Hacking Wiiware on vWii without softmodding?

[ayrek]

is that your hand making the puppets eyes bulg out

It's not a puppet, it's a magic card. And you shouldn't hijack someone's thread.

 

[clay.r.08]

you did not tell him how to play from NTFS

that seems to be what he was most concernd about, so to the person that created this thread you look like your just rambling because you still have not answered what he asked

 

[ayrek]

I did. "The default location for a virtual NAND is on the USB drive, so you can obviously have it there rather than on an SD." It doesn't matter if the drive is formatted FAT or NTFS. I think either Ext 3 or 4 is supported now, too, just to give everybody options.

 

[Hezkore]

Any guide to this ayrek?

I tried the Freatures USB Loader GX had, first I took the "Dump Nand to EmuNand" option and after that I used "Install WAD to EmuNand", which all went through without errors.
But in the end, I just ended up with a new item (with the correct name!) that does nothing, just sends vWii into blackness, the banner is just black too...
I tried Yet Another WAD Manager and the option "Install to USB 2.0 Media Storage" or something along those line, but only got ~"-Error 1001", don't remember the code exactly.

 

[ayrek]

Any guide to this ayrek?

I tried the Freatures USB Loader GX had, first I took the "Dump Nand to EmuNand" option and after that I used "Install WAD to EmuNand", which all went through without errors.
But in the end, I just ended up with a new item (with the correct name!) that does nothing, just sends vWii into blackness, the banner is just black too...
I tried Yet Another WAD Manager and the option "Install to USB 2.0 Media Storage" or something along those line, but only got ~"-Error 1001", don't remember the code exactly.

I don't know of a guide, per se, but I could probably tell you all the steps that I went through to do it.

1) You need either a backup NAND or what I hear is even better, a fresh NAND. The former you can extract from a console, and the latter you can have Modmii build for you, it a simple process complete with onscreen instructions.

2) If you have a nand backup, you need to extract in in showmiiwads. If you made a fresh one, you can just point showmiiwads to the appropriate directory (I would go ahead and put it on your hard drive, usb:/NAND, and point to it there, so that when you open showmiiwads in the future, with your drive connected, it will automatically load from there). Then, you can use showmiiwads to install the VC and Wiiware games to the virtual NAND.

3) You'll need CFG USB loader mod, I think the newest revision is v70r51 or v70r52. Inside the global settings, you can download the plugins, one of which is mighty.dol. It will be put where it needs to be and, hopefully after reloading CFG, you'll see your wiiware and VC games in the loader, along with any GC and Wii backups you may have. If your NAND came from a real Wii, you might see other channels here, too. Some will work, some won't. It's a relatively new feature, and subject to a large amount of trial and error.

I think that's everything... Haha I'm not very good at guides. If I've forgotten anything, or if you run into any problems, just ask me, or even stop by the CFG sticky thread, in the Wii backup loaders subforum.

 

[clay.r.08]

all i wanted was for this thread to get answered, i did not know the answers, but i wanted someone to help because i also wanted to know

i thought if i post then someone would notice the thread

anyways im glad someone is helping even if it took 34 hours for help to arrive and the help told me im a idiot

thanks i appreciate that , makes me feel all warm inside

 

[ayrek]

all i wanted was for this thread to get answered, i did not know the answers, but i wanted someone to help because i also wanted to know

i thought if i post then someone would notice the thread

anyways im glad someone is helping even if it took 34 hours for help to arrive and the help told me im a idiot

thanks i appreciate that , makes me feel all warm inside

Please don't put words in my mouth.

When I first read the thread, the OP didn't want to softmod. When I later returned, a softmod had been performed, so I offered my suggestion. When it was requested, I gave instructions. I'm not sure how you think I could have performed better.

I've been a lurker in these forums for a long time, and I've learned a lot about a lot of consoles. I eventually decided that, since I had spent so long reading and learning so much, that I was able to give back to the community that taught me so much. I don't come here and tell everyone that my only motivation is money, I don't post irrelevant images in an attempt to derail a thread, and I don't get all passive aggressive at other forum members.

 

[clay.r.08]

nothing wrong with money

and i wouldnt of acted that way if i was not treated that way when i asked for help

any ways stop posting off topic

lurk on

 

[OncleJulien]

one day, clay will post in a thread that he doesn't invariably turn into a discussion of himself...i hope to god i'm subscribed to that thread.

