Hacking PRELOADER v.25 Released

[WiiCrazy]

ok i loaded crazymenuz2.dol, i have my 3.4 sys menu 00000064.app renamed to ntsc.dol in my sd root, i ran crazymenuz2.dol ren to boot.dol of course, everything loaded great, but now i get system update again in my disc channel.

Well do you have preloader? This doesn't introduce anything new if you don't use it along with preloader... you can accomplish the same thing with the existing patchers...

and for the patches... now there seems to be an overall bug... I'm trying to get menu loader clone work with this load system menu from sd card stuff...

 

[nutta_nic]

I can't remember if you can check a disc or not, but if you really want to know....

Make an image from your iso and then open the iso in wiiscrubber, etc...

hell knows i dont give a shit! it works for me and that my friend is that, i was thinking more on the lines of........ i cant even remember anymore!

I'm sure your NTSC games are region patched is why they're showing up. We've had this same type message posted about a dozen times and every time it was region patched discs. Not once yet has a system running preloader shown both regions in the Disc Channel.

Just a thought. Are we dumping the correct systemmenu.dol from the nand? Didn't you guys say that there are two copies of it when using PreLoader. Are we perhaps putting the wrong one as the NTSC.dol on the root of SD.

mate i'm 99.9% your right

, but fuck it anyway i'll DL another ntsc game and see how it goes

, i cant copy my backup as i dont have the right dvd drive

, whats the worst that can happen anyway , i need to use a loader!! who gives a shit

 

[srath]

do u have the latest preloader and .ini along with the uninstall.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Ok, here is the menu loader clone by raven, compiled with this "get the system menu from sd card" hack...

http://www.tepetaklak.com/data/menu_loader.rar

Some patches are working, some don't... I don't know why...

It's a bug we can detect and fix probably...

note : this is intended to be used on wiis that have preloader installed...
the hacks I see working no menu sound and no sound.bin... dunno what's the problem with the others...

edit : enough playing... there probably is a nasty bug somewhere out there... hopefully will sort it out tomorrow...

 

[srath]

should i patch ios50 again or wont that help

 

[digitydogs]

on my system this won't work from preloader it code dumps, but if run from hbc it runs and boots the menu but only with the patches you've noted

 

[srath]

anyone have the latest hacks.ini

 

[WiiCrazy]

on my system this won't work from preloader it code dumps, but if run from hbc it runs and boots the menu but only with the patches you've noted

It's normal... you should make it into a channel to make it work...remember preloader has a bug launching dols that deals with some stuff...

If anyone wants to play with it, here is the source with this specific hack... http://www.tepetaklak.com/data/menu_loader_src.rar

ps: note, my changes to the original code is in the loader.c file...

 

[IronMask]

Nice Wiicrazy... I am able to do some of the hacks.. I can move the disc channel, etc.. region still a no-go when loading the menu-loader clone you posted...though it's nice to see it not take a codedump! ;P

 

[Skarface05]

Nutta Nic: Any drive should be able to read your backup - it's only genuine wii discs that require the LG drives.

Pop your disc in your drive and burn image with nero or imgnurn and it will work great. I promise

Well done guys for getting everything going this far, im a bit lost now but hoping to be clearer in the morning, smoked a bit too much and it's 1:33am now and ive also had 8 cans of beer....not good......well it was good....neway......


I'm running pal 3.2/preloader/starfall/cioscorp/ so if anyone needs pal testing done - hit me up.

I'll be up for another hour or so...

I so want this region free issue to be fixed so we have the ultimate solution

Whats your take diggtydog on wiicrazys code? Do you think you can alter it at all to make it work as it's even later where wiicrazy lives and im sure that dude wants some sleep!

Thoughts?

 

[digitydogs]

i've been playing with the code wiicrazy was kind enough to release. We'll see what happens. its only 843 here.

 

[Skarface05]

Well may the force be with you

 

[Jizmo]

When booting with poclauncher--> menupatcher2 --> system menu there is a problem with the SD card access in the Wii Data Management Section.

You get the message: "An SD Card process failed."

Booting normally does not produce this error msg.

EDIT: Ok, this error is related to the loading system menu from SD. You also get this error if you run WiiCrazy's Menu Loader Clone after booting normally.

 

[srath]

hmm, prelauncher wont let me load system menu, i can load hbc but that it, says system is corupt
what can i do, i never saved a setting or nothing, just got into it

 

[Patryc]

Nutta Nic: Any drive should be able to read your backup - it's only genuine wii discs that require the LG drives.

Pop your disc in your drive and burn image with nero or imgnurn and it will work great. I promise

Well done guys for getting everything going this far, im a bit lost now but hoping to be clearer in the morning, smoked a bit too much and it's 1:33am now and ive also had 8 cans of beer....not good......well it was good....neway......


I'm running pal 3.2/preloader/starfall/cioscorp/ so if anyone needs pal testing done - hit me up.

I'll be up for another hour or so...

I so want this region free issue to be fixed so we have the ultimate solution

Whats your take diggtydog on wiicrazys code? Do you think you can alter it at all to make it work as it's even later where wiicrazy lives and im sure that dude wants some sleep!

Thoughts?

Skarface have you got the hacks.ini for Pal so I dont have to mess about editing? Many Thanks

 

[Jizmo]

hmm, prelauncher wont let me load system menu, i can load hbc but that it, says system is corupt
what can i do, i never saved a setting or nothing, just got into it

Load Wad Manager from HBC and reinstall your systemmenu.wad would be my guess.

 

[srath]

hmm, prelauncher wont let me load system menu, i can load hbc but that it, says system is corupt
what can i do, i never saved a setting or nothing, just got into it

Load Wad Manager from HBC and reinstall your systemmenu.wad would be my guess.

What caused it to do that?

 

[ether2802]

maybe the SysMenu got corrupted...!!!

 

[srath]

maybe the SysMenu got corrupted...!!!

I know why, i used this on 3.4
it installs to 00000042 but needs to be 00000064 for 3.4, thats why

but it did work, i just had to go to hbc to downgrade to fix menu corrupt

 

[srath]

This will work on 3.4, just need the coder to change that, and direct the patches there, the 3.4 would be just perfect.