NTSC Semi-brick fix disc

[wraggster]

Bushing has released what could be the rescue release for any NTSC owners who have semi bricked their Wiis:


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 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 fakesigned. 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!
http://rapidshare.com/files/113063023/wii-ntsc-systemmenu-v289.rar.html

Read Properly the article above before doing anything

http://hackmii.com/2008/05/ntsc-semi-brick-fix/

[mcdougall57]

nice, but its a PAL version i need

[____anders____]

nice, but its a PAL version i need

i saw this one on hackmii.com:

http://hackmii.com/2008/05/semi-brick-fix-discs/

[mcdougall57]

Thanks :thumbup:

[urherenow]

is a wii key required for this?

[____anders____]

is a wii key required for this?

yeah, a modchip is required as this is and a wii iso with only the update partition inside, it will "update" your wii and fix the semibrick.

@mcdougall57
you're welcome;)
did it work for you?

[mcdougall57]

@mcdougall57
you're welcome;)
did it work for you?

yeah like a charm

[____anders____]

ok, good to know if i just happen to semibrick my PAL wii, but that's pretty unlikley though..