Hacking Kirby's Adventure / Kirby's Return to Dream Land Black Screen

[Masteralexander]

Hello everyone,

I'm using a 32 GB SDHC card to easily carry around all my backed up Wii games and so far it's working great.

But there is just one game I can't get to work: Kirby's Adventure / Kirby's Return to Dream Land.
I can load and start the game, but whenever I'm in the main menu and select the main mode my Wii freezes.
(You can see a similar problem here, except the music stops and my screen turns completely black)

After wasting my whole weekend trying to find a solution to this problem, I finally gave up and hope you guys can help me out.

First of all some details about my console:
I'm using the latest stable release of WiiFlow (4.2.1) as it allows me to back up and run my own games to/from my SD card.
I've already tried every d2x-cios version combination with base 56/57 (d2x-v10-beta53-alt, d2x-v10-beta52, d2x-v8, d2x-v6) but it's always the same problem.
The hermes cIOS won't even make it past the title screen...

To make sure that it's not my disc/dump being broken, I even tried a different PAL and a different NTSC game dump - still the same problem.

After hours of research I found some information that it might have to do with the "MetaFortress" protection of the game and I even found a gameconfig.txt patch, but I have no idea if WiiFlow supports this file and/or how to make WiiFlow use it.
(I already tried enabling Ocarina and putting the file on the root of the SD, which has no effect?)

Also I've heard that an emulated NAND could fix problems with MetaFortress games, but I never got "NEEK" to work on my Wii
The sneek version from my ModMii always freezes when trying to launch it

Last but not least, here is the sysCheck of my console:

sysCheck v2.1.0b19 by Double_A and R2-D2199, Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
 
Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 2009.11.21
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58
HomebrewFilter ist nicht installiert
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 150216472
Boot2 v4
Found 81 titles.
Found 50 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stub.
 
IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
 
Report generated on 2014/07/13.

Thanks in advance

 

[Masteralexander]

No ideas ?

Aww what a bummer

 

[regnad]

I have exactly the same problem.

Forcing NTSC gets me to the title screen, but then I get a white screen after that.

I've tried multiple dumps, ISOs and trimmed wbfs files, I've tried Wiiflow, USG Loader GX, CFG, and I've tried loading it from "disk" with a Wode. Always the same problem.

It's clearly AP. I wish I knew what to do.

 

[MrFreako]

It doesn't work on SD, use a USB. I've had the same problem and this works.

 

[regnad]

Not for me it doesn't.

 

[TheSly]

I have the exact same problem here:

I use a 128 GB SDHC, nearly all games run perfect (except Final Fantasy Chrystal Bearers, but that's another story...).

And I also can start Kirby's Adventure, but after the main menu my Wii freezes and stays black...

Has anybody found a solution for this problem? :-(

 

[gburgue]

In Wiiflow, try with these options: ios=224, save_emulation=no (use real wii for gamesave), video_mode=game, language=default, and the remaining options=off (or default).

 

[TheSly]

Excuse me for my late reply... I'll try that! Thak you very much!

 

[Bu2d85]

I had the same problem in usbloadergx. The only way I could get past the menu lock up was to run it with ios 250 instead of ios 224. After that change was made I have not had a single problem with it.