Hacking Soft modding very early Wii - help needed please

dantheman_uk · Jul 30, 2015

Hi All

Firstly, great forum - I've found it really useful in getting started with modding my Wii, which came out of the box for the first time in about 3 years the other week!!

So, I have a bunch of wbfs game backups which have been loaded onto an external HDD using Wii backup manager. The drive is formatted FAT32 with 32k allocation unit size. The files have all been SHA-1 checked on the drive and appear to be ok. I am plugging the drive into the top USB port (port 0?) with a Y cable, the other cable for power only is in the second port.

I soft modded my Wii and have both Wiiflow (4.2.1) and USB loader GX (3.0 r1239) installed. I have also done a NAND backup etc just in case!

I'm currently trying to use Wiiflow. At the moment I can only get 4 or 5 of the 23 games I have on the drive to load. Wiiflow finds all of the games when the drive is mounted, so I can see them in cover flow. The ones that don't load either just drop out to the system menu, or completely hang the Wii, forcing me to do a hard reset. There is a blink on the HDD access LED then it bombs - doesn't get as far as the bar across the bottom of the screen

I have tried changing the video mode (PAL60 seems to be my best option on the games that work - I'm using a component cable if that makes a difference) and forcing different IOS in the settings for each game, which is why I have had some good results, but my lack of success is making me think I've done something stupid. Games that work are a mix of PAL and NTSC. None of them worked with default settings.

I pointed wiiflow to a game on the SD card, but still no success. I have also updated some of the IOS (246 to 251) from d2x v8 to v10. No joy.

sysCheck v2.1.0b19 by Double_A and R2-D2199 Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)

Drive date: 2007.02.13
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58
HomebrewFilter ist nicht installiert
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 48424242
Boot2 v4
Found 96 titles.
Found 55 IOS on this console. 6 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug ES Identify Flash Access NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535 Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4 Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4 Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS224[57] (rev 65535 Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65280): Stub
BC v6
MIOS v65535

Report generated on 2015/07/30.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Any help would be gratefully received

Dan

DaMan4169 · Jul 31, 2015

Well your Syscheck looks good, pretty standard config.
I might try the d2x v10 beta52 cIOSs, before trying a different USB drive.

IIRC the beta52 is the continuation of the v8 whereas the alt versions are based off some stuff they did in the v9 that fixed some things but made others buggy.

I haven't had any issues with any Sandisk drive I've used as a Wii drive and they are fairly inexpensive now, even on your side of the pond.

This Compatibility List is old but check for your drive to see if others had issues or it tested fine.
I know some drives had sleep issues but I thought usually those presented as a game freezing, usually after about 5-15 min of play. You had to adjust power management options and I think Seagate and WD had specific tools you had to download from them to do it.

I would stick to games made for your region. While the console can play any region game with a USB loader, the issue is your TV may not be able to display it. Unless you check your TV specs and it can display NTSC, PAL, and SECAM you may just be adding to your headaches while troubleshooting.

dantheman_uk · Jul 31, 2015

Ok, thanks for the suggestions.

I ran my config through ModMii last night and updated a few OS:

Your unique list of WADs to install are as follows:
- IOS11v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS20v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS30v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS40v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS50v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS52v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS60v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS70v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- IOS80v16174(IOS60v6174[FS-ES-NP-VP-DIP])
- RVL-mios-v10
- IOS9-64-v1034
- IOS36-64-v3608

No joy.

The TV is a fairly new Samsung and claims to support NTSC and SECAM, but I'll stick to PAL until I (hopefully) get things working.

The drive enclosure I'm using isn't on the compatibility list, so it may be to blame (I tried USB Loader GX last night and it can't even mount it):
Vendor 04FC - Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
Product 0C15 - SPIF215A SATA bridge

I have a Sandisk Cruzer Edge 8GB lying around so I'll try that if updating the cIOSs doesn't work.

Thanks.

portugeek · Jul 31, 2015

dantheman_uk said:
I am plugging the drive into the top USB port (port 0?) with a Y cable, the other cable for power only is in the second port.

USB Port 0 is the bottom port if your Wii is laying down flat. I'm not sure if any of this matters while using a Y cable since I assume you have both ends plugged into your Wii, unless one end of the cable is specifically meant for data, and the other for power. If one side IS specifically designed for data then you want that side plugged into the bottom port (USB Port 0). I'd try plugging in the other side of the Y adapter to another USB port that's not on the Wii and try powering it that way. I don't know how long your Y adapter ends are. You may need a USB extension cable.

I remember my friend trying to use a Y adapter on his Wii and having issues. Not all USB cables are the same. I ended up having a good single line USB Power & Data cable that I gave him and his Wii started recognizing his harddrive after that.

Also, there are harddrive settings on USB Loader GX that let you choose which USB Port to use. It even lets you choose "both", but I've never had a lot of success with this setting. Since getting Port 1 to work correctly is completely dependent on which cIOS is being used by your USB Loaders when they boot up.

Another thing I'd like to mention, because I was confused by it when I first started, and still am sort of. Is how the USB numbering is misleading. For example. USB Port 0 is the bottom port and USB Port 1 is the top port. You want to be using USB Port 0 for data, but when you change your USB paths, the path associated with USB Port 0 is labelled as "usb1:/" I'm sure there's a smart reason for it, but it makes things confusing, and I don't like it.

dantheman_uk · Aug 3, 2015

Ahaaa!!

So I was using the wrong USB port, and the Wii wasn't the biggest fan of my drive enclosure.

SanDisk memory stick in the bottom port and all seems to work.

Thanks a lot folks

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