Hacking How do you use freethewads?

[Stokesy]

Does converting a NTSC wad to PAL to play on a PAL system get rid of the PAL conversion problems inherent with PAL VC games?

 

[megabug7]

So is a new file created? Or is the file that i dragged into freethewads the "free" file?

It's the one you dragged into the folder - no new file is created

 

[ganons]

thanks fission worked nicely

 

[Narutoball]

It's more of a problem that people don't know how to use the command line, and don't care to learn.

If you're on a different drive letter, just type X: (C:, A:, B:, whatever letter you want) and press enter to change drive.

Don't put quotes around the executable, just the arguments, and only if they have spaces.

eg. "freethewads title.wad a" won't work.
freethewads "C:\Temp\title.wad" a will work.

I do what you say and it actually reconises it. But it doesn't give me an option on which region i want to set it to. WHen you do this does it automatically do it to region free (option 3)?

thanks

 

[Prime]

It's more of a problem that people don't know how to use the command line, and don't care to learn.

If you're on a different drive letter, just type X: (C:, A:, B:, whatever letter you want) and press enter to change drive.

Don't put quotes around the executable, just the arguments, and only if they have spaces.

eg. "freethewads title.wad a" won't work.
freethewads "C:\Temp\title.wad" a will work.

I do what you say and it actually reconises it. But it doesn't give me an option on which region i want to set it to. WHen you do this does it automatically do it to region free (option 3)?

thanks

freethewad sets it to region free, you don't get a choice in the matter

 

[Rocco Savadgie]

quick q - If an NTSC wad is patched using this program will it run at the faster 60hz on PAL?

 

[mattylad]

Thanks for the guide - worked a treat.

 

[sidneyyoung]

The problem some are having with this app is down to the length of the 'path' name, not the individual file names. The .wad doesn't get patched properly and an error will occur on attempting to install.

All thats needed to be done is to put all the files in a folder on the root of the drive, including the .wad you want to patch... c:\freetw\ or c:\ftw\ ..for example.

Also no command line is needed, just have the .wad in the folder and simply drop the .wad onto the freethewads.exe, note again the .wad needs to be in the low path name folder, a little black window will pop up fast then dissapear, blink and you'll miss it. This auto sets the wad to region free, if you want a specific region you have to run the command line.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Well if the question were "How do you not use freethewads?" then my answer would be

Use anyregion changer.

It even brought color to my non ntsc supporting tv, running c64 games as if my ntsc wii is pal

 

[Abnormal Freak]

So if I use freethewads to make the Rondo of Blood WAD region-free, I can then put it on my NTSC-U Wii using WAD Manager and it'll play the game just fine, correct? What happens if I attempt to play the game WITHOUT changing the region?

(Sorry, I'm completely new to this whole homebrew thing. Been reading up on how to properly install different apps and such before I attempt to actually do anything, for fear I may damage my Wii or make it inoperable.)

 

[zelgadis]

Thanks for the guides guys!

 

[silverpipe]

To speed up the process I made this neat little bat file to help you along

:


copy this into a notebook file and save it as EasyWAD.bat (remove the .txt extension):

@Echo Off
Title EasyWAD
Color 2
set loca=C:\WADS\

set xloca=
set /p xloca=The current folder is set to C:\WADS, do you want to change it? (y/n)
if %xloca%==n goto name
if %xloca%==y goto setfolder
exit


:setfolder
set loca=
set /p loca=Type folder path...(I.E. "C:\folder\")
goto name


:name
set title=
set /p title=Type the name of the wad file...(without extension)
cls
cd /d %loca%
freethewads %title%.wad a
color 0a
pause>nul
exit


Made by Silverpipe & PineApple

 

[LufianGuy]

The screenshot of the command prompt was the best instructions anyone could have given, thanks a lot!

 

[BadHobbit]

It took me about an hour to find a working download link for the FreeTheWads program. I finally found it inside a RAR pack someone had made for use with the Twilight Hack. Basically the only working torrent of it was one full of crap already available everywhere. I decided since is was so damned difficult to find it, I'd make it easier. Here's a RAR with the FreeTheWADs program and GUI along with basic instructions for using the GUI in a Readme.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UB709OZ3


or

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/10/208...Freethewads.rar


The second link may have a download limit or bandwidth cap or something.

 

[viiral]

Why not just install Priiloader and turn on region free channels? Priiloader ftw.