[Tristar]

Almost hands-free creation of ISO forwarders to launch installed wiiware / vc titles installed on NAND.
Drag your files onto your Wad2ISO shortcut, or start up and use the file selection dialog to point it at your image / wad file(s).

It really is that simple! There are options available, but it works automatically on defaults if you want to run a 'set and forget' job style_emoticons/default/yaywii.gif
When its done you'll have ISO's for your usb loader (it has worked with every loader I've tried).
Forwarder ISOs on a FAT32 drive need to be loaded using hermes 222/3 v4 or cIOS rev 18+

As from D2X v8 beta correctly installed, titles launch with the same settings as disc based games

The latest stable Triiforce Revision has been renamed and used as a single loader, that is launched from a folder called NandGames in the root of either SD: or USB:
(It is renamed to avoid confusion with Triiforce versions that have not yet had the source-code error corrected, preventing in-line arguments being accepted, as detailed in Issue 11 at the Triiforce Subversion repository)

All these forwarder ISO's send game details to this same loader - eliminating unnecessary duplicate loaders for every game ISO style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif, but maintaining ease of Triiforce upgrade (as only the single loader need be replaced instead of re-creating many loaders / ISO images)
The folder NandGames (containing Loader.dol) will be created within the Wad2ISO folder each run, and must be copied to the root of your SD or USB (You only need to do this once)

The excellent Wimms ISO Tools replaces CustomizeMii, Partition Builder and WiiScrubber, which speeds the whole process up by 10X for me.

Easily translate key texts yourself, to make it work in languages other than English style_emoticons/default/toot.gif

Warning! Spoiler inside. 

Make a folder called cfg in the folder you installed Wad2ISO to. Create Language.txt in the cfg folder (It can simply be an empty text file)
The next time you run Wad2ISO it will pop up a message that the Language.txt file is corrupt and offer to fix it.
Open the fixed file in a text editor and change the Window and Button titles to the language of your OS.

If your nand dump and NandGames folder are both on USB, you don't need the SD card at all! style_emoticons/default/yay.gif

You can generate a set (Full/3D/2D) of covers from either the 2D or Full cover source (any png, tif, gif, jpg or bmp image) so you only need to design / locate 1 file for your title instead of all 3.

Imagemagik is the work-horse for covers, so you might need the support files for it to work (A lot of people will already have them installed, so try it out first). style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

If a title results in a black screen - check if changing the video mode helps. If you want to use the latest cIOSX and keep triiforce forwarders working, you can change the cIOS that the forwarders use in the options page

Edited by Tristar, 13 May 2012 - 02:00 AM.

[spayrosam]

Good work

[longtom1]

Any Mirrors as Rapidshare is a bitch

[Jiiwah]

how it works? I don't understand

mirror: edited

Edited by Jiiwah, 26 April 2010 - 09:29 AM.

[longtom1]

nvm

Edited by longtom1, 26 April 2010 - 08:56 AM.

[XFlak]

Wow, sitting back and watching this thing go is amazing, great work on this.

Also enjoyed watching customize mii make a side appearance, lol

[Vattu]

thanks very much. it's very handy. I tried this with 9 games. The wii scrubber part stopped working 2 or 3 times, but otherwise the conversion was smooth.

Edit: All forwarders are tested, and noone worked. I probably did something wrong. Where do I put the dol files?

Edited by Vattu, 07 February 2010 - 09:27 PM.

[Wever]

I would probably like the program. However...after creating my first ISO and using that in  configurable usb loader, it just rebooted upon launching.
Turns out the game itself doesn't work on NAND emu for some reason. So I guess the program works perfectly: it allows me to crash my game faster than usual.


Gotta check out the  triiforce and sneek threads...I'm still rather new to NAND emulatoring.

[Tristar]

I would probably like the program. However...after creating my first ISO and using that in configurable usb loader, it just rebooted upon launching.
Turns out the game itself doesn't work on NAND emu for some reason. So I guess the program works perfectly: it allows me to crash my game faster than usual.


Gotta check out the triiforce and sneek threads...I'm still rather new to NAND emulatoring.

The ISO forwarder reboots the Wii if it doesn't find the corresponding Title installed in nand - saves it hanging forever

Edited by Tristar, 28 April 2010 - 07:36 AM.

[Tristar]

thanks very much. it's very handy. I tried this with 9 games. The wii scrubber part stopped working 2 or 3 times, but otherwise the conversion was smooth.

Edit: All forwarders are tested, and noone worked. I probably did something wrong. Where do I put the dol files?

Which loader are you using? The forwarder ISOs work with any loader I have tried.

dol files no longer required with v3.0 - Of course the wads have to be installed to a nand dump on SD/USB in order for any of these to work.

Edited by Tristar, 17 April 2010 - 02:49 PM.

[Tristar]

@ Jiiwah

If you have wiiware installed to a nand dump then just run this and locate your wad files. It will then generate for each wad file an ISO forwarder to be installed on  configurable usb loader drive along with your other games.

After that the games show up as normal disc games - you select the disc which locates the loader and loads your title.

It's a boring task creating the files manually so this does all the clicking and program swapping while you take it easy - just the way I like it!

I also realised that several games need to have specific options 'forced' for them to work, so with the updated version you can utilise all settings that  Triiforce has to fix any troublesome titles.

Probably won't fix ALL games but it made all mine work so should at least help with some titles

Edited by Tristar, 17 April 2010 - 02:45 PM.

[Wever]

I would probably like the program. However...after creating my first ISO and using that in configurable usb loader, it just rebooted upon launching.
Turns out the game itself doesn't work on NAND emu for some reason. So I guess the program works perfectly: it allows me to crash my game faster than usual.


Gotta check out the triiforce and sneek threads...I'm still rather new to NAND emulatoring.

I think the ISO forwarder reboots if it doesn't find the corresponding dol in the triiforwarders folder - saves it hanging forever

Thanks for the clarification. One of the games that ran on USB nand now loads fine.


Still gotta poke around with the video option thingies, but I can confirm that the forwarding itself works great. the only other game I tested forwarded straight into the "invalid video format" I got.

[Vattu]

I got it working. though, there is a bug which creates another bug later. let me explain.

sometimes, when the partition1 image is created with  partition builder, you get prompted and asked if you want to overwrite the already existing file. I choose "yes". it's a minor halt, and should be easily fixed. but every time this prompt comes up, wii scrubber won't function properly. it quits badly, and you have to stop the 2 wad2iso-processes from task manager before continuing.

I don't know why this happens or why it is so random.

thanks for a great program. it works (mostly).

[Tristar]

I got it working. though, there is a bug which creates another bug later. let me explain.

sometimes, when the partition1 image is created with partition builder, you get prompted and asked if you want to overwrite the already existing file. I choose "yes". it's a minor halt, and should be easily fixed. but every time this prompt comes up, wii scrubber won't function properly. it quits badly, and you have to stop the 2 wad2iso-processes from task manager before continuing.

I don't know why this happens or why it is so random.

thanks for a great program. it works (mostly).

All fixed

Edited by Tristar, 17 April 2010 - 02:39 PM.

[Tristar]

the only other game I tested forwarded straight into the "invalid video format" I got.

Every game I have that gave the invalid video format message I fixed by changing the video mode.

They all work fine now PAL & NTSC wads

Give it a go - nothing to lose

Edited by Tristar, 17 April 2010 - 02:40 PM.