Hacking Finally! No more WBFS drive, partition and managers

[WalkerOfTheDay]

Hi,
I did everything that the guide tells, and when I start the Cfg usb-loader it returns the error: " CUSTOM IOS 222 COULD NOT BE LOADED : -4100".
I have the cIos 249 rev14 installed any ideia where is the problem?
Thanks

The text itself says it all ! Install Hermes Cios 222.

 

[pedrohell]

Hi,
I did everything that the guide tells, and when I start the Cfg usb-loader it returns the error: " CUSTOM IOS 222 COULD NOT BE LOADED : -4100".
I have the cIos 249 rev14 installed any ideia where is the problem?
Thanks

The text itself says it all ! Install Hermes Cios 222.

Thanks,
and sorry for my newbieness, I'm completely scared about bricking my Wii, but I will try what you said.

 

[pedrohell]

Hi,
I did everything that the guide tells, and when I start the Cfg usb-loader it returns the error: " CUSTOM IOS 222 COULD NOT BE LOADED : -4100".
I have the cIos 249 rev14 installed any ideia where is the problem?
Thanks

The text itself says it all ! Install Hermes Cios 222.

Thanks,
and sorry for my newbieness, I'm completely scared about bricking my Wii, but I will try what you said.

After Install Hermes Cios 222, when I start Cfg usb-loader it runs, start checking my usb-hdd and it says "No Games Found" !!!!
How is this possible if I have 2 games there? The loader says the exact size of the partition and even the exact Size of how much used space but no games.
Help me please.

 

[andyselects]

Hi,
I did everything that the guide tells, and when I start the Cfg usb-loader it returns the error: " CUSTOM IOS 222 COULD NOT BE LOADED : -4100".
I have the cIos 249 rev14 installed any ideia where is the problem?
Thanks

The text itself says it all ! Install Hermes Cios 222.

Thanks,
and sorry for my newbieness, I'm completely scared about bricking my Wii, but I will try what you said.

After Install Hermes Cios 222, when I start Cfg usb-loader it runs, start checking my usb-hdd and it says "No Games Found" !!!!
How is this possible if I have 2 games there? The loader says the exact size of the partition and even the exact Size of how much used space but no games.
Help me please.

You might be better off asking on the Config USB Loader thread: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147638&st=4815.

 

[jameswm]

After Install Hermes Cios 222, when I start Cfg usb-loader it runs, start checking my usb-hdd and it says "No Games Found" !!!!
How is this possible if I have 2 games there? The loader says the exact size of the partition and even the exact Size of how much used space but no games.
Help me please.

"the files must go into X:\wbfs (where X: is the destination drive)." (http://gwht.wikidot.com/wbfs-to-fat-transfer)

 

[r9delta]

After Install Hermes Cios 222, when I start Cfg usb-loader it runs, start checking my usb-hdd and it says "No Games Found" !!!!
How is this possible if I have 2 games there? The loader says the exact size of the partition and even the exact Size of how much used space but no games.
Help me please.

Do you have them in the /wbfs/ folder on your drive?

 

[pedrohell]

OK guys, a big THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY THAT HELPED ME.
You can call me BIG DUMB ASS, STUPID, I DESERVE IT, I had the games in the root of the partition and not Inside the wbfs folder, Im less than a newbie.
THANK YOU.

 

[FenrirWolf]

Mistakes happen. =P

 

[Skizzo]

3. if i already have a wbfs drive with 150 games on it, what are the advantages of changing?

For one, if you delete a game other than the last one installed on a wbfs partition you lose that space unless you move them all to another drive and then back again. Whereas using fat32 you can simply defrag the partition, consolidate free space, etc,...

Really?

QUOTE4. will sites now start having files as .wbfs so we wont have to convert them?

piracy talk is not allowed here

Don't make me fucking laugh. That's the silliest and dumbest thing I've read around here. If piracy talk wasn't allowed here, they wouldn't have an entire group of forums DEDICATED to the warez scene and their releases. Many mods/admins routinely talk pirate, so please, spare us the nonsense.

 

[Skizzo]

Converting .iso to .wbfs and back to .iso preserves the real data. So the idea of 1:1 copy of games for all intent and purpose holds true here.

I have used the tool wbfs_file to convert a .iso to .wbfs and this same .wbfs back to .iso, and burnt it to a disc. It works on a Wii with a mod-chip, WiiScrubber and truchasigner recognized it as a valid Wii disc. So this is practically a non-issue.

In fact, with this new development, I'll be deleting my iso files after converting them to .wbfs files.

Define 'real data'. Have you done a binary comparison of an original .iso and one that was converted to .wbfs and back to .iso again using the -1 switch? I tried but I'm getting errors just trying to create the 1:1 .wbfs file.

 

[tj_cool]

4. will sites now start having files as .wbfs so we wont have to convert them?

piracy talk is not allowed here

Don't make me fucking laugh. That's the silliest and dumbest thing I've read around here. If piracy talk wasn't allowed here, they wouldn't have an entire group of forums DEDICATED to the warez scene and their releases. Many mods/admins routinely talk pirate, so please, spare us the nonsense.

Piracy talk is allowed here (just never give links), but this forum isn't dedicated to it

 

[Skizzo]

You put them in a folder named wbfs on your HDD. Then the loader reads them from there.

