Hacking WBFS Manager and Channel Creator 3.0!

[Buffer123]

Hello,

Do these channels work with an SDHC card too?

Thanks

no, they don't... (yet)

No... they DO work in the sdhc menu on system menu 4.0 if that's what you mean.

Hi,

I actually mean, if i installed the game on an sdhc card. I only play a few games so a 16gb SDHC would be enough for me.
I would create two partitions on the SDHC card one with ~14 gb with WBFS and the rest normal fat32 for savegames and so on.
So if i install a game with the 1,4 loader and would create a channel with your GUI. Would i be able to just install the channel wad and it would work with the game on the SDHC? Or does it have to be on an USB Device (the game)?

 

[HowardC]

So if we just change wbfs.exe file in the programs folder with this one:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vvtmcmlyh32

We can still use WBFS Manager and also "possibly" fix the delete/add game issue?

short answer "Yes"

longer answer "Maybe" : )

If it's using the same version of the exe, since there is a cygwin version and a proper win32 version and the commands are slightly different.

It won't work because the output text from the command prompt is different YET AGAIN. Dman these hackers! Don't they understand that consistant output is KEY for guis and other managers to work!!!

Ill see what I can do about perhaps making a template system for wbfs when I have time. That way I don't have to re-write the damn thing every time somebody mods wbfs.

 

[HowardC]

Yeah, sorry, i had no experience with DLLs at that point of the thread

Now (in last days) i got a little documentation about them and infact I manage to load wiiscrubber.dll with a .NET application (using Vb.net) but... i can't find any documentation about the functions "contained" in that DLL...

where did you get the full list of the functions that we can "recall" from the DLL? I tried to view the exports of the DLL with PE Explorer but I got only the "name" of the functions and not the parametres they use

I tried to call from it the function "extractFiles(...)" and infact program recall it without errors, but the result is "nothing" happens... no file extracted

Maybe I have to "load" the entire ISO before, but without the list of the functions that i can use i'm in big difficulty

I searched for them with google but seems there is no website where they are explaned.

Thank you for your attention

Nanook can help you with that.

 

[lanik]

First of all I want to give my congratulation to HowardC for his incredible application... Great job!!

I'd like to report the errors I've found to help to improve the program...

I've created several WADs from ISO and most of them work OK, but I've got the following error message:
Run-time error '52':
Bad file name or number

for those games:
RSJP41
RBKP69
(Browken Sword PAL and BoomBlox PAL)
I think the problem is with some character in the name of the game.

And I've got a 0 Byte WAD (also creating it from ISO) for Geometry Wars Galaxies PAL (RGLP7D)

I hope this information can help to improve the application

Regards.

As you suspected Bad file name errors are caused by wierd game partition names. You need to post the names that appear in the manager, not the disc ids.

I will probably make a function that just strips out illegal characters and be done with it, but I am dependant upon wbfs's naming convention (wbfs names the isos and I have to then find them) so I'm reluctant to do this.

A zero byte wad is farily impossible seeing as how even an empty template would be several bytes. Are you sure you don't mean a zero byte opening.bnr?

Thanks for your answer.

I've checked the names of the games and are the followings:
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut
Spielberg | EA BoomBlox
So I suposse the problem is with one or several of the following characters:
:
-
'
|

Regarding the 0 bytes WAD issue, it seems that I'm not the only one who faced that problem (PrincessPeach reported the same problem for the same game and others on page 5 post 62: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147...;#entry1900849).

Regards.

 

[HowardC]

Hello,

Do these channels work with an SDHC card too?

Thanks

no, they don't... (yet)

No... they DO work in the sdhc menu on system menu 4.0 if that's what you mean.

Hi,

I actually mean, if i installed the game on an sdhc card. I only play a few games so a 16gb SDHC would be enough for me.
I would create two partitions on the SDHC card one with ~14 gb with WBFS and the rest normal fat32 for savegames and so on.
So if i install a game with the 1,4 loader and would create a channel with your GUI. Would i be able to just install the channel wad and it would work with the game on the SDHC? Or does it have to be on an USB Device (the game)?

