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How to Upgrade Wii Firmware With a Chip

The Nintendo Wii is capable of playing next generation video games which allow the player to become actively involved. There are also many other homebrew applications, including emulators such as Wii64, SnesX and WiiSx. You can also use media players such as Media Player CE to watch videos, listen to music, view pictures, share the Internet and even stream data back and forth over a network using your computer and your Wii. If you have a modchip installed in your Nintendo Wii, updating the firmware menu version will tell Nintendo that you have a chipped Wii and your homebrew files and applications will be deleted. This makes an offline firmware upgrade essential to update your menu version without data loss. Updating your Wii menu version also gives you added compatibility for many other homebrew applications.

Things You'll Need

SD card

Instructions

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  Insert an SD card into a SD slot on your computer. Format your SD card by going to "Start" > "My Computer" and right clicking on your SD card. Choose "Format." Format your SD card as FAT32 and press "OK" to format your SD card for use with your Nintendo Wii. Open the SD card and create an "Apps" folder. Navigate to Media Fire (see "Resources") and click on "Click here to start download" to save "Offline Downgrade Upgrade" to your computer.
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  Create a folder named "Offline Downgrade Upgrade" on your computer. Extract the contents of the Offline Downgrade Upgrade to your computer by double clicking the archive and pressing "CTRL+A" to select all the files within the archive. Open the Offline Downgrade Upgrade folder you created and press "CTRL+C" to extract the files into your folder. Look for the file "run.bat" and select it. Choose IOS version "249" to load. The files you chose will download. Open the folder created and select the contents of the "SD" folder. Move these contents to the "Apps" folder on your SD card. Move the rest of the files to the root of the SD card.
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  Navigate to HackMii (see "Resources") and click on "Download" to save the Homebrew Channel to your computer. Open the archive and extract the files onto the root of your SD card.
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  Insert the SD card into the front SD card slot on your Wii. Power on your Wii and go to "Settings" > "Memory" > "SD card" and choose the SD card icon. Choose "Homebrew Channel" and press "A" to install the Homebrew Channel to your Nintendo Wii. Once the installation is complete, the Homebrew Channel will load and your applications will also be loaded.
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  Select "CMDVDX35" and choose "Start" to load the application. Choose "Downgrade IOS35." If you receive an error message, close the message and exit.
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  Go back to the Homebrew Channel and select "Wad Manager." Choose "Start" to load the application. Select "IOS 35" and choose "install IOS35-64-v1040.wad" to install. Once the installation has completed, restart your Nintendo Wii.
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  Go to the Homebrew channel by selecting the channel and pressing "Start" to load. Launch "WAD-Manager_v1.4" and choose "IOS35." Search for a wad to install and choose "cios_fix.wad." Restart your Nintendo Wii. Go to the Homebrew channel and select the application "cIOS36_rev10-Installer." Select "WAD Installation." Go back to the Homebrew channel and select the "WAD-Manager." Install WADs 01-18. Choose to install your selection of the system menu. Go back to the Homebrew channel and select "preloaderv0.29-cred." Press "1" to install the preloader to your Nintendo Wii.
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  Press and hold down "Reset" while powering on the Wii to access the Preloader menu. Go into the "Hacks" menu and enable "Skip Disc Update Check" and "Enable Region Free." Save the settings and press "B" to return to the main menu of the Preloader. Select "System Menu" and press "A" to return to the Nintendo Wii menu.
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  Navigate to the Media Fire link labeled "Media Fire: IOS60 installer" (see "Resources") and click on "Click here to start download" to save IOS60 to your computer. Navigate to QJ.NET (see "Resources") and click on "Download" to save Firmware Updater 4.0 to your computer. Extract both files to your computer. Rename the "Firmware Updater_4.0.dol" to "boot.dol."
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  Eject the SD card from your Nintendo Wii and insert it into your computer. Copy the IOS60 installer and Firmware Updater 4.0 to your "Apps" folder on the SD card. Insert the SD card back into the Wii.
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  Select the "Firmware Updater_4.0" and install it by choosing "Start." Go back to the Homebrew Channel and select "IOS60 Installer." Select "NO" for "install IOS61," select "YES" for "install IOS60," select "YES" to patch "IOS60" and select "NO" for "Install shop channel."
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  Go back to the Homebrew Channel and select the "Preloader." Reinstall the Preloader program again. You have now successfully updated your Wii firmware with a mod chip.

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