Semi-Bricked Wii Fix

If you semi-bricked your Wii by performing the update on an imported Mario Kart disc (or similar game) that did not match your Wii’s region, and was wondering what you were going to do with your gimped Wii, you’re in luck. These ISOs are fix disc images that contain the latest update from Nintendo’s server for each Wii region, namely NTSU-J (Japan), NTSC-U (USA), and PAL (Europe). To restore your Wii back to its former glory:

1. Download the correct rar file for your Wii region.
   • For Japanese NTSC-J Wiis, use the v288 update
   • For USA NTSC-U Wiis, use the v289 update
   • For European PAL Wiis, use the v290 update
2. Extract the ISO from the rar file.
3. Burn the ISO to a DVD.
4. Insert the burned DVD into your Wii.
5. Allow the disc to run the update and your Wii firmware will be updated to the latest. This means inserting Mario Kart Wii again will not prompt you for an update.

These ISOs have been tested to work on all regions but make absolutely certain you are downloading the right update for your Wii otherwise you could fully brick it. Hopefully this will bring your Wii back from the brink.
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NTSC Semi-brick fix disc

posted from hackmii.comI’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 fake signed. 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!