Hacking QUICK/NEWBIE QUESTIONS here!

[Yeoman78]

Ill have another look when the missues lets me use the tv again ; )

in the mean time i found the following info in the xml file that came with the hbc app.



USB Loader GX
USB Loader GX Team
1.0
20090118030000

the release date seems quite old, actually its the one you can d/l at the top of the first page in this thread

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hmwtkzmrmmz

if that helps with the version at all?

Edit ***

I just found out what a forwarder does, Ill see if I can make of one of them work and that should solve my problem anyway and the kids can use the app on the SD card and still fire it up using a channel ! : )

Edit 2 *** The channel loader I am using is Rev 468, which is weird cause the rev is working fine through the HBC. Well as I mentioned above Ill try the Forwarder to the app and see if that improves it any.

 

[El-Grosso]

Hey, I'm on 4.0E with preloader installed. I'm trying to play Wiiware games from another region, but I can't quite get it to work. I did the skip udate check, so in theory, Disc based games from another region should work, but I am trying to configure WiiWare games to work.

Originally after I opened games, it said "Thsi channel cannot be loaded" after pressing play, but after enabling region free channels in preloader, i just get a black screen now after I open games.

Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks.

 

[Eon-Rider]

I'm currently having trouble making any of the USB Loaders work. It have made it work on two occasions but both resulted in the external hard drive being undetected after loading a few games successfully and turning off the power. The first time it worked after formatting with USB Loader 1.5 and the second time it worked using WBFS Manager 3.01. WBFS Manager was still able to read the external hard drive and all the games even after the USB Loader failed to read it. Now whenever I try to use it, it says No WBFS Partition (or whatever the message is).

My external hard drive is a dodgy Chinese one by a company called YUANXING and it holds 74GB if it matters.

Does anyone have a solution?

 

[Dr4c0]

make sure its plugged into the port on the bottom if the wii is laying down...

 

[Nikj14]

hey guys, so ive had my wii hacked since 3.3 and i upgraded to 4.0 (thru nintendo) and then i reinstalled the homebrew channel/DVDX/bootmii and now i want to know how to install the wads used for forwarding to homebrew from the system menu, is it safe to do on 4.0? and also how to install a cIOS because ive got the usb loader and whenever i try to load it, it just gives me a black screen (right at the start).

thx.

 

[ben_not_benny]

Weird question:

When you're using the USB loader to play is it better to put a game disc inside the DVD drive, or leave it empty? Does it matter in any way?

 

[Eon-Rider]

make sure its plugged into the port on the bottom if the wii is laying down...

If that answer is directed at me, I always use that one.

 

[Yeoman78]

Weird question:

When you're using the USB loader to play is it better to put a game disc inside the DVD drive, or leave it empty? Does it matter in any way?

To my knowledge only a small % of games need a disc in the drive and even then it doesn't necessarily need to be a game disc (from what I have read). I leave mine empty as I haven't come across a backup that requires a disc to be inserted.

Although in saying that I have only tested the 6 that I own : /

 

[thatguyjr]

Is it possible to permanently patch a dumped image with Ocarina codes? Rather than using the Wii's RAM for it, I'd like them to be a part of the back-up of the game I have.

I know in Brawl's case, you can use Wii Scrubber to patch textures, but that's a little different. I'm looking to try to patch the game with Ocarina codes, and not need the codes to be applied when loaded. Should I ask this in Wii hacking, instead?

 

[Him3000]

WiiScrubber related question: If I have a 4.21GB ISO File, can I "scrub" it to the smallest size possible for the game? I am gonna try and scrub Tales of Symphonia 2 if possible, so I save space on my HDD loader, but I have no clue on how to this. Any guides?

 

[tj_cool]

WiiScrubber related question: If I have a 4.21GB ISO File, can I "scrub" it to the smallest size possible for the game? I am gonna try and scrub Tales of Symphonia 2 if possible, so I save space on my HDD loader, but I have no clue on how to this. Any guides?

If you place it on a wbfs, the manager should shrink it to the smallest possible automatically

 

[Debaser0x]

Is there a way to take a external drive, make a separate partiton (about 30 gigs) with a program on there and designate it specifically as a WBFS partiton? I'm trying to not buy another hard drive. Also I'm running cIOS36 rev7, can i just install cIOS36 rev9 and be able to run USB Loader v1.1? Or should I use a newer Wankiko USB loader and I guess a newer cIOS36 revision? I'm pretty new to this stuff... Thanks in advance!

