Guide-WiiU/vwii-modding.md

vWii Modding Guide

This page will guide you through the process of modding your vWii.

We will now place the required Homebrew files on the SD Card.

?> Notice Your SD card will need to be formatted as FAT32. If your SD Card is not formatted to FAT32, use GUIFormat with 32k (32768) Allocation unit size to format it.

What you need

• The vWii cIOS apps
• The Patched IOS 80 Installed for vWii
• The latest release of Wuphax
• The Homebrew Launcher
• The latest release of the Homebrew Launcher Installer

Instructions

1. Insert your Wii U's SD card into your PC
2. Extract the wuphax.zip file to the root of your SD Card
3. Extract the boot.elf file from the hackmii_installer_v1.2 to the root of your SD Card
4. Extract the vWii_cIOS_apps_20131218.zip file to the root of your SD Card
5. Extract the payload.zip file to the wiiu folder on your SD Card
6. Take the SD Card out of your Computer and plug it into your Wii U console.

Wuphax

1. Launch the Homebrew Launcher
2. Launch Wuphax
3. Press A to backup the Mii Channel and inject the Hackmii Installer
4. You will be taken back to the Wii U Menu after a few seconds
5. Launch vWii (the Wii Menu icon)
6. Launch the vWii Mii Channel

• If wuphax has successfully been injected, you will now see the scam warning screen.

7. Wait until you see Press 1 to continue and then press the 1 button
8. Select continue, Install The Homebrew Channel and Yes, continue
9. If The Homebrew Channel has successfully been installed, select continue and then exit
10. Launch the Wii U Menu channel to return to the Wii U Menu
11. Launch the Homebrew Launcher
12. Launch Wuphax
13. Press B to restore the Mii Channel

• If, for some reason, you cannot restore your backup, you will need to reinstall your Mii Channel

NAND Backup

In case anything goes wrong in the later process and your vWii ends up bricked, restoring a previously made NAND backup can fix it.

1. Launch vWii (the Wii Menu icon)
2. Launch The Homebrew Channel
3. Launch Dump Mii NAND

• The dumping process can take a while depending on the speed of your SD Card

4. When the process completed, the console will reboot
5. Power off your Wii U, take your SD Card out of the Wii U and plug it into your PC.
6. Copy nand.bin and keys.bin somewhere safe (on your computer or on a cloud storage service such as Google Drive, OneDrive, etc...)
7. Delete nand.bin and keys.bin from your SD Card to free up space

Installing cIOSes

!> Make sure you have no .wad files anywhere else than in the apps folder on your SD Card

?> Tip You can hold the B button on the GamePad when turning on the Wii U to boot directly into vWii

1. Power on your Wii U and launch vWii
2. Launch The Homebrew Channel
3. Launch d2x cIOS Installer
4. Set everything to match the following:

• Select cIOS v10 d2x-v10-beta52-vWii
• Select cIOS base 56
• Select cIOS slot 249

5. Press the A button to install
6. Set everything to match the following:

• Select cIOS v10 d2x-v10-beta52-vWii
• Select cIOS base 57
• Select cIOS slot 250

7. Press the A button to install
8. Set everything to match the following:

• Select cIOS v10 d2x-v10-beta52-vWii
• Select cIOS base 58
• Select cIOS slot 251

9. Press the A button to install
10. Press the B button to exit

Patching IOS 80

!> If, for any reason, the Wii U is turned off while patching IOS 80, your vWii will be bricked. This can be fixed by either extracting the IOS 80 from your previously made NAND backup and then replacing IOS 80 over FTP or by reinstalling IOS 80

1. Launch Patched IOS 80 Installer for vWii
2. Read the warning screen and wait 30 seconds
3. Press any buttons to install
4. Wait until it says IOS80 Installation is complete!
5. Press any buttons to exit

!> Installing custom System Menu themes on your vWii will brick it

!> Installing any IOS (including TED IOSes) or wads made for the original Wii on your vWii will brick it

!> Installing Priiloader will brick your vWii