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Safe to update a modded wii?

posted by miikeyblue82 on Saturday, 14th January 2012, 19:20

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Modded my mum's wii a while back, but she now wants to download Netflix but it won't let her as she's not got the latest firmware update.

She's on 4.2E - is it safe to install the update? I understand she'll probably lose the softmod, but will it brick the wii?

RE: Safe to update a modded wii?

posted by Rob Shepherd on Saturday, 14th January 2012, 20:32

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I would use ModMii rather than installing the latest firmware officially. I used it on mine a month ago to move to the latest 4.3E firmware:
http://gbatemp.net/topic/207126-modmii-for-windows/

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RE: Safe to update a modded wii?

posted by miikeyblue82 on Saturday, 14th January 2012, 20:57

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Cheers, thats perfect.

RE: Safe to update a modded wii?

posted by Pete-MK on Tuesday, 24th January 2012, 21:47

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What are the advantages of a modded wii? I've got the SD card standing by, but I need convincing to actually do it. Are there risks of bricking, as in early PSP modding?

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RE: Safe to update a modded wii?

posted by Rob Shepherd on Wednesday, 25th January 2012, 00:20

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I'm sure there are always risks, I've not heard of people bricking it.

Advantages I found were the ability to run homebrew, which for some means emulators, and for me specifically ScummVM. And to run games off a USB drive, something I find very handy. Instead of swapping DVDs all the time, and lugging a big box with my Wii and games round to friends, I can leave all the DVDs at home and just bring a small external hard drive.

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