Guys I'm stuck at this screen
Wat do

>>11938830 (OP)
>11938830
i did the letter bomb one and it was all pretty automated desu, there is a reddit forum that helped a bunch


https://www.reddit.com/r/WiiHacks/

here is a guide

https://wii.hacks.guide/

>>11938870
I did the Internet connection one and now I'm stuck at this screen and afraid of shutting off the Wii for fear of bricking it. What am I supposed to do, it's been like this for about 20 mins

>>11938876
ahh oky thats the one thing i skipped. cause i had to set up a legacy wifi connection to actually hook it up to the internet and felt that was too much work. sorry about that friend. i actually dont know what to do. id say ask the same question on that reddit board too for more answers desu man. and then you got two sets of people giving you answers. there probably is something you can do without powering down and starting over

you bricked it
we warned you

>>11938891
Serious answers only, it's been like this for more than half an hour

It shouldn't have been hard to just follow the latest damn guide. Also clean your Wii up jeez

How old is your SD card? They eventually run out of write cycles, which can cause some bizarre problems.

Update: I shut off the Wii. Thankfully it isn't bricked (thank God) but for some reason the Homebrew channel is already installed but no sign of bootmii when I click on it

Ok I've been reading around and it seems that I fucked up by buying a 64 GB sd card. Everyone says I need a smaller one for the Wilbrand exploit (the letter isn't appearing)

Ok I've been reading around and it seems that I fucked up by buying a 64 GB sd card. Everyone says I need a smaller one for the Wilbrand exploit (the letter isn't appearing). Thankfully the console itself doesn't appear to be bricked, it's probably just a question of getting another, smaller sd card

How braindead do you have to be to not be able to hack your Wii. It's 2025, children figured this out in 2008, anon

>>11938936
It literally says it was writing bootmii to the SD card when it crashed, doesn't look like it had touched the system's internal memory yet. Or at least, wasn't writing to it when it crashed.

>>11939057
Yeah you need an old, regular SD, not an SDHC

>>11939049
There are three SD standards:
SD - Uses the FAT16 file system. The cards can go up to 2GB (This is also the max partition size of a FAT16 partition but that's coincindental)

SDHC - Starts out at 4GB. Uses the FAT32 file system. The cards can go up to 32GB (This is NOT the max partition size of FAT32, it's 2TB, though modern versions of Windows have prevented you from formatting any partition over 32GB in FAT32, though third party software can do it)

SDHX - Starts out at 64GB. Uses the exFat file system. The cards can go up to 2TB

The Wii originally only supported SD, an update eventually added SDHC, though due to the way the Wii works games released before this update will only support SD.... for the very very few that had SD card support (like Excitetruck)

You could try using a third party program to force-format your 64GB card to FAT32 and see if that works. Otherwise, yeah, would want to get a 32GB card (Ideally 2GB, but good luck finding those). Actually, in many places it will even be hard to find a 32GB card that's not some cheap possibly bootleg. Make sure to test any card you end up getting with something like H2testw to make sure it's not a fake. Last thing you need is a card that claims 32GB but only stores like 1GB and corrupts anything past that mark.

>>11939057
There are three SD standards:
SD - Uses the FAT16 file system. The cards can go up to 2GB (This is also the max partition size of a FAT16 partition but that's coincindental)

SDHC - Starts out at 4GB. Uses the FAT32 file system. The cards can go up to 32GB (This is NOT the max partition size of FAT32, it's 2TB, though modern versions of Windows have prevented you from formatting any partition over 32GB in FAT32, though third party software can do it)

SDXC - Starts out at 64GB. Uses the exFat file system. The cards can go up to 2TB

The Wii originally only supported SD, an update eventually added SDHC, though due to the way the Wii works games released before this update will only support SD.... for the very very few that had SD card support (like Excitetruck)

You could try using a third party program to force-format your 64GB card to FAT32 and see if that works. Otherwise, yeah, would want to get a 32GB card (Ideally 2GB, but good luck finding those). Actually, in many places it will even be hard to find a 32GB card that's not some cheap possibly bootleg. Make sure to test any card you end up getting with something like H2testw to make sure it's not a fake. Last thing you need is a card that claims 32GB but only stores like 1GB and corrupts anything past that mark.

>>11939057
You could try partitioning the SD card with a 1GB or smaller partition and formatting just that. MBR has 4 partition slots always, so there really shouldn't be any technical reason the wii would be confused by that.

DYOR faggot.
not retro

>>11938876
>I did the Internet connection one and now I'm stuck at this screen and afraid of shutting off the Wii for fear of bricking it
doubt it'll be bricked. it hasn't even got to the point of writing anything at all

>>11939067
>SDHC
one of many mistakes op has made. live and learn.

>>11939060
this is correct.

op is a faggot. confirmed and witnessed.

>>11939067
>Yeah you need an old, regular SD, not an SDHC
>>11940175
>>SDHC
>one of many mistakes op has made. live and learn.

If it's a 64GB card, then it's a SDXC card, not SDHC

This is the card I used, which apparently doesn't work for the Wilbrand exploit.
What brand and storage capacity SD card should I buy?

>>11939078
From the hack guide:
https://wii.hacks.guide/faq#storage-device-faq

>>11940573
I have the same card on my Wii

>>11940573
Did you format it to fat32? You can use wii backup manager to format large usb/sd to fat32

>>11940620
It's already formatted as fat32 (I use an USB adapter because my computer doesn't have an SD card reader)

>>11940771
The only thing I can think is that the difference between fat32 on mac and what you get on windows. You might need to repartition it for MBR instead of GUID

>>11940771
If it's still not working, try deleting the partitions and creating a 2GB FAT16 partition, leaving the rest of the card unpartitioned.

>>11941028
It doesn't let me partition the drive

>>11941052
Well, I know jack about software for macs, but isn't there any other 3rd party app you can use than what I assume is MacOS's built in app?

Good news guys!
I bought a 16GB SD card and it's working like a charm.
Just used the Wilbrand exploit (it actually worked) and backing up my NAND files currently

>>11941052
https://wiki.hacks.guide/wiki/Formatting_an_SD_card/Mac

>>11941273
Just don't freak out if you see a few bad blocks in the BootMii backup, that's normal.

>>11941273
>>11941597
Oh, also, make sure to check your card's integrity when you can.

Normally I suggest h2testw but I don't know if they have a Mac version, so try this:
https://wiki.hacks.guide/wiki/Checking_SD_card_integrity/Mac

To make sure that it's not a fake and actually corrupting all data past a certain point, last thing you would want is a corrupted backup or a corrupted hack being installed.