Hacking Nintendont

Jonesy47 · Mar 30, 2014

ShadowOne333 said:
Thank you!
Is there a way I can play with the CCP connected to the Wiimote?
Or do I have to get a USB controller?
Can I use a Madcatz X360 controller?

As long as the controller is hid compliant (i know official 360 pads arent but not sure about madcatz brand...) and has a controller.ini made for it, you are good to go.
The madcatz 360 controller MIGHT work (use hidtest to see if its compatible at all. if you press buttons and values change, it CAN BE DONE.) but, odds are you will have to make that controller.ini yourself (theres a how to bundled with hidtest) as I havent seen that floating around.
As far as the CCP, you have two options.
A) Buy a mayflash CCP to USB adapter (edit: IS still corded)
http://www.amazon.com/WII-CLASSIC-CONTROLLER-TO-USB-Nintendo/dp/B003711698
or
B) Wait for Nintendont to support bluetooth devices. It has been said it's in the works.

the_randomizer · Mar 30, 2014

Adeka said:
how do you boot games from usb when you launch Nintendont from sd? I always get no games found. I have to remove my sd card and boot Nintendont from my usb drive to find the games.

I'd like to know myself.

JoostinOnline · Mar 30, 2014

the_randomizer said:
I'd like to know myself.

You can't because it uses fatInitDefault. It mounts whatever drive the dol is started from

the_randomizer · Mar 30, 2014

JoostinOnline said:
You can't because it uses fatInitDefault. It mounts whatever drive the dol is started from

So, where's the whole idea where people can load the USB version from SD coming from? Someone just said they managed to do it.

JoostinOnline · Mar 30, 2014

the_randomizer said:
So, where's the whole idea where people can load the USB version from SD coming from? Someone just said they managed to do it.

I don't know, but I'm looking at the code right now.

GreyRogue · Mar 30, 2014

the_randomizer said:
So, where's the whole idea where people can load the USB version from SD coming from? Someone just said they managed to do it.

My fault, I'm afraid. It's a little weird, actually. When I have both my SD and USB in, launch from SD and ask for USB, it shows only the games that are on both USB and SD, but not the ones only on one.
Right now, you can put a blank game.iso on your SD card in the same location as your USB and it will launch the USB one even if you start from SD.

the_randomizer · Mar 30, 2014

GreyRogue said:
My fault, I'm afraid. It's a little weird, actually. When I have both my SD and USB in, launch from SD and ask for USB, it shows only the games that are on both USB and SD, but not the ones only on one.
Right now, you can put a blank game.iso on your SD card in the same location as your USB and it will launch the USB one even if you start from SD.

No worries, I seem to be getting confused more so than usual about the goings on with Nintendont

Maxternal · Mar 30, 2014

JoostinOnline said:
You can't because it uses fatInitDefault. It mounts whatever drive the dol is started from

Oh, so that's what that does. You could always just look at argv[0][0] and see if it's a U/u or S/s instead of asking the user which one it is in that case OR you could always do the extra work to expressly mount both and change all the paths ... either way.

GreyRogue · Mar 30, 2014

JoostinOnline said:
You can't because it uses fatInitDefault. It mounts whatever drive the dol is started from

r44
Fix initial directory parsing for SD/USB cross loading.

Try this one. It looks like it works better. I'm actually unfamiliar with the exact working of fatInitDefault, so if it needs different calls there, I might just be getting lucky.

JoostinOnline · Mar 30, 2014

Maxternal said:
Oh, so that's what that does. You could always just look at argv[0][0] and see if it's a U/u or S/s instead of asking the user which one it is in that case OR you could always do the extra work to expressly mount both and change all the paths ... either way.

Yeah, I was actually about to work on that, but I guess GreyRogue fixed it.

GreyRogue · Mar 30, 2014

JoostinOnline said:
Yeah, I was actually about to work on that, but I guess GreyRogue fixed it.

If we want to do it differently, that's fine with me. I'm also a bit unfamiliar with passing parameters into Wii dols. Can we do that with a memory location to a config struct? I'd prefer that to writing a file for autobooting.

Adeka · Mar 30, 2014

r44 works amazing. It boots games from sd and usb perfectly. Thanks for fixing the problem

Is this maxpad option 4 player support on a wii?

d4mation · Mar 30, 2014

Just tried r44 and it works! Hurray!

