Hacking QUICK/NEWBIE QUESTIONS here!

[Maxternal]

Could be a bad USB cable, too. I've seen people report that.

 

[darkfalzx]

Hey! An utter n00b here - 1st post and all.
I'm having an issue with Wiiflow plugins - they don't ever seem to return to Wiiflow, even though I have Wiiflow (forwarder channel) selected as a default plugin return destination and the plugins have ReturnLoader=yes line in their config.
Be it vbagx or genplusgx - whenever I tell it to return to loader - the system reboots.

 

[Maxternal]

Hey! An utter n00b here - 1st post and all.
I'm having an issue with Wiiflow plugins - they don't ever seem to return to Wiiflow, even though I have Wiiflow (forwarder channel) selected as a default plugin return destination and the plugins have ReturnLoader=yes line in their config.
Be it vbagx or genplusgx - whenever I tell it to return to loader - the system reboots.

Do you have the hidden channel installed, too? It's what the plugins use to get back to WiiFlow, not the forwarder channel. (you can find the WAD to install the channel in the plugins pack.

 

[darkfalzx]

Many thanks Maxternal! Installing WiiFlowLoaderChannel - WIIH.wad helped.
This was one thing that was preventing the whole thing from working - I figured one forwarder is enough.
For those with the same issue - it's possible you will get error 1029 in the WAD Manager trying to install this wad. You need IOS236 for that. And for christ's sake - don't be honest when installing it!: )

 

[Harsky]

Just posting my syscheck to get an opinion and see if there's anything that I'm missing or needs updating. Thanks in advance.

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.1.0b18 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6175).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.2E (v482)
Drive date: 2007.02.13
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS61
Hollywood v0x11
Boot2 v4

Found 211 titles.
Found 37 IOS on this console. 9 of them are stub.
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 778): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 269): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 273): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 520): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 775): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 782): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1037): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1550): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3091): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 3869): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 3867): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5661): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6175): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6687): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/09/22.

 

[Maxternal]

Just posting my syscheck to get an opinion and see if there's anything that I'm missing or needs updating. Thanks in advance.

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.1.0b18 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6175).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.2E (v482)
Drive date: 2007.02.13
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS61
Hollywood v0x11
Boot2 v4

Found 211 titles.
Found 37 IOS on this console. 9 of them are stub.
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 778): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 269): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 273): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 520): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 775): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 782): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1037): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1550): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3091): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 3869): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 3867): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5661): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6175): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6687): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/09/22.

I'd say run the hackmii installer again (just run it through the existing HBC) to get the HBC running off of 58 instead of 61 which could be beneficial.
Installing the 5.1 WAD for cIOS 202 from ModMii (and 224 while you're at it) would help WiiXplorer a bit among other things.
Most things expect 222 to be base 37 so I'd install the v4 from ModMii for that one, too.
IOS236 is the same as a patched 36 but every once and a while there's something that uses it automatically so that's another WAD you can get from ModMii.

Most of that's pretty optional anyway but that's the only stuff I can see that's really missing, per se. Everything else looks pretty functional to me.

 

[Harsky]

Just posting my syscheck to get an opinion and see if there's anything that I'm missing or needs updating. Thanks in advance.

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.1.0b18 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6175).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.2E (v482)
Drive date: 2007.02.13
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS61
Hollywood v0x11
Boot2 v4

Found 211 titles.
Found 37 IOS on this console. 9 of them are stub.
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 778): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 269): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 273): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 520): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 775): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 782): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1037): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1550): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3091): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 3869): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 3867): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5661): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6175): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6687): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/09/22.

I'd say run the hackmii installer again (just run it through the existing HBC) to get the HBC running off of 58 instead of 61 which could be beneficial.
Installing the 5.1 WAD for cIOS 202 from ModMii (and 224 while you're at it) would help WiiXplorer a bit among other things.
Most things expect 222 to be base 37 so I'd install the v4 from ModMii for that one, too.
IOS236 is the same as a patched 36 but every once and a while there's something that uses it automatically so that's another WAD you can get from ModMii.

Most of that's pretty optional anyway but that's the only stuff I can see that's really missing, per se. Everything else looks pretty functional to me.

Thanks so much! They were installed from guides and various blogs from years ago so it's a miracle that I can rarely have any problems.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Im trying to open Brawl and the game always freezes during Lucas's opening cut scene? Bad copy?

