A faithful HackMii reader spent some time with AnyTitle Deleter and tried to clean everything odd off his Wii, and used the HackMii Installer to uninstall the HBC and BootMii/boot2. He then sent his Wii into Nintendo (of America) to try to get them to repair a noisy drive; the warranty had expired, and he just wanted to pay them to repair the drive.

After they received the Wii, they wrote him back and said that because he had unauthorized software installed (something they could not fix themselves — but more on this later), it would cost $200 for them to do any repair. He had them just send him back the Wii, and then reinstalled BootMii/boot2 and dumped the NAND and sent it to us to figure out what he had missed and anything else we could gain from the image.

I have a few theories as to what they detected, based on what things he did not manage to delete — and for a while, that’s all we had to go on, and it wasn’t going to make for a very interesting article. However, several hours with 0xED and grep and xxd paid off, and I found some traces of the disc they ran to detect “Illegal software”. Unfortunately, I was only able to find part of the data section of the main DOL of the disc, and not the code, so I don’t have actual screenshots to share — you’ll have to use your imagination this time. (If anyone has sent a Wii in to Nintendo for repair in the past few months, and received the same Wii back — no refurbs! — I’d love to see a NAND dump, especially if you took one right after you received it back. I may be able to reconstruct the rest of the disc.)

Here is the raw output of ’strings’ on the relevant part of the data section:

************************************************** *****
Check Disk for Pre-Repair Process
Disc TitleId : 0x%08x(Hi) 0x%08x(Lo)
Num of Checking : %d
This running is "First Running".
Start Region Address : 0x%08x
End Region Address : 0x%08x
main.cpp
*** EndSaveRegionAddr has been over rang ***
This running is "Restarted running".
Using language is Japanese.
Using language is English.
NRChecker is not inserted at SI port %d.
Waiting ejecting disk.
InitSD is failed.
Error. Line=%d
Start Checking Process.
Restart Disc...
Reset...
Shutdown...
End of Application
Unknown
Item %d : Load data from 0x%08x
Item %d : Save data to 0x%08x
Deleting the save data of SetPersonalData.wad...
Deleting the save data of DigicamPrintChannel...
/title/%08x/%08x/data/nocopy
NANDPrivateDelete : delete %s : %d
/title/%08x/%08x/data
/title/%08x/%08x/data/banner.bin
Searching unauthorized rewritten savedata...
/title/%08x/%08x/data/%s
zeldaTp.dat
/title/%08x/%08x/data
Checking %s
NANDOpen : %s(%d)
CheckSavedataZD : return false. This save data is unauthorized rewittern data.
Searching unauthorized title...
Unauthorized title num with checking ticket: %d
Unauthorized title num with checking TMD: %d
*** SearchUnauthCh_CheckTickets ***
Found ticket file num is %d
Result code of checking 0x%016llx is %d
*** SearchUnauthCh_CheckTMDs ***
Number of Home Directory is %d,
[%03d]Getting information about title id "0x%016llx"
- Title Name : %s
- TitleID : 0x%016llx
- Type : %d
- Visible : %d
- Status : %d
AnalyzeTitle : OSGetTitleStatus failed(%d).
/title/%08x/%08x/content/%08x.app
Pre-repair Check Disk ver%s
Pre-repair Check Disk ver%s - Detail
Pre-repair Check Disk ver%s - Delete
Pre-repair Check Disk ver%s - Launch Mode
Pre-repair Check Disk ver%s - Output File
------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
Serial Number: %s
Waiting to Start
Processing
Complete
%d.??? >%s
%d.Altered Save Data Detection >%s
%d.Illegal Channel(s) Detection >%s
%d.Use of Copy Disk Detection >%s
Checking the following item(s)...(%d/%d)
Check is complete.
Press A Button to display detail screen.
Delete All Altered Save Data and Illegal Channel(s)/Firmware?
Detected %d pieces of data
No Data
Detected illegal channel(s) >
Press A Button to restart.
Automatic restart begins after %d seconds.
%2d/%2d [Title ID/Name]
%s%2d 0x%016llx(%s)
"%s"
[Type] [Visible] [Status]
%s %s %s %s
Detected %d title(s)
Press Button B to return to previous screen.
Deleting data...
Altered Save Data Deletion >%s
Illegal Channel/Firmware Deletion >%s
If you want to launch Wii illegal channel,
Select the channel and push A button.
Launch the following title?
Title ID: 0x%016llx(%s)
Title Name: "%s"
ID: 0x%016llx(%s)
Push DOWN Button to display next page.
<>
<>
<>
<>
Serial Number
Device Id
Wii Menu
Wireless MAC
Bluetooth MAC
BT MAC
WC24 Count
WC24 Stage
WC24
Shopping
Not Used
(No File)
(Initial)
(Generated)
(Registered)
(Unknown)
%d. %s
(DiscNum. %d GameVer. %d)
%d. %s
(DiscNum. %d GameVer. %d)
%d. TitleName: %s
DiscNum: %d GameVer: %d
Error: 0x%08x(%d)
DateTime: 0x%08x(%d)
Status: 0x%08x(%d)
Control: 0x%08x(%d)
NextOffset: 0x%08x(%d)
%d. TitleName:%s
DiscNum:%d GameVer:%d
Error:0x%08x(%d)
DateTime:0x%08x(%d)
Status:0x%08x(%d)
Control:0x%08x(%d)
NextOffset:0x%08x(%d)
%d DVD error record(s) has been logged.
Output the DVD error logs to SD card?
Output the meta-data of illegal channel(s)?
Insert SD card.
[%s] %s
(Deleted)
UNKNOWN
INSTALLED
NOEXISTS
DELETED
SAVEONLY
NORIGHTS
PARTIAL
FATAL
File does not exist.
File was deleted.
Error occurred during processing(%d:%d)