Softmod Wii 4.2u HELP! O_O

poopingcorn · 10-11-09 at 04:54 PM

I have a Wii firmware version 4.2u and the serial number starts with LU10. I'm really scared that I might brick my wii because I will screw up during the softmodding process. I've searched it on google but i've had so much conflicting information such as "dont downgrade" and "do downgrade". I really want to be able to play wii and gamecube backups and homebrew games. If anyone could tell my step by step instructions on the safest way to softmod my 4.2u firmware wii. ( I have never tried to mod it before )
Thanks in advance

mk97000 · 10-11-09 at 05:09 PM

Ok first of all my friend....the thing that causes your wii to brick is if you have less than 50 blocks free...this is what bricks it! Go here:

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http://www.mikeandheth.com
 or 
http://wiihacks.com

go to mikeandheth`s page and they give you step by step. If this dont help then next best thing is youtube and type in search how to softmod 4.2u. I have seen that its on there. Good Luck

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poopingcorn · 10-11-09 at 05:18 PM

Thank you for the information. I hope this works.

bigstump · 10-12-09 at 03:17 AM

First off, I am not responsible for anything that may result in system failure or Bricks to your Wii. Use at your own risk!!!! But this is what I did step by step

1st we need to get the Homebrew Channel and a few other things Installed. Just Download This, unrar and place the private folder and the boot.elf file to the root of your empty sd card formatted to FAT32

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http://www.4shared.com/file/140287606/4a55b15d/1st_Homebrew_Chan.html

Then go to your wii, and place the card in the SD slot and navigate to the SD card icon,in the bottom left and press A, a warning screen about scams should appear for a few Seconds, press ok,"If not goto Wii,data management,channels and click sd on the top of your screen". The screen will go black. A disclaimer shall appear, press one to continue. Now three lines should appear: Homebrew channel, which can be installed, DVDx, also can be installed, and Bootmii. Install the Homebrew Channel First, then DVDX, then bootmii, When you select bootmii select prepare Sd 1st, after its done move up to install BootMii as IOS and press A, let it finish then exit you should now have the homebrew channel on your Wii system menu, and DVDx and BootMii installed as an IOS.

Now to get rid of the evil ios249, download this

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http://www.4shared.com/file/140287685/1b856aef/2nd_Uninstall_stub_ios36_inc.html

If you get errors with the above link use this One

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http://www.4shared.com/file/141232574/f253278/To_Remove_IOS36.html

Place the contents of this folder to the root of you SD card (only these contents should be in the SD root,everything else that you want to keep must be backed up to your PC) Now take the Sd and place it back in the Wii start HBC and press home at the main Homebrew Channel screen, Select bootmii and wait. Wadmanager should start. When it does move up to and press left until you see ios36 then Select SD card and press A to continue, after this Select ios249 from wad folder and press A and change the action to "uninstall wad", and press A. Take a deep breath, you are almost done.

Now the installation of cios249rev14 download this

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http://www.4shared.com/file/140287891/f6db2bd/3rd_Install_cios249_ios36_inc.html

Place the contents once more to the root of you empty SD and then take it to your Wii Place the SD card in the wii, start HBC and press home at the main HBC screen and select BootMii and wait. At the beginning you should see ios249 highlighted. Keep pressing left on the wii pad until you see "Do not reload IOS" at the ios select screen, press A. If you have internet connection, select "Network install",If not select "SD card"and Press A. and Proceed with the installation.You should now have ios249rev14 installed, which will allow you to run any Backup loader or USB laoder!

Now to get your backup loaders installed, and this will be the last Step,just download this

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http://www.4shared.com/file/140288433/4af5d229/4th_Backup_Loaders.html

Place both the apps and the wad folder to the root of your empty sd card and then to the Wii we go for the last time, Place the SD in wii and boot up, open the Homebrew channel and choose WADManagerv1.4, once loaded choose NeoGammaR7.wad "FOR DVD BACKUPS"and follow directions on screen to install. For Usbloading choose USB_Loader_GX-UNLR-r688.wad "For USB HARDRIVE LOADING" and follow on screen instructions to install.

You are now softmodded and ready to play backups on your 4.2u Wii. Hope it helps

elite_soldier · 10-14-09 at 12:05 AM

i followed your steps but when I get to the steps for loading NeoGammar7.wad and USB_Loader_GX-UNRL-r688.wad both of those have a bar progress across fast and then the screen goes black and stays black... am I doing something wrong?

bigstump · 10-14-09 at 03:54 AM

Ok, so I assume you have the homebrew channel installed right? if so place a backup copy of any wii game in the wii drive and open the homebrew channel with the files from the last step on your sd and scroll down to neogamma and press A, and try it that way. If this does not work then steps 2 or 3 were not finished completely. What did it say on the screen when you installed cios249rev14 in step 3?

xark80 · 10-15-09 at 10:32 AM

Hi I've been trying to use your system and had the same problem with the black screen. I retraced my steps and in step 2 the following appeared which I doubt is correct:

[+] Uninstalling WAD, Please wait ...
>> Deleting Tickets ... ERROR! (ret = - 1017)
>> Deleting title contents... ERROR! (ret = - 1017)
>> Deleting title... ERROR! (ret = - 1017)

Then it asks me to press any button to continue.

In Step 3 I get an error

[+] Installing Custom IOS, Please wait...
>> Install ERROR! (ret = - 2011)

What do you think the problem might be?

Thanks.

bigstump · 10-15-09 at 10:39 PM

For everyone having trouble with step two,"Now to get rid of the evil ios249" download this link and follow the same steps but with these file on the root of you sd. Once done step three will work also

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http://www.4shared.com/file/141232574/f253278/To_Remove_IOS36.html

hondaman916 · 10-16-09 at 04:11 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by bigstump

For everyone having trouble with step two,"Now to get rid of the evil ios249" download this link and follow the same steps but with these file on the root of you sd. Once done step three will work also

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http://www.4shared.com/file/141232574/f253278/To_Remove_IOS36.html

Hi, im new here but i try this remove the iso36 and same error. Can you help with the step and what am i doing wrong? thanks

xark80 · 10-19-09 at 07:32 AM

Hey Bigstump,

Excellent work... wii is working like a dream.

Many Thanks for all your help.

wiimh · 10-23-09 at 01:54 PM

to the rest of the participants, is every thing work's fine with you, as I have wii with 4.2U and I''m curious to start the downgrade back to have my kid's poor wii play again backups.
thanks

theshdw8 · 10-23-09 at 03:53 PM

Give this a try

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http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=171901

azid · 10-26-09 at 06:17 AM

hello thanks for the "great" guide its helped me to get everything installed but everytime i go and load a backup game the drive clicks a few times goes black for a moment and clicks a few more times when the neogamma loader pops up and then we wait i click play game from dvd and i get a timeout error. i have used the same backup game on my other wii and no problems. is their some configurations i should use or what do you think im doing worng. Im using memorex drd-r so i dont think the media is the problem but i could be wrong... after all i am writing a reply in this thread so i am the noob lol...

vgjunky · 10-27-09 at 05:48 AM

bigstump, I must say that your post was freaking fantastic. I registered on the forum just to see the links and after literally 7 hours of fiddling with various wads managers, cios files, etc, all it took to solve my problems was a few minutes and a comprehensive set of instructions along with 4-5 premade batches of files. I was even running into the extra ios uninstall errors and the additional link you posted managed to get through those, too.

Now everything works flawlessly. A+