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    Hacking USB Loader GX

    Thanks, it helped. One more question - what is a best useful combination of IOSes for launching most Wii games. I'm using IOS249 based on IOS56 with d2x v10 beta53-alt applied to it. Is it good cIOS to use? If not than which one to use? Do I need alternatives in 250 or other slots? Why? Which...
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    Hacking USB Loader GX

    I've tried to switch from DIOSMIOS to Nintendont to load GC games while using USB Loader GX as common loader. (on reason that even with compatible USB HDD i've got success game launch to black screen freeze ratio less than 10%) Latest (2.212) Nintendont load games from USB just fine through its...
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    Hacking DIOS-MIOS problem

    X:\games\Game Name [GAMEID]\game.iso Yes, I do. About 500GB "Historically" I would say. Sure NTFS is way faster than FAT32 on very big partitions and very big files. What will I "win"by concatenating 2 partitions into 1 HUGE FAT32? But I was sure that I can load GC images and emunand...
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    Hacking DIOS-MIOS problem

    Hello! I've got a new 2TB 512b-sector HDD and replace my old 4k-sector 2TB HDD which is incompatible with DIOS-MIOS. Copied all my GC content to new one just to see that DM does not work again. When I trying to launch GC titles I've got "black screen" (most of times) or Wii power off. No DM...
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    Hacking Check MD5 sums against GameTDB

    I have a lot of game backups. When I check MD5 of that backups in WiiBackupManager I saw some MD5 sums are wrong. But that checksums all local. How can I check MD5 sums of all my backups against GameTDB or other reliable checksums source?
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

    Hi, all! Some more on 4k sector size HDDs. I'm trying to compile DM sources with a) hardcoded 4k sector size in place of hardcoded 512b sector size and b) multisize autodetect. Both targets failed. :( With hardcoded 4k the size of ff.o binary is 32bytes greater than with 512b hardcoded ff.o ...
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

    More about sector size autodetection. In addition to one WORD-size parameter in filesystem structure which will increase needed memory by 2 bytes there are 2 lines of code that will increase binary size: //if (disk_ioctl(fs->drv, GET_SECTOR_SIZE, &fs->ssize) != RES_OK) // return FR_DISK_ERR...
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

    May be we misunderstand each other. :) But looking on code I see exactly 2 abilities already in codebase: - to use 512b sector size; - to autodetect sector size. Autodetecton actualy look at sector size parameter in volume "header" while mounting them, hard-coded algorithm simply ignored sector...
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

    I've examined code more. Look like there are no specific "sector size detection code" at all and only difference between "512b-only" and "any sector size" filesystems is a length of FATFS structure. And difference is of type WORD, i.e. 2 bytes in length. So this 2 bytes are root of all "HDD...
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

    Yes! I was right! DiosMios is hardcoded to 512-bytes sector size disks. Look at ffconf.h at _MAX_SS definition. Still unsure is it done because of bad impact of 4096-byte option on memory usage or by wrong assumption that all drives has 512-bytes sectors. I think that most "incompatible" HDDs...
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

    Something interesting about "incompatible drives" - I've just realised that my "DM incompatible HDD" has 4kb sectors instead of more common 512b. May be this is a root of all incompatibilities? Unfortunately, looking on DM sources I'm unable to find any "hard-coded" sector size, but I'm does not...
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    Hacking USB Loader GX

    Just dumped my Wii nand to usb using USBLoader GX internal feature. So, some questions: - Where all saves of Wii disks backups started by USBLoader GX will be saved to - real nand or just created emunand? How it is controlled? - Where all saves of Wiiwares that I will install into that emunand...
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    Hacking DIOS MIOS and cIOS relations

    Does it mean we can have both cMIOS and DIOS MIOS installed in parallel and use NeoGamma to load backups from disc by cMIOS and use USBLoader GX to load backups from USB by DIOS MIOS?
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    Hacking Which IOS is best base for cIOS installation?

    Once had IOS58 as base but USBLoader GX 3.0 does not see my USB drives with it. As I use IOS56 as base it fixed USBLoader GX but does it best choise? I read somewhere that IOS57 contains many USB fixes over IOS56...
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    Hacking NOOB PARADISE - ask away

    :) Does it prereqisite for DIOS MIOS?
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