Hacking SNEEK+DI quick guide

[ChokeD]

You might want to add if you can't get a game to boot check if you have the required IOS installed on your nand that the game is using the correct IOS had a few games which wouldn't boot cause they used the incorrect IOS or didn't have the correct version number installed

Will add to the troubleshooting, thanks longtom1.

 

[Cyan]

And to know the needed IOS, I'm using Trucha (because it's easy), or an hex editor.

Spoiler: Hex editor method

Open tmd.bin in an hex editor, and look at offset 0x018B. convert the value from hexadecimal to decimal to obtain the IOS number.
You can verify in sneek nand by looking at the same foldername 00000001/000000xx/

Spoiler: Trucha Signer method

Open the iso, go to the game partition and click on tmd.bin

 

[longtom1]

Easier method just drag the ISO file into ISOpatcher1.1 and it tells you what IOS the game uses and tells you if the game has an incorrect IOS assignment had 3 yesterday that said that they needed IOS3 to run when run through ISOpatcher

 

[ricerobo]

Troubleshooting and errors

NOTE:FAQ on Sneek+DI concerning Region.bin
Rev88+ doesn't use the region.bin file. All the region info is stored in the diconfig.bin
Use a Hex editor to change the 6th cell (should be listed as 02) and edit it to the desired number.
This will make the Sneek think the Wii is of the following region:
01 - US
02 - EU
03 - Japan

In the case of Region Japan, I use a binary editor or a hex editor to change the 0x00000007 cell (listed as 02)
and edit it to 00.

 

[SanGor]

Troubleshooting and errors

NOTE:FAQ on Sneek+DI concerning Region.bin
Rev88+ doesn't use the region.bin file. All the region info is stored in the diconfig.bin
Use a Hex editor to change the 6th cell (should be listed as 02) and edit it to the desired number.
This will make the Sneek think the Wii is of the following region:
01 - US
02 - EU
03 - Japan

In the case of Region Japan, I use a binary editor or a hex editor to change the 0x00000007 cell (listed as 02)
and edit it to 00.

why not use the built-in menu to change the region? ( Hold 1, press B, change region, save settings, done)

also the correct list is

0 JAP
1 USA
2 EUR
3 KOR

 

[twig123]

Troubleshooting and errors

NOTE:FAQ on Sneek+DI concerning Region.bin
Rev88+ doesn't use the region.bin file. All the region info is stored in the diconfig.bin
Use a Hex editor to change the 6th cell (should be listed as 02) and edit it to the desired number.
This will make the Sneek think the Wii is of the following region:
01 - US
02 - EU
03 - Japan

In the case of Region Japan, I use a binary editor or a hex editor to change the 0x00000007 cell (listed as 02)
and edit it to 00.

why not use the built-in menu to change the region? ( Hold 1, press B, change region, save settings, done)

also the correct list is

0 JAP
1 USA
2 EUR
3 KOR

I did try the built in menu to try to change the region (and it did work in rev115), but it seems to reset to EUR when i reboot UNEEK+DI.
So I don't know if this is fixed in a new rev. or if it is just a temp change...

 

[ricerobo]

@Sanger
Thanks for your good advice.
Until now I thought that I could not open the sneek_di menu unless changing the region in diconfig.
I have confirmed that I can open the sneek_di menu not editing the diconfig and change the region using the menu.

 

[NReale3370]

I'm having some trouble in the more recent revisions of sneek-di and wanted to see if anyone else has insight or has the problem. In 115 the first Phoenix Wright blackscreens after the capcom/dynaware screens. In 116 onward it works fine but Mario Kart Wii blackscreens on start up where it worked great before 116. LEGO Harry Potter also blackscreens on start up (it requires IOS 56 and I've installed the latest version of it and also tried a version earlier)

 

[Blue-K]

updated from 4.2e to 4.3e through uneek_di and when it completed and asks for reboot I get nothing untill I patch 0000009b.app -p with IOSKpatch and then the nand will boot and di module works perfect

Is this still needed with the latest rev, was somebody able to test it? I'm running into the same problem with the latest files from the Installer (r115), and it seems that nobody reported it on Google Code, which seems to be the only place where Crediar checks for Bugs...

 

[longtom1]

Yes for R118 you still have to patch the system menu *.app but it's only for uneek_di I think

 

[Blue-K]

Yes for R118 you still have to patch the system menu *.app but it's only for uneek_di I think

Damn...can't get this to work on Ubuntu. Guess I'm doomed to wait for an Update

.

 

[jhoff80]

I don't know why, I still can't get anything to launch at all in UNEEK or UNEEK+DI.

SNEEK and SNEEK+DI still work perfectly.

Edit: And has anyone gotten a 4.3U NAND working on UNEEK, or is it just me having issues?

 

[longtom1]

I don't know why, I still can't get anything to launch at all in UNEEK or UNEEK+DI.

SNEEK and SNEEK+DI still work perfectly.

Edit: And has anyone gotten a 4.3U NAND working on UNEEK, or is it just me having issues?

if you compile yourself you just have to add the hacks for 4.3U, J or K and compile

I have a 4.3E working nand on uneek_di

 

[jhoff80]

If you're talking about the whole DI menu for selecting games not working, that hasn't been true since r105.

4.3U works perfectly in SNEEK/ SNEEK+DI, but doesn't load at all in UNEEK/UNEEK+DI for me, whether I patch the system menu to verbose or not.

But if you're referring to something different, that would explain why SNEEK works and not UNEEK, I'd love to know. I know that the in-game menu doesn't work on a US Wii yet, but I don't think that'd cause that issue, would it?

 

[longtom1]

Are you using the sneekinstaller or compiling from svn???

 

[jhoff80]

Either/or. Both don't work.

 

[longtom1]

I'll give it a shot later with a 4.3U nand using R118 and edit my post to let you know

 

[Blue-K]

Ok, I have again a question (this App requires a lot of time, lol

). I'm currently converting all my games to the SNEEK-Format, after I've done some testing. I can't use DiscEx for that, since it's Winblows only, and use Wit (Wiimms ISO Tools) instead, which does the job perfectly fine. But there appears to be a problem with Games with more than one Partition (like SSBB, Rabbids Go Home, MKWii, etc.). In the end, I have a Data and a Channels-Folder (with the SNEEK-Structure in them), or it simply copies the .wad into the Files-Folder, all depending on the command I've used.

So, my question is how does DiscEx handles these games? And do the games work fine/can you install the Channels?

Thanks in advance!

 

[jhoff80]

Huh.... I deleted all of my existing (4.3U) IOS installs from my NAND on USB, and installed the 4.2U versions, and now it's working all of a sudden.

Not sure why that matters, but apparently it made the difference.

Now the only thing that doesn't load is my HBC 1.0.7, but everything else works perfectly.

 

[ChokeD]

DiscEX-v0.5-cred.rar is ready for download. Go grab it.

OP updated.