Hacking RawkSD

[themanuel]

Deleting my save file worked for fixing the freeze issue.
I went in and out many times between menus and not a single freeze.
Thanks, quertymodo! This had been nagging me for a long time.
I always thought it was a RawkSD issue because of an entry in the bugs wiki section.

After deleting my save file, the game displayed a message explaining I had to re-download one song from the RB store, in order to re-index my purchased DLC, because it was not recognizing it. Downloading a song took care of that.

One question if anyone is looking:
If I download a random save from the Internet, will that work on my game and still recognize my DLC?
I know games some games with WiFi capability like MKW and SMBB, don't allow you to use save files from others.
I would like to unlock all the songs but don't want to play through the career mode, as I'm more interested in playing casually and want to have all the songs available. Also, I would rather not rip them with RawkSD to avoid taking up storage space, since these songs are available in the disc anyway.

 

[themanuel]

Well, I think I might have found and answer in this article.
I'll try this tonight and post results.

 

[tueidj]

It's not really hard to permanently unlock them all, you only need to complete the decade challenges.

 

[themanuel]

It's not really hard to permanently unlock them all, you only need to complete the decade challenges.

OK.
I think I'll have to give that a try, as using this modifier, won't allow me let me to save.
I'll take a look at the decade challenge tonight.
Thanks.

 

[themanuel]

Does anyone know why forwarders can't be made to work with the RawkSD beta?

 

[Binxy]

You mean like this. www.megaupload.com/?d=XUW5HSOE

 

[themanuel]

Where does RawkSD save its settings?

I can't get it to retain the leaderboard settings. I keep selecting 'no', but when I reopen RawkSD, it is highlighted to 'yes' and I keep getting the message 'your score been uploaded to the RawkSD leaderboards'.
I can't find any configuration files in the SD card or USB drive.

 

[themanuel]

Well, the freezes are back .

However, I have now zeroed in the cause to the microphone. After deleting the save file, the freezes seemed to go away, but I had also removed the microphone because I moved the Wii. Today, I played several guitar+drums songs and, as soon as wee added the microphone to the mix, the freezes came back with a vengeance. Took it off, and they went away.

Has anybody heard about freezes associated with the microphone?
When the freeze occurs, the Wii emits a high pitch sound

 

[themanuel]

When scrolling through songs sorted by artist, there are several instances where the selection will jump up from one song to another one a few places above it, in and endless loop. I figured the cause of most of them was the artist showing up with and without the word 'the' at the beginning of the name (as in 'the ramones' vs. just 'ramones'), so I was able to fix these by just editing the song file in my local cache. However, there are still two places where it still sticks and there is no 'the' in the name. The two problem ones are Alice in Chains and Queens of the Stone Age.

Does anyone have any insight on this issue?

Man, I wish this software/community were still alive...

 

[rkole01]

Yes I'm new to this forum but not a noob. I hope someone will see this post in this older thread. I am trying to use RawkSD 2.2 to run custom songs on my Wii 4.1. I tried using the newest Beta version but it states it has experied. Anyways I have the original RB2 CD. Everything downloads like normal and I see the songs in the list but when I go to play them I get the "Out Of Date" message. It keeps stating I need to re-download it with previous license.

I have numerous DLC for both Guitar Hero series and Rock Band series and they all work perfect. I have been using a 2GB SD card seperate from all my other DLC content for these custom songs. I have worked on this for 3 days and looked at countless posts to no avail. I am stumped! Most all other posts people are using loaders without the original CD. Once they use the original CD it works. I also ran the patcher as stated in the installation guide for good measure.

I feel I have tried everything I know and must now ask for help. Thanks in advance for any advice you may give.

 

[Taleweaver]

I know. I've found out (and posted) about this in this thread as well, but I can't blame you not finding it in the plethora of posts in this thread.

The problem is that the RawkSD patcher downloads and installs the LATEST version of IOS37 (v5662 or v5663 at the moment), but that rawkSD2 only works on v3869. As a result, that patcher is not to be used whatsoever.

What you need to do is use a program like Dop-Mii (or MMM?) to download and install that specific version, and when asked, give it all permissions (what was it? Nand access, trucha bug...I don't know it by heart anymore).
Considering everything else is still fine, that should work to get it up and running.

Good luck.

