Hacking SNEEK v2

[Thomas83Lin]

any chance in posting the changes

 

[Justin121994]

I want some source

.Please,

 

[conanac]

Link to main.zip (zipped version of main.c in the download section of the linked googlecode page) is now put in the description box of the video, or here:

http://bit.ly/9qeN4D

Cheers.

 

[FenrirWolf]

YouTube moved the video description page to make more obvious to people and they STILL don't click on it...

 

[Thomas83Lin]

Link to main.zip (zipped version of main.c in the download section of the linked googlecode page) is now put in the description box of the video, or here:

http://bit.ly/9qeN4D

Cheers.

Thanks, time to convert back.lol

 

[kyle007]

hopefully it works for me, i added some changes to the main.c from crediar, and the menu comes up but never goes away lol and yes i launched it while in the main channel view not from the disc channel

 

[SanGor]

If you are using system menu 4.2U and want to use the built-in game change menu (with GC pad), there is no need to change the region and system menu to 4.2E. I managed to make necessary changes in the file main.c (in folder ES) so that I could use system menu 4.2U along with that nice built-in game change menu (with GC Pad).

Here is the video to show that it works. Enjoy.

how did find out those offsets, could you maybe explain it?
Or maybe make a patch for 3.2E I would really like to use the menu with that version I got a very nice theme installed

 

[kyle007]

i hope he figured out the offsets himself

cause crediar was getting a few people earlier to test out the game menu on 4.2U including myself, it'd be a shame if he just took credit for crediars work

did you edit the font.bin? cause the one i got from crediar says EUR in the top right lol if you had to change the font.bin it'd be awesome if you could post it, cause maybe thats why it wasnt working on mine with crediars changes

 

[conanac]

i hope he figured out the offsets himself

cause crediar was getting a few people earlier to test out the game menu on 4.2U including myself, it'd be a shame if he just took credit for crediars work

did you edit the font.bin? cause the one i got from crediar says EUR in the top right lol if you had to change the font.bin it'd be awesome if you could post it, cause maybe thats why it wasnt working on mine with crediars changes

Did I beat all you guys? LOL.

I was just following sifjar tutorial/blog on how to change preloader hack, to make sure I could get the right offset.
But then I need to find the frame buffer address for USA (NTSC-U), and their appropriate size.
And the rest is history.

Cheers.

Edit: font.bin is the same, you just need to change the static variable u32 region from EUR to USA in the beginning part of the main.c file, so you could see USA in the top right of the menu screen (with GC Pad).

 

[ChokeD]

Link to main.zip (zipped version of main.c in the download section of the linked googlecode page) is now put in the description box of the video, or here:

http://bit.ly/9qeN4D

Cheers.

Very nice, thanks for sharing conanac.

 

[mugotu]

4.2u Uneek working here without edits to source o.0... Its buggy tho and I dont know much about it yet. I do know that if you use "SNEEK.cmd" to build it it does NOT work for me... just black screen. But if I use the Armboot.bin47 from downloads section, and run build_boot2.cmd... then it works using the bins from the main folder.

SD:\bootmii\ppcboot.elf
SD:\bootmii\armboot.bin
SD:\boot2.bin (was boot2_usb.bin)

USB:\(full nand dump from FSDUMPER)
USB:\boot2.bin (was boot2_usb.bin)


Problems:
Couldnt get ethernet to work from uneek.
Couldnt load alot of homebrew.
If I format the uneek nand from wii-settings it becomes unbootable.

 

[RussSteele82]

The r78 armboot.bin works for me. I just grabbed it from my mini-tree-mod folder after running build_boot2.cmd. Just set your PATH={python drive}:\Python26 in your environmental variables. It has to be set the EXACT way the folder is written. If it is Python26, you can't set your variable to be PATH={python drive}:\python26. I am still currently getting the black "Eject disc and..." screen when loading a disc. I am using the new code that conanac was so gracious to share with us. Any suggestions. I have my region.bin set to 00 00 00 01 with a 4.2U NAND and NTSC games. I used Acronis to check my cluster size and came to find that my drive had errors so I ran a check on it and got it to fix the errors. I'm about to see if that helped by any chance. My cluster size was 32K so there shouldn't be a problem there, hopefully it was the drive errors.

 

[gameking66]

Does anyone know how I could get a working NAND using only fresh files from NUSD?

 

[RussSteele82]

Does anyone know how I could get a working NAND using only fresh files from NUSD?

This is how I done it:
1. Download IOS30 v1040, make sure you decrypt it and pack a .wad
2. Download System Menu 3.2X (what ever version Wii you have), decrypt it and pack a .wad
3. Open ShowMiiWads
4. Create a blank folder on desktop (I named mine "Scratch 3.2U NAND")
5. Click on Options -> Change NAND backup path. Select the folder you just created.
6. Click View -> ShowMiiNAND (the program is now called "ShowMiiNand")
7. Drag the two .wad files you downloaded through NUSD to ShowMiiNand.
8. At the bottom click install
9. copy your setting.txt from an actual dump to the title/00000001/00000002/data folder that was created in your "blank folder"
10. copy the four folders: title, ticket, sys, shared1 to the root of whatever device you are going to be using to host your NAND.
11. Launch SNEEK/UNEEK and it will be as if it is the first time you started your wii (in reality it is, and you may have to wait a couple minutes the first time you boot it up this time only)
12. Update through System Update
13. Voila, a scratch made NAND

 

[gameking66]

Does anyone know how I could get a working NAND using only fresh files from NUSD?

