Hacking Region free disc channel on 4.0U (w/Preloader) [WORKING]

[noobwarrior7]

good work, thanks for your small but worthwhile contribution to the scene, this is a good success.

 

[rommy667]

Great work thanks a lot,ill keep a ole eye on this thread for a 4.0E version......

 

[wiiman123]

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[Fulgore]

Thank you for getting this done.

 

[Hells Guardian]

Hmm for some reason My system won't load out of region disks unless I have the force region hack applied. the region free hack doesn't seem to work otherwise. It might just be the game though.....

 

[HsiaLin]

just go here to get the latest for all hacks.ini files

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Preloader/hacks

 

[darkvoid]

just go here to get the latest for all hacks.ini files

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Preloader/hacks

That's the same version, whenever I update this post I also update wiibrew.org with the new patches.

 

[stev418]

the hacksPAL.ini from SOFTMII 2.9.6 includes different offsets for PAL region free

[region free Wii games]
version=418
offset=0x8137D704,0x8137D6E4
value=0x4800001C,0x38000001

are these working or old ones? anyone know

 

[jan777]

thanks, i've been waiting for this

 

[darkvoid]

the hacksPAL.ini from SOFTMII 2.9.6 includes different offsets for PAL region free

SoftMii includes the old non-working hacks.ini. From what I have heard it does not allow backup copies or out of region discs to play through the disc channel.

You can safely update to the new hacks.ini, at any time you can switch back to the SoftMii hacks.ini also. Just update the file on your SD card.

 

[stev418]

hhm, just tried the [force disc region] hack for PAL 4.0 and it stops ALL (backup/retail) discs from booting in disc channel

just gives the 'Unable to read disc' error to all

I have a wiikey2 installed, not sure if that matters

 

[darkvoid]

hhm, just tried the [force disc region] hack for PAL 4.0 and it stops ALL (backup/retail) discs from booting in disc channel

I will try and double-check that stev418, I only have a NTSC Wii so I could not test the PAL hacks.
When I get some time I will set down and verify them, there must indeed be some error.

 

[Adr990]

I made a topic a while ago with even other EU 4.0 Hacks...
I thought sharing this couldn't hurt.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1867657

Thanks a lot dude!
Especially for the No copy

 

[clownz]

I followed the guide and upgraded to 4.0, I installed cioscorp, cios60 wad fix, installed preloader again, copied the hacks ini for region NTSC from wiibrew.org and put it on the root of my SD card, enabled all the options and I cannot get any region free games to load from disc channel. NTSC backups load ok so far.

I tried using IOS 30 and IOS 36 from preloader settings.

I need to edit this and say thanks once again to all the great people that make this board awesome.

instead of using the wiibrew.org hacks.ini i copied and pasted the one from this thread and it worked! for my NTSC 4.0u. I have no idea whats different between the hacks.ini on here vs wiibrew.org , but the one on this thread worked!

Thanks to the original poster.