Hacking NForwarder IOS 58

[tueidj]

Put it at the end of the line, after -logc.

 

[mugotu]

xD we have used wiimc source before and done the same thing with ios58 as our official wiiflow forwarder, but it tended to have odd issues with some people's wiis with priiloader. Anyways your retries on the usb mounting seems to work a little better than the fix I used for that, so kudo's for that.

Anyways I started yesterday adding some forwarder sources to an svn repo and I'll be adding more so that there are alot of different forwarder styles available for different uses, for example, I made a no-splash version from this nforwarder that cuts over 100kb from the resulting dol and loads 2x as fast.. (our testers say the new nForwarder is about 6-7 seconds and without splash is about 3-4 seconds.)
Ive also added the required libs in a different way, as I dont like telling people to change their libogc simply to compile a forwarder. The mForwarder no-splash can be comiled under any libogc without changes now.

Anyways, I've added that and the unfinished one from the wiiflow source that I modified from wiixplorer source. Also I will be adding ones with animated splash like wiiflow has now, and ones that pass ios args like the unfinished official wiiflow one does.

Narolez if you want we can put yours up there and add you to the svn permissions, so you can keep revision history easier. I did call the svn mForwarders atm because of lack of a better name on the svn but ofc that could change, I just wanna keep it pretty general and add a bunch of different styles that work well.

http://code.google.com/p/mforwarders/

Thanks for the hints and your offer to use your SVN. If you give me permission, i will add Nforwarder58 to the mforwarders repository.

Added you as hackinwhite[at]gmail but idk if thats the address you wanna use for that, I dont know what your other one is that you used on wiiflow before.

 

[guinness]

Put it at the end of the line, after -logc.

That worked. Thank you most kindly tueidj. Thanks also to spaceman.spiff.

 

[Bloodlust]

With this forwarder, am I able to launch CFG directly from an NTFS partition now without a SD card present?

 

[DR.Hossa]

Good Work Narolez

The Forwarders work well and the Speed is Awesome

 

[LNick]

This is awesome! I've had lots of trouble getting forwarders that are USB compatible, and had resorted to hex editing a forwarder dol from a CFG Usb forwarder wad (which I still had trouble getting to work some times).

Now does any body have a good tutorial on creating forwarder isos? Most don't work for me, and I've been trying to replace main.dol's in some purported forwarder isos, but none of them seem to work for me.

 

[xzxero]

can someone host these new forwarders .dols?
i cant get this to create.
i fail.

like for the emulators and wiimc and whatnot.

 

[LNick]

can someone host these new forwarders .dols?
i cant get this to create.
i fail.

like for the emulators and wiimc and whatnot.

Not to be mean, but did you follow the compile instructions, and read the thread? I had a compile issue and needed to add a flag to the makefile to link in the math libs. The question was asked and answered earlier in the thread (not by me).

Also I have trouble with the custom WiiMC forwarder I made. WiiMC doesn't recognize my USB drive when using my custom forwarder, but is fine from the HBC. I haven't tried the official WiiMC sources yet. Everything else works beautifully!

 

[xzxero]

Yes i did follow the instructions man.

Like I said, wouldn't work for me, i dont know if trying it on a netbook makes any difference.

can anyone who can successfully make these forwarders please upload them?

 

[minjeeta]

Thank you Narolez for the forwarder and cheers Benjay for slipping your splashes into the dol's as well,
and in four different colors

http://benjay.free.fr/wiiflow/?M=D

wop wop...m

 

[ourpc2]

Hey guys! I really aprreciatte all your effort into making the wii's homebrew better...

You all rock!

 

[Fishaman P]

I want this for the drive wake-up upon Wii startup. Is there a better solution? If not, do I just autoboot this from Priiloader and launch my Forwarder from the Wii Menu?

 

[bulletmark]

Thanks, good app. But why not add /apps/USBLoader for CFG? That's the folder name used in the latest download of cfg loader. It's just confusing for everybody to have to rename that folder to match what you have chosen.

