By popular request —
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
73 responses so far ↓
1 jR // May 18, 2008 at 7:53 am
RE: burning slower did the trick. confirmed working. a BIG thanks to bushing!
2 ric@rdo // May 18, 2008 at 9:49 am
jR. What is your chip? Is D2C?
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4 Mikele // May 18, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Bushing what game have that update? I wanna update my wii to 3.2u. your release dont do a full update (i try) to 3.2u.
5 nerdyone255 // May 18, 2008 at 5:16 pm
worked like a charm. big upps to bushing and all the awesome stuff hes going. love the site, cant wait for homebrew channel.
you rock
6 e3xtreme // May 18, 2008 at 5:29 pm
is there any chance of making a disc, that starts when inserting, I have a full bricked wii and dont have the possibility to load the wad
nice work btw
7 ASSEMbler // May 19, 2008 at 4:07 am
Excellent
8 Santiago404 // May 19, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Got mine bricked with Mario Kart PAL (its a NTSC system)
Used Philips DVD-R media, burned on 4x speed using Nero 8.x.x and system cant recognize the disc.
My modchip is D2c pro
Tryed all ways to insert disc, after power was up, before loading disc channel, after loading disc channel, etc, and no success so far.
9 duantang // May 20, 2008 at 12:09 am
At first thank you for the disc
I’ve got a problem though:
I got my Wii from my cousin ( with modchip )
but i didn’t know which verion it was so I used the Ntsc-u disc… It was still semi bricked.
now i’ve got the ntsc-j disc but if i enter the disc into my wii, it says “unable to recognize disc”
So my question is: is there a way to re-update it again?
Thanks in advance
BUSHING
10 port21 // May 20, 2008 at 3:23 am
Wii w/ wiikey installed
got semi’d by mario kart wii.
Burnt this iso @6x on sony dvd-r media with imgburn and it worked flawlessly.
Thanks bushing! Excellent work my friend.
11 Andrew // May 20, 2008 at 6:57 am
Unfortunately burning on 2x speed doesn’t do anythin for me. Still “unable to read disc”. Frustrating.
12 Ron // May 20, 2008 at 10:20 am
it works! =)
13 will // May 20, 2008 at 11:09 am
I finally unbrick my wii, thanks so much!
14 duantang // May 20, 2008 at 2:36 pm
ok i’ve found out that my wii is a jap version one
For burning discs:
is it nessasary if you use dvd-r or dvd+r?
15 Zealot // May 31, 2008 at 11:02 am
Thank you so much for making this!!
16 Baron Davis // Jun 2, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Thanks so much
17 Sam // Jun 3, 2008 at 5:48 am
I’m having JAP console and my console is bricked since last 3 months, kindly get me a solution to this as well.
Thanks in advance,
Sam
18 iONiX // Jun 10, 2008 at 2:14 pm
thanks so much you saved me from waiting for another huge update
19 paul // Jun 15, 2008 at 11:29 am
I just got the Hulk disk and it is asking to update is there a file to download here for that update?
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