Simple guide to install cIOS on vWii + backup NAND and keys

henryjm19 · Jan 26, 2015

endoverend said:
Every SD card has a "class" rating. You must have a class 2 SD card, which is very slow.

Ohp. Well as long as the dump works correctly in the end despite the long period of time, it's ok. Thanks for responding! BTW, twenty | one | pilots !!!

endoverend · Jan 26, 2015

henryjm19 said:
BTW, twenty | one | pilots !!!

Love that band so much.

bowserbaloo · Feb 2, 2015

So I'm looking to install HBC on my vWii, run backups etc. I'll follow this guide to do so.

I've still got my old Wii, which is hooked up to an external hard drive with a bunch of games on it.

My question is, and forgive me if this has been asked multiple times (it probably has), once I've done all the installing I need to do, can I literally just unplug the external drive from my Wii and plug it into the WiiU? Or will I need to completely format it and start afresh?

Edit - one more question. My external hard drive (the one currently connected to my old Wii) is bus powered. Does that mean I'll need a Y cable to connect it properly to the WiiU? I know that's the case for connecting an HDD to the WiiU in WiiU mode, so I'm presuming it's the same for connecting one in vWii mode.

cutterjohn · Feb 27, 2015

Just in case anyone is wondering with the bluemod dumper for backing up ios:
click "A" through until you hit the listing that has system menu followed by a bunch of ios entries.

use the D-pad to scroll to each ios(I did everything, but I'm fairly certain only the ios entries are necessary and ONLY the ones that you DID NOT install, but I did those too just for completeness)
once ios is selected:
press "1" push RIGHT D-pad until it says backup wad(IIRC)
press "A" then push "B" twice to not fakesign
push as directed ANY key, e.g. "B"
Use D-pad to select NEXT ios and repeat above.

It's tedious, but does NOT take long.

Maybe they're'll be a later version that can automate the process or at least default to WAD dump/no fakesign such that it can be reduced to select/press "A" but right now it's the tedious method.
There might be something in the "advanced" options but I didn't spend much time digging as each dump takes, literally, a second or two such that you spend more time button mashing than backing up.

Now off to read the thread about what this gives us. There probably is more info in there, but I decided to backup right now while I had the time and remembered to.

[EDIT]
A possible quick way of speeding this up would allow some way to mark each file/"directory", set operation type, e.g. backup wad then say press "A" to batch execute...

A better way would be if there was a backup single button press option IF the ios files could be programmatically detected, which is something that I'm not sure could be done, well it could be done since it already find the ios "files" but likely it would also mark the patched ones that you add in the guide which probably aren't necessary to backup, but don't take my word for it as per above, I'm just digging through the thread to see why, what it's useful for, and am still new to wii/vwii and not entirely comfortable with ios/cios/etc. at this time. i.e. give educated opinions v. educated guessing as I hesitate to say facts even AFTER reading through everything anyways...
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ichebu · Feb 28, 2015

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! I've been trying to get USB Loader GX to work on my Wii U for the past week since I bought it - your guide is the only one that worked.

azitoshi · Mar 20, 2015

Hello, does this procedure of installing d2x cIOS on vWii from first post works on 5.3.2 firmware ? And is it up to date so i can safely use it step by step ?

Cyan · Mar 20, 2015

yes, it works and is up to date for 5.3.2.

Maybe we should add a notice to tell which version it was last reported working on.
Since the launch day, and up to now, WiiU version updates never affected vWii hacking.

Colitan · Mar 25, 2015

Question. I have audio/video de-sync issues when playing large mkv files encoded with h264 with high bitrates on my Wii. Apparently the Wii is not powerful enough to handle them? Would installing homebrew on vWii and watching them there possibly fix this?

MrMarvellous · Mar 31, 2015

Hi everyone !

I have some issues :

First, i get an error when I try to dump my NAND with Dump mii nand. It stop working at 2956/4096.
No error message, it just freezed.
Any idea why ?

