Hacking USB Loader GX

[Cyan]

sorry if I felt upset, it's just that for few days you had issues and I couldn't imagine you were using different tools.

the "switch" is useful if you use "Sneek" ONLY.
because sneek require the emuNAND to be on the root of the drive, and if you want multiple EmuNAND you need to "switch" them with different folders and copy back and forth.

But Sneek is NOT neek2o
Neek2o and USBLoaderGX are working fine with subfolders and you don't need to place them on root anymore.



following the tutorial to dump with bootmii and then extracting it is good, as long as you don't have a game using a non FAT32 compatible character.
ShowMiiWads is not converting the characters the same way than cIOS, and that will render them incompatible.
like I said, even different cIOS are using different methods. a dump done on rev 17 won't be compatible when launching a channel using cIOS d2x v8.

So, that tutorial you followed is fine, it works, as long as you don't have such filename.


That's good and I'm glad now everything is working for you.
if you want to launch channels not working with cIOS, you have neek2o, right?
so it's working with /nands/pl_eu/ folder without issue.

 

[Deleted User]

@Cyan

Okay, so I successfully installed IOS16 as IOS232. Then I tried to run the Wii Backup Disc as a proper, physical disc, running under that IOS. Unfortunately, it still didn't work.
Will it just not work, or could there be another method?

 

[Cyan]

that's the only method I thought right now.
another one would be to reload to the correct IOS slot instead (at least for disc and NAND channels).
that's something I want to add for a long time, I didn't have the time yet.

so much to fix lol

 

[tswntk]

For first-time users, nobody is going to bother searching for the forwarder folder. To the common man "forwarder" means something technical and that we shouldn't bother with it.

of course, you should learn what forwarders are before installing them and install them only when you need them.

If you don't mind starting up apps everytime from HBC and you don't need to return directly the the loader after you quit a game, you don't need forwarders.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

if you want to launch channels not working with cIOS, you have neek2o, right?

I am not entireley sure, I'll just reinstall neek2o just in case.

the "switch" is useful if you use "Sneek" ONLY.
because sneek require the emuNAND to be on the root of the drive, and if you want multiple EmuNAND you need to "switch" them with different folders and copy back and forth.

This is why I hate vague tutorials, that piece of info would have been awesome to know and save me a shitload of migraines.

So, that tutorial you followed is fine, it works, as long as you don't have such filename.

I don't believe I do.

sorry if I felt upset, it's just that for few days you had issues and I couldn't imagine you were using different tools.

No problem.

 

[tswntk]

@Cyan

Okay, so I successfully installed IOS16 as IOS232. Then I tried to run the Wii Backup Disc as a proper, physical disc, running under that IOS. Unfortunately, it still didn't work.
Will it just not work, or could there be another method?

You said you have a backup copy of the disk so it is not original?
Then you should first check if your Wii can read backups. Wii produced after 2009 (or is it late 2008?) won't read backups at all.
You will also need a mod chip to run backup disks if your Wii was capable of reading backups.
You may also try to patch your ios16 with Trucha bug patched but it been so long ago, I don't know if you can find one for a specific version of ios16 and that is again if your Wii was capable of reading backups.

 

[Deleted User]

You will also need a mod chip to run backup disks if your Wii was capable of reading backups

Not entirely true. You can install DVDx onto your Wii so it can read DVD-R/RW discs, which is also the reason why USB Loaders can boot discs.

 

[Cyan]

Ah, it's a backup disc?
I thought it was a retail official pink disc.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

@Cyan as it happens I do have neek2o, Modmii installs it when building the UNEEK, rev96 as it happens.

 

[Deleted User]

Ah, it's a backup disc?
I thought it was a retail official pink disc.

Nah, I've only burned it onto a disc.
However, I've tried everything I can, but it still looks like I can't get it to work...

 

[Cyan]

if you don't have a modchip, you can't boot burned discs.

and no, it's not because DVDX allow burned video disc to be played that it can read backup burned disc.
DVDX is just allowing access to the hardware (removing AHB protection), that's all.


To play burned backup disc, you need patched IOS.
that's what CIOSCorp was used for. it was patching all IOS to add trucha bug.

 

[Deleted User]

if you don't have a modchip, you can't boot burned discs.

and no, it's not because DVDX allow burned video disc to be played that it can read backup burned disc.

Whoops, my bad!

What is DVDx then, exactly? How would you define it?

 

[Duncan Idaho]

if you don't have a modchip, you can't boot burned discs.

Really? Weird, I believe I don't have one anymore and I still can boot burned discs.

(Long story short, I asked for a chip upgrade, and the guy who was supposed to solder it didn't want to because my wii was 4.3, according to him because it was the latest firmware it would fry the chip as soon as it booted, I pretty much called him on his bullshit and even told him that he should google with the exact words and check several threads all over the internet that say the opposite, dunno if he got around installing the chip)

 

[Cyan]

DVDX is (was, but can still be used) a hidden channel with the .tmd patched to allow AHB access.
it was launched by homebrew to enable DVD access, to read DVD ISO (ISO as in ISO9660 specs) and read files located on the disc. (not on wii format disc, but on PC format disc, like DVD Video)

now all channels with AHB access have the tmd patched.


duncan : he probably installed one (or there were already one?) if you can boot burned discs from disc channel.
or you installed cIOSCorp (from pimpmywii maybe)

 

[Deleted User]

DVDX is (was, but can still be used) a hidden channel with the .tmd patched to allow AHB access.
it was launched by homebrew to enable DVD access, to read DVD ISO (ISO as in ISO9660 specs) and read files located on the disc.

now all channels with AHB access have the tmd patched.

Why can I boot a burned Wii ISO (using a DVD-RW disc) through USB Loader GX then? Or is that because of DVDx? I really don't understand the mechanics behind it...

 

[Duncan Idaho]

duncan : he probably installed one (or there were already one?) if you can boot burned discs from disc channel.

Maybe, and yeah I had a previous chip installed because I couldn't boot Web of Shadows when it came out so this would've been the third one.

Idk, syscheck has never hinted at Cioscorp from pimpmywii.

 

[Cyan]

DVDX is not used anymore, and it never allowed backup playing.

if you can launch burned disc, it's because it's reloading to cIOS 249 !
reloading to official unpatched IOS would not allow it. unless maybe keeping the AHB access? know I'm not sure anymore
too much old info are being forgotten.

 

[Deleted User]

DVDX is not used anymore, and it never allowed backup playing.

if you can launch burned disc, it's because it's reloading to cIOS 249 !
reloading to official unpatched IOS would not allow it.

Well I ran a syscheck after I installed the required IOS for the pink fish disc backup (IOS16 v257), and it told me it had flash access. Is this because pink fish disc has to make modifications to the Wii (such as during a repair)?

 

[Cyan]

I don't know. probably.
I don't remember all the option in the pink disc.

 

[GreyWolf]

@Duncan Idaho - If you're using neek2o you want "nSwitch".