This post is tl;dr, you can skip to the 2nd post.
I'm in need of some help, I've been trying to figure out wiiware games and thanks to various tutorials on this site I've gotten pretty far. I had managed to make Castlevania Rebirth work through USBLoader-GX a long time ago, but every other game I had tried gave me a blackscreen. I forgot how I did it so I decided to start fresh and really learn how it all works.
Now, I'm trying to run FFIV The After Years, in japanese. I tried various methods to make it run, from dumping my nand on GX and installing it there and running it directly, tried neek2o, even installed on real NAND via yawmm. All methods gave me either blackscreen, or the game would start but then freeze after the initial instruction screens. Sometimes I'd get the "this channel can't be used" message you get from running an out-of-region channel.
In the end the only way that worked was, dumping my nand, booting into that nand through neek2o, then use the button 2 menu on the main screen to turn on the region free hack and the "temp region change" hack (It has to be both of them). Then it would finally get past the white screen. After that I can run the game directly from GX with the boot option set to neek and it works all the same.
But now, the game still won't start, because it thinks my internal memory is full, and sends me to the save data manager screen (So close yet so far!). Neek2o freezes when I try to view the saves on internal memory, by the way.
During this whole ordeal I also tried creating a fresh emuNAND using modmii instead of using a dump of my real nand, which is what I've seen being recommended to use with neek2o. Maybe then saves would work. First I tried a japanese emunand, but I couldn't get past the initialization screen (I sync the controller, but pressing A simply does nothing). Now that I made the game work on my dumped USA nand, I figured I could try a fresh USA nand, so I did that, and got past the initialization process and booted into the main screen, and made sure to set the corresponding region hacks. Then I went back to GX, installed the FFIV wad on the fresh USA emunand, and attempted to boot into it again, except now it won't work. Trying to run the game installed on that emunand via GX gives me a black screen, and trying to boot into that emunand through any means (GX, wiiflow, nswitch) instead reboots the console into plain ol' real nand. So, the fresh USA emunand got corrupted, as soon as I installed a wad on it. The Japanese one I made previously got corrupted the same way.
That's as far as I got, so any help regarding making saves work on neek2o, either on a dump of my real nand or on a fresh emunand made via modmii (or how to make a fresh emunand work at all), or any other way would be greatly appreciated!
I'm in need of some help, I've been trying to figure out wiiware games and thanks to various tutorials on this site I've gotten pretty far. I had managed to make Castlevania Rebirth work through USBLoader-GX a long time ago, but every other game I had tried gave me a blackscreen. I forgot how I did it so I decided to start fresh and really learn how it all works.
Now, I'm trying to run FFIV The After Years, in japanese. I tried various methods to make it run, from dumping my nand on GX and installing it there and running it directly, tried neek2o, even installed on real NAND via yawmm. All methods gave me either blackscreen, or the game would start but then freeze after the initial instruction screens. Sometimes I'd get the "this channel can't be used" message you get from running an out-of-region channel.
In the end the only way that worked was, dumping my nand, booting into that nand through neek2o, then use the button 2 menu on the main screen to turn on the region free hack and the "temp region change" hack (It has to be both of them). Then it would finally get past the white screen. After that I can run the game directly from GX with the boot option set to neek and it works all the same.
But now, the game still won't start, because it thinks my internal memory is full, and sends me to the save data manager screen (So close yet so far!). Neek2o freezes when I try to view the saves on internal memory, by the way.
During this whole ordeal I also tried creating a fresh emuNAND using modmii instead of using a dump of my real nand, which is what I've seen being recommended to use with neek2o. Maybe then saves would work. First I tried a japanese emunand, but I couldn't get past the initialization screen (I sync the controller, but pressing A simply does nothing). Now that I made the game work on my dumped USA nand, I figured I could try a fresh USA nand, so I did that, and got past the initialization process and booted into the main screen, and made sure to set the corresponding region hacks. Then I went back to GX, installed the FFIV wad on the fresh USA emunand, and attempted to boot into it again, except now it won't work. Trying to run the game installed on that emunand via GX gives me a black screen, and trying to boot into that emunand through any means (GX, wiiflow, nswitch) instead reboots the console into plain ol' real nand. So, the fresh USA emunand got corrupted, as soon as I installed a wad on it. The Japanese one I made previously got corrupted the same way.
That's as far as I got, so any help regarding making saves work on neek2o, either on a dump of my real nand or on a fresh emunand made via modmii (or how to make a fresh emunand work at all), or any other way would be greatly appreciated!
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