How To Mod Your Nintendo Wii Using ModMii!

[@xflakx4734]

Hello all, XFlak here, creator of ModMii. I skimmed the video and overall looks like a great tutorial, however during the file cleanup step it is more ideal to point modmii to the files on your sd card or usb rather than the copy to SD folder. Not only is this faster, but by cleaning up the copy to folder, erasing the sd card, and copying copy to folder contents back, you may lose customizations/configs that were made (I. E. If you adjusted usb loader gx's settings these edits would be lost and have to be set again). So best to just have modmii clean up the sd card or usb directly

[@ArchadesGames]

Definitely, I should have thought to do that directly! Pinned this so it can have more visibility.

[@srivasthava]

@@xflakx4734 bro while downloading all files 47 out of 60 its freezed bro..not able to download with mii classic how to complete the setup?

[@Aeneum]

Thank you for all your hard work!! You've made an incredibly useful and easy to use piece of software.

[@NemesisApoc]

I followed this guide to the letter and everything worked perfectly. I can't thank you enough, man.

[@ArchadesGames]

Hope it gives you more memories with a classic systems!

[@Mexi1717]

@@NemesisApoc the exploit option and mac address never pop up in mine?

[@VenoStuntin]

Thanking you for everything you do for the mod/ emulation community .

[@ArchadesGames]

I can only hope to make the tools the amazing community provides more accessible and understandable!

[@n0blees436]

Brother, Here you Have I Must Say on of the Best Guides for not Saying the Best Guide to People that Already had Modded their Wii but want To Come Back to do it in a more Clean way Keep up the Great Guides and Work Cheers 👍🏼

[@JamsalainenPartiopoika]

Whenever I try to load Usbloader GX on the Wii, it presumably doesn't load all the way and becomes stuck on the almost wholly white screen at 30:36. The console doesn't freeze, I can still move the cursor. I've tried reformatting it a few times now and made sure its FAT32 and MBR and nothing has worked. Anything else I should try or is it possible this won't work on the USB at all and I should get a new one?

[@wargames-mb2gu]

Maybe try a different ad card

[@davidwebster6158]

Thanks! But I have a really good question... I'm wanting to get an second polymega and load it up with games as a birthday gift... Can I copy all the games I have already installed on the first one and copy them to the second one?

[@ArchadesGames]

🙏 I think so, but I don't have a second one to fully confirm that.

[@just_delightful]

looking forward to watching this one after my holiday - Thanks Jerry!

[@TheClayKinderSurprise]

Excellent guide! Aside from the lack of Game Boy Player support, the Wii is my preferred way of playing GameCube games since I can use virtual memory cards with Nintendont and because some titles have a performance boost when they're run with Nintendont too.

[@ArchadesGames]

That boost to unlocked frame rate games is the best!

[@HylianMaster-ls2ps]

There is the gba emulator option as well

[@b6ner]

21:03 i’m getting an error that says 48 titles succeeded and 48 files failed…. did i somehow double the files? i’m using a 32gb SDHC card

[@quitecontender8608]

14:29 what if you don’t have a sub hard drive setup ?

[@simpleapollo85]

I'd also like this question answered

[@crowels12]

I tried other videos too and i keep having an issue with the wads

[@AleksPizana]

Okay... now I'm pretty sure that you 'are' a wizard. A friend of mine is looking to do this to his Wii and he asked me to look for a guide a couple of days ago. 😎🤙

[@ArchadesGames]

Lol good timing 😂

[@AleksPizana]

If I have another Wii with an old unlocker or loader, can it be updated with this one?.

[@ArchadesGames]

Yeah, just do it like a new softmod as shown here

[@AleksPizana]

@@ArchadesGames Thanks. I'm getting my stuff ready.

[@Ryitus]

i know this is late but if anyone has trouble getting the envelope to show up, my main issue was leaving spaces in the mac address like in the example modmii shows instead of all together

[@Aeneum]

great guide, easy to follow and very informative. thx!!

