Hacking [OLD] Loadiine backup loader for WiiU 5.3.2 ONLY (NO 5.4 NO 5.5!)
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On US console I've tried booting the EUR version stock. I renamed the files from EU to US. I applied the EUR update. I've overwrote the EUR updated files with the USA update. I've booted both miimaker and smash modes. I cannot get it to load in any of those scenarios.
Looks like then its not working at all, I'm going to try now without the update see what happens I will let you know. A massive let down though that was the only one I was waiting for tbh I would of rather the team of got that one working before they released v4.0
Edit: I'm not being ungrateful by saying that, just what I was thinking
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Looks like then its not working at all, I'm going to try now without the update see what happens I will let you know. A massive let down though that was the only one I was waiting for tbh I would of rather the team of got that one working before they released v4.0
Edit: I'm not being ungrateful by saying that, just what I was thinking
The single player is really not that great. Isn't this game basically online only and if so, does it really matter that much then?
how do I restore those xml files when I didn't have them in first place...? Would love be to able to test with them...
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Reading this I was like "Holy shit eight megs? How in the fuck are the games not crashing- Oh right this was Wii U" - PS3 is something much different than this hah.
Excellence and glory you guys.
Splatoon is a special case. The kernel exploit removes the area it is using. We could however remove the changes made by kernel exploit after Mii Menu is launched as it is not needed at that point anymore. That could help that game. I didnt think of it yesterday but now that I think of it, it might work.
@dimok & golden45
GREAT WORK
Sadly DLC is not working, i own the whole package and clicking to buy it brings ISI.
"Klicking the eshop button"
The online feature is not working at all. It might be crashing because of that. But from your stack dump it looks like it can't execute code from 0xE6483EC. That means to me that there is no code execution access to that area in that moment. It could have something to do with us setup IBAT4 for our usage and override the kernel setup of it. Maybe IBAT4 is reserved for eshop?
From our tests (n1ghty and Cyan) MK8 works if it is not updated from both Mii Maker and Smash Bros and even exit the game to System Menu. If you update the game to the current update, it will not work anymore from Mii Maker but still work from Smash Bros. Though it freezes when you go back to System Menu.
There is a trick if you are missing XML files and it was working before on Smash Bros Mode:
Just use app.xml and cos.xml from Smash Bros as a replacement
.Not necessarily. In contrairy it could have fixed it. I did not test it and I dont think n1ghty or Cyan tested it either. It means we moved our code away from the "Ninty code section" instead of placing it in between there to a completly different region (the Home Menu region starting at physical memory address 0x2CAE1000).
You are wrong here. It doesnt matter if it is Wii U or PS 3. If you have kernel level code execution, you can do this kind of stuff on both as you own the PPC side completely. There is always a chunk of memory that is not used and if you have 2 GB of RAM it is really very unlikely that there is not a single 8 MB chunk that is never used. What we do here is actually use a DATA only memory as CODE execution memory. Because we can setup IBATs with supervisor execution level we can setup us the code execution region of our choise. Of course it should be somewhere where the code/data area in the best case is never used or usually not used in the case of our application.
It was more that Wii U has 2 gigs of RAM and PS3 has 256Mb - That is on PS3 it is wise to leave chunks of background code like this under 1mb - though people do some crazy stuff with that still.
Yeah 1 MB of code is still very huge!!! I work sometimes with 4-8KB on microcontrollers and that is usually enough too.
But yes I see what you mean.
Yeah in my case there is app called webman that is background block in PS3 that does a huge collection of fun stuff including FTP, a Web Interface for controlling etc. and you even choose how much RAM it can use, at minimum it is 320Kb - Which is amazing given the multitude of things it does. But given there is about 1-2 megs of free RAM when game is running on the system, yeah.
Nice i cant wait for an app to extract the xmls from n64 VC and nds VC so i cant start making my individual titles for loadiine xD.Hey everyone,
it's time for a new release v4.0 of loadiine. It was quite a lot of work and it includes many changes. The launching method is changed in the way that the games are loaded. We found a way of gaining kernel level execution on our own code. There is code now that runs directly from a hooked kernel function called PrepareTitle which setups the titles before launching. At this point the function is hooked by our method and the game is setup from the app.xml and cos.xml in the /code folder of the games on the SD card. If you have the correct values here, most if not all games do run in Mii Maker Mode or Smash Bros Mode. The only game, that we know of, that has an issue is Mario Kart 8, which fully works in Smash Bros Mode it seems but freezes if you exit the game to system menu and does not work at all in Mii Maker Mode. But its fully playable in Smash Bros Mode though. In fact all games that we tried with correct xml setup worked (big thanks to Cyan, n1ghty and MLT for doing so many tests).
There was also a big change on how the whole folder structure and project structure is layed out. Many functions were moved and put together. There is now only one ELF file which includes fs, menu, kernel and loader stuff in one.
Another huge change is that we setup now a region for our own code with supervisor level execution access. We setup an about 7,3 MB big area for our own code in the address 0x00800000. It is freely available for our use. With that huge amount of code space it is now possible to start a really nice looking GUI. Seeing as someone already did start that (which is quite nice), but it is unsure if that source code is ever gonna be release. Therefore we will start our own GUI in the next step.
If you want to check out what kind of changes there were in detail and how this all works (especially the part about the kernel code execution and the memory area (DBAT/IBAT) setup will be very interesting for some developers
As for VCs, well those should theoretically work all too. You just need the correct values in the XML files. Since those are usually not available, we will provide a way of dumping the important parts of the XML from the original titles you own. With those values you can create a custom cos.xml and app.xml and use them to launch the titles.
Have fun with the new stuff.
Dimok and Golden45
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Hi ! Thanks for this great update !
I try to launch SuperMarioMaker -> good !
Reboot the wiiU, try another one -> no able to launch Loadiine with the "A" bouton, (not the server option) i'm stuck on the menu selection, and the wiiU freeze !
Any one have this issue ? Thanks
I try to launch SuperMarioMaker -> good !
Reboot the wiiU, try another one -> no able to launch Loadiine with the "A" bouton, (not the server option) i'm stuck on the menu selection, and the wiiU freeze !
Any one have this issue ? Thanks
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