Installing Rock Band, Just Dance, and Guitar Hero DLC on Wii

NOTE FROM @SaulFabre: This tutorial IS NOT MINE, I've restored this tutorial from the original author of this document from the original Google Docs document, and provided again to GBAtemp.net by me if anytime you want to see it in a live website such GBAtemp. So, If you want to do the steps from this tutorial, DO IT UNDER YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!

Thanks to the website Wayback Machine for archive this tutorial. This made me easy the search of this tutorial. :)

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Rock Band, Just Dance and Guitar Hero has downloadable songs that you were able to buy and download when the Wii Shop Channel was up. Back in the day, people would install a small WAD, and then they could get whatever song they wanted for free. Since the Wii Shop Channel closed, this is no longer possible. There is a new way to install song DLC, follow this tutorial to do so.

The process to do this is different from installing a WiiWare or Virtual Console WAD. Instead of installing the WAD to your Wii (which will not work), we will use a tool called wad2bin that will convert the WAD to a format you can install directly on your SD Card. Please follow these instructions carefully and then you can use the DLC. It’s a long process, but it’s fun.

Also, if you are wanting to get DLC working with Rock Band 3, you can also install Rock Band 2 DLC for use with that game.

What you need
Instructions

Section 1: Preparing

1. Get the WADs that you want in the folder these instructions are enclosed in.
a. “Big WADs” contain WADs with all the DLC, but they are large. For Rock Band, these come in multiple parts. If you want to use the big WADs, make sure you have enough storage space on your SD Card.
b. “Split WADs” contain WADs with individual songs. This is good because you can pick and choose what WADs you want to install.
2. Copy xyzzy-mod to the apps folder of your SD Card (and Wii Mod Lite if you don’t have it already).
3. Launch xyzzy-mod from the Homebrew Channel, and run it to dump some keys. These are unique keys that are required in order to use wad2bin.
a. This only needs to be done once, if you want to install more WADs later, you don’t need to run the tool again.

Section 2: Patching IOS
  • If you load your game you want to use DLC with using the Disc Channel, follow the steps in Section 2.1.
  • If you load your game you want to use DLC with using a USB Loader, follow https://wii.guide/cios to install the optimal cIOS if you haven’t already.
Section 2.1: Patching IOS for Use with the Disc Channel

You do not need to do this if you’re using a USB Loader. For each IOS listed here (IOS37, IOS56, and IOS57), if you patched them once you don’t need to patch them again.

1. Launch Wii Mod Lite from the Homebrew Channel.
2. Go to the IOSs menu.
3. Select the IOS corresponding to your game.
a. If you want to use DLC with Rock Band 2, select IOS37.
b. If you want to use DLC with Rock Band 3, Just Dance 2-4 or Guitar Hero, select IOS56.
c. If you want to use DLC with Just Dance 2014-2015, select IOS57.
i. Just Dance 2014-2015 is known to have some strange issues where the DLC doesn’t work. We have managed to get it to work on USB Loaders.
4. Press the A Button.
5. Select Install IOS.
6. Select the revision corresponding to your IOS.
a. If you selected IOS37, select 5663.
b. If you selected IOS56, select 5662.
c. If you selected IOS57, select 5919.
7. Press the A Button twice.
8. Press Right on the +Control Pad.
9. Press Down on the +Control Pad.
10. Press Right on the +Control Pad again.
11. Press the A Button.
12. Select Download IOS from NUS.
13. Wait for it to finish. When it’s done, after a few seconds you will be sent to the previous menu.
a. If you get a screen saying “Exception DSI Occurred!”, try this process again.
14. Exit Wii Mod Lite by pressing the HOME Button.

Section 3: Making the WADs

This section needs to be followed for every time you want to install songs.

