HackMii

By popular request —

I’ve made a disc which will hopefully fix any NTSC Wii that got bricked by an imported Mario Kart game (or similar). It is an ISO with one partition — an update partition — and it contains three files:

• IOS30-64-v1040.wad
• SystemMenu-v289.wad
• __update.inf:

0000000: 3230 3038 2f30 342f 3238 0000 0000 0000  2008/04/28......
0000010: 0000 0002 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000020: 0000 0002 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0001  ................
0000030: 2f5f 7379 732f 494f 5333 302d 3634 2d76  /_sys/IOS30-64-v
0000040: 3130 3430 2e77 6164 0000 0000 0000 0000  1040.wad........
0000050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000070: 0000 0001 0000 001e 0410 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000080: 4649 524d 5741 5245 3330 2e34 2e31 3620  FIRMWARE30.4.16
0000090: 3634 4d00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  64M.............
00000a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000c0: 4649 524d 5741 5245 3330 2e34 2e31 3620  FIRMWARE30.4.16
00000d0: 3634 4d00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  64M.............
00000e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
*
0000220: 0000 0003 0000 0003 0000 0000 0000 0003  ................
0000230: 2f5f 7379 732f 5379 7374 656d 4d65 6e75  /_sys/SystemMenu
0000240: 2d76 3238 392e 7761 6400 0000 0000 0000  -v289.wad.......
0000250: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000260: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000270: 0000 0001 0000 0002 0121 0000 0000 0000  .........!......
0000280: 5359 5354 454d 204d 454e 5520 7665 7232  SYSTEM MENU ver2
0000290: 3839 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  89..............
00002a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00002b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00002c0: 5359 5354 454d 204d 454e 5520 7665 7232  SYSTEM MENU ver2
00002d0: 3839 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  89..............
00002e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................

System Menu v289 is the newest NTSC version of the system menu available on Nintendo’s download servers; it’s what you will get if you go into the Settings Menu and perform an update. I packed it into a WAD, and maintained the original, valid Nintendo signature, so it should be safe to install. (The disc, however, is fakesigned. This should not be a problem.)

I’m including IOS30 as well, just in case — it’s what this system menu uses. I would expect all systems out there to already have it installed, but hey.

Obligatory warning — I have tested this on 3 Wiis and it seemed to work fine, but I can’t make any promises that it won’t brick your Wii. It contains no safeguards; use this ONLY on an NTSC (US) Wii. If you use it on an NTSC/J or Pal Wii, it WILL BRICK you. (If there is a need, I can make similar discs for those systems.)

Good luck!
http://rapidshare.com/files/113063023/wii-ntsc-systemmenu-v289.rar.html

I really should be in bed by now, but this is just too frustrating to ignore.   People ask me all the time when I’m going to release software — a beta version of the Homebrew Channel, source code for the Twilight Hack, IOS37 patches, whatever — and I hate it.  Why?

This thread is embarrassing: http://www.console-scene.info/forums/wii-homebrew-discussion/1244-wii-miidia-v0-1-alpha.html

The only thing that dCiSo has done wrong is letting himself get badgered into naming a specific date.  Doing so always ends up in tears.   People, nobody here is getting paid to do this.  Some of us have paying jobs, or difficult classes, or other demands on our time.   If somebody is being generous enough to write software and give it to you for free, you have no right whatsoever to demand *anything*.   Not even if you were “promised” a release on a certain date. 

People have been coming on IRC all day and asking about this.  No, I haven’t actually seen this program.  Yes, I think it’s real, even not having seen it, because dCiSo has been talking with me about some of the networking issues he’s run into over the past month or so.  That, and I think he has better things to do than make up bullshit and post it.  No, you are not owed a video or more screenshots — these things take a lot of time and effort.  (All of the videos I’ve made have taken a couple of hours to prepare — and I only made them because I already had the right hardware, which is not something you should assume.)

How much of this doubt and cries of “hoax!” are people who genuinely doubt the existence of WiiMiidia, and how many are just people trying to manipulate dCiSo into a release to “prove” something?

I just wrote a quick little tool to obtain Parental Control password reset codes without having to call Nintendo. Bushing found the code inside the system menu, and I converted it into a PSP script (Python Server Pages) which you can use on-line. You’ll find it here

It should be of use for those who bought second-hand Wiis that were parental-locked.

Now back to Homebrew Channel coding 🙂