Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

[scooby74029]

thank conanac very helpful post

 

[sonictopfan]

Edit: Never mind conanac linked to fixelf in the googlepage

 

[KentaZX]

okay ever since I've tried putting in wiigator mios to use AR cheats on certain retail games, and then putting in dios mios 2.9. All of my gamecube games seem to keep giving out the disc error message during gameplay, I downgraded to 2.6 mod but that didnt help either...anyone who had this kind of error before could help me out on this?

This been happening just recently too, like all the gamecube games that worked perfectly before, are now giving this error.

 

[Maxternal]

okay ever since I've tried putting in wiigator mios to use AR cheats on certain retail games, and then putting in dios mios 2.9. All of my gamecube games seem to keep giving out the disc error message during gameplay, I downgraded to 2.6 mod but that didnt help either...anyone who had this kind of error before could help me out on this?

This been happening just recently too, like all the gamecube games that worked perfectly before, are now giving this error.

Not sure if it will help but try UN-installing any version before you install it. It just might help get rid of some old stuff that was left behind in case that's what's causing your problem.

 

[KentaZX]

Not sure if it will help but try UN-installing any version before you install it. It just might help get rid of some old stuff that was left behind.

Okay I've uninstalled the 2.6 mod version and installed the 2.9 latest version, and im still getting the "error has occurred, turn off the console" message. Odd thing though the wii drive stopped for a second and restarted too...

 

[jurai]

just lost my entire Wii usb drive due to hard drive failure. What's a recommended brand at this point that supports Dios Mios as a replacement? I was using a toshiba previoiusly, which worked, but admittedly didn't have built in hardware support for disabling sleep and relied on software fixes

 

[Cyan]

KentaZX : install MIOS v10 first, it should replace everything clean (in fact, there's only two files to replace : the actual program binary and a text file with the current version).
Then try booting Gamecube retail disc from Disc Channel to see if everything work fine, see if it's your game disc, your Disc reader, etc.
My lens is tired and I often get Read error please reset when playing from disc too.

Then you can install DIOS MIOS (Lite) 2.9 or 2.8 if you want to swap disc.
You can use Ocarina with DIOS MIOS (Lite) + Game ISO. There's a thread on gbaTemp with a converter from AR Code to Ocarina.


@Jurai:
You need a drive which has 512Bytes sector size (may be hard to find, as they are not produced anymore)
You need a drive which is not bigger than 2TB (as they are all using 4KiB sector size)
Buy a small HDD (250 or 320 GB) and you will have more chance to find one 512Byte per sector drive.

About brands :
Seagate : random problem at initialization. DM can't always mount it (black screen problem), or it just switch off the Wii. But, it's a random problem, the HDD works fine most of the time. Just try again and it's good.
Western Digital : This one is good.
Other brand : I don't know the compatibility.

Maxternal started a Wiki page with DM compatibility, but not a lot of users (me included) updated it.
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Dios_Mios_HDD_Compatibility_List

 

[Rydian]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002CZQ4GK
I ordered that a few weeks ago and it works.

 

[the_randomizer]

just lost my entire Wii usb drive due to hard drive failure. What's a recommended brand at this point that supports Dios Mios as a replacement? I was using a toshiba previoiusly, which worked, but admittedly didn't have built in hardware support for disabling sleep and relied on software fixes

Western Digital is very stable. Seagate and Toshiba avoid like the plague due to high failure rates.

 

[tankberg]

I was playing Skies of Arcadia Legends today via Dios-Mios Lite 2.9 and in the middle of the battle - game suddenly switched from widescreen to regular 4:3. Did anyone experience the same? What can be the reason?

 

[Maxternal]

just lost my entire Wii usb drive due to hard drive failure. What's a recommended brand at this point that supports Dios Mios as a replacement? I was using a toshiba previoiusly, which worked, but admittedly didn't have built in hardware support for disabling sleep and relied on software fixes

here's a thread version of the compat list which is much more complete than the wiki version
http://gbatemp.net/threads/post-the-model-of-hdds-youve-used-with-dios-mios.344522/

 

[KentaZX]

KentaZX : install MIOS v10 first, it should replace everything clean (in fact, there's only two files to replace : the actual program binary and a text file with the current version).
Then try booting Gamecube retail disc from Disc Channel to see if everything work fine, see if it's your game disc, your Disc reader, etc.
My lens is tired and I often get Read error please reset when playing from disc too.

Then you can install DIOS MIOS (Lite) 2.9 or 2.8 if you want to swap disc.
You can use Ocarina with DIOS MIOS (Lite) + Game ISO. There's a thread on gbaTemp with a converter from AR Code to Ocarina.

