Hacking Nintendont

[Bryon15]

Oh that's cool. I hope someone picks it up. This really is the only way we'll get to play gamecube games on the Wii U. Without having to go through that verification process of devolution.

 

[Cyan]

I would too. I don't care if they don't work properly, I just want to see if anything else boots!

Some other games are booting, though very few are playable.
Most common problem : Black screen at launch
Second common problem : Sound issue (no sound, noises because of DSP not implemented yet, etc.)
Third common problem : Game freeze after launch (title screen, new game, while loading a level, etc.)
Last, it's controller issue : button always pressed (up, L, etc.)
If you pass all this, you can find working games (and NTSC/PAL games have different results).

What makes working games unplayable is the sound issue (unless you mute your TV).
Also, I don't know if Memory Card Emulation works better than NMM, but you probably will have problem saving/loading. And it doesn't read the real card.

There are still a lot do to, it would be great if someone who understand how the two consoles are working could continue developing nintendont (Dolphin devs?). Crediar documented the sources and gave directions.
But if it's like DIOS MIOS, not a lot of people understand the code or are interested. We will see.

Anyway, thanks for providing the sources and for what you did so far
Even if no one continue nintendont, some functions could be useful in other dev's projects.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Btw, if you want to compile the kernel in Windows, I think you'll need to change the first line of the Makefile to:

PREFIX    =    $(DEVKITARM)/bin/arm-none-eabi-

 

[sabykos]

There are around 12-13 different DSP version (correct me, if I'm wrong, Cyan). Crediar had a full list of all games and their specific DSP version. As far as I remember he already implemented patches for 2-3 of the DSP versions. If someone is really interested in further developping nintendont, I guess crediar would be willing to share this list.

Further development of this project will be really diffecult. Unfortunately, the code is poorly commentated, because never intended to release it. I think the huge problem is time. I think it would a least take a few weeks of intense work to understand how nintendont works.

 

[Cyan]

that's right

DSP v0: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA The Wind Waker
DSP v1: Super Mario Sunshine, Wave Race Blue Storm
DSP V2:
DSP V3: TALES OF SYMPHONIA
DSP V4:
DSP V5: Mario Kart Double Dash!, Pikmin 2, Pokemon, Zelda Four Swords, Zelda Master's quests
DSP V6:
DSP V7: Paper Mario, Crash Tag Team Racing, Cubivore
DSP V8: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, DONKEY KONG JUNGLE BEAT
DSP V9: Fire_Emblem_Path_Of_Radiance, Geist, Metroid Prime 2
DSP V10: Pikmin
DSP V11: Luigi's Mansion
DSP unknown: Medal of Honor European Assault

DSP0 almost fully supported (small garbled noise in WindWaker intro, probably a sound effect)
DSP5 partially supported (Mario kart has sound effect working but music is making garbled noise, unless it stops playing ("last track" sound event stops the music briefly))

 

[Ray Lewis]

Seems like a lot of work for Game Cube. Should make people realize how tough something like Nintendont really is. I would be surprised if anyone picks up this start and runs with it.

 

[Magnus87]

Maybe some he returns or someone use de source code and improve it

 

[roukxwel]

Oh that's cool. I hope someone picks it up. This really is the only way we'll get to play gamecube games on the Wii U. Without having to go through that verification process of devolution.

Ha I totally agree it's annoying how the verification on WiiU

must possess a WiiU Wii and Gamecube games not serious but I do not know what Tuedj smoke but I want to know his suppliers

 

[Etheboss]

Ha I totally agree it's annoying how the verification on WiiU

must possess a WiiU Wii and Gamecube games not serious but I do not know what Tuedj smoke but I want to know his suppliers

Tueidj is just a really BIIG AP fan, also he loved to spike crediar... Lol

 

[the_randomizer]

Tueidj is just a really BIIG AP fan, also he loved to spike crediar... Lol

Maybe that's why he decided to stop

 

[loco365]

Does anyone know of a working build right now that supports more than Wind Waker?

 

[marcan_troll]

Um what does releasing the source code mean exactly?

It also means that we can all plainly see how crediar has been illegally violating open source licenses left and right.

https://twitter.com/delroth_/status/409758930206601219

 

[JoostinOnline]

It also means that we can all plainly see how crediar has been illegally violating open source licenses left and right.

https://twitter.com/delroth_/status/409758930206601219

I didn't recognize any code that was written by someone else.

