VerTiGo said:You guys are blowing this way out of proportion. I updated and currently posting this from my Wii. I'm simply curious to know if this update provides any enhancements instead of just trying undermine homebrew projects.
Dragona Akehi said:If you updated to 4.2 and your Wii boots to the menu, you're fine.
EatChildren said:In lighter news, I just played Perfect Dark on a 40" LCD with a classic controller. Awesome.
Seraphis Cain said:Eh? I thought Perfect Dark wasn't working on Wii64?
toythatkills said:4.2 won't be included with Wii Fit Plus, will it?
thefro said:Sounds like from reading the official Nintendo forum linked in the announcement that it's just a few people whose Wiis have been bricked from this. Some of them admit they powered off the console in the middle of the update.
It's not some massively widespread problem... the update has been out for a couple days.
IMHO, the "WARNING!" on this is way overblown and is more the homebrew community to try and sway opinion towards their side.
At the moment it seems the chance of the update bricking your console is very small.Roto13 said:So at this point, all of the big three have released console-bricking firmware. I'm half tempted to update and brick mine on purpose just because I've been having a few unrelated issues lately and I could cash in on the inevitable free repair.
OMG Aero said:At the moment it seems the chance of the update bricking your console is very small.
Ramenman said:We shouldn't use the official Nintendo forums as a way to judge if the problem is widespread or not.
Moderation is doing its job.
http://static.hackmii.com/nintybrickfail.png
http://techforums.nintendo.com/nins...thread.id=29914&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Ramenman said:We shouldn't use the official Nintendo forums as a way to judge if the problem is widespread or not.
Moderation is doing its job.
They weren't and they should never have. The homebrew developers were not using said updating code in boot2 code for boomii since it was apparent how much it sucks. Now Nintendo itself went ahead and made it part of a non-update for everyone nevertheless. Classy.Blizzard said:Or did that not happen because they weren't messing with boot2 before?
They didn't delete the post which mentioned the actual problem.Ramenman said:We shouldn't use the official Nintendo forums as a way to judge if the problem is widespread or not.
Moderation is doing its job.
http://static.hackmii.com/nintybrickfail.png
http://techforums.nintendo.com/nins...thread.id=29914&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Nose Master said:Lol, definitely mentioned this in the TMNT Smash Up thread like a week or two ago.
I realize that you post a lot about this stuff. Are you part of the development team for the Homebrew Channel?Clipper said:Wow. Just got caught up with everything. Shocked to see so much info come out while I was asleep.
I suggest a title change to:
"Nintendo are bricking some non-HBCed Wiis"
Just to stop these guys coming in to post that their system still works.
I love the new feature list for the HBC. Lots of tutorial to update today, though... sigh.
Clipper said:I love the new feature list for the HBC. Lots of tutorial to update today, though... sigh.
Anony said:looks like a update to HBC as well
about fucken time
If your Wii is set to 16:9 in the system menu options, HBC won’t strech the picture like it did on older versions. Unfortunately the fonts might look a little weird then, it really depends on the used display unit. Blame the lack of true widescreen support on the Wii for that.)
John Dunbar said:wtf does "bricking" even mean?
"then start breaking bricks, wet nips?"
NO, unless you enjoy playing Russian Roulette. If you don't want to use homebrew, then wait for a safe update before you update your Wii as there is a minor chance the update will brick the Wii and there are absolutely zero feature benefits.CultureClearance said:I don't really play my wii anymore. But I will at some point in the future. Should I just take the dive when I get home tonight or just wait this all out and hope for some patch/bypass?
Clipper said:NO, unless you enjoy playing Russian Roulette. If you don't want to use homebrew, then wait for a safe update before you update your Wii as there is a minor chance the update will brick the Wii and there are absolutely zero feature benefits.
Clipper said:NO, unless you enjoy playing Russian Roulette. If you don't want to use homebrew, then wait for a safe update before you update your Wii as there is a minor chance the update will brick the Wii and there are absolutely zero feature benefits.
Somnid said:But any future update that touches Boot2 also will carry the same potential, those chips don't really have tested write tolerances. If it bricks now he's more likely to get good treatment from customer service because there will be others and especially if he's not playing it it would be better to break it now than later when something good comes out.
Wario64 said:If that's what people really want to do, then go for it.
The potential of bricking remains whether you modded or not. And if you have modded, all you need to do is install the latest updates for HBC and BootMii and you can then update without losing access to the homebrew (although you do risk bricking, so it shouldn't be done).ZombieSupaStar said:figured this would happen eventually, glad I didnt mod mine.
That doesn't even make sense!ZombieSupaStar said:figured this would happen eventually, glad I didnt mod mine.
One small error. It is perfectly safe to update boot2, but you have to do it correctly. Nintendo screwed up and ignored something that affects a very small proportion of Wiis. They can easily fix this so that the update doesn't brick any Wiis.JonathanEx said:Ok, so, in idiot terms, I want to see if I've understood this right: there's a section of the Wii system, called boot2, which is the initial startup sequence, that isn't really meant to be overwritten: it's not 100% guaranteed that updating that will be successful. In Nintendo's effort to quash piracy and homebrew, they've tried to update the boot2 sector, and due to the uncertain nature of the boot2 sector and lack of proper testing, some Wiis cannot boot, and having homebrew/etc is not a cause of that.
Correct me on terminology and everything if I'm wrong.