Hacking SNEEK+DI quick guide

[FenrirWolf]

Why do people start with a 3.2 nand instead of just starting on 4.2? Been meaning to ask this for a while

 

[ChokeD]

Why do people start with a 3.2 nand instead of just starting on 4.2? Been meaning to ask this for a while

That's exactly what my question is. If anyone has any real deal explanation to answer this I would love to here it.

 

[fogbank]

Hi,

i've a problem with a 3.2U Nand on a 4.2E Wii. I made a virgin 3.2U nand with showmiiwads. I've decrypted my setting.txt and re-encrypted.

VIDEO=NTSC

*snip*
But when i power off and try to reboot the ntsc nand, i get only black screen.

Can your screen display NTSC? I don't think that you really need to change anything except the AREA.
*EDIT*
I'm not entirely convinced that the Wii requires setting.txt to get to the setup screen. I think a valid setting.txt may only be required to load the system menu. I've messed around with setting.txt (deleting parts, etc...) and always got the setup screens, but often couldn't load the system menu.

 

[fogbank]

Why do people start with a 3.2 nand instead of just starting on 4.2? Been meaning to ask this for a while

That's exactly what my question is. If anyone has any real deal explanation to answer this I would love to here it.

Doesn't really matter whether you start with 3.2 or 4.2 if you are going to do an update anyway. They'll both update to the same end result.

And I'd certainly rather update than try to create a full 4.2 NAND from scratch with all of the IOS wads and channels etc... Too much work.

 

[wiiuser2]

open the HBC Installer - HBCI.wad in customizemii
go to options and change the startup IOS to 30
hit create wad to save it
then install it to you sneek nand and open it

Hi Diddy81, thanks a lot. This worked fine on a Virgin 3.2E Nand, was struggling with this for a while. Now upgrading to 4.2

 

[Cyan]

Why do people start with a 3.2 nand instead of just starting on 4.2? Been meaning to ask this for a while

That's exactly what my question is. If anyone has any real deal explanation to answer this I would love to here it.

I'm sure this is the tutorials fault. a lot of people just follow guides which tell them "go to NUS and download IOS30" and they do.
There should be a guide telling "download the desired system menu and the corresponding IOS" with a table saying which IOS is needed (though it's not a big table)

3.2 + IOS30
3.3 + IOS50 (thanks TJ_cool)
3.4 + IOS50
4.0 + IOS 60
4.1 + IOS 60
4.2 + IOS 70

 

[tj_cool]

3.3 + IOS50

 

[NiKKrO]

Hi,

i've a problem with a 3.2U Nand on a 4.2E Wii. I made a virgin 3.2U nand with showmiiwads. I've decrypted my setting.txt and re-encrypted.

VIDEO=NTSC

*snip*
But when i power off and try to reboot the ntsc nand, i get only black screen.

Can your screen display NTSC? I don't think that you really need to change anything except the AREA.
*EDIT*
I'm not entirely convinced that the Wii requires setting.txt to get to the setup screen. I think a valid setting.txt may only be required to load the system menu. I've messed around with setting.txt (deleting parts, etc...) and always got the setup screens, but often couldn't load the system menu.

Normaly, tv can display NTSC. I just test tonight, with 3.2U and setting.txt, i get setting screen, i sync wiimote and setup the wii. With 4.2U, i wait up to 5minutes and still black screen.
With 3.2U after setup, i shutdown the wii and when i try to reboot the 3.2U nand, i got the blck screen. I can't understand why when i have the setup i can go to system menu and after initial setup always blackscreen. And i can't understand why 3.2U show initial setup when 4.2U remain black screen.
Last try, not changing video but i'm not convinced

 

[xyourmomx]

So I double checked my HDD, it's cluster size is 32k, which according to the FAQ's is acceptable. I still cannot get the USB to boot as a NAND. It works fine under Triiforce, but even "virgin" NAND dumps that work fine on SD card, do not work on the 2 HD's I've tried. Any tips would be very helpful

 

[FenrirWolf]

Is the first partition primary and formatted as FAT32?

 

[NiKKrO]

@fogbank maybe you're right, a little try with 3.2U nand in PAL and i can boot after initial setup on the usb nand. I checked tv (sony kdl32e4000) and NTSC is supported so i'll try tomorrow with 4.2U.

 

[xyourmomx]

Is the first partition primary and formatted as FAT32?

Yes. The WBFS works fine, the FAt32 (active and primary) works fine udner Triifoce and such. But it just produces no signal when I use SNEEK

 

[FenrirWolf]

Others have had issues with r80. Maybe it's a problem on SNEEK's end. I dunno. I haven't even tested out r80 yet.

 

[Digital1980]

I have this exact file structure but it just won't go for me

the disk drive flashes when I launch bootmii from HBC, that's all. Am I missing some files?

sd:\bootmii\armboot.bin
sd:\boot2.bin (boot2_sd.bin)
NAND
sd:\import
sd:\meta
sd:\shared1
sd:\shared2
sd:\temp
sd:\title

When I follow the SNEEK tutorial @ completesoftemodguide it works perfect.

 

[leic7]

open the HBC Installer - HBCI.wad in customizemii
go to options and change the startup IOS to 30
hit create wad to save it
then install it to you sneek nand and open it

Can you please provide details of the conditions under which you successfully installed HBC on SNEEK/UNEEK?
such as:
SNEEK, UNEEK, or SNEEK+DI
your system menu version prior to installation;
IOSes versions;
anything you did to your NAND prior to installation;
etc.

I'm sure details to reproduce the installation would be appreciated by many. Thanks in advance!

 

[ChokeD]

I have this exact file structure but it just won't go for me

the disk drive flashes when I launch bootmii from HBC, that's all. Am I missing some files?

sd:\bootmii\armboot.bin
sd:\boot2.bin (boot2_sd.bin)
NAND
sd:\import
sd:\meta
sd:\shared1
sd:\shared2
sd:\temp
sd:\title

When I follow the SNEEK tutorial @ completesoftemodguide it works perfect.

That guide is for an old version of sneek I believe, not DI and this statement:

the disk drive flashes when I launch bootmii from HBC, that's all. Am I missing some files?

I'm not understanding, please rephrase this as I have absolutely no idea what your trying to actually do, sorry.

EDIT: I re-wrote the guide to focus on 4.2X instead of 3.2X if anyone has anything to add, thanks.

 

[xyourmomx]

How would one go about acquiring the older SNEEK rev's like 79 then?

 

[cthg]

svn -r 79 checkout http://sneek.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ sneek

 

[xyourmomx]

Thanks. A bit new to SVN, so wasn't sure a command to pull an older rev.

Edit: Tried rev79 and it's the exact same thing

 

[arasium]

For creating the firmware, i thing it's easier to use NUSD. You have an option in nusd that will create a script to download all required wad (for the latest firmware).

Just check the pack as wad before running the script, and once the job is done, do a research of *.wad in the nusd folder. You will have all the wads. Copy them to ShowMiiNand and this is ok.