Well, mostly, but that's just game compatibility issues. The important thing is that games show up on USB. Still having problems with my HDD, but a Flash Drive worked just fine.

Is there a way to get Nintendont working with WiiFlow correctly? I have it located on my HDD and it loads Nintendont, but after selecting USB it immediately encounters a DSI Exception. When I load Nintendont from the Homebrew Channel I can at least select a game before it decides it isn't going to work.

I understand full backup launcher compatibility isn't a priority right now, but if anyone else has gotten it to work it would be sweet to know how.

EDIT: Figured I'd mention I'm running WiiFlow from SD. Perhaps putting Nintendont on the SD as well would fix the problem? I suppose that would be possible with the newer revisions.

And it just now allowed me to select a game before getting an Error -2 and shutting down the Wii. Weird. Haven't changed anything at all.

bm123456 · Mar 30, 2014

d4mation said:
Just tried r44 and it works! Hurray!

Well, mostly, but that's just game compatibility issues. The important thing is that games show up on USB. Still having problems with my HDD, but a Flash Drive worked just fine.

Is there a way to get Nintendont working with WiiFlow correctly? I have it located on my HDD and it loads Nintendont, but after selecting USB it immediately encounters a DSI Exception. When I load Nintendont from the Homebrew Channel I can at least select a game before it decides it isn't going to work.

I understand full backup launcher compatibility isn't a priority right now, but if anyone else has gotten it to work it would be sweet to know how.

Post your DSI in the Wiiflow thread with your current R44 of Nintendont

Etheboss · Mar 30, 2014

Or Try wiiflow mod rev 1069, it addressed some homebrew startup problems.

d4mation · Mar 30, 2014

Etheboss said:
Or Try wiiflow mod rev 1069, it addressed some homebrew startup problems.

Would there be a way to download it pre-compiled? Outside of compiling it myself it seems like all the downloads on the Google Code page are from January.

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. I found it. I'll give it a shot!

EDIT 2: Just reporting back here to say it didn't make a difference. Oh well. Until Memory Card emulation is fixed it isn't like I would use Nintendont as a daily-driver anyway. It is really fun to mess with and keep up with though.

JoostinOnline · Mar 30, 2014

GreyRogue said:
If we want to do it differently, that's fine with me. I'm also a bit unfamiliar with passing parameters into Wii dols. Can we do that with a memory location to a config struct? I'd prefer that to writing a file for autobooting.

All modern loaders pass the path that the dol was launched from as the first argument (obtained from argc[0]), which is how fatInitDefault() sets the working directory. If it was transferred via Wiiload, then it's blank.
You could do something like this:

Code:

typedef enum {
    FAT_NONE,
    FAT_SD,
    FAT_USB
} FAT_TYPE;
 
FAT_TYPE Fat_Device;
 
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    switch (argv[0][0])
    {
        case 's':
        case 'S':
            Fat_Device = FAT_SD;
            break;
        case 'u':
        case 'U':
            Fat_Device = FAT_USB;
            break;
        default:
            Fat_Device = FAT_NONE;
    }
    // The rest of the code
}

Of course if you want to just assume that it's an SD card when sent via Wiiload, then this would work fine:

Code:

typedef enum {
    FAT_NONE,
    FAT_SD,
    FAT_USB
} FAT_TYPE;
 
FAT_TYPE Fat_Device;
 
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    Fat_Device = FAT_SD;
    if ((argv[0][0] = 'u') || (argv[0][0] = 'U')) Fat_Device = FAT_USB;
    // The rest of the code
}

strai · Mar 31, 2014

It seems nintendont isn't detecting my gc memcard anymore. Can someone check this

Request: Can the power button on the wii close nintendont back to the homebrew channel. Thanks

pedro702 · Mar 31, 2014

strai said:
It seems nintendont isn't detecting my gc memcard anymore. Can you check this

Request: Can the power button on the wii close nintendont back to the homebrew channel. Thanks

this would also help much on vwii where hititing select(ps3 controller) restarts the wiiu on wiiu mode and its a long way back to homebrew

Maxternal · Mar 31, 2014

strai said:
It seems nintendont isn't detecting my gc memcard anymore. Can someone check this

Request: Can the power button on the wii close nintendont back to the homebrew channel. Thanks

it's never worked for me

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