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NTSC Semi-brick fix disc

May 17th, 2008 · 73 Comments

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 […]

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Anatomy of a Mario-Kart Brick, pt 2

May 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Work with the Homebrew Channel has taken more time than I’d hoped — but I don’t want to lose momentum, so let’s press forward here, too. In a comment in my previous post, Galtor correctly picked up the path I was planning to go down, based on the files I linked to at the end. […]

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Autopsy of a Mario-Kart brick (part 1)

May 8th, 2008 · 61 Comments

I have a “bitch” Wii — a Wii that I use specifically for testing out NAND flash hacks.  I bought it on eBay, and it came with a broken drive — not a modchip disaster, but an actual launch-day Wii with an expired warranty.  It had never been connected to the network, and had only […]

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