Hacking [Release] vWii Theme Injector - Inject themes into vWii System Menu

diddy81 · Dec 5, 2016

DocAmes1980 said:
So could I recover from a bad theme by using wup client to upload the unmodified copy of the System Menu app? Would I have to delete anything?

i've never used wupclient but from what i can gather yes you could recover from a bad theme by just uploading the stock app

ill look at making the dark red theme up for vwii tonight

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

diddy81 said:
i've never used wupclient but from what i can gather yes you could recover from a bad theme by just uploading the stock app

ill look at making the dark red theme up for vwii tonight

OK thank you. Well I've got a perfectly working vWii. I might as well unnecessarily screw with it. No NAND backup either. What could possibly go wrong?

ShadowOne333 · Dec 5, 2016

diddy81 said:
i've never used wupclient but from what i can gather yes you could recover from a bad theme by just uploading the stock app

ill look at making the dark red theme up for vwii tonight

Let us know if it works!

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

Well I didn't get very far. Is the path in the OP correct? I tried;

w.dl("/slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app")

and got:

dl error : could not open /slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app

I also tried:

w.dl("/vol/slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app")

and got another "dl error : could not open..." error.

Something I'm doing wrong?

MattKimura · Dec 5, 2016

Question, are you using the newest build of homebrew launcher that naturally has 16:9 support? Or still using the one that makes it 4:3? How does one get ahold of and install the newest one?

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

MattKimura said:
Question, are you using the newest build of homebrew launcher that naturally has 16:9 support? Or still using the one that makes it 4:3? How does one get ahold of and install the newest one?

I assume you're talking about the Homebrew Channel Forwarder for the vWii.

Here (a guide plus the .wad file):

https://gbatemp.net/threads/the-definitive-vwii-hacking-guide.425852/#32

VinsCool · Dec 5, 2016

DocAmes1980 said:
Well I didn't get very far. Is the path in the OP correct? I tried;

w.dl("/slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app")

and got:

dl error : could not open /slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app

I also tried:

w.dl("/vol/slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app")

and got another "dl error : could not open..." error.

Something I'm doing wrong?

Download the full directory of content instead. You may have different files.

MattKimura · Dec 5, 2016

DocAmes1980 said:
I assume you're talking about the Homebrew Channel Forwarder for the vWii.

Here (a guide plus the .wad file):

https://gbatemp.net/threads/the-definitive-vwii-hacking-guide.425852/#32

Yeah I know about the forwarder (Thanks for the link anyways)
But I heard that the homebrew channel became open source, and the last thing the dev did was allow it to support 16:9. But you could only complile it to get it so I just left it as that. Since OP knows a thing or two about coding, I thought he might actually be using that one since he doesn't seem to have a forwarder around.

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

MattKimura said:
Yeah I know about the forwarder (Thanks for the link anyways)
But I heard that the homebrew channel became open source, and the last thing the dev did was allow it to support 16:9. But you could only complile it to get it so I just left it as that. Since OP knows a thing or two about coding, I thought he might actually be using that one since he doesn't seem to have a forwarder around.

I guess I'm confused. The HBC forwarder DOES make the HBC 16:9.

ShadowOne333 · Dec 5, 2016

DocAmes1980 said:
I guess I'm confused. The HBC forwarder DOES make the HBC 16:9.

He's talking about a HBC (which is NOT the forwarder) with 16:9 support by default now that the HBC has been posted as open source.

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

VinsCool said:
Download the full directory of content instead. You may have different files.

I don't know crap about Python. I tried using "*.*" and tried just the directory. I hate to ask to be spoonfed but how would I download the entire contents of the directory to "C:\dl"

Irastris · Dec 5, 2016

DocAmes1980 said:
So if a theme borks the vWii System menu I could push (upload) the original "0000001f.app" to "slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/" correct?

Also, there was a member who used MyMenufy on her vWii and made her vWii System menu unusable. Would pushing an unmodified 0000001f.app to her Wii U fix her issue?

Edit: I don't know anything about MyMenufy/Wii themes. Is there a thread or a site where I can find a list of .mym files?

Yes, you can restore by pushing the original 0000001f.app. Same as that Sucy person.

You can get MYM themes on Spiffy, ModMii, and some other sites if you search around a bit.

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

Irastris said:
Yes, you can restore by pushing the original 0000001f.app. Same as that Sucy person.

You can get MYM themes on Spiffy, ModMii, and some other sites if you search around a bit.

Thank you. I don't know if you saw my other post but I am unable to download 0000001f.app using WUPclient. WUPclient is working because I just downloaded my system.xml. Is there a typo in the OP or am I doing something wrong.

Using:

w.dl("/slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app")

output:

dl error : could not open /slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app

Irastris · Dec 5, 2016

diddy81 said:
so this does the same as thememii and nothing different
building a fully compatible vwii theme is not too difficult there are only minor naming differences in the archive between wii and vwii
i just never released any as there was no brick protection

Correct, but I thought using Mymenuify was a guaranteed insta-brick on vWii? So I created this which injects the theme into a .app on your PC.

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DocAmes1980 said:
Thank you. I don't know if you saw my other post but I am unable to download 0000001f.app using WUPclient. WUPclient is working because I just downloaded my system.xml. Is there a typo in the OP or am I doing something wrong. Using: w.dl("/slccmpt01/title/00000001/00000002/content/0000001f.app")

That should be working just fine. If you can't get WUPclient to work, give FTPiiU a try. That's what I use, so I know it works perfectly for this.

diddy81 · Dec 5, 2016

Irastris said:
Correct, but I thought using Mymenuify was a guaranteed insta-brick on vWii? So I created this which injects the theme into a .app on your PC.

injecting the mym in to a .app is what thememii does it just outputs a .csm by default and a .csm is just a .app with the extension renamed

Irastris · Dec 5, 2016

diddy81 said:
injecting the mym in to a .app is what thememii does it just outputs a .csm by default and a .csm is just a .app with the extension renamed

Oh, I didn't know that. Well, I guess I spent 4 hours making this for nothing.

CatmanFan · Dec 5, 2016

So does this still work?

Irastris · Dec 5, 2016

CatmanFan said:
So does this still work?

It works for some themes. As diddy pointed out though, you'd be better off using ThemeMii to inject themes into your .app, which is the exact same thing this batch script does, so I wasted my time coding this.

DocAmes1980 · Dec 5, 2016

Irastris said:
It works for some themes. As diddy pointed out though, you'd be better off using ThemeMii to inject themes into your .app, which is the exact same thing this batch script does, so I wasted my time coding this.

Well at least you made people aware of what is possible. In other news I tried FTPiiU. I'm connected but the only directory listed is /sd. I'm using FileZilla. I don't get it. Anything obvious to recommend? If not no worries. I'll find the FTPiiU forum and ask there. Dammit! I just want to brick my vWii already.

CatmanFan · Dec 5, 2016

DocAmes1980 said:
Well at least you made people aware of what is possible. In other news I tried FTPiiU. I'm connected but the only directory listed is /sd. I'm using FileZilla. I don't get it. Anything obvious to recommend? If not no worries. I'll find the FTPiiU forum and ask there. Dammit! I just want to brick my vWii already.

You should be using "FTPiiU Everywhere". Also, why would you ever want to brick your vWii?

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