Hacking [RELEASE] WiiVC Injector Script (GC/Wii/Homebrew Support)

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Fantastic tool and having loads of fun untill now! So i injected simpsons hit and run europe version and after installing to usb the icon on the menu shows as a grey question block and game name shows as 3 question blocks.

Did i zig when i shoulda zagged or is this a known issue? Bad dump perhaps? Was too afraid to launch it so i launched it to the trash!
 
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Fantastic tool and having loads of fun untill now! So i injected simpsons hit and run europe version and after installing to usb the icon on the menu shows as a grey question block and game name shows as 3 question blocks.

Did i zig when i shoulda zagged or is this a known issue? Bad dump perhaps? Was too afraid to launch it so i launched it to the trash!
I have run into this issue with a few, not a lot of games, but some. Simpsons hit and run for gc, sam and max for wii, and marvel ultimate alliance wont even install at all.
 

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Does anyone know, would the wii classic controller work on gamecube injects I play on wii u? I can use a wii mote but it is missing buttons needed for certain actions in a game. I want to use wii u pro controller, but dont know how to make that work. Please advise.
 

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Some say it's not safe and some say it is safe, for me, I do a lot of injects and have tested 50% of my injects on NAND.
Installing/moving games to NAND, there is always a risk, but with over 2,500 injects up my sleeves, half of them are tested by installing the game to NAND instead of my ext USB HDD.
Did not have have a single problem, just because I have not had any issues, doesn't mean you will too, if you have a corrupt install because of the files or your SD CARD is bad, during the install process if if freezes and you force a shutdown of your WiiU, then you could/might brick your WiiU. With everything hacking related, use at your own risk.



The dev has abandoned this app and even the dev says this was an horrible app and that people are still using it, I have included his post below, which can be seen HERE.

Yikes.. talk about burying the lead! I've been in the process of setting up my Wii U for my kids and I've used this script. If this injector script is dangerous it would be good if the OP was updated to say so.

So are the issues mostly related to moving injects and/or installing them on the NAND? I've been putting all of them on an external USB drive. Are there dangers here? Should I be using a different process? I need to make sure this is relatively brick proof for children.

I got to this post because I had some other questions:
1) For Nintendont install to play injected GC games is there a way to install Nintendont via WiiU homebrew channel, or do you need to do it through the vWii?
2) I created a bunch of games to install, but then realized I had a bunch of directories with titles like WUP-P-ALME but hadn't kept track of what games these were. Is there an easy way from Windows to identify them or do I just have to stick them in WUP installer on my WiiU to find out?

Thanks!
 

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Fantastic tool and having loads of fun untill now! So i injected simpsons hit and run europe version and after installing to usb the icon on the menu shows as a grey question block and game name shows as 3 question blocks.

Did i zig when i shoulda zagged or is this a known issue? Bad dump perhaps? Was too afraid to launch it so i launched it to the trash!



Don’t use the & symbol in the game title when you create the WUP.
 
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So are the issues mostly related to moving injects and/or installing them on the NAND? I've been putting all of them on an external USB drive. Are there dangers here? Should I be using a different process? I need to make sure this is relatively brick proof for children.

I got to this post because I had some other questions:
1) For Nintendont install to play injected GC games is there a way to install Nintendont via WiiU homebrew channel, or do you need to do it through the vWii?
2) I created a bunch of games to install, but then realized I had a bunch of directories with titles like WUP-P-ALME but hadn't kept track of what games these were. Is there an easy way from Windows to identify them or do I just have to stick them in WUP installer on my WiiU to find out?

Thanks!

From my personal experience, I haven't encountered any issues when moving the installed injects from ext HDD to NAND and vice versa, both locations work fine.
Installing games to system NAND is for those having issues with injects in general, sometimes the connected ext HDD just doesn't like vWii, meaning the drive doesn't initiate in time when it tries to load the inject causing black screen. So installing to NAND with the ext HDD disconnected can eliminate the possibility that the ext HDD is the issue, even though the HDD works fine in WiiU with installed games.
So avoid installing things to NAND when possible to minimise (touch wood) system brick.