This is how I done it:
1. Download IOS30 v1040, make sure you decrypt it and pack a .wad
2. Download System Menu 3.2X (what ever version Wii you have), decrypt it and pack a .wad
3. Open ShowMiiWads
4. Create a blank folder on desktop (I named mine "Scratch 3.2U NAND")
5. Click on Options -> Change NAND backup path. Select the folder you just created.
6. Click View -> ShowMiiNAND (the program is now called "ShowMiiNand")
7. Drag the two .wad files you downloaded through NUSD to ShowMiiNand.
8. At the bottom click install
9. copy your setting.txt from an actual dump to the title/00000001/00000002/data folder that was created in your "blank folder"
10. copy the four folders: title, ticket, sys, shared1 to the root of whatever device you are going to be using to host your NAND.
11. Launch SNEEK/UNEEK and it will be as if it is the first time you started your wii (in reality it is, and you may have to wait a couple minutes the first time you boot it up this time only)
12. Update through System Update
13. Voila, a scratch made NAND

Is the setting.txt really required?

 

[RussSteele82]

Does anyone know how I could get a working NAND using only fresh files from NUSD?

This is how I done it:
1. Download IOS30 v1040, make sure you decrypt it and pack a .wad
2. Download System Menu 3.2X (what ever version Wii you have), decrypt it and pack a .wad
3. Open ShowMiiWads
4. Create a blank folder on desktop (I named mine "Scratch 3.2U NAND")
5. Click on Options -> Change NAND backup path. Select the folder you just created.
6. Click View -> ShowMiiNAND (the program is now called "ShowMiiNand")
7. Drag the two .wad files you downloaded through NUSD to ShowMiiNand.
8. At the bottom click install
9. copy your setting.txt from an actual dump to the title/00000001/00000002/data folder that was created in your "blank folder"
10. copy the four folders: title, ticket, sys, shared1 to the root of whatever device you are going to be using to host your NAND.
11. Launch SNEEK/UNEEK and it will be as if it is the first time you started your wii (in reality it is, and you may have to wait a couple minutes the first time you boot it up this time only)
12. Update through System Update
13. Voila, a scratch made NAND

Is the setting.txt really required?

VERY required. It tells the wii what version your wii is and checks it with the system menu installed, what video mode to run in, and what region your games are, your wii serial number, etc... Without it, it won't even boot to the health screen.

 

[gameking66]

Does anyone know how I could get a working NAND using only fresh files from NUSD?

This is how I done it:
1. Download IOS30 v1040, make sure you decrypt it and pack a .wad
2. Download System Menu 3.2X (what ever version Wii you have), decrypt it and pack a .wad
3. Open ShowMiiWads
4. Create a blank folder on desktop (I named mine "Scratch 3.2U NAND")
5. Click on Options -> Change NAND backup path. Select the folder you just created.
6. Click View -> ShowMiiNAND (the program is now called "ShowMiiNand")
7. Drag the two .wad files you downloaded through NUSD to ShowMiiNand.
8. At the bottom click install
9. copy your setting.txt from an actual dump to the title/00000001/00000002/data folder that was created in your "blank folder"
10. copy the four folders: title, ticket, sys, shared1 to the root of whatever device you are going to be using to host your NAND.
11. Launch SNEEK/UNEEK and it will be as if it is the first time you started your wii (in reality it is, and you may have to wait a couple minutes the first time you boot it up this time only)
12. Update through System Update
13. Voila, a scratch made NAND

Is the setting.txt really required?

VERY required. It tells the wii what version your wii is and checks it with the system menu installed, what video mode to run in, and what region your games are, your wii serial number, etc... Without it, it won't even boot to the health screen.

I got past the setup screen but after pressing A on the health screen it goes to a black screen.
EDIT: Nevermind, that's the screen that I had to wait a minute at!

 

[RussSteele82]

Is there any way we can get a SNEEK + DI compatibility list going on? I believe that is my problem. I gave a true backed up NAND, when I load the homebrew channel on SNEEK it doesn't even see my USB device in the menu. I had a scratch NAND created and tried to install the SNEEK HBC by placing the hackmii 0.6 boot.elf in the root of my usb:\ and it just reloads to the SNEEK system menu. The whole time this is going on I see activity on the front of my usb device. I can even see the games installed when I use the DI menu but when I press A to load one, press Start to go back to the system menu and go to disc channel nothing is loaded. I have two WD My BOOK Essential Editions. One is a 5ooGB and the other is a 1TB. The smallest FAT32 partition is 58GB I use for my regular NAND. It works fine with that and any USB loader through standard system NAND. The weird thing is that I can run UNEEK from it. What USB devices are any of you using to be able to:

1. Use USB device for homebrew apps on SNEEK NAND, and
2. Run games through disc channel by means of the DI menu?

Again, I wouldn't rush out and get any of the WD My BOOK Essential Edition drives quite yet to run SNEEK, maybe UNEEK.

 

[gameking66]

After making the NAND from scratch and booting 4.2U normally, I still can't get SNEEK+DI to boot up. Does the harddrive need to be connected at boot?

 

[RussSteele82]

Yes the hard drive needs to be connected at bootup. It looks at slot.bin file in the usb:/sneek folder that is automatically created. You need not create this file. Also if you are getting the black screen still, try changing your armboot.bin. I ran boot2.bin (boot2_sd.bin version) first to get everything rolling along, then after I was able to get into the system menu and update to 4.2U I switched over to boot2.bin + di.bin (boot2_di.bin + di.bin) making sure each time to rename the boot2_sd/di.bin file (which ever is being used) to boot2.bin and placing it into the root of the SD card only.