Hacking Preloader Hacks.ini for 4.2U

[D34DL1N3R]

The fixed hacks.ini works fine but if I use IOS60 I get a blank screen (even with all codes disabled), and if I use IOS70 I get the "System files are corrupt" message.

 

[Hells Guardian]

Honestly preloader 2.9 will work just fine just find a different tool to patch IOS 70 with the ES_DIVerif patch and you can use IOS 70 with preloader. Honestly though I would just stay on 4.1

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Honestly preloader 2.9 will work just fine just find a different tool to patch IOS 70 with the ES_DIVerif patch and you can use IOS 70 with preloader. Honestly though I would just stay on 4.1

Can you recommend a different tool? Because DOP-IOS evidently doesn't work as I tried patching IOS70 with it and I still get the system files corrupt message.

 

[SifJar]

Honestly preloader 2.9 will work just fine just find a different tool to patch IOS 70 with the ES_DIVerif patch and you can use IOS 70 with preloader. Honestly though I would just stay on 4.1

Can you recommend a different tool? Because DOP-IOS evidently doesn't work as I tried patching IOS70 with it and I still get the system files corrupt message.

DOP-IOS can only patch ES_ functions into IOS36. That's why it didnt work.

 

[Slowking]

Would it be possible for you to port something like the "Block HAXX, DVDx, etc" to 4.1, so we can use the Twilight Hack?

yes, it would, although the uses of twilight hack are limited when you alredy have homebrew.

Well I have a friend who has her real Zelda save in the same file as the twilight hack, which means once the twilight hack gets deleted her Zelda save data gets deleted, too. So this hack would be great for her, but I really don't want her to update to 4.2 since that has too many negative effects that aren't even all discovered yet.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Honestly preloader 2.9 will work just fine just find a different tool to patch IOS 70 with the ES_DIVerif patch and you can use IOS 70 with preloader. Honestly though I would just stay on 4.1

Can you recommend a different tool? Because DOP-IOS evidently doesn't work as I tried patching IOS70 with it and I still get the system files corrupt message.

DOP-IOS can only patch ES_ functions into IOS36. That's why it didnt work.

Yes, but I asked what to use to patch it. A search only brings up info on the now extinct preloader .30.

 

[HackerOfWii]

How about for 4.2E?

 

[infinete]

How do we port it to a EUR version?

 

[HackerOfWii]

How do we port it to a EUR version?

I don't know!

Well how did you port it to 4.2U?

 

[infinete]

I am not very good with this stuff, but i found a porting tutorial of you want to try, if you succed let me know

http://sifjarsblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/0...ader-hacks-ini/

 

[HackerOfWii]

Can't access it for some reason.....

 

[wolffangalchemist]

Honestly preloader 2.9 will work just fine just find a different tool to patch IOS 70 with the ES_DIVerif patch and you can use IOS 70 with preloader. Honestly though I would just stay on 4.1

Can you recommend a different tool? Because DOP-IOS evidently doesn't work as I tried patching IOS70 with it and I still get the system files corrupt message.

DOP-IOS can only patch ES_ functions into IOS36. That's why it didnt work.

Yes, but I asked what to use to patch it. A search only brings up info on the now extinct preloader .30.

i think waninikoko's 4.2 updater patches ios70 with ES_ functions since preloader works fine for me and that's what i updated with.

 

[infinete]

Can't access it for some reason.....

http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?8,25661,25661
try that one then

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Still a no go getting preloader to work. Can get to the menu and all, but it won't load to the SM regardless of using IOS60 or 70.

I tried from 4.1U updating straight from the big N and also from 4.1U using Wanins updater. Both give me the same results when trying to get to the 4.2 SM from preloader.

 

[zippy]

In preloader, use ios 249 or 70, not 60. It will code dump or go blank screen if you enable the wrong hacks (detailed below, fix that hacks.ini at source please). I'm glad to have preloader, because bootmii won't work in boot2 for me. If I do brick, I can make *HBC or GX be the Installed File in preloader, and load bootmii that way. This is a good workaround until HBC access is fixed directly.

I tested each hacks.ini entry individually, and here are the ones to avoid:
- "Remove NoCopy Save File Protection" Code Dump. Do not enable this one. It is enabled by default.
- "No System Menu Sounds at all" No, channels still play their music and then it doesn't cut off if you abort loading them. It bugs out. This is the same behavior as in previous versions. This should be removed from the hacks.ini.
- "Blankscreen at Wii System Menu Startup!" This does exactly as described. When you open the system menu, it is a blank screen and locked there. Why is this in the hacks.ini? Do not enable this. I thought it was meant to replace the health logo with a blank screen, but really it locks the system.
- Setting as IOS 60 will result in a blank screen and locked.

