Hacking Nintendont

[Silix]

If somebody can send me some links to freeware software needed to compile the source code on a windows machine I could try to investigate the problem (I have a Wii with Hollywood 0x21) as soon as I have some spare time (I studied some things on C programming more than 25 years ago, so I'm not sure to be able to make it work).
I hope to discover, if possible, which subroutine is responsible to the loss of video signal.
Thank you in advance.

 

[OverjoY]

Hint: HWAccess_ESPatch

Good luck

 

[crediar]

You sound like you know the fix?
maybe changing the HWAccess_ESPatch to smaller range will fix it?
(can't test anything just changed it by hand)

const unsigned char HWAccess_ESPatch[] =
{
  0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x8D, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0F,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02,
};

 

[naxil]

You sound like you know the fix?
maybe changing the HWAccess_ESPatch to smaller range will fix it?
(can't test anything just changed it by hand)

const unsigned char HWAccess_ESPatch[] =
{
  0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x8D, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0F,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02,
};

CREDIAR!!! HERO!!!!!! how are u man??? is long time i not see u.. do u have some info about hollywood 0x21??? not exist a good documentation, and only nintendont do that problem on blackwii/wii family... thank u verymuch for your post!!!

 

[JnL_SSBM]

CREDIAR!!! HERO!!!!!! how are u man??? is long time i not see u.. do u have some info about hollywood 0x21??? not exist a good documentation, and only nintendont do that problem on blackwii/wii family... thank u verymuch for your post!!!

calm down dude!!!! e.e

maybe r51 it will up soon... well, crediar knows

 

[faku1810]

You sound like you know the fix?
maybe changing the HWAccess_ESPatch to smaller range will fix it?
(can't test anything just changed it by hand)

const unsigned char HWAccess_ESPatch[] =
{
  0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x0D, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x8D, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0F,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
  0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02,
};

I compiled nintendont after changing that in patches.c in the sources for the loader; and now it gets stuck in the error screen that shows loading patched kernel -1 and the kernel failed to load errors (before it was impossible to read the error because you lost signal immediately). I'm not sure how positive it is but it's a change nevertheless, thanks crediar.

 

[naxil]

i have compiled the "Crediar Fix", i can't test it right now, people with black wii can test it? https://www.mediafire.com/?xxfd4ursqmryw2w
rename bootfix.dol > boot.dol and replace on apps/nintendont

 

[crediar]

Guess the next step would be to comment out the patch in Patches.c line 222.

 

[Silix]

Hint: HWAccess_ESPatch ...

If the problem is where you suggested then WiiU consoles (which are equipped with Hollywood 0x21) could work fine because the code for them is slightly different as shown below:

if( memcmp( NKernel+i, HWAccess_ES, sizeof(HWAccess_ES) ) == 0 )
{
#ifdef DEBUG_MODULE_PATCH
gprintf("Found HWAccess_ES at %08X\n", i );
#endif
memcpy( NKernel+i, HWAccess_ESPatch, sizeof( HWAccess_ESPatch ) );
PatchCount |= 4;
}

if( IsWiiU() )
{
if( PatchCount == 4 )
break;
} else {
if( PatchCount == 7 )
break;
}
}
}

 

[crediar]

The part that is skipped on Wii U is the debug output to EXI.

I'm just making suggestions based on what OverjoY said.

 

[faku1810]

Guess the next step would be to comment out the patch in Patches.c line 222.

New change, now it gets to loading patched kernel 5 and gets stuck on Checking FS, I'll attach a picture as soon as I can.

Edit: Picture of the screen it gets stuck on http://i.imgur.com/9AiYYoD.jpg

 

[pedro702]

New change, now it gets to loading patched kernel 5 and gets stuck on Checking FS, I'll attach a picture as soon as I can.

Edit: Picture of the screen it gets stuck on http://i.imgur.com/9AiYYoD.jpg

is your hdd on the right usb port?

 

[gamer765]

New change, now it gets to loading patched kernel 5 and gets stuck on Checking FS, I'll attach a picture as soon as I can.

Edit: Picture of the screen it gets stuck on http://i.imgur.com/9AiYYoD.jpg

According to https://code.google.com/p/nintendont/wiki/Troubleshooting, loading patched kernel error 5 means something is wrong with game iso.

 

[pedro702]

checking FS normaly happens when the usb is not on the right door most of the time imo.

 

[crediar]

You might want to remove the whole "KERNEL FAILED TO LOAD! Shutting down\n" stuff

 

[faku1810]

Yeah, it's in the bottom port, and works perfectly fine with LoaderGX set to read Usb port 0; also Nintendont finds the games without any problem. I've tried Wind Waker PAL and Twilight Princess, but the error is there. I don't think it's a problem with the isos though. But if anyone else has a Family Edition Wii they can test too.

 

[gamer765]

mind posting the dol? Dont really want to fire up my linux virtual machine to compile.

 

[Silix]

Tested right now the "Crediar fix" linked by naxil: no more video shutdown but the "kernel -1" error is still here (with 11 "KERNEL FAILED TO LOAD! Shutting down" messages) even if this time i can read the errors without need to record the screen.

 

[faku1810]

I don't know if it's allowed to attach files here, but if it's not, tell me and I'll upload to mediafire or something. This one has all of crediar's suggestions (that includes removing the error messages)

 

[SPIRE Florian]

Hello,

Sorry for my english.
I'm french and I want play at my game in french. I can read on the wiki of Nintendont :
"Region - Enter "USA," "JAP," or "EUR", or specific county code "FRN", "GER", "SPN", "ITL" "DUT" or "AUS". Do NOT change the region of an existing game entry. When there is a special release for a specific country, enter an appropriate abbreviation."
And :
"Template to add a new entry
{{ NIN| name = game_name | region = USA/JAP/EUR | sound = Works/Issues/Doesn't Work | dsp = vxx | ver = r5 | status = Works/Issues/Doesn't Work | comp = yes/issues/no | size = | mcemu = yes/issues/no | wide = yes/issues/no | 480P = yes/issues/no | fst = yes/issues/no | notes = }}"



But I didn't understand how add this template.

Thanks you ,