GBAtemp Exclusive: WiiScrubber

[Bloodlust]

Hell yeah... blow me dudez for this great release!

Duh... useful for groups who have the key.bin file as well but useless for me.

 

[DjoeN]

I would recommand keeping your full untouched iso's.

I bet next games will make the game check randomly the garbage data

 

[Salamantis]

If Dack releases a Mac version I will be one very happy camper.

Thanks for your hard work!

 

[TaMs]

Great very usefull app

 

[coolbho3000]

excite truck is 836MB but when i create a new compressed iso wiiscrubber make a 4,37GB iso, the same of the original

Don't you get it, uploaders can now share the file as a 836MB file(Much faster download) and then u use the tool to make it 4,37GB again and burn

No tool is needed, simply un-RARing the ISO will produce a full size one.

This will prove to be extremely useful.

 

[Sc4rFac3d]

Nice, can't wait to see some trimmed isos!

 

[bunsy]

Is there an ETA on source?

 

[arrid]

Will the groups use it though? They're not 100% accurate releases, if they're "wiped" first...

That's what I'm wondering too. The 'scene' has strict rules and as we know, NDS roms are never released in the pre-trimmed form either.

As already mentioned, it worked fine for Gamecube games.

As for ROM images (not only DS, but GB, GBC, GBA, N64, etc) any empty space at the end unused by the developers is usually filled with the same repeating pattern, usually 00 or FF in hex, which has the same effect once compressed as wiping an iso.

Also, I agree with Djoen, random checking of the garbage data could be included in future games, although this would probably only be a problem with online titles.

Also, there is the possibility for devs to sneakily hide files amongst the garbage data but not have them listed in the file system, and program the game to directly read certain sectors to retrieve the file. This way a tool like this could accidentally wreck the game. I'm probably thinking too far ahead though

 

[hanndn]

I put a Gottlieb Pinball Classic iso in a rar file, 507MB!

 

[jaapie18]

When i start this prog im getting this:

Unable to openkey.bin

What do i wrong?

 

[Richy Freeway]

When i start this prog im getting this:

Unable to openkey.bin

What do i wrong?

I'd say you don't have key.bin...

Think someone linked to it earlier in this thread.

 

[hanman]

When i start this prog im getting this:

Unable to openkey.bin

What do i wrong?

you didn't RTFM

 

[Jdbye]

Great for storage (I delete my Wii ISOs after burning them anyway) but they still take up a DVD. Think there'll ever be a Wii MultiGames app like GCOS for GC?

 

[Aman27deep]

Nice work!!
Very goood indeed,

but can anyone tell whether this works with PS2 or xbox iso's?

 

[Critical_Impact]

Nice work!!
Very goood indeed,

but can anyone tell whether this works with PS2 or xbox iso's?

If you are actually serious then

They most probably have different file structures and different ways of storing garbage data. I highly doubt it'd work with PS2 or XBOX isos.

 

[enriqueiglesias]

Since the software is just so far ahead, it would probably cost very little to add a "brick-blocker" type of option that, at the same time, will add even a little bit more compression by wiping the update partition.

As you know, check number of partitions (32bits value at 0x40000) and decrease it by one (if there is more than 1 game one, of course). Then jump to the partition table (0x40020 most likely, follow the chain) and wipe out the first 4 bytes (& maybe the next 4 too, not sure).

After that, you'd have 1 less partition to worry about and can wipe that too, efectively "brick blocking" the game too.

Could be cool as an option. And save a bit more space for high-compressible padding.

Here is how to do it from the source code by Waninkoko of the wii update remover:

CODE#include
#include
#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
#ifdef __WIN32__
#define fseekoÂÂÂÂfseek
#endif
#define VERSION "1.0"

inline void be32(unsigned int *x)
{
ÂÂÂÂ*x = (*x>>24) |
     ((*x8) & 0x0000FF00) |
     (*x

 

[SeanoRLY?]

This is absolutely amazing. Massive thumbs up to Dack for making such a kickass program.

Makes me want to buy another Wii 8D

 

[Bazildon]

Very well done Dack, i was following the other thread in the hacking section with great interest and its great to see your app as a proper news item here on GBAtemp.

I look forward to seeing all the shovelware reduced down to its actual (crappy) size and all the decent stuff made more available for those of us who don't own an LG 8164b drive and have a d/l limit on our Internet connections.

to you my friend, we are indeed not worthy.

 

[gambit420]

big up to the dev!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bob Loblaw]

The "kittens" of "ebony" color have a wiscrubbed version of wiichess up now

pretty cool