Hacking How To make USB Game Channels

[boobooman]

founds this... might help seems small

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7126

 

[spiritofcat]

im struggling with this. lol. sorry guys. im on the vc bit and cannot get it to work. ive got the out.wad. i put it in the VC folder which has the file path of : C:\Users\######\Desktop\VC. so i bring up command prompt and paste in the path C:\Users\######\Desktop\VC then ive tried adding

C:\Users\######\Desktop\VC\vc out.wad
C:\Users\######\Desktop\VC\out.wad
C:\Users\######\Desktop\VC\VCout.wad
C:\Users\######\Desktop\VC\VC out.wad

it says these are not recognised commands....

im useless with commands. ive also just dragged the wad.out over the vc app but just flashes on then off. and if i just double click the vc app it says has to close.

any help will be great.

You need to change to that directory then run the file.

What you need to enter is this:
CD\Users\######\Desktop\VC

That will change directory.

Then you can enter this:
vc out.wad

Alternatively, in windows explorer, you can create a new text file and put this in it:
vc out.wad

then save it and rename it to runvc.bat
That way you can just double click on runvc.bat and it will run VC on out.wad for you.

Does anyone know what would be the smallest wad?

I've been using the WadManager 1.2 wad. It comes out pretty small, between 500k-1m per channel.

I've been using an ancient version of wad installer. The wad is 272KB before I mess with it.
My smallest channel wad is MadWorld at 407KB and my largest is Trivial Pursuit at 1255KB.
When looking at them in Data Management they range from 4 Blocks to 7 Blocks.


QUOTE(EnigmaXtreme @ Apr 3 2009, 07:49 PM)

Wow this is great, but what happens when you remove the USB drive?

Well, the channels are stored on the Wii, not the USB, so they'll still be there looking pretty, you'll probably just get a code dump if you try to run them while the USB Drive is not connected.
I'll go try it and see...

Edit: Yep, code dump. Same as trying to run it without IOS 222 installed and no DVD inserted.

 

[troa11]

Wow this is great, but what happens when you remove the USB drive?

You end everything everywhere.

 

[spiritofcat]

I don't have Mario Kart extracted or installed right now so I can't test that.
Have other games worked for you? Do you have IOS 222 installed?

Yep I have IOS 222 Installed from your link, Havn't got around to try another game but will try again in a sec.

Cheers for the guide btw!

I chose USA Region when using VC Inject. I'll try it again with Region Free.

Reading your guide again and

QUOTEWhen I tried it with nothing in the drive I got a code dump.

Do I need a DVD in the drive?

No, you shouldn't need a DVD in the drive. Though I heard that there are a couple of games that do.
What I meant by that line in my guide was that when I didn't have IOS 222 installed and had no DVD in the drive I got a code dump.
That's because without IOS 222 installed, these channels just load whatever is in the DVD drive like the disc channel would.

 

[bolex17]

No problems mate, I got it work already

Re-ripping all the games to extract the opening.bnr at the moment.

 

[gunslinger]

will okami (PAL) work with this method, too?

 

[boobooman]

When using vc, After choosing code (using umkw) I get wadpadder stopped working

Any idea's Why??

It say's

NEW TITLE.TMD DATA WRITTEN
NEW TITLE.TIK DATA WRITTEN

then closes

 

[spiritofcat]

No idea on that one.
Make sure you've got common-key and common-key.bin in that directory and they're not hidden?

 

[Cyber94]

i have an error:cannot open common-key: No such file or directory
why?
help!!!

 

[boobooman]

Fixed.. Was dragging out.wad over vc, Moved all files to where cmd starts and ran from there

Installing now.


Edit: did'nt work, Black screen error dol-1 in corner or something like that... Will try again

 

[Cyber94]

up

 

[bolex17]

Anyone have problems with some Channels not showing up? I tried to create a Twilight Princess channel but it won't work..

As in I create the channel but when I install it nothing shows up. When I go to Data Management and Channels I see a "?" channel.

 

[boobooman]

Got mkw to show up, But when loading i get error -01 loading dol. Theres a line above but can't see it

tried twice

 

[Fat Cow]

I'm trying to do this wtih WAD Manager 1.21, when I unpack it comes up wiht 00000000.app~00000002.app and other files.

Since only 00000000.app and 00000001.app are needed, can I just remove 00000002.app when I repack? or is that file referenced in the cert/tik/tmd/trailer files?

 

[skawo96]

I made a wad, bu t installing IOS222 gave me internet connection error, even though I had connection on.

 

[Dodi]

I dont like the VC thingy, so I used Wadder to change the title.
How long do you think it will be before someone makes an app?

 

[WiiCrazy]

I dont like the VC thingy, so I used Wadder to change the title.
How long do you think it will be before someone makes an app?

Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow...

 

[chris85]

Attention:

The IOS222 has the date bug, like the USBLoader 1.0.

I made a channel for Wii Sports, but the date was wrong!

I hope in a bugfix also for IOS222.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Attention:

The IOS222 has the date bug, like the USBLoader 1.0.

I made a channel for Wii Sports, but the date was wrong!

I hope in a bugfix also for IOS222.

Date bug is not related to the ios... it's in the loader itself... and I'm pretty user an easy patch will fix it... (

btw could be this? it's after video init for the game in gecko os... also softchip has this but yal not...

// Set the clock
settime(secs_to_ticks(time(NULL) - 946684800));

 

[chris85]

So the bug is in yal.dol?