The problem with those western digital passport is that they change firmware and even internal electronics without changing the name of the product. They have a partition on them that mounts as a virtual cd during the booting of the harddisk. On some models, you can disable this and you can recover the lost space. On others, you can just disable it. It's purpose is to give you access to the password protection tools. Even if you don't use them, the disk keeps requesting for the install of a special driver on your pc. I don't think the wii has such a driver. I want a no nonsense usb storage device that is compatible with the usb mass storage standard. Being a technician in electronics for several years, I am also pretty alergic to produts that can't be opened on a normal way. (But thats just me.) Maybe the timing of some of those WD passport is more critical than the timing of others. I don't know, and I don't have the time and the tools to find out.
Several years ago I bought a WD My Passport (older model/firmware) for someone else, and I remember how annoying that virtual CD drive thing was and how hard it was to get rid of it, so I'm totally with you there.
However, the two models I bought recently did not have any such hidden partitions or virtual CD drives anymore. It was a relief to be able to just unpack them, plug them in, and re-partition/format without leaving a trace of manuals, tools or other crap. And they work flawlessly on USBLoader GX and all other apps I've played with so far, so I have to disagree about their incompatibility with the Wii.
I was mostly just experimenting with this NAND emulation since I'm fascinated by the concept. I'll stick with Mighty Channels for now, and keep an eye on UNEEK updates. Thanks for the replies!
However, the two models I bought recently did not have any such hidden partitions or virtual CD drives anymore. It was a relief to be able to just unpack them, plug them in, and re-partition/format without leaving a trace of manuals, tools or other crap. And they work flawlessly on USBLoader GX and all other apps I've played with so far, so I have to disagree about their incompatibility with the Wii.
I was mostly just experimenting with this NAND emulation since I'm fascinated by the concept. I'll stick with Mighty Channels for now, and keep an eye on UNEEK updates. Thanks for the replies!
When I tested, it was a couple of months ago, and since, cios are constantly updated. Some of these updates are improvements to the ehci code.
Maybe that's the reason it works now, or maybe they have another firmware revision already. Did they ask to install a driver when you first connected them to your pc?
If not, what OS where you having on that pc?
Maybe I will need to retest them. In the mean time, I won't recommend them to anyone.
Maybe that's the reason it works now, or maybe they have another firmware revision already. Did they ask to install a driver when you first connected them to your pc?
If not, what OS where you having on that pc?
Maybe I will need to retest them. In the mean time, I won't recommend them to anyone.
Here you are..XFlak said:
Note: i didn't have hacks_hash.ini in that folder before nor copied it, the two hacks ini files you see were automatically created after i started priiloader (they were already there, but for testing purposes i deleted them first).
Update: I noticed that after i deleted all hack ini files, priiloader does not freeze anymore..weird!!
A question: am I the only one having trouble getting rev155 to run? (or any version over 150, really).
More specifically: I'm looking to use UNEEK+DI rev155, 4.3E (white font on black background, though that doesn't matter much to me)
I tried 2 different versions of sneekycompiler and getting them through modmii (updated yesterday evening, so recent enough), but even though it creates the files nicely*, the wii won't boot with them.
As such, I always have to fall back to rev150 (I'm glad I keep backups of those files).
Now...since rev150 works fine, I assume it has nothing to do with the hard disk, the emulated nand or even priiloader (though I have tested without it...it makes no difference). I have discEx games, the correct cluster size and all that jazz. I also have a whollelottainstalled wiiware, a bunch of custom channels (have to test joyflow with more than 48 channels, right?) and a custom wii theme (black & red). I prefer not having to remake all that, so hence this question.
Is there anyone who can think of something I've missed? And if someone has the same firmware version...could he please tell the exact file size?
I know it's a bit of a luxury problem (nice to hear that godfather now works, but it's not something I'm really worried about
), but still...
Thanks for your time, guys.
*these are, in the correct locations, the following:
SD:\bootmii\armboot.bin
SD:\sneek\kernel.bin
USB:\sneek\di.bin
USB:\sneek\kernel.bin
USB:\sneek\font.bin
More specifically: I'm looking to use UNEEK+DI rev155, 4.3E (white font on black background, though that doesn't matter much to me)
I tried 2 different versions of sneekycompiler and getting them through modmii (updated yesterday evening, so recent enough), but even though it creates the files nicely*, the wii won't boot with them.
As such, I always have to fall back to rev150 (I'm glad I keep backups of those files).
Now...since rev150 works fine, I assume it has nothing to do with the hard disk, the emulated nand or even priiloader (though I have tested without it...it makes no difference). I have discEx games, the correct cluster size and all that jazz. I also have a whollelottainstalled wiiware, a bunch of custom channels (have to test joyflow with more than 48 channels, right?) and a custom wii theme (black & red). I prefer not having to remake all that, so hence this question.
Is there anyone who can think of something I've missed? And if someone has the same firmware version...could he please tell the exact file size?
I know it's a bit of a luxury problem (nice to hear that godfather now works, but it's not something I'm really worried about
Thanks for your time, guys.
*these are, in the correct locations, the following:
SD:\bootmii\armboot.bin
SD:\sneek\kernel.bin
USB:\sneek\di.bin
USB:\sneek\kernel.bin
USB:\sneek\font.bin
i use this faq http://code.google.com/p/sneek/wiki/StartupGuide and compile sneek manually
r155 work
i don't know why do you need use scooby compiler , modmii .......
r155 work
i don't know why do you need use scooby compiler , modmii .......
I don't know why, but i have always black screen using UNEEK, UNEEK + DI or SNEEK + DI.
