Homebrew ohneswanzenegger (Wii Entry -- PC Software)

[giantpune]

Does this clean the nand u provide or does it just check for the bad block entries and create a "stock" from the choice of system menu version?

this program allows you to format ( delete all files ), install titles, and edit the setting .txt. i dont know what you mean by "clean", but whatever it is, formatting cleans the shit out of it.

it can also create a nand.bin. to do this, it needs to know all your bad blocks, boot 1 & 2, and keys. you can provide those individually, or if you have an existing nand.bin, it can read them all from it at once to make things easier.

 

[mauifrog]

Giantpune, your the MAN. This app is great, and I think you have won the contest hands down. He'll I bet you may get first, second, and third place. Thank you for all your time and hard work.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

Not tested it yet, but this is an awesome development.

 

[Streamlinehd]

Very nice!!!

 

[ShadowSonic2]

Great. Been hoping for something like this for a while now. Thanks.

 

[Krafter]

Looks and sounds awesome! I cant wait to try it out.

 

[PPSainity]

A few questions about the retention or re-creation of certain data using this tool. The holy grail of such a tool has always been to be able to "virginize" a Wii for whatever reasons. In that aim I am wondering how one can use ohneswanzenegger to format their NAND while either keeping or restoring important identifying data. Here are my questions:

• Wii Friend Code: Can the original Wii friend code be retained or restored?
• Wii Friend Code: Can any Wii friend code be specified?
• Wii Shop Account: Will all the data required by the Wii Shop Channel be retained/restored allowing for the re-downloading of purchased items?
• SD Channels Saves: Will all items moved to SD (legit, non-truch signed) be able to be moved back to Wii Memory?
• Have the above issues been tested and verified?

-[]D

 

[giantpune]

as i already said, this program is an example program from a library. the library contains all the necessary code to create/delete/write files and check signatures and all the stuff you see in nandBinChecker. but this program doesnt have any code written to tell the library to do any of that stuff.

as i have not, and never plan to use a shop channel account / wii friend code / the SD card menu, i dont really care about adding any of the code for any the stuff you asked about.

 

[troy512]

great app thanks.

ive done a few test installing different system menu versions and wads, works great.

i must be doing something wrong though.

i have a wii LU55 with boomii/boot2.

i do 6) write a setting.txt ( content->setting.txt ). if you chose to install a full update in step #5, then this should automatically prompt you, i enter my real serial number.

on every test:
anytitle deleter - system menu and sysconfig regions differ - sysmenu 1, sysconfig -24578
mmm - system information - console region - ?
wii mod - region changer - error getting settings! 1, 1, -24578, 0, -24578

im able to hack the new nands and all wii settings work properly, able to install everything, loaders work, all is good except for this one problem.

what am i doing wrong here? something stupid simple probably?

 

[giantpune]

can you extract your original setting.txt and the one that this program creates and send them to me?
i posted a nand extractor somewhere else in this forum.

 

[troy512]

thinking maybe im not applying the settings.txt to the new nand.

searching for the nand extractor and will post results.

thanks

 

[troy512]

and here it is

settings.txt.zip

 

[giantpune]

please see if this one fixes the issue with libogc apps http://www.multiupload.com/C6MFZNKDT0

 

[troy512]

ahh much better thanks

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thank you very much for everything, not only this app. great person.

 

[mauifrog]

great app thanks.

ive done a few test installing different system menu versions and wads, works great.

i must be doing something wrong though.

i have a wii LU55 with boomii/boot2.

i do 6) write a setting.txt ( content->setting.txt ). if you chose to install a full update in step #5, then this should automatically prompt you, i enter my real serial number.

on every test:
anytitle deleter - system menu and sysconfig regions differ - sysmenu 1, sysconfig -24578
mmm - system information - console region - ?
wii mod - region changer - error getting settings! 1, 1, -24578, 0, -24578

im able to hack the new nands and all wii settings work properly, able to install everything, loaders work, all is good except for this one problem.

what am i doing wrong here? something stupid simple probably?

I also noticed this, it was fixable with setting.txt replace mod. Not sure what the issue was, am going to make another nand and extract the setting.txt.

 

[giantpune]

libogc expects that there will be a new line after every entry in the setting.txt. the last line is the region setting. so, since i didnt put a newline after the last entry, it couldnt read the region setting.

 

[troy512]

nandBincheck was really written to help me catch bugs in this program. and i think it is the reason i am able to say that i didnt brick any wiis while working on this one. it turned out to be a pretty useful little tool on its own.

and for anybody wondering, I have bit the bullet several times and used this to create a nand.bin and install it to a wii that doesnt have bootmii @boot2.

am i reading this properly? can install a new nand using bootmii/IOS.

i must try this.

 

[tueidj]

If I take an existing dump and format it is the value at offset 8 in the SFFS blocks going to be preserved?

 

[giantpune]

the way i have it, it is writing "SFFS", then it increments the generation number and writes that for 4 bytes, and then it writes (u32) 0. it does this not only when it formats, but every time it writes a SFFS. so, for now the answer is no. but it is only like 3 lines of code to add in support for whatever that number is.

did you ever get an answer as to what that 0 is besides that it gets incremented by calling the ioctl to FS? what is its purpose?

 

[tueidj]

Dunno what the purpose is. There's 3 "nand generation" counters in the seeprom (the highest one wins) and at least one of the SFFS blocks has to have a value equal or higher. Otherwise boot2 dies trying to read the filesystem.
I wouldn't worry about adding support for it since afaik there's only one gimped wii in existence that it will affect (mine, and if I get stuck I can use Plan B).