Wii:Banner Unbrick

This tutorial will help you fix your Wii from a Banner Brick, which occurs when a user installs a channel with an invalid banner, and usually gives a black screen, freeze after the Health & Safety screen, or display "The system files are corrupted" error.

Instructions

Requirements

• An SD card or USB drive
• If you do not have Priiloader installed: A PC with Linux installed, or a Raspberry Pi since it most likely has Linux installed already
• YAWM ModMii Edition

WiivWii (Wii U)

Section I - Entering HBC (Priiloader)

1. You can enter Priiloader in this state by holding RESET on the console while turning it on.

• If you do not have Priiloader, scroll down to If you do not have Priiloader: below

If you do not have Priiloader:

1. Follow this guide until step 13, then come back here. Ensure you do not press A on the Health and Safety screen.
2. Once you are in the HackMii installer, exit it, you should now be in the HBC, continue to Section II

• After that, you should be on a screen like the image below.

Section I - Entering HBC (Priiloader)

1. If you are on Wii U in the Aroma environment, you can load the Wii U forwarder on your Wii U Menu.

• If you don't have the Priiloader Wii U Forwarder, you can get it here.
• If you have not yet installed Aroma, here is a guide to do so.
• If you do not have Priiloader, scroll down to If you do not have Priiloader: below

If you do not have Priiloader:

• Aroma: Download this Boot2vWii forwarder
• Tiramisu: Download hbl2hbc (just the .elf file)

1. Place the file you downloaded for your environment in wiiu/apps
2. Open it and you should be taken to the HBC, once it does, continue to Section II

• After that, you should be on a screen like the image below.

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Section II - Uninstalling WADs

1. Select YAWM ModMii Edition from the list of homebrew.
2. Select your source device.
3. Press A, then press A again on your WAD.
4. Press D-Pad Right to change the selected action from Install WAD to Uninstall WAD, then press A.

• If you've installed multiple WADs, do this for every WAD you have installed.

Once it's uninstalled, Press A to go back, then press Home to return to HBC. In HBC, press Home again, and then Return to System Menu.

Your Wii should now be unbricked, please don't install that WAD(s) again.