Homebrew Changing Gamepad Emulation config for vWii games

MikaDubbz · Sep 20, 2020

godreborn said:
the game on nand should be okay as well. that's the mlc. system software is on the slc including tickets and whatnot. however, I do agree to be careful regardless. there's no recovery aside from a hard mod if you modify the wrong file. the meta.xml contains content id, serial code, and game name as well, so you'll know you're in the right place.

See, I'd have thought that as well, but I did brick my first Wii U this way, it was so stupid what I did, I was in FTPiiU and I had read that you can add N64 games to an N64 VC title's content folder and then when you boot the title you'd boot into a menu where you can choose the N64 rom you want to load, kinda like an emulator. So I added an N64 game to an N64 VC title installed to my NAND, returned to my home screen, and everything seemed fine. Launched the title, black screen. Turned on the Wii U, never booted again, I had CBHC installed and everything. So yeah, I don't recommend messing with titles installed to the NAND, though what I did was really stupid, adding like 30mb to something installed to the NAND.

godreborn · Sep 20, 2020

that sounds familiar. I've never tried it. I don't know what could've happened. I've never bricked my system, and I have two of them from when 5.3.2 was the last firmware exploitable. I'm thinking about buying a wii u box for my second wii u.

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btw, while testing out saving with a ds rom, I looked in the rom.zip. the file is not a familiar extension, so maybe that's what happened. I don't think they're 1:1 copies.

MikaDubbz · Sep 20, 2020

godreborn said:
that sounds familiar. I've never tried it. I don't know what could've happened. I've never bricked my system, and I have two of them from when 5.3.2 was the last firmware exploitable. I'm thinking about buying a wii u box for my second wii u.

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btw, while testing out saving with a ds rom, I looked in the rom.zip. the file is not a familiar extension, so maybe that's what happened. I don't think they're 1:1 copies.

True, and from what I've read since is that while the Wii U will list the other roms in the folder when it does work, it wont actually be able to load any of the other roms. So it's still useless anyway. Such a pointless sad waste of my first Wii U. Thankfully, it's all been smooth sailing with my second Wii U, and I've hacked the shit out of it lol.

godreborn · Sep 20, 2020

I've never tried indexiine, the thing you tried, or modified the system menu ios on the vwii. I've tried all other hacks, and I've never had a problem. I've encountered some glitches with usb loader gx, which I think I've fixed.

Tur7L3 · Sep 20, 2020

Quincy said:
What is stopping you from trying? Just boot FTPiiU-anywhere from the homebrew loader, browse to the folder which has the TitleID of the game you're try'na fix and look around

yea, did before making this thread but overall looked everywhere but on the meta folder lol.

godreborn said:
just don't do it with a cbhc title, because the game then won't boot. I once did this with haxchi when I didn't know the save settings. I figured them out in a post on psx place, so I managed to fix it. now, I'm using cbhc with the same title, and my cbhc icon says redNAND on it text and icon.

ah, no worries, no cbhc tbh, wiiu for family. still will backup tho.

MikaDubbz said:
Agreed, make sure you understand what you're editing and you'll be fine, I've used ftpiiu multiple times to change meta data, N64 and DS brightness settings, N64 widescreen, DS control schemes, icons, banners, and boot sounds all without issue. Though I always be sure to have the games on the usb drive before making any such adjustments, and like you said, backup any of the data I'm altering.

yea, been doing all of those recently so I thought I could skip reinjecting vWii games as well, this way if I could download any vWii game through any NUS app and adding a custom boot sound and Gamepad Emulation option if compatible.

godreborn said:
iirc, the file that determines this is the meta.xml. it will have a number next to it which the system identifies as specific controllers, so you'll have to mess with that or find somewhere that shows what the numbers mean. the meta.xml is in the meta folder if you try looking.

Ah, yes, been there before, but that time I was just changing a game's name so I didn't looked or noticed it, so I guess I'll with what to mess up and what not.

Thank you guys, will check and give info tomorrow. Also I'll won't have to mess up or look to much if I find where the bunch of numbers that are recognized as controllers are, I'll probably just will compare it to an already Gamepad enabled meta.xml I have installed (wether it is emulating CC or Wiimote horizontal or vertical depending on the game). And yes, I do recognize that I shoud be careful of copy-pasting something that I shoudn't from one meta.xml to another, even tho the real dangereous one would be the title id from the code folder, if i'm not wrong(? still will be careful tho.

godreborn · Sep 20, 2020

not sure if title id is in code folder. it's in the ticket, I do know that. it may get it just from the meta.xml. psx saves kinda work like that. there are 16 blocks. the saves don't contain the save name, but there is a toc in block 1 that contains the names of the saves. anyway, I think the numbers are small like 1 and 2. I know for sure one of those two numbers means "gamepad."

