Hacking Configurable USB Loader

[chop]

Hi!
If nunchuk is connected I randomly get a core dump after startup. I'm using v64.

I've experienced a similar problem with v64

I've modded a mates Wii, the mod is identical to my own, but his core dumps on v64, v63 works fine.
the only difference is I've got a Buffalo desktop 1TB HDD, whilst he's got a Buffalo portable 500GB drive.

couldn't tell you about sector size.

 

[chop]

Trackmania works fine with the default settings on my Wii - I'm using Wanis cIOS rev20b, maybe give it a try.

Here, with Wanin cIOS rev17 in slot 249 works perfectly...

Yeah but he's trying to get a Pal version working on a US Wii.

 

[nickh]

All the links to the forwarder are 404'ing at the moment. Have they moved or are they temporarily down?

Here are both v8 and v8 alternative.

Download

Thanks. Your link does funny things in Firefox (the page opens but then Ff jumps to another window) but I do get the download.

 

[FIX94]

All the links to the forwarder are 404'ing at the moment. Have they moved or are they temporarily down?

The server was down for a short time, but it's online again.

 

[TheRealVisitor]

All the links to the forwarder are 404'ing at the moment. Have they moved or are they temporarily down?

Here are both v8 and v8 alternative.

Download

Thanks. Your link does funny things in Firefox (the page opens but then Ff jumps to another window) but I do get the download.

Really, this does not happen with my tested browsers: FF4, Opera 11, IE8, Crome 9.

 

[nickh]

Really, this does not happen with my tested browsers: FF4, Opera 11, IE8, Crome 9.

Possibly extension related then. Also I'm still on Ff 3.6.13. Thanks anyway.

 

[oggzee]

Hi!
If nunchuk is connected I randomly get a core dump after startup. I'm using v64.

QUOTE(chop @ Jan 19 2011, 03:42 PM) I've experienced a similar problem with v64
I've modded a mates Wii, the mod is identical to my own, but his core dumps on v64, v63 works fine.
the only difference is I've got a Buffalo desktop 1TB HDD, whilst he's got a Buffalo portable 500GB drive.
couldn't tell you about sector size.

Can both of you try this one:
http://cfg-loader.googlecode.com/files/cfg64t5.dol
Let me know if it is any better...

 

[Coto]

None of 6x ver will work for me except 61b4 libogc 1.81 + AHBPROT 58 Narolez forwarer.

The other ones won`t even detect my generic SATA case 100GB Samsung HDD.

 

[oggzee]

None of 6x ver will work for me except 61b4 libogc 1.81 + AHBPROT 58 Narolez forwarer.

The other ones won`t even detect my generic SATA case 100GB Samsung HDD.

have you tried also -222 and -compat?
btw do you get the hdd timeout counter?
Does it help if you press 2 there to reload ios?

 

[TheWon]

Trackmania works fine with the default settings on my Wii - I'm using Wanis cIOS rev20b, maybe give it a try.

Here, with Wanin cIOS rev17 in slot 249 works perfectly...

Yeah but he's trying to get a Pal version working on a US Wii.

Also on CFG Loader with a US Wii.

 

[oggzee]

cfg v65a (alpha)
cfg65a.dol
cfg65a-222.dol
lang65a.zip
(or online update)
Changes:

cfg v65a (alpha)
* Updated libfat to svn-4520 which includes FSINFO (by Dimok)
FAT fsinfo stores the free space info to a designated sector
speeding up the time it takes to print the free space.
Previously the entire FAT table had to be scanned to get the
free space which could take up to a couple of minutes.
This was also the reason the option hide_hddinfo=1 is set
so that by default the free space is not displayed .
* Added a way to manually scan and sync the free space in fsinfo.
Go to global options / partition selection and press 2
Then all FAT filesystems will be shown and the free space for each
By confirming with A the free space will be scanned again. If the
scanned free space mathces fsinfo OK is displayed otherwise the
correct free space, which is then stored to fsinfo.
It is enough to do this once, after that the fsinfo should be kept
in sync. (but using some other homebrew to write/delete data from
FAT will make the info unsynced again, until all other apps are upgraded
with the new libfat as well)
* Minor change to usbstorage mem allocation (back to v63)
(in case it fixes problems with v64 that were not in v63)

 

[abdias]

Can both of you try this one:
http://cfg-loader.googlecode.com/files/cfg64t5.dol
Let me know if it is any better...

Today I can't reproduce the bug, also 64 stable and 64t5 works great.

 

[Coto]

None of 6x ver will work for me except 61b4 libogc 1.81 + AHBPROT 58 Narolez forwarer.

The other ones won`t even detect my generic SATA case 100GB Samsung HDD.

have you tried also -222 and -compat?
btw do you get the hdd timeout counter?
Does it help if you press 2 there to reload ios?

Ozz, believe me. I´ve tried all 6X version up to yesterday, reload cIOS didn´t anything, was like my HDD didn´t exist. 222 base 38/60/38merged37 223 and 224 same story.

