Hacking Devolution - Public Release

[ShadowOne333]

I don't own a Wii U. :/

You could alternatively just use the virtual console versions of those 4 games. Considering that MM on the VC is much more stable, that may be the best idea anyway.

What about my 100% saves for each game?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

What about my 100% saves for each game?

If you have 100% saves then what's the problem with starting over? I mean, your saves are already 100%, what else is there to do other than start over and play through it again anyway?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Double-post derp.

 

[MassiveRican]

ShadowOne333 I've heard of ways to inject saves into WADS you might want to look into that.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

@Shadowone33 I've heard of ways to inject saves into WADS you might want to look into that.

That would require getting the original N64 formatted save out of the GameCube save first.

 

[MassiveRican]

I think it might be possible with Dolphin amongst other tools.

 

[placebooooo]

I have heard of riivolution but never of this. Can someone give a brief explanation on what it does?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Riivolution and Devolution are two very different things. Devolution allows you to play GameCube games that you physically have the discs for in Wii mode from an SD card or a USB drive. This allows various things like playing playing with a Classic Controller, Pro Controller, or a PS3 controller (you can use a GameCube controller as well if your Wii has GC ports). Other benefits are support for using wifi for online play in Phantasy Star Online, a widescreen hack intended for games that don't support widescreen natively, an emulated memory card save option (you can use a physical GC memory card as well), and at times even better performance in some games that had framerate problems (Midway Arcade Treasures 3 comes to mind).

With games running in Wii mode, the extra controller support, and memory card emulation, Devolution therefore allows playing GameCube games on both the Family Wii and the Wii U. A family Wii can read GC discs with a disc expander while a Wii U will require you to have access to a physical Wii since a Wii U cannot read GC discs.

You can find more info on Devolution in the readme.txt that's in the download link in the first post located in apps\gc_devo. You can also find various info here:
http://www.wiihacks.com/other-faq-g...ion-guide-usb-loading-gamecube-games-wii.html

 

[Dr Eggman]

Can someone help me out with Wifi logging? I can't seem to get any output.

My Wii is connected to the internet, via Wifi, tested and working, Homebrew channel connects.
Computer's running OS X Mavericks, connected to same network via wifi, "nc -l -p 64444 -u -v" nc --version is 0.7.1, I get no output at all.

Any advice?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

I just realized, I never confirmed that Devolution works with only resizing partitions. Yes, Devolution does not require re-verification if you only resize a partition with Gparted.

 

[Kikirini]

I have a question... I've gotten devolution to work beautifully on my Wii U, except for one game, and that is Twilight Princess. I ripped it through cleanrip, as I did with all my other GC games, but when I try to verify it through devolution, it just goes back to the homebrew channel. The disc isn't very scratched so I'm not sure what's wrong. Any ideas as to what I can do to make this work?

 

[MassiveRican]

Sure play twilight princess on the Wii side lol sorry I couldn't help myself.

 

[Blueie]

If you have 100% saves then what's the problem with starting over? I mean, your saves are already 100%, what else is there to do other than start over and play through it again anyway?

Are you kidding?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Sure play twilight princess on the Wii side lol sorry I couldn't help myself.

Actually he totally could. All he would need is this Twilight Princess GC-Wii save converter:
https://code.google.com/p/gcmm/downloads/detail?name=ZeldaTPConverter.rar

And the following de-mirror gecko code:

Mirrored Mode [brkirch]

0400CEC0 60000000
0401A878 FF800890
042457E8 38600000
C20409C4 00000005
48000009 00000000
7C8802A6 80840000
FC602050 2C040000
4082000C FC601850
FC802050 00000000
C21E191C 00000003
981F0146 48000005
7FE802A6 38000001
901FFFCC 00000000
C21E1A20 00000003
981F0146 48000005
7FE802A6 901FFFAC
60000000 00000000
C21E1A78 00000003
981F0146 48000005
7FE802A6 38000001
901FFF8C 00000000
C21E1BC4 00000003
981F0146 48000005
7FE802A6 901FFF6C
60000000 00000000

Known issues:
-The maps are not mirrored on the map screen
-Link is not mirrored on the collection screen
-Any game dialogs that tell you to move the control stick right or left (e.g. in shops) are not changed to match the mirrored controls

 

[drakorex]

After buying a few controllers off Amazon, I had some thoughts about the Analog shoulder button issue and classic controllers. Has anyone tried to mod a classic controller pro to somehow use the original's analog buttons?

Then, there's the Thrustmaster gamecube controller, which while not having physically sliding analog shoulder buttons, are instead pressure sensitive. Would it be possible to use these on a ccp?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Even if you got it to work, you'd have to somehow work around Devolution's automatic detection of the CCpro.

 

[drakorex]

What's the difference between the two, meaning what does devo do about it, and why does it do anything?

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Devolution maps the shoulder buttons to ZL and ZR on the CCpro but uses L and R on the normal CC.

Fun fact - while Devolution is running, if you start with a normal CC and swap to a CCpro, Devolution will automatically switch the GC shoulder buttons from L & R to ZL & ZR. However, if you swap from a CCpro to a normal CC Devolution, will still have the GC L & R mapped to ZL & ZR, even on the normal CC; this is arguably better for some games like Nintendo Puzzle Collection. However, i

 

[Kikirini]

So there's nothing I can do about Twilight Princess? Damn...

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

There may be, the problem is that we don't really know. At the very least could see if the hash matches the one on Redump. I personally use HashCheck Shell Extension for such tasks:
http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/