Hacking SNEEK+DI quick guide

[BiPoLaR]

that could be the problem.. I haven't put any games on my usb yet. thanks guys, I'll give it a try

 

[MrDiesel]

I have the same problem as BiPoLaR (SNEEK without DI). It's not my intention to use it for games, but for playing around with the Wii, without hurting my real NAND. I've extracted the NAND from a nand.bin with only HBC and Bootmii installed using ShowMiiWads.
It only shows a black screen and if I launch Bootmii directly from Priiloader it just shows a white screen. So there is display output (I get no "No signal"). The Wii disc light is flashing in the same rhythm. I think it was like BiPoLaR said: short, long, short, but I can't exactly remember.

 

[gunnerpt]

I had the same problem of both of you.

Verify if boot2_sd.bin and the others boot2 have 0 bytes.

If they have 0 bytes you have to compiling again.

Try to reinstall devkit.

 

[MrDiesel]

I used the GUI installer, which automaticly downloads the boot2.bin etc. I only have a boot2.bin located at the root of the SD card. Do I have to rename this to boot2_sd.bin?

 

[OverjoY]

I used the GUI installer, which automaticly downloads the boot2.bin etc. I only have a boot2.bin located at the root of the SD card. Do I have to rename this to boot2_sd.bin?

It should be named as boot2.bin.

Allready tried another SD-card? Some cards are incompatible with SNEEK. Even if your card is working fine with other homebrew it can be incompatible with SNEEK.

 

[MrDiesel]

I used the GUI installer, which automaticly downloads the boot2.bin etc. I only have a boot2.bin located at the root of the SD card. Do I have to rename this to boot2_sd.bin?

It should be named as boot2.bin.

Allready tried another SD-card? Some cards are incompatible with SNEEK. Even if your card is working fine with other homebrew it can be incompatible with SNEEK.

Unfortunately I only have 1 SD card. Could UNEEK fix this? Because this loads the NAND from an USB device, right?

 

[DarkMatterCore]

Unfortunately I only have 1 SD card. Could UNEEK fix this? Because this loads the NAND from an USB device, right?

But uses the renamed boot2_usb.bin from the SD card to load the contents of the USB drive. Just give it a try.

 

[ricerobo]

I used the GUI installer, which automaticly downloads the boot2.bin etc. I only have a boot2.bin located at the root of the SD card. Do I have to rename this to boot2_sd.bin?

Do you have bootmii folder containing armboot.bin with NAND at the root of the SD card?

 

[MrDiesel]

Do you have bootmii folder containing armboot.bin with NAND at the root of the SD card?

The Bootmii folder contains the armboot.bin from SNEEK + bootmii.ini + ppcboot.elf. Don't know if I already mentioned it, but I have Bootmii installed as IOS. The NAND is located at the root of my SD card and it's extracted from the nand.bin I made before actually modding my Wii.

 

[OverjoY]

The Bootmii folder contains the armboot.bin from SNEEK + bootmii.ini + ppcboot.elf. Don't know if I already mentioned it, but I have Bootmii installed as IOS. The NAND is located at the root of my SD card and it's extracted from the nand.bin I made before actually modding my Wii.

I realy think it's your SD-card, because I've the same issue on a few cards even with a one on one copy from a perfectly working card.

 

[fogbank]

The Bootmii folder contains the armboot.bin from SNEEK + bootmii.ini + ppcboot.elf. Don't know if I already mentioned it, but I have Bootmii installed as IOS. The NAND is located at the root of my SD card and it's extracted from the nand.bin I made before actually modding my Wii.

Remove the bootmii.ini and ppcboot.elf files from the bootmii folder.

 

[MrDiesel]

Remove the bootmii.ini and ppcboot.elf files from the bootmii folder.

Then Priiloader doesn't boot Bootmii, because it can't find ppcboot.elf.

Edit:
Ok, tried booting BootMii with the Homebrew Channel, and it gives the exact same results as without those files. (Flashing disc light)

 

[fogbank]

Remove the bootmii.ini and ppcboot.elf files from the bootmii folder.

Then Priiloader doesn't boot Bootmii, because it can't find ppcboot.elf.

Edit:
Ok, tried booting BootMii with the Homebrew Channel, and it gives the exact same results as without those files. (Flashing disc light)

It doesn't matter if you are loading SNEEK from Bootmii/boot2, Priiloader --> BootMii/IOS, or HBC --> BootMii/IOS, ppcboot.elf and bootmii.ini should not be in the bootmii folder. Only the armboot.bin from SNEEK should be in the bootmii folder.

It sounds like your USB device is the issue. Make sure it is correctly formatted with at least one game properly extracted to the appropriate folders. Try another device if possible.

 

[mayhem366]

I still don't get how one goes about making their FAT partition as the primary one in windows. I open up disk management and all my partitions are labelled as primary, in this case does it mean active?
I also have access to and some experience with GParted if it is any easier with this.

EDIT: Ignore this post, Marking the partition as active is exactly what is meant, just booted UNeek from my hard drive now.

What is the best way to update the minimalistic nand after it has booted for the first time?

 

[MrDiesel]

I've compiled boot2_sd.bin by myself and SNEEK started right away! I think the GUI installer needs some tweaking.

Edit:
Pff, SNEEK corrupted my SD card... I had to format it, the bootsector couldn't be read or something. What I did was open Wii settings within SNEEK and it said the Wii settings were damaged/corrupted. I had to shutdown the Wii and the SD card was corrupted.

Edit 2:
Lol, I've formatted my SD card and again I have that same problem! This is so weird... Gonna reformat it again and see what it gives.

 

[BiPoLaR]

ok I've read some conflicting comments and I wanna clear this up... what should the boot2.bin file be named if I'm trying to achieve SNEEK+DI with an SD card. boot2.bin, boot2_sd.bin, or boot2_di.bin??

 

[ChokeD]

ok I've read some conflicting comments and I wanna clear this up... what should the boot2.bin file be named if I'm trying to achieve SNEEK+DI with an SD card. boot2.bin, boot2_sd.bin, or boot2_di.bin??

if compiled
boot2_di.bin renamed to boot2.bin and placed on root

Taken from OP:

Filestructure for SNEEK DI:
SNEEK DI ONLY WORKS ON 4.2 EMULATED NAND
To get in SNEEK DI menu you need a GC controller in port 1,
then in SNEEK MENU screen (using your GC controller)
Press start -> select game -> press A -> press start game will load now in DC
sd:\bootmii\armboot.bin
sd:\di.bin
sd:\boot2.bin (renamed boot2_di.bin)
sd:\font.bin
NAND
sd:\import
sd:\meta
sd:\shared1
sd:\shared2
sd:\temp
sd:\title

usb:\games\your game

 

[BiPoLaR]

thanks ChokeD

 

[ChokeD]

No problem bro.

 

[BiPoLaR]

hey ChokeD.. in your guide, the file structure calls for sd:\temp. my nand dumps have a tmp folder, so should I change that folder to "temp" instead of "tmp" or leave as is?