Hacking Casper by giantpune

[qwertymodo]

Another Q is do we care to change the current softmod process to incorporate making a virgin nand backup before running the hackmii installer (ie. installing bootmii@IOS)

Considering that the HackMii installer has not bricked a single console in the entirety of its existence, using Casper>Bootmii>NAND backup before installing HBC is pointless if your goal is to avoid the chance of bricking. If, on the other hand, you just wanted a backup of an *almost* completely unmodded NAND (minus the small file that Casper creates), then you might have a reason for that.

 

[JoostinOnline]

From the Casper homepage:

Even though it is reading the data from the SD card, casper DOES write something to the NAND. Under normal circumstances, the file it writes will be deleted next time you boot the console. And the deleted data will be overwritten as games create save data and stuff like this.

And what would be "abnormal" circumstances?

 

[tueidj]

IOS fails to load, or you boot straight from bootmii -> SNEEK so IOS never touches the real NAND.

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

Just to ask, what does it mean by "You'll need a squeaky clean copy of one of several IOSes."

Does it mean any IOS or just a particular one?

So, Anyway... your telling me that, I can use my own NAND (through *neek) on a Wii that hasn't lost it's Virginity?

 

[giantpune]

Just install a clean ios53 v5663 and it should be fine.

As far as the "is my wii still a virgin?" goes, it depends on how you define a virgin wii. If you use this to load *NEEK from some game/system menu exploit, then you have already run unauthorized code on the PPC and the ARM, and have written a file onto the NAND. Some people would consider that breaking some sort of cherry. Maybe you can think of that is just sticking a little pinky finger in it.

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

Well, Anyway... putting the comical sexual references aside.

So would the required IOS have to be on the SD Card in order to use this "friendly ghost"?

 

[giantpune]

the required ios would have to be installed on your wii.

 

[BvanBart]

Hmm... My wii is special lol -.-

When i start it, it goes straight to the menu. Would be a nice feature to add somekind of log ?

 

[VatoLoco]

Wow, this is really cool. After i wrapped my head around this and read through some of the thread, i proceeded to use letterbomb on my unmodded black Wii to directly boot up my uneek nand(s). Easy breazy. This is good awesome stuff=D
Thanks, giantpune!

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

the required ios would have to be installed on your wii.

So... It would have to be actually on the Wii NAND, not the SD Card?

 

[XFlak]

so basically if you're on 4.2U\4.2E\4.2J\4.3K you should already have the IOS required installed on your Wii

if your on a lower system menu version, u can either do an official update, or you can use an exploit to launch mmm, then install a nonfakesigned IOS53 (even virgin wii's can do this), then use mmm's applauncher to load casper (or just replace the mmm boot.elf on the root of the sd card with casper). The only indication that anything odd was done to the wii would be that only IOS53 was updated, but that's pretty minor. And even then you could always restore a virgin nand if you cared badly enough.

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

Well... That was explained clear enough for me to understand. Thanks.

Just to ask and a bit off-topic, but... is DIOS MIOS Lite supported better on an actual NAND or a NAND running through *neek? If it's better running through *neek, then I'll try it for myself. Despite that, I haven't had any problems with DML installed on my actual NAND though.

 

[obcd]

dml support between neek and real nand should be identical, but the question is off topic here.

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

I've decided to try this out.

So... I've put boot.elf (casper.elf) and bootmii_ios.bin (armboot.bin from the BootMii folder) on my SD Card, now what do i do in order to run something through casper? :/

 

[obcd]

On an unmodded wii, you use a game exploit or the banner bomb or mail momb to launch casper.elf.
On a modded wii, you can use wiixplorer to launch the program.

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

Anyway... I loaded Casper through Wiixplorer and it rebooted the system menu, as if like I just turned it on.

If i wanted to run something through Casper, what can use?

 

[SifJar]

If you don't know what to use it for, why do you even want to use it?

Anyway, you can use it to load Ceiling Cat (the official BootMii GUI - the one used to make NAND dumps etc.) or GC Linux or SNEEK/UNEEK or Comex's NAND Formatter or probably some other stuff I can't think of.

 

[ZRicky11]

Nice, it works for me. It also works cBoot2, so everyone can load apps with a patched IOS36 loaded

 

[DoctorWhosThat]

If you don't know what to use it for, why do you even want to use it?

Anyway, you can use it to load Ceiling Cat (the official BootMii GUI - the one used to make NAND dumps etc.) or GC Linux or SNEEK/UNEEK or Comex's NAND Formatter or probably some other stuff I can't think of.

giantpune, could you possibly include a on-screen log of what's actually going on, as it's like looking at a blank screen.

Also... maybe perhaps someone could create a tutorial for someone that doesn't even understand the basics of how this all works fully without looking like a complete n00b.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Also... maybe perhaps someone could create a tutorial for someone that doesn't even understand the basics of how this all works fully without looking like a complete n00b.

That alone makes you look like a noob. LOL