 

[clay.r.08]

alright fuck all of you

this is why i dont want to be a part of this forum full of assholes

bann my shit and i will be back as a peep or noob i dont give a shit

nothing but a bunch of little kids talking shit with no life

fuck all of yall

 

[Ratmonkey]

Dude,

You spend like a week posting bad information and troll pictures. How can you now be upset that people are annoyed with you? Seriously, if you want to be a jackass, be a jackass. If you want to be decent, be decent. But, don't jackass allover every body's threads for a week and then wonder why no one will help you.

Rant over...back to lurking.

 

[clay.r.08]

please bann my account i dont want it any more

this place sucks and the people are just shit

this place sucks and so do the fags posting their normal crap feeding their ego's over the internet

i got better things to do, i never have to prove how good i am

if a person messures how good they are by how much they profit monetarily from what they know and they know they make more at this hobby than they ever could at a normal job than you people would understand i dont need to be here telling others how good i am , and i have a user id and name and 1,000 post to make others think they are good at this hobby

the reason why i was interested in wiiware from usb because in the past i was looking for a way to gain the upperhand on my competitors

but now no one else is modding wii's in my city and now putting wiiware games on hard drive is not gonna make me any extra money, just thought it would come in handy to know if i ever had any real competition

fuckin bann my acount i hate the fucking loosers

get a life

 

[ayrek]

Thank you for telling us you never have to prove how good you are, and then, in the very next "paragraph", going on to try and prove how good you are.

Frankly, it doesn't matter how good you are. This is a forum, a COMMUNITY, and we are all only as good as our weakest members.
And, to be completely honest, you're making us all look pretty weak right about now.

What it boils down to is, I don't really care one way or another if you stay or go. Just know, if you want to stay, then you should probably reevaluate how you are treating your peers, or this is going to keep happening to you. I never meant any hostility in any of my messages, and any hostility you read into them came from your own mind, remember that.

But, yes, long story short, virtual NAND on USB or SD, and you can use CFG loader to launch installed WADs. It's also handy because you can use the same virtual NAND for your Wii gamesaves (under the settings, set "NAND emulation to "partial"; your games will save directly to the virtual NAND rather than the wii's internal storage). Enjoy, Hezkore.

 

[clay.r.08]

hey assholes are just assholes

there will always be a reason or something you dont like

i dont want to be a part of this community and i will leaving not giving a shit about a user name

like i learned years ago, 90% of the users are just like you just a bunch of assholes here with no life nothing better to do but show up here throw their own feces at each other

your just a dippshit ayrek

seriously GFY

 

[ayrek]

Yeah, It's been nice talking to you, too.

What I'm really curious about is, if you don't want to be here, why do you keep checking for replies? Why don't you just.. you know.. Not? Seems like a rather elegant solution to me.

 

[p1ngpong]

please bann my account i dont want it any more

Your wish is my command!

 

[p1ngpong]

*yawn*

Listen up clay.r.08 you can make your little threats and as many alt accounts as you wish and think you are getting at us staff but really we have tangled with far worse than you in the years that this board has been up. I can see from what you are posting with your alts that

1: You are probably 12 or just mentally handicapped

2: You endanger this site about as much as a mentally handicapped 12 year old would

3: Your plans to disrupt this forum are substandard to those a mentally handicapped 12 year old could come up with and just pitiful

So yeah go ahead and make alts and post gay porn from your personal collection as much as you like. It is literally no trouble for any mod here to swat any accounts you make like a fly and delete all its contents in 2 button presses. Other than this post you will get no more attention from any staff here, just bans.

Have fun.

 

[Hezkore]

Erm... *cough*... sooo...
ayrek, is there any way to get this working on USB Loader GX?
I've done my own skin and everything for USB Loader GX and it'd be nice if I could keep using it, instead of CFG Loader.
I did try to create a virtual Nand on USB Loader GX (it has that option under Features) and it worked, and installing WADs to it (again via USB Loader GX's Features) also gives me no errors, but when they appear in USB Loader GX, they don't have a banner and they just launch me into an endless screen of blackness...

 

[ayrek]

Hmm.. Unfortunately, I have basically zero experience with USB Loader GX, so I'm not sure I can be of any further help to you. The good news is, you now know you're making progress. Perhaps the USB GX thread in the Wii backup loaders subforum could be of assistance? I'm sorry I can't do more.

 

[Cyan]

Try with USBLoaderGX 3.0 (revision 1180) to install the wads.
The newer beta version seems to have problem installing wads to emuNAND.

Alternatively, you can use ShowMiiWads to install the wads you want.