Can I ask a stupid question: Im going through one of the guides now, and I have baked up my wiis nand after installing homebrew.
Rather than then go through all the other rigmarole of patching this that and the other, would it be somehow possible to simply download someone elses nand backup (who already has a perfect patched console) and write that to your console using a modified version of bootmii? Like, If each persons console has some unique identifier, read that identier(s), modify the saved nand backup you downlaoded from the net, then write that to your nand?
suppose you would have to produce a bunch of slighty different pre-patched nand backups for different versions of console maybe...
Guess you would also loose your miis and saved game info and whatnot. Personally I couldnt care less about that, some might though.