[@flanlord8821]

This is the first homebrew guide I found that wasn't from 4 years ago you are a life savor! 🙏🙏

[@ArchadesGames]

Happy gaming!

[@seanm1738]

Great tutorial! One of the only that addresses renaming games to not use the internal disc names that look terrible.👍

[@ufoguy]

Gonna leave my pc on for another marathon here

[@xItzBlizzy-]

I was following another tutorial and for some reason when I try to boot up bootmii it keep taking me back to priiloader. Is there any trouble shooting tips you can give me??

[@sacgaming916]

Me too it's not working i install everything in my sd and it's not showing On my Wii

[@axeljoe4371]

everytime i try to open the letter my wii resets and doesnt open the installer, i cant find any solutions can you help

[@austinholland8591]

i had this problem no matter how many times i powered cycled, i had to factory reset and worked on 2nd boot

[@Mr_Potzool]

Hi, quick question. Howd you get USB Loader GX on the usb drive? I feel like i missed a step but i dont know where.. im kind of stuck and am not sure how to continue. Could someone help me?

[@WinspearUltima]

this is a great video, by the way ive got an SD card for the WII U coming and a USB coming for the wii so i can dump my virtual console games on my pc for emulator use. im still waiting for that video to dump virtual console games from the wii to the PC

[@cheechoo8485]

Can i use a SSD for the HDD part ? And I need 2 SD cards ? im lost in those 40 mins

[@QuickTimeTech]

BEST USEFUL TUTORIAL

[@Superscan2027]

Very insightful and in depth tutorial. Thank you. Do you prefer to run on native console or through emulators?

[@ArchadesGames]

Real hardware overall but I do plenty with emulation as well.

[@RobXCaliburn]

I just got a modded Wii with a 32GB SDHC card loaded with some games. I’m wondering if I can use a 512GB microSD card on my Wii to load games instead of using a hard drive. I know I’d need to format it to FAT32, but will the apps work properly? I’ve been getting a lot of mixed answers, so if anyone knows, please let me know!

[@wargames-mb2gu]

@@RobXCaliburn yeah it should work I was told that it can go about 2T of space from what I was told

[@GFDthatsMe]

The real question is did you get that sd card reader from Mike Chi when you got your retrotink 4k? 😂

[@ArchadesGames]

Darn right!

[@GFDthatsMe]

I have 2 lol. Never know when you need to game on 2 different tvs.

[@ArchadesGames]

Nice!

[@GFDthatsMe]

@ArchadesGames Been a while since I modded wii's but I have a few laying around. Think I'll freshen one up and give it to my dad to play all the games we grew up playing with him when we visit. Keep up the quality content!

[@ArchadesGames]

That would be an awesome gift!

[@kaleiya.]

i've modded my wii before and it worked but i've reset it so i'm redoing this but the letter bomb is not showing up??

[@WaylonHeiney]

@@kaleiya. same letter bomb ain’t popping out

[@joeyforristal7545]

@@kaleiya. Same 😕 times up to date as well

[@WattTheTech]

Best tutorial so far on doing, just did my old Wii thank you. How do you add virtual console games? do I need a wad manager ?

[@ArchadesGames]

Yes, you use a wad manager like during the initial setup. You can keep the one mod mii gives you and be set.

[@WattTheTech]

@@ArchadesGames thank you. That worked. I just need to figure out why I get far less save block space when I installed them via a USB drive. My SD shows the full 32GB worth of save blocks. My 1TB USB drive said it was full with just a few wiiware games installed. Think I need to have my wad folder on the SD card and not the USB drive.

[@WattTheTech]

@@ArchadesGames Worked out what its doing, when I install wareware game with YAWM it installs it into the Wii memory so I only have around 1400 block to use. If I then move the game to SD card it moves over but the channel no longer shows up on the Wii system channel menu. Data management shows its on the SD card but channel does not show up. Not sure how to make the game appear again.