Okay I've tried installing the clean Mios v10, then installed dios mios 2.9. I still get the disc read error... could it be that my lens is tired now? do i need to get it replaced?

 

[Cyan]

what I suggested was to boot a disc from the disc channel with MIOS v10, not after re-installing another MIOS (DIOS MIOS for instance).
Try with official MIOS v10 + retail disc to see if the problem is the drive/lens.

if it's the lens, then try to make a good dump of your disc and play from ISO with DIOS MIOS (Lite) or Devolution.

 

[MassiveRican]

Western Digital is very stable. Seagate and Toshiba avoid like the plague due to high failure rates.

Absolutely not true, duffmmann and myself included have had great success with Seagate HDD's, well the same model at least. I know that other models are not as compatible with DM but the one's that I've bought for myself (2) and helped four of my friends buy, work great with DM and all Wii Homebrew.

I highly recommend my Seagate HDD from personal experience and because it's been confirmed on Maxternal's DM HDD compatibility thread as a working drive as well. It goes as high as 1TB which is a big plus but I'm in the market for a 2TB HDD, and I hope to continue to be able to use Seagate but I'll soon find out.

 

[the_randomizer]

Absolutely not true, duffmmann and myself included have had great success with Seagate HDD's, well the same model at least. I know that other models are not as compatible with DM but the one's that I've bought for myself (2) and helped four of my friends buy, work great with DM and all Wii Homebrew.

I highly recommend my Seagate HDD from personal experience and because it's been confirmed on Maxternal's DM HDD compatibility thread as a working drive as well. It goes as high as 1TB which is a big plus but I'm in the market for a 2TB HDD, and I hope to continue to be able to use Seagate but I'll soon find out.

I stand corrected, they have gotten better over the years from when I last tried that brand. I must be thinking of Toshiba.

 

[MassiveRican]

I stand corrected, they have gotten better over the years from when I last tried that brand. I must be thinking of Toshiba.

I can vouch I haven't been able to get a single Toshiba model working with DM and some are even incompatible just to play Wii games! I definitely stay away from Toshiba like the plague but again I'm speaking from personal experience, maybe others have had better luck with another model.

 

[the_randomizer]

I can vouch I haven't been able to get a single Toshiba model working with DM and some are even incompatible just to play Wii games! I definitely stay away from Toshiba like the plague but again I'm speaking from personal experience, maybe others have had better luck with another model.

Okay, so Seagate and Western Digital seem to be the way to go. I have a 500 GB HDD from WD and works like a charm!

 

[MassiveRican]

Seagate GoFlex not GoFlex Ultra models in particular with the USB 2.0 adapter not 3.0 specifically.. I know it get's technical but it's what's been confirmed to work 100% of the time. As for other Seagate models I guess it's trial and error as Cyan has a Seagate model which gives him problems every now and then.

 

[KentaZX]

what I suggested was to boot a disc from the disc channel with MIOS v10, not after re-installing another MIOS (DIOS MIOS for instance).
Try with official MIOS v10 + retail disc to see if the problem is the drive/lens.

if it's the lens, then try to make a good dump of your disc and play from ISO with DIOS MIOS (Lite) or Devolution.

oh i forgot to mention I did the Miosv10 AND the disc BEFORE i did dios mios. when I installed mios v10, I then tried my super smash bros melee retail disc, played with a bunch of characters and it seem fine, no disc errors or anything.

after that retail disc part, THEN I installed dios mios 2.9 and tried a game, i get the disc read error but it shown up after a longer gameplay than the last time.

I forgot to mention in the last post of mine that I did the mios 10 and retail disc first before dios mios, sorry about that..

 

[Maxternal]

As far as seagate, they were good in the past but apparently will no longer be in the future

Yes, it is the way DIOS MIOS was programmed. I know DIOS MIOS loads entire clusters into memory at one time so it's not like it can't be coded to work with 4k sector sizes. Maybe they will feel motivated to eventually support it?

I tried to pry more information out of those "technical support" people trying to find a drive I can buy, but they don't really know what they are talking about.

I asked:

"You mean 512 byte (not k) sector size, right? What about 512 logical bytes along size 4k physical? I know some companies are doing that for compatibility reasons, but again, I don't see any information about what drives might support that."

They answered:

"We only manufacturer hard drives with 4K sector size, we no longer manufacturer legacy hard drives. All HGST hard drives are now 4K physical drives."

I replied:

"Yes, yes, you said that. What about drives with 512 byte LOGICAL sector size on 4k Physical sector sizes."

*sigh*

as it appears they will no longer be producing any new models of any size without 4k sectors (4k sectors are what makes all 3tb drives incompatible.)