Hacking vWii sneek

[JoostinOnline]

I only recently was able to get a NAND to load off of the USB on my real Wii (going away soon as a present), so I am still in the dark about a lot of things. Like what are we lacking that would allow us to place the virtual NAND on our USB drives for faster loading?

SD is faster than USB, but nothing other than writing an app for it, which Maxternal is doing.

 

[XDel]

SD is faster than USB, but nothing other than writing an app for it, which Maxternal is doing.

SD is faster? How so?

 

[matto21]

No. You didn't copy the entire command. You are missing "svn checkout"

Edit: Sorry, you aren't the same person, but my comment still applies.

I'm using windows 8.1
I copied the dll file. in the directory ELFIns
this and the result

 

[worm28]

Well i can get into sneek but how do you exit to real nand

 

[Maxternal]

Well i can get into sneek but how do you exit to real nand

I think the "Back to Wii U" channel is the best you're gonna get.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I'm using windows 8.1
I copied the dll file. in the directory ELFIns
this and the result

di.bin doesn't exist in your directory. Did you extract devkitARM_r32 to C:\devkitPro\devkitARM?

 

[markehmus]

SD is faster? How so?

maybe it checks sd first ?

but i always preferred usb for sneek anyway

 

[JoostinOnline]

SD is faster? How so?

Flash memory and no need for a spinup.

 

[uyjulian]

Flash memory and no need for a spinup.

And if you get a UHS-1 it's wayy fast.

 

[XDel]

And if you get a UHS-1 it's wayy fast.

Strange, I got Class 10 and it has never been as fast as my USB drive. In fact it seems just as slow as my Class 6 card. I have even copied games over to the SD in the Wii menu, and they still loaded up rather slow, and just as fast on the Class 6 as they do on my 10.

 

[uyjulian]

Strange, I got Class 10 and it has never been as fast as my USB drive. In fact it seems just as slow as my Class 6 card. I have even copied games over to the SD in the Wii menu, and they still loaded up rather slow, and just as fast on the Class 6 as they do on my 10.

Different brands do different things.
I have a "Sandisk Extreme Pro" 32GB SD card. What brand do you have?

 

[XDel]

Different brands do different things.
I have a "Sandisk Extreme Pro" 32GB SD card. What brand do you have?

My 32Gb is a PNY Professional Class 10 SDHC.

Maybe I'll try another brand down the road.

 

[airline38]

I simply combine the old(normal Wii) and new(vWii) versions of Nswitch

https://code.google.com/p/custom-di/source/browse/#svn/trunk/nswitch
https://code.google.com/p/gbadev/source/browse/?repo=nswitch#git

together so it can be used for either normal Wii or vWii S/Uneek.

I have tested on my Wii and vWii emu. nand . All worked no problem for me.

Here are the program (source code is included) if anyone would like to try.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tg7y2l

 

[Maxternal]

Nice! ^ beat me to it, LOL

Anyway, I'll probably still play around with this tonight. I was actually curious if it would be possible to run kernel.bin directly on a normal Wii, too (bypassing the MINI-mod in armboot.h and loading kernel.bin instead of mini like I had done with the vWii code)

basically, it would be commenting out lines 32, 180, 184, and 185 in airline38's code there and replacing the MEM_VIRTUAL_TO_PHYSICAL( mini ) with 0x11000000

... we'll see what happens.

 

[XDel]

What would it take to get this working with Wii Flow?

 

[airline38]

What would it take to get this working with Wii Flow?

I think so.
(slightly modify this file https://code.google.com/p/open-wiiflow-mod/source/browse/trunk/source/loader/nk.c )

 

[XDel]

I think so.
(slightly modify this file https://code.google.com/p/open-wiiflow-mod/source/browse/trunk/source/loader/nk.c )

I'm not a coder (not since my old Atari Turbo Basic days), but I'm able to compile in some cases (with guides), so if someone with the know how knows what to do with that code, I'd love to see comments on the changes so I can learn something from it.

 

[Maxternal]

Actually, Wiiflow is set up to use neek2o. It takes advantage of extra features that Neek2o adds that mainstream SNEEK doesn't have. You MIGHT be able to run WiiFlow through the WiiFlow forwarder installed on your emuNAND from mainstream SNEEK but I haven't ever tested that. Having WiiFlow autoboot channels into Neek mode would require Neek2o be compiled for Wii U which would probably require the addition of the last couple vWii fixes that were made to SNEEK.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Strange, I got Class 10 and it has never been as fast as my USB drive. In fact it seems just as slow as my Class 6 card. I have even copied games over to the SD in the Wii menu, and they still loaded up rather slow, and just as fast on the Class 6 as they do on my 10.

Classes have far more to do with write speed, so you won't see that much difference across them on read speeds (unless you go out of your way to buy one with high read speeds).

If you were to use a flash drive, then you would likely see the best performance.

 

[XDel]

Classes have far more to do with write speed, so you won't see that much difference across them on read speeds (unless you go out of your way to buy one with high read speeds).

If you were to use a flash drive, then you would likely see the best performance.

So what model of SD card are you using, or would you suggest?