

Black screen, no video output. On/off works ok, eject etc.. green light, nothing else.

Tried GC pad ( u,d,l,r) port 4, still black screen.

(i'm using a component cable. Would this show me the error screen? )

tech3475

03-27-2009, 12:01 PM

this is all I can find:
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Brick#Recovering_From_a_Brick

Also you sure you did it right? After all, sometimes starfall is a pain to accept A+1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIzoqVizoQ

IF you do get it fixed, I would recommend waiting until Bootmii is released before trying something like this again.

Gabo*

03-27-2009, 12:55 PM

nope never works for me it always fails on ios38 content #15 **** it must not work on australian PAL. :mad:

I think your problem here is that you have to have at least 250 free blocks of memory. Free some up and try it again.

FoggyPWC

03-27-2009, 02:40 PM

tech3475

03-27-2009, 03:28 PM

Then I am afraid, you may have a true brick if Savemii does not work. your only option may be to either wait for a wii brick recovery solution (like the PSP pandora) or to send the console of to nintendo for repair.

BladeX

03-27-2009, 03:39 PM

I think your problem here is that you have to have at least 250 free blocks of memory. Free some up and try it again.

i dont think i want to use it now after some peeps got bricked cos of it. :eek:

tech3475

03-27-2009, 05:15 PM

i was looking on the spanish forums where this was posted. Some addons seem to be the cause of these bricks.

List every addon/ios/hack you had before it bricked.

FoggyPWC

03-28-2009, 12:46 AM

i was looking on the spanish forums where this was posted. Some addons seem to be the cause of these bricks.

List every addon/ios/hack you had before it bricked.

Nothing out of the ordinary, hbc, I had updated the store etc previously using waninoko's stuff with no issues. I had wad manager, wii earth, mplayer, dvdx but had not installed starfall. CISO was on there as well. Really annoying as it got all the way through updating successfully asked for for any button to restart and then bricked!

Do NOT update yet. Wait until the kinks are ironed out, most people are fine but it is not worth the risk. I am hoping that Bootmii will save the day but I fully expect to be disappointed.

BladeX

03-28-2009, 12:49 AM

i'm actually glad mine failed to download i prob would have been brick too

tech3475

03-28-2009, 03:46 AM

Well I updated from 3.2E, I disabled starfall first and then updated, I also had ios 249 installed so that isnt a problem.

I currently think that its either some CIOS (there are multiple versions available and rev (were you on rev 8?)). Or there is no checksum on the downloads so corrupt updates are being installed.

Guess I was lucky though.

FoggyPWC

03-28-2009, 05:03 AM

More and more people reporting around the web that their Wii has been bricked. Strongly advise people not to update yet

crapday

03-28-2009, 07:07 AM

Just updated from 3.1e. still cant get madworld to work, even with gecko002 fix. Tells me cant find codes on SD.

just noticed that my VC games install before work, after don't.

tech3475

03-28-2009, 11:32 AM

Just updated from 3.1e. still cant get madworld to work, even with gecko002 fix. Tells me cant find codes on SD.

just noticed that my VC games install before work, after don't.

did you have ios249 installed?