Farmhousemedia said:
I'd like to add that when I was getting an SD CARD READ ERROR, I was using a backup copy of the game.
I now have the retail version of the game and I no longer get that SD CARD error!
Also with the retail version it deletes the song off the Wii memory after playing from an SD card. With a backup,
you have to delete the data manually after everytime you play the game.
Just wanted to add, this works perfectly for me as well. I originally had problems installing the songs, they wouldn't show up on the DLC menu. I had purchased a couple DLC in the past, so after backing them up I used AnyTitle Deleter as noted above to delete sXAE in Downloadable Game Content. Then the songs install perfectly, it's a pretty quick and straightforward process if you have an original copy of the game.
I have an NTSC Wii at Firmware 4.0U (trucha bugged), with an NTSC original copy of GH:WT and the NTSC DLC. Here are the exact steps I follow (after installing the OneUp installer and removing sXAE using AnyTitle Deleter):
1. Start the OneUp Installer, select IOS249.
2. Install the SONG.wad and then TITLE_FILES.WAD.
3. Return to sysmenu, start GH:WT from the Disc Channel.
4. At the main menu, select Options, then Archive.
5. Move the song on the Wii to the SD card, everything should go smoothly.
6. Once it's moved, press home and return to the system menu.
Repeat steps 1-6 to install a new song. No need to use AnyTitle Deleter, just follow the above procedure if you have an original copy and it works great. Very straightforward!
As a sidenote, it seems like it should be trival to create a custom installer from the WAD Manager 1.4 source, that would automatically install the TITLE_FILES.WAD file. This file is very small (only 8kb), and every copy of TITLE_FILES.WAD is identical. I think it should be embedded in the WAD Manager executable and installed automatically, in the background, after installing the SONG.wad. Since the same task is performed every time, it just makes sense to automate it.
To take things further, I wonder if it's possible to create a custom installer (to run on the Wii) that installs the content from the WAD directly to the SD card, without needing to go trough GH:WT. So long as the SD Key is dumped (hence the need to run on the Wii, or have an extracted key to run on the PC), perhaps there is a way to extract the WAD to a temp folder, and then package it up in the same manner that GH:WT does, encrypt it with the SD key and write it to the SD card. This way you could install many songs at once, then when you go into GH:WT it would show them all on the SD card as if they were installed using the normal procedure.
Or, here's another idea... I wonder if you could decrypt the SD-installed DLC using the Wii's SD Key, and then re-encrypt it using another Wii's SD Key so it would work on that Wii without having to install it using the normal procedure.
Just some thoughts and conjecture, it seems like the install process could be made more efficient somehow, just throwing ideas out there.
Cheers to all that have worked on this!