Second, i've done all the others step and i can now launch games backups.
i tried to get rid of the SD card, but the different loader placed in the "apps" folder on the HDD (USB 3.0, Y cable, NTFS formatted) don't appear in the HBC.
Any idea why² ?

thanks by advance

Cyan · Mar 31, 2015

colitan:
vWii is not more powerful than Wii.
WiiMC will play videos the same way on both consoles.

marvellous:
did you try to go to HBC settings and select SD instead of USB?
maybe it loaded USB once, so it's now set to USB by default.

Try another SD. I know on Wii, some SD are not recognized at all (no bubble popping when inserting/removing the card on HBC), but I didn't try my incompatible cards on vWii yet.

I tell it, but you are probably good :
be sure the files are correctly extracted to your apps folder:
SD:/apps/homebrew name/boot.dol

MrMarvellous · Apr 1, 2015

Cyan said:
marvellous:
did you try to go to HBC settings and select SD instead of USB?
maybe it loaded USB once, so it's now set to USB by default.

Try another SD. I know on Wii, some SD are not recognized at all (no bubble popping when inserting/removing the card on HBC), but I didn't try my incompatible cards on vWii yet.

I tell it, but you are probably good :
be sure the files are correctly extracted to your apps folder:
SD:/apps/homebrew name/boot.dol

Hi,

Thanks for the answer

I finally find where the problem came from : After formatting the HDD from NTFS to FAT32, it appears in HBC.

But now, i've a problem with Wiiflow and USB Configurable loader.

After launch, Wiiflow enter in an infinite loop at splash screen, and USB Configurable loader indicate "IOS 248 is missing" (all cIOS are installed like the tutorial said)

However, no problem with USB-Loader GX...

Cyan · Apr 1, 2015

This tutorial is installing custom IOS in slot 249, 250 and 251.
there's nothing in slot 248.

You probably used a pre-configured version of CFG Loader which worked on your Wii, and it used slot 248.
But you didn't install anything in slot248 on vWii.
Look at CFG Loader settings and set the default IOS slot to 249.

I don't know what's wrong with Wiiflow. try a fresh install too instead of copying already existing Wii installed homebrew folders and settings.

MikeyTaylorGaming · Apr 3, 2015

Can anyone let me know why some people are struggling to find d2xv10 when in the installer?

I've seen a couple of people ask this question, they can apparently only see up to v6 when using the installer! Just wondering if there's something they might be doing wrong so I can help them out.

Thanks!

Cyan · Apr 4, 2015

Yes, there's something they are doing wrong : They think they can use their own links and tools instead of following tutorial's links. Users with issues are users who don't follow steps correctly.
They often think "the tutorial tells me to use version 2.2 mod, but version 3.1 is available !!! 3.1 is better because newer !!", and this is were they are wrong.
vWii softmod NEEDS d2x installer v2.2mod.

The Installer allows users to add new cIOS data to be installed manually in case of future cIOS release.
The installer itself was released when d2x v6 was released, so it contains v4, v5 and v6 only.
v7 and above need to be added manually to the installer's folder in order to list them in the homebrew and install them on the console.

If the users download the standalone installer from d2x googlecode, they will get only v6 as a choice.
They need to download d2x v10 separately and copy the d2x data into the installer folder.

Users who wanted to install a different version always had to re-create a different installer+data version.
for example, there were a "installer+v10" and a "installer+v10alt". Two different folders to generate in order to choose the cIOS to install.

To prevent this folder generation step, and because a LOT of users don't understand how to unpack a zip and copy a file to another folder location properly, and because the installer allows multiple version listed at the same time, I created a package with ALL the d2x version data already included in the installer.
The softmod guides in this thread contains the full package with all versions (well, on vWii only v10 can be installed, but on Wii I made a package with v6, v7, v8, v10).
The other softmod guide we have still tells the user to choose, download and extract the cIOS manually.

You should redirect your users to this thread or link to the already generated installer+data.

d2x installer v3.1 for WII : d2x v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v10, v10-alt
d2x installer v2.2 mod for vWii : d2x v10, v10-alt
The Mod2.2 doesn't require IOS on root of SD Card or Online access! it extracts base IOS data from NAND.
Wii version is using 3.1 which required network or baseIOS on SD card because every users has a different version of NAND. we can't rely on their NAND to get base IOS.

