Hacking Wii backup Manager for Windows

[fig2k4]

Create a new text file in the wwt folder. Rename it to whatever.bat.
Right click, edit. In notepad add these 2 lines and save.

wwt -aA dump -lll
pause

Double click the .bat and you'll see the result on screen.

you can do this too

wwt -aA check -lll
pause

Edit:

i if your trying 1.1b3 have you selected "Enhanced Drive Detection", the app wont allow anything other than HDD's unless its checked.

Got it, my real duplicates show up there too.. At least it's progress, I know it's my app for definite now

 

[pepxl]

Create a new text file in the wwt folder. Rename it to whatever.bat.
Right click, edit. In notepad add these 2 lines and save.

wwt -aA dump -lll
pause

Double click the .bat and you'll see the result on screen.

you can do this too

wwt -aA check -lll
pause

Edit:

i if your trying 1.1b3 have you selected "Enhanced Drive Detection", the app wont allow anything other than HDD's unless its checked.

Got it, my real duplicates show up there too.. At least it's progress, I know it's my app for definite now

ill give that bat a go thanks

ive checked with WBFS Manager v3.0 and theres no dupes with that either also with WBFS Intellignt v6 and none either.
i have the games list for WBFS Manager if you need it but it only lists the games one the HDD iwth ID's and sizes nothing else

 

[fig2k4]

Try this.

 

[pepxl]

Create a new text file in the wwt folder. Rename it to whatever.bat.
Right click, edit. In notepad add these 2 lines and save.

wwt -aA check -lll
pause

i get a syntax error 19 even with the posted one from wimm to dump to a txt file?

QUOTE(fig2k4 @ Nov 16 2009, 08:56 PM) Try this.

prefect , thats sorted it, 1 thing though, its not unbearable but incase you need any more log files, theres square characters after each ID and title in the log screen, that might be me though not having a needed XP launguage pack

 

[fig2k4]

prefect , thats sorted it, 1 thing though, its not unbearable but incase you need any more log files, theres square characters after each ID and title in the log screen, that might be me though not having a needed XP launguage pack

I'm a complete tool. I was using a byte for the index values, which can only reference discs 0 to 255. You greedy guys have more than that

The duplicates are because once the byte gets to 255, it loops back to 0. So discs 256+ can't be seen by the app, it starts from the first disc again..

I wrote that code before I even thought about releasing it, when 256 games seemed a lot, lol.

I'll try trimming the titles in future, it looks like there's junk characters that should be removed.

 

[pepxl]

prefect , thats sorted it, 1 thing though, its not unbearable but incase you need any more log files, theres square characters after each ID and title in the log screen, that might be me though not having a needed XP launguage pack

I'm a complete tool. I was using a byte for the index values, which can only reference discs 0 to 255. You greedy guys have more than that

lol but we appreciate all the hard work your putting into this great manager, keep up the good work

 

[fig2k4]

That's 1 of the 3 major bugs down anyway. I'll wait on confirmation that the phantom transfers bug is fixed (it should be). That only leaves the batch cover download bug? If anyone with the problem wants to grab the last exe I posted and send me the log?

Edit:
If you have the problem, could you also try changing the cover renderer to see if it still happens with GDI? Right click on the cover viewer to change it.

I tested with OpenGL active and it froze with one of the covers being white. It's still going fine with the GDI renderer. It could be related..

 

[giantpune]

the phantom transfer bug is still present in the last version i tried. it is the version after the debug version from yesterday. i noticed that there was almost nothing in the log of this version. also the transfer speed went from 14mBs in the debug version to 3mBs in the last one. also the ETA display still is counting up instead of down the whole time.

 

[pepxl]

lol the lastest .exe you post crashes while downloading covers"Download All", the app just froze on me heres a screeny, no log sorry the app freezes(Not Responding) so i cant get one, might be due to how many its trying to DL or related to that bug

 

[giantpune]

LMAO^^ url 269 of 3455? is that correct?

