Hacking WiiFlow Lite

GreyWolf · Jul 12, 2018

If it's the same cIOS I can't think of any good reason for it to work with one loader and not the other. Once control is handed off to the game the loader should make no difference.

I own the disc for Other M as well and have played it all the way through with d2x v8 with no problems. There are a few bugs in it and one is related to the Ripley fight, though.

aphirst · Jul 12, 2018

GreyWolf said:
If it's the same cIOS I can't think of any good reason for it to work with one loader and not the other. Once control is handed off to the game the loader should make no difference.

I own the disc for Other M as well and have played it all the way through with d2x v8 with no problems. There are a few bugs in it and one is related to the Ripley fight, though.

In that case, would you be able to test it running off of SD, and if it does work, maybe say what your wit/wbm settings were, along with your wiiflow-lite settings and syscheck result? Is it a Wii or a Wii U you have?

fledge68 · Jul 12, 2018

@aphirst do you know what cios config loader is using? is it maybe 236?

aphirst · Jul 12, 2018

fledge68 said:
@aphirst do you know what cios config loader is using? is it maybe 236?

I think it's 249. when reading the debug output as the games load. I can check it later tonight (an hour or so). (If the place to check is elsewhere, tell me in advance

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aphirst · Jul 12, 2018

aphirst said:
I think it's 249. when reading the debug output as the games load. I can check it later tonight (an hour or so). (If the place to check is elsewhere, tell me in advance )

I can confirm that it's 249. Probably not relevant, but it also flashes "IOS Reload Blocked" while starting up a game. https://imgur.com/a/CzfutmX

cfg loader mod, debug.log https://ptpb.pw/AxFx
ioshash.txt:

Code:

# CFG 70r78.11 Thu Jul 12 22:43:50 2018
IOS249, {0xa65de799, 0xc4c8bd96, 0x6acb3913, 0x9ea3b13d, 0x3a4fafe1}, r21010 Base: 56 d2x v10beta52-vWii

fledge68 · Jul 12, 2018

aphirst said:
I can confirm that it's 249. Probably not relevant, but it also flashes "IOS Reload Blocked" while starting up a game. https://imgur.com/a/CzfutmX

cfg loader mod, debug.log https://ptpb.pw/AxFx
ioshash.txt:

Code:

# CFG 70r78.11 Thu Jul 12 22:43:50 2018 IOS249, {0xa65de799, 0xc4c8bd96, 0x6acb3913, 0x9ea3b13d, 0x3a4fafe1}, r21010 Base: 56 d2x v10beta52-vWii

just checking - do you have a meta.xml in your wiiflow_lite folder with the boot.dol and icon.png and do you see the line
<no_ios_reload/>

aphirst · Jul 12, 2018

fledge68 said:
just checking - do you have a meta.xml in your wiiflow_lite folder with the boot.dol and icon.png and do you see the line
<no_ios_reload/>

Yep, that line is there:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
    <app version="1">
        <name>WiiFlow Lite</name>
        <coder>Fledge68</coder>
        <version>4.4.0 r1150</version>
        <release_date>20180907000000</release_date>
        <!--   // remove this line to enable arguments
        <arguments>
            <arg>ios=249</arg>
            <arg>waitdir=sd:/apps/wiiflow_lie/wait_imgs</arg>
            <arg>waitloop</arg>
            <arg>noflash</arg>
        </arguments>
        // remove this line to enable arguments -->
        <short_description>USB Loader app</short_description>
        <long_description>WiiFlow Lite is a app for loading backup games from a USB Device or SD card.
    It displays your games in a coverflow with 3D full box covers.
   
    Key features:
    * Emulated NAND support
    * Plugin system for emu apps
    * Devolution support
    * Nintendont support
    * Neek2o support
        </long_description>
        <no_ios_reload/>
    </app>

GreyWolf · Jul 13, 2018

AFAIK only games that have more than one dol file will attempt to reload the IOS.

I don't mean to sound rude but I don't really have time to do that with a game that isn't a known problem title. I barely have time to work on USB Loader GX fixes lately.

kaisersozeh · Jul 13, 2018

I really have to applaud @aphirst 's approach and methodology, but the subject matter does seem a bit focussed...might I suggest looking at something that might bear heavier fruit?

aphirst · Jul 13, 2018

kaisersozeh said:
I really have to applaud @aphirst 's approach and methodology, but the subject matter does seem a bit focussed...might I suggest looking at something that might bear heavier fruit?

