Hacking DIOS MIOS (Lite)

[BretHershberger]

I just have a random question... does anyone know if the dios mios lite version will be updated with the additions from the normal USB dios mios? I just noticed it seems to have more features like force widescreen ..etc. No worries if not, but I would love to have widescreen option and I can't get Dios mios to work on my hdd.

Thanks to everyone for all their awesome work!

 

[tmv_josue]

DMLite has apparently been abandoned, conanac yet has compiled a version with the widescreen hack:
http://code.google.c.../downloads/list

 

[Zidapi]

Can anyone provide me with information regarding the "PSO I&II hack" that was implemented in DM 2.1? Do I need to do anything to enable it and get it running?

I've ripped my retail PAL disc with my Wii (no compression), and tried to boot it multiple times with the latest WiiFlow build with only the widescreen hack enabled and it always locks up after the DM splash screen.

I've tried converting the ripped iso to fst on my PC via GCReEX, but get the same results.


Any help would be appreciated, thanks guys!

 

[d.d.d.]

I must say I am a bit confused now. I thought that you can't use a PAL formated memory card with NTSC games and vice versa, but according to this explanation you can even have both PAL and NTSC saves on the same memory card. Can anyone confirm this? Is this "you can't save NTSC games on a PAL formated card" really a rumour?

PAL and US NTSC save games can coexist on one memory card without any problems. Only NTSC JAP games are a problem, since in order to save those the memory card needs to be formatted. After this it's not possible to store anymore PAL or NTSC US savegames on the memory card without formatting it again, and of course all savegames will be deleted by formatting the card

I believe it's the Japanese character set that causes the incompatibility when you try to have English (or other Roman letter based languages like in PAL territories) & Japanese game saves on the same card. Better try out NMM for those Japanese games or get a separate memory card for them.

 

[tmv_josue]

I believe it's the Japanese character set that causes the incompatibility when you try to have English (or other Roman letter based languages like in PAL territories) & Japanese game saves on the same card. Better try out NMM for those Japanese games or get a separate memory card for them.

Yes is guilty of Japanese characters:

Related: japanese games require a memory card that is formatted as SJIS (aka fancy characters) so you might want to add some code to use a different memcard file for specific games.

 

[Maverick Lunar X]

Ill have to double check, but I'm fairly positive I have a save of a JPN game on my US memory card. Nintendo Puzzle Collection I believe?

 

[d.d.d.]

Ill have to double check, but I'm fairly positive I have a save of a JPN game on my US memory card. Nintendo Puzzle Collection I believe?

I too believe that I have managed to have JP & US saves on the same memory card but after a while, or a few loads/plays, they always got corrupted and I finally properly kept saves for JP games on one card and US on another.

 

[sonictopfan]

You can in fact save some JAP games on US memory cards but not all games, for example I have both Adventure Island and Donkey Konga 3 which were both Japan exclusive, the former worked fine but the later formatted my memory card, I lost my Chao garden with all of our Chao and Virtua Striker 2002 PAL save files thanks to that game and it's not even a good game, bad day!

Edit: Why is it everytime I make a post it starts a new page?

@[member='Cyan'] Thanks again for the great work as always, but I got a question, more of a suggestion, sorry this is irrelevant to DM/DML but I can't seem to find the main GX topic, anyway my question is, is there a way to enable only selectable homebrew apps and have them appear among the games list instead of having them all? I have way too many homebrew apps in my SD, some I use regularly and others I used them only few times but I keep them just in case I need them again, and I'd like to only view the emulators and some homebrew games in the list, nothing more, in fact not even all the emulators but only the ones I use a lot like NeoGenesis GX!

 

[WiiUBricker]

This is actually the first time I use DM. I have installed the DM wad from google code, formated my primary and active partiton FAT32 with 32kb clusters, created a games folder and copied some games there, but when I launch DM(l) Booter no games from my HDD are detected by DM. DM only gives me the option to boot the inserted disc. Anyone know what the problem is?

 

[Cyan]

sonic:
might be added in the future (listing homebrew along the game list), maybe.

Wiibricker:
Did you try changing the device ? SD/USB? there's a button to press to select the device.
If you did, it might be because it's looking for games in a sub folder, like for wii games.
/games/game folder [ID6]/game.iso
be sure to name the filename "game.iso" too, DMBooter might require it (I didn't verify the source, maybe it accepts different filenames).

Be sure to select the correct version in the loader settings, if the version setting doesn't match the installed DM(L) version, it will boot from Disc instead.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Wiibricker:
Did you try changing the device ? SD/USB? there's a button to press to select the device.
If you did, it might be because it's looking for games in a sub folder, like for wii games.
/games/game folder [ID6]/game.iso
be sure to name the filename "game.iso" too, DMBooter might require it (I didn't verify the source, maybe it accepts different filenames).

