Updating corrupt System Menu from HBC?

Are there any programs that supports it?

The client might still be able to boot to HBC with a drivekey installed, but how to restore to a "working" system menu when one has no personal backups?

Updating service from Nintendo would be prefered, but other suggestions are welcome.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/10/2009 03:28PM by lakersforce.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/2009 03:18PM by Arikado.

We don't like Wanky's crap here. I would use AnyRegionChanger.

You should be able to use NUS and wadimport (or WAD Manager). Or just updating from a game should do the trick, but if the "client" has ever downgraded hiw Wii, do NOT update from a game.

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Or just updating from a game should do the trick, but if the "client" has ever downgraded hiw Wii, do NOT update from a game.

why??

If a Wii has been on 4.1, IOS50 will have been turned into a stub. The downgrade wont have removed the stub, so IOS50 will still be a stub (BTW, a stub is a useless IOS which Nintendo put there to save the spot, without an IOS actually being in it. It is completely unfunctional). System Menu 3.4, the most recent update included in a game uses IOS50 as the System Menu IOS. The IOS50 included in the 3.4 update has a lower version number than the one from 4.1/4.0, so it wont overwrite it. You'll be left with a 3.4 system with a stub IOS50, meaning the System Menu IOS is non-functional. That means the System Menu cant run, and you cant access recovery menu. The only way to fix it is BootMii as boot2 or a hardware NAND programmer.

If this client can still boot the Homebrew Channel and all else fails, you could do this:
1. Install BootMii/boot2 on the non-functioning Wii and get its NAND keys. I believe doing a NAND dump on the latest version of BootMii will give you them.
2. Find a functioning Wii that you could install BootMii/IOS or boot2 on.
3. Dump the functioning Wii's NAND with BootMii, and save its keys also.
4. Use Betwiin to re-encrypt the NAND dump with the non-functioning Wii's NAND keys.
5. Use BootMii on the non-functioning Wii to write the resulting NAND dump to it.

This should restore the non-functioning Wii to normal operation, but it's not the best way to do so, as you realize.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/14/2009 04:57AM by WikiFSX.