I tried to look a bit more for a solution to your problem, and noticed that Tueidj himself advised to try to run the games with patch disabled to "rule out" an XML / patch issue.
Since neither of us has managed to make the game boot without the patch on vWii using Riivolution (although it does boot in Japanese for me using Usb Loader Gx, and you succeeded with Gecko), I guess there is an incompatibility issue between this game and Riivolution.
Unless someone releases an update or a mod for Riivolution one day, there's not much we can do, apart from creating an ISO if you don't own (or don't want to use) a "real" Wii.
Sorry man, I wished I could help you with that ! Hope you'll give the patch a chance anyway and have a nice day!
Thank You for GREAT effort !
Your conclusion is pretty precise.
I think Riivolution is not open source, and I even can't download a older version 1.05 ( which is the first version officially support vWii ) to try my luck.
So let me hope Riivolution can get a mall update to address this problem.
Like your great translation patch, just release as a big surprise!
BTW. I just can't resist to play a little more in Japanese, after a while, the only game I want to play is "Hyrule Warriors"... slash some monsters...
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