Hacking Kirby Adventure Wii NOT working

[rush2802]

I've found a problem trying to run Kirby Adventure Wii (the PAL version of Kirby's Return to Dreamland) using CFG USB Loader v70, strangely, it worked before but now hangs (black screen) after selecting a save file, and it's the same ISO i used the 1st time around (i keep a backup in my PC), i'm trying to load through SD, i don't know if it makes a difference.

Anyway, here's my sysCheck report:

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.1.0b18 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 2009.11.21
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID : XXXXX0025
Boot2 v4
Found 146 titles.
Found 50 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 21007, Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/11/13.

I updated everything a few days ago using ModMii... i hope anyone can help me, i want to replay that game :/

You may notice i have installed IOS249 d2x v7 Final, i installed that today believing that downgrading that particular IOS would help me, i was wrong.

 

[TyBlood13]

Umm...it is called USB loader, try that, but USB Loader GX has better SD support

 

[rush2802]

Is it possible por a particular game to NOT work when played from an SD card?

 

[pBullet]

No, not really. Generally USB drives are formatted as NTFS as you don't need to split the games, or in WBFS so you don't need to do anything really. SD is generally in FAT32 with 32 bit clusters so it shouldn't impede the loading of the game.

Return to Dreamland, if I remember right, has some weirdo anti-piracy measures added into it and it spazzes out at random moments. Try using IOS250 instead on the game load, or try using Hermes IOS222 instead.

However mini-games do tend to freeze anyways

 

[DarkMatterCore]

Try using this (props to dcx2 @ GeckoCodes.org). Just save the file as "gameconfig.txt" (without quotes) on the root of your SD Card, and load the game as you would normally do.

This will hopefully disable the MetaFortress protection the game has.

 

[rush2802]

Well, none of the 2 above solutions worked... i'm puzzled because i've played it before with no problems at all and now it hangs :/

 

[rush2802]

Well, i found a solution... The game refuses to load any cinematics when played from the Wii's SD slot (That's the reason why it hanged after the file selection screen, since the file was marked as New it had to show the first cinematic...), it works fine when played through USB. I used two SD cards with an USB card reader, one formatted to WBFS and one formatted to FAT32 just to be on the safe side and both worked using even the most basic options (I had to set Video to System Default because the game is a PAL version and that's it)

I hope this info helps everybody who has trouble with this game

 

[eder.oliveira]

hi, I'm having problems with this game too, it worked before, but I think that my case is specific, first, when it worked, I don't remember well, because it was so many months ago, I think I was running cfg loader via sd card and the game in WBFS partition, with cIOS d2x v6 in IOS 249, then, now I'm running cfg loader from the fat32 partition of my HD (all other games still works), or run via WiiFlow on sd card fat32 with d2x v6 or d2x v9 from partition WBFS on HD and the game doesn't work, it past the intro and freezes in the black screen, I noted that the iso has 4.something and when I transfer it to the WBFS partition using WBFS manager it gets 1.3 in space, can it be the problem? any help?

 

[_acid_]

hi, I'm having problems with this game too, it worked before, but I think that my case is specific, first, when it worked, I don't remember well, because it was so many months ago, I think I was running cfg loader via sd card and the game in WBFS partition, with cIOS d2x v6 in IOS 249, then, now I'm running cfg loader from the fat32 partition of my HD (all other games still works), or run via WiiFlow on sd card fat32 with d2x v6 or d2x v9 from partition WBFS on HD and the game doesn't work, it past the intro and freezes in the black screen, I noted that the iso has 4.something and when I transfer it to the WBFS partition using WBFS manager it gets 1.3 in space, can it be the problem? any help?

perhaps first you should show us a syscheck so we know can exactly what IOS's you have

and about the size of the .iso and the size that WBFS manager shows, the manager shows the actual game size. all wii iso's are around 4 gigs, they are not the actual gamesize

 

[eder.oliveira]

perhaps first you should show us a syscheck so we know can exactly what IOS's you have

and about the size of the .iso and the size that WBFS manager shows, the manager shows the actual game size. all wii iso's are around 4 gigs, they are not the actual gamesize

I partially found the root of this random problem that affect a high number of people, I tested the game with 4 HD, mine's, my brother's, a copy of mine and of a friend of mine, and it worked on the HD from my friend and from my brother on my wii, and mine's and the copy of my HD doesn't work on the wii of my brother and of my friend, then I thought it must be a incompatibility with some game that I have on my HD, I formated My HD and just added the kirby game, and it worked, now i compared the games that I have different of the HD of my friend, and then I adding one by one to see if one of them is causing the Kirby game to crash, any news I'll update you guys.

 

[eder.oliveira]

perhaps first you should show us a syscheck so we know can exactly what IOS's you have

and about the size of the .iso and the size that WBFS manager shows, the manager shows the actual game size. all wii iso's are around 4 gigs, they are not the actual gamesize

Hey, long time no see, Just updating, i discovered that some games can run on a hd, and some notm, this was this case, the same game played on other hd, my hd wasn't playing kirby first, then it stopped playing my other games, now my wii can't read anything from it, I changed the hd and put the same games on it and now work

 

[_acid_]

Hey, long time no see, Just updating, i discovered that some games can run on a hd, and some notm, this was this case, the same game played on other hd, my hd wasn't playing kirby first, then it stopped playing my other games, now my wii can't read anything from it, I changed the hd and put the same games on it and now work

so everything is fixed? great

 

[Alex4nder001]

Well im using usbloadergx v.30 rev1269 on a PAL wii U. It loads fine until the game says “Hold the wiimote sideways”. When I press 2 the game hangs on a white screen, although I can still exit to the home menu. Im using the PAL version of Kirby’s adventure wii.
Umm I followed wiiu.guide/vwii-modding to hack and I installed the cios’s the guide told me to. What should I do?

 

[GreyWolf]

Well im using usbloadergx v.30 rev1269 on a PAL wii U. It loads fine until the game says “Hold the wiimote sideways”. When I press 2 the game hangs on a white screen, although I can still exit to the home menu. Im using the PAL version of Kirby’s adventure wii.
Umm I followed wiiu.guide/vwii-modding to hack and I installed the cios’s the guide told me to. What should I do?

This thread is 3 years old, but...

The latest USB Loader GX is r1262. If yours truly says r1269 it's probably an interim build of my fork rather than the official loader.

Check your game disc's SHA with Wii Backup Manager and make sure the game partition is valid.

Also, I'm not sure about Kirby's Adventure but Return to Dreamland had Metafortress protection on it. Try running the game with NO patches or cheats.

 

[Alex4nder001]

[QUOTE="GreyWolf, post: 7659459, member: 362215”]Check your game disc's SHA with Wii Backup Manager and make sure the game partition is valid.

Also, I'm not sure about Kirby's Adventure but Return to Dreamland had Metafortress protection on it. Try running the game with NO patches or cheats.[/QUOTE]
I verified the disc and it says its fine. I have no cheats or patches, and I tried running the game under ios 250 and 249. With ios 250 it doesnt launch at all but with 249 I get the same problem as before.

 

[DeadOneWalking]

Sorry, I have to do this. Anyone open that text file, there is a lot of poking going on in there!