 

[sanni]

Could I please get some help?

bin2s -a 32 /c/Programme/Wii/nfor/src/source/images/background.png | powerpc-eabi-as -o background.png.o
echo "extern const u8" `(echo background.png | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]\)/_\1/' | tr . _)`"_end[];" > `(echo background.png | tr . _)`.h
echo "extern const u8" `(echo background.png | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]\)/_\1/' | tr . _)`"[];" >> `(echo background.png | tr . _)`.h
echo "extern const u32" `(echo background.png | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]\)/_\1/' | tr . _)`_size";" >> `(echo background.png | tr . _)`.h
linking ... boot.elf
c:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/libogc/lib/wii\libogc.a(gu.o): In function `ps_guMtxRotAxisRad':
d:/code/devkitpro/libogc/libogc/gu.c:230: undefined reference to `sinf'
d:/code/devkitpro/libogc/libogc/gu.c:231: undefined reference to `cosf'
c:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/libogc/lib/wii\libntfs.a(gekko_io.o): In function `ntfs_device_gekko_io_readbytes':
gekko_io.c:(.text.ntfs_device_gekko_io_readbytes+0xcc): undefined reference to `floor'
gekko_io.c:(.text.ntfs_device_gekko_io_readbytes+0x134): undefined reference to `ceil'
c:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/libogc/lib/wii\libntfs.a(gekko_io.o): In function `ntfs_device_gekko_io_writebytes':
gekko_io.c:(.text.ntfs_device_gekko_io_writebytes+0xf0): undefined reference to `floor'
gekko_io.c:(.text.ntfs_device_gekko_io_writebytes+0x160): undefined reference to `ceil'
c:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/libogc/lib/wii\libpng.a(pngrtran.o): In function `png_build_gamma_table':
pngrtran.c:(.text.png_build_gamma_table+0xf8): undefined reference to `pow'
pngrtran.c:(.text.png_build_gamma_table+0x2d0): undefined reference to `pow'
pngrtran.c:(.text.png_build_gamma_table+0x3ec): undefined reference to `pow'
pngrtran.c:(.text.png_build_gamma_table+0x574): undefined reference to `pow'
pngrtran.c:(.text.png_build_gamma_table+0x668): undefined reference to `pow'
c:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/libogc/lib/wii\libpng.a(pngrtran.o):pngrtran.c:(.text.png_build_gamma_table+0x734): more undefined references to `pow' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/c/Programme/Wii/nfor/src/boot.elf] Error 1
"make": *** [build] Error 2

What I did was:
1)Download and install devkitProUpdater-1.5.0 then download libogc_R4332_19-09-2010 and copy content to libogc folder, overwrite yes
2) Then in C:\Programme\Wii\devkitPro\msys\etc opened the file fstab and added

C:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/devkitPPC /ppc
C:/Programme/Wii/devkitPro/devkitARM /arm

3) Opened file profile and added those 4 lines in between
alias clear=clsb

export PATH=$PATH:/ppc/bin
export DEVKITPPC=/ppc
export PATH=$PATH:/arm/bin
export DEVKITARM=/arm

and cd "$HOME"

 

[jodur]

@sanni,

As already earlier mentioned in this thread, you have to add the mathlibrary to the makefile!!!

 

[sanni]

Thank you very much. I got it to work. Now I need to replace the dol inside the channel wad with mine. Preferable without bricking my Wii.
I will use the search function for this. But I promise i will be back when I run into troubles again

 

[XFlak]

Check out customize mii

 

[sanni]

Ok I used customize mii to exchange the dol.
Anyone with decent brick protection cares to try the wad? It's for CFG Usbloader.
http://www.zshare.net/download/837000211fff76b8/

I just removed the splash screen and changed search path, nothing else changed.
paths:
/apps/usbloader_cfg/boot.dol
/apps/usbloader/boot.dol

I can't install bootmii in boot2, so I'm a little scared to test it myself

 

[jodur]

You coud also test your wad with a NandEmu (Sneek for example). You probally won't be able to test the functionallity (Sneek don't work well together with CIOS), but you can test if it banner bricks!

 

[bulletmark]

I use CFGForwarder58.dol with the latest priiloader 0.6 beta 3 to load CFG loader directly from boot and it works well.

Only problem is, I really dislike that alien splash screen. My wife and kids think it looks evil and it gives the connotation that all this wii hacked software is nefarious in intent. I'd rather a more pleasant splash screen, or none at all. Can anybody point me to such a rebuilt version of CFGForwarder58.dol?