 

[Cyan]

kernel/SDI.c

edit:
It's written by someone else and ask to provide the sources. sorry I'm not reading correctly.
It's not GPL2. it only asks to put the disclaimer along with binary releases.
Though, some files have the GPL disclaimer.

 

[Maxternal]

http://gbatemp.net/threads/crediar-releases-the-nintendont-source-code.358857/
For those (like me) who had to search for the news about where the source code it ...
http://crediar.no-ip.com/nin/ for the compatibility list Crediar was using while working on it.

 

[grossaffe]

http://gbatemp.net/threads/crediar-releases-the-nintendont-source-code.358857/
For those (like me) who had to search for the news about where the source code it ...
http://crediar.no-ip.com/nin/ for the compatibility list Crediar was using while working on it.

That list is supposed to be Nintendont? I guess he just copied the page source from the DIOS MIOS compatibility list as the page title says its for DIOS MIOS.

 

[Cyan]

The page title says DIOS MIOS, but it's the compatibility for nintendont.
There's also a NMM column, but he changed to Memory card emulation (full memcard binary instead of saving files one by one per games to SD card) right before the alpha release. the NMM column is not accurate anymore, but the other results are.
And the "beta v0.1" is older than "alpha v0.1".

 

[LeifEricson]

Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like he uploaded a compiled loader .elf and .dol a few hours ago. https://code.google.com/p/nintendont/source/browse/#svn/trunk/loader

Testing it now.

 

[wiewcw]

Ok, so countinuing discuson started before on here http://gbatemp.net/threads/crediar-releases-the-nintendont-source-code.358857/page-2#post-4850885 I've added proper lines to disable ahabprot so it returns same error as from WiiFlow so stopped at ISI error. For now my questions is: what causes it? my Wii with Mios-Mios installed or maybe because version from google code page is only for WiiU any ideas for tests?

 

[Cyan]

The same dol works on both Wii and WiiU. It's auto-detecting the hardware.
I didn't test the dol yet, I'll probably do it tomorrow.

Edit:
I tested r4 on Wii with Tales of Symphonia.

Nintendont Loader
Built   : Dec  9 2013 18:59:56
Version : 0.1
VI:TVEurgb60Hz480Prog
TMDSize:1168
BootIndex:18



        Exception (ISI) occurred!
        GPR00 00000000 GPR08 00000069 GPR16 00000000 GPR24 00000000
        GPR01 81375D88 GPR09 00009032 GPR17 00000000 GPR25 00000000
        GPR02 812D1BE8 GPR10 00000068 GPR18 00000000 GPR26 00000000
        GPR03 0000001C GPR11 81375D88 GPR19 00000000 GPR27 00000288
        GPR04 933E0E80 GPR12 CD006438 GPR20 00000000 GPR28 00000007
        GPR05 00000069 GPR13 812E0180 GPR21 00000000 GPR29 80100000
        GPR06 933E0000 GPR14 00000000 GPR22 00000000 GPR30 00000000
        GPR07 00000001 GPR15 00000000 GPR23 00000000 GPR31 00000000
        LR 00000000 SRR0 00000000 SRR1 10009032 MSR 00001000
        DAR 00000000 DSISR 00000000

        STACK DUMP:

There's no stack dump at all. it stops here.

After few seconds the Wii shutdown, but the Wiimote stay Synch/switched ON! it never shutdown.
Power ON/OFF the console to force wiimote to really shutdown.

And Zelda Wind Waker NTSC-U

Spoiler

Nintendont Loader
Built   : Dec  9 2013 18:59:56
Version : 0.1
VI:TVEurgb60Hz480Prog
TMDSize:1168
BootIndex:18



        Exception (ISI) occurred!
        GPR00 00000000 GPR08 00000069 GPR16 00000000 GPR24 00000000
        GPR01 81375D88 GPR09 00009032 GPR17 00000000 GPR25 00000000
        GPR02 812D1BE8 GPR10 00000068 GPR18 00000000 GPR26 00000000
        GPR03 0000001C GPR11 81375D88 GPR19 00000000 GPR27 00000288
        GPR04 933E0EE0 GPR12 CD006438 GPR20 00000000 GPR28 00000007
        GPR05 00000069 GPR13 812E0180 GPR21 00000000 GPR29 80100000
        GPR06 933E0000 GPR14 00000000 GPR22 00000000 GPR30 00000000
        GPR07 00000001 GPR15 00000000 GPR23 00000000 GPR31 00000000
        LR 00000000 SRR0 00000000 SRR1 10009032 MSR 00001000
        DAR 00000000 DSISR 00000000

        STACK DUMP: