Scrubbed WBFS Dump to Menu - But Not Converted ISOs?

WishItWas1984 · May 17, 2024

Before I found this site, I followed what looked to be a very detailed YouTube tutorial that was only 9 months old. I'm pretty much all setup on a new Wii, but ran into this issue.

I already had some ISO files and converted them per the video. I then went to find more and only came across already-scrubbed WBFS files.

I didn't test every file, but every scrubbed WBFS I tried dumps me back to the Wii menu. The converted ISO files worked just fine.

I noticed in Wii Backup Manager that all of the scrubbed WBFS files have various IOS numbers, but all of my converted ISO files have ISO56.

My guess is that the below cIOS installers I created are incompatible with the scrubbed files because none of the "cIOS base" numbers are the same as the IOS of the scrubbed files.

Provided my guess is correct, how do I change the IOS of the scrubbed files to match the cIOS I installed already? Or, what settings do I need to install so the cIOS matches the file's IOS number.

This is what I installed:

(Install #1)

cIOS - d2x-v11-beta1
cIOS base - 38
cIOS slot - 248
cIOS version - 65535

(Install #2)

cIOS - d2x-v11-beta1
cIOS base - 56
cIOS slot - 249
cIOS version - 65535

(Install #3)

cIOS - d2x-v11-beta1
cIOS base - 57
cIOS slot - 250
cIOS version - 65535

(Install #4)

cIOS - d2x-v11-beta1
cIOS base - 58
cIOS slot - 251
cIOS version - 65535

Exidous · May 17, 2024

Nah, your guess is incorrect, you aren't looking to "match" IOSes to dumps. Wii Backup Manager shows the default/intended IOS that the unmodified game uses. If you're on System Menu 4.3, you have all of the vanilla IOS. Modern Wii backup loaders use one of a few, modified, high numbered custom IOS to boot games. In contrast, those low-numbered unmodified IOS listed in Wii Backup Manager can't be used to boot backups.

What you have listed are four simultaneous installs, to IOS slots 248-251. Your backup loader of choice can be configured to use any one of those four cIOS, and each/any is likely to work for a backup loader loading any of a vast majority of games.

Assuming those games are good dumps, properly named and stored on compatible hardware, and launched with a working backup loader.

Your issue is most likely somewhere in my last sentence. It could be as simple as those WBFS files from places unknown being bad dumps.

WishItWas1984 · May 17, 2024

Exidous said:
Nah, your guess is incorrect....

Understood and thank you

Good to see that everything I did looks correct and the games *should* work. In the past hour I managed to find a source for all but one of the scrubbed WBFS files as ISOs, so hopefully converted versions of those will do the trick. It's weird as the scrubbed WBFS files come from a legit site and repository with a lot of comments having no issue, which is why I thought I did something wrong or had some kind of compatibility issue. Anyway, crossing my fingers

4d1xlaan · Jun 8, 2024

For future reference, you can verify wbfs in dolphin

In game list, right click properties, verify tab on the right

It will check for file integrity and tell you if the file is good or bad

You will get a low priority error about missing update partition, and maybe one about missing sectors or whatever it is, because wbfs is scrubbed and dolphin checks for every sector/partition to verify integrity, but the data is not needed for games to work so you don't worry about it

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