I was running 4.0e with cIOS36 rev9.
Downgraded using this guide
Which is fine if you've got HBC installed already but if you don't have that you're screwed I'd say, although if you've got a chip in theory it'd be possible to create a wii bootable DVD with the wad manager on it but I have no idea if it would work, I'm certainly curious though.
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