Haxchi Mod - Custom redNAND Launch Title

wg93589 · Nov 14, 2016

Now if only there was an SNES VC version of this.

TheCyberQuake · Nov 14, 2016

KotuMF said:
I'm making new images for the inject, but it doesn't like it when I replace bootDrcTex and bootTvTex.
I modified your tga's with photoshop. iconTex works just fine. meta.xml worked just fine as well.
Any ideas?

Make sure you save in photoshop as 24bit for bootDrcTex.tga and bootTvTex.tga, do not enable the compression (RLE compression? I don't quite remember what it's exactly called but it's a check box that should be left unchecked)

Also, for those who like to look at code, this is what I currently have for the new python script:

Code:

import wupclient

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print("Connecting to wupserver")
    w = wupclient.wupclient()
    if(w.s == None):
        print("Failed to connect to wupserver!")
        exit()
    print("Connected!")
    wupclient.w = w
    print("Mounting SD")
    ret = wupclient.mount_sd()
    if(ret == 0):
        print("Failed to mount SD!")
    else:
        print("Mounted! Installing Haxchi from SD")
        ret = w.cp("/vol/storage_sdcard/haxchi/rom.zip", "/vol/storage_usb01/usr/title/00050000/101A5600/content/0010/rom.zip")
        if(ret == 0):
            print("Failed to install Haxchi!")
        else:
            print("Installing Meta files")
            ret = w.cpdir("/vol/storage_sdcard/haxchi/meta", "/vol/storage_usb01/usr/title/00050000/101A5600/meta")
            if(ret == 0):
                print("Failed to install Meta files!")
            else:
                print("Downloading meta.xml for modification")
                ret = w.dl("/vol/storage_usb01/usr/title/00050000/101A5600/meta/meta.xml")
                if(ret == 0):
                    print("Download failed!")
                else:
                    customname = raw_input("Custom title name: ")
                    print("Modifying meta.xml")
                    linecount = 0
                    f1 = open('meta.xml', 'r')
                    f2 = open('meta.xml.tmp', 'w')
                    for line in f1:
                        linecount = linecount + 1
                        if(72 <= linecount <= 77 or 79 <= linecount <= 82):
                            customline = line[0:42] + customname + line[-15:]
                            f2.write(customline)
                        elif(linecount == 78 or linecount == 83):
                            customline = line[0:43] + customname + line[-16:]
                            f2.write(customline)
                        else:
                            f2.write(line)
                    f1.close()
                    f2.close()
                    print("Uploading modified meta.xml")
                    ret = w.up("meta.xml.tmp", "/vol/storage_usb01/usr/title/00050000/101A5600/meta/meta.xml")                   
                    if(ret != 0):
                        print("Complete!")
                    else:
                        print("Upload failed")
    if(w.fsa_handle != None):
        w.close(w.fsa_handle)
        w.fsa_handle = None
    if(w.s != None):
        w.s.close()
        w.s = None
input()

I haven't been able to test even that script fully yet, but I have tested individual parts and putting them together shouldn't break any other pieces. The main change here is adding w.dl to download the game's meta file, asking for user input, then modifying lines within a certain range to incorporate the modified title name (and saving that to meta.xml.tmp) and finally using w.up to place the file back onto the Wii U. Anyone who knows how to use wupclient could probably take a look and modify it for any game, but for now this exact script works on Kirby US.

KotuMF · Nov 14, 2016

TheCyberQuake said:
Make sure you save in photoshop as 24bit for bootDrcTex.tga and bootTvTex.tga, do not enable the compression (RLE compression? I don't quite remember what it's exactly called but it's a check box that should be left unchecked)

Sweet thanks, it works! How about the .btsnd file? I can't find out how to do it.

EDIT: Also in your scripts, I recommend you make it so the command box stays so we know if it says Successful or not

KevinX8 · Nov 14, 2016

For anyone that's thinking of using coldboothax don't, quick start menu is actually faster and those not kill access to sysnand

hunter1999 · Nov 14, 2016

Pecrow said:
I got it working eventually, the issue was that I did not notice that there was a size difference between the DRC and TV files, I was using the same for both, lol. Thank you a lot for the help!

TheCyberQuake said:
bootTvTex.tga and bootDrcTex.tga use 24bit, no RLE compression
iconTex.tga uses 32bit, no RLE compression.
I believe those are the correct settings.

i used those settings and it's gave me error

Pecrow · Nov 14, 2016

hunter1999 said:
i used those settings and it's gave me error

Download the file you want to edit from the VC, open it with fotoshop, paste the image in that you want to edit, then Merge Down to the locked background layer, save and exit, re-upload to wii u

TheCyberQuake · Nov 15, 2016

@FIX94 works too fast, I can't keep my stuff up to date because every hour it seems something else changed xD
I'm currently working on adding packs that make use of the new mutliboot function and config.ini, along with changing the script some more to try to copy config.ini from the SD as well, and if it succeeds, also chmod the file.

naughty_cat · Nov 15, 2016

What if I want to run CFW/IOSU on SysNand without using rednand, can I still use these files and instructions??

