Hacking Windows WBFS Tool

[manias]

for all those who can't get it to work.. read the first post carefully.
sda1 = disk1
sdb1 = disk 2
sdc1 = disk 3 etc
1 = partition 1, can be 2, 3, etc.

put your iso in c:\ as well as the wbfs tool files
So click on the start button, in the run field (Search in vista) type cmd and press enter.
type wbfs -p /dev/sd?? ls

here ?? is a1, b1, c1, whatever your usb device is. (or a2, c3, whatever)
if you can see the disk, you can then use add to add your iso

wbfs -p /dev/sd?? add isoname.iso

 

[tylerdurden007]

windows 7 here
simply copy cmd.exe, cygwin1.dll, and wbfs into the directory with your iso.
double click cmd.exe and type this:
wbfs add
then drag and drop the ISO onto the cmd.exe box, then press enter.
thanks to Apcarr for this tip.

...Guitar Hero Metallica done in 8:12!!!

Are you just making a shortcut of cmd.exe and putting it there or what? because i cant get this to work at all this way.

yes i am. click the start menu, type in cmd and you'll see it; copy/paste

...anyhoo, game boots fast. cannot get the instruments to work....

Monsters VS Aliens done in 4:27...2.74 GB

 

[tylerdurden007]

figured a super easy way to do it.

on the same drive that I have my ISO's and my WBFS I created a folder called WBFS and put the wbfs.exe cygwin1.dll in the folder, then I created a batch file called wbfs.bat in that .bat file I put

@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1

I then created a shortcut to that file on my desktop. now all that I have to do is drag my ISO files onto the shortcut and the program does its magic. super easy.

Excellent job! This is the easiest way.
Thank you very much maduin!

 

[rommy667]

Thanks a lot for all the nfo ppl this reminds me of when pops first came out for psp you had to use cmd to convert ya ps1 to psp.........

 

[icebrg5]

figured a super easy way to do it.

on the same drive that I have my ISO's and my WBFS I created a folder called WBFS and put the wbfs.exe cygwin1.dll in the folder, then I created a batch file called wbfs.bat in that .bat file I put

@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1

I then created a shortcut to that file on my desktop. now all that I have to do is drag my ISO files onto the shortcut and the program does its magic. super easy.

Excellent job! This is the easiest way.
Thank you very much maduin!

Still cant get that method to work.The window pops up real quick and goes away even faster.
I made a new folder in the same folder as all my ISO files.inside that folder i made the batch file and put the other two wbfs files in it.Then i created a shortcut to the batch file which i placed on my desktop.I dragged an iso to the shortcut.It asks me to run the program i say RUN and the window opens and dissappears again in 1 second.

What am i doing wrong?

Could it be i need some different value inside the batch file?
So far the only method ive gotten to work is to use the wbfs -p/dev/sdb1 add "filename.iso"

 

[tylerdurden007]

what version of windows?

create a folder named wbfs on the same drive as your ISO's.
put the cygwin1 and wbfs files in that folder. Create a text file. rename the text file to wbfs.bat. make sure you have unchecked 'show file extensions for known file types' or it wont work.
copy this text into the bat file and save it.
@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1
right click this bat file and choose 'send to' ...'desktop(create shortcut).
now drag an ISO onto the newly created shortcut on the desktop.

house of the dead Overkill plays soooo smooth now. no more jerks. Lovin it.

 

[maduin]

figured a super easy way to do it.

on the same drive that I have my ISO's and my WBFS I created a folder called WBFS and put the wbfs.exe cygwin1.dll in the folder, then I created a batch file called wbfs.bat in that .bat file I put

@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1

I then created a shortcut to that file on my desktop. now all that I have to do is drag my ISO files onto the shortcut and the program does its magic. super easy.

Excellent job! This is the easiest way.
Thank you very much maduin!

Still cant get that method to work.The window pops up real quick and goes away even faster.
I made a new folder in the same folder as all my ISO files.inside that folder i made the batch file and put the other two wbfs files in it.Then i created a shortcut to the batch file which i placed on my desktop.I dragged an iso to the shortcut.It asks me to run the program i say RUN and the window opens and dissappears again in 1 second.

What am i doing wrong?

Could it be i need some different value inside the batch file?
So far the only method ive gotten to work is to use the wbfs -p/dev/sdb1 add "filename.iso"

it shouldn't ask you to run the program it should just start running itself. Create a .txt file and open it and put this in

@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1

exactly like that, in the folder that has the
wbfs.exe
cygwin1.dll

in it. save it on the drive that your WBFS is in. then rename it from .txt to .bat. right click it and send it to the desktop as a short cut, then drag and drop your ISOs onto the shortcut and it should automatically start working, make sure you have the @echo off at the top. You may need to change the

-p 0

to 1 or 2 or 3, depending on what number your partition is. My WBFS is on the same drive as my Wii ISOs. It's a 500GB drive with 400GB as NTFS and 100GB as WBFS.

 

[icebrg5]

what version of windows?

create a folder named wbfs on the same drive as your