Hacking Nintendont

[Adeka]

I've been having this problem with nearly every single game. When I have memory card emulation on, most games won't work. They'll either freeze with a blaring beeping tone as soon as a save file is created, or, if a file creation is successful, the game will just hang on a black screen after starting a new game.

Is there any solution to this?

What version?

 

[piktamin]

What version?

I have the latest open source version

 

[Adeka]

I have the latest open source version

try v1.80

Honestly v1.80 needs to replace v1.00 as the released version. v1.80 is very stable

 

[megaexplosion]

Do you think it will be possible to make Nintendont work with the GC controller WiiU adapter when it comes out?

 

[Adeka]

Do you think it will be possible to make Nintendont work with the GC controller WiiU adapter when it comes out?

How can we even see if its HID compatible when it's not even out yet

 

[megaexplosion]

How can we even see if its HID compatible when it's not even out yet

Tru, tru. Just wondering how much this has been considered.

 

[piktamin]

try v1.80

Honestly v1.80 needs to replace v1.00 as the released version. v1.80 is very stable

Thanks very much! Tested it on two games that had the issue and using V1.80 seemed to fix the saving problem. Will test it on the other games that had saving issues soon.

 

[WolfSaviorZX]

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[faku1810]

So I'm having some problems getting this to work at all. been messing with it for 3 months or so lol. I got everything else working on vWii but this is still not working at all. Pretty much my set up is SD Card for Wii and GC games (I made sure to put GC games in their own folders in the "games" folder on my root and named them game.iso and disk2.iso). I can't get them to show up on Wiiflow and when I boot nintendont directly it gives me a controller error. I have tried a PS3 Wired controller and Mayflash classic controller wireless adapter on all 4 usb ports with no success. I have controller.ini (tried both the ps3 and multiple mayflash ones), IPL.bin, font_ansi.bin and nincfg.bin on the root of my sd card. I'm using Nintendont 1.8 version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure if I'm just missing editing an .ini file somewhere but didn't find anything on it in this tread (it's 450 pages long though so I could have missed it :/)

The first thing you should try when you get controller errors is to use HIDtest-v6 from the first post and check that your controller is being recognized. Specially the VID and PID should be the same in the controller.ini (it will tell you if they don't match). If the hidtest finds your controller and shows a few numbers that change when you press the buttons, you can be sure that the usb port is working (you might need to press the PS button in the ps3 controller). If it shows something like "A button is missing", etc. then you should check that the file is actually named "controller.ini" and not "controller.ini.ini" (it's a common mistake)

I think you have to navigate a bit around wiiflow settings to show Gamecube games and then configure nintendont as the gc loader.

 

[FIX94]

Just uploaded r98:
-nintendont now accepts args to autoboot games, other usb loader devs can look at wiiflow on howto implement it
-added ios 58.25.32 onto the supported wii ios list as suggested by the gbatemp member realromhunter

Also uploaded wiiflow r1075:
-autobooting nintendont games via args if nintendont 1.98 or newer is used, makes the bootup faster
-nintendonts memory card emulation is now enabled by default
-if using a wiiu wiiflow will now automatically use nintendont or devolution instead of the MIOS to boot gamecube games by default
-fixed the bug that wiiflow did not display gamecube games even if nintendont is available

For the people who use wiiflow, here is the new dol:
http://fix94.no-ip.org/wf_revs/boot_r1075.7z

 

[VashTS]

Just uploaded r98:
-nintendont now accepts args to autoboot games, other usb loader devs can look at wiiflow on howto implement it
-added ios 58.25.32 onto the supported wii ios list as suggested by the gbatemp member realromhunter

Also uploaded wiiflow r1075:
-autobooting nintendont games via args if nintendont 1.98 or newer is used, makes the bootup faster
-nintendonts memory card emulation is now enabled by default
-if using a wiiu wiiflow will now automatically use nintendont or devolution instead of the MIOS to boot gamecube games by default
-fixed the bug that wiiflow did not display gamecube games even if nintendont is available

For the people who use wiiflow, here is the new dol:
http://fix94.no-ip.org/wf_revs/boot_r1075.7z

You are too awesome sir, thanks! If I could make a request, what about adding support to wiiflow to changing the version of nintendont used? like it we have multiple revs in the apps/nintendont folder let us select which one to use, with r80 being most stable i tend to keep that file in there just in case, and then keep the latest in the folder named boot.dol.

even if its just like "stable" or "testing", meaning the latest rev can be named something else.

 

[Cyan]

Thanks for the new autoboot method, I'll check how it works and add it to USBGX too.
I hope I won't have to change any memory address, I'm not familiar with this.

 

[FIX94]

I hope I won't have to change any memory address, I'm not familiar with this.

You should be fine, I just needed todo that because of some differences in wiiflows memory management.

 

[piktamin]

Is there any way to play PAL games with good compatibility on an NTSC-U console? I tried running an Australian version of Mario Sunshine but it stays in Black & White

 

[daxtsu]

FIX94: Are you sure this new config stuff works correctly? Every time I boot a game in 1.98, I lose my settings and have to re-pick them every time, regardless of if Nintendont is booted through the Homebrew Channel or a loader like postLoader. I'm not using argsboot (yet).

 

[FIX94]

FIX94: Are you sure this new config stuff works correctly? Every time I boot a game in 1.98, I lose my settings and have to re-pick them every time, regardless of if Nintendont is booted through the Homebrew Channel or a loader like postLoader. I'm not using argsboot (yet).

fixed, I dont know how I messed up a simple true with a false but whatever lol.

 

[daxtsu]

Thank you for the quick fix.

Edit: Regarding argsboot, why not just look for the struct in the memory location the kernel expects it to be in, instead of using argc/argv stuff, or allow us to pass an actual string, like "MemCardEmu=Yes;Language=English;ForceWidscreen=Yes"? It's really awkward passing a struct as an argv if you ask me (not to mention I'm going to have to rewrite how dols boot entirely in postLoader just for this to work)..

 

[realromhunter]

Is there any way to play PAL games with good compatibility on an NTSC-U console? I tried running an Australian version of Mario Sunshine but it stays in Black & White

Use Component Video Cable.

 

[Goku Junior]

Use Component Video Cable.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I read Component cables got problems with Nintendont (I don't know in 1.97).

 

[MassiveRican]

Thank you for the quick fix.

Edit: Regarding argsboot, why not just look for the struct in the memory location the kernel expects it to be in, instead of using argc/argv stuff, or allow us to pass an actual string, like "MemCardEmu=Yes;Language=English;ForceWidscreen=Yes"? It's really awkward passing a struct as an argv if you ask me (not to mention I'm going to have to rewrite how dols boot entirely in postLoader just for this to work)..

I thought it worked the same way with plugins and stfour converted the way it worked to launch in PL4 the way he wanted. Couldn't the same thing be done for Nintendon't code to convert?

I'm no coder, so hope I don't sound rude, not saying that's what needs to be done, it might be very difficult, I was just curious if it's possible w/o having to rewrite how dols boot in PL.