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Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

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BestNoob said:
Maybe ive found an bug ? Or i have done smth wrong.



When i try to load those Apps via WiiFlow Menu it crashes:


USBLoader GX (ID: UNEO) - just black screen
HomeBrew Channel (ID: LULZ) - starts hackmii oO ????
WiiMC (ID:WIMC) - just black screen



I think realoading Cache does not work.
I Edited an cover and uploaded it via FTP, realoded cache but it still shows me the old cover.



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FTP Server Crash while downloading Pictures from SD Card
- WiiFlow restarts after crash
- FileZilla used as FTP Client

WiiFlow FTP crashing all the time until i stopped FileZilla Client

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If nothing is working you probably don't have everything needed for the mod to work properly like the cIOS's or other system components that need to be modded.

I know there is a flame war over this but I've used Pimp My Wii with zero problems for years and I won't say how many modded systems.

Google 'pimp my wii 3.01 download' and download from the first link. Run it from the homebrew channel and select the top menu item and select all the defaults. When done your system should run fine.

Or you could use ModMii - google search it and you can find instructions for it.
 
bostonBC said:
I know there is a flame war over this but I've used Pimp My Wii with zero problems for years and I won't say how many modded systems.
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You probably will be flamed for saying this also :P

So let me try to soften it up by saying:
If you want the easy way to update your wii, then use PMW... although you have far less controll over what is being installed.
If you want the second most easy way to update your wii, then use ModMii, more controll and you might learn something about modding at the same time.
If you want the least easy way, you manually install all the neccesary things you need, this has the advantage that you learn and know what you are doing and only install the absolute neccesary.. the other 2 options tend to install too much stuff.

So thats the lowdown, take your pick.
 
Th3-Blu3BoMb3r said:
Ok so great progress with the western digital at least the dios mios icon shows up in wiiflow now I just need help with this one error and I'm golden! Fatal error app_main:dst not in MEM1!"
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Make sure you are formatting your hdd with 32kb, and not 64kb. I also recommend using DMToolbox and choosing 'Optimized' and '32kb' before installing.
 
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WiiCube_2013 said:
I have a question: Why does WiiFlow take a while to open?

The other homebrew apps are pretty instant but not WiiFlow.
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If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's probably all the huge cover textures it has to cache, on top of the usual themes, banners etc. Having the slickest, fanciest UI usually involves a performance tradeoff on any hardware.
 
MarcusCarter said:
Make sure you are formatting your hdd with 32kb, and not 64kb. I also recommend using DMToolbox and choosing 'Optimized' and '32kb' before installing.
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no luck with re installing the games same outcome eather the splash screen stays, goes to a black screen after splash screen, or i get "Fatal error app_main:dst not in MEM1!"
 
WiiCube_2013 said:
I have a question: Why does WiiFlow take a while to open?

The other homebrew apps are pretty instant but not WiiFlow.
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flamepanther said:
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's probably all the huge cover textures it has to cache, on top of the usual themes, banners etc. Having the slickest, fanciest UI usually involves a performance tradeoff on any hardware.
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Well, what is long, once cached, wiiflow starts in about 5 secs. here
 
Ok need lots of people to "LISTEN!!!!" on this one because ive read a lot of forums where people have had trouble with this same topic i had trouble with im not quite sure why this is working but im glad it is: DIOS MIOS not (Lite) has been giving be huge problems since about 6 days ago and ive been relentless at getting it to work and after lots of black screens, freezing, crashing, error codes so on and so forth i got it to WORK! :) so first thing was to make sure all the IOS's are up to date i used Pimpmywii for this DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING it can BRICK WII's... second make sure you have the most up to date d2x cios installer Simple Enough... now i had to ditch my Seagate 2tb HDD because it was incompatible i suggest a Western digital and format Full Fat32 now heres where it was confusing to me everyone has always said keep your HDD 32kb so i originally did with "Ease Partition Master" < it automatically formats fat32 32kb and i made huge progress doing this because i at least got a DIOS MIOS splash screen where as before i got nothing i tried reinstalling games but to no avail finally i decided to reformat only this time i used my mac and instead of it being fat32 32kb it became fat32 64kb and all the games seemed to work after doing this not sure why but if anyone is having this problem i suggest formating with a mac its quick and easy to do this is the guide i used > http://www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/188-Wii-Hard-Drive-Fat32-Guide
i would like to THANK!! GREATFULY THE HELP FROM>VashTS, MarcusCarter, ToddofWar420, MassiveRican, and bostonBC you guys have stuck with me through this and i thankyou very much for your patience P.S. USE DMtoolbox
 