 

[fig2k4]

Yeah, that's basically what happened to me on a flat cover.

I think I know what's wrong. OpenGL doesn't like threads too much, I'll need to sync with the main thread to load the texture.

the phantom transfer bug is still present in the last version i tried. it is the version after the debug version from yesterday. i noticed that there was almost nothing in the log of this version. also the transfer speed went from 14mBs in the debug version to 3mBs in the last one.
The speed change is probably down to actually using the temp folder. I think there is one part of the bug I still need to fix. I remember now that your error was when writing the CIOS, not reading it.

edit 2: Did you change the debug mode in the menu? That could explain the lack of detail. It might be worth checking the newest exe with a small game to make sure you have the version with the fix.

edit:
QUOTELMAO^^ url 269 of 3455? is that correct?

the equation is..

Sources * Countries * Cover types * Number of games.

There's 2 sources for the full cover too on WiiTDB. 1 HQ and 1 normal. As soon as the relevant cover is found, all other URLs are skipped. eg. it skips all flat cover URLs as soon as it finds one for that game.

 

[thewonderer73]

I discovered a couple of issues...

1. when i connected 2 drives in WBFS format, and tried to copy 6 games from 1 drive to another, the games seem to have copied, but the entries were blank when i checked the drive and had 0 bytes.
Could it be an issue to do with lack of free drive space when unrar'ing a few files?

2. I also had an issue where i'd tried to refresh my windows explorer drive view from the My computer window, this caused WBM to freeze as windows was polling the drive... no error messages on either event.

1. It sounds like the phantom transfer bug I'm working to fix just now. Can you look at the log and see if there's something along the lines of this.. "(WBFSPartition.InternalWriteDisc) Write failed. 0/8388608"

I just had an idea, I post a test exe soon for the phantom transfers..

2. What Windows version? Also, were you copying to the drive at the time? I need to try and reproduce it here...

Hi, I had version 0.22 but couldn't get 0.23 to test further (rushing around like a mad man). I will try to re-create in the next 48hrs. I found that it even froze when it was unrar'ing files to the WBFS partition.

I have XP Sp3. I am just doing a Drive 1 to Drive 2... no other IO work. I had to revert to WBFS Manager 3 as I couldn't even go from files on my HDD to one of the drives last night.

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EEK.. ok, i didn't read the other posts and now i see i am well behind the 8 ball...

A feature request would be for the status bar of the cover download to be on the main program so that you can still use the program for other operations such as copying... if the cover downloads are slow then waiting for the to come down is a pain... the feature in wbfs 3 where it downloads the cover quietly in the background is a nice 1.

Sorry for not being able to test further at this time. Your program is so much better than WBFS M 3...

 

[fig2k4]

@thewonderer73
No problem..



Here's a screenshot of the drive to drive that shows it works at least.

There's obviously some little piece of info missing that I need to fix the problem. If I can't reproduce the problem, it's pretty hard to fix it..

 

[giantpune]

using the dupe fix version, i am able to copy 1 game from wbfs to a .wbfs file. however it takes 15 minutes for a 1800MB game. when i try more than 1 game at a time, neither is transferred and there is nothing useful in the log. i have the log set to full debug.