 

[gooddegenerate]

Im trying to open Brawl and the game always freezes during Lucas's opening cut scene? Bad copy?

In my experience, if the freeze occurs at the same time always, then yes possibly a bad copy.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Im trying to open Brawl and the game always freezes during Lucas's opening cut scene? Bad copy?

In my experience, if the freeze occurs at the same time always, then yes possibly a bad copy.

Ripped it again and it works fine yay me!

 

[ruin]

hello everyone! Sorry if this is a bit of a stupid question, usually I do fine with stuff like this but I feel like I'm over my head this time. What's the best/easiest way to play a backup of the gamecube rpg Tales of Symphonia on a softmodded wii? I have a 16gb flash drive and an 8gb SD card I could load my backup onto. I ask because there are so many different loaders and such that it's throwing me way off. I understand the disc change may be a problem... is it possible to work around (ie. does the game save at the disc change and work fine if loading the second disc image afterwards)? I'm mildly technically competent, for what it's worth. softmodded my wii without issue, and I generally love messing around with this sort of thing so I'd love to figure this all out!

thanks in advance, and sorry if it's outside the realm of what this thread is for. I don't want to start a fresh thread if it isn't necessary, and this seemed like a good place to start.

 

[Maxternal]

hello everyone! Sorry if this is a bit of a stupid question, usually I do fine with stuff like this but I feel like I'm over my head this time. What's the best/easiest way to play a backup of the gamecube rpg Tales of Symphonia on a softmodded wii? I have a 16gb flash drive and an 8gb SD card I could load my backup onto. I ask because there are so many different loaders and such that it's throwing me way off. I understand the disc change may be a problem... is it possible to work around (ie. does the game save at the disc change and work fine if loading the second disc image afterwards)? I'm mildly technically competent, for what it's worth. softmodded my wii without issue, and I generally love messing around with this sort of thing so I'd love to figure this all out!

thanks in advance, and sorry if it's outside the realm of what this thread is for. I don't want to start a fresh thread if it isn't necessary, and this seemed like a good place to start.

If you have your original retail disk off hand (even borrowable) you can always run it with Devolution which does correctly allow you to swap disks.

You could also use DM (USB) or DML (SD) to run it but that's the one where you might have problems with the disk swap. I know there are games that save before the swap but I don't know if that's one of them.
A workaround for that is you would have to go from the last save point before the disk swap to the first save point after the disk swap in Dolphin or Swiss to be able to continue in DM(L).
Also, if you extract the games with GCReEx 0.3 (unconfirmed) it will possibly merge the two disks into one so no swap is needed but it seems no one's been willing to take the risk and play through half a 2-disk game to find out if that's true.


Either way, either PostLoader, WiiFlow, CFG, or GX can run a GameCube backup and they give you the choice of either DM(L) or Devolution to use to do it with and there's also DM(L) Booter which can only use DM(L) and the Devolution sample loader which only uses Devolution.

 

[ruin]

hello everyone! Sorry if this is a bit of a stupid question, usually I do fine with stuff like this but I feel like I'm over my head this time. What's the best/easiest way to play a backup of the gamecube rpg Tales of Symphonia on a softmodded wii? I have a 16gb flash drive and an 8gb SD card I could load my backup onto. I ask because there are so many different loaders and such that it's throwing me way off. I understand the disc change may be a problem... is it possible to work around (ie. does the game save at the disc change and work fine if loading the second disc image afterwards)? I'm mildly technically competent, for what it's worth. softmodded my wii without issue, and I generally love messing around with this sort of thing so I'd love to figure this all out!

thanks in advance, and sorry if it's outside the realm of what this thread is for. I don't want to start a fresh thread if it isn't necessary, and this seemed like a good place to start.

If you have your original retail disk off hand (even borrowable) you can always run it with Devolution which does correctly allow you to swap disks.

You could also use DM (USB) or DML (SD) to run it but that's the one where you might have problems with the disk swap. I know there are games that save before the swap but I don't know if that's one of them.
A workaround for that is you would have to go from the last save point before the disk swap to the first save point after the disk swap in Dolphin or Swiss to be able to continue in DM(L).
Also, if you extract the games with GCReEx 0.3 (unconfirmed) it will possibly merge the two disks into one so no swap is needed but it seems no one's been willing to take the risk and play through half a 2-disk game to find out if that's true.


