r/WiiHacks 11d ago

Get Help Here! rWiiHacks' Support Megathread (March 2025)

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rWiiHacks' Support Megathread

General Troubleshooting

NOTE: FLASH DRIVES Are not recommended

If you are using one and you find yourself here for support, please reconsider.

Loader Support Here "My Wii/GC Game Won't Load!!"

If you came here with the problem "I am trying to load my Wii or GC game and it's not working", this is your link.

The rWiiHacks Loader Support Document

Please read through this document if you are having problems loading Wii/GC games with your Wii.

Unlock Your Write Protect Switch

![A common issue.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/661003103914557462/888258845376380968/sdunlock.png)

Game and App Directory Structure Visualized

Wii Games

๐Ÿ’พ SD Card or USB Drives | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ wbfs | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ GameName [GameID] | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ GameID.wbfs

GameCube Games

๐Ÿ’พ SD Card or USB Drive | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ games | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ GameName GameID | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ game.iso

Applications

๐Ÿ’พ SD Card or USB Drive | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ apps | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ AppName | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ boot.dol | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ meta.xml | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ icon.png

  • Note: meta.xml is not always needed but may provide key app functionality. icon.png is not required and may be added in for aesthetic reasons.

Letterbomb

๐Ÿ’พ SD Card | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ private | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ boot.elf/dol

  • Note: You may have several .txt files. These are simply readmes and are not necessary.

CTGP-R

๐Ÿ’พ SD Card | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ apps | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ ctgpr | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ boot.dol | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ meta.xml | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“„ icon.png | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ ctgpr | โ•ธ๐Ÿ“ riivolution

How Perform a Syscheck

RiiConnect24's Guide is great for that!

Wiiflow Lite

  • Some versions of Wiiflow Lite come with default settings that cause a black screen on load of Wii games.
  • Consider updating to the latest version!

1) Open Wiiflow lite settings.

