Hacking [TUTORIAL] Compiling a vWii compatible version of SNEEK (restored from @JoostinOnline)

[chrisrlink]

i followed the instructions but get stuck at "waiting for ARM to reset PPC" ON VwII

 

[mive]

do you have the correct folder structure?

did you embed armboot into nswitch?

did you try the github link or the svn one?

 

[chrisrlink]

huh please explain 1) the same folder structure is the same from FS-TOOLBOX? 2)how do you embed during compile and 3 I used the github svn was dead according to svn tortise

 

[mive]

folder structue:
has to be on the root of the sd card (not in a "nands" folder or similar)

armboot/nswitch:
as far as i remember you have to use raw2c to get .c and .h files which you can use for nswitch

but I wrote something about this whole neek/vwiii thingy some time ago, which I try to find as it contains additional info (I did also struggle first to get neek working on vwii)

edit:
this is the thread, maybe you can find additional info:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/build-sneek-for-vwii-linux-helper-script.580819/

edit2:
regarding nswitch:

-> apps/SNEEK/

• boot.dol (build from nswitch with armboot from mini-tree-mod [raw2c armboot.bin provides armboot.c and armboot.h])

 

[chrisrlink]

i got this error bout armboot.bin during compile

File "C:\projects\wii\sneek-master\mini-tree-mod\makebin.py", line 14
print "ERROR: header length is 0x%x, expected at least 0x10"%hdrlen

 

[mive]

ensure you're using python2 not 3

(it seems I had also issues, from the script:
sed -i '/#!\/usr\/bin\/env python2/d' mini-tree-mod/makebin.py
# force python2, python3 is usally default nowadays (TODO: switch to python3)
sed -i 's@python@python2@' mini-tree-mod/Makefile
)

 

[chrisrlink]

got it working

 

[chrisrlink]

got it working

bigger question is is there a way to auto boot vsneek on vWii boot (Similar to Priiloader)?

edit homebrew filter seems to black screen on every homebrew i try to use from usb

 

[mive]

if you can find a sneek/nswitch vwii channel you could use hbl2hbc.
not sure if there is such channel

 

[matto21]

if you can find a sneek/nswitch vwii channel you could use hbl2hbc.
not sure if there is such channel

I have this

 

[matto21]

if you can find a sneek/nswitch vwii channel you could use hbl2hbc.
not sure if there is such channel

you can use hbl2hbc
pity that the installation of the wad is limited to forty

 

[mive]

just some notes:

- if you want/need to change region of sneek emunand you can use SettingsEdit (windows) on pc
- You can install more wads, but then you have to use sort48+, which has a issue on vwii as it wont show/recognize wiiu menu channel as system channel (at least the version I tested behaved like this, not sure if there is one which fixes this)
- Dont forget that you can also use "regular" cios emunand which works for a lot of games, so maybe just install the one which wont work there in sneek emunand

 

[matto21]

just some notes:

- if you want/need to change region of sneek emunand you can use SettingsEdit (windows) on pc
- You can install more wads, but then you have to use sort48+, which has a issue on vwii as it wont show/recognize wiiu menu channel as system channel (at least the version I tested behaved like this, not sure if there is one which fixes this)
- Dont forget that you can also use "regular" cios emunand which works for a lot of games, so maybe just install the one which wont work there in sneek emunand

in fact i use emunand on wiiflow lite
snnek + di e uneek + di I had done it when JoostinOnline had done the guide

 

[thanius]

Hi, I'm trying to get Sneek running on my vWii but even though I've managed to compile using this and the Linux guide, I can't get passed the black screen. What am I doing wrong? I'm not using DI since I'm only interested in running WiiWare games, I've got the vWii NAND dump in the root of the SDCARD and I've replaced the boot.dol from nswitch, but still nothing.
Any hints appreciated, alternatively a link to a precompiled kernel.bin for sneek only. Cheers

 

[godreborn]

@SaulFabre , try as I might, I cannot get regular neek, uneek+di in this case, to work with ustealth. I tried using your libfat.a files, two of them, and no dice. there's no activity with the activity light, almost as if it can't find the nand. I don't have this problem without ustealth.

 

[godreborn]

also, neek2o doesn't have this problem either.

 

[redfire_mrt]

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sneek/code/trunk sneek-read-only

It gives me an CMD error:
C:\projects\wii>svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sneek/code/trunk sneek-read-only
'svn' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

 

[godreborn]

It gives me an CMD error:
C:\projects\wii>svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sneek/code/trunk sneek-read-only
'svn' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

You need to have it add cmd path when installing tortoise svn.

 

[redfire_mrt]

Setting Up SNEEK
Extract SD.zip to (you guessed it) the root of your SD card. Copy kernel_sd.bin to SD:\SNEEK and rename it kernel.bin. Run the SNEEK app from the HBC and after a few seconds, you'll reboot into an emulated NAND. Congratulations!

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My Wii U freezes when I entered in SNEEK. I did what the part tells me to do.

 

[godreborn]

My Wii U freezes when I entered in SNEEK. I did what the part tells me to do.

if you're using ustealth, that's why. I tried modifying it to use ustealth, but it didn't work. problem is that it's simply too old. neek2o does work with ustealth, but that's from like 2018 or so while normal neek is from 2015.