TheCyberQuake · Nov 15, 2016

Mohamed Magdy Mogawer said:
What if I want to run CFW/IOSU on SysNand without using rednand, can I still use these files and instructions??

I actually plan on releasing within the next hour or so a new version that includes the new haxchi that can multiboot. Mine will boot redNAND if R is held, whatever fw.img you have on sd root if L is held (aka you can put sysNAND wupserver/CFW on there and that will do it), and finally holding down will boot /wiiu/custom.elf. The default option (no buttons held) will boot HBL.

pietempgba · Nov 15, 2016

TheCyberQuake said:
I actually plan on releasing within the next hour or so a new version that includes the new haxchi that can multiboot. Mine will boot redNAND if R is held, whatever fw.img you have on sd root if L is held (aka you can put sysNAND wupserver/CFW on there and that will do it), and finally holding down will boot /wiiu/custom.elf. The default option (no buttons held) will boot HBL.

what is custom.elf

TheCyberQuake · Nov 15, 2016

pietempgba said:
what is custom.elf

it's just whatever you want it to be. rename any .elf to custom.elf and place in /wiiu/custom.elf.
Mostly for those who don't want to mess with config.txt. I'm trying to make the install process so easy that pretty much anyone can do it. At this point (my newest script) pretty much everthing is automated by the script except for copying files to the SD and modifying wupclient.py for the IP address.

pietempgba · Nov 15, 2016

you could use a bat file for that if you wanted

my bat file is a mess here's a example

echo 1) install brainage pal
echo.
set /p install=
cls
color A
if "%install%"=="1" (copy "bru\rom.zip" "..."
cls
w.dl("vol\storage_mlc01\usr\title\00050000\10179C00\meta\meta.xml", "\bru\meta")
xcopy "bru\meta" "..."
cls
python -i install_brainage_pal.py)

veraci_00 · Nov 15, 2016

what's the command line for the splash screen? I'm sorry, but I don't know the common names. is it:

w.up("bootDrcTex.tga", "/vol/storage_mlc01/usr/title/00050000/10198900/meta/bootDrcTex.tga")

pietempgba · Nov 15, 2016

bootDrcTex is the gamepad splash and bootTvTex is the tv splash
the same splash screens in tv resolution and gamepad resolution

naughty_cat · Nov 15, 2016

TheCyberQuake said:
I actually plan on releasing within the next hour or so a new version that includes the new haxchi that can multiboot. Mine will boot redNAND if R is held, whatever fw.img you have on sd root if L is held (aka you can put sysNAND wupserver/CFW on there and that will do it), and finally holding down will boot /wiiu/custom.elf. The default option (no buttons held) will boot HBL.

Well... I don't wanna sound pushy, but, is it going to be easy, or can you at least give instructions when you release this on how to change the default (no button held) to something else? (as in the default could be rednand, while holding R could be HBL maybe???)

veraci_00 · Nov 15, 2016

pietempgba said:
bootDrcTex is the gamepad splash and bootTvTex is the tv splash
the same splash screens in tv resolution and gamepad resolution

is that the common file name and it always appears in the meta folder? thanks btw. I think I've got it.

pietempgba · Nov 15, 2016

veraci_00 said:
is that the common file name and it always appears in the meta folder? thanks btw. I think I've got it.

yeah

TheCyberQuake · Nov 15, 2016

Mohamed Magdy Mogawer said:
Well... I don't wanna sound pushy, but, is it going to be easy, or can you at least give instructions when you release this on how to change the default (no button held) to something else? (as in the default could be rednand, while holding R could be HBL maybe???)

Yeah, you can edit it. FIX94's github for haxchi tells you how. Other than my modified redNAND launcher most everything else is unmodified unless listed as such in OP. The newer one I'm uploading soon is completely unmodified, I've just put it together in a way people can just slap it on their SD and computer, click a single script and have a fully modified VC

TheCyberQuake · Nov 15, 2016

I have the new scripts done for USA region. Here are the changes from the last upload:

meta.xml gets downloaded from the Wii U, the script asks for the custom title, and then modifies and reuploads meta.xml.
Attempts to also transfer config.txt to support the latest haxchi by FIX94
If config.txt transfer is successful, it also sets chmod for that file

Unfortunately out of time for the night so I'll have to push releasing the rest of it until tomorrow.

pietempgba · Nov 15, 2016

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