1. Insert your SD Card to your computer.
2. Open wad2bin.
3. To the right of “Path to SD root”, select the “...” button and set it to the root of your SD Card.
4. To the right of “Path to keys file”, select the “...” button and select the keys.txt file in the root of your SD Card that xyzzy-mod made.
5. To the right of “Path to cert file”, select the “...” button and select the device.cert file in the root of your SD Card that xyzzy-mod made.
6. Fill in the title ID corresponding to your game.
a. Games
i. Just Dance 2 - 00010000534432
ii. Just Dance 3 - 00010000534A44
iii. Just Dance 4 - 00010000534A58
iv. Just Dance 2014 - 00010000534A4F
v. Just Dance 2015 - 00010000534533
vi. Rock Band 2 - 00010000535A41
vii. Rock Band 3 - 00010000535A42
viii. The Beatles - Rock Band - 0001000052394A
ix. Green Day - Rock Band - 00010000535A41
x. Guitar Hero: World Tour - 00010000535841
xi. Guitar Hero 5 - 00010000535845
xii. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock - 00010000535849
b. Important
i. If you’re using the USA version of your game, type 45 at the end of the ID.
1. For example, Rock Band 3 would be 00010000535A4245.
ii. If you’re using the Europe version of your game, type 50 at the end of the ID.
1. For example, Rock Band 3 would be 00010000535A4250.
7. Only if using Rock Band 2, select the “Use nullkey” box.
8. Select “add wad” to install one WAD file.
a. Or, select “add folder” to install a folder of WADs.
9. Select “run”.
10. Make sure that it created a folder with .bin files in a subfolder of /private/wii/data/ on your SD Card. The private folder needs to be at the root of your SD Card.
11. Move the WAD file starting with “00010000” and ending with “bogus.wad” to a folder called “wad” in your SD Card.

Section 4 - Finalizing

This section needs to be followed for every time you want to install songs.

1. Launch Wii Mod Lite from the Homebrew Channel.
2. Go to the WAD Manager menu.
3. Select the folder on your SD Card called “wad”.
4. Highlight the WAD file starting with “00010000” and ending with “bogus.wad”.
5. Press the - Button.
6. Press the A Button, and then press it again when it prompts you to.
a. Ignore any errors.
7. Now in the menu where you were before to select WAD files, highlight the same WAD file again.
8. Press the A Button, and then press it again when it prompts you to.
a. Ignore any errors.
9. Load the game you made the DLC for and test it out. (If using Just Dance 2014 or Just Dance 2015 with a USB Loader, make sure you're using cIOS 249 installed with https://wii.guide/cios )
 
I have a problem installing the dlc for GH WoR. I installed already the Just Dance 4 dlc using the tutorial and it works but for some reason, when trying to add the dlc to GH WoR both PAL and NTSC version, the games simply don't find the dlcs. Why?

I did everything exactly like in the tutorial, I added the 45/50 to the end of respectetive game in wad2bin, it generated the bin files and bogus wad but it also says that the provided id is incorrect for the ttid and I'll need to use an ISO loader to play. I'm always using USB loader gx, my games are stored on an external hdd. I copied everything properly. I used yawm to install the wad. It always give me an ERROR ret=0.

Any help would be appreciated as I don't know what to try to make it work. And it's the same for all the dlcs for GH as I want to have them all in GH WoR.
You have the DLC on SD?
Are you using Wii or vWii?

You should not get any Title ID error ever which leads me to believe you are not entering the correct #.

Which tutorial are you using btw? the original or the one I wrote?
 
You have the DLC on SD?
Are you using Wii or vWii?

You should not get any Title ID error ever which leads me to believe you are not entering the correct #.

Which tutorial are you using btw? the original or the one I wrote?
Yes, all the DLC are on SD. I'm using Wii.

Regarding the hex TID, I'm using the ones provided in the first post of this topic. I remember to add "50" at the end as I'm using the PAL versions.

I read all the posts here, yours also - you replied to someone to use the GH5 TID for the SH, 5 and BH dlc and WT TID for WT import dlc. I haven't tried doing this, I only used the tutorial from the OP. But which hex should I use for the WOR dlc if I want to try this method you mentioned, the one for WOR specifically? As this is what I've been doing. Or are you talking about some other tutorial?

I hope that you'll be able to help me, I really appreciate any tips.
 
Yes, all the DLC are on SD. I'm using Wii.

Regarding the hex TID, I'm using the ones provided in the first post of this topic. I remember to add "50" at the end as I'm using the PAL versions.

I read all the posts here, yours also - you replied to someone to use the GH5 TID for the SH, 5 and BH dlc and WT TID for WT import dlc. I haven't tried doing this, I only used the tutorial from the OP. But which hex should I use for the WOR dlc if I want to try this method you mentioned, the one for WOR specifically? As this is what I've been doing. Or are you talking about some other tutorial?

I hope that you'll be able to help me, I really appreciate any tips.
Hmm...the WoR hex should be correct with 45 added for NTSC and 50 added for PAL.

Try deleting your save file for GH WoR and boot again to see if it picks up the DLC. If this does not work, try using my instructions from page 11 from scratch.

If still not working, enable your internet and visit the Wii Shop channel to see if that triggers the DLC.
 