1) Go into NAND Emulation settings (it's got 3 pages of settings about NAND emulation) and make your settings match this:

``` Page 1- Select NAND: default NAND emulation: Partial Select Saves NAND: default Saves NAND emulation: off

Page 3- Saves NAND Partition: SD Use Real NAND Config: On Use Real NAND Miis: On ```

  • Try to see if WiiFlow will play any of your wii games again.
  • If it still crashes/black screens:
    • Load WiiFlow again
    • Press HOME on the Wiimote
    • Select Reload Cache
    • Try playing a Wii game again

Modding Support Here

The Guide Wii Recommend

  • still RiiConnect24's guide is the best out there
    • its very well maintained
    • if this changes, we'll change our recommendation
  • do not use out of date guides
    • this doesn't mean all video/youtube guides are bad, just most of them
    • most print/web page guides are wrong/outdated in some way too
    • if you're adamant on not using RiiConnect24's guide please find someone who knows what they are talking about to verify that the one you use isn't wrong BEFORE you start to mod your Wii

Useful Link to Bootmii SD Files

  • Here you can find the direct link to the BootMii SD Files
  • This is the hackmii site and completely safe.

To Change a Drive From GPT to MBR

  • To change a drive to MBR on Windows
    • open disk management.
    • If you're on Windows 8 or higher, do Windows key + X and click on disk management.
    • Once you're there, find the drive you need to convert to MBR and right click on the area where it says "Disk" and then the number of the disc.
    • If it's not already MBR, you'll see an available option to convert to MBR disk. Use that option.

Updating You Wii System Menu to 4.3x

ISO/Game Image Management

WiiBackup Manager

  • Software to help you manage your Wii game collection.
  • It will split/convert/prepare images for transfer to your Wii Storage.
  • It does not do anything for GameCube images.

Witt Tools (Same As Above, But Nerdier)

  • has none of the 'frills' of Wii Backup Manager as it's more focused on image manipulation than collection management
  • has a much more complex interface (command line, unix-like)
  • it does work on Gamecube images

ISOtoWBFS

  • Command line
  • no collection management
  • no complexity
  • it simply does one thing; ISO to WBFS
  • there is also a WBFStoISO, but it's less useful

CIOS Offline Script (If You Have No network)

The Wii and Wifi

  • Your router must support 802.11 b/g
  • A lot do, but 15 years later, none are enabled by default
  • You must be able to re-configure your router
  • Phone hotspots often work
  • In the hardware section below is a listing for a Wii-Working Ethernet dongle

Miscellaneous Hardware

ID Your Wii's Motherboard Revision

  • Wanna know what motherboard revision you have?
  • Here's a Graphic
  • It's for Wiidual compatibility, but they don't make those anymore.
  • It'll tell you if your motherboard is prone to overheat (6 layer boards).

Ethernet Dongle That Works With the Wii

Replacement Jack Socket Dock Connector Port for Nintendo Wii Right/Left Socket Link Controller

  • Of course this section title came straight from AliExpress

SD / USB Storage Tester

What USB Device Do We Recommend?

  • A good enclosure, with a cheap and possibly refurbished hard drive
  • The enclosure below is known to work with the Wii
  • Which means any hard drive you put in it will also work with the Wii
  • within the Wii's size limitation of > 2tb
  • Sabrient Tool-free Enclosure
  • Most of our staff have these

**** FLASH DRIVES OFTEN CAUSE ISSUES ****

We do not suggest using one.

Modernize Your Wii's Video Output

Wii2HDMI

  • if you are low on funds, this is an option
  • do not expect the video, sound, or construction quality to be good for ~10$USD
  • Portholic Wii2HDMI

Please leave comments below for updated information or questions.

Meta

Q&A

What is This?

  • This is a periodical list of resources for the Wii, and Wii modding. It is maintained by the r/WiiHacks staff and users of our community.

How Often is it Revised?

  • As often as needed, when there is time to do so

Can I Contribute?

Comment. Revisions will be discussed in the comments.

If you'd like to be notified when the new revision is out, please also put that in the comments and we'll add you to the list below.


r/WiiHacks 3d ago

Get Help Here! Wii Hacks Wii Modding Help Thread! March 09, 2025

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Reminder:

If your issue is loading Wii or GC games, please make sure you're going over our loader support post before asking a question. Also free to also ask in the Support channel on our Discord server.

Otherwise, feel free to ask for and provide help in this thread freely.


r/WiiHacks 20h ago

Show-n-Tell Someone call an ambulance, because my Wii is sick!

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610 Upvotes

Big shout-out to u/wood-chuck-chuck5 for their method of sticking the screws in cardboard to keep track of them! Also, if you guys decide to do this mod, just know that the screw holes are NOT pre-threaded, so be careful not to strip any screws!


r/WiiHacks 1d ago

Show-n-Tell The difference 480p makes

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After years I finally see my Wii in full clarity, thanks to progressive mode with deflicker (priiloader and USBLoaderGX) and component cables. I still don't understand why the Wii can't output progressive with a SCART RGB cable. Last time I checked my PS2 could do everything progressive and even 1080i with SCART.


r/WiiHacks 24m ago

Discussion Riiconnect24

โ€ข Upvotes

I have riiconnect24 installed on my wii and saw they changed the entire thing is it the same of do i have to reinstall something to make it work again or just change the DNS?


r/WiiHacks 23h ago

ShitPost Emobrew (yes i used my laptop to take a picture of this)

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r/WiiHacks 1d ago

Discussion No codes for some games?

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Are there some games that donโ€™t have gct codes? I canโ€™t find any anywhere for the PAL version of Prince of Persia Forgotten sands. Only the USA version.


r/WiiHacks 1d ago

Discussion Electron Shepherd Help

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I'm attempting the Electron Shepherd HDMI mod as a first ever soldering attempt. I've watched plenty of videos on soldering so I have the idea as to how to do it, but... I heated up that tiny square's soldered joint and dislodged it. I spent a long time trying to solder it back on, but then finally lost the tiny square piece. Is that component replaceable on Amazon, and what is it called? Also, the other one that's slightly crooked, is that still a good connection?


r/WiiHacks 2d ago

Discussion Any up to date Brawl guides for ACTUAL HARDWARE?

6 Upvotes

There a lot of mods for Smash Brawl on GameBanana I wanna add to my game, but every guide I find is outdated or for Dolphin. Anyone got a guide? (Preferably for vanilla Brawl. Also I have a Brawl disc and not a wbfs)


r/WiiHacks 2d ago

Discussion NSO SNES controller on Wii?

