Hacking Xenoblade Chronicles dead

[zsdrfty]

I found an NTSC ISO of Xenoblade Chronicles and put it on a portable 111 GB hard drive. I formatted it to WBFS and added it, and used USB Loader GX to play it. At first, the game starts, but the warning message about the wrist strap won't respond to my controller. (yes, it's still synced) After getting through it, the game just turns to black and the hard drive light never goes on. When I force aspect ratio and English, the game goes a lot further -- it responds to the controller and even shows the loading animation. However, the game just does it forever, again with no drive light going on. Any ideas as to what this could be? Thanks. darude sandstorm

 

[grossaffe]

First off, does anybody actually format their HDDs to WBFS anymore? Just use FAT32 and convert the .iso to .wbfs with a tool like wbfs_file

 

[Skull Kiddo]

Er, isn't there a program called Wii Backup Manager or something? I guess I forgot the name but I used that and XC works fine. Ubless its a bad dump

 

[Arras]

Do you have reasonably up to date cIOSes? Are you using a Wii that's the same region as the Xenoblade rip you're trying to play? Also yeah, there's no reason to use WBFS, FAT32 works just as well and is safer in case of data corruption. never gonna give you up

 

[zsdrfty]

I formatted the drive to FAT32 and made the game a WBFS with the Wii Backup Manager. Now, the problem is that the game just won't be recognized whatsoever. Yes, I gave it the correct format for the name and reset it, but it still won't work. The drive is recognized though.
EDIT: it's an NTSC copy and works in an emulator (as close to working as possible anyway), meaning it's not corrupted.

 

[sarkwalvein]

I formatted the drive to FAT32 and made the game a WBFS with the Wii Backup Manager. Now, the problem is that the game just won't be recognized whatsoever. Yes, I gave it the correct format for the name and reset it, but it still won't work. The drive is recognized though.
EDIT: it's an NTSC copy and works in an emulator (as close to working as possible anyway), meaning it's not corrupted.

What do you mean?
Xenoblade chronicles is emulated almost perfectly even in a toaster (provided the toaster has a medium grade corei5 or better)

 

[zsdrfty]

My toaster has a medium grade Core i5, hooray!
By broken, I mean that leaving Tephra Cave overheated and froze my toaster at once.

 

[Lacius]

Post a sysCheck.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/posting-a-system-check.300279/

 

[sarkwalvein]

My toaster has a medium grade Core i5, hooray!
By broken, I mean that leaving Tephra Cave overheated and froze my toaster at once.

Oh, that happened to me before. Cleaning the cooler and heatsink made quite an improvement, it was funny how the CPU got to 99°C most of the time (and downclocked automatically). It was great in the winter cold days.

 

[grossaffe]

Leaving the tephra cave does lead you to that impressive expanse that is the Gaur Plains with music that would melt butter in an instant.

 

[zsdrfty]

Here:

Spoiler

SysCheck v2.3.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 02.13.200702
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 116660012
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 93 titles.
Found 47 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
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 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
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 3072): Stub
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 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
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 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[37] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 12/17/2014.

When leaving, I left the entrance back to Colony 9 by accident by walking backwards, killing everything and my grandmother.
Can it melt the butter that is my glorious 800 MHz IBM processor? hoozah

 

[Lacius]

If you're running backups using IOS249, your setup might not cut it using base IOS37. I suggest you do something like drag your sysCheck into ModMii and have it install the recommended cIOS setup. If you install IOS249 using base IOS56, I suspect your problems will go away.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/modmii-for-windows-official-support-topic.207126/

Edit: I just confirmed that Xenoblade Chronicles uses IOS53. This means it might have compatibility issues with a cIOS that uses IOS37 as a base (your present setup), but it should work fine with a cIOS that uses IOS56 as a base.

 

[zsdrfty]

Thanks, but I used that and none of the WADs appeared to install. They all installed and said "OK!", but they reappeared in the list for downloads (which supposedly means they haven't been installed yet). Also, my files still refuse to show up now, meaning I'm forced to retreat to WBFS for now.

 

[zsdrfty]

IT WORKS! With a WBFS drive anyway. For now I'm not very concerned, but later I'll try to fix it.

 

[grossaffe]

Thanks, but I used that and none of the WADs appeared to install. They all installed and said "OK!", but they reappeared in the list for downloads (which supposedly means they haven't been installed yet). Also, my files still refuse to show up now, meaning I'm forced to retreat to WBFS for now.

Did you put your files in a folder in the root of your drive entitled "wbfs"?

 

[zsdrfty]

The backup manager dropped it in the root in a folder called Xenoblade Chronicles [SX4E01], so no. I'll try that. thankyou

 

[sarkwalvein]

The backup manager dropped it in the root in a folder called Xenoblade Chronicles [SX4E01], so no. I'll try that. thankyou

You should put that folder inside a wbfs folder in the root, I thought that was done automatically by the backup manager.