No More Heroes (U) PAL fix hack

[shaunj66]

No More Heroes (U) PAL fix hack

GBAtemp member matsuken has discovered and shared with us a way using the recent Wii ISO modification tool 'TruchaSigner' to allow PAL Wii owners to run No More Heroes on their Wii.

Only use this if you have bought the USA version, are going to buy the USA version because you can now play it, or are going to purchase the PAL version when it comes out. A game worth playing is a game worth buying, no excuses.

OFFSET IN MAIN.DOL | OLD VALUE | NEW VALUE
------------------------------------------
[0x4C4453] 0x00 -> 0x14
[0x4C448F] 0x02 -> 0x14
[0x4C44CB] 0x08 -> 0x14

Set your wii to english or any other language supported by the game, or face the black screen of doom.

matsuken's original post

Wii #0522 - No More Heroes (USA) release thread

 

[ChampionTWH]

Quick patch please

too eternally lazy to go through unpacking,ammending,repacking

 

[sepinho]

Oh wow! R-E-S-P-E-C-T to matsuken and everybody else, who has discovered/developed hacks for Wii games. I love you guys (and/or gals) long time. I'm downloading a Wii tool collection as I write these lines. Can't wait for my two-week vacation to tinker with this stuff.
Oh, and this NMH hack shows that something similar could be happing with PES. Puh-leez?!

 

[Railgun]

wow, nice one, if the pal version is censored, i grab the usa release

but maybe we can patch the pal to uncensored too

 

[tic]

A game worth playing is a game worth buying, no excuses.

What a stupid thing to say!!

I played Superman 64 and ClayFighter 63 1/3, should I have felt obliged to buy them afterwards then??

 

[Reckless]

Can someone please make a PPF for us noobs?

 

[grant666uk]

I got a ppf-o-matic patch for Manhunt 2. Just ran it on the Iso and it worked a treat. It would be amzing if some one could do the same for NMH.


Here is a link to the Manhunt hack. Might help someone make a patch for No more heroes. Its in post 15.

http://psx-scene.com/forums/nintendo-news/...hunt-2-wii.html


Oh and a mega big thanks to the chap that worked this out.

 

[zeckyD]

dOES THIS KIND OF PATCHING CAN BE APPLY TO OHERS RELEASES THAT NOT WORKING ON PAL ? (like one piece, oneechambara ...)
And nice job and thanks

 

[Vater Unser]

1000 Internets for the first one to make an IPS/PPF patch (or who PMs me the decryption key(s) needed for the trucha signer

)

 

[SlipNino]

Hey,
i extracted the main.dol file and opened it with an hex editor but i cant find 0x4C4453 to change values? Any Ideas?

 

[arrid]

Hey,
i extracted the main.dol file and opened it with an hex editor but i cant find 0x4C4453 to change values? Any Ideas?

Scroll down to 0x4c4450, which should be listed down the left side. 0x4c4453 should be the 4th pair of numbers/letters.

 

[Pikachu025]

Aww yeah, awesome work. And since this apparently works with every game in theory, we finally have full region free! This is GREAT!

 

[jalaneme]

how do you apply this patch to the iso? i am no expert in this hacking stuff?

 

[CockroachMan]

First use of the Trucha Signer to make a game compatible with PAL.. nice work..

 

[[Truth]]

nice boxart!

 

[Cyan]

great news

I will take it in US now.
if noone made a ppf in around 15hours (more or less 1 days), I'll make one if the patch is not too big.

but as the key has changed for the entire DVD, it could result in a 4Gb patch :/
in that case, I will not release any patch.

just read the tutorial to use Trucha signer and edit the file by yourself.



Edit :

Or else, I can make a ppf for the file only, not the entire iso.
You will need the Trucha signer too, to put the file back.

 

[jalaneme]

can you at least please say what tools you need to do this?

 

[Cyan]

here is the tutorial and link to each software needed :

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=76657


it's a bit long to use, but well explained.

 

[jalaneme]

here is the tutorial and link to each software needed :

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=76657


it's a bit long to use, but well explained.

erm, i didn't understand a word of that, what i did find was a program called WiiBrowse_1.0 (it has a gui without dos commands) that lets you extract the files from the iso i extract the dol from the game right? (i need the ckey.bin file before i can use it?) then open that dol file in a hex editor and change the values, and then somehow put the file back into the iso right? just trying to keep it simple

 

[Skyzoboy]

Yes, nice boxart !

What about languages supported by US release ?

I don't have any time to thank so ...

Big thanks to people who work on iso modifications and gbatemp community for their reactivity !