Hello, just joined WiiBrew for the sole purpose of asking for help on this matter. So please excuse me if this isn't in the EXACT right board for this or whatever.
I modded my Wii back when Twilight Hack was viable for the sole purpose of playing imports (TvC and Happy Dance Collection). So yeah, Homebrew Channel installed which I use to run GeckoOS. That's about it. I'm also hyper paranoid.
So yes, flash memory unaltered, no bootmii or bannerbomb or anything like that.
Well now there's some delicious WiiWare I want to buy but we have a sketchy update from Nintendo that can potentially brick your system, modded or not and if it does? You're screwed. With quite a bit of legit downloads on it, I'd rather not risk bricking the thing and I'm hearing rumors that if it gets bricked at all, Nintendo just claims you modded it even if you didn't (with other rumors saying there's no way for them to detect a soft mod and will fix it regardless).
Worse yet, there are no stable connections anywhere near me (my connection is terrible and a friend's has alot of wi-fi interference and I am not buying a LAN Adapter just to use it once at a friend's house).
So clearly I need to update and I wanna know what the best means of doing this is. Can I just use the NSMBWii disc-based update or does that only update the boot2 and not the system menu? If I did do that update and then got the rest of the update online, would that make it safer? Has Nintendo fixed this bug yet? Anyone have experiences getting their Wiis fixed through Nintendo?
I'd also rather not mess around with anything that could further complicate future updates, like bootmii or anything that alters the flash memory. It seems like that kind of stuff carries just as much risk or close to it.
I'm probably worrying too much, but I *AM* paranoid and wanted to ask what you all thought was the best course of action. I'm running System Menu 4.1, latest Homebrew Channel update, channel added through Twilight Hack. No bootmii, no flash memory alterations, no stable internet connection.
Thanks for reading all my paranoid ramblings. Any advice?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/2010 06:30AM by GeltonZ.