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When you inject GC games, you don't need to go through vWii, just have the Nintendont files on the SD CARD, when you launch a GC inject with Autoboot option from the WiiU menu, it loads straight to vWii and boots Nintendont and launch your game. All this is seemless, unless you do the manual boot option where you have to press a few buttons to get the games booted.
However, there are those that don't do GC injects, but instead just have the GC ISO files on the SD CARD, they normally just boot into vWii mode and then launch Nintendont and select the GC game they want to boot. If your going down this route, then the best option is to create a Nintendont Forwarder on the WiiU Menu, when this is launched, it boots straight into vWii and launch Nintendont, from here just select your GC game to boot.
Nintendont is a Wii app only so it needs to be launched in vWii, either manually or via a channel forwarder on the main WiiU Menu.

2. Long way is to install one game at a time and note what game it is, or use can decrypt the WUP files using a simple command line app called "CDecrypt_v2.0b.exe", this will decrypt the files to Loadiine format (code, content and meta folders), then just open the "bootTvTex.tga" file in the META folder with a paint program that can open *.tga files, this is the game banner, here you can see what game it is.
Alternatively you can just open the "meta.xml" file in the META folder with a text editor program (WordPad, NotePad, etc..) and scroll down towards the end of the file and look for the "longname" string and you will see the game description.

If you want to play Gamecube injection on a WiiU, does it need to have Nintendont installed on the vWii ?
You don't install Nintendont, you just need the files placed on your SD CARD\apps\Nintendont folder.
 
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Is this the only game your having issues with?

Do you have anything else besides your ext usb HDD connected to your WiiU? Im assuming your using a ext usb hdd. If so disconnext the other usb devices and try booting the game again.

As a test, you could try installing the game on your internal system memory and test?
If your going to do this make sure you ext usb hdd is unplugged before launching the game.

What game description are you giving this game?

Sorry for the late response, finals week. This is the only game I am having this problem with. Even with everything unplugged, and installing it to the internal memory. If by "description" you mean the "Name to use for packaged title" option, then it's "Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn," and I can't imagine something is wrong with this; no accented characters and the colon works on other games.

It seems like my error code is different every time, too. This last one was 160-0791. Banners are from the automatic download, I have tried both classic controller emulation and force classic controller connected, but not without it. My main reason for using this forwarder is for the two FE games to have gamepad support, otherwise I would just launch them in vWii.

It says something about patching the WAD, but the instructions link is broken, could that be the problem?
 

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Is there an alternative Wii VC injection script/application? TeconMoon's WiiVC Injector simply does not work for me. I've tried GC injects, Wii injects, and WiiNAND injects, everything results in a black screen and freezes up the console.
 

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Is there an alternative Wii VC injection script/application? TeconMoon's WiiVC Injector simply does not work for me. I've tried GC injects, Wii injects, and WiiNAND injects, everything results in a black screen and freezes up the console.

I'm assuming your using a ext USB HDD? If so make sure your using a Y-CABLE to feed extra power to the HDD drive.
Make sure nothing else is connected to any other usb ports besides the ext usb HDD.

Things to try:
Have you got another ext USB HDD you can try?
In vWii mode, sometimes it's picky as to what ext usb HDD is used, common cause is the usb controller board on the usb hdd is not compatible in vWii mode even though it works fine in WiiU mode.
Have you tried installing the game to your SYSTEM NAND to see if the game actually works and it's not HDD related?
It's not common practice to install games to SYSTEM NAND, but in your scenario it would be a good idea to try. I've installed many games for inject testing on my system NAND and not had a single problem.

For Wii injects, make sure you always try to inject the same region game as your WiiU console, reason being is that the game has to supported video modes for your region, if the game doesn't support your video mode, then you will get Black screen, this does not apply to GC injects. From experience USA Wii games works fine on EUR/PAL region console because the game devs was nicely enough to encode PAL video modes, however most EUR/PAL games will black screen on USA console, so something to be mindful of when injecting Wii games.
In saying that you could always use the Patch video mode option in the Advance tab, this is for those that can't find the same region game as your console.
 

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Thanks. I've read your advice before. Unfortunately, I'm in that group (with many others I believe) where those fixes don't help. I have tried installing the injects both to different hard drives and to system memory. In every case, vWii loads and then the system black screens. It has nothing to do with Nintendont (works in vWii), the HDD, or the ISO region.