Well if I find an issue, I have to at least report it. And the fact that in this case it works in another loader suggests that it's not fundamentally impossible.

To be perfectly honest, I probably don't actually want to play Other M - but as soon as I knew it wasn't working, that became a lot more important.

I'll be able to do any further diagnosis (of this or the SD card corruption thing) tomorrow - my Wii U is currently busy copying data from one HDD to another.

WesMods · Jul 13, 2018

Thanks so much @fledge68, great to be able to revive WiiFlow and I appreciate your support and work on this as well as chatting with all of us along the way. If we can get WiiU Gamepad support in WiiFlow Lite it will allow us to create a channel launch-able from the WiiU menu and controllable with the WiiU Gamepad and combined with all the work you have done it's going to give new life to my WiiU. I love this community and have been active in it for 15+years and people like you guys make it better and better. Super fun hobby so thanks to you all!

GreyWolf · Jul 13, 2018

I wasn't implying I wouldn't help if I can. I just think if the game works fine in one loader then fiddling with the image is barking up the wrong tree. There's possibly some cIOS argument that's being passed by CFG and not WiiFlow. Issues like this could also be why SD support was never added to USB Loader GX. I'm guessing the throughput on the SD card slot is pretty slow.

aphirst · Jul 13, 2018

GreyWolf said:
I wasn't implying I wouldn't help if I can. I just think if the game works fine in one loader then fiddling with the image is barking up the wrong tree. There's possibly some cIOS argument that's being passed by CFG and not WiiFlow. Issues like this could also be why SD support was never added to USB Loader GX. I'm guessing the throughput on the SD card slot is pretty slow.

Sure; I just felt it was important to be 100% sure that it wasn't me having a bad dump (since that does end up being the cause of a lot of weird issues), and checksums for the .wbfs from WBM could aid in reproducibility of the issue.

WesMods · Jul 16, 2018

Is r1154 available as a download on your SourceForge? I'm only seeing up to r1150 on there.

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randy7707 said:
Is r1154 available as a download on your SourceForge? I'm only seeing up to r1150 on there.

Nevermind I'm and idiot

Deleted member 388531 · Jul 21, 2018

Why isn't this hosted on Github or Gitlab?

WesMods · Jul 21, 2018

WIP hosted on SourceForge

Jordanm64 · Jul 22, 2018

Any more forwarders available?

FancyNintendoGamer567 · Jul 22, 2018

There's game specific fowarders.

fledge68 · Jul 25, 2018

ok so i attempted to add libwiidrc to wiiflow lite and get it working as a wiivc title. randy7707 created wiivc with the forwarder boot.dol and tried r1157 for me.
according to him the wiiu gamepad doesn't work at all and wiiu pro controller works sort of (buttons are messed up and the d-pad only works up and down not left or right)
i'm at a loss - so i'm appealing to other devs. here's the patch file - http://www.mediafire.com/file/nm4cb69nacr1qlg/wlf 1157.patch
if anyone has any ideas as to why it has the above issues please let me know.

edit: in r1156 i removed libwupc - i bet if i add it back in then the wiiu pro controller will at least work.

Billy Acuña · Jul 25, 2018

fledge68 said:
ok so i attempted to add libwiidrc to wiiflow lite and get it working as a wiivc title. randy7707 created wiivc with the forwarder boot.dol and tried r1157 for me.
according to him the wiiu gamepad doesn't work at all and wiiu pro controller works sort of (buttons are messed up and the d-pad only works up and down not left or right)
i'm at a loss - so i'm appealing to other devs. here's the patch file - http://www.mediafire.com/file/nm4cb69nacr1qlg/wlf 1157.patch
if anyone has any ideas as to why it has the above issues please let me know.

edit: in r1156 i removed libwupc - i bet if i add it back in then the wiiu pro controller will at least work.

Oh boy, I was waiting for this so bad, hope you can get it working, perhaps @Cyan or @FIX94 may help you there.

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