Homebrew Project [RELEASE] FriishProduce - multiplatform WAD injector

[Spectremint]

How the heck do you use a custom WAD database? I wanted to poke around with it and see what happens if i force an injection on a WAD not supported and test it in Dolphin lol

also where do i put NES files if it simply acts as a forwarder for FCEUGX?

 

[SyNHyena]

Crap, must be something with how the app handles platform-specific options, and I forgot to implement a failsafe there. Should be fixed on Github now.

Try replacing the FriishProduce.exe with this one and see if it works

i did that but now the progra wont load for e

 

[CatmanFan]

How the heck do you use a custom WAD database? I wanted to poke around with it and see what happens if i force an injection on a WAD not supported and test it in Dolphin lol

also where do i put NES files if it simply acts as a forwarder for FCEUGX?

You can download the database.json file from here and follow the guidelines inside for adding new WADs, then open it from the app after clicking the option to use it in settings. I should have written another tutorial about it at some point but I haven't done so apparently, lmao

About the FCEUGX thing, if you're referring to the ROM, then it automatically copies that to the ZIP archive needed to extract to SD/USB root, and also creates empty folders for the savedata directory in case there's an error

 

[vbarros22]

Hi @CatmanFan Im asking before using but this project work similar as UWUVCI?
asking cause I dont see Pokemon Puzzle as a base rom and it was launched in Virtual Console

Im trying to made Resident Evil 2 64 work and knowing that pokemon puzzle has functional FMV I wanna try it

 

[SaulFabre]

Hi @CatmanFan Im asking before using but this project work similar as UWUVCI?
asking cause I dont see Pokemon Puzzle as a base rom and it was launched in Virtual Console

Im trying to made Resident Evil 2 64 work and knowing that pokemon puzzle has functional FMV I wanna try it

it is not worth to try to inject RE2 N64 on Wii VC, not just because of the big size (64 MB) and the emu only supports 32 MB, but also of the extremely complex microcode in it.

 

[ShantaeFan123]

Hi @CatmanFan Im asking before using but this project work similar as UWUVCI?
asking cause I dont see Pokemon Puzzle as a base rom and it was launched in Virtual Console

Im trying to made Resident Evil 2 64 work and knowing that pokemon puzzle has functional FMV I wanna try it

Yeah that’s not going to work, how will you fit a 64mb game into a 32mb emulator? I also tried jeopardy and wheel of fortune, which also used FMV, and it crashes on the classic controller screen. At least I know I’m not the only one in 2024 that still does N64 injection, and it’s not a very good base wad too. It can’t run ANYTHING. Not even something as simple as puyo puyo sun 64, or international superstar soccer 64 aka Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64. hope I didn’t sound rude

 

[SaulFabre]

puyo puyo sun 64

Puyo Puyo SUN 64 runs fine injected on Super Mario 64 WAD.

Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64

the Brazilian bootleg of ISS 64.
Also, it works if injected on Star Fox 64 (rev1) WAD.
Same for vanilla ISS 64.

 

[ShantaeFan123]

Puyo Puyo SUN 64 runs fine injected on Super Mario 64 WAD.


the Brazilian bootleg of ISS 64.
Also, it works if injected on Star Fox 64 (rev1) WAD.
Same for vanilla ISS 64.

I know that, I have tested those base wads thanks to the compatibility list for VC

Post automatically merged: Jul 26, 2024

it is not worth to try to inject RE2 N64 on Wii VC, not just because of the big size (64 MB) and the emu only supports 32 MB, but also of the extremely complex microcode in it.

Rocket Robot on Wheels also works kinda fine in StarFox64, it’s just the music that has problems

 

[ShantaeFan123]

@CatmanFan or @SaulFabre not sure if this was brought up before but i would like to know if Sonic 3D Blast aka Sonic 3D: Flicky’s Island in the Pal’ie regions for the Genesis/Mega Drive would come to this Beautiful Injecter, it’s a 4 Mega-byte game meaning something like Toy Story or some 4mb game would fit inside, and also for compatibility reasons. If not then it’s ok! Although it would be great

Post automatically merged: Jul 28, 2024

I found a way to get Sonic 3D Blast into FriishProduce! Just thought of this right now

You need The Sonic 3D Blast wad

Comix Zone Wad

Your rom of course

CustomizeMii

And friishproduce obviously


I will assume you have 2 tabs open of customizeMii, one is Sonic 3D Blast, the other is Comix Zone



You need the Comix Zone wad and Sonic 3D Blast wad, take the VCPic, VCPiclcon, banner, Banner_Loop, banner_Start and Icon.brlan from Comix Zone and replace everything in Sonic 3D Blasts WAD with those and change anything that relates to Sonic 3D Blast to Comix Zone so it looks like the official Comix Zone wad, this includes other languages. change the file name of the WAD to something simple like Comix Zone and then change the Title ID in 3D Blast to MAPE, check "Offline Wad" and choose the one you will use, and then it will trick FriishProduce into thinking it's comix zone, and I have tested both WADs on dolphin and real hardware and ran into no issues and no bricks