Hmm...the WoR hex should be correct with 45 added for NTSC and 50 added for PAL.

Try deleting your save file for GH WoR and boot again to see if it picks up the DLC. If this does not work, try using my instructions from page 11 from scratch.

If still not working, enable your internet and visit the Wii Shop channel to see if that triggers the DLC.
Deleting the save file didn't solved the problem. I will try again later from scratch using your instructions but in the meantime I tried to launch the Wii Shop Channel but its asked me to update Wii firmware. I'm on 4.3e which is the latest, what should I do? I read somewhere that this may mean that my Wii Shop Channel isn't on the latest version but how should I check it or update?
 
Deleting the save file didn't solved the problem. I will try again later from scratch using your instructions but in the meantime I tried to launch the Wii Shop Channel but its asked me to update Wii firmware. I'm on 4.3e which is the latest, what should I do? I read somewhere that this may mean that my Wii Shop Channel isn't on the latest version but how should I check it or update?
Yes you have the latest firmware installed already if you are on 4.3. Do not update!

When was the last time you updated your soft mod? You may very well need to update using ModMii if it has been more than a few years, this could definitely fix your issue as well as future issues using USB loaders (GX and WFL).
 
Yes you have the latest firmware installed already if you are on 4.3. Do not update!

When was the last time you updated your soft mod? You may very well need to update using ModMii if it has been more than a few years, this could definitely fix your issue as well as future issues using USB loaders (GX and WFL).
Alright, I'm not updating in this case.

I updated soft now right now using ModMii. I generated a SysCheck log, downloaded and installed everything without any problems so I'm up to date on my Wii.

I downloaded your tutorial and did everything like you said - deleted the save files for GH5 and GH WoR, both PAL versions. Downloaded the PAL versions of the DLC wad files. First used GH5 DLC wad in wad2bin using the hex TID you gave changing 45 to 50 as I'm using the PAL versions. It gave me the same error as always with all the GH DLCs, screenshot attached.

Despite this, I installed the generated wad file on Wii, or rather first - I have uninstalled (just like you said in your tutorial) and installed it but it gave me the same error as always ERROR ret=0. I launched GH5, there was an icon and notification that it's scanning the SD card for content but when in Quickplay or Rock Archive, there are no DLC songs.

Then when uninstalling the GH5 DLC wad, it gives me ERROR ret=-106. If I try to uninstall it again, it gives ERROR ret=-4100 and 2x ERROR ret=-106.

When launching the Wii Shop Channel, it still wants to update the system before letting me in.

I totally don't know what to do and try anymore :(
 

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Alright, I'm not updating in this case.

I updated soft now right now using ModMii. I generated a SysCheck log, downloaded and installed everything without any problems so I'm up to date on my Wii.

I downloaded your tutorial and did everything like you said - deleted the save files for GH5 and GH WoR, both PAL versions. Downloaded the PAL versions of the DLC wad files. First used GH5 DLC wad in wad2bin using the hex TID you gave changing 45 to 50 as I'm using the PAL versions. It gave me the same error as always with all the GH DLCs, screenshot attached.

Despite this, I installed the generated wad file on Wii, or rather first - I have uninstalled (just like you said in your tutorial) and installed it but it gave me the same error as always ERROR ret=0. I launched GH5, there was an icon and notification that it's scanning the SD card for content but when in Quickplay or Rock Archive, there are no DLC songs.

Then when uninstalling the GH5 DLC wad, it gives me ERROR ret=-106. If I try to uninstall it again, it gives ERROR ret=-4100 and 2x ERROR ret=-106.

When launching the Wii Shop Channel, it still wants to update the system before letting me in.

I totally don't know what to do and try anymore :(
Very strange it still wants to update firmware, ModMii should have installed the latest version of Wii Shop channel iirc.

Everything looks correct on your end and the Error ret-0 is normal. Which wad manager are you using? Just curious, it most likely isn't causing the issue but this process has proven to be finicky and trying a different wad manager is worth a shot

Here is this method used also confirmed working on PAL machine...

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Last time I used only GH WoR and installed dummy wads in this order:

GH5 DLC.wad
GHBH DLC.wad
GHSH DLC.wad
GHWT Import DLC.wad
GHWOR DLC.wad
GHWT DLC.wad

Still got 606 DLC songs and 710 songs total. So, looks like it is irrevelant in wich order you would install dummy wads.

BTW, I installed US DLC`s for US version of GH WoR on PAL Wii, wich was softmoded, and it works just fine.
 
