HackMii

Yay, finally another release!

Version 0.2 of our installer (the BootMii beta2 release) is almost 3 month old, and we finally got around to push out some fixes.

We hoped to have some nice additions for HBC done for this release, but unfortunately those are not yet ready for prime time. We didn’t want to delay some fixes to the installer and BootMii any further, so we hope you enjoy this one – even if HBC remains unchanged compared to BootMii beta 2.

HackMii installer (v0.3):

• Saner selection of IOSs for the installer itself and the installed HBC
• BootMii will now install on Wiis with bad blocks in the boot2 area
• Fixed some hangs when rebooting Starlet

BootMii beta 3 (v1.0):

• Improved the SD card compability
• Increased the backup/restore speed for some SD cards, but decreased it for others 😛
• Fix GPIO input for all Wiis
• Wavebird support
• Fixed a silly bug where NAND backups were left as 0 byte files
• Keys are now saved to SD as /bootmii/keys.bin too

Grab the new installer here.

As always: Please link to this post instead of mirroring the binary, thanks and stay tuned.

Enjoy.

I’ll keep this short and brief. A full week of hacking is finally giving us some fruitful results!

Enjoy this small tiizer video, and stay alert for what’s yet to come! 🙂

Credits:
blasty – hacking / code
svpe – golden tip
segher – continuous bitching
John_K & Bushing – HW & Camera work

I’m working on another post about the history of hardware revisions on the Wii, but am having trouble collecting the data that I need.

I’ll give more info about all of this in my next post, but in brief — I have only ever seen three PCB revisions on the Wii:

C/RVL-CPU-01 vs C/RVL-CPU-30:

C/RVL-CPU-20:

From C/RVL-CPU-20

The PCB revision ID is found in the lower-right of the PCB, below the “Nintendo” logo. I would be interested in any photos people can give me of the PCBs of their Wii, particularly if

1. The heatsink is removed, and all of the writing on the two large chips (Hollywood and Broadway) is readable
2. The Wii was purchased in 2009 and/or is “unsoftmoddable” / “LU64+” / has boot2v4

Any more details you can provide along with the picture would be appreciated — specifically, console ID, boot1 and boot2 versions, approximate date of purchase, serial number printed on outside of Wii.  I won’t publish this info individually, but I’m trying to show how the progression over time matches up with the software changes in my previous post.

You can either post the info and photo links here as comments, or email them to me at bushing at gmail.

Thanks!