Hardware How to format partition in WBFS on OSX Mountain Lion ?

[RiderFx3]

Hi everybody !

I try to format an external HDD in WBFS using OSX Mountain Lion.

I have tested with "WBFS For MacOS X" with the sudo comand to open it, but this software don't allow you to format a partition, it can only mount preformated WBFS partitions...

I also tried "QWBFS 1.2.0" but I have got an error when I wan't to format.

Can you give me the way please ?

Thanks !

 

[PsyBlade]

try wiimms wwt if you really want WBFS
but I suggest you consider using FAT32 instead

 

[RiderFx3]

OK and how can I convert ISO games in .wbfs to tranfert it on a FAT32 Partition ?

thx !

 

[PsyBlade]

you can do that with wiimms tools too (wit in this case)
there might be other managers too, I don't keep up with OSX tools

 

[RiderFx3]

Ok I read the doc on wimm.de.

The command to convert a game is wwt FORMAT ?

 

[PsyBlade]

NO!

"wwt format" will format a partition/drive with WBFS, what you asked in your first question
to create a .wbfs file from a .iso file use "wit copy"

edit:
I think "wit copy /WHEREVER/SOME.iso -D /WIIDRIVE/wbfs/%Y/%+ --wbfs -z" is what you want

 

[RiderFx3]

Thanks a lot,

OK So, If I have an HDD formated in FAT32 or NTFS, I simply use "wit copy /Admin/GAME.iso" and my game will be converted to .wbfs ?

And after, i juste have to copy the .wbfs on my disk ? Right ?

 

[PsyBlade]

no that allone won't suffice, you need the rest too


wit copy needs a source and a destination
since the destination can be on the wii hdd there is no need to maually copy it to the disk
in this case -D specifies it
the "wbfs/%Y/%+" at its end puts it in the directory expected by loaders

--wbfs tells it that you want a .wbfs file not someting else

additionally fat32 needs large files to be split files which -z does


suppose you want to copy "/WHEREVER/SOME.iso"
to your wii hdd which is mounted at "/WIIDRIVE"
then you use the command I posted above

for "/Admin/GAME.iso" to "/Admin/wii" you would use
"wit copy /Admin/GAME.iso -D /Admin/wii/wbfs/%Y/%+ --wbfs -z"


you really might want to check the manual
"wit help" and "wit help copy" might be helpful too

 

[RiderFx3]

Thanks a lot for this informations !!!

Can I format a disk into WBFS with wwt FORMAT ? http://wit.wiimm.de/wwt/

I don't understand the exact command...

 

[PsyBlade]

yes, but this too needs a destination (a partition or drive)
"wwt format /dev/sdx1" drive will format the first partition of drive /dev/sdx to wbfs

 

[RiderFx3]

Ok thanks a lot. I suppose i can see the name of my disk with "diskutil list".

I will try this soon. Thank you very much I will tell you if it works for me.

did you know if i will have an issue with the permission to format the drive in mountain lion ? Many GUI software who can normally mount WBFS partitions has issues in ML and must be launched with the sudo command....

 

[PsyBlade]

no OS can understand WBFS partitions, so the manager has to do all the filesystem handling itself
doing so requires direct access to the harddrives
since anyone with that power can basically become root (aka superuser aka administrator) anytime he wants
a secure OS can only grant that power to special users (most likely root and those in a special group, called "disk" most of the time)

so yes, unless you can add youself to that group (which I STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST) you will probably need sudo everytime you use the WBFS partition


if, on the other hand, the OS can handle the filesysten (eg. fat, ntfs, ...) you don't need any special privileges
the manager can simply use the normal methods any other programm uses

 

[RiderFx3]

OK I have installed correctly the Wimm's Tools.

I have tried the command : sudo wwt --force format /dev/rdisk3s1

Mac-Pro-de-admin:~ admin$ sudo wwt --force format /dev/rdisk3s1
*****  wwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v2.11a r4233 mac - Dirk Clemens - 2013-02-09  *****
FORMAT CHARACTER DEVICE /dev/rdisk3s1 [298 GiB, hss=512]
** 1 file formatted.
Mac-Pro-de-admin:~ admin$

Terminal says to mee that one file are formated, but my disk seems to be in FAT32... and I'm stuck here...

Witgui says to me "no WBFS Partitions found"

Any idéa ?

 

[PsyBlade]

the wwt part seems fine to me

what does "wwt check /dev/rdisk3s1" say?
why do you think that it's fat32?
was the partition fat32 before formating?
did you unmount it before formating?

 

[RiderFx3]

did you unmount it before formating?

Thanks I will try this tips !

 

[RiderFx3]

So...

My disk is FAT32 formated.

I type :

diskutil unmountDisk disk2

it says that disk is succefully unmounted.

 wwt --force format /dev/rdisk2

it says :
***** wwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v2.11a r4233 mac - Dirk Clemens - 2013-02-09 *****
FORMAT CHARACTER DEVICE /dev/rdisk2 [298 GiB, hss=512]
** 1 file formatted.

diskutil mountDisk disk2

it says : Volume(s) mounted successfully.

But I'm stuck here... and Witgui find no partitions....

 

[RiderFx3]

OK I have launched witgui with this command :

sudo /Applications/Witgui.app/Contents/MacOS/Witgui

and Witgui says to me :

VICTORYYYY !!!!

Thanks a lot for you precious helping man !

EDIT : I have copied a game... and when I Launch it with Wiiflow 4,1, the WiiU reboot...

 

[RiderFx3]

up ?

 

[PsyBlade]

I don't have a WiiU but afaik you might need special cios/loaders for it.
Maybe search the WiiU section for details
From here on OSX should not play a role, so you might want a new thread anyway

Appart from that I don't think I can help

 

[RiderFx3]

Thanks you PsyBlade ! I will test others loaders.

When it will works, i will try to make a script to automate the wbfs formating process on a Mac.