You can use non-mod installer on vWii too, but it's more complicated and require additional steps : extracting IOS from NAND (should be done anyway, it's part of semi-brick prevention!), placing required base IOS on SD, using offline method in the installer.
2.2mod is recommended for vWii.

Imac007 · Apr 7, 2015

Hello again.....I don't want to read this whole forum, I just want to ask 2 questions.
I've been using WiiFlow 4.2.1 to install and play my wii games on my vwii.
I need to know if this is the latest WiiFlow (if not, where do I find it).
and 2, why does it crash when installing games. Not all the time but enough to be frustrating.

Thanks

Cyan · Apr 7, 2015

I think it's not the latest version.
Latest is a modded version released by users, not by Wiiflow official devs.

Do you have a Y-cable ?
maybe it crashes because the drive doesn't have enough power on WiiU.
Also, it may crash if you are using a flash drive instead of a hard drive.

riseofdeth · Apr 8, 2015

Which version of d2x cIOS do you recommend for the standard user? beta52 or beta53-alt. I can't get too much info about emuNAND and so!... Thank you PD: I just saw in a youtube tutorial how someone extract OTP and SEEPROM Encription keys through Xyssy app. Is that step needed ? Sorry for making lots of questions!! Thank you again

lenselijer · Apr 8, 2015

I'm looking for usb loader gx full channel wad.
Still running r1209 but i would love to use the new features on vwii.
Anyone know where to find this?

Cyan · Apr 8, 2015

Why use the full channel?
it's not updated for two years.
The forwarder is better and is kept updated (latest release last week).

The full channel require the user (and the loader in case of auto-update) to use a WAD manager to install data to NAND. installing to NAND is dangerous and vWii has no way to unbrick. Repeated operation will have more chance to be bad than doing it once and for all. An auto-update could be downloaded incorrectly, and there's no CRC check before installing the WAD. installing an incorrect download will brick your vWii.
Install the forwarder once which is known to work, and don't touch it anymore. Just update the loader by replacing boot.dol on your external device.

Even if you install the full channel, you will have to use an external device to store games (USB, or SD), and you can place boot.dol file there too. It's just a single file lost on your USB, no harm to have it and it will allows you auto-update from the loader.

Note that Full channel for vWii doesn't exist.
Full channel for Wii is abandoned, last release if r1180.

riseofdeth:
If you don't need to connect two Wii game hard drives at the same time, you don't need beta53.
Just choose v10 (beta52) instead and connect your drive to the back-upper port (it is Port 0).

If you need to use Port1 for whatever reason (you shouldn't), install d2x v10-alt.

MrMarvellous · Apr 9, 2015

MrMarvellous said:
Hi,

Thanks for the answer

I finally find where the problem came from : After formatting the HDD from NTFS to FAT32, it appears in HBC.

But now, i've a problem with Wiiflow and USB Configurable loader.

After launch, Wiiflow enter in an infinite loop at splash screen, and USB Configurable loader indicate "IOS 248 is missing" (all cIOS are installed like the tutorial said)

However, no problem with USB-Loader GX...

Cyan said:
This tutorial is installing custom IOS in slot 249, 250 and 251.
there's nothing in slot 248.

You probably used a pre-configured version of CFG Loader which worked on your Wii, and it used slot 248.
But you didn't install anything in slot248 on vWii.
Look at CFG Loader settings and set the default IOS slot to 249.

I don't know what's wrong with Wiiflow. try a fresh install too instead of copying already existing Wii installed homebrew folders and settings.

Hi,

After some research, i finally find the problem :

For CFG Loader, the meta.xml file keep a "ios = 248" as an argument (i erased the line)
For Wiiflow, i just re-install it from scratch

But now, USB-Loader GX don't want to boot up anymore (i haven't touched it) ... :wtf:

I'll try a full reinstall of it

Anyway, thank you for the help! :bow:

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