Hacking PRELOADER v.25 Released

[slaphappygamer]

its permanent.

 

[SanGor]

I tought Starfall do the patches on the fly and it doesn't writtes the NAND permanently...!!!

maybe you should read the readme which comes with it.

 

[fishears]

Something I'd like to do is use Preloader to remove the old Starfall patches and use only Preloader patches on the system menu.

thats funny. i was thinking about the same thing. the only thing that stopped me was i didnt want to downgrade my wii to do so.

I've lost count of the number of times I've taken my wii down to 3.1E then back to 3.2E playing around with Preloader. It's definitely a lot nicer when you get all your old Starfall patches selectable on the fly from Preloader settings.... and it only takes 5 minutes

If anyone wants a complete working hacks.ini (E & U):
http://www.mediafire.com/?d1jngmzvdtf

 

[farf21]

After i ran Preloader 0.25 i can´t run Starfall. Why i can´t run starfall anymore. i'm getting a error:

ISFS_Seek () failed: -101
exiting...

and return to homebrew channel

Can Anyone explain to me this problem ????

 

[jan777]

maybe because starfall is practically in preloader?

 

[WiiCrazy]

After i ran Preloader 0.25 i can´t run Starfall. Why i can´t run starfall anymore. i'm getting a error:

ISFS_Seek () failed: -101
exiting...

and return to homebrew channel

Can Anyone explain to me this problem ????

Preloader moved the system menu dol so starfall can't find it anymore

or let's say it thinks it's finding yet what it founds is the preloader's dol...

 

[Adr990]

Something I'd like to do is use Preloader to remove the old Starfall patches and use only Preloader patches on the system menu.


thats funny. i was thinking about the same thing. the only thing that stopped me was i didnt want to downgrade my wii to do so.


I've lost count of the number of times I've taken my wii down to 3.1E then back to 3.2E playing around with Preloader. It's definitely a lot nicer when you get all your old Starfall patches selectable on the fly from Preloader settings.... and it only takes 5 minutes

If anyone wants a complete working hacks.ini (E & U):
http://www.mediafire.com/?d1jngmzvdtf

@ Your Hacks.ini

[IOS Reloading]
version=290
offset=0x81375DE0
value=0x3B200001
[IOS Reloading]
version=290
offset=0x81375DE4
value=0x3B0000F9
Witch of the 2 is really PAL/NTSC?

Or both needed for PAL ?
(And, what it does?

)

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QUOTE(adr990 @ Jan 15 2009, 05:05 PM)

Ohh, so if I dump my WII_FS... (Nand encrypted)

I can make some of those hex line hacks too? (With IDA , right? I could be wrong with the name.

)

And is this some good Guide for it?
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:1zYPbc...t=clnk&cd=2

 

[nicksasa]

well if we would have the source of preloader you could just add an ios reloading command to it right before it loads the systemmenu it should work or at least integrate menu patcher into it ..

 

[jespertje]

Yes, give some more info please.

 

[fishears]

@ Your Hacks.ini

[IOS Reloading]
version=290
offset=0x81375DE0
value=0x3B200001
[IOS Reloading]
version=290
offset=0x81375DE4
value=0x3B0000F9
Witch of the 2 is really PAL/NTSC?

Or both needed for PAL ?
(And, what it does?

)

Oops... forgot that was in there. It's a patch originally made by Waninkoko's Menupatcher app, converted to a Preloader hack. It was just something I was testing and it's only for PAL.

 

[ether2802]

weekly question:

Does the region free works yet...???

 

[farf21]

After i ran Preloader 0.25 i can´t run Starfall. Why i can´t run starfall anymore. i'm getting a error:

ISFS_Seek () failed: -101
exiting...

and return to homebrew channel

Can Anyone explain to me this problem ????

Preloader moved the system menu dol so starfall can't find it anymore

or let's say it thinks it's finding yet what it founds is the preloader's dol...

Thanks you Wii Crazy! . . .

Does somebody know why hacks.ini settings are not working correctly?
I set:

- No BackGround Music "Enabled" = not operate
- Region free Channels "Enabled" = not operate

any setting seems to not works correctly... else... Hacks.ini has duplicates entries.

 

[Skarface05]

Hey Fishears - The IOS reload hacks you have been testing, do they work?

Have you had any joy with this trying to use menu patcher as Nicksasa seemed to think that should part of the key to make it work.

 

[fishears]

Hey Fishears - The IOS reload hacks you have been testing, do they work?

Have you had any joy with this trying to use menu patcher as Nicksasa seemed to think that should part of the key to make it work.

not yet but i'm still working on it - i've moved towards the Softchip source and the Menu Rebooter source now as they are more stable when launching and both use the call to IOS_ReloadIOS() without causing a codedump - which is more than I can say for Menupatcher!

 

[IronMask]

Ok... so I spoke to Crediar today... by the way.. for the ones of you that think that Crediar is a female... Well... I had to ask... MALE....we actually had a pretty descent chat since the last time we spoke...

In a "nut shell"...

So Crediar says, that once he gets his Wii fixed... which he expects to get his infectus within the next few days.. that he will continue with preloader... he said that he would try and do more.... but it's hard to without a Wii.... he only has one.

Upcoming features:

- Change the hacks.ini to hacks.xml (maybe) because homebrew seems to "prefer" .xml more commonly.
- Add dynamic cheat search
- .elf support (possibly)
- and maybe some requests....

Crediar did go on to say that preloader is nothing to compare to Bootmii (Bitemii).

About BootMii... ** and, yes I know this is off topic... but what the hell, I started the thread, right?!

**Do not quote me on this...

- run from an open source IOS (homebrew ios)
- to provide a stable foundation outside of the system software entirely
- to modify and or use ios or open source materials in lieu of it
- NAND recovery tools
- will not be compatible with libogc's standard IOS calls

 

[Phratt]

wait what?

Does that mean Current homebrew apps wont work(on Bootmii that is)?

 

[IronMask]

They will likely needed to be converted..

Older apps may have limitations... yet it will not give anything new to them...It would just chainload an IOS and the app... (quoted from Marcan)

Bootmii will like a boot manager....booting the old OS or boot something different (like the old OS (Nintedo's OS))

Sort of like dual booting... booting anything you want...sort of like the BIOS on the Wii... Bootmii is the BIOS.

Having the ability to pick between SDboot and normal boot...Which would be USB or HD boot...

file name being... /system/iosboot.bin

Bootmii will have a recovery mode... checks your system before installing itself...then Bootmii will sit before anything else on your wii.....

 

[Phratt]

They will likely needed to be converted..

Older apps may have limitations... yet it will not give anything new to them...It would just chainload an IOS and the app... (quoted from Marcan)

So I'm predicting Back-up loaders will specifully be disfunctional?

Well anyways, I need not care, preloader is enough brick protection for I.

 

[IronMask]

So then I went to asking Marcan about having multiple cIOSes... he said... "Don't give him any ideas!"

So you guys can take it from there... I'm going to sleep on that note!

 

[WiiShizzza]

Hearing NAND recovery tools.....

Maybe the Pros and I really mean the coding Gurus who can compile and know what to do with codes and the devkit should have a look at bushings project on google codes

*don't slap me IronMask for beeing off topic*