Hacking Nintendont

[pedro702]

Yep somebody I blame my wife but probably me changed the settings in nintendont and paper Mario would not load lol all fixed now.

this day and age when a games doesnt boot or freeze on nintendont is 99% bad iso or bad forced setings, and blaming the wife hum xD

 

[Duncan Idaho]

I have a question, by any chance is there a backup manager compatible with the nintendon't format? A friend of mine has 55 backups, all of them of GC games and he wants to know. Otherwise I fear that he will need to make every folder, one at the time.

 

[GerbilSoft]

I have a question, by any chance is there a backup manager compatible with the nintendon't format? A friend of mine has 55 backups, all of them of GC games and he wants to know. Otherwise I fear that he will need to make every folder, one at the time.

As of v4.426, it shouldn't be necessary to create subdirectories within /games/ except for 2-disc titles. Just name the disc image something like "Title.iso", "Title.gcm", or "Title.ciso".

 

[Duncan Idaho]

As of v4.426, it shouldn't be necessary to create subdirectories within /games/ except for 2-disc titles. Just name the disc image something like "Title.iso", "Title.gcm", or "Title.ciso".

so the old format of a folder with Game name+[gameID] and the iso renamed disc.iso is not needed anymore?

 

[lordelan]

Are you saying you have a work around which allows you to have 2 drives connected at once? Because that is exactly what I am looking to do. If talking about this is too off topic for this thread then maybe we can talk further about how you did it on a PM. Thanks.

I don't think it's off topic as Nintendont seems to be the only thing left pretending us from having a Wii U drive and a FAT32 drive connected at the same time "forever".
As I said, @Nomelas found a way but it's only working for WiiFlow as I understood.
Here it is:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont.349258/page-1846#post-7441189
You may want to read a few posts before and after that posting as it was discussed a bit.

 

[GerbilSoft]

so the old format of a folder with Game name+[gameID] and the iso renamed disc.iso is not needed anymore?

Previously, the required format was: /games/[anything]/game.iso
That format is still usable, but you can also have /games/[anything].iso instead.
Supported file extensions are .iso, .gcm, and .ciso.

For 2-disc, you still need this format:

• /games/[anything]/game.iso
• /games/[anything]/disc2.iso

 

[Clutz450]

I have a question, by any chance is there a backup manager compatible with the nintendon't format? A friend of mine has 55 backups, all of them of GC games and he wants to know. Otherwise I fear that he will need to make every folder, one at the time.

I had this same issue back in 2014 when I was trying to get my entire Gamecube set renamed to "game.iso" and in the appropriate folders. I found 2 programs that did the job. One was called DiscEx and the other was called gcit (Gamecube Iso Tool). They both did what I wanted but only did it one at a time which was very tedious. I was able to create a batch script for both programs that converted my entire collection all at once. However, for some reason only my batch script for DiscEx kept them 1:1. I'll quote my message below so you can read up on what I did and if you feel like this is something you want to do then let me know and I can help you out if needed.

I know this probably isn't the right place for this but it's the only place throughout all my searching that I found was close to what I am looking for. I'm referring to the post above which was posted a few days ago about batch scripts. I don't know anything about creating a batch script but from messing around with one I found for another program I was able to create this for DiscEx v0.9.

Spoiler

[USER=325063]Echo[/USER] off
 
set isodir=.\zzz
set converter=.\discex.exe
 
if NOT exist "%isodir%" (
  echo "ERROR directory doesn't exist"
  goto :EOF
)
 
 
FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=." %%A IN ('dir /b "%isodir%"') DO (
  echo converting: %%A
  "%converter%" "%isodir%\%%A.iso"
)

What this does is take all .iso files in the folder named zzz and names them game.iso and puts them in a folder with their game ID. The reason why I made the iso folder zzz is so that it would be at the bottom after it created all the other gameID folders making it easier to find. But you can edit it to point to any folder you wish.

The other batch script I made was for gcit (GameCube ISO Tool). It's essentially the same script with a few minor changes.

Spoiler

[USER=325063]Echo[/USER] off
 
set isodir=.\zzz
set converter=.\gcit.exe
 
if NOT exist "%isodir%" (
  echo "ERROR directory doesn't exist"
  goto :EOF
)
 
 
FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=." %%A IN ('dir /b "%isodir%"') DO (
  echo converting: %%A
  "%converter%" "%isodir%\%%A.iso" -f discex -q
)

This one again takes the .iso files from the folder named zzz and names them game.iso but it also compresses them and puts them in a folder with their game and and gameID (ex. Crazy Taxi [GCTE51]). The game folders will be located in another folder labeled out.iso.

