Hacking Devolution - Public Release

[Nintendo Maniac]

Let's put it this way - the most damage any software could do is corrupt a drive and cause you to lose all data. This however doesn't cause it it to be physically damaged, and a format or deleting and recreating the partition table would be all you'd need to have it working again (though without your previous data obviously).

One thing you could do is have two partitions - NTFS for non-Wii stuff and Wii USB loaders, and a FAT32 partition just for Devolution games (with Wii homebrew apps on an SD card). Theoretically even if Devolution corrups the FAT32 partition, everything in the NTFS partition should be fine since Devolution can't even see it.

 

[the_randomizer]

I really should give this program a try.

 

[McHaggis]

Hi! I have a question that might be dumb but anyways... Is there posibility of damaging the hard drive using devolution? I remember that I read in this thread , just when the first public release of devolution was released, that using Devolution damaged someone's hard drive/USB. Was it true? Is it aready fixed? I'd really like to use devlution but I want to be sure first

I remember reading one report of it, which kind of points to the idea that it's not Devolution that caused the problem. As already mentioned, it is difficult for software to damage a hard drive, although not completely impossible: it would require putting the drive under excessive stress constantly and could take weeks. There can be lots of reasons data becomes inaccessible on a drive, too. Just last week I lost the entire Windows partition on my laptop, and can no longer access it even by mounting in Linux, even though the other partitions on the drive are just fine.

Shit happens, you can't go around blaming the last piece of software you remember using.

 

[SifJar]

Fairly certain that's not going to happn

Hi! I have a question that might be dumb but anyways... Is there posibility of damaging the hard drive using devolution? I remember that I read in this thread , just when the first public release of devolution was released, that using Devolution damaged someone's hard drive/USB. Was it true? Is it aready fixed? I'd really like to use devlution but I want to be sure first

There was one person who claimed it had happened. There was absolutely no evidence to suggest Devolution was actually the cause, the person just happened to havee run Devolution before noticing it and blamed it on Devolution. Of the hundreds of other users, no one else has reported anything of the like. It was probably not related to Devolution.

 

[darklinkpower]

Thanks for the responses! I will start backing up my games right away. And I think it's difficult to a software to damage the harware unless the software is a really outdated one. I remember losing all my data one time I used partition magic, but it was my fault. It's a really outdated software And one thing I want to know: I installed Dios Mios before and i think it replaces the original gamecube Cios ¿Do I have to do something or will devolution work anyways?

 

[Overseer]

...And one thing I want to know: I installed Dios Mios before and i think it replaces the original gamecube Cios ¿Do I have to do something or will devolution work anyways?

Devolution doesn't touch the MIOS, so it works with or without DM(L).

I updated Devo through CFG USB last night, and I'm sure the update was dated yesterday. Can anyone confirm?

 

[lwiz]

Just downloaded devo via links in first post and the date of binaries has indeed changed to 16.11.2012.

 

[kupo3000]

Confirming this as well and according to the sample loader it's v1.68.
I wonder what was changed since there's no changelog?

 

[thevoiceover]

Confirming this as well and according to the sample loader it's v1.68.
I wonder what was changed since there's no changelog?

I guess some gba link testing should be done, as for the newer designed wii spitting out mini discs, I thought people have been able to play media burned to mini's with those units, haven't they? So it seems it can read those discs, it just rejects NGC, right? Just wondering what work has been looked at here.

 

[OriginalHamster]

Indeed, this a new version, will try later

 

[zerofalcon]

r168 is up. Any changelog available?

 

[OriginalHamster]

Rogue Leader freeze during Hoth stage is gone, I think there still are some random freeze, but very far in between

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

So uh... is tueidj ever going to post again or something? His profile says he hasn't even been active since Nov 2nd...

 

[the_randomizer]

So uh... is tueidj ever going to post again or something? His profile says he hasn't even been active since Nov 2nd...

Yep, it's deader than Elvis.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Yep, it's deader than Elvis.

tueidj is hiding in Ohio then?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

tueidj is hiding in Ohio then?

lolwut? That's not hiding very well considering I live there (specifically between Cleveland and Akron).

 

[McHaggis]

"The King is alive!"

tueidj hasn't been active since the temp got hacked. His last post was October 21st.

 

[the_randomizer]

Ouch.

Spoiler

このプロジェクトが恥ずべきに死んじゃったぞ
Translation: This project has died an ignominious death.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

このプロジェクトが恥ずべきに死んじゃったぞ
Translation: This project has died an ignominious death.

Uhh... is there some kind of memo I missed or something?

 

[the_randomizer]

Uhh... is there some kind of memo I missed or something?

No, I'm just saying his project died ignominiously. He hasn't been on in nearly a month.