Hacking Wii backup Manager for Windows

[Snowkat95]

It seems that this program does not support official disks, only burned copies of disks. How would I go about ripping an official wii disk I actually bought?

 

[Jehuty25]

I think cfg loader rips game discs, just start it and press the "+" or "b" button when a disc is inside the wii.

 

[OncleJulien]

It seems that this program does not support official disks, only burned copies of disks. How would I go about ripping an official wii disk I actually bought?

so your pc supports the reading of official wii disks, but the software is failing to read it?

 

[Wiimm]

It seems that this program does not support official disks, only burned copies of disks. How would I go about ripping an official wii disk I actually bought?

This is not an issue of this or other wbfs managers, it is an issue of your pc hardware, that can't handle original wii dvds. Dump your images using your wii hardware with any usb loader or with cleanrip.

 

[nunavat2010]

A quick newbie question:

I use USB loaders only, my wii can't read DVD-Rs. Is there any point for me to keep anything other than "data partition" in .iso files?


PS: This question was answered implicitly, but needed confirmation for my situation.

 

[PsyBlade]

Is there any point in removing them?
Imho the size reduction is negligible.

 

[lemmymet]

If you are using a small usb-stick it helps to delete update partition because it takes up to 80mb.
And it does not affect gameplay in game if you remove update partitions!
Example:
Let`s say: a 8gb usb stick
Game 1 UPDATE:80mb GAME:500mb
Game 2 UPDATE:50mb GAME:1800mb
Game 3 UPDATE:65mb GAME:1400mb
Game 4 UPDATE:40mb GAME:2400mb
Game 5 UPDATE:70mb GAME:980mb
Total:7385mb
Update files:305mb

 

[nunavat2010]

Thanks, psyblade and lemmymet.

 

[warlock666]

Does anybody know what other option are allowed I know %APP% uses the application directory/drive

thought %DRIVE1% or %DRIVE2% may has been coded in

I was trying to setup The cover folder to use the drive assigned to say Drive1


CustomCoverFolderDisc=%DRIVE1%\GameCovers\disc
CustomCoverFolderFlat=%DRIVE1%\GameCovers\2D
CustomCoverFolder3D=%DRIVE1%\GameCovers\3D
CustomCoverFolderFull=%DRIVE1%\GameCovers\full

but obvisously does not work?

Any ideas other then to set it as a fixed drive letter ie. X:

 

[idolpx]

I'm using Version 0.3.8 build 61 but I get an error when I try to add disks from RAR files.

Is this the best place to report issues with Wii Backup Manager?

Here's the error I'm getting.

13:38:38 FilesToDrive1Thread Exception raised System Error. Code: 112. There is not enough space on the disk
Stack trace: 
[00427C54]{WiiBackupManager.exe} SysUtils.RaiseLastOSError 
[00427BDD]{WiiBackupManager.exe} SysUtils.RaiseLastOSError 
[00448F1F]{WiiBackupManager.exe} Classes.TStream.SetSize64 
[005AE27B]{WiiBackupManager.exe} WBFSUtils.TSparseFileStream.Create (Line 197, "wbfsUtils.pas" + 4) 
[006711B5]{WiiBackupManager.exe} Threads.TFilesToDriveThread.Execute (Line 2161, "Threads.pas" + 106) 
[00451DA6]{WiiBackupManager.exe} Classes.ThreadProc 
[00406F98]{WiiBackupManager.exe} System.ThreadWrapper

According to Wii Backup Manager only 42.24% of the disk is used. It's a 2TB drive.
If I extract the RAR and load the ISO it works fine. If you need my log file or anything else please let me know.
I just want to help.

 

[PsyBlade]

Badly coded programs often store data somewhere on C:\ (temp dir) and only then copy it to the target location.
Besides taking twice as long they fail if C:\ is to full.
Maybe this is such a case.

Temp files in other location are also seen: current dir, src dir(!?), program dir, the root of D:\(this one is apparently MS' favourite

edit: fukin smilies

The temp drive may not even be full, it may be a FAT32 drive (which reports disk full if a file tries to grow larger than 4GB).

This is probably it, my C drive is getting pretty full. I'll try this tonight, thanks for the tip!

Yep, that was the problem. Thanks for your help.QUOTE(idolpx @ Jun 18 2011, 07:51 PM)

I'm using Version 0.3.8 build 61 but I get an error when I try to add disks from RAR files.

Is this the best place to report issues with Wii Backup Manager?

Here's the error I'm getting.

CODE

13:38:38 FilesToDrive1Thread Exception raised System Error. Code: 112. There is not enough space on the disk
Stack trace:
[00427C54]{WiiBackupManager.exe} SysUtils.RaiseLastOSError
[00427BDD]{WiiBackupManager.exe} SysUtils.RaiseLastOSError
[00448F1F]{WiiBackupManager.exe} Classes.TStream.SetSize64
[005AE27B]{WiiBackupManager.exe} WBFSUtils.TSparseFileStream.Create (Line 197, "wbfsUtils.pas" + 4)
[006711B5]{WiiBackupManager.exe} Threads.TFilesToDriveThread.Execute (Line 2161, "Threads.pas" + 106)
[00451DA6]{WiiBackupManager.exe} Classes.ThreadProc
[00406F98]{WiiBackupManager.exe} System.ThreadWrapper

According to Wii Backup Manager only 42.24% of the disk is used. It's a 2TB drive.
If I extract the RAR and load the ISO it works fine. If you need my log file or anything else please let me know.
I just want to help.

argh smilies again - which idiot made D: a smiley

 

[dexter222]

I did.