EDIT>>>>

Spoiler

Wii Backup Manager Log 18:42:03

18:03:50 Log Started
18:04:07 (DriveToDriveThread) Thread started
18:09:32 (WBFSPartition.ExtractCISOToFile) CISO extracted successfully. D:\Temp\temp.ciso
18:09:32 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.AddDisc) Disc added successfully. RUQS78 UP09
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.Trim) 1898 MB
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.UpdateActiveDisc) RUQS78 UP09 RUQS78 UP
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:43 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:44 (ProcessThread) Thread terminated
18:18:51 (ProcessThread) Operation completed. 00:14:44
18:18:51 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WiiDrive.OpenFromDrive) Opened successfully. D: WBFS Folder (NTFS)
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. R4CE69 SimCity Creator
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. R52P08 neopets Puzzle Adventure
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RLTENR London Taxi Rush Hour
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RN5P78 The Naked Brothers Band
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RP2P69 Smarty Pants
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RPCX7J Puzzler Collection
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RSPE01 SPORTS PACK for REVOLUTION
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RSYE20 Showtime Championship Boxing
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RUQS78 UP
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RURPPL Pro Hall Pool
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RWUP52 Xmen Origins: Wolverine (UK/FR)
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:18:52 (Open) Found valid disc. RYQP69 Trivial Pursuit
18:18:52 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:18:52 (ColumnSort) 15 ms
18:21:33 (DriveToDriveThread) Thread started
18:27:36 (WBFSPartition.ExtractCISOToFile) CISO extracted successfully. D:\Temp\temp.ciso
18:27:36 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:26 Spanning to volume D:\wbfs\RTCP41.wbf1
18:37:38 (WBFSPartition.AddDisc) Disc added successfully. RTCP41 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
18:37:38 (ProcessThread) Thread terminated
18:37:46 (ProcessThread) Operation completed. 00:16:13
18:37:46 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:46 (WiiDrive.OpenFromDrive) Opened successfully. D: WBFS Folder (NTFS)
18:37:46 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:46 (Open) Found valid disc. R4CE69 SimCity Creator
18:37:46 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:46 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:46 (Open) Found valid disc. R52P08 neopets Puzzle Adventure
18:37:46 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:46 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:46 (Open) Found valid disc. RLTENR London Taxi Rush Hour
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RN5P78 The Naked Brothers Band
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RP2P69 Smarty Pants
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RPCX7J Puzzler Collection
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RSPE01 SPORTS PACK for REVOLUTION
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RSYE20 Showtime Championship Boxing
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RTCP41 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RUQS78 UP
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RURPPL Pro Hall Pool
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RWUP52 Xmen Origins: Wolverine (UK/FR)
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:47 (Open) Found valid disc. RYQP69 Trivial Pursuit
18:37:47 (WBFSPartition.Close) Partition closed
18:37:47 (ColumnSort) 16 ms
18:39:02 (BuildBoxMesh) Box mesh created
18:39:02 (LoadCover) Cover loaded successfully. O:\WiiBackupManager\media\noimage-full.png

 

[fig2k4]

That is pretty slow.. 00:16:13. On the bright side, at least it works now and speed can be improved. If you could, I'd like to see the log where it fails with multiple items selected? If you have time..

 

[giantpune]

that log i posted is from me trying to transfer 3 games. it says they complete, but they dont. the log is a lying sack of shit

.

 

[fig2k4]

It looks like you transferred 1 game and it succeeded, very slowly..

18:21:33 (DriveToDriveThread) Thread started
18:27:36 (WBFSPartition.ExtractCISOToFile) CISO extracted successfully. D:\Temp\temp.ciso
18:27:36 (WBFSPartition.OpenFromHandle) Partition opened
18:37:26 Spanning to volume D:\wbfs\RTCP41.wbf1
18:37:38 (WBFSPartition.AddDisc) Disc added successfully. RTCP41 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
18:37:38 (ProcessThread) Thread terminated
18:37:46 (ProcessThread) Operation completed. 00:16:13

 

[giantpune]

well whatever the log says isnt what really happened. it tried to transfer 3 games. and failed at all 3 very slowly.

 

[fig2k4]

Would've been handy to know you changed the log, I thought you were talking about the one that was already there, that I quoted.

I can see some errors in it. Are you keeping all disc partitions? UPD09 looks kinda suspect.

edit:
The new log is also transferring to .wbfs, I haven't even been looking there. I'm guessing the problem is related to keeping all the partitions anyway. I never use that, so it hasn't been tested much.

 

[giantpune]

all the extra partitions have already been stripped. these games were put on a wbfs drive and stripped of everything but the game partitions.