[remy]

Titles says it all, at this point it's not a great idea to update your Wii, even if you don't have home brew channel installed, it can get bricked.

The damage will presumably be permanent.

Just say no, members!

[Professor Gerkuman]

Well, it's pretty obvious that if the update bricks it, and you can prove that it was their fault, then you're quids in. XD

[remy]

Do you still seriously wanna take a gamble with fucking the Wii up though?

is there a warranty agreement someone that in a case of firmware fuck ups they'll fix your wii?

I'm far too late to be constructing coherent posts but until further notice, or until absolutely necessary I would avoid doing the update.

[JezMM]

Oops, too late for me. I've never really had many problems with my Wii before*... here's hoping.


*One thing I occasionally get is a stupidly long loading time and occasionally crash after launching a channel, but I've had that for years...

This post has been edited by JezMM: 30 September 2009 - 04:30 PM

[Chooch]

remz, on 30 September 2009 - 12:10 PM, said:

[E]ven if you don't have home brew channel installed, it can get bricked.

lolwut

I can understand Nintendo trying to kill homebrew, but if that's true then that's seriously messed up.

[SuperLink]

Wait 4.2 can brick even if you don't have Homebrew?

That's stupid :S Never heard of anything like that happening before.

[Indigo Rush]

I'd be concerned if I still actually owned a Wii. Eh, I'll warn my old roommate.

[ShadiWulf]

Kudos to Nintendo, can't do no wrong.

This is part of their plan.

Bricking the Wii's of casual idiots, then tell them they don't repair bricked Wii's. Stupid casuals will go buy another Wii with their copy of Wii Fit Plus

Wii sales will rise through the roof.

[Mahzes]

Hopefully they'll release a fix soon that will hopefully be homebrew-safe. Here's hoping the backlash from this botched update is so bad that they just outright undo it.

In any case, as I said in the homebrew topic, here's hoping a workaround is made soon that'll let me keep my region-free video player-ness.

This post has been edited by Mahzes: 30 September 2009 - 05:17 PM

[ShadiWulf]

You can't fix bricked systems =P

[JezMM]

Hmm, after researching it seems most problems come from a freeze at 50% half way through updating, forcing you to perform a hard reset, with problems appearing upon rebooting your system (often relating to data management screens, starting a channel, or even switching it on for the same time. Considering my update went fine (slow, but fine), I'm guessing I'm safe.



On a side note, I hate how people seem to mock Nintendo every time they fail to block the homebrew channel permanently. =\

[Mahzes]

I mean a fixed update, not a fix for the consoles they've already bricked.

In any case, that'll teach Nintendo to try and kill homebrew. ;P I mean yeah, I can understand why they'd want to stop people using it for piracy, but it has so many legitimate uses, too. =/

[SuperLink]

It sounds like a few workarounds have already been thought of and are being worked on right now.

It should be noted that very few Wiis have been reportedly bricked by this, infact I haven't actually read about anyone saying their own Wii has been bricked, just "I heard this could brick Wiis". Although there is really very little reason to update anyway from the sounds of things.

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Kudos to Nintendo, can't do no wrong.

Yes they can, didn't you see the thread title? Gawd you love Nintendo a bit too much.

This post has been edited by SuperLink: 30 September 2009 - 05:22 PM

[ShadiWulf]

did some researching and found this

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bushing at HackMii, guardians of all things homebrew, explains the problem for the technically inclined (boot2 is part of the Wii's startup process):

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Their boot2-updating code (ES_ImportBoot) is not well-tested; they’ve never updated boot2 on retail consoles before, and in our testing we discovered that it often fails to write out ECC data for the new version of boot2 that it writes. We should expect to see some number of bricked Wiis from this; the code is so buggy that we decided to write our own for the HackMii installer.

http://www.n-sider.c...?contentid=3950

[JezMM]

Mahzes, on 30 September 2009 - 06:22 PM, said:

but it has so many legitimate uses, too. =/

Until they remove the illegal ones, homebrew will gain no respect from me at all.

[Indigo Rush]

So the Wii finally has it's Red Ring of Death.

Hey Nintendo: Get me a REAL Nintendo Revolution. :U

[SuperLink]

JezMM, on 30 September 2009 - 07:24 PM, said:

Until they remove the illegal ones, homebrew will gain no respect from me at all.

Removing piracy is near impossible. Sony are having problems with it too.

It's perfectly ignorable though, I haven't touched a single piracy related Homebrew app, and I have quite a few things on the ol' HBC.

"When you update it... your Wii will shit brix"

EDIT: Bit of a dick move from Nintendo to not properly test their new boot files :/ Why attack the HB full on all of a sudden I wonder?

This post has been edited by SuperLink: 30 September 2009 - 05:32 PM

[JezMM]

Ah right, so am I right in understanding that homebrew started off innocent, and then certain groups made the illegal apps? If so that's fair enough I guess. But I still side with Nintendo ultimately. Their decision makes complete sense.

This post has been edited by JezMM: 30 September 2009 - 05:34 PM

[SuperLink]

JezMM, on 30 September 2009 - 07:34 PM, said:

Ah right, so am I right in understanding that homebrew started off innocent, and then certain groups made the illegal apps? If so that's fair enough I guess. But I still side with Nintendo ultimately. Their decision makes complete sense.

Most people use Homebrew for things like running DVDs (should have been included from the start) or playing import games (Wii is the only system of the gen that is completely region locked)

So really it's just taking back what the Wii has "locked" for stupid reasons.

Just because emulators are available on the internet doesn't mean I shouldn't use any custom internet browsers.
Just because emulators are available through Homebrew doesn't make the two synonymous in any way shape or form.

The creators of the HBC and initial hacks have always said they do not endorse or support the use of emulators on their channel.

This post has been edited by SuperLink: 30 September 2009 - 05:39 PM

[Slash]

Maybe if Nintendo would just release the games and stuff people wanted, nobody would resort to homebrew or piracy now would they?

Anyway, I updated my Wii earlier without knowing this before hand. Seems to run fine, but the update was slow.

Anyway, I'd better get myself a homebrew app for the Gamecube. I just want something for SNES emulation since Nintendo don't seem to be wanting to release Final Fantasy VI or TMNT Turtles in Time anytime soon.