 

[tj_cool]

Is there a way to take a external drive, make a separate partiton (about 30 gigs) with a program on there and designate it specifically as a WBFS partiton? Yes, the usb loader (or wbfs manager) will let you choose which partition to format to WBFS. Nothing has to be placed on the partition to format it
I'm trying to not buy another hard drive.
Also I'm running cIOS36 rev7, can i just install cIOS36 rev9 and be able to run USB Loader v1.1? Or should I use a newer Wankiko USB loader and I guess a newer cIOS36 revision? Just install cIOSr9 or newer and you can use every USB loader. I use USB loader GX and Coverfloader

I'm pretty new to this stuff... Thanks in advance!

 

[Debaser0x]

Is there a way to take a external drive, make a separate partiton (about 30 gigs) with a program on there and designate it specifically as a WBFS partiton? Yes, the usb loader (or wbfs manager) will let you choose which partition to format to WBFS. Nothing has to be placed on the partition to format it
I'm trying to not buy another hard drive.
Also I'm running cIOS36 rev7, can i just install cIOS36 rev9 and be able to run USB Loader v1.1? Or should I use a newer Wankiko USB loader and I guess a newer cIOS36 revision? Just install cIOSr9 or newer and you can use every USB loader. I use USB loader GX and Coverfloader

I'm pretty new to this stuff... Thanks in advance!

Thanks a lot! Do you know of any programs that can make seprate partitions on an external? Is the USB loader GX better or do you just personally like it?

 

[tj_cool]

Thanks a lot! Do you know of any programs that can make seprate partitions on an external? I think most people use partition magic or something like that... I use the windows device manager (right click computer and click manage, then device manager. You can edit partitions there)
Is the USB loader GX better or do you just personally like it? A combination of both

It has a really nice GUI and a lot of functions (and gets updated daily afaik). It is based on waninkokos usb loader 1.5 (I think?)

 

[Debaser0x]

Thanks a lot! Do you know of any programs that can make seprate partitions on an external? I think most people use partition magic or something like that... I use the windows device manager (right click computer and click manage, then device manager. You can edit partitions there)
Is the USB loader GX better or do you just personally like it? A combination of both

It has a really nice GUI and a lot of functions (and gets updated daily afaik). It is based on waninkokos usb loader 1.5 (I think?)

So if I update to a new cIOS rev possible rev13 will it interfere with my backup loaders? Or should I just update to rev9 and be done with it?

 

[tj_cool]

So if I update to a new cIOS rev possible rev13 will it interfere with my backup loaders? Or should I just update to rev9 and be done with it?

cIOSr13 will not interfere with backup loaders. Some people seem to have issues with it so thats why I said get rev9 first. If everything works on rev9, keep it and if not get rev13 (not 13b)

 

[Him3000]

WiiScrubber related question: If I have a 4.21GB ISO File, can I "scrub" it to the smallest size possible for the game? I am gonna try and scrub Tales of Symphonia 2 if possible, so I save space on my HDD loader, but I have no clue on how to this. Any guides?

If you place it on a wbfs, the manager should shrink it to the smallest possible automatically

Aah thanks a bunch. So the moment I transfer it over to my HDD it will automatically resize it. Good =D. Thanks a bunch, I am waiting for my HDD to arrive in the mail today so I am preparing stuff around haha.

 

[tj_cool]

WiiScrubber related question: If I have a 4.21GB ISO File, can I "scrub" it to the smallest size possible for the game? I am gonna try and scrub Tales of Symphonia 2 if possible, so I save space on my HDD loader, but I have no clue on how to this. Any guides?

If you place it on a wbfs, the manager should shrink it to the smallest possible automatically

Aah thanks a bunch. So the moment I transfer it over to my HDD it will automatically resize it. Good =D. Thanks a bunch, I am waiting for my HDD to arrive in the mail today so I am preparing stuff around haha.

Some games become even smaller than when scrubbed

WBFS manager 3 and WBFS intelligent GUI v6 are good WBFS managers

 

[Debaser0x]

So if I update to a new cIOS rev possible rev13 will it interfere with my backup loaders? Or should I just update to rev9 and be done with it?

cIOSr13 will not interfere with backup loaders. Some people seem to have issues with it so thats why I said get rev9 first. If everything works on rev9, keep it and if not get rev13 (not 13b)

Man thanks so much for all your help! I think this is my last question... If I have Wad Manager 1.4 installed can i select between different revisions of cIOS36 or if I install rev9 is that the only one I can use?

Until I get a bigger external I just wanna keep using gamma backup loader and hold off on updating to a new revision so I don't mess something up.