Hacking Nintendont

[the_randomizer]

Are you sure?
Did you try it yourself?

No I haven't tried Nintendont USB, but other USB HDD apps work just fine and my HDD doesn't have UStealth yet. I simply held the B button during boot up to ensure I skip the Wii U menu altogether, works like a charm.

 

[iwantpizza]

Are you sure?
Did you try it yourself?

From Nintendo themselves, and yes it does work.

 

[duffmmann]

Bluetooth is not yet supported, so you have to connect it through the usb port. You must also put the PS3 controller ini (renamed to controller.ini) in the root of the device where you have your games.

Thanks for the info. Is bluetooth communication with such controllers an ultimate goal? I wouldn't even ask such a thing if it weren't for things like Devolution supporting such things. Really it baffles my mind that a Wii or WiiU can communicate with PS controllers at all (that is of course without one of those adapters connecting that kind of controller through a GC slot or Wiimote).

 

[Etheboss]

Lol, i meant the u-stealth part, because something does not add up.

U-stealth is a windows program that changes the the header of the hdd a bit so wii u does not prompt you to format it. It does not even recognize it i think.

Anyway, what i am trying to say is that you also need modified software to read the drive correctly, afaik. Vwii homebrew does not have the modification except a few usb loaders.
I know OverjoY didn't add it and i doubt anyone else did.

So i can't see nintendont working when you used u-stealth at this point.

 

[faku1810]

Thanks for the info. Is bluetooth communication with such controllers an ultimate goal? I wouldn't even ask such a thing if it weren't for things like Devolution supporting such things. Really it baffles my mind that a Wii or WiiU can communicate with PS controllers at all (that is of course without one of those adapters connecting that kind of controller through a GC slot or Wiimote).

I may be a bit naive but i think there's not much surprise in the fact that you can use different bluetooth controllers with a console that relies natively on bluetooth for the use of wiimotes, as long as there's software that makes it possible. You can use real wiimotes in a computer to play in dolphin, for example.

And to answer your question, I thought i read someone else mention it would be worked on, but I honestly don't know how much importance they'll give to it. Personally, I think having usb support for several gamepads is great enough, even if some people would prefer a wireless experience.

 

[iwantpizza]

Lol, i meant the u-stealth part, because something does not add up.

U-stealth is a windows program that changes the the header of the hdd a bit so wii u does not prompt you to format it. It does not even recognize it i think.

Anyway, what i am trying to say is that you also need modified software to read the drive correctly, afaik. Vwii homebrew does not have the modification except a few usb loaders.
I know OverjoY didn't add it and i doubt anyone else did.

So i can't see nintendont working when you used u-stealth at this point.

I see what you mean. No I have not tried u-stealth on vWii, as far as I know there's only a hand full of apps that are supporting u-stealth. In addition, by doing a direct vWii boot (hold B while booting WiiU) it by passes the problem WiiU menu has with FAT/NTFS drives. You can even perform it with a Wiimote.

 

[Adeka]

stealth is not supported yet. Most likely in the future it will be added

 

[Maxternal]

If you hold B as the Wii U boots up to go directly to vWii, yes.

that's how to use a NON-stealthed drive ... but at least for me a stealthed drive is not showing up.

EDIT : sorry, didn't see there was already another page of comments about it :/

 

[the_randomizer]

that's how to use a NON-stealthed drive ... but at least for me a stealthed drive is not showing up.

That's where I got confused, my bad...

 

[Cyan]

I know OverjoY didn't add it and i doubt anyone else did.

So i can't see nintendont working when you used u-stealth at this point.

Stealth support is already added into nintendont
though, it's checking it on FAT partition signature too (which is unneeded, but doesn't have any effect if present).
UStealth doesn't change partition's signature, only the boot record's signature.

kernel/ff.c
MBR: line 1995
FAT: Line 2157


I don't know how the LD_WORD address is used, but shouldn't it be 0xAB55 instead of 0xBA55?
To stealth the drive, the MBR signature is changed from 0x55AA to 0x55AB.

 

[Etheboss]

Aww, sorry ppl, i guess OJ doesn't tell me everything, last time we talked about it, Ustealth support wasn't in yet.

EDIT: *Cyan: got word now from him, he says he added it but did not test it yet *remember it being a not yet suppost to leak project?*

 

[the_randomizer]

Aww, sorry ppl, i guess OJ doesn't tell me everything, last time we talked about it, Ustealth support wasn't in yet.

EDIT: *Cyan: got word now from him, he says he added it but did not test it yet *remember it being a not yet suppost to leak project?*

So, UStealth works by "hiding" the master boot record on the HDD correct? I might need to try this out

 

[Etheboss]

So, UStealth works by "hiding" the master boot record on the HDD correct? I might need to try this out

From the google code page: This utility hides or un-hides partitions on removable media by re-writing the boot signature from the standard 55-AA to 55-AB.

 

[the_randomizer]

From the google code page: This utility hides or un-hides partitions on removable media by re-writing the boot signature from the standard 55-AA to 55-AB.

Not to sound paranoid, but, this doesn't really do anything to the data per se, correct? Would it be prudent to backup the data as a precaution before using this program?

 

[Maxternal]

Stealth support is already added into nintendont
though, it's checking it on FAT partition signature too (which is unneeded, but doesn't have any effect if present).
UStealth doesn't change partition's signature, only the boot record's signature.

kernel/ff.c
MBR: line 1995
FAT: Line 2157


I don't know how the LD_WORD address is used, but shouldn't it be 0xAB55 instead of 0xBA55?
To stealth the drive, the MBR signature is changed from 0x55AA to 0x55AB.

ok, the kernel, yes, but the loader is just using fatInitDefault()
... I'll go check again bit it seemed to be giving me a no FAT device found error last time I checked.

 

[Cyan]

fat.c is not in libogc sources? I didn't find it.
compiled sources have fat.h and libfat.a though.
to support modified MBR signature, I guess we need to edit libfat sources if fatInit() is checking the signature.

 

[Maxternal]

ok, the kernel, yes, but the loader is just using fatInitDefault()
... I'll go check again bit it seemed to be giving me a no FAT device found error last time I checked.

confirmed, toggling hidden state makes it visible and visa versa

EDIT : Cyan you could always use something a little more specific for the mounting code like what nSwitch uses
( signature check specifically coded here https://code.google.com/p/gbadev/source/browse/source/main.c?repo=nswitch#96 )
although that way you'd have to use sd: or usb: so paths like /nincfg.bin would have to be specified as usb:/nincfg.bin or sd:/nincfg.bin (or you could just have that written to some memory location instead of storage)

 

[Shiranui-san]

I've been testing Nintendont r44 in my Wii with some PAL games off USB. Appart from memory card issues (not recognised), games that are multi5 like Paper Mario Thousand Years Door, always boot in English and it seems it is not possible to change it since there is no language selector.

 

[Cyan]

USBGX has language selector, but I think it never worked with nintendont.
I set the language in the settings and in sram, but nintendont doesn't use that setting (I thought the sram was enough for the game to use it, like with DML).
r42+ doesn't work yet. I updated the sources but didn't compiled/tested it yet.
If I update, older revision won't work anymore. Maybe I'll add a version selector if users need to test/swap old revisions and newer revisions often.

 

[Shiranui-san]

Cyan, I was using Nintendont app only, not launching it with GX. Should I use r1218 Mod05 to launch Nintendont through GX?