Fix Bricked Wii Without Nand Files Rarl
Florene Franca
If you have knowledge about some basic linux shell tools like dd (try man dd on linux or use google) and you know how your partition layout looks like and you also have the old boot.img, system.img etc files you can "dd/flash" them back to your nand flash, which will restore the old ROM. Also there is proprietary flashing software out there for allwinner devices (I think it is called phoenix suite) which is also able to restore ROMs (keep in mind that you need a proprietary flashing file format here).
The cracked SX OS software (which, if you've haven't been keeping up, is a paid-for tool which has a countermeasure that prevents it from being used if tampered with) they thought they were downloading was meant to enable them to play illegal copies of the latest games on Nintendo's hybrid device without having to pay Team Xecuter - the maker of SX OS - for the privilege - until they found out it wasn't real and it bricked their systems instead.
Okay, so not many people are aware of what this payload actually does. It does not replace your entire nand with garbage (that would be a huge waste of time) it just overwrites your gpt and part of your PRODINFO. Due to the fact that your PRODINFO is console specific, there is no way to recover without a NAND backup.
@Cyber_Akuma Nintendo explicitly said that they would fix without cost any Wii system that was bricked by the update so long as those systems did not contain any unauthorized software. As far as I recall, there were zero people who took advantage of the offer because the "bug" did not affect legitimate systems. Oh, sure, there were lots of people on various forums insisting that their systems were 100% legit and they were still bricked, but when you told them to contact Nintendo and get their console fixed for free, they would suddenly disappear from the thread. It's like developers who put "gotchas" in their games that only appear in pirated copies, so that anybody complaining about a particular "bug" will inadvertently out himself as a pirate.
You seem to think that it's impossible for "multitudes of news sites" to all report an incorrect story. It actually happens more often than you apparently think, especially when they all reference the same source. But that's beside the point. Look at what was actually claimed, and look at what Nintendo actually said. It was reported by users but never officially confirmed that one single legitimate Wii was bricked by that particular update. A lot of stories would say something like "The Wii in our office updated without issue, but a lot of users are saying that..."
I discovered Syncthing, which is open source, p2p, encrypted, self-hostable, (almost) people-compatible way to sync files without loading them into someones cloud. Now what it needs is people who dig into its protocol and try to attack it broken so that it would be as awesome as I hope it is. (And also a bit of usability tuning.)
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