* Someone chime in with a link to a forwarder dol/elf that will call up Homebrew Channel 1.05 automatically. I can't find HBC 1.05 as a dol or elf, because it's bundled in the hackmii installer. That will address the last issue we have with preloader 0.29.

 

[mariomaniac33]

Sorry everyone. The hacks.ini I uploaded was corrupted. It's fixed now.

In preloader, use ios 249 or 70, not 60. It will code dump or go blank screen if you enable the wrong hacks (detailed below, fix that hacks.ini at source please). I'm glad to have preloader, because bootmii won't work in boot2 for me. If I do brick, I can make *HBC or GX be the Installed File in preloader, and load bootmii that way. This is a good workaround until HBC access is fixed directly.

I tested each hacks.ini entry individually, and here are the ones to avoid:
- "Remove NoCopy Save File Protection" Code Dump. Do not enable this one. It is enabled by default.
- "No System Menu Sounds at all" No, channels still play their music and then it doesn't cut off if you abort loading them. It bugs out. This is the same behavior as in previous versions. This should be removed from the hacks.ini.
- "Blankscreen at Wii System Menu Startup!" This does exactly as described. When you open the system menu, it is a blank screen and locked there. Why is this in the hacks.ini? Do not enable this. I thought it was meant to replace the health logo with a blank screen, but really it locks the system.
- Setting as IOS 60 will result in a blank screen and locked.

* Someone chime in with a link to a forwarder dol/elf that will call up Homebrew Channel 1.05 automatically. I can't find HBC 1.05 as a dol or elf, because it's bundled in the hackmii installer. That will address the last issue we have with preloader 0.29.

Thanks for the info.

First off, try the No-Copy code now. It was a problem in the .ini

If you're wondering why I made such obscure codes.... it's 'cause I didn't make them... I just ported them

. Blankscreen at Wii System Menu Startup!, according to Wiibrew, is "Self explanatory, I guess this could be handy to lock your Wii so the kids and family can't break it!" This won't be useful to most of us (including me) but I ported it anyway.

Yes, I know, the No System Sounds at all code still plays sounds from banner files - this is due to the banners not technically being a part of the system menu. Since the banners still play music and the system menu sound commands are deactivated, there will be no mute command, so they'll keep playing until interrupted by another banner. It does make cool background music though

@Non USA People
I was planning on porting the codes to the other regions (4.2E and 4.2J) once I can confirm that these codes work correctly. No reason to rush porting them if they're buggy, as that'd be 3x the work on me to fix. Once these codes are stable, I'll port them.

However, if someone else wants to port them, be my guest

. I was just doing it because "no one else was making a move for it." That'll be easier on me.

 

[zippy]

Consider changing "Blankscreen at Wii System Menu Startup!" with something less ambiguous like "Hard Lock System Menu with Blank Screen at Startup" The original sounds like it makes the start up sequence a blank screen without locking up.

 

[mariomaniac33]

Consider changing "Blankscreen at Wii System Menu Startup!" with something less ambiguous like "Hard Lock System Menu with Blank Screen at Startup" The original sounds like it makes the start up sequence a blank screen without locking up.

Hmm... I didn't think about it that way.... but then again, I didn't originally make the code.

Thanks for the heads up. I changed it to "Lock out System Menu with Blackscreen." That should be more clear

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@Everyone Else
The codes are now considered "stable" and have been posted on Wiibrew. Tomorrow I will begin porting the codes to 4.2E.

 

[xzxero]

Consider changing "Blankscreen at Wii System Menu Startup!" with something less ambiguous like "Hard Lock System Menu with Blank Screen at Startup" The original sounds like it makes the start up sequence a blank screen without locking up.

Hmm... I didn't think about it that way.... but then again, I didn't originally make the code.

Thanks for the heads up. I changed it to "Lock out System Menu with Blackscreen." That should be more clear

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@Everyone Else
The codes are now considered "stable" and have been posted on Wiibrew. Tomorrow I will begin porting the codes to 4.2E.

nice! great job keep up the preloader so theyll be ready when preloader runs cleann off 4.2

 

[mariomaniac33]

Preloader works perfectly if you fix the signing bug properly (it was the same situation for 4.0 with IOS60, but the installer fixes the bug for you). It seems that DOP IOS does not fix the bug properly, hence the rumors that Preloader is incompatable with 4.2.

I used FreetheBug to fix my IOS70, then I installed a System Menu 4.2U wad.

Rumor has it that Waninkoko's updater fixes the bug properly as well.

As an alternate method, you can patch the system menu title.tmd to run off of a different IOS. You can then run it off, say IOS249 for example, and install Preloader then. Preloader should then boot and you can tell Preloader to run the system menu off of IOS70. This would then allow you to run Preloader off of IOS249 and the system menu off of IOS70.

If this rumor of Preloader not working continues, I'll consider writing a tutorial on how to properly set up Preloader on a 4.2 Wii.