Either way, either PostLoader, WiiFlow, CFG, or GX can run a GameCube backup and they give you the choice of either DM(L) or Devolution to use to do it with and there's also DM(L) Booter which can only use DM(L) and the Devolution sample loader which only uses Devolution.

So essentially the choice of loader just comes down to personal preference, then? That makes things a lot easier. I'll see if I can get a hold of my retail copy again but if not I'll likely do what you said and play the disc transition in Dolphin if the game doesn't save right at the swap moment.

Thanks for the help

 

[Ebucel]

Quick question if i have ahbprot available do i have to still mess with the ios degradation and installing a custom ios?

Apologies if this has already been answered. Having a terrible time finding anything on the site from my phone.

 

[Maxternal]

Quick question if i have ahbprot available do i have to still mess with the ios degradation and installing a custom ios?

There are a few things this can apply to :
1) patching an IOS : There are some things that standard IOS's can't do or just newer versions of them can no longer do. You can patch them to put that function back.
2) downgrading an IOS : This would be putting an older version of an IOS in to get back some of those functions that were removed in later versions.
3) custom IOS (cIOS) : These are NEW, added IOS's that weren't installed before and have even more functionality added (#1 and #2 just change the IOS's that are already normally installed.)

- NEWER homebrew that supports AHBPROT properly does not need #1 and #2,
- BUT if it's an app that does something like loading a Wii game or channel from USB or SD it will probably still need to use #3.
- Even some OLDER homebrew that just doesn't do any of the EXTRA stuff that #1 or #2 adds back is fine without anything extra.
- For SOME other older homebrew that needs the extra functionality but lets you choose which IOS to use, you can install a patched IOS36 as a cIOS (IOS236) and leave the original IOS36 alone.
- OTHER older homebrew will only look for a patched IOS as IOS36 so IF you were to use THOSE then you WOULD need that IOS patched and/or downgraded. (IIRC, on some Wiis, downgrading isn't an option. On the other hand, the only thing you can't get by just patching is the ability for the IOS to downgrade other IOS but even then it can often still uninstall and then re-install the older version in it's place).
- FINALLY, if you want to load channels that are not signed properly, you'd also need to install a patched IOS to the IOS that the System Menu uses to allow it to do so.

So, basically, it all depends on what you want to do.

 

[Luigi728]

Good day,

Suddenly, none of my Wii games will load. This happened after I installed the newest d2x cIOS revisions.
I tried some different USB Loaders, but nothing works. GameCube games work fine, however.
(Though I have to reïnstall DIOS MIOS now after trying a NAND restore)
This is the result from running SysCheck:


sysCheck v1.6.2 by Erik Spyder

Region: PAL
The system menu v450 is running under IOS56 (rev 5662)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 44666981
Boot2 v2
Found 134 titles
Found 32 IOS on this console
Found 5 IOS Stubs on this console

Though I am not very impressed by the given amount of information...
I don't know anymore which cIOS did work for me (since I installed that quite a long time ago) so I can't try and go back (I also don't have a NAND backup from that time).

Things I've already tried:
-Format the HDD again (WBFS for the Wii Games)
-Different SD-cards
-NAND restore
-Reïnstalling the newest revisions of d2x cIOS
-Praying to the almighty Flying Spaghetti Monster to let it work again

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dump]

Quick 1 for ya guys switching between DM(L) to DM do i uninstall the dml wad before installing the diosmios2.3.wad? reading this guide and kinda confused with [member='cyan']s commit http://gbatemp.net/t...sb-simple-guide in the guide [member='lumnous'] says to but then [member='cyan'] says not too..

 

[JoostinOnline]

Quick 1 for ya guys switching between DM(L) to DM do i uninstall the dml wad before installing the diosmios2.3.wad? reading this guide and kinda confused with [member='cyan']s commit http://gbatemp.net/t...sb-simple-guide in the guide [member='lumnous'] says to but then [member='cyan'] says not too..

No, you can install one on top of the other. There is no need to uninstall anything first.

 

[Dump]

Quick 1 for ya guys switching between DM(L) to DM do i uninstall the dml wad before installing the diosmios2.3.wad? reading this guide and kinda confused with [member='cyan']s commit http://gbatemp.net/t...sb-simple-guide in the guide [member='lumnous'] says to but then [member='cyan'] says not too..

No, you can install one on top of the other. There is no need to uninstall anything first.

kk thanks thats what i thought but need another opinion on the matter

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Why won't my Resident Evil Archives 1 & 0 backups work through my DARKCorp disc channel?