I hope these scripts help someone out (I tried uploading them to this post but I kept getting an error saying that it didn't like the .cmd extention so I hope the code tags work instead). Now I was wondering if someone would be able to help me. I would like to have all my games uncompressed but also in the folders of game name and gameID. Having the folders with just the gameID is messy and is difficult to see which games I have when I plug my USB drive into a computer but I like that the games are all uncompressed. Using my second script to have it game name and gameID is a lot more pleasant for me to look at but no matter what I try the games are always compressed. I've been messing around trying to somehow combine the 2 to ultimately get what I want but to no avail because like I said I really have no idea what I am doing. I'm actually pretty proud of myself that I was able to get this far. So if anyone has any advice for me I'd really appreciate it.

Edit: I can't figure out how to stop the "at sign"echo off in the code tag to stop linking to some member on these forums named Echo. If someone knows how to fix this let me know and I will update the code tag to the script will actually work when cut and pasted.

 

[RoyMaster4]

Weird thing... sometimes attempting to launch Nintendont (inject) with the gamepad asks for me to use the Wiimote to select something on the TV. But only *sometimes*. I don't understand what causes this, and it'd be more convenient to not have to use the Wiimote (say, if I bring the Wii U somewhere else and don't have a Wiimote with me).

There's also the issue of being unable to use USB controllers (i.e. Gamecube adapter) even if you choose not to use the gamepad as a controller (installed onto NAND, I don't even have a USB hard drive yet), but I guess I can still use the long method via the vWii menu to be able to do that.

 

[XeloDeoz]

Still waiting for a fix for Deadzone on Right Stick on Paper Mario TTYD, cant test other games right now

 

[wicksand420]

Still waiting for a fix for Deadzone on Right Stick on Paper Mario TTYD, cant test other games right now

I don't know what you are talking about, the controls on paper mario work fine for me, maybe the problem is on your end

 

[pedro702]

Still waiting for a fix for Deadzone on Right Stick on Paper Mario TTYD, cant test other games right now

fix already has a made version with deadzone for the gamepad wich fixes all sticks being very sensitive, wait abit for nintendont next rev.

I don't know what you are talking about, the controls on paper mario work fine for me, maybe the problem is on your end

gamepad sticks are very sensitive any tiny movement counts and then the stcks dont come back to zero so fix94 made a deadzone wich fixes that and it will be on the next rev.

 

[Nomelas]

I don't think it's off topic as Nintendont seems to be the only thing left pretending us from having a Wii U drive and a FAT32 drive connected at the same time "forever".
As I said, @Nomelas found a way but it's only working for WiiFlow as I understood.
Here it is:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont.349258/page-1846#post-7441189
You may want to read a few posts before and after that posting as it was discussed a bit.

it was discovered that there are multiple ways to do it, that's just one way, and the way I have it set up.

I tried for a long time to get usbloadergx to work, but eventually gave up

 

[Clutz450]

it was discovered that there are multiple ways to do it, that's just one way, and the way I have it set up.

I tried for a long time to get usbloadergx to work, but eventually gave up

I swear I remember when I asked this question a while back that @Cyan gave me a pretty detailed explanation on how to do it and make it work with USB Loader GX. But I've been searching and can't find it. Maybe I'm just imagining it Hopefully me mentioning him here will have him explain it again for me.

 

[wicksand420]

fix already has a made version with deadzone for the gamepad wich fixes all sticks being very sensitive, wait abit for nintendont next rev.

gamepad sticks are very sensitive any tiny movement counts and then the stcks dont come back to zero so fix94 made a deadzone wich fixes that and it will be on the next rev.

The control stick works fine on mine is what i was saying, i dumped the game, and GCReEx'ed it and it works flawlessly, iv'e been playing it for 2 hours now with no problem with the control stick

 

[XeloDeoz]

For me it doesnt, some guy posted that too that Right Stick seems a little bugged

 

[cucholix]

That's true, in previous nintendont drc versions the right stick drifted slightly in neutral position.

 

[monta990]

on my, the slicks works well, zero problems with dead zone

 

[huma_dawii]

on my, the slicks works well, zero problems with dead zone

What version?

 

[monta990]

What version?

in 457, i didn´t saw a problem with a left joystick, for example in soulcalibur 2 and baten kaitos.

 

[huma_dawii]

in 457, i didn´t saw a problem with a left joystick, for example in soulcalibur 2 and baten kaitos.

I haven't tested many games yet.. as I prefer to use my GC Adapter, I think I will be using the old method with USB and actually having access to all of my Wii Games and GameCube