Homebrew The Wii U Homebrew Request Thread

[CommanderCool]

Made attempts using DumpsterU and Dumpling. They really don't want me dumping the Metroid Prime Trilogy, or any Wii game for that matter.

 

[godreborn]

Made attempts using DumpsterU and Dumpling. They really don't want me dumping the Metroid Prime Trilogy, or any Wii game for that matter.

hmm... @GaryOderNichts ? I've never used the app before, just knew about it. do you have both the seeprom and otp? you may need the seeprom from the most recent format, but I'm not sure. I think it goes up by one each time you format the disk to prevent you from using older formatted disks.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Made attempts using DumpsterU and Dumpling. They really don't want me dumping the Metroid Prime Trilogy, or any Wii game for that matter.

What is the issue? Are the games not showing up? Or does it error while dumping.
Are those games injects? If not they can't be dumped using DumpsterU.

 

[CommanderCool]

What is the issue? Are the games not showing up? Or does it error while dumping.
Are those games injects? If not they can't be dumped using DumpsterU.

Error while dumping. They are not injects. It's the same set of files which I have a problem with dumping via FTP as well, in that it just skips over them or says there's an error doing so.

EDIT: Dumpling has given me the error "Symlink File, Skipping" for multiple files in the Metroid Prime Trilogy. What does this mean?

 

[V10lator]

Dumpling has given me the error "Symlink File, Skipping" for multiple files in the Metroid Prime Trilogy. What does this mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link - You just can't dump symbolic links as
a) They might be dependant on the storage medium (NAND or USB)
b) FAT32 don't know symlinks, so can't store them

Now I have no idea if Wii games really contain symlinks or you have some other issue (corrupted storage medium). That's something for @GaryOderNichts and @Lia to have a look into.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Error while dumping. They are not injects. It's the same set of files which I have a problem with dumping via FTP as well, in that it just skips over them or says there's an error doing so.

EDIT: Dumpling has given me the error "Symlink File, Skipping" for multiple files in the Metroid Prime Trilogy. What does this mean?

Hmm ok. I'll test that later. Not sure if there should be symlinks in there.

 

[Deleted member 381889]

Symlink files aren't necessary to run games, so don't worry about them skipping.

Although dumpling is coded badly and it gives that message any time a file fails to copy, regardless of whether or not it's a symlink or not... Should be fine though if it's doing the same with FTP though.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Symlink files aren't necessary to run games, so don't worry about them skipping.

Although dumpling is coded badly and it gives that message any time a file fails to copy, regardless of whether or not it's a symlink or not... Should be fine though if it's doing the same with FTP though.

I know that you can't dump the *.nfs file from the Wii U Wii virtual console using ftpiiu everywhere. I don't know why but transfer fails for those files. I'm not sure what Dumpling does with them.
DumpsterU dumps them without problems. It also skips symlinks so if those things are really symlinks no error should occur.

@CommanderCool Does that error occur for the nfs files?
If you start DumpsterU from commandline it will print the errors to stderr and stdout. So please take a look there.

 

[CommanderCool]

I know that you can't dump the *.nfs file from the Wii U Wii virtual console using ftpiiu everywhere. I don't know why but transfer fails for those files. I'm not sure what Dumpling does with them.
DumpsterU dumps them without problems. It also skips symlinks so if those things are really symlinks no error should occur.

@CommanderCool Does that error occur for the nfs files?
If you start DumpsterU from commandline it will print the errors to stderr and stdout. So please take a look there.

My deepest apologies for not replying sooner! It's going to be a busy day.

I'll get back to you tomorrow with an answer to your question. I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you so much for taking the time to help me out with all of this!

 

[CommanderCool]

My deepest apologies for not replying sooner! It's going to be a busy day.

I'll get back to you tomorrow with an answer to your question. I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you so much for taking the time to help me out with all of this!

Alright, good news bad news

Good news: I got all the files over to my PC

Bad news: DumpsterU continues to give me the error "Not a WFS device or bad key" whenever I try to run it.

I'm wondering if I might have done something wrong by backing up my files to an external harddrive

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Alright, good news bad news

Good news: I got all the files over to my PC

Bad news: DumpsterU continues to give me the error "Not a WFS device or bad key" whenever I try to run it.

I'm wondering if I might have done something wrong by backing up my files to an external harddrive

Try redumping your OTP and SEEPROM. There is probably something wrong with the keys.

 

[CommanderCool]

Try redumping your OTP and SEEPROM. There is probably something wrong with the keys.

Did. Same error.

 

[MikaDubbz]

edit: nevermind, figured it out

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

So I notice there still no media player... more specifically for music... more specifically audio files from games. The ones emulators can make, like VGZ or SPC, NSF.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Any chance an ereader could be made for Wii U homebrew? The 3DS has 1 or 2 of such apps, surely the Wii U could have one as well.

 

[depaul]

Request to convert Retroarch cores (*.RPX) to installable format into USB (or NAND).

Reason : For faster launch: currently we have to load 10MB-60MB cores from SD card which is slow compared to USB (average speed USB: about 25 MB/s vs SD Card about 4 MB/s).

 

[MikaDubbz]

Could a homebrew app be made that when you launch it, it opens the Wii U's internet browser and opens it to a specific website? I can think of a lot of great little apps I'd make for specific websites if we can.

 

[Txistedninja]

No cheat Menu or Save editor for cheats yet? Trainers are out there but limited

 

[MikaDubbz]

Ok, so this is probably not possible, but lets say you've got a capture card connected to your Wii U so you can record and stream anything you play on the Wii U. Well, what if there was a plugin for the plugin manager that forced the Gamepad's camera to be on and wirelessly streaming it's image directly to your computer? Like theoretically, if that could happen, you could get a good Twitch/streaming setup going, with footage of yourself and the game (on the main screen) being streamed at the same time.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Ok, so this is probably not possible, but lets say you've got a capture card connected to your Wii U so you can record and stream anything you play on the Wii U. Well, what if there was a plugin for the plugin manager that forced the Gamepad's camera to be on and wirelessly streaming it's image directly to your computer? Like theoretically, if that could happen, you could get a good Twitch/streaming setup going, with footage of yourself and the game (on the main screen) being streamed at the same time.

If we can figure out the function parameters of the camera library https://github.com/devkitPro/wut/blob/master/cafe/camera.def it might be possible.
WUPS already allows the manipulation of the GX2 buffers.