[@manuellattanzio9007]

Excellent comprehensive guide, thank you! I have two questions you might have an aswer to, the first more important than the second! 1st - Whenever I launch a GC game, my wii mote stops working, it either has all the lights on or just the player 4 light, and it does not respond to any input. This is a bummer because I cant play any GC games! 2nd - My USBLoaderGX will only read USBs that are formatted to WBFS, any USBS formatted as FAT32 i get an error message that says "Drive not Initilized" - Ironically enough, when I load games thru my SD card (which is formatted in FAT32), they work. This is annoying but not that big of a deal since i can still load games from an SD card, or just keep it formatted as WBFS and use it only for wii games.

[@ArchadesGames]

Try Wii Flow instead of USB Loader GX. I have always liked it more and have fat less issues.

[@Ripperman141]

Question when do we increase are sd card over 32gb back to its full size

[@ArchadesGames]

After you get the Homebrew channel installed it's good to go for the full size

[@MotownBatman]

Ye$$ir! I love Wii's, but Holy Hell I always have issues setting up the Artwork for the Emulators .

[@ArchadesGames]

Yeah, I don't bother with emulator cover arts on the Wii 😅

[@michaelgrahamjr.9605]

stuck on bootmii backup any way to rest and bypass it

[@hayweeenomames]

changed my date and the envelope is still not coming up i did see that its asking me to update even though im already on 4.3 U

[@arthurchan9536]

ignore the update

[@cgriffith84]

Letter isnt showing up in messages? Any ideas on making it show up?

[@WaylonHeiney]

Smae

[@arthurchan9536]

Piiloader System hacks - error entering menu / front buttons forbidden in this menu IOS v80 encountered

[@andrewalfano13]

So I am at a loss I try to mod my Wii I get the letterbomb to show up but when I press it it opens as a message and not the actual program I am so lost please anyone got any tips?

[@ArchadesGames]

Double check you have all the files on the SD card

[@andrewalfano13]

@@ArchadesGames MY MAN! Somehow not everything was copying over with my SD card formatted it again just like you said and everything moved fine thanks for the killer guide!

[@srivasthava]

Bro please reply...😢😢 Wii remote disconnected after i press start in game and it freezed in black screen what to do??

[@ArchadesGames]

In a game? Turn off the system and turn it back on.

[@srivasthava]

@@ArchadesGames i did my usb is now corrupted and not recognized by wii and not able to format bro

[@ArchadesGames]

Sounds like it might have crapped out and caused the crash, not sure what you want me to tell you.

[@srivasthava]

@@ArchadesGames so now what to do bro?

[@ArchadesGames]

Try a different USB drive

[@crowels12]

Doesnt work . The wads i had an issue with

[@notasael_yup6034]

what if i get an error on the nand backup

[@ArchadesGames]

Try it again

[@notasael_yup6034]

@@ArchadesGames i tried 3 times but it still gives me an error message

[@ArchadesGames]

Can risk going forward without one (not recommended) or try to install bootmii again to be sure it didn't mess up somehow

[@jackandrory6839]

thanks

[@MonkeyTooTact]

it doesn’t send the envelope I have the date and time set correct

[@kaleiya.]

same

[@edwinbaezjr.945]

format your sd card again. I had to format it twice

[@WaylonHeiney]

Same

[@edwinbaezjr.945]

Im getting a exception dsi occurred.

[@gotowarcrew7694]

@edwinbaezjr.945 no reply yet bro this makes me not want to try if OP doesn't give feedback

[@tony-wii]

my antivirus wont let me download modmii /:

[@Llyswyn]

Had to turn it off.

[@SpartanRunnerXc]

Won’t work with me either

[@hamstergt1869]

40m long, this is Serious :o

[@ArchadesGames]

Super serious

[@hamstergt1869]

@@ArchadesGames 😳

[@ArchadesGames]

😂

[@purplediney5054]

cool

[@Nallv2]

I was gonna buy a modded one cuz mine is messed up now I'm gonna fix mine lol

[@ArchadesGames]

Nice, happy fixing!

[@nguyenhung268]

I couldn't find any letter, although I had set the correct date and time. Help mee 😢