Hacking Gaming Homebrew Wii Rock Band 2 DLC WAD Installation Help

[Meshie]

Hi,

I recently received a rock band set with the Rock Band 2 Wii disc. I've dove down this rabbit hole for about 2 weeks now and it's driving me insane. I've done just about every guide on google and I've had no luck. I'm curious to know if I'm doing something wrong. So, I have acquired some RB2 DLC and I've been trying to install some of the split WADs (Since Big Wads are too large for the 2GB SD) via wad2bin. Wad2bin finishes the WAD, puts the gen folder (sZAE, sZBE etc.) into private/wii/data fine with the bogus wad and then I do the uninstall/install method on yawm. After loading into RB2 I get the Refreshing downloaded content message, but nothing ever pops up in-game. I am using a 2GB SD formatted to Fat32 and I've installed the correct cIOS via d2x-cios installer. I am also launching the game from the Disc Channel and not a USB loader. Are there more steps that are missing from these guides? Are my WADs possibly corrupt? I have also noticed that wad2bin will successfully unpack and save to the SD, but I get an error saying Checksum mismatch and a wad2bin_wad_data\0000xx .app not found. Any help is appreciated! I just want to enjoy some nostalgia with my kids.

 

[drewby]

Why are you splitting the WADs? Can't you use a bigger SD card?

 

[Meshie]

Why are you splitting the WADs? Can't you use a bigger SD card?

If I'm not mistaken, RB2 will only read up to a 2GB SD card. I could only find Big WADs that ranged from 3-5GB. So space is limited.

 

[drewby]

If I'm not mistaken, RB2 will only read up to a 2GB SD card. I could only find Big WADs that ranged from 3-5GB. So space is limited.

Well, if they are WADs, you would have to install them to the system memory to be able to use them. So wouldn't that not matter since it would be ready from the system NAND? I'm just assuming since I've never played RB2, but that's how I think it would work?

 

[Meshie]

Well, if they are WADs, you would have to install them to the system memory to be able to use them. So wouldn't that not matter since it would be ready from the system NAND? I'm just assuming since I've never played RB2, but that's how I think it would work?

I've read somewhere that RB2 reads the DLC from the SD card. I'll try to transfer a couple of WADs to the NAND via Wiixplorer and see if that works. The downside to that is, the wii NAND is only 512mb which would mean I could only install a handful of WADs. Now that being said, I wonder if I could use an EMUnand to be able to have more WADs to use.

Post automatically merged: Aug 8, 2024

Here is my syscheck report if anyone would be so kind to look over it for me and make sure I have everything correct.

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 103188351
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 93 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 14 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944, Info: rev 6944): Trucha Bug
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS248[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 08/08/2024.

 

[Meshie]

**UPDATE** Tried creating an EmuNAND to run the RB2 DLC but the process failed due to a download issue with sneek. Also installed a DLC WAD directly to the Wii NAND itself and getting the same issue.... DLC does not show in-game. There has to be something I am doing wrong.

 

[Exidous]

I trust one of the many points down the rabbit hole was https://gbatemp.net/threads/installing-rock-band-just-dance-and-guitar-hero-dlc-on-wii.624594/

If not, check there.

I haven't done this before, but it looks to me to be a pretty involved process of preparing a wad, so to answer your question, yeah, it could be a problem with the wad file.

 

[Meshie]

I trust one of the many points down the rabbit hole was https://gbatemp.net/threads/installing-rock-band-just-dance-and-guitar-hero-dlc-on-wii.624594/

If not, check there.

I haven't done this before, but it looks to me to be a pretty involved process of preparing a wad, so to answer your question, yeah, it could be a problem with the wad file.

Yeah, I've went over this guide a few times as well as a couple of others. I found some different WADs and tried them in wad2bin and this time it went through just fine with no issues but I'm still having the problem of the DLC not loading into RB2 sadly. Hopefully someone out there has a solution!

 

[Meshie]

**UPDATE** I was able to get my DLC working on RB3D. Make sure to put your copy of RB3 on a USB flash drive and use USBloader. Fixed all my issues.