Question WII soft mod question

[MegaDecpticon28]

Hey everybody hope you guys are doing well!
I had a question about soft modding a wii for the Gboy build. Ive been looking high and low for a RVL CPU-40 or higher wii but haven't had any luck outside of a few RVL CPU 40 mother boards with no shell. Is it possible to soft mod the wii without the sell and disk drive? I do have a rvl cpu 01 that i was thinking of "borrowing" some of the parts to do the mod but would that mean Id have to disassemble the whole wii then put everything back?

I appreciate the help!

 

[GingerOfOz]

All you need to softmod a Wii is the motherboard with the Wifi and Bluetooth modules still attached. Just to be sure, you aren't looking at the $80 4 layer motherboards on ebay, are you?

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

No the one I found was for like 27 bucks with free shipping

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

Do the black RVL 001's have 6 layer boards?

 

[leftbrainstrain]

Probably not.

There's a general guide on Wii revisions here:

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/revision-identification-guide.863/

And that guide is probably based on the spreadsheet of serial numbers, colors, and motherboard revisions from the first post in this thread:

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.p...iis-revision-based-off-of-serial-numbers.716/

Most of my Wiis are black RVL-101 with motherboard RVK-CPU-101 revision (4 layer). I found them by searching for "black wii" on eBay.com and shopgoodwill.com.

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

Probably not.

There's a general guide on Wii revisions here:

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/revision-identification-guide.863/

And that guide is probably based on the spreadsheet of serial numbers, colors, and motherboard revisions from the first post in this thread:

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.p...iis-revision-based-off-of-serial-numbers.716/

Most of my Wiis are black RVL-101 with motherboard RVK-CPU-101 revision (4 layer). I found them by searching for "black wii" on eBay.com and shopgoodwill.com.

yea i was following that guide but it didnt talk about black wii's I just read from CrazyGadgets that "any non-white Wii (black, blue, red) is a guaranteed 4 layer." and i found a black wii for 30. so im trying to go snag it now

 

[leftbrainstrain]

You're right, it doesn't specifically talk about black Wiis. It has a chart with a decision labeled "Is the shell white?", then an arrow labeled "No" that points to a box that says "4 layer board only". This means any black Wii with GameCube ports will only have a 4 layer board. From other parts of the chart, you can determine that a black Wii without GameCube ports also will only have a 4 layer board.

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

I appreciate the clarification. Im finishing the soft mod now! One step closer to having my Gboy!!

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

Ok so im installing the D2x IOS and in my settings it only goes to V11- beta1 but v10 beta52. Im trying to follow the NUS Downloader but Im lost with the IOS step 2. I'm using a mac and my computer wont let me run NUS

cIOS

The complete guide to modding your Wii (and Wii mini)

wii.guide

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

Update. I found a zip file for the WAD for any mac user. Hope this helps!

 

[MegaDecpticon28]

Would this work for the micro usb or would it be too big?

I also found this too. Im thinking the mini would be the best choice.

Robot or human?