I'd like to contribute to vwii homebrew. After reading Cyan's post:
I have decided that I will try to mod RealWndD to use HW_WHBPROT and I have a couple questions:
1) Are there any guides (or can someone provide steps) that cover upgrading current cIOS dependent apps to use HW_AHBPROT instead? In some preliminary research, I've come across a couple code examples: fstoolbox and savegame manager gx as well as this hackmii post on the topic. I'm not sure if these are the best examples, so if you know of any other examples, please share them.
2) Are there any differences between HW_AHBPROT support of vwii vs wii? For example, if I make the change to RealWnD, can I test that HW_AHBPROT support is working on my reglar wii?
I'm adding a couple quotes of people that have done similar modifications or may be knowledgeable on the subject:
Can you share the diff of your HW_AHBPROT changes, dmm?
Do you help with any info, fix94?
Currently, everyone is doing a FS Nand Dump, which, except saving the current files one by one, doesn't really do a real 1:1 NAND dump to flash the full state at a later date.
There are NAND dumpers which are doing 1:1 dumps:
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RealWnD sources are available, and if it could be updated to support vWii + AHBPROT it would be much better backup solution than the current FS Dumper.
I have decided that I will try to mod RealWndD to use HW_WHBPROT and I have a couple questions:
1) Are there any guides (or can someone provide steps) that cover upgrading current cIOS dependent apps to use HW_AHBPROT instead? In some preliminary research, I've come across a couple code examples: fstoolbox and savegame manager gx as well as this hackmii post on the topic. I'm not sure if these are the best examples, so if you know of any other examples, please share them.
2) Are there any differences between HW_AHBPROT support of vwii vs wii? For example, if I make the change to RealWnD, can I test that HW_AHBPROT support is working on my reglar wii?
I'm adding a couple quotes of people that have done similar modifications or may be knowledgeable on the subject:
...which I had modified to add in support for AHBPROT runtime IOS patching so it would actually work in vWii.
Can you share the diff of your HW_AHBPROT changes, dmm?
... I modded the IOS236 installer so you dont need the IOS36 wad...
Do you help with any info, fix94?