If I use only SNEEK it runs perfectly...
I use ModMii to create a virgin NAND and to download and create the files needed for the process (font.bin, armboot.bin etc), but i always have a black screen...
I have tried with NSMB and with Wii Play Motion on HDD.
I believe that it can't recognize the files that are on HDD or something like that because it seems that files in HDD are never read...
Have anyone suggestions to solve this case?!
Thanks...
If I use only SNEEK it runs perfectly...
I use ModMii to create a virgin NAND and to download and create the files needed for the process (font.bin, armboot.bin etc), but i always have a black screen...
I have tried with NSMB and with Wii Play Motion on HDD.
I believe that it can't recognize the files that are on HDD or something like that because it seems that files in HDD are never read...
Have anyone suggestions to solve this case?!
Thanks...
if your trying to use the wbfs files then thats the problem, you'll need to convert the files, so yes you'll have two sets, one wbfs an the other will be named games. you can drag an drop your games into modmii an it will convert them for you..gunnerpt said:
Neps... that's not the problem...
I have already done that...
EDIT: I don't know if this is or not important... but if I write the letter of the drive on modmii to extract the game to there it says that it have no enough space when it has 100GB free and if I write C (to continue anyways) the game is extracted to there without any problems...
I have already done that...
EDIT: I don't know if this is or not important... but if I write the letter of the drive on modmii to extract the game to there it says that it have no enough space when it has 100GB free and if I write C (to continue anyways) the game is extracted to there without any problems...
It looks like your harddisk isn't compatible with uneek (+di) or sneek + di.
If you launch it, do you have the wii drive slot flashing? (Just on off means it can't find kernel.bin on the harddisk if I remember well.)
You could perhaps test my poor man's sd backup launcher from the tutorial section. It works without harddisk.
@wever
Did you manually install devkitarm rev. 24? To my knowledge, the sneaky package loads the latest version of devkitpro, and the arm compiler in it gives issues.
If you launch it, do you have the wii drive slot flashing? (Just on off means it can't find kernel.bin on the harddisk if I remember well.)
You could perhaps test my poor man's sd backup launcher from the tutorial section. It works without harddisk.
@wever
Did you manually install devkitarm rev. 24? To my knowledge, the sneaky package loads the latest version of devkitpro, and the arm compiler in it gives issues.
obcd said:
What I did was use ModMii to create a NAND and there I choose if I want UNEEK SNEEK etc... then it download and create the files needed and then I copy files to SD / USB.
My HDD is a Lacie 1TB
For what I remember sometimes the wii drive slot flashing... and sometimes it doesn't anything....
EDIT: One thing that I forgot to mention... I have 2 partitions on my HDD one is a NTFS and the other is a FAT32 with 32k cluster... I have already make it active and both are primary...
I have to do something more? Or have the FAT32 partition as primary and active is sufficient?
zizer said:
I have tested with a USB PEN 2GB and it works normally...
Either HDD isn't compatible or it doesn't work correctly with multiple partitions...
The problem is that I have 300 GB's on my NTFS partition... and to "transform" all the HDD into one FAT32 partition I wiil have to backup all the information store on the NTFS partition... and my PC doesn't have that free space and I prefer have 2 partitions on my external HDD.
Is possible having 2 partitions on the HDD (1 NTFS and 1 FAT32) and UNEEK + DI works normally? Even with NTFS as logical partition?
Thanks for helping
uneek work if you resize hdd fat32 (fat32+ntfs)
and dosn't work if you resize hdd ntfs (ntfs+fat32)
and dosn't work if you resize hdd ntfs (ntfs+fat32)
gunnerpt said:zizer said:
I have tested with a USB PEN 2GB and it works normally...
Either HDD isn't compatible or it doesn't work correctly with multiple partitions...
The problem is that I have 300 GB's on my NTFS partition... and to "transform" all the HDD into one FAT32 partition I wiil have to backup all the information store on the NTFS partition... and my PC doesn't have that free space and I prefer have 2 partitions on my external HDD.
Is possible having 2 partitions on the HDD (1 NTFS and 1 FAT32) and UNEEK + DI works normally? Even with NTFS as logical partition?
Thanks for helping
I had the same problem with a LaCie USB 2.0 drive.
I changed it with a LaCie USB 3.0 drive which works ok (UNEEK+DI).
The models are listed here (working and not working):
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=283...p;#entry3513621
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ok i made m ynand and sneek files in modmii and it doesnt load sneek from hbc. ik it takes a while but 45 minutes? seriously? Do i need space on the sd card or does it delete files as it builds the nand?
Pretty confusing message...
Modmii builds the nand in a folder of your pc.
You need to copy it over to your sd or harddisk afterwards.
You might choose for the sd card as destination, but it won't erase things so that the nand contents fit on the sd card.
You might read my poor man's sneaky backup loader from the tutorial section. It describes how long you should wait for the modmii nand
to come up the first time.
Modmii builds the nand in a folder of your pc.
You need to copy it over to your sd or harddisk afterwards.
You might choose for the sd card as destination, but it won't erase things so that the nand contents fit on the sd card.
You might read my poor man's sneaky backup loader from the tutorial section. It describes how long you should wait for the modmii nand
to come up the first time.
i'm stupid an need help. i made a nand using mod mii this will be the second one on the same sd card/ hdd.. do i just add the nand2. to the folder on hdd to use? or do i have to copy some files to both sd an hdd.. i had it runnig three, an sd card crapped out. so had to buy a new one an forgot . jsut had my first nand(1) backed up. so using that one for now.
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