Wii - How to SoftMod, Guide.

By top50
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posted on Aug 28, 2009

This post will explain How to SoftMod Nintendo Wii on any firmware, Region and make its Homebrew enabler for play Wii games, backup, Homebrew applications on your wii, And all without needing a wii modchip!

Requirements: A SD card, (1GB should be enough for Installer and Backup), formatted to FAT32. Some SD card is not compatible to be used to backup the wii nand, but its work for use as boot2 of bootmii, so you might be need 2 different memory, for installation and nand backup.

Download: All files can be found **Here..!
*SD Card Pack
*cIOS38_rev14-Installer
*IOS60 Patched.
*Trucha Bug Restorer
*WAD Manager v1.4
*AnyRegion_Changer_v1_1b
*AnyTitleDeleterDB

*Backup Launcher WBKL
*Firmware Updater v4.1 -299Kb. (Need Wi-Fi connections).
*preloader v0.29 -214Kb. (OPTIONAL).
Installation Procedure:Adding Files.

Extract ‘SD Card Pack’ and copy all contents to the root of SD Card, and copy a second of ‘IOS38-64-v3610.wad’ to ‘wad’ folder - ‘SD:/wad/’.
Extract ‘cIOS38 rev14 Installer’, ‘Trucha Bug Restorer’, ‘WAD Manager’, ‘Any Region Changer’, and ‘Any Title Deleter’, into ‘apps’ folder - ‘SD:/apps/’.
Extract ‘IOS60 Patched’ and ‘Backup Launcher WBKL’ into ‘wad’ folder - ‘SD:/wad/’
Preloader is also an optional install, if you don't want it just skip.. Extract ‘Preloader’ into ‘apps’ folder. ‘SD:/apps/’.
Extract ‘Firmware Updater v4.1’ into ‘apps’ folder. ‘SD:/apps/’. This updater require wi-fi connection, If you want to use offline updater, you will need wad updater (*.wad) and put its into ‘wad’ folder. IMPORTANT!! Make sure you have select the right one for your region..! E=Europe, J=Japan, U=USA, if you use a firmware from a different region, it will BRICK your Wii.!

Install BootMii & Homevrew Channel.Homevrew Channel is a channel on your wii menu that will allow you to put applications (homebrew) on your sd card and put them on your wii, this may include emulators, games, and installers.

Insert the SD card into Wii. then, Go to ‘Wii Options’ > ‘Data Management’ > ‘Channels’ > ‘SD Card’, then you will get a message saying ‘Load boot.elf?’, select ‘Yes’ and the Hackmii installer will run.

Press ‘A’ to continue, Install the ‘Homebrew Channel’ (HBC), and follow the on screen instructions. When done, the HBC will appear on wii channel.. Now go back and install ‘Bootmii’ as ‘boot2’ (recommended), if you can't install it, try different SD card. When it done, reboot your wii with it SD card, and wii will load into BootMii menu..

Backup Wii NandMaking a NAND Backup with Bootmii is highly recommended, it will recover your Wii from bricks. make sure there is at least 530MB free on SD Card.

Boot Wii into BootMii menu, if bootmii is installed as an IOS, go to the Homebrew Channel, press ‘home’ on your Wiimote then select ‘Launch Bootmii’.

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