Hacking Wii backup Manager for Windows

[XFlak]

is one better than the other?? probably makes no difference, correct?

 

[m3xic4ndiy3i]

thanx for this useful app!.....in the last Version 0.3.4r4 , after use on m portable HD (working fine a few minutes before)......USB Loder GX, boots fine , but without any game on screen!.........the reason was:
in the settings ,FAT32 / NTFS , by default comes : Title [GameID]..... in this way USB Loader GX can´t see any game inside of HD..........the working option for USB loader GX is: GameID_Title.

thanx again for ur time on this app!

 

[XFlak]

updated versions of the most popular loaders (cfg and gx) support either naming convention

 

[Wiiwu]

I think WBM slower than wbfs_file.exe transfers tends to be more visible on slower pc like my netbook.

A quick trace of file ops between WBM and wbfs_file also revealed differences in their file access pattern.

With wbfs_file, its a pretty consistent 32k read/write pattern from start to end.

WBM's look really odd, maybe due to compiler opt? It starts off with 32k r/w but will switch back and fore with 64k, 2M access and weirdest part is it will often read/write 2M from a offset but then goes back to the same offset and repeat the read/write this time in 64K chunk again.

 

[fig2k4]

is one better than the other?? probably makes no difference, correct?
Mine is correct, but it makes no difference with the loaders. If you load the ISO in WiiScrubber or something, all the partitions will appear to be still there, but the data isn't. If anything ever tried to use those partitions then you'd get a read error on the Wii. I'm not sure how the partitions are normally used though so really it's not a big deal..

WBM's look really odd, maybe due to compiler opt? It starts off with 32k r/w but will switch back and fore with 64k, 2M access and weirdest part is it will often read/write 2M from a offset but then goes back to the same offset and repeat the read/write this time in 64K chunk again.

That was supposed to be a little optimisation ( I thought

) which helped reduce CPU usage without affecting the speed. Basically, if the full WBFS block is used, then it reads/writes the 2 meg block (for wbfs files), if not, then it reads/writes all the the 32k Wii sectors that are actually used in the block.

I'll send a test version to see if that is the cause.

I'm using CreateFile(), ReadFile() etc. where wbfs_file is using fopen(), fread().. The second part of your comment might because by those functions. Using ReadFile(), the read size must be sector aligned if it's unbuffered. Maybe buffered reads still need to sector aligned, but it happens behind the scenes. Some stuff to look into anyway.

What did you use to analyse the file access? Sounds handy..

 

[sp00ky]

Nice piece of software... thanx! But how can I manage covers for the games? Thx in advance! sp00ky

 

[Wiiwu]

I love your tool don't forget I'm one of your earliest fan

, just hoping to squeeze some more juice from the old netbook.

and procmon from sysinternals is also a fab tool to checkout.

 

[DGenerateKane]

fig, any idea why r4 can't access most of my iso's on my network when r3 can?

 

[fig2k4]

When I added the "buffered transfers" option, I originally changed everything to use it. Then I decided that it was kinda pointless having unbuffered reads, so changed some of it back..

Anyway, I noticed that ISOs are opened in read/write mode because of copy n paste again.. Is it possible that some of the ISOs are read only, or the permissions are read only for some of them?

Things like ISO,CISO, WBFS Files should always be opened as read only, except when they're getting created/written. I need to fix that, even if that isn't the problem here.

Edit: I double checked.. Read only ISO files will cause the error you have. The changes I've made will fix it.

Edit2:
@sp00ky
There's 2 or 3 features I still want to re-implement before the covers. It keeps getting put on the back burner because there's loads of little things to do.

Some features I still want.

1. Inline editing for the Titles, ID etc.
2. Save game lists to file using the templates.
3. Translations. I decided it's probably better to do this before the covers/info stuff too. It'll be a massive job otherwise. Better to do half the work twice..

 

[DGenerateKane]

I noticed you implemented exporting game list to a file, any chance of it copying the titles instead of the Game ID?

 

[fig2k4]

The simple text file template I used before would output the info something like below, but the templates can be edited. I haven't implemented it yet, but soon. It's next on the list once I fix this silly bug with the inline editing and inbetween fixing the other little things.

Title: Billy the Wizard
GameID: RBZXUG
Region: Region free
Size: 86 MB

Title: Candace Kane's Candy Factory
GameID: RKQENR
Region: NTSC
Size: 78 MB

 

[DGenerateKane]

Sweet!

 

[leo_bsb]

Thanks dude, great work so far.

regarding translations, count me in for Brazilian Portuguese. I can do it when you need, just pm me.

 

[icyrainz]

Please add the ability to drag-and-drop ISO, cISO or WBFS files directly into the program !

 

[fig2k4]

There's a little bug in the Wii disc partition code that we discussed recently. I noticed a report here and confirmed it by transferring SSBB keeping all partitions.

I've fixed it, so I can release another revision if it's needed by anyone.. Note that the error only happens when remapping partitions from table 2 to table 1, so really it only affects SSBB when keeping all partitions or removing the update. Transferring it using "Game only" works fine.

 

[TeenTin]

There's a little bug in the Wii disc partition code that we discussed recently. I noticed a report here and confirmed it by transferring SSBB keeping all partitions.

I've fixed it, so I can release another revision if it's needed by anyone.. Note that the error only happens when remapping partitions from table 2 to table 1, so really it only affects SSBB when keeping all partitions or removing the update. Transferring it using "Game only" works fine.

I need it. Obviously.

 

[fig2k4]

It wasn't really obvious, since you said you transferred it using "Game only".

Version 0.3.4r5
Changed: Reverted WBFS AddDisc() routine to the way it was previous to 0.3.4
Changed: ISO, CISO and WBFS files are opened as read only.
Fixed: Bug in the fix partition function that didn't quite work when remapping all the partitions in SSBB. That game showed an FST error when not using "Game only".

 

[2lux]

hi on last version 0.3.4r4 when i select drive and custom folder ... no game found but on the files if I choose this folder the game has been correctly found ...

sorry for my bad english im french.

and its possible to add autoupdate ???

 

[Rock Raiyu]

Thanks for fixing it fig2k4, it doesn't freeze anymore. But some games don't come up in the Manager or when it finishes, there is no iso. But I think that has to do with my DVD Drive is all as it rips some games but not all of them.

 

[Wiiwu]

fig2k4, thanks for the WiiBackupManager-034-Test version.

Sticking to 32k transfers really speed it up

now both WBM and wbfs_file transfers in about the same time and cpu utilization is around a reasonable 30%.