I'm assuming your using a ext USB HDD? If so make sure your using a Y-CABLE to feed extra power to the HDD drive.
Make sure nothing else is connected to any other usb ports besides the ext usb HDD.

Things to try:
Have you got another ext USB HDD you can try?
In vWii mode, sometimes it's picky as to what ext usb HDD is used, common cause is the usb controller board on the usb hdd is not compatible in vWii mode even though it works fine in WiiU mode.
Have you tried installing the game to your SYSTEM NAND to see if the game actually works and it's not HDD related?
It's not common practice to install games to SYSTEM NAND, but in your scenario it would be a good idea to try. I've installed many games for inject testing on my system NAND and not had a single problem.

For Wii injects, make sure you always try to inject the same region game as your WiiU console, reason being is that the game has to supported video modes for your region, if the game doesn't support your video mode, then you will get Black screen, this does not apply to GC injects. From experience USA Wii games works fine on EUR/PAL region console because the game devs was nicely enough to encode PAL video modes, however most EUR/PAL games will black screen on USA console, so something to be mindful of when injecting Wii games.
In saying that you could always use the Patch video mode option in the Advance tab, this is for those that can't find the same region game as your console.
 

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When playing Wii games such as Mario Kart Wii on the Gamepad acting as the Classic Controller i cant connect any more Wii controllers for multiplayer.

Is a fix to this or thats just how it is?
 

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Thanks. I've read your advice before. Unfortunately, I'm in that group (with many others I believe) where those fixes don't help. I have tried installing the injects both to different hard drives and to system memory. In every case, vWii loads and then the system black screens. It has nothing to do with Nintendont (works in vWii), the HDD, or the ISO region.

Yep, looks like you might be one of those in the rare groups that just can't get Wii/GC injects to boot for some odd reason. One last thing to try, I have read way back on this thread that for some, if you boot into vWii mode, then exit back into the WiiU Menu and try booting the Wii/GC injects, it may work?
If that still doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas, not sure if it's got anything to do with anything, but I assume your system language is set to English?
I was helped another member on another site where some Wii VC injects boots to black screen for some games and it was because his System Language was not set to English. Just throwing some ideas around :)

When playing Wii games such as Mario Kart Wii on the Gamepad acting as the Classic Controller i cant connect any more Wii controllers for multiplayer.

Is a fix to this or thats just how it is?

When GamePad is enabled for Wii VC injects, all other controllers are disabled, there is currently no fix or work around. Only way to get multiplayer is to select NO for GamePad support when the game boots up, this means you have to play with traditional Wii Remotes/Nunchuck/CC Controller combo.
 
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When GamePad is enabled for Wii VC injects, all other controllers are disabled, there is currently no fix or work around. Only way to get multiplayer is to select NO for GamePad support when the game boots up, this means you have to play with traditional Wii Remotes/Nunchuck/CC Controller combo.
Thanks dude! Also whats the best way to go, Classic Controller Emulation or Forced Classic Controller? I noticed with Resident Evil on CC Emulation it picked up as a Wiimote but when forced it was working as intended.
 
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Was building Paper Mario - The Thousand-Year Door until this popped up.
Any fix? This is my first time using this program
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Thanks dude! Also whats the best way to go, Classic Controller Emulation or Forced Classic Controller? I noticed with Resident Evil on CC Emulation it picked up as a Wiimote but when forced it was working as intended.

For most games, use Classic Controller Emulation first (remember games must support Classic Controller), if this doesn't work then use Forced Classic Controller.
From experience, the early Wii games that was released back in 2006, the way it handles Classic Controller checking is not compatible with CC emulation or is compatible with weird effects. I guess it's because the game devs is using an early SDK to make the games. Games that was released late 2006 and 2007 onward must use a newer SDK as these games tends to work fine, that is where Forced Classic Controller comes into play to force something in the game to check and mount the Classic Controller.
 
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Was building Paper Mario - The Thousand-Year Door until this popped up.
Any fix? This is my first time using this program
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You need the Rhythm Heaven fever title key and the Wii U common key for the program to work. Google them.

You only have to enter them one time and then the program saves them for you and you can continue to install games after doing it once.
 
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