 

[PsyBlade]

why would you do such a thing
windows paths (while being a stupid thing) will come up in any tech related forum sooner or later
please change it
at least exclude D:\

 

[warlock666]

DVD Batch Mode Transfer issue with versions 0.3.6 - present

Previous version tested and worked fine are 0.3.4r5 & 0.3.5 beta1

Anyone else having issues with batch transfer?


As it will only allow you to transfer the first DVD sucessfully all the rest will just eject after a few seconds and you end up with invalid files showing up



Heres whats happening to me

Select WBFS drive1 (Previously Formatted FAT32 cluster 32)
Select DVD and select batch mode (now has tick)
Select transfer to Drive1

All Is Goes Well
Drive Opens to Insert Next DVD

This is where it goes wrong!!!!

Insert disk starts to read and transfer after a few seconds disc ejects asking to insert next DVD (now haves directory and part of the wbfs file on Drive1?

The file is now corruped on your drive and Wii backup manager wont remove it!!!
Try and exit and you get please wait for current running process to complete (wait as long as you like you cant close it)
Only option is to force it to close through task manager

you now have to find the directory on you drive and delete that folder before been able to transfer disc and repeat the whole process again if you reselect batch

 

[idolpx]

Badly coded programs often store data somewhere on C:\ (temp dir) and only then copy it to the target location.
Besides taking twice as long they fail if C:\ is to full.
Maybe this is such a case.

Temp files in other location are also seen: current dir, src dir(!?), program dir, the root of

\(this one is apparently MS' favourite

edit: fukin smiliesQUOTE(tueidj @ May 23 2011, 02:24 PM) The temp drive may not even be full, it may be a FAT32 drive (which reports disk full if a file tries to grow larger than 4GB).

argh smilies again - which idiot made

a smiley

Thanks for the info... The temp folder was the issue. The previous version I was using must have used a temp dir on the C: drive but this version defaults to the application folder with is a FAT32 formatted drive. A little more info in the error message would have helped to resolve this. All is good now though.

I appreciate the help!

 

[warlock666]

DVD Batch Mode Transfer issue with versions 0.3.6 - present

Previous version tested and worked fine are 0.3.4r5 & 0.3.5 beta1

Anyone else having issues with batch transfer?


As it will only allow you to transfer the first DVD sucessfully all the rest will just eject after a few seconds and you end up with invalid files showing up



Heres whats happening to me

Select WBFS drive1 (Previously Formatted FAT32 cluster 32)
Select DVD and select batch mode (now has tick)
Select transfer to Drive1

All Is Going Well To This Point
Drive Opens to Insert Next DVD

This is where it goes wrong!!!!

Insert disk starts to read and transfer after a few seconds disc ejects asking to insert next DVD (now haves directory and part of the wbfs file on Drive1?

The file is now corruped on your drive and Wii backup manager wont remove it!!!
Try and exit and you get please wait for current running process to complete (wait as long as you like you cant close it)
Only option is to force it to close through task manager

you now have to find the directory on you drive and delete that folder before been able to transfer disc and repeat the whole process again if you reselect batch

 

[warlock666]

Anybody know a quicker way of removing the update partion from .wbfs which have already been transfered over to USB HDD

without needing to transfer to another drive and the moving them back across


Forgot to change the setting to remove pdate partition before transfering (due to having to use an older version)

 

[gingex1000]

PLEASE HELP ME: http://gbatemp.net/t298121-usbloader-gx-not-working

 

[MrGreg]

Warlock666,

Anybody know a quicker way of removing the update partion from .wbfs which have already been transfered over to USB HDD

without needing to transfer to another drive and the moving them back across


Forgot to change the setting to remove pdate partition before transfering (due to having to use an older version)

Just change your Wii Disc partitions to keep setting under the general tab to "Remove update partition" or "Keep game partition only" (Recommended). Then load your wbfs file from the files tab. Now choose transfer WBSF file. Browse to the folder containing your original WBFS file. The transfer will use a .tmp file as is rebuilds the WBFS File. Once the transfer is complete, the new WBFS file will have no update partition or game partition only depending on what your Wii Disc partitions to keep setting is.

 

[Wiimm]

Anybody know a quicker way of removing the update partion from .wbfs which have already been transfered over to USB HDD

without needing to transfer to another drive and the moving them back across


Forgot to change the setting to remove pdate partition before transfering (due to having to use an older version)

wit edit --psel -update /dev/mywbfs/ID6

To find /dev/mywbfs type: wwt find

The space is not freed, the update partition is removed logically. For both commands, admin mode is needed.