Well I'm not exactly sure. A usb device is a usb device, so if you mean plug a sd card into a usb adaptor and run it that way then yes, it should work. Otherwise I don't know.

 

[HowardC]

Thanks for your answer.

I've checked the names of the games and are the followings:
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut
Spielberg | EA BoomBlox
So I suposse the problem is with one or several of the following characters:
:
-
'
|

Regarding the 0 bytes WAD issue, it seems that I'm not the only one who faced that problem (PrincessPeach reported the same problem for the same game and others on page 5 post 62: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147...;#entry1900849).

Regards.

Well as always, if I can't replicate the error then I can't fix it and I've never had this happen to me. The only thing that comes to mind is the disc has many partitions and it can't find opening.bnr and bails. I only check the first two or three partitions for opening.bnr. The best way you can see this problem resolved is to open the iso with wiiscrubber and look for opening.bnr and let me know what partition it's on or if anything in there looks wierd.

What interests me is HOTD OK as PrincessPeach reported it to fail while I've personally created a channel for the ntsc version.

 

[lanik]

Well as always, if I can't replicate the error then I can't fix it and I've never had this happen to me. The only thing that comes to mind is the disc has many partitions and it can't find opening.bnr and bails. I only check the first two or three partitions for opening.bnr. The best way you can see this problem resolved is to open the iso with wiiscrubber and look for opening.bnr and let me know what partition it's on or if anything in there looks wierd.

What interests me is HOTD OK as PrincessPeach reported it to fail while I've personally created a channel for the ntsc version.

Geometry Wars Galaxies has the opening.bnr file in the ROOT directory in the second partition. There is a lot of files in that folder, so I guess maybe this could be the problem.

This is the screen capture:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/853/trucha.jpg

Do you have any clue about Broken Sword and BoomBlox? Do you think the problem is in one of these characters ( : - ' |) ?

 

[BIG MOE]

HowardC can the Channel Creator make channels with 002fix and Ocarina support ??? and if not could it be added in a future release ?? thanks in advance

 

[wichoxp]

I have "Wii Play" (PAL version) on a wii NTSC system. I already made the wad file and installed it on the wii. Now, here comes the problem: when load the game, I got a flickering screen and it doesn't stop until turn off wii.

Is there a way to fix that

?

Here's the resulting wad: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzwwnilnymz

Game ID: RHAP01
ID from WAD: UHAP

See ya.

 

[Emil007]

Hello,

Do these channels work with an SDHC card too?

Thanks

no, they don't... (yet)

No... they DO work in the sdhc menu on system menu 4.0 if that's what you mean.

Hi,

I actually mean, if i installed the game on an sdhc card. I only play a few games so a 16gb SDHC would be enough for me.
I would create two partitions on the SDHC card one with ~14 gb with WBFS and the rest normal fat32 for savegames and so on.
So if i install a game with the 1,4 loader and would create a channel with your GUI. Would i be able to just install the channel wad and it would work with the game on the SDHC? Or does it have to be on an USB Device (the game)?

Well I'm not exactly sure. A usb device is a usb device, so if you mean plug a sd card into a usb adaptor and run it that way then yes, it should work. Otherwise I don't know.

The Waninkoko Loader supports Loading (and installing) games to the SD Card in the front Slot since Version 1.3 - may you can please add this loader to your channel creator?

 

[stev418]

@HowardC Here is an updated ini+files for YAL+Comex, please replace one on first post. This one includes a yal.dol with the 'time/date' fix as the original would have wrong dates in games like animal crossing. (compiled using modified source by WiiWrazy I.R.on)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jny0exujlzt/...mex_UPDATED.rar

 

[davedeluxe]

each channel i create with this tool won't work.
i try to install the channels with wad manager 1.3, but always i get error ret = -1022
i downloaded some other channels from here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=145609 and all the channels works perfectly.

so whats wrong?