Be sure to select the correct version in the loader settings, if the version setting doesn't match the installed DM(L) version, it will boot from Disc instead.

Yes I switched between sd and usb hoping that DM would detect any games, but it didn't. I followed FIX' DM tutorial on how to install games. I put them in usb:/games/game.iso

If it matters, I have no problem with Devolution.

 

[smf]

Wiibricker:
Did you try changing the device ? SD/USB? there's a button to press to select the device.
If you did, it might be because it's looking for games in a sub folder, like for wii games.
/games/game folder [ID6]/game.iso
be sure to name the filename "game.iso" too, DMBooter might require it (I didn't verify the source, maybe it accepts different filenames).

Be sure to select the correct version in the loader settings, if the version setting doesn't match the installed DM(L) version, it will boot from Disc instead.

Yes I switched between sd and usb hoping that DM would detect any games, but it didn't. I followed FIX' DM tutorial on how to install games. I put them in usb:/games/game.iso

If it matters, I have no problem with Devolution.

You didn't read what he said. It's usb:/games/gameid/game.iso, Devolution uses a different directory structure (I assume to be awkward).

 

[Maxternal]

Yes I switched between sd and usb hoping that DM would detect any games, but it didn't. I followed FIX' DM tutorial on how to install games. I put them in usb:/games/game.iso

If it matters, I have no problem with Devolution.

That's the problem. That's the how to get it to work with the Devolution default loader but DM needs to be
usb1:/games/blahblah/game.iso
and DML needs to be
sd:/games/blahblah/game.iso
the only part that can change is the "blahblah" I put in there but it needs to be in a folder inside the /games/ folder.

EDIT : oops, beat me to it.

 

[Cyan]

It's not DM which need it, it's just the loaders which are reading it in that place.
The iso can be anywhere on the drive, as long as the loader send the path to DM.

But for the moment, the loaders are looking in subfolders.
I'll change that on GX later, so iso will work on the same place for both DM and Devo.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Heh, I feel like a noob now

Edit: I will try it with games/gameID/game.iso

Edit: It still doesn't work

 

[Maxternal]

It's not DM which need it, it's just the loaders which are reading it in that place.
The iso can be anywhere on the drive, as long as it send the path to DM.

But for the moment, the loaders are looking in subfolders.
I'll change that on GX later, so iso will work on both DM and Devo.

Oh, that's cool.
So theoretically we could put our GC stuff mixed in with our Wii stuff (in the WBFS folder and visa versa) and it would still be runable IF the loaders were programmed to do it that way?

 

[tueidj]

You didn't read what he said. It's usb:/games/gameid/game.iso, Devolution uses a different directory structure (I assume to be awkward).

That's a very poorly thought out statement. Devolution can load games (including multi-disc titles, remind me how DM handles that?) from anywhere on the disc regardless of the directory structure, how is that "awkward"?

 

[WiiUBricker]

I finally got it to work. DM(L) booter detects games only in this format:

usb:/games/GAMEID/game.iso

My problem was that I didn't rename my iso to game.iso, but kept the original name (GAMEID.iso). I thought that it wouldn't make a difference, but it does.

@[member='Fix']: Perhaps you can edit DM(L)Booter to allow any name and place of isos? A file browser would be awesome just like in Swiss

 

[tmv_josue]

@Crediar.
Good way to make some money (no kidding), only one thing, removes the files of 0xD15EA5E too:
http://code.google.c...e+DownloadCount

Honestly I don't think you have to disguise the links, you've worked hard and you deserve it.

Regards.

 

[Maxternal]

It's not DM which need it, it's just the loaders which are reading it in that place.
The iso can be anywhere on the drive, as long as the loader send the path to DM.

But for the moment, the loaders are looking in subfolders.
I'll change that on GX later, so iso will work on the same place for both DM and Devo.

That's a very poorly thought out statement. Devolution can load games (including multi-disc titles, remind me how DM handles that?) from anywhere on the disc regardless of the directory structure, how is that "awkward"?

All the more reason why loaders should be able to just open any file in any folder.

Maybe it's something that can added to WiiXplorer
(Heck, it already lets you open any DOL or ELF file without the /apps/blahblah/boot.dol restrictions that the HBC imposes.)
That way you could just browse to any ISO, WBFS, GCM, CISO, etc and run it directly. It would just have to choose the right method (DM, DML, cIOS, Devolution) to run it with.