When the app gives you your .wbfs files it also spits out a text file telling you (and the loader) which game is which titleid

The text file is only for the end-user, and the loader does nothing with it. They can be removed with no effect on the loader.

And to further answer the original question, the games are stored in the /wbfs folder as their TITLE ID's (for example RSIE69.wbfs, RSIE69wbf1, RSIE69wbf2), which is why the text file was added, to make them easier to read for humans, not the loader.

 

[FenrirWolf]

Ok, cool. Thanks for the clarification

 

[Skizzo]

3. if i already have a wbfs drive with 150 games on it, what are the advantages of changing?

For one, if you delete a game other than the last one installed on a wbfs partition you lose that space unless you move them all to another drive and then back again. Whereas using fat32 you can simply defrag the partition, consolidate free space, etc,...

4. will sites now start having files as .wbfs so we wont have to convert them?

piracy talk is not allowed here

Where did you get this information? I've noticed this whole thread is dependent on misinformation, by people who don't know.

before the fix that went into 1.4 or was it 1.5 ( in the loader only ) you only lost a block on delete, unless you used the one mod, which marked it deleted and didn't reclaim space until later. wbfs is enitrely better than fat, unless you are unable to use a wbfs manager or the loader itself ( as in not a pirate ).

So you're telling me for instance that if I have a 500GB wbfs formatted drive filled with games and no more room to install more, that I can delete 50 games I no longer want, at random places on the partition, and that I can then safely install 50 new ones to the drive with absolutely no issues to the newly installed games - or to the ones already on the drive?

surely the only problem is a tiny amount of fragmentation if the games were different sized. Since you are unlikely to be in such an extreme situation of having what 300 games and no space, for instance i have 150 games and 100 gig of space, so deleting files will free up space without real problems of fragmentation, surely?

I guess the entire point I was trying to make wasn't in regards to fragmentation, but rather in the inability to consolidate free space on a wbfs partition without transferring everything to a different drive and back again. I've read a lot of instances where deleting a game and then installing another has caused both minor and sever issues.

Plain and simple though... deleting files on a wbfs partition WILL cause you to lose space. Unless of course you find games that exactly match the size of the deleted ones to install in their place - while using FAT32 allows you to consolidate the space after deleting.

You're talking in fucking circles. And unless you can demonstrate otherwise, the only space lost might be the size of a block or two, which would also occur on FAT32. Reliability issues or non-issues aside, you're talking out of your ass, again, when you insist that deleting files on a WBFS partition is any different from deleting them on any other type of FS, especially if the 'entire point you were trying to make wasn't in regards to fragmentation'.

 

[Skizzo]

4. will sites now start having files as .wbfs so we wont have to convert them?

piracy talk is not allowed here

Don't make me fucking laugh. That's the silliest and dumbest thing I've read around here. If piracy talk wasn't allowed here, they wouldn't have an entire group of forums DEDICATED to the warez scene and their releases. Many mods/admins routinely talk pirate, so please, spare us the nonsense.

Piracy talk is allowed here (just never give links), but this forum isn't dedicated to it

I said 'an entire group of forums'. I guess I should have said sub-forums, i.e. the WAREZ RELEASES section, which IS dedicated to piracy talk.

 

[xzxero]

4. will sites now start having files as .wbfs so we wont have to convert them?

piracy talk is not allowed here

Don't make me fucking laugh. That's the silliest and dumbest thing I've read around here. If piracy talk wasn't allowed here, they wouldn't have an entire group of forums DEDICATED to the warez scene and their releases. Many mods/admins routinely talk pirate, so please, spare us the nonsense.

Piracy talk is allowed here (just never give links), but this forum isn't dedicated to it

I said 'an entire group of forums'. I guess I should have said sub-forums, i.e. the WAREZ RELEASES section, which IS dedicated to piracy talk.

who cares?
were gettin off topic
create a new thread if you want to discuss piracy
and how we love it so much.

 

[piratesmack]

Awesome.

Good idea using WBFS disk images

 

[sonicsleep]

now we just need exfat or ntfs or ext file system support so we dont have to break them up, then it will be perfect!

 

[Skizzo]

4. will sites now start having files as .wbfs so we wont have to convert them?

piracy talk is not allowed here

Don't make me fucking laugh. That's the silliest and dumbest thing I've read around here. If piracy talk wasn't allowed here, they wouldn't have an entire group of forums DEDICATED to the warez scene and their releases. Many mods/admins routinely talk pirate, so please, spare us the nonsense.

Piracy talk is allowed here (just never give links), but this forum isn't dedicated to it

I said 'an entire group of forums'. I guess I should have said sub-forums, i.e. the WAREZ RELEASES section, which IS dedicated to piracy talk.

who cares?
were gettin off topic
create a new thread if you want to discuss piracy
and how we love it so much.

So you jump into the middle of a discussion not involving you to ask who cares? Maybe the people discussing it?

I'll tell you what I don't care about, and that's your post. So now that the facts have been established, don't reply and let's get back on topic.

 

[nando]

now we just need exfat or ntfs or ext file system support so we dont have to break them up, then it will be perfect!

no, we will need HFS+ for it to be perfect.