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here's an example of a meta.xml to look over. it's from my loadiine folder:

Code:

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</menu>

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drc use type might be it. drc refers to the gamepad.

Tur7L3 · Sep 20, 2020

godreborn said:
drc use type might be it. drc refers to the gamepad.

and so it is, mind you that after 'lenght="4"' there's this 1. Changing it to 65537 will enable the WiiU asking you if wanna use the Gamepad. However it'll be mapped to emulate a Classic Controller, even tho I copied those 5 numbers out of a Tetris Party Deluxe inject (which has wiimote horizontal emulation)

In fact, everything seems to be the same except for the product code and names meant to be displayed (of course).
I think a vWii game is set by default to, if promted to use the Gamepad, use it in place of CC, as it was the only Wii Controller emulation officially released by Nintendo, so I'm half the steps, gotta determine how to change the controller that is emulated.

godreborn · Sep 20, 2020

Tur7L3 said:
and so it is, mind you that after 'lenght="4"' there's this 1. Changing it to 65537 will enable the WiiU asking you if wanna use the Gamepad. However it'll be mapped to emulate a Classic Controller, even tho I copied those 5 numbers out of a Tetris Party Deluxe inject (which has wiimote horizontal emulation)

In fact, everything seems to be the same except for the product code and names meant to be displayed (of course).
I think a vWii game is set by default to, if promted to use the Gamepad, use it in place of CC, as it was the only Wii Controller emulation officially released by Nintendo, so I'm half the steps, gotta determine how to change the controller that is emulated.

so that wasn't it but rather whether or not the gamepad controller is used? I thought about that. I'd look at a game that uses the pro or classic controller (like snes) and compare it to maybe a ds game to see if you can find what's different.

Tur7L3 · Sep 20, 2020

godreborn said:
so that wasn't it but rather whether or not the gamepad controller is used? I thought about that. I'd look at a game that uses the pro or classic controller (like snes) and compare it to maybe a ds game to see if you can find what's different.

Huh? Never thought configs between vWii and SNES or DS games would be look-alike, except if what you're gonna look into is the meta.xml. Checked in the code folder of other vWii game with wiimote emulation, but didn't found anything/and also didn't wanted to mess anything, as I hears having two games with the same things on the .xml files from the code folder could mess things, but I guess that refered to the title ID. The only thing I can think about are the other files on the code folder, but idk if I can read those file extensions. And also the content, where the wii game is located, haven't checked there.

godreborn · Sep 21, 2020

look at this:

that's a snes game super mario kart compared witht this:

nanchaku = 0, classic =0 would mean do not use. a 1 would mean allow, see what happens if you change the classic to 1.

Vague Rant · Sep 21, 2020

I'm pretty sure the Wii U only officially supports Classic Controller emulation; anything else is a patch that's applied to the special virtual Wii VC IOS when you build it in the injection tool (technically, @piratesephiroth's nfs2iso2nfs is the actual tool that's doing the work, but users don't really see that). So you can't get Wiimote emulation just by changing the meta.xml, because Wiimote emulation is a whole custom IOS patch.

Tur7L3 · Sep 21, 2020

Vague Rant said:
I'm pretty sure the Wii U only officially supports Classic Controller emulation; anything else is a patch that's applied to the special virtual Wii VC IOS when you build it in the injection tool (technically, @piratesephiroth's nfs2iso2nfs is the actual tool that's doing the work, but users don't really see that). So you can't get Wiimote emulation just by changing the meta.xml, because Wiimote emulation is a whole custom IOS patch.

well shit.
Well, let's look at the bright side, atleast we know it IS possible with CC emulation. Oh well.

Vague Rant · Sep 21, 2020

@Tur7L3 I went looking into this some more, and the file that is patched for modified controller emulation is code/fw.img in the directory of the title you're looking at. I tested it myself and copied the fw.img from one title to another, and the patch I chose in the former (lrswap, swapping L/R with ZL/ZR) was applied to the latter.

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