Hacking neek2o

[HunterZ]

Update: I ported wiiflow-mod r935 to libogc-1.8.11.1 and compiled it. It runs fine, except:

• Text reflections/shadows are upside-down (?).
• I have no idea how to access the file explorer (not that I care).
• I had a random freeze when trying to access a Wiiware game's settings screen.
• You have to use "Exit to" "Real Nand" to exit Wiiflow, or else it will exit to neek2o system menu. This will likely cause a freeze if over the neek2o channel limit.

If anyone is interested and it's not going to annoy the Wiiflow developers, I can try to put it up somewhere?


So for now I have USB Loader GX for loading wbfs titles and non-problematic Wiiware from emunand, and Wiiflow+neek2o for loading problematic Wiiware from emunand.

Cyan says that neek2o booting is on his to-do list for USB Loader GX, so I can live with my solution for now. I wish that Wiiflow had a channel grid mode like USB Loader GX, as I'm not looking forward to downloading 800+ Wiiware covers or messing around to try to come up with alternate Wiiflow view modes that I might like better.

 

[Etheboss]

Update: I ported wiiflow-mod r935 to libogc-1.8.11.1 and compiled it. It runs fine, except:

• Text reflections/shadows are upside-down (?).
• I have no idea how to access the file explorer (not that I care).
• I had a random freeze when trying to access a Wiiware game's settings screen.
• You have to use "Exit to" "Real Nand" to exit Wiiflow, or else it will exit to neek2o system menu. This will likely cause a freeze if over the neek2o channel limit.

If anyone is interested and it's not going to annoy the Wiiflow developers, I can try to put it up somewhere?

Please post this in the Wiiflow Topic..

 

[drakorex]

Having a bit of a crisis here. Wiiflow boot with neek stopped working, had it set up weird somehow where neek would boot up my wiiflow/nandemu nand ( I liked this setup) But neek doesn't work at all now. I downloaded a fresh uneek+di setup from modmii, and put everything where it goes, but when I boot neek2o, it just goes back to system menu.

 

[Etheboss]

Soo, did you try my suggestions drakorex?

 

[drakorex]

Soo, did you try my suggestions drakorex?

Come again? o.O

 

[Etheboss]

Lol, i guess i could have posted it here too, from the modmii thread:

Neek2o looks for a nand first in a /nands/ folder, so maybe its a bit off now.
You could try deleting the nandcfg.bin file in the sneek folder, copy your nand to /nands/[subfolder], let neek2o start from a channel, nswitch or bootmii, then from within the di settings select your nand in /wiiflow/nands/. If it starts again, you can delete the nand in the /nands folder..

Better still, just place your nand where neek2o wants it and adjust the path in wiiflow.ini

 

[jimbo1qaz]

Are there any plans to support DI inside channels that depend on disks?
Either Postloader launches all apps outside the sandbox, it itself breaks out of the sandbox, or CFGloader and Riivolution all break out of the sandbox.

 

[davidmt]

Question:
When going into the Wii gave save menu under neek2o, is it normal for the Wii to freeze when trying to return back to the prior menu?
Just upgraded to a new USB drive and want to make sure this is expected behavior, before I start configuring everything.

 

[jimbo1qaz]

So I figured out that Riivolution's doing the jailbreaking.
Is there any way to lock the sandbox to prevent evil apps from escaping from it? I need DI to work.
Maybe changing the memory addresses???

 

[SSJ2 Dark]

Davidmt, I toggled between the SD and Wii save menus, and my system locked up as well. Guess I'm sticking to Save Game Manager GX.

Also have my own question: is it possible to store channels on the SD card for use with the emulated NAND? I thought enabling SD card access in ModMii would do this, but the system menu keeps telling me "An SD Card process failed." Or is there a better option to store/organize channels beyond the main menu?

 

[boomario]

Well, my neek2o works fine with everything, except:
He can took 10 minutes to load menu, and 10 other minutes to launch a channel/game
i already tried numerous different nands, reinstall completely and nothing helped, still took a while.
any help? Thanks.

 

[VashTS]

Well, my neek2o works fine with everything, except:
He can took 10 minutes to load menu, and 10 other minutes to launch a channel/game
i already tried numerous different nands, reinstall completely and nothing helped, still took a while.
any help? Thanks.

its probably due to the amount of games you have. i have quite a few games, and every time you transition, neek2o reads the list again. it sucks bad but that's how it works. mine can take 20 mins sometimes.

 

[boomario]

its probably due to the amount of games you have. i have quite a few games, and every time you transition, neek2o reads the list again. it sucks bad but that's how it works. mine can take 20 mins sometimes.

Well, the amount of games if a problem, even because i have no interest on using him for wii/gc games, just wiiware/VC
But thanks a lot man!

 

[rg]

Hi, I have some questions:

1. Will out of region Wads work (NTSC / JAP) on my PAL emunand or do i need to have a JAP nand.
2. Can i change nands from Di menu?
3. How is GC support? does it work on uneek2o?

I'm trying to get DM / DML working and can't seem to get it. Can the GC game be run off the DI menu or do i need to load via Postloader? Should i install the DML.wad to the emunand? (it has to be on the nand because i don't have a physical harddrive attached to the wii).

Thank you!

 

[flamepanther]

Hi, I have some questions:

1. Will out of region Wads work (NTSC / JAP) on my PAL emunand or do i need to have a JAP nand.
2. Can i change nands from Di menu?
3. How is GC support? does it work on uneek2o?

I'm trying to get DM / DML working and can't seem to get it. Can the GC game be run off the DI menu or do i need to load via Postloader? Should i install the DML.wad to the emunand? (it has to be on the nand because i don't have a physical harddrive attached to the wii).

Thank you!

#1 should work most of the time, but not always, and you'll often get corrupted text when it does. I'm lazy enough to put up with it, but making an emu NAND for each region is recommended.

 

[Katalin]

Hi, I have some questions:

1. Will out of region Wads work (NTSC / JAP) on my PAL emunand or do i need to have a JAP nand.
2. Can i change nands from Di menu?
3. How is GC support? does it work on uneek2o?

I'm trying to get DM / DML working and can't seem to get it. Can the GC game be run off the DI menu or do i need to load via Postloader? Should i install the DML.wad to the emunand? (it has to be on the nand because i don't have a physical harddrive attached to the wii).


Thank you!

1. I'm using the latest beta and for me it supports all VC/WW I have, both in and out of region
2. Yes
3. For me it works fine, but for some others it failes

 

[ccuevasm]

Which is the last beta? 7.1?

I tried with the IRC cannel without luck.

 

[rg]

I'm trying to install USA wads on a PAL nand.
I always get "this channel cannot be used"

Is there anything i'm missing?

 

[Katalin]

I'm trying to install USA wads on a PAL nand.
I always get "this channel cannot be used"

Is there anything i'm missing?

Try beta 7.1 (afaik latest) with Temporairy region change patch enabled

 

[HunterZ]

Wiiflow appears to have a special feature that lets it command neek2o to transparently launch individual channels from the emunand without having to manually boot into neek2o. Can documentation for this API be made available to other launcher authors? Would love to see this feature in USB Loader GX, for example, because its channel browser has a banner mode that looks the most like that of the System Menu.