x_r3ap3r_x said:
I just softmodded a friend brand new black wii with: Priloader, HBC, cIOS17-38, Hermes 222,223 and WiiFlow and Rugby League 3 works perfectly. So i dont think its cIOS19 that makes it work as Chicken11 said.
Okay. I am no longer a noob, but i still have a lot to learn about wii homebrew. i bought a brand new US wii today and imported RL3 this week. Coming from the relatively straight forward PS2 dev / homebrew situation, the Wii homebrew situation is overwhelming to say the least. the installers are so complicated and there's so much information out there it's just amazing. But yeah I installed a recent version of HBC through bannerbomb. installed cIOSx.rev19 first on IOS249. But I seemed to have some problems running WAD-Manager with that version. (when i tried to add channels i got an error) So then I ran the scanning thing in BootMii, then installed cIOS38_rev14 on IOS250, and after that I was able to add channels through WAD-Manager 1.4.
Anyway, I tried running the PAL DVD through a DVD Loader. I tried NeoGammaR8, and NeoGammaR7 and a few others but no dice. I kept getting a DVD read error. So then I tried to run the game from my 8GB USB flash drive. I installed WBFS Manager on my PC, formatted my USB flash drive to WBFS, then imported / compressed the RL3 iso into WBFS manager. Then I stuck my USB drive into the USB slot in the back of the Wii. (the slot near the bottom of the wii, the top slot doesn't work) and usbloader gx finally loaded and displayed RL3. Since I'm on a US Wii i forced NTSC, but then i got a 202 error. So then I enabled the anti 202 fix and lo and behold the game loaded from my USB FLASH DRIVE. Fully functional. I was over the moon!
A few things, though. usbloader gx 1.0 worked for me. (i think it may be the original version, not a revision) When I tried usbloader revision 921, the game loaded, but i could only do a quick match. everything else was locked) i messed around with some settings and eventually r921 wouldn't even start anymore, even after removing the channel and re-installing it!
so that was weird. but i just went back to the usbloader original 1.0 version through the homebrew channel apps, and the game is fully functional. i also was able to launch the game fully functional through neogammar7's USB loading option. (they didnt even have an option for a 202 fix, it just worked surprisingly) i'm playing it through there now.
This has been quite an adventure for me installing homebrew on the wii and finally getting RL3 running. i am glad i did because the game is great. i am using the gamecube controller at the moment.
the game is surprisingly running smooth through my 8GB USB flash drive. (i thought i may have needed to get a HDD with a power supply, but i am amazed at how well everything runs from the USB flash drive (even the videos). i am very happy at the moment. I was disappointed rugby league 3 didn't get released in the states but i am glad to have imported the game and found a way to get it to run on my US wii. if anyone has any questions or has some suggestions on helping me with wii homebrew feel free to chime in.
Now it's time to get back to the game.