Hacking SD/USB Gecko v1.0

[EspañolPorGoogle]

I've made a mod to Waninkoko's SD/USB Loader v1.5. Source and binaries are attached (source contains my full .git) There's also a patch set to Waninkoko's source, if you'd prefer that.

Major features
+Adds full GeckoOS support. This means VidTV patch, force video modes, languages, Ocarina, and HookType selection. Unfortunately, it seems GC Pad hook is non-functioning. Big thanks to FISHEARS for his usbocarina. That helped a lot!
+Adds config file feature. Anything you can setup in a menu (device type, game settings [vid mode, ocarina, etc]) can be saved to a plain text config file by pressing (+). Always use the USB device and don't want to be asked on startup? Put it in the config. Want Animal Crossing to use ocarina by default so you can turn off resetti? Save it to the config.
+Adds Kid Safe mode. Place "kidsafe = true" in the config file and formatting, adding/removing games, etc is all disabled.
+Fixed default vid mode so NTSC users don't get black and white on PAL games.
+Exits to HBC /or/ reboots. Detects if it was a wad or a .dol and operates accordingly.
+Properly implements retry-on-fail for device loading. This clears the "No WBFS Partition Found" error on startup. I might add a time out, as well, if people still report problems. Works for me, now, though. As a bonus this means:
+Swapping devices should work, now. IE, unhook 1 USB and plug in another without exiting program.
+Minor other bugs (power off with button) and made the UI more consistent and made it stop rebooting on every error.


Download
Source Code or (smaller) Patches from 1.5

 

[FenrirWolf]

A lot (or all?) of this has been done in the ultimate loader and maybe others, but nice work anyway. It never hurts to have more options.

 

[kyogc]

Wow! Easy Version. That what I always looking for. Thanks a lot.

 

[TeenTin]

1 question :

Does the Metroid Prime 1 (Wiimake) work ?

 

[EspañolPorGoogle]

A lot (or all?) of this has been done in the ultimate loader and maybe others, but nice work anyway. It never hurts to have more options.

Boy, I wish I'd known about all the others before I spent all that time on this!

I guess I spent too much time on technoconsolas and not enough time over here.

 

[EspañolPorGoogle]

1 question :

Does the Metroid Prime 1 (Wiimake) work ?

If it works with GeckoOS 1.07b, it should now work with the I posted. If it doesn't, try these instructions: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=136...p;#entry1795524

 

[TeenTin]

1 question :

Does the Metroid Prime 1 (Wiimake) work ?

If it works with GeckoOS 1.07b, it should now work with the I posted. If it doesn't, try these instructions: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=136...p;#entry1795524

Would anyone please confirm ?

 

[kyogc]

1 question :

Does the Metroid Prime 1 (Wiimake) work ?

If it works with GeckoOS 1.07b, it should now work with the I posted. If it doesn't, try these instructions: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=136...p;#entry1795524

Would anyone please confirm ?

Why don't you try it by youself?

 

[WiiPower]

I doubt that Metroid Prime 1 works, it loads its IOS itself and disconnects the usb storage by that. I think this could only be fixed by the cIOS or a patch to the image/main.dol.

 

[TeenTin]

1 question :

Does the Metroid Prime 1 (Wiimake) work ?

If it works with GeckoOS 1.07b, it should now work with the I posted. If it doesn't, try these instructions: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=136...p;#entry1795524

Would anyone please confirm ?

Why don't you try it by youself?

I don't want to install cIOS rev10 until I can confirm this game does work.

 

[EspañolPorGoogle]

I don't want to install cIOS rev10 until I can confirm this game does work.

This should work with rev9, it just doesn't show covers unless you have rev10. If you install rev10 you can use cIOS uninstaller and then install rev9 again. I honestly don't see what's holding you back. You make it sound like upgrading is permanent.

 

[Knocks]

Yeah, the GeckoOS and config file features have already been implemented, but it's great that you've coded your own version. You should try what no one else is done and add network support.

 

[Knocks]

holy dupes

 

[jan777]

network support?

like load iso from network?

yep that would be the good.!!!

 

[Knocks]

Well, you couldn't play via streaming over WiFi, but you could copy them to your Wii.

 

[Deleted User]

network support?

like load iso from network?

yep that would be the good.!!!

Then it'd be too slow. Possibly it's something like ripping games from network.

 

[EspañolPorGoogle]

network support?

like load iso from network?

yep that would be the good.!!!

Then it'd be too slow. Possibly it's something like ripping games from network.

Well, if I do anything more it will be with the usbloader-gui project over on google code. They already are implementing a network stack to automatically download the covers. I could certainly see adding tiny-smb support to import ISOs from a windows share. And if I got that, I don't see any reason not to experiment with streaming games. I'm thinking one could make a wbfs partition image that contained a single game iso. We could modify wbfs-linux to extract games to a .wbfs file exactly large enough for 1 game, rather than extracting to a 4.7gb iso. It would probably be slow, but why not, eh?

 

[Knocks]

And if I got that, I don't see any reason not to experiment with streaming games.

Start slow.

 

[EspañolPorGoogle]

And if I got that, I don't see any reason not to experiment with streaming games.

Start slow.

Well, yeah... but tiny-smb gives you a virtual file system, so I believe accessing files on the share become almost the same as accessing them locally... either with the fopen() function or some function that overrides it (FTPii uses things like VirtuaFS_fopen() etc). The only real work once tiny-smb is going would be to make it access wbfs files instead of trying to read directly from a partition, and that might not be any real work, anyway. wbfs-linux already does it (everything is a file on unix).

Or did you just mean the games themselves would start slow?

 

[Knocks]

Hey, I remember you! We chatted about this on Teknoconsolas, didn't we.

If ripping is working smoothly and there are no complaints about bugs or strange behavior, of course streaming is worth exploring. It would mess with WiFi-enabled games though.