Hacking Starfall + 4.0

[Knocks]

If you've installed 4.0, what happened to your Starfall installation? Specifically, it would be good to know if the individual Starfall hacks still work: health warning, background music, update block, etc. Also, is it safe to turn the hacks on and off after installing 4.0?

 

[raulpica]

If you've installed 4.0, what happened to your Starfall installation? Specifically, it would be good to know if the individual Starfall hacks still work: health warning, background music, update block, etc. Also, is it safe to turn the hacks on and off after installing 4.0?

As Starfall edited your systemmenu file, by updating you're overwriting it.

So I'm pretty sure you'll lose all Starfall's functionalities by upgrading.

 

[ds22]

The starfall hacks will no longer work on 4.0.

so you will have to wait (4.0 has just been released you know)

 

[Knocks]

Has anyone actually tried?

 

[9th_Sage]

Has anyone actually tried?

Starfall installs hacks. Installing a new system menu, no matter the version, will uninstall the hacks. That's it.

Besides, I just installed the new system menu since I wanted the run from SD option pretty bad and it got rid of my Starfall, so even if I hadn't been sure I know now. Make sure you have a new cIOS installed first, then you have more of an avenue for hacks.

 

[Knocks]

There's still a chance it might work with the new menu. The hacks are pretty basic and just make byte-size changes to a text file. If those options are still present after the update, there's no reason they can't be changed again.

 

[raulpica]

There's still a chance it might work with the new menu. The hacks are pretty basic and just make byte-size changes to a text file. If those options are still present after the update, there's no reason they can't be changed again.

I guess that StarFall checks for a 3.2 SystemMenu before applying the hacks to the respective addresses. There's a serious chance of bricking, by installing StarFall on 4.0.

If addresses changed between 3.2 and 4.0, and StarFall doesn't come with a protection of some sort, it could end up editing the wrong addresses, potentially bricking your systemmenu.

Just wait.

 

[9th_Sage]

There's still a chance it might work with the new menu. The hacks are pretty basic and just make byte-size changes to a text file. If those options are still present after the update, there's no reason they can't be changed again.

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but if you know this for fact then why ask us? Anyway, raulpica is right. Best to just wait for now to see what happens. I bet that eventually we'll see (for example) preloader hacks that work with the new menu.

 

[Knocks]

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but if you know this for fact then why ask us? Anyway, raulpica is right. Best to just wait for now to see what happens. I bet that eventually we'll see (for example) preloader hacks that work with the new menu.

Do you know the difference between "there's a chance" and "know for a fact"?

 

[Hells Guardian]

Ok first off the starfall tool physically will not work on any system menu other then 3.2 It does an internal check and if it's not 3.2 it returns an error. This is a safety measure for it. So in other words it's not going to work. Period. As for the use of the preloader hacks system you have to be able to install preloader to use it. So that's a no. Just wait for awhile and eventually this update will be broken.

 

[Minho]

Excuse me, but what exactly is Starfall?

 

[mrgarrison]

wow, its like the search button is invisible or something...

 

[SyNNeR6x3]

Try This:

 

[9th_Sage]

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but if you know this for fact then why ask us? Anyway, raulpica is right. Best to just wait for now to see what happens. I bet that eventually we'll see (for example) preloader hacks that work with the new menu.

Do you know the difference between "there's a chance" and "know for a fact"?

Oh my, I'm so hurt by the way you try to take my words out of context.

Please.

 

[Knocks]

Do you know the difference between "there's a chance" and "know for a fact"?

Oh my, I'm so hurt by the way you try to take my words out of context.

Please.

It's good that you're not hurt, because you also don't know what "taking words out of context" means. I said there's a chance it might work, and you said that I somehow knew this for a fact.

 

[jinxvorheeze]

There is no chance it will work. None at all.

If you install Starfall then update, the hacks are erased
If you update then attempt to install the hacks, it will check to see if you are on 3.2 and when it see's you are not, it will return with an error.

This is not a guess, it is fact.

 

[PSeeCO]

I'm still on 3.2 with starfall, just cause i may need it in case of semi brick...is there any other homebrew that can be used to load games on a semibricked wii?

 

[Knocks]

There is no chance it will work. None at all.

If you install Starfall then update, the hacks are erased
If you update then attempt to install the hacks, it will check to see if you are on 3.2 and when it see's you are not, it will return with an error.

This is not a guess, it is fact.

Scroll up and re-read my post. It was about how the hacks are done. Version check is just a feature of Starfall, not a technical barrier to installing the hacks on other firmware. It IS possible for the same hacks to work on newer firmware, we just don't know because the only software that allowed them has a version check. And as raulpica noted, there is a chance of bricking if the addresses in the new firmware are changed.

 

[patz]

Will we ever get an update version of Starfall?

 

[Raziel5000]

i am not a developer of any kind, but i can assure you that these folks that spend time hacking and cracking are in so deep that they will feel like they have wasted the time they have put into this so far to let an update stop them from progressing. give them time and i am sure there will be a hack of some sort that does what we had before available. i have seen some amazing things come from this forum, and hope to see more in the future!