NKit :: Recover to Redump Images :: Shrink and Preserve Wii and GameCube Disc Images as Playable

I remember reading about this a year or so ago... I recently am getting back into my gc/wii stuff and found this again (great work btw) but the wiki states it's for Windows, Mac and Linux, yet I'm not finding anything but Windows downloads.

Do linux or mac ports exist? Would love to use this natively without cumbersome VMs in the way.

 

When you say that NKit.iso is compatible with an actual GC, do you mean as a physical disc? Swiss hates them...

It is written using the .Net framework which is a semi-interpreted language (and avoiding non-multiplatform extensions like the WPF was) - you can use Mono to run the exe directly

 

My entire collection is .nkit.iso.

By the way, you reported Smashing Drive as not working, but I just tried it and it's working fine?

 

I do have it running in a vm for now. Seems to work fine as is, but if I get into this any more I may setup mono to use it for simplicity in the long run.

 

howto convert .nkit.gcz to ISO original disc files so i can play it on my wii console ?

edit : SOLVED by installing latest dot net

 

edit : SOLVED by installing latest dot net

thanks nanook

 

What an amazing tool. Thanks nanook for all the hard work. Now I've just got to hope something as good comes along for OG Xbox images!

 

Ah I see. I guess this is something where even if distributed computing could assist, it's seen as not worth it (that is, storage capacity/cost ratio would likely improve at a faster rate than brute force completion could compete with). Ah well, I'll take the storage wins where I can get them

 

Great job with NKit, the new UI is a big help for beginners. My main suggestion is add a standard "Open..." dialog to import games.

I'd like to offer NKit games at Vimm's Lair but sadly they don't work with USB Loader GX which lots of people use. It would help greatly to be able to convert from .nkit.iso to .wbfs with a single app. Meanwhile I'm testing out .nkit.iso downloads but to prevent complaints I may need to stick with .wbfs until USB loaders support NKit.

 

Wiimm told me that the image is fine, so it's probably just a bug. You can try the latest version here: wiki[.]tockdom[.]com[/]wiki[/]Wiimms_Mario_Kart_Fun_2019-10

 

Hi.

I've been trying to use your app to convert nkit isos from Vimm's Lair back to iso format, and after trying a lot of ways to make it work I just keep getting this error:

Rayman Origins [SOJE] Wii [MiB:3409,3]

1 Pass: [NKit.ISO] >> [To ISO]

To ISO: .1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 ~ 4m 9s [MiB: 4482,3] NKit Invalid

|DETAIL
|...............................
|!! Update partition *_F9D11773 missing - Adding filler. It may be Recoverable
|...............................


Verification Failed Crc: DB1C6007 - Failed Test Crc:4855EAF4
Deleting Output

Summary Log Written

 

Use the convert2iso tool, not the recover2iso one...

 

i am attempting to convert 8 .nkit.iso images back to .iso. i get read verifiedfailed errors on all 8 of them when running converttoiso.exe or nkitextractionapp.exe. selecting convert or recovery makes no difference. i'm rather frustrated.

 

Hi, nanook.

I'm aware of the missing partitions. I've extracted some of them out of some working isos that I have. But still I haven't found the one I need for the game I'm trying to convert. lol

As you can see from the screenshot, I'm using ConvertToISO.exe, is that what you mean?

 

Oh, ok. Sorry.

I'll try to extract some more update partitions, then. Thanks for your help.