Hacking WiiU VC game injection working on 5.3.2

[Reecey]

Like I said, I just bought Mario Kart, and it has a similar structure. I don't have the money to buy all the DS games and prove my theory, but I'm betting they've all been updated to use rom.zip.

I didn't buy a ds game cause I already have one so I don't know myself but yeah it looks like it.

 

[the_randomizer]

I didn't buy a ds game cause I already have one so I don't know myself but yeah it looks like it.

I bought myself Partners in Time the other day, does that mean we can no longer inject DS ROMs like, at all? oO I still have no idea on how to do it, step by step.

 

[Reecey]

I bought myself Partners in Time the other day, does that mean we can no longer inject DS ROMs like, at all? oO I still have no idea on how to do it, step by step.

Yeah it seems a few people are commenting on now being .zip not .nds.

 

[the_randomizer]

Yeah it seems a few people are commenting on now being .zip not .nds.

The really blows, so no more NDS injection then, like, at all? That's absolute bullshit, pardon my french -_- You don't think Nintendo's wising up, do you? What next, Snes games
no longer can be injected? That's provided they release any more (and they won't knowing them). Ugh....so, what now? Is this thread no longer useful?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Does that mean that renaming the .NDS to .ZIP might work? XD

 

[Reecey]

The really blows, so no more NDS injection then, like, at all? That's absolute bullshit, pardon my french -_- You don't think Nintendo's wising up, do you? What next, Snes games
no longer can be injected? That's provided they release any more (and they won't knowing them). Ugh....so, what now? Is this thread no longer useful?

Hope not. I have bought a snes, nes and a GBA title, bit of a waist of money if so. The N64 is ok so I presume the rest will be I have a ds title so I'm ok.

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Why don't others, try zipping your rom up in the original .zip file that you extract out of FSA and try again? just rename your rom to whatever it says in the first place and re-zip it.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Having the main ROM format being changed doesn't mean we won't be able to inject ROMs at all.
Give it a few tries for someone willing to screw around a little bit with the data from the UWAD, and I bet they'll come up with another way to inject the ROM.

AFAIK the Wii didn't have the ROM easily replaceable, so it is just a matter of figuring the new format in the worst case scenario.
And believe me, that hasn't stopped hackers... Never.

 

[bache]

Why don't others, try zipping your rom up in the original .zip file that you extract out of FSA and try again? just rename your rom to whatever it says in the first place and re-zip it.

That's what I've been doing, but no dice. The ROMs I'm using are the same size as the base game. I even tried injecting a downloaded Mario Kart ROM into my legit Mario Kart VC, and nothing. There must be an additional check somewhere.

 

[Reecey]

That's what I've been doing, but no dice. The ROMs I'm using are the same size as the base game. I even tried injecting a downloaded Mario Kart ROM into my legit Mario Kart VC, and nothing. There must be an additional check somewhere.

So have you opened the zip file up, extracted the original rom, got your rom you want to replace, renamed it and dropped it back in again, remember not all ds games will work try sm64ds that does 100% work ok.

 

[bache]

So have you opened the zip file up, extracted the original rom, got your rom you want to replace, renamed it and dropped it back in again, remember not all ds games will work try sm64ds that does 100% work ok.

Tried that too. Also just tried SM64DS, and got the same result.

 

[the_randomizer]

And that effing blows, I mean, wow, I can only hope hackers discover more on what to do.

 

[bache]

If I remember, I'll unpack the official Brain Training ROM and one downloaded from elsewhere, and see if there's anything fundamentally different.

 

[Maximilious]

That's what I've been doing, but no dice. The ROMs I'm using are the same size as the base game. I even tried injecting a downloaded Mario Kart ROM into my legit Mario Kart VC, and nothing. There must be an additional check somewhere.

What if you inject the zip file with the rom the actual title ID of the NDS game you want to play?

 

[bache]

What if you inject the zip file with the rom the actual title ID of the NDS game you want to play?

I would think if you were to rename it differently to how the original file is named, Cafiine would be unable to replace the original.

 

[Maximilious]

I would think if you were to rename it differently to how the original file is named, Cafiine would be unable to replace the original.

Well, you're replacing the file.zip with file.zip. I don't think it would matter the contents of the .zip since it's a compressed file.

 

[n1ghty]

Make sure you use the same compression method in the zip. I don't have a nds vc title with zip to test :/
Maybe they implemented a check for the crc. The zip has a crc of the file in the header, you could hex edit that after you put the new rom in there to bypass a check like this.

 

[Maximilious]

Make sure you use the same compression method in the zip. I don't have a nds vc title with zip to test :/
Maybe they implemented a check for the crc. The zip has a crc of the file in the header, you could hex edit that after you put the new rom in there to bypass a check like this.

I was thinking that too. There are a few extra things they could be doing for a .zip vs a flat file.

 

[bache]

Make sure you use the same compression method in the zip. I don't have a nds vc title with zip to test :/
Maybe they implemented a check for the crc. The zip has a crc of the file in the header, you could hex edit that after you put the new rom in there to bypass a check like this.

I have zero experience with hex editors . I can send you the legitimate rom.zip if you'd like.

 

[VinsCool]

I play to get a VC game of each console friday So I could try to do more tests guys

as for n64 games, some of you got mixed results. I wonder, did you also tried to edit the .ini file in the config folder? thus ia the thing that made me have some more succes than early tests I did first.

 

[bache]

I play to get a VC game of each console friday So I could try to do more tests guys

as for n64 games, some of you got mixed results. I wonder, did you also tried to edit the .ini file in the config folder? thus ia the thing that made me have some more succes than early tests I did first.

I'd have no idea where to start on the config . If you have a few saved, mind posting them for the rest of us to test?