Very strange it still wants to update firmware, ModMii should have installed the latest version of Wii Shop channel iirc.

Everything looks correct on your end and the Error ret-0 is normal. Which wad manager are you using? Just curious, it most likely isn't causing the issue but this process has proven to be finicky and trying a different wad manager is worth a shot

Here is this method used also confirmed working on PAL machine...

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I downloaded manually the latest version of Wii Shop Channel and opened it - it said that it's not available anymore in my country.

After that I deleted GH5 and WOR save files. Then I went and installed GH5 dlc wad using your tutorial. Previously I was using YAWM but this I used WiiMod Lite wad manager. First I unistalled the wad files, then installed them. I launched GH5 and the dlc was found.

So I went and prepared the rest of DLCs using your tutorial. Installed wads, launched GH5 and then GH WOR. It loaded songs from DLCs but not from all of them, Band Hero and GH5 songs are missing in GH WOR. In overall I have around 460 DLC songs when using GH WOR or around 380 songs when using GH5.

Any suggestion why is that?
 
I downloaded manually the latest version of Wii Shop Channel and opened it - it said that it's not available anymore in my country.

After that I deleted GH5 and WOR save files. Then I went and installed GH5 dlc wad using your tutorial. Previously I was using YAWM but this I used WiiMod Lite wad manager. First I unistalled the wad files, then installed them. I launched GH5 and the dlc was found.

So I went and prepared the rest of DLCs using your tutorial. Installed wads, launched GH5 and then GH WOR. It loaded songs from DLCs but not from all of them, Band Hero and GH5 songs are missing in GH WOR. In overall I have around 460 DLC songs when using GH WOR or around 380 songs when using GH5.

Any suggestion why is that?
I installed the dummy wad in this order...

GH5
GHWT Import
GHWOR
GHWT

...for all my setups but the link I posted above used a different sequence and still got 710 DLC.

Here are dummy wads, they are universal. You may have the exact same wads but just in case something is different, you can verify crc is the same as my dummy wads.

Here is also another possible reason...
I had exactly same problem. But finally! Today I solved it.

Turned out the reason was BAD ROM image of Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock NTSC game. Once I installed good rom image of GH WOR NTSC everything worked fine and now I have all 710 songs in WOR. I cannot post links, but GOOD rom image is named "Guitar Hero - Warriors of Rock (USA) (En,Fr)" in WBFS format from MyRient site uploaded by someone with the nick ArbysHasTheMeats (TY Man:bow:). I guess you will find it :) There is also BAD rom image on that site and it is named "Guitar Hero - Warriors of Rock [SXIE52]" in WBFS format.

If you already have rom image of WOR on Wii or on PC you can test it to check if it is good or bad image - go to Spoiler below.

By the way for everyone who has GHWT DLC songs unplayable and marked in grey you should also install GHWT Import DLC. After installation all songs from GHWT DLC will be playable. If you dont want 35 songs imported from original GHWT Import DLC than you can go to SD card in folder private\wii\data\sYOE and delete all big .bin files from there (files with size more than 10Mb). After that GHWT DLC songs remain playable, but 35 Import songs will be deleted.

Also a small question: is it normal that I got no audio preview of DLC songs in GH WOR?

To check if your Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock NTSC rom image is good or bad on Wii follow this:
  • Run GH WOR game at least one time so it will create save file in Wii memory
  • Install on your Wii SaveGameManagerGX homebrew app with Homebrew Browser or any other method, then run it
  • In SaveGameManager in upper menu click most left icon (with SD or USB image) and choose Wii in this menu
  • You will see game saves in NAND memory of Wii, find GH WOR game and click it
  • You will see ID code of a save, if it is SXIP then your rom image is BAD (or you have PAL version of rom image). If ID is SXIE then rom is good
To check if your Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock NTSC rom image is good or bad on PC follow this:
  • Install Dolphin emulator and run it
  • In emulator choose folder with GH WOR rom image so the rom is listed in main window of emulator
  • Right click on game and click Properties, then go to Filesystem tab
  • If in Data Partition string you see ID SXIP then your rom image is BAD. If ID is SXIE then rom is good
I don't know exactly but bad rom image of GH WOR looks like a cheap conversion of PAL image to NTSC image of game. While Dolphin and USB Loader recognise it as good NTSC version in reality it creates PAL save file in Wii memory. So some USA DLC's are not compatible with this bad image


Hope this gets you straightened out. :)
 

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