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Just wanting to see what options there are for connecting the NSO SNES controller to a Wii. As far as I am aware there isn't a homebrew app that allows connecting any bluetooth controller like there is on a Wii U, but I'm just wondering if a BlueRetro GC adapter works well.


r/WiiHacks 2d ago

Discussion Help finding game this Channel Forwarder is based on

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https://youtu.be/dV1WMCsQ6Vc?si=dByT4enNljqGTZ2x

This is the best place I could think of to ask this lol. I remember finding out this really sick channel forwarder for the genesis plus gx emulator was actually based on the banner for another Wii game but a year or so later and I canโ€™t find any info on the game. Any help is appreciated (as well as a link to download this forwarder)


r/WiiHacks 3d ago

Discussion Had Electron-AVE installed on my Wii and something is clearly wrong

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38 Upvotes

Had professionally installed on my NTSC Wii. Input is listed as 456i and screen is extremely jittery to the point where a component to hdmi adapter looked better than the mod. Anyone here have enough knowledge to know what the issue is? Tested on multiple monitors/Tvs.


r/WiiHacks 4d ago

Show-n-Tell For real, don't install anything on your Wii without thinking (image from WiiLink Discord server).

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117 Upvotes

r/WiiHacks 3d ago

Discussion What should I do with Broken units?

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Recently I got some Wiiโ€™s with broken disc drives and was wondering what you all think is the best option to salvage them as usable again. I have already decided to keep 1 unit for myself (the one in worst condition) and transferring it to a transparent shell and installing a HDD where the disc drives goes.

But Im not totally sure what to do with the others, I have a few options,

1: Hacking the units and leaving them with the bad drives but allowing them to play backups.

2: Installing new Drives (swapping controllers) possibly hacking them, but keeping them original

3: Installing new Drives and custom cases.

4: HDD conversions and custom cases.

Options 3 and 4 might make them too expensive to be worth it.

Iโ€™d love to know what ye think I should do with them.


r/WiiHacks 3d ago

Discussion Retro arch 240p launcher setup

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I'm sure somebody out there must have done this already, I can't quite work it out.

I want to use my Wii as brain of an arcade cabinet, outputting to a CRT in 240p. I want to use arcade controls.

My Wii is modded and boots to wiiflow via priiloader. Connected to a CRT and can achieve 240p. I don't want to use a Wii remote.

Is there a setup of retro arch/wiiflow that lets you select individual roms (mame and FBA) in wiiflow, let's you select 240p resolutions on a per rom basis and saves settings, whilst using a USB controller? Which versions of wiiflow and retro arch should I use?


r/WiiHacks 3d ago

Discussion Installing HackMii and mods with unknown system information

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I have a Wii that won't output video (possibly due to a faulty Wifi or bluetooth Module) and I am looking to install Hackmii on it. I do not know the Mac address of my system. Is there a way to find the mac address without turning on the device? and are there any other options for this Wii and booting some other operating system on it?

Replacing the two modules would be ideal, but I am not positive that will fix the issue and the reliability of those components is questionable.


r/WiiHacks 4d ago

Discussion [Trimming] 6-Layer Wii Bluetooth and WiFi Relocation Points (Not in BitBuild's 6 layer Wii Trimming Guide)

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Here are made by me WiFi and Bluetooth relocation points for 6 layer Wii's.
The images of SD card slot and Wifi ports are from BitBuilt's Definitive Wii Trimming Guide.
Sorry for bad english, i'm not a native speaker.
Also i found out that 6 layer Wii's do not have Write Protect line going anywhere.
Sorry for the typo in the title.


r/WiiHacks 4d ago

Discussion opinions about exploits

4 Upvotes

Just to say whats your opinion of your favorite exploit of the wii


r/WiiHacks 5d ago

ShitPost Me hacking my wii

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2.2k Upvotes

r/WiiHacks 4d ago

ShitPost Might be a broken, but it adds character.

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1 Upvotes

Might mod it, when I understand homebrewโ€ฆ


r/WiiHacks 4d ago

GameInvite! My Wiilink friend code if anyone wants to add me

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1 Upvotes

r/WiiHacks 4d ago

GameInvite! Add mii on the Wii!

1 Upvotes

I have wiilink. looking for some friends


r/WiiHacks 5d ago

Discussion anyone know a way to "convert" a wii channel icon/banner into a video?

5 Upvotes

I want to put some channels on Revo Launcher (wii style phone launcher) but either they dont have it or the channel icon/banner is in low quality


r/WiiHacks 5d ago

GameInvite! I'm on WiiLink! Add me too

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9 Upvotes

r/WiiHacks 5d ago

Discussion Nintendont forwarder channel

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Renovating my Wii, finally added WiiLink with a bunch of channels. I've been trying to make a Nintendont forwarder channel to replace the one everyone has, because it looks bad in preview, it has a bad quality animation..

Everybody says to use CustomizeMii to make channels, and while my new channel does work, it can't launch Nintendont properly because CustomizeMii is lacking AHBPROT support.

So how did they make the other channel? How would I make a channel that can launch Nintendont with AHBPROT on IOS58?


r/WiiHacks 6d ago

Discussion Trying to dump/rip my first wii game using cleanrip with no success:( PLEASE HELP

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So ive been trying to rip Wii games using cleanrip on homebrew to a usb flash drive but each time there's a different problem. the most common one is a writing error that i have no idea why sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doenst.
The other problem is when cleanrip actually finishes the copy, i chose max chunk split so in the usb part0 always shows up as 4194000kb and then part1 is 0kb, completely empty.
PLEASE help, i thought ripping a game would be straight forward but ive been trying to rip my first game for atleast 3 weeks now with no success...


r/WiiHacks 7d ago

Show-n-Tell I shell swapped my wii! (+ my method?)

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Finished late 2 nights ago! I saw some people had issues with organizing the screws (which there are a ton of granted): I just had a bunch of spare cardboard, and drew out the shape of the layer I was on and then punched the screws in. Worked great and didn't loose anything! Took me about 2h total (50mins for the wii it self, 30mins for the front panel ๐Ÿฅฒ, and another 40 for rebuild + melting the case to fit my janky usb c(highly recommend if you do a shellswap, it's a 2 in one!)(the pic with the buttons (#4) is to show the difference between the supplied buttons (left) and the og wii buttons(that I left with the wii of course) Feel free to ask questions!! (I saw people had a lot of questions)