 

[rkole01]

Thanks for the quick reply Wever. I do remember seeing something about that in another post here. I figured that by using the original RB2 CD it wouldn't matter.

How do I go about installing IOS37 with v3869 using MMM? Now this may be a noobish question but if I do this and I have other programs using IOS37 v5662 will this overwrite the current version and bring it back to IOS37 v3869? Will this make the other programs currently using the newer version not to operate correctly? For instance right now when I try to get custom DLC to work I get the "Out Of Date" message with IOS37 v5662. I have a lot of DLC I have downloaded with IOS37 v5662 installed. If I change it to IOS37 v3869 will that make all my DLC I have downloaded start getting "Out Of Date" messages?

I think I may have seen somewhere sombody talked about using a program like Dop-Mii to merge IOS37 with different versions. Is that possible? If so would the program pick which version it wanted to use?

I would like to be able to create custom songs on RB2 but if changing the IOS to a lower version will mess up other programs I would have to rethink how bad I really want to do this. Everything works perfect right now.

Again thanks for your help in advance.

 

[themanuel]

Another alternative is to use the newest beta, but this requires to change the date on your Wii to December of 2010 to avoid the expiration error. It's the only annoying part, but it works very well. I've always wondered if it is possible to find this date in the dol file with a hex editor and change it.

 

[rkole01]

Thanks for replying themanuel. I have read on other posts there was a way to make the beta version work without getting the expiration error but I didn't undersatnd how until now. I can just go into the Wii settings and change the date to 12/1/2010 and it will allow me to download the beta version without error message?

After that do I need to keep changing the date back before 12/2010 or once it's working can I go and change the date back to current date with no problems?

Does changing the date back have any effect on any other programs I may have running that will cause error messages like "Out Of Date" or "Experiation" errors?

Thanks Again

 

[Taleweaver]

Thanks for the quick reply Wever. I do remember seeing something about that in another post here. I figured that by using the original RB2 CD it wouldn't matter.

1. How do I go about installing IOS37 with v3869 using MMM? 2. Now this may be a noobish question but if I do this and I have other programs using IOS37 v5662 will this overwrite the current version and bring it back to IOS37 v3869? 3. Will this make the other programs currently using the newer version not to operate correctly? For instance right now when I try to get custom DLC to work I get the "Out Of Date" message with IOS37 v5662. I have a lot of DLC I have downloaded with IOS37 v5662 installed. 4. If I change it to IOS37 v3869 will that make all my DLC I have downloaded start getting "Out Of Date" messages?

I think I may have seen somewhere sombody talked about using a program like Dop-Mii to merge IOS37 with different versions. 5. Is that possible? 6. If so would the program pick which version it wanted to use?

I would like to be able to create custom songs on RB2 but if changing the IOS to a lower version will mess up other programs I would have to rethink how bad I really want to do this. Everything works perfect right now.

Again thanks for your help in advance.

Lots of questions. I added a numbering in there for easier answering:
1. I don't know by heart, but it isn't difficult (IOS manager, or something). I'm not sure whether it will ask to apply all the patches to it, though, which is the reason I advise taking dop-mii for this one instead of other means such as modmii (AFAIK, this specific IOS isn't part of the package).
2. You can only have one IOS37 installed, so it will overwrite it. However, pretty much all games and programs can use this IOS as well and aside retail games, they won't "just" install an IOS. (for retail games, blocking updates with priiloader is already advised if you want to keep cIOS249, so it'll serve 2 functions).
3. I have never heard of anything not working on a lower version IOS. In fact, rawkSD is the only homebrew I can think of that is picky about the version, and it wouldn't surprise me if that is more to prevent pirates from using illegal copies of the game than anything else.
4. I don't think so.
5. erm...no. What you're referring to is probably Hermes's cIOS, which can consist of a merge of two different numbers of IOS (and modmii can install that one). However, it has nothing to do with the version numbers, and it certainly won't make rawkSD work if you install that to slot 37 (that's a rule of thumb, by the way: stay away from numbers below 200 if you don't know what you're doing. This case is an exception because we're installing an official IOS (albeit an outdated & patched one) to an official slot).
6. most certainly not. that merge I was talking about just uses two 'good' parts of different IOS'es to form one cIOS. There are no choices whatsoever. And once again: it's not what you're looking for.


