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my main problem is that I am not sure exactly what I have on my system. a friend soft modded my wii and I was at 3.2u. I had homebrew, gamma channel, and the regular wii channels (mii channel, weather, internet, etc.) when the 4.2 updated games came along. We couldn't play any of our new games because we needed an update but i was fearful of updating without him. He tried emailing me some updates to put on my sd card but somewhere along the way things got messed up. And to make matters worse now he won't return a call. So I am left to get this thing put back together.
if I list what I can tell are both on my wii and on my sd card you would be able tell me first if these things seem like they go together or if you see a red flag. I don't know exactly what a uloader is for and why i can only launch games thru the gamma channel if i go through the homebrew channel first. if i click the gamma channel icon that appears from the wii menu it will go black, but if i click the homebrew icon from the wii menu and then choose gamma channel i can use it to make my store bought games work (with the exception of guitar hero 5 and rockband instruments other than mic but thats for another day i figure)
my homebrew channel consists of:
cIOS 222 installer v4 - cIOS for uLoader
cIOS Installer - install cIOS
Dop-IOS MOD - Mod of Dop IOS
Neogamma - Play wii games (NeoGamma R8 beta 15, IOS249 (Rev 16)
Trucha Bug Restorer
/apps/cIOS38 Revision 16boot.dol
/apps/IOS61_shop_miiinstaller/boot.elf
/apps/Priiloaderboot.dol
/apps/Wad Manager/boot.dol
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When I click on the sd card while in the wii i get the screen asking if i want to load boot.dol/elf
if I click yes it shows me a screen indicatin this software must not be sold neither alone nor as part of a bundle.......etc.
press 1 to continue and then i get the hackmii installer v0.6
if I click no, i see "bannerbomb" in the first sd card menu (that is the only thing there)
i clicked on bannerbomb once but never pushed start after that (don't know if thats relavent)
I was told i have bootmii as boot2. when i turn on my computer with the sd card in it goes right to the dark gray screen with the 4 squares. (i was told that as long as i have that i am out of harms way, so now that i have to do this update and it will be gone until I put it back. ugh, just the thought of that. and then if you have the courage to even answer this post i will send another asking how exactly NAND back up works. Thanks for your trouble. you have no idea how greatful I am for this site.