Cios Wanin: +rev15 249 base 56 (this didn´t even work..) rev16, 17, 18, 19 wouldn´t even try to detect my drive. (Not even accesing sata bridge, because activity light remained off)

Later I used Narolez IOS58 AHBPROT channel to access CFG USB Loader: waninkoko rev20b @ 249 base 57 (better usb module compatibility) and I could restart (without turning off) my Wii 10 times, and still have detected nicely my cheap generic SATA Drive.

Just for you to know, when you posted 61beta 1.81, all the others loader you compiled in that very moment didn´t even tried to detect my drive.


A word:

Before, I had a VIA-microcontroller USB-SATA bridge with a standard 100GB HD and ran off CFG 5X, 6X, even the betas nicely!

But this generic SATA controller i`m referring to, works nicely on everything I put (DVD usb, Laptop/PC/Mac/Linux) except for Wii loaders.


And finally, this setup I´ve been telling you a few times seem to work flawlessly with ANY USB capable device. I´ve even used a external cheap multi-sd to usb to have a game recognized, and would boot up perfectly.

Fin

 

[littlecubba]

i was wondering does CFG USB Loader use HQ covers like WiiFlow...??

if so how do you set it up...?

 

[oggzee]

Ozz, believe me. I´ve tried all 6X version up to yesterday, reload cIOS didn´t anything, was like my HDD didn´t exist. 222 base 38/60/38merged37 223 and 224 same story.
Cios Wanin: +rev15 249 base 56 (this didn´t even work..) rev16, 17, 18, 19 wouldn´t even try to detect my drive. (Not even accesing sata bridge, because activity light remained off)
Later I used Narolez IOS58 AHBPROT channel to access CFG USB Loader: waninkoko rev20b @ 249 base 57 (better usb module compatibility) and I could restart (without turning off) my Wii 10 times, and still have detected nicely my cheap generic SATA Drive.
Just for you to know, when you posted 61beta 1.81, all the others loader you compiled in that very moment didn´t even tried to detect my drive.
A word:
Before, I had a VIA-microcontroller USB-SATA bridge with a standard 100GB HD and ran off CFG 5X, 6X, even the betas nicely!
But this generic SATA controller i`m referring to, works nicely on everything I put (DVD usb, Laptop/PC/Mac/Linux) except for Wii loaders.
And finally, this setup I´ve been telling you a few times seem to work flawlessly with ANY USB capable device. I´ve even used a external cheap multi-sd to usb to have a game recognized, and would boot up perfectly.
Fin

This sounds like the Twilight Zone!

I don't know what kind of magical combination is that...
Btw, have you tried cios 249 rev21 base 58?
Because that one uses the same usb driver as the ios58, so it's different than all other cios.

 

[oggzee]

i was wondering does CFG USB Loader use HQ covers like WiiFlow...??
if so how do you set it up...?

Somewhat.
It will load them but downscale them to standard size full cover, so you won't get any improved quality from that, they just take more space and more time to load.

 

[Burton]

Oggzee I tried 65a and everything went well. The only issue I saw was this http://i51.tinypic.com/2zq5w94.jpg. At this screen the loader saved the global config by itself without me or anyone touching the wiimote. (It happened at the same instant the error appeared.)

 

[oggzee]

Oggzee I tried 65a and everything went well. The only issue I saw was this http://i51.tinypic.com/2zq5w94.jpg. At this screen the loader saved the global config by itself without me or anyone touching the wiimote. (It happened at the same instant the error appeared.)

Huh, another weird thing.
I can tell where is that coming from - wpad code in libogc:

libogc-src-1.8.6/wiiuse/events.c:
WIIUSE_WARNING("Unknown event, can not handle it [Code 0x%x].", event);

But I don't know why that happened.

 

[XICO2KX]

Hey guys!

For all of you experiencing USB HDD problems, you might want to read/try this:

http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1033
Rodries, one of the guys behind libogc, is currently trying to solve all those problems, and he needs our help reporting the results of his USB Testing app!

Quoting...

Ever since WiiMC was first released, there have people having been issues getting their USB devices working. We would try to address these on a case-by-case basis, but sometimes this would in fact result in one person's drive starting working and another person's drive stopping working. Without going into all the history: I would like to state that the USB code WiiMC uses is actually a part of libogc, not WiiMC itself, and that this code is shared by all Wii homebrew applications. It is also worth noting that this code was not written by the WiiMC Team.

Rodries has been working to improve USB device recognition in libogc, and now he needs your help. To start with, he has written a small tester application that runs through 6 tests and writes the results to your SD card to a file named log_usb.txt. Please run the tests if you can and upload the results to this thread. Everyone's logs (especially those with non-working devices) will help rodries sort out the compatibility issues.

 

[tueidj]

Unfortunately that's completely irrelevant since the cIOSes all have their own USB storage code instead of using libogc.