Hacking NEW Wiigator Modified Loader

[knowitall599]

Yeah... My feeling is also a tiny bit faster.... nothing else...
Plz give out your source and tell me how to compile it... My DevKitPro always errors after I hit MAKE...
Maybe the source I have is corrupt...

Source code: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M71V70PB. How to properly set up devkitPro: http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2968. Have fun and thanks for noticing WiiShizzza. Have fun. By the way I changed the number of the address as a hint for all trying to figure this out.

 

[Agjsdfd]

Yeah... My feeling is also a tiny bit faster.... nothing else...
Plz give out your source and tell me how to compile it... My DevKitPro always errors after I hit MAKE...
Maybe the source I have is corrupt...

Well I trust you...
So did you try out mario kart and few other "issue causing" games to see if theres any difference?
TheWon says no games load..!?

 

[knowitall599]

The structure of Wiigator's Loader looks perfect to me. The only problems are because of address errors like these. You do not have to know the Wii internals very well. Only C++ language thank you much.

 

[knowitall599]

Yeah... My feeling is also a tiny bit faster.... nothing else...
Plz give out your source and tell me how to compile it... My DevKitPro always errors after I hit MAKE...
Maybe the source I have is corrupt...

Well I trust you...
So did you try out mario kart and few other "issue causing" games to see if theres any difference?
TheWon says no games load..!?

Mario Kart loads tracks faster and also boots slightly quicker.

 

[YellowYoYos]

Glad to see others working on it. Best of luck

 

[Agjsdfd]

Yeah... My feeling is also a tiny bit faster.... nothing else...
Plz give out your source and tell me how to compile it... My DevKitPro always errors after I hit MAKE...
Maybe the source I have is corrupt...

Well I trust you...
So did you try out mario kart and few other "issue causing" games to see if theres any difference?
TheWon says no games load..!?

Mario Kart loads tracks faster and also boots slightly quicker.

COOL! Will try it out in an hour.

 

[YellowYoYos]

I am really hoping for a disc read error fix!

 

[TheWon]

I will be back later. I need to reinstall the Backloader. It's now not reading any of my disc. 1.1 or patch. I have no idea what the problem is. It goes from working about 2hours ago to now nothing.
I have no idea what cause this or how it happen. As a person who is serous about HOMEBREW on the Wii. I bought a 3rd Wii for this purpose. To test out things so others will not have to take unnecessary chances.

Did your upgrade do this? Not sure, or am I giving you blame. The only thing I did was trade out files and trade them back. As a person who tries to tribute to this site. I feel it's my responsible to point out everything. Take it as you will.


Update:
I did some more test. From the look of it my Wii disc drive most be going out. It will not read a normal game. Not sure how this happen. So it possible that it was just circumstance that this all happen at the same time. I tested this new upgrade. Untill I figure out what happen disregared my statements.

 

[Forsaekn]

Interesting, I also see wiigator is reading this thread so maybe he has some input on the changes you made.

 

[requiem4d]

diff -ruN = man's best friend.

--- Desktop/main-old.cÂÂÂÂ2008-10-30 17:20:00.000000000 -0400
+++ Desktop/main.cÂÂÂÂ2008-10-30 17:20:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂnowiird = 0;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂmemset((void*)0x80001800,0,kenobiwii_size);
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂmemcpy((void*)0x80001800,kenobiwii,kenobiwii_size); 
-ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂfrozenvalue = *(u32*)0x80001808;
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂfrozenvalue = *(u32*)0x80001800;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ*(u32*)frozenvalue = 1;ÂÂÂÂ
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂDCFlushRange((void*)0x80001800,kenobiwii_size);
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂusb_recvbuffer_safe(EXI_CHANNEL_1,&configbytes,2);ÂÂÂÂ// Get config

 

[Meowayne]

I didn't really see any improvements, but every bugfix is a good bugfix. Keep up the good work!

 

[ebdynasty]

I know nothing about coding but im starting to wonder if the disc reading error could easily be fixed or not.

 

[requiem4d]

I get off work in about 15 mins, when I get home I've got some changes to make to the code and begin testing. I'll let everyone know how it goes if I have any luck.

 

[lolsjoel]

Hmmm... I tried this with WiiTCPLoadGUI v0.02a and it failed to load the game. Just black screen after the .dol was received. This was, however, the first time I used WiiTCPLoad, so maybe I did something wrong. I'll put the dol on my SD and see if it works.

EDIT: Launching it thru the HBC worked fine. Load times seemed similar, but starting the game definitely was a bit quicker.

Just for future knowledge, does WiiTCPLoad require dol files to be called boot.dol? Mine wasn't...

 

[TheWon]

Ya just state it again just incase people didn't read it early. My Wii Disc Drive just went out. It's not reading DVD-Rs, Wii Games, and Gamecube Disc. It just happen to playout as I tried the bug fix.
I will be sending it in to Nintendo for repairs.
Time to bring out the backup Wii.

 

[Darkkenfox]

Hey thank you so much for your work

!!!

Could you answer my question:
Does the "FORCE NTSC" option work with this loader even in "patched games"?

Thank you ^^

 

[forbore]

Yeah, I do hope that FORCE NTSC can be fixed because I have a game for my sis but it won't work because of FORCE NTSC. Keep up the good work guys and it is a little faster! Yay!

 

[Agjsdfd]

Didnt notice any difference.. but anyways, its working... so no probs.

 

[ClaKK]

I'm sorry, I'm a real noob on Wii matters...how do I install it? Do I have to apply the read_retry fix after I install this one?

Thank you!

 

[requiem4d]

The change (plus a few others I've made) feels faster, but until I'm able to compare video side-by-side I won't know by how much.

Strange note: Soul Calibur still fails when selecting anything from the menu, but it does seem to get just a tiny bit further. I'm investigating the cause of this now. Hopefully I can come up with a .diff for the other coders out there to improve compatibility until WiiGator gets around to a new release.

Edit:
Yeah, it's faster. Doors on Metroid Prime 3 don't seem to take forever. About to test for an audio desyncs in GH3. I understand how this fix works, but not quite why. Maybe someone can shed some light on it?

I'll post the diff once I'm sure nothing additional is broken.