I used Toy Story as well as the (Sample) version and The Jungle Book

Doing this also allowed me to inject Toy Story, the version that was released in stores in 1996 which Auto injectuwad clamed was "Too Large" for the base despite both games (3D Blast and Toy Story) BEING 4MB

 

[ShantaeFan123]

@CatmanFan or @SaulFabre not sure if this was brought up before but i would like to know if Sonic 3D Blast aka Sonic 3D: Flicky’s Island in the Pal’ie regions for the Genesis/Mega Drive would come to this Beautiful Injecter, it’s a 4 Mega-byte game meaning something like Toy Story or some 4mb game would fit inside, and also for compatibility reasons. If not then it’s ok! Although it would be great

Post automatically merged: Jul 28, 2024

I found a way to get Sonic 3D Blast into FriishProduce! Just thought of this right now

You need The Sonic 3D Blast wad

Comix Zone Wad

Your rom of course

CustomizeMii

And friishproduce obviously


I will assume you have 2 tabs open of customizeMii, one is Sonic 3D Blast, the other is Comix Zone



You need the Comix Zone wad and Sonic 3D Blast wad, take the VCPic, VCPiclcon, banner, Banner_Loop, banner_Start and Icon.brlan from Comix Zone and replace everything in Sonic 3D Blasts WAD with those and change anything that relates to Sonic 3D Blast to Comix Zone so it looks like the official Comix Zone wad, this includes other languages. change the file name of the WAD to something simple like Comix Zone and then change the Title ID in 3D Blast to MAPE, check "Offline Wad" and choose the one you will use, and then it will trick FriishProduce into thinking it's comix zone, and I have tested both WADs on dolphin and real hardware and ran into no issues and no bricks

I used Toy Story as well as the (Sample) version and The Jungle Book

Doing this also allowed me to inject Toy Story, the version that was released in stores in 1996 which Auto injectuwad clamed was "Too Large" for the base despite both games (3D Blast and Toy Story) BEING 4MB

Please note this will no longer be necessary in the next update of friish, making this useless, and I have come to also admit that I only did this so I could play toy story on the genesis VC without using GX


Source: Saul told me himself

 

[555jp]

hey so i wanted to inject mario party 3 into a vc wad, but the program will only let me save the wad for not64, wii64, etc. not as an actual virtual console wad? please help

 

[ShantaeFan123]

hey so i wanted to inject mario party 3 into a vc wad, but the program will only let me save the wad for not64, wii64, etc. not as an actual virtual console wad? please help

 

[555jp]

oh, also with snes yoshi's island

 

[ShantaeFan123]

oh, also with snes yoshi's island

thats a Super FX game which non of the Wii vc SNES Emulators support which would mean its not possible to run the game via inject since they can't emulate the Super FX chip

that would be like "why is my PS2 disc not working in my later model PS3?" or "Why won't my copy of Asterix at the Olympic Games work on my Xbox Series X?"

sorry if i sound rude

 

[555jp]

thats a Super FX game which non of the Wii vc SNES Emulators support which would mean its not possible to run the game via inject since they can't emulate the Super FX chip

that would be like "why is my PS2 disc not working in my later model PS3?" or "Why won't my copy of Asterix at the Olympic Games work on my Xbox Series X?"

sorry if i sound rude

no you don't sound rude lol, thanks for replying

I'm just new to this and was confused, kinda sad you can't do mp3 even tho mp2 released officially. any reason as to why?

 

[ShantaeFan123]

no you don't sound rude lol, thanks for replying

I'm just new to this and was confused, kinda sad you can't do mp3 even tho mp2 released officially. any reason as to why?

nintendo could have just thought it was better in the Mario Party Series and they also didnt want to program more emulators since everything on virtual console runs there own emulator, most likey for the best experience

 

[555jp]

nintendo could have just thought it was better in the Mario Party Series and they also didnt want to program more emulators since everything on virtual console runs there own emulator, most likey for the best experience

what i meant to say was, any reason as to why mp3 won't save as a regular vc wad?

 

[ShantaeFan123]

what i meant to say was, any reason as to why mp3 won't save as a regular vc wad?

oh, maybe you somehow changed the injection method to Not64 instend of Virtual Console? in the bottom you can change it back to virtual console, but the game will not boot in any of the base wads anyways, romc wads like ogre battle 64 and bomberman hero crash on start up, and mario golf and the other base wads crash on the controller screen for this game so yeah

 

[SaulFabre]

what i meant to say was, any reason as to why mp3 won't save as a regular vc wad?

Mario Party 3 doesn't work injected on Wii VC, only as a Single ROM Loader running on regular Wii64 (glN64 GFX) or Not64.

oh, also with snes yoshi's island

Same as Mario Party 3, but this only runs on emulators such Snes9x GX/RX/TX.

 

[555jp]

Mario Party 3 doesn't work injected on Wii VC, only as a Single ROM Loader running on regular Wii64 (glN64 GFX) or Not64.


Same as Mario Party 3, but this only runs on emulators such Snes9x GX/RX/TX.

thanks, i got yoshis island working thanks to your amazing wad, really great stuff!