WiiU crashing on startup

After playing on it yesterday, everything seemed fine and it was working as it should be. Turned it on this morning, played some Minecraft, turned it off for about 30 mins and turned it back on again. I managed to get to the environment loader and after selecting aroma, it displays a blank screen else. I have looked at previous posts, one of them being 5 days ago, and it was mentioned that deleting some plugins seemed to fix the issue. I’m not sure which plugins to delete and which ones to keep.

However now I can’t get past the original login screen. I enter my password, it loads to sign me in and everything freezes, no sound either. I’m not sure if deleting plugins will fix this issue either.

There may also be another thing, where I launch Minecraft and it says there is an update for the game, NOT the system. I tried to launch it without the update and everything had gone downhill since then.

Did you perchance download the Rose Patcher HB App Store plug-in before your Wii U started experiencing problems?


You could also remove any bad plug-ins from your Wii U SD card.

I never had Rose Patcher, and I don’t THINK I have any plugins that would be classed as “bad”, although I could be wrong.

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Have you already deleted any plug-ins you downloaded immediately before your Wii U started experiencing issues? Regardless of whether or not they’re “bad” per se, to play it safe you can redownload them after you’re completely up to date with Aroma.

Honestly, I never had many plugins to begin with, only the original ones that you have when you first mod it. The only two I added myself was a screenshot plugin, which I deleted, and Inkay, which I haven’t deleted.

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If both:

  • your Wii U is still crashing and
  • Minecraft isn’t loading because of an update

NOT because of any “bad” plug-ins, then I’m not sure how to help you beyond this point. I can call a moderator to help with the issue, if you want.

If you wouldn’t mind calling a moderator, that would be helpful.
Thank you for the help though!!

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No problem!

Perhaps @GamersInternatio or @Joshua8600PNID could help with your issues, although if they determine that this is not Pretendo-related (although I do believe they are), be advised that you can ask the NHD for further assistance, as demonstrated below:

If you do not have Discord or cannot use it, you could also go to GBATemp just in-case.

https://gbatemp.net/whats-new/

Just try’n my best!

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One other thing, I’ve managed to get past the login screen with a different account. I can launch anything and everything loads fine, it just crashes after an amount of time, it seems.

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How much time? If you leave your Wii U alone for a while, or in just ten minutes?

After I turn it on, it crashes between 20-30 secs, no more than 30 I’d say

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That’s. . .concerning.

Again, ask the moderators for any assistance.

@support-helper

Is this consistent? Like every time? Or only sometimes?

Because sometimes very rarely - and we do not know why - certain Miiverse posts that are completely innocent and not corrupt - when they “pop up” preview in the WaraWara Plaza can crash a system.

WaraWara Plaza updates on a cycle from the Pretendo BOSS server.

It’s every time, I’ve been looking at this literally all day and haven’t found anything obvious that could be causing it

You can try resetting WWP with the Aroma Plugin Menu quickly before the crashing happens

  1. Log in.
  2. Press L + D-Pad Down + SELECT at the same time
  3. Go to Inkay
  4. Go to settings
  5. Press Reset WaraWara Plaza
  6. Your Wii U Menu will automatically reload
  7. Hopefully your console won’t crash with the default WWP?
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@lunarr Are you still experiencing crashes?

Yes, but I’m currently too busy to be fixing it so ill get back to it at some point :woman_shrugging:

Were you able to test my suggestion a week ago? Resetting to default WWP?