Wii Maintenance Mode

Hi, I'm a newbie here, so please ignore any unwitting transgression of rules, written or unwritten.

Thought I'd found something that only I didn't know about but a brief search later I'm none the wiser.

Sooo... at the risk of ridicule, infamy and flames...

Power on your wii and at the initial health warning message hold down both the + and - buttons then press A.

Message: System is in Maintenance Mode Message board unavailable.

I haven't explored much yet except that some of the menu functions are unavailable.

Also, if you start the shop channel, a port scan would suggest that the wii is running an ftp server.

I am unable to get a login prompt as the server is reset as soon as addressed.

That's all Folks!

Explore at your peril.

FiJ.

This sounds very promising. Have you tried any of you original games you have backed up in this mode? The reason i say is that as far as im aware Nintendo didnt issue software Devs with special Wii's and prehaps this is how they ran their games when they were in development

If we could replace those system file to another reiogn's, it would be great.

I will check this out when i get home. Quite a good chance that this might be the back door that everyone has been waiting for

Nice find will try when I get home.

Sounds interseting will have a little play when i get in

Never know might even be able to delete the duplicate news and weather channels

only hoping though

good job finding this, works in 3.1E

dont know what more options you have, i only see the message board is not available.

just had a quick look. can't see any way to delete the dupe channels. interesting...

oh nice find. i wonder what this will lead us to...

some buttons in Wii System Settings won't work,
such as "Wii Connect 24", "Country", "Internet / Agreement & Contract".

i guess this mode is for reseting the wii to its original state from first day!

Originally Posted by GalaxyFraulein

some buttons in Wii System Settings won't work,
such as "Wii Connect 24", "Country", "Internet / Agreement & Contract".

i guess this mode is for reseting the wii to its original state from first day!

that would be great for those who have an half bricked wii

Originally Posted by robcrazee

I will check this out when i get home. Quite a good chance that this might be the back door that everyone has been waiting for

My gut feeling is that this is the first stage of several actions that have to be performed. Quite frankly I'm staggered that nobody appears to have found it before me!

I think that 9 10 doh would not make it easy.

My money is on a sequence of bizarre clicks in different places or a certain password that will need to be entered possibly as the console name or pin.

It just seems a little too good to be true that they brazenly announce that you have found maintenance mode.

It is also possible that they have extra bluetooth codes from a "service" wiimote. I'll have a trawl as somebody must have mapped the button codes.

Happy hunting!

FiJ.

Great Find FiJ.
Hopefully this is the gateway to finding something really interesting.
Start mashing those buttons people!

EDIT: someone over at gbatemp posted this somehow fixed his half bricked wii.

Well this is odd. It deleted my recorded time for Battalion Wars 2. I was just playing, I quit the game, there was an hour and 30 minutes logged. I did this neatness, went into the News channel, it booted me out and then the record of me playing BWii was deleted from the message board.

Here's a video i captured of my Wii in the mode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gy8gWC6Dg