Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[bostonBC]

Hi all I've got a big problem... I was running r1054 on my 4TB system (regular Wii, not a WiiU - v10 cIOS 56/249, 57/250, 58/251, single FAT32 partition) and don't know what happened but the drive got wiped on the Wii.

I have some emulator channels (NES, SNES, Sega etc) on it but they are set to load/save to the SD card and not the hard disk. Not sure what got run last, a Wii game or one of the emulator channels.

I had this happen once before where the 4TB drive got wiped and at the time I thought it was due to one of the emulators being configured to write save files/states to the hard disk instead of the SD card so I took extra care to make sure that all the emulators were configured to run from and save to the SD card.

I have backups so I didn't lose my 2000+ game collection but I don't want to have that happen again as it's going to take most of a day to recopy everything. I'm not sure what emulator did it or if WiiFlow messed up writing something. I've checked with a disc editor and it looks like sectors 1-2111 are zeroed and starting in sector 2112 it has some patterns but nothing resembling a directory.

Here's the first block (0):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6E 5A 5A EF 00 00 00 20 21 00 0C FE FF FF 00 08 00 00 00 08 38 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA

I haven't deciphered disc structures for about 35 years now so if anyone has a clue as to what might have accidentally written to block 0 on the drive and wiped it I would be greatly appreciative so we can avoid it happening again.

I will hold the drive in it's current state and not reformat/copy in case anyone wants me to do more forensic analysis.

TIA!

 

[jammybudga777]

im not sure but i think the 4TB support was only recently added.
so im guessing its wiiflow with a bug maybe doing it

 

[bostonBC]

im not sure but i think the 4TB support was only recently added.
so im guessing its wiiflow with a bug maybe doing it

Support for >2TB and advanced format drives has been in for several years if I recall.

I'm not sure it's a bug in WiiFlow since it happened before when I was playing with emulators and saving configs/states on the hard disk.

Since then I've setup things to run the emulators from SD and load/save from SD.

So I'm not sure what is causing it.

 

[Etheboss]

Support for >2T 4K sector has been buggy for a while now, and has now been improved with rev1058/59..
So what jammybudga777 says is sort of correct.
Although the mem improvement in rev 1060 really made it work for most people... not sure it fixed problems for all, but i have seen some pretty positive reactions so far..

 

[bostonBC]

Support for >2T 4K sector has been buggy for a while now, and has now been improved with rev1058/59..
So what jammybudga777 says is sort of correct.
Although the mem improvement in rev 1060 really made it work for most people... not sure it fixed problems for all, but i have seen some pretty positive reactions so far..

Thanks. Have you heard of anyone else getting the drive wiped from normal use?

I'm going to switch fro r1054 since r1060 seems nice and stable but it would be nice to be able to pin this down to something.

 

[ToddofWar420]

Where can I get r1060? I searched the google code but I couldn't find it.

 

[pBullet]

Where can I get r1060? I searched the google code but I couldn't find it.

The easiest way would be to compile it yourself from the repository.

https://sites.google.com/site/wiiflowiki4/compiling-wiiflow

 

[FIX94]

Where can I get r1060? I searched the google code but I couldn't find it.

Directly on the very first page of my google code:
https://code.google.com/p/open-wiiflow-mod/
You can see a link directly to my beta version collection.

 

[ToddofWar420]

Thanks guys! I was just looking on the wrong page.

 

[MrKill]

Is it possible to use a save game from vWii extracted Nand in Wiiflow? When i try Save Game for Emulated Nand, it resets the vWii. I use r1060

 

[MrKill]

Also, it doesnt load cover as fast as before, when i'm scrolling there is allways covers loading. I deleted wiiflow.ini but it didnt help

 

[jammybudga777]

Also, it doesnt load cover as fast as before, when i'm scrolling there is allways covers loading. I deleted wiiflow.ini but it didnt help

i dont really no bout your first question sorry. but with the covers not loading..... make sure your storage device has lots of space and if you have loads of games. if you scroll through for a while and let the CACHE catch up with loading once its got it once it should load them instantly (load wiiflow flick through all your games so it catches up and once done reload your CACHE) i used to have to do this on the normall wii

 

[bostonBC]

Also, it doesnt load cover as fast as before, when i'm scrolling there is allways covers loading. I deleted wiiflow.ini but it didnt help

Do you have the drive stealthed? If so unhide it and then do a drive scan and let it correct any directory errors. I've seen that screw things up because if the directory gets corrupted it can't create the cache files.

 

[bostonBC]

Support for >2T 4K sector has been buggy for a while now, and has now been improved with rev1058/59..
So what jammybudga777 says is sort of correct.
Although the mem improvement in rev 1060 really made it work for most people... not sure it fixed problems for all, but i have seen some pretty positive reactions so far..

Do any of the other USB loaders support 4TB drives better?

 

[spayrosam]

Does mplayer ce Plugin supports hidden harddrive?
Wiiflow detects my movies, but when I try to play them, the vWii reboot randomly. Does anyone had this problem?

• Wii U 3.1.0 E

• 2 TB WD Drive

• Hidden Part: Fat32 (I have used UStealth http://gbatemp.net/threads/ustealth-wii-u-format-disk-nag-solved.352786/page-10#post-4935000)

• My movies are stored into ntfs part

 

[jammybudga777]

i could be wrong but im sure my wii u done the same thing ages ago and ive never used ustealth..... i no it doesnt help your situation tho

 

[bostonBC]

i could be wrong but im sure my wii u done the same thing ages ago and ive never used ustealth..... i no it doesnt help your situation tho

Check if you have directory corruption. If the system can't load the cache folder (check where it's supposed to be in the wiiflow.ini) it will be very slow.

 

[Wiimpathy]

ScummVM-mod10 plugin

Source code

Synced to git (march 11 2014)
Again a new engine in development : Voyeur. Yeah, an adult game for 18+.

 

[spacepimp]

Also, it doesnt load cover as fast as before, when i'm scrolling there is allways covers loading. I deleted wiiflow.ini but it didnt help

I just noticed no-one has mentioned using the "reload cache" button in the home menu. It may be stating the obvious, but have you tried that?
I'd try deleting the contents of your cache folder and restarting wiiflow before looking into hardware/corruption issues, although that's great advice if these suggestions fail

 

[MrKill]

I just noticed no-one has mentioned using the "reload cache" button in the home menu. It may be stating the obvious, but have you tried that?
I'd try deleting the contents of your cache folder and restarting wiiflow before looking into hardware/corruption issues, although that's great advice if these suggestions fail

I have tried everything, it didnt help. I am deleting all my wiiflow folder, updating themes i use, and redownloading all my covers. I will see if it works. At least, i know its a Hdd/files problem, not wiiflow releted because it works for you.
I didnt get any saves files working from fake nand, but this is not really important.
EDIT: i confirm it didnt work. My Hdd is clean too (no errors), it is a portable seagate 1.5 TGB connected with Y cable, usb 2.0. not stealthed.