Hacking cIOSX rev21d2x: Yet Another Hot Fix!!!!

[airline38]

Can someone test this NeoGamma with We Dare?
http://www.mediafire.com/?4uzhzipm5spz9gc

Thanks.

Same "freeze" problem as all other USB Loader (except Mighty Loader and CFG V53 or earlier version).

I tested it by using cIOS249[56]v21d2x5 beta 1.

 

[Levente]

Can someone test this NeoGamma with We Dare?
http://www.mediafire.com/?4uzhzipm5spz9gc

Thanks.

Disc doesn't load with cIOS d2x4.


Grr, and i thought i found the problem. All recent loaders use this code boot games:

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ__asm__(
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"lis %r3, appentrypoint@h\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"ori %r3, %r3, appentrypoint@l\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"lwz %r3, 0(%r3)\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"mtlr %r3\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"blr\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ);

While CFG v53 and Might Loader use this:
CODE

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂentry_point entry;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂentry = (entry_point)appentrypoint;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂentry();

Hmm, are you sure you had everything that patches the game disabled? Like Ocarina?

Yes.

 

[marc_max]

First of all I must say 'thank you' to all involved in cIOS d2x v5. You got what some tried in the past and failed!

Anyway, I already have Mighty Loader prepared for the IOS reload blocking with d2x.
I just copied the block_ios_reload() function. It already works but... maybe I'm missing something more? I don't want to have weird surprises in the future.
Also... What's going to happen to IOS version? Now I force it to check if it's greater or equal than 21005 and less than 40000. Are you going to change it after all or I can already release it?

 

[davebaol]

Personally I'd like to leave 21xxx as version, but maybe in the future it will be maxed out.
ModMii (and presumably soon the d2x installer) already supports a new way to identify d2x cIOS from inside the homebrew applications by reading info directly saved in the cIOS (in a certain .app file specified by the tmd).
See http://gbatemp.net/t294549-cios-installer-future

PS: Only use method 2 for ios reload block. Method 1 never worked, so just ignore it.

 

[XFlak]

based on oggzee's comments I think it's best to leave the version #s as 210XX, until someone tells me otherwise, I am not planning on deviating from that convention

 

[Etheboss]

Also, I remember many people claiming they are able to play we dare with uneek+di.
So there must be a (easy) way to convert that game.

Well apparently i managed to convert We Dare to DiscEx format with the DiscEx tool from Sneek.
I just was not aware where the tool saved the game...but still it freezes at the same point where it also freezes when i start the game with the latest CGF usb loader...at the second screen where you see "loading" displayed in the right bottom corner..

(Game ID SLVP41, not patched or anything).

 

[icw35]

I used modmii to convert the game to discex format and it works fine with uneek+di r150.

 

[marc_max]

I have released Mighty Loader v16 if anyone is interested, you can find it my website.

 

[davebaol]

Yes, I'm interested but unfortunately megaupload tells me "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

I'll wait patiently.

 

[xfcrowman]

I have released Mighty Loader v16 if anyone is interested, you can find it my website.

Excellent - thanks marc! It's nice to have another loader that can use the new block IOS reload function.

 

[OlivierTheBest]

I have released Mighty Loader v16 if anyone is interested, you can find it my website.

Is it this site : http://usuaris.tinet.cat/mark/page/mighty-channels-english

Could you please clarify where is the download link .

Thanks

Olivier

 

[xfcrowman]

I have released Mighty Loader v16 if anyone is interested, you can find it my website.

Is it this site : http://usuaris.tinet.cat/mark/page/mighty-channels-english

Could you please clarify where is the download link .

Thanks

Olivier

It's this site.

 

[davebaol]

Visit his gbatemp profile and look on the left.

 

[Etheboss]

I used modmii to convert the game to discex format and it works fine with uneek+di r150.

MMM, i will try again with a fresh ISO...i prolly had a corrupted ISO...

 

[kylster]

does mighty loader support wbfs yet? sorry if this has been answered I've always ued CFG and cause I no had a hdd formatted to WBFS i never used it in the past.

 

[digdug3]

does mighty loader support wbfs yet? sorry if this has been answered I've always ued CFG and cause I no had a hdd formatted to WBFS i never used it in the past.

Mightyloader ONLY supports WBFS.
See also: http://usuaris.tinet.cat/mark/page/mighty-loader-english

 

[Skater4599]

Great to see more loaders support d2x ios reloading block! hopefully all of them will get the feature and the new return to feature so it works 100% as well. Keep up the great work all and thank you

 

[oggzee]

Regarding "We Dare" , I recall I tried almost every version of CFG then found
v53 worked and v54 didn't. I would like to test CFG v54a ,a2,b,b2,b3 but
those alpha/beta versions are not available in the CFG google web:
http://code.google.com/p/cfg-loader/downloads/list

Ok the 54 alpha and beta versions have been uploaded.
Let's see where it breaks.

 

[WiiPower]

Regarding "We Dare" , I recall I tried almost every version of CFG then found
v53 worked and v54 didn't. I would like to test CFG v54a ,a2,b,b2,b3 but
those alpha/beta versions are not available in the CFG google web:
http://code.google.com/p/cfg-loader/downloads/list
Ok the 54 alpha and beta versions have been uploaded.
Let's see where it breaks.


Mybet is still that the asm code is doing something "bad"

Can someone test this NeoGamma with We Dare?
http://www.mediafire.com/?4uzhzipm5spz9gc

Thanks.

Disc doesn't load with cIOS d2x4.


Grr, and i thought i found the problem. All recent loaders use this code boot games:
CODE

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ__asm__(
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"lis %r3, appentrypoint@h\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"ori %r3, %r3, appentrypoint@l\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"lwz %r3, 0(%r3)\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"mtlr %r3\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"blr\n"
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ);

While CFG v53 and Might Loader use this:
CODE

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂentry_point entry;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂentry = (entry_point)appentrypoint;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂentry();

Hmm, are you sure you had everything that patches the game disabled? Like Ocarina?

 

[airline38]

Ok the 54 alpha and beta versions have been uploaded.
Let's see where it breaks.

@oggzee,

I Have tested v54a ,v54b and they are all "freeze" .(same as v54 and later version)

So I think you can focus on v54a to compare with v53 to see what's the difference.

PS. I still used cIOS249[56]v21d2xv5 beta1 to test and I verified v53 again (worked).