I started Ocarina of Time long enough to start playing and the Majora's mask game twice to see if there was much difference with progressive scanning (not that I could see...but I haven't thoroughly checked). Haven't tested Zelda, Zelda 2 or the windwaker demo.

 

Discex works as follows:
1. go to this site, download the discex .rar file and extract the files therein to a random folder (I suggest something close to the root of your hard drive).
2. put your iso or gcm file in that same folder. If needed, give it a shorter name.
3. open a dos prompt (start - run on XP or the "search programs and files" thingy on vista/7, then type "CMD" - without the brackets).
4. welcome to oldskool DOS. Type "CD \folder\subfolder\whatever" (or wherever you stored the previous files). Again, just what's between brackets
5. type "Discex -c n-tlozcer.iso". If you have an iso name with spaces, you'll need to type double brackets around the filename, eg. " Discex -c "the legend of zelda.iso" "
6. done for you...discex will do some stuff on its own for a while, creating the folder in the process.

I haven't used GCMUility to shrink games, and since it's never mentioned, I assume it's not recommended either.

 

got a little problem...apparently i cant format my 4GB card to FAT32 with 64KB cluster...it only goes up to 32KB...is there a way to force it to work with 64kb cluster? or can i format it to FAT with 64KB? it saids for fat i can do 64KB

 

I just formatted it to FAT with 64KB cluster. I don't know if it is good though, but it worked fine with the games I tried. No loading issues whatsoever.

You need a bigger memory card to format it FAT32 64K cluster.

Also could anyone please answer my questions I posted a few pages back:

So, do you really need to have DML installed to your real NAND with SNEEK and has this always been the case? Because I thought you had to install it to your virtual NAND before.

 

@[member='Wever']: I am glad to report that after following your instructions,everything went perfectly fine.I can now launch both Swiss and DML and I am actually converting my GC games with Disc-Ex.This process takes time but as soon as I finish,I will report back about game compatibility!Thanks again for giving me knowledge and hope to continue!

P.S Have you managed to solve the MC issue yet?Are you using your MC with your saves normally now?I am afraid to plug my MC just yet...

 

This should be an interesting patch for Zelda lovers. (haven't found the time to patch that iso manually, so I'm curious how this plays out).


@panmusic. Good to hear.
For the memory card: check this thread (sorry, but I'm not going to keep repeating things ).

@[member='KentaZX']: if you're running things from your real nand (and you probably are), then you can move most, if not everything over to your USB drive, thus freeing up space on your SD card.

 

Well, the patch might now work, i can't test it myself in the moment, no savegame.

 

@Developers
"r43 - * Added the patch for __GXSetVAT, fixes the dungeon map freeze in Wind Waker "

If the ISO (dol) is manually patched since before, do we have to unpatch it or does the patch dml does reqognize an already patched dol?

 

Does anybody experience any slow-downs whatsoever?
Instead of benchmarking a bunch of cards, it might be easier if we find out if anyone actually experience slowdowns. If nobody does, then the card brand is not a limitation and we are good to go with any cheap card.
Surely someone must have tried it with a shitty card that can serve as the reference low point.
That might be me in the next few days with my crappy Patriot 4GB

 

okay problems, i cant get all the homebrew channel and bootmii (as boot 2 as i remember the first time i hacked it) to show up in my usb device even though i moved everything from SD card to my Hard drive, help please? sorry for being off topic but i need help with this so i can move on with using DML

EDIT: okay i ve tried loading neogamma from my hardrive, that went on, then it searched for the zelda 4 swords game, then when i load it, it just went black screen and resetted my wii... i even have a wii disc inserted, didnt worked, tried again with a gc disc inserted, didnt worked either...im trying to use r42 as well....what is it that i could be doing wrong...?

EDIT2: MY MISTAKE, i was stupid apparently to install v10.wad instead of the R42DML.wad thing, fixed that and now the game turned on trying out 4swords adventure right now, but still i have that usb hard drive problem where bootmii wont load fro the harddrive and wiimod can even read it. can someone help me on that so i can clear out everything from my 2GB SD card finally?