Hacking Booting wii isos from sd card through backup loaders???

[FancyNintendoGamer567]

Oh, I'm assuming Wii cISOes are the same as GC cISOes, modded ISOs that still keep the default filesystem intact.

 

[GerbilSoft]

I think the Wii's cISO is different than the Gamecube's cISO format. (makes me remember I need to allow listing of ciso file extension for gamecube games in USBLoaderGX as nintendont can read them).

They're the same format. It isn't actually compressed; it's more of a "sparse" format in that it removes unused blocks (scrubbed).

PSP loaders, on the other hand, use a "CISO" format that actually *is* compressed using zlib, and isn't compatible with GCN/Wii cISO.

 

[Cyan]

if it's the same format than a normal ISO (just the scrubbed sectors removed), then I wonder why d2x can't read it. it should retain the same structure (partition table, partitions, etc.)
I think one day you gave me something to add support for ciso (the header info, something like that) ... sorry I forgot about it. I might do a search in the forum to find it back.

 

[FancyNintendoGamer567]

Just asking but, what's the best hermes cIOS installer?

 

[Cyan]

There's only one, the official installer released by hermes.

if your question was "what's the best IOS version" (not the installer itself), then it depends. lot of people kept using 4.0 while some used 5.1, so most guides ended with a mix of both, with different mixed base.

 

[FancyNintendoGamer567]

version 5.1? (also, i found a modded version of 5.1)

 

[Cyan]

5.1 is not the installer version, it's the cIOS version.
you found a modded version of what, the installer or the IOS ?

modded version should be released with information about what's different than the original version, or a patch, or the sources.
saying "mod" without knowing what's new or better or different is a little useless.

Maybe the "mod" is just a mod of 5.0, because 5.1 is a fix version of 5.0, so maybe hermes called it "mod" himself. almost nobody uses 5.0

 

[FancyNintendoGamer567]

whatever, i found the 5.1 cios installer so that doesnt matter

 

[GreyWolf]

d2x doesn't read ISOs or WBFS files. It uses either a WBFS partition and disc ID or a list of sectors the game takes up if the drive isn't WBFS. What's needed is a function to get a list of the drive sectors the game takes up if it's a CISO file.

 

[xplicid_yt]

So I tried several games on my sd card but I have noticed they look like they dropped in framerate it is 1 second slower
Im guessing this is the best your gonna get out of running wii games from sd card??

 

[Deleted User]

I need some help, CFG USB Loader gets stuck at a screen and posts a message that says:
cIOS 249 is a Stub!

How do I solve that?

I hacked my Wii about 6 years ago, when the latest HBC was updated to be installed on 4.3

I honestly can't remember which cIOS I have, as I followed a guide using LetterBomb.

EDIT: I've accidentally installed: d2x v6 base 37 rev21006 into slot 249
EDIT 2: Apparently OnLine installer using d2X Installer is not working, so what I said on first edit just failed.

EDIT 3: So what's going on is that I had Waninkoko's cIOS installed thanks to old Hacking methods, and most loaders uses d2x cIOS right? So I have to reintall/upate IOS249 in order to be readable by launchers... right?

 

[FancyNintendoGamer567]

Just install a d2x cIOS to slot 249 using the d2x installer. It will fix your problem.

 

[Deleted User]

Just install a d2x cIOS to slot 249 using the d2x installer. It will fix your problem.

Already did some hours ago. Thanks for replying though