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.
Answers:
1. 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.