Hacking What exactly is SNEEK?

[Aijelsop]

I understand it emulates NAND but what does that really mean?

Is it like Virtual PC? Run another system in your system?

I'm confused

 

[WiiUBricker]

sneek is basically just a way to lie to the PPC in the wii. the wii has 2 processors ARM and PPC. games, the system menu, channels, most homebrew, and pretty much every other program that accepts user input and draws on the screen run on the PPC. when these programs want information from the wii's internal memory, internet, dvd, sd card, or pretty much anywhere else, they have to ask the program running on the ARM (an IOS usually) for it (except when the wii is in gamecube mode).

sneek runs on the ARM and it redirects where information comes from and in some cases, patches that information with false data. the end result is that the program running on the PPC asks for data from the wii's nand and it gets it from the sd card instead. if the PPC wants data from the dvd drive, sneek can give it data from a usb drive instead. when the system menu asks how much space is used for channels, sneek flat out lies about it and gives a low number so the system menu doesnt give the "system memory is full" message.

about cIOS and sneek, since IOS and sneek both run on the arm, there is a chance that they will not play nicely together. they are both trying to patch stuff and be smart, but they dont realize that each other is there and both are trying to be smart. the end result is that when sneek tries to load a cIOS, it doesnt load all of it and the parts of it that do load start doing their normal cIOS stuff and end up patching memory where sneek is and both of them end up not working right.

Explanation courtesy of giantpune
http://gbatemp.net/t218725-sneek-di-quick-...t&p=2724948

 

[MelodieOctavia]

normally I would tell you to use google, but since the subject confused the hell out of me when I heard of it, well you have my sympathies.

 

[requiem_mortis]

SNEEK +DI or UNEEK +DI

I think that the S stands for SD and U for USB for the Nand image location to load, but I'd really like to know what the DI stands for, is it something to do with the user Interface used ???

I'd be greatful if some kind Samaritan would enlighten and confirm these conundrums for me.

 

[scooby74029]

it stands for disc interface

crediar the guy that made sneek made his own di module so people can play there games from usb in an extracted form


Edit: out of 172 games i have only 2 wont play in sneek

and wiiware/vc i have about 70 or so i guess and the only ones that dont work are the art style games but i dont like those anyway

 

[VashTS]

wiibricker got it perfect with the quote from giantpune.

SD NAND/ES Emulation Kit

and UNEEK is USB.