To be completely honest, the friend who helped me get set up in the first place ALSO has no idea what I could have done :') so that's three of us.
I just downloaded the NRO, will let you know if that helps!
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Tinfoil now works! however, none of my games work and I can't access...
Sorry for this being super long-- tried to post this on reddit but forgot that they can't allow any discussion of 'hacking' whatsoever.
Last night I was going through my files in Tinfoil and accidentally clicked on something involving Atmosphere. It took me back to my main menu screen, and...
although i ended up accidentally changing my nand with no way of going back bc i didn't know you needed a gamecube controller to restore it (i have a wii minus/1.1, which doesn't have gamecube controller support)
and if i find the sd card i have my NAND backed up on, i can not only restore the NAND if i solder the right part in, but i can also put my NAND on dolphin, then i can play dolphin online, like PMEX Remix or MKWii Riibalanced