Right, – the new Pikmin for wii is being a bit picky and asking you to update before you can play, i discovered this method of fixing it myself, by accident but it works so to avoid forcing your wii to update with pikmin, do this… (I am launching pikmin with backup launcher gamma)
Go to the homebrew channel, and launch backup launcher as usual.
Now go into the reboot options, and tell it to reboot region free.
Go back and reboot with hooks (b button)
Now when your wii restarts go to the usual game channel and launch the game from there.
I personally have a PAL wii and only launched region free by accident the 1st time and discovered it didnt ask me to update.
Anyway as usual dont update your wii, i burnt off the disk 1:1 no patching and scrubbing needed to pikmin. I don’t know about the NTSC version but i would assume the same -reboot with hooks as region free, and blam it bypasses the firmware version check.
if you get a message asking you to update, just turn the wii off manually and reboot, DO NOT UPGRADE