What themanuel says is correct. You can use that to get around the date limitation, and yes, you can do that by simply changing the date in the wii settings.
However, setting the date correctly after playing can be tedious. I almost corrupted my wii fit savegame data because I forgot to put it back (my wii thought it was January 2011 and then noticed logs "from the future").

 

[rkole01]

Wever, once again I thank you for your time and explanations. I did have a lot of questions and you answered all of them. The only part that worries me is overwriting IOS37 v5662 back to IOS37 v3869. If RawkSD is giving me an "Out Of Date" error using the current IOS version, then it seems logical that using the old version may make my current downloaded DLC "Out Of Date". You said in your response you didn't think so but it didn't sound like a definite "NO" or "YES". I would rather do this if it will not affect my current DLC downloads.

To use the newer beta version you have to turn the date back in Wii settings. In your response you stated you had to turn the date back to current after playing. Do you need to do this everytime you use RawkSD or only the first time to download it? Thanks

Thanks

 

[Taleweaver]

Hmm...I'm afraid I can't give a definite no/yes, as I haven't done explicit testing. And I don't think anyone can, as when rawksd came out, 3869 was obviously the latest version of IOS37 -> there simply was nobody with DLC downloaded with a later version at that time. From what I know of IOS'es, their version doesn't matter so much. But I don't know that much of the technical stuff of wii hacking, and you can understand that I'm not going to take liability for a program that isn't mine*. Truth is that rawkSD is no longer supported, so these questions are best answered with "see for yourself".
That 'newest beta', for example, was never meant to be used after about mid January 2011 (hence the restriction). It's just that development halted after that, so it's either using that or nothing.

And you can do with the wii date whatever you want. As long as it is somewhere end December/begin January when you run the rawkSD beta, it'll work. I already explained what could happen to other games, but if you don't mind dates to be messed up, you can do as you like.




*the authors do the same thing, by the way. If you want to be 100% safe, you shouldn't be using homebrew in the first place.

 

[rkole01]

Thanks again Wever and to all that answered questions I really do appreciate the information. I know this is older material I was asking questions about and therefore may not have answers for all my questions but I have the info I need. Thanks, Again!

Update to my own question: Everytime you want to use the newest beta version of RawkSD you need to turn your date back. If you don't you will get the experied error message. So as long as you remember to turn the date back to current after using the RawkSD program you should have no issues.

 

[themanuel]

Thanks again Wever and to all that answered questions I really do appreciate the information. I know this is older material I was asking questions about and therefore may not have answers for all my questions but I have the info I need. Thanks, Again!

Update to my own question: Everytime you want to use the newest beta version of RawkSD you need to turn your date back. If you don't you will get the experied error message. So as long as you remember to turn the date back to current after using the RawkSD program you should have no issues.

I somehow turned notifications off on this topic, by mistake so I did not see all your questions.
All I can say is that I've been using the last beta for more than a year without issues, by simply changing the data whenever it expires, which would give me about a month of usage without messing around with the date. but now Wever has planed the seed of doubt in my brain, so I'll probably start going back and forth. Besides, I'm sick of seeing my save dates being behind for more than a year and also, the dates on files I create with homebrew apps.

It would be nice to have an app that will change the date and launch RawkSD, but I doubt such and app would also be able to restore the date, once you shut the game down.

What a cosmic tragedy that his app was abandoned...

 

[jlv2]

Well, the freezes are back .

However, I have now zeroed in the cause to the microphone. After deleting the save file, the freezes seemed to go away, but I had also removed the microphone because I moved the Wii. Today, I played several guitar+drums songs and, as soon as wee added the microphone to the mix, the freezes came back with a vengeance. Took it off, and they went away.

Has anybody heard about freezes associated with the microphone?
When the freeze occurs, the Wii emits a high pitch sound

Yes, that was my experience. We would only have freezes when the mike was in use.

I had only just read your note about deleting the save file to fixi the freezes -- I guess I won't try that after all.

Unfortunately, my wife only likes to sing. Whenever we'd play together, we'd end up with a hang every few songs. That killed off her enjoyment of the game. Restarting the game via HBC just annoyed her more (too many selections).

And every time I forgot to set the date back to the current time after playing would cause problems with games the kids used. In particular, Wii Fit would erase their progress if it was ever started with the clock in the past. They eventually refused to ever play with RawkSD -- they'd much rather just play vanilla RB2.