Hacking SNEEK v2

[cthg]

sweet... where do you put it?

 

[cwstjdenobs]

on the root of the SD

 

[fogbank]

I have the game selection menu "working" with r78 on a US Wii using a 4.2E NAND created from scratch (3.2E created from scratch then officially updated to 4.2E). I say "working" because I can use the GC controller to change the game etc..., but I can't see the menu output on my screen.

You need font.bin.

Arrghhh... I had it on there when I was trying to get it to work before but I wiped my SD card clean and forgot to put it back on.

Thanks, it's working now.

 

[cthg]

Arghh I tried making a European NAND from scratch using my settings.txt I got from my US wii that I region changed to 3.2E. But now I get the opera error on bootup that says could not access US/EN/Setup.

Do you think this is a problem with my settings.txt?

I made sure that the system menu the EULA and Region Select channels were all euro.

and of course I also have IOS30, 17, and 35

 

[FenrirWolf]

Yeah, it probably has to do with the setting.txt still pointing to USA-region stuff.

Which reminds me that I've been meaning to ask if there's any sort of setting.txt modifier for the PC. Is there? If not, I suppose you could boot up AnyRegionChanger in SNEEK and change it from there.

 

[cthg]

lol Now wii need all these wii apps like anyregionchanger on PC for our virtual NANDs.

 

[gameking66]

I did a dump of my 3.2U Wii, and it works without DI. I then updated it to 4.2U, and dumped again, but now it blackscreens.

 

[wilsoff]

Yeah, it probably has to do with the setting.txt still pointing to USA-region stuff.

Which reminds me that I've been meaning to ask if there's any sort of setting.txt modifier for the PC. Is there? If not, I suppose you could boot up AnyRegionChanger in SNEEK and change it from there.

These posts have a couple of tools that will help you manipulate setting.txt:

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=2583606
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=2582855

There's an exe that will decrypt setting.txt.
Edit the output with a hex editor (most windows text editors will bugger up the line breaks)
Then pass the edited output back to the exe to re-encrpyt.

 

[giantpune]

setting.txt read/write/edit/change/modifier... http://pastie.org/900962

use -r to read your current settings, -w to write new settings, or run it with any other args to see the usage

 

[Majroa]

Damn it, you are all going too fast.


USB Loading through the Disc Channel? What did I miss?

Could someone just explain in one post what we can and can't with SNEEK?

 

[jaybee]

Damn it, you are all going too fast.


USB Loading through the Disc Channel? What did I miss?

Could someone just explain in one post what we can and can't with SNEEK?

Yes this would be a big help to others (including myself). This thread has got a little long in the tooth and has deviated here and there on how to compile certain things. Another thread which states what additional functionality we have would be of the greatest use. * fingers crossed *

 

[RussSteele82]

I have r78 compiled and working great. I had to use the armboot.bin from my r76 compile because the one with r78 is giving me a black screen at boot-up. One problem though, I created a scratch 3.2E NAND using NUSD and updated it to 4.2E through system update and got the PAL setting.txt from a Dolphin download. When I try to use the menu to load a game, it takes about 5-10 seconds to load it into disc channel, the banner is never loaded into the disc channel, and it goes straight to the black screen with the dreaded "Please eject disk....". I have about 50 NTSC games. I have a region.bin in the usb:/sneek folder. It is 00 00 00 02 for PAL to match my NAND. I have tried with and without this file. Still no luck. Can someone please tell me what is going on. Do I need the region.bin to be 00 00 00 01 on my PAL NAND because I have NTSC games? Main.c is the es folder of the svn has Region free 4.2EUR uncommented so I thought it wouldn't matter if my games were NTSC.

 

[primetime83]

Wait.. so do we use the precompiled armboot.bin rev 47 from the google code page or do we use the armboot.bin that we compile from the source code (i.e rev 78 for the latest version)??

 

[Hooya]

Damn it, you are all going too fast.


USB Loading through the Disc Channel? What did I miss?

Could someone just explain in one post what we can and can't with SNEEK?

I'm in the same boat. Been out of the scene for a while since things were just working fine. I decided to see where things are. I think I get the idea that this is basically running a "faked" Wii NAND on the HD, but can someone post a "Sneek2 for Dummies" post to let us know the current state of use for this? Seems like this runs all games perfectly with no IOS reload issues, and maybe faster? I like the USB loading interface, but there are problems as we all know.

Care to fill in those of us that can't keep up with the times?

 

[fogbank]

I have about 50 NTSC games. I have a region.bin in the usb:/sneek folder. It is 00 00 00 02 for PAL to match my NAND. I have tried with and without this file. Still no luck. Can someone please tell me what is going on. Do I need the region.bin to be 00 00 00 01 on my PAL NAND because I have NTSC games?

Yes, region.bin should match your games, not your NAND.

QUOTE(wilsoff @ Apr 2 2010, 02:23 PM) These posts have a couple of tools that will help you manipulate setting.txt:

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=2583606
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=2582855

There's an exe that will decrypt setting.txt.
Edit the output with a hex editor (most windows text editors will bugger up the line breaks)
Then pass the edited output back to the exe to re-encrpyt.

To make my working 4.2E NAND I only changed the AREA=USA to AREA=EUR in the setting.txt of my actual NAND dump using that tool. Worked perfectly.

 

[happydance]

setting.txt read/write/edit/change/modifier... http://pastie.org/900962

use -r to read your current settings, -w to write new settings, or run it with any other args to see the usage

may i ask how can i use that? do i have to compile it?

i tried the setting_decrypter wilsoff linked but it cannot fully decrypt the setting.txt

it just decypted part of it like this

AREA=USA

MODEL=RVL-001(ASI)

DVD=0

MPCH=0x7FFE

CODE=LS

 

[fogbank]

i tried the setting_decrypter wilsoff linked but it cannot fully decrypt the setting.txt

it just decypted part of it like this

AREA=USA

MODEL=RVL-001(ASI)

DVD=0

MPCH=0x7FFE

CODE=LS

It works fine and that is all you need to decrypt. As previously stated you need to open the decrypted file in a hex editor and modify what you want changed. Save it and re-encrypt it with the tool.

 

[wiiwaker]

I have a working nand with r37, but can't get sneek working in recent revisions. I have tried different combinations of 01.app, 0e.app and armboot.bin. They all give a black screen and blue flash led blinking.
BTW I followed all of the instructions and tutorials here, installed devkitarm-r24, etc.

 

[giantpune]

It works fine and that is all you need to decrypt. As previously stated you need to open the decrypted file in a hex editor and modify what you want changed. Save it and re-encrypt it with the tool.

no, you should get the whole setting.txt decrypted. the section he posted is not complete. if he only changes values in this portion and then encrypts it and puts in in his nand, he will not have a complete file.

to use what i posted, you will need to compile it for whatever you want to run it on.

 

[cthg]

and what settings do we need to change to change a US settings.txt to a EUR settings.txt?

Do we just need to change USA to EUR?

Can we leave the game region to US?