Hacking Disc Drive LED hack for Preloader

[MorganCreek]

Greets to all GBAtemp members!

I wanted to ask if there is a hack for preloader/priiloader that turns the blue disc drive light permanently on.

I think that would be a quite cool feature, but I don't want to disassemble my Wii to solder any cables.


Thx for your replies!

 

[Wiisel]

send a message to your wii

 

[tj_cool]

Nope, there's no such hack

Just mail your own wii and never open the message
Your wii's address is w(wii friend code here)@wii.com

 

[Det1re]

Or do one of the multiple possibilities on the hardware side...

 

[MorganCreek]

Ok, thx for your answers. Then I may look for a hardware solution again.

 

[neygamers]

http://webrewwii.blogspot.com/2010/01/disk...ve-lighter.html

 

[Eddie_Brock]

http://webrewwii.blogspot.com/2010/01/disk...ve-lighter.html

There is absolutely no explanation of how this program works... Have you used it? and is it a matter of running the app from HBC/Banner Bomb and on it goes? Please give us some details of you have used it before. Thanks

 

[Leathl]

It's just an application where you can press A to turn the light on/off... It doesn't stay when you exit the app. It's a three lines of code application using libwiilight..

 

[nIxx]

This is all you need (patches a starlet register for the wii dvd light):

static vu32 *_wiilight_reg = (u32*)0xCD0000C0;
void wiilight(int enable) {ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 
ÂÂÂÂu32 val = (*_wiilight_reg&~0x20);
ÂÂÂÂif (enable && Settings.wiilight) val |= 0x20;
ÂÂÂÂ*_wiilight_reg=val;
}

or only to set it on:

void WIILIGHT_TurnOn()
{
ÂÂÂÂ*(u32*)0xCD0000C0 |= 0x20;
}

 

[Eddie_Brock]

This is all you need (patches a starlet register for the wii dvd light):

static vu32 *_wiilight_reg = (u32*)0xCD0000C0;
void wiilight(int enable) {ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ 
ÂÂÂÂu32 val = (*_wiilight_reg&~0x20);
ÂÂÂÂif (enable && Settings.wiilight) val |= 0x20;
ÂÂÂÂ*_wiilight_reg=val;
}

or only to set it on:

void WIILIGHT_TurnOn()
{
ÂÂÂÂ*(u32*)0xCD0000C0 |= 0x20;
}

So the question remains, is/has this been converted into a Preloader/PriiLoader hack? How hard would it be to do...

 

[daxtsu]

No, because it turns off as soon as the application that executes that exits.

 

[Daco]

No, because it turns off as soon as the application that executes that exits.

exactly, it'll only work in system menu cause the some parts of memory gets reset (altho i dont think this will get reset) and most of the times when a dol gets loaded everything needs to be reinit...

 

[MorganCreek]

Thanks Daco, that's the answer I wanted to hear. I'm not that new to Wii Homebrew so I thought about this too but I wasn't sure. Now I know.