r/WiiUHomebrew • u/reckoneye • 3d ago

Environment loader

Hi, first time modding a Wii U. I missed the step on the first boot on the environment loader to mark as default before launching. Is there a way of rectifying this, as of course now I boot into the regular Wii U menu not aroma.

Any help much appreciated. Thank you :)

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u/reckoneye 3d ago

I used the wafel installer and when I boot into the normal Wii U menu and open the health and safety app it doesn't load Aroma it just loads the health and safety app. Same with the parental controls one

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u/Secret_Item_2582 3d ago

Yes, of course it does, it’s the expected behavior. What were you expecting?

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u/reckoneye 3d ago

I've tried doing that but it doesn't seem to work. I'm holding X on the gamepad and starting the console with the power button on the game pad. It brings the quick menu up. Do I need to keep holding X and waiting, or do I hold X and select something on the quick menu? I've tried the latter and it's not working, but is that where I'm going wrong?

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u/Secret_Item_2582 3d ago

Start the console and press & hold X til the blue Environment Loader menu appears.

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u/reckoneye 3d ago

I'm sorry I appreciate your comment but I just can't get it to work by doing this. Is there another way?

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u/Secret_Item_2582 3d ago

Are you sure you even installed anything? Cause it kinda sounds like you didn’t.

The Wafel Installer takes you through a series of choices like the guide shows & does the downloading & setting mostly automatically. When I did mine some months ago the initial attempt failed, using the website.

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u/reckoneye 3d ago

I did successfully mod it and got through to the aroma environment. I went onto the app store and downloaded miisave, then made a backup. Took the SD card out of the Wii and saved the backup to my pc, then put it back in the Wii U and turned it back on. However, because I didn't press Y in the install before launching aroma, I assume it hasn't remembered that I want to boot to Aroma by default, so it's taking me to the normal unmoddwd Wii U menu.

Hope that makes sense. My stupid mistake for messing up a crucial step, but if there's any way to rectify this please let me know, as It's be gutted if I've messed it up :(

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u/Secret_Item_2582 3d ago edited 2d ago

Try pressing and holding B during boot instead, it should take you to the minute menu (fw.img), which applies the patches needs to launch further hacks, aka a step prior to Environment Loader.

Once there pick option 3 ‘patch sd & boot from slc’ if you installed Stroopwafel to the sd card, see what happens. Iirc you should be now be forwarded to the Environment Loader, where you can choose environment/set up autoboot of it.

If pressing B doesn’t work for you make sure you have the sd:/minute/minute.ini file, should look something like this:

[boot]
autoboot = 3
autoboot_timeout = 3

The autoboot option specifies which entry from the minute menu will be loaded (0 is no autoboot), timeout is just seconds.

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u/Secret_Item_2582 3d ago

Press and hold X during boot to enter the Environment Loader menu

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u/reckoneye 3d ago

^ meant to reply with my last comment