 

[vettacossx]

What interests me is HOTD OK as PrincessPeach reported it to fail while I've personally created a channel for the ntsc version.

im uploading a videoto show you house of the dead over kill running from a channel i used wiiscrubber to extract the opening.bnr and BNRbandit to create all my channels..just to confirm his statement...

 

[temp82]

is possible to create channels of the games inside the SD card (second partition)?

thanks

 

[PrincessPeach]

What interests me is HOTD OK as PrincessPeach reported it to fail while I've personally created a channel for the ntsc version.

im uploading a videoto show you house of the dead over kill running from a channel i used wiiscrubber to extract the opening.bnr and BNRbandit to create all my channels..just to confirm his statement...

will edit with video when its done uploading

I downloaded the OVERKILL Channel from the PAL-Channels thread, and works wonderfully, I just couldn't creat it with WBFS Manager 3.0.

And the 0Byte files are indeed, 0B, and don't even have a correct *.wad file name, I think it may be a bad dump OR an error partrough the parsing / creating process.

I'll try to rerip Geometry Wars and Onechanbara (As in, Rerip to HD).

 

[kedest]

So does this tool have that fix for the delete corruption?

 

[HowardC]

What interests me is HOTD OK as PrincessPeach reported it to fail while I've personally created a channel for the ntsc version.

im uploading a videoto show you house of the dead over kill running from a channel i used wiiscrubber to extract the opening.bnr and BNRbandit to create all my channels..just to confirm his statement...

will edit with video when its done uploading

I downloaded the OVERKILL Channel from the PAL-Channels thread, and works wonderfully, I just couldn't creat it with WBFS Manager 3.0.

And the 0Byte files are indeed, 0B, and don't even have a correct *.wad file name, I think it may be a bad dump OR an error partrough the parsing / creating process.

I'll try to rerip Geometry Wars and Onechanbara (As in, Rerip to HD).

Hold up now.... if they don't have a ".wad" extension then they are NOT wads! Several temp files are made during the creation process, some of them empty, so probably what you guys are getting are temp files left over after a bail from some other error.

 

[PrincessPeach]

(...)
And the 0Byte files are indeed, 0B, and don't even have a correct *.wad file name, I think it may be a bad dump OR an error partrough the parsing / creating process.
(...)

Hold up now.... if they don't have a ".wad" extension then they are NOT wads! Several temp files are made during the creation process, some of them empty, so probably what you guys are getting are temp files left over after a bail from some other error.

May be possible, but those temp or garbage files are in the wad subfolder. But an error during the creating process is getting more likely. Is there a debug version to send in an error report or something?

Else, try Geometry Wars, Onechanbara, Day of Disaster or OVERKILL, all PAL-Versions.

 

[davedeluxe]

each channel i create with this tool won't work.
i try to install the channels with wad manager 1.3, but always i get error ret = -1022
i downloaded some other channels from here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=145609 and all the channels works perfectly.

so whats wrong?

nobody can help?
The createt wads have a correct size i think...between 800kb to 1,3 mb. But always i get the error -1022. All other wads work fine, but none of the created ones. is it possible that somefiles missing, when i download this program? the key.bin file was also created. so, pls help.

 

[PrincessPeach]

each channel i create with this tool won't work.
i try to install the channels with wad manager 1.3, but always i get error ret = -1022
i downloaded some other channels from here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=145609 and all the channels works perfectly.

so whats wrong?

nobody can help?
The createt wads have a correct size i think...between 800kb to 1,3 mb. But always i get the error -1022. All other wads work fine, but none of the created ones. is it possible that somefiles missing, when i download this program? the key.bin file was also created. so, pls help.

You're common-key.bin might be invalid, delete it and when it ask you to creat a new one, read the instructions carefully, as those instruct you to enter the number of 42 in to the empty text field. That's all that's to the Answer to Wii, The Homebrewchannel and Everything.