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Th3-Blu3BoMb3r said:
Ok need lots of people to "LISTEN!!!!" on this one because ive read a lot of forums where people have had trouble with this same topic i had trouble with im not quite sure why this is working but im glad it is: DIOS MIOS not (Lite) has been giving be huge problems since about 6 days ago and ive been relentless at getting it to work and after lots of black screens, freezing, crashing, error codes so on and so forth i got it to WORK! :) so first thing was to make sure all the IOS's are up to date i used Pimpmywii for this DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING it can BRICK WII's... second make sure you have the most up to date d2x cios installer Simple Enough... now i had to ditch my Seagate 2tb HDD because it was incompatible i suggest a Western digital and format Full Fat32 now heres where it was confusing to me everyone has always said keep your HDD 32kb so i originally did with "Ease Partition Master" < it automatically formats fat32 32kb and i made huge progress doing this because i at least got a DIOS MIOS splash screen where as before i got nothing i tried reinstalling games but to no avail finally i decided to reformat only this time i used my mac and instead of it being fat32 32kb it became fat32 64kb and all the games seemed to work after doing this not sure why but if anyone is having this problem i suggest formating with a mac its quick and easy to do this is the guide i used > http://www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/188-Wii-Hard-Drive-Fat32-Guide
i would like to THANK!! GREATFULY THE HELP FROM>VashTS, MarcusCarter,ToddofWar420, MassiveRican, and bostonBC you guys have stuck with me through this and i thankyou very much for your patience P.S. USE DMtoolbox
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DIOS MIOS = USB
DIOS MIOS Lite = SD

PMW will not brick your Wii. There is an entire other very large thread and flame war over that.
 
Th3-Blu3BoMb3r said:
Ok need lots of people to "LISTEN!!!!" on this one because ive read a lot of forums where people have had trouble with this same topic i had trouble with im not quite sure why this is working but im glad it is: DIOS MIOS not (Lite) has been giving be huge problems since about 6 days ago and ive been relentless at getting it to work and after lots of black screens, freezing, crashing, error codes so on and so forth i got it to WORK! :) so first thing was to make sure all the IOS's are up to date i used Pimpmywii for this DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING it can BRICK WII's... second make sure you have the most up to date d2x cios installer Simple Enough... now i had to ditch my Seagate 2tb HDD because it was incompatible i suggest a Western digital and format Full Fat32 now heres where it was confusing to me everyone has always said keep your HDD 32kb so i originally did with "Ease Partition Master" < it automatically formats fat32 32kb and i made huge progress doing this because i at least got a DIOS MIOS splash screen where as before i got nothing i tried reinstalling games but to no avail finally i decided to reformat only this time i used my mac and instead of it being fat32 32kb it became fat32 64kb and all the games seemed to work after doing this not sure why but if anyone is having this problem i suggest formating with a mac its quick and easy to do this is the guide i used > http://www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/188-Wii-Hard-Drive-Fat32-Guide
i would like to THANK!! GREATFULY THE HELP FROM>VashTS, MarcusCarter,ToddofWar420, MassiveRican, and bostonBC you guys have stuck with me through this and i thankyou very much for your patience P.S. USE DMtoolbox
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no problem! im always glad to help if i can. the majority of this will not solve your DM problem though. very few steps that allow DM to work flawlessly.

first is HDD compatibility. That one is tough to determine, but can be ruled out pretty easily. check against others / try different drives is the only solution.

step 2 ) format to fat32, 32kb clusters.
step 3 ) grab a loader (wiiflow, usb loader gx, cfg loader, dm launcher by fix)
step 4 ) make sure you have games in usb:/games/FOLDER_NAME/game.iso (or if extracted should be bunch of files)
step 5 ) launch the loader and profit.

IOS does not affect DM directly. It may affect the launcher from loading properly. Most will work with just IOS 58 anymore.
 
Th3-Blu3BoMb3r said:
Ok need lots of people to "LISTEN!!!!" on this one because ive read a lot of forums where people have had trouble with this same topic i had trouble with im not quite sure why this is working but im glad it is: DIOS MIOS not (Lite) has been giving be huge problems since about 6 days ago and ive been relentless at getting it to work and after lots of black screens, freezing, crashing, error codes so on and so forth i got it to WORK! :) so first thing was to make sure all the IOS's are up to date i used Pimpmywii for this DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING it can BRICK WII's... second make sure you have the most up to date d2x cios installer Simple Enough... now i had to ditch my Seagate 2tb HDD because it was incompatible i suggest a Western digital and format Full Fat32 now heres where it was confusing to me everyone has always said keep your HDD 32kb so i originally did with "Ease Partition Master" < it automatically formats fat32 32kb and i made huge progress doing this because i at least got a DIOS MIOS splash screen where as before i got nothing i tried reinstalling games but to no avail finally i decided to reformat only this time i used my mac and instead of it being fat32 32kb it became fat32 64kb and all the games seemed to work after doing this not sure why but if anyone is having this problem i suggest formating with a mac its quick and easy to do this is the guide i used > http://www.hacksden.com/showthread.php/188-Wii-Hard-Drive-Fat32-Guide
i would like to THANK!! GREATFULY THE HELP FROM>VashTS, MarcusCarter,ToddofWar420, MassiveRican, and bostonBC you guys have stuck with me through this and i thankyou very much for your patience P.S. USE DMtoolbox
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Awesome! So if I have problems with Dios Mios, all I gotta do is go get a mac and a different hdd? That's so easy!:glare:
 
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matto21 said:
wiiflow4.2 r440 - 4.2.1 r1045
HDD formatted NTFS
folders within
code dump

HDD formatted FAT32
all OK
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I have had success with NTFS volumes when WiiFlow was on an SD card and just the WBFS folder with the games was on the NTFS partition.
 
4.1.3 r439

HDD formatted NTFS
folders within
all OK

with 4.2 r440 - 4.2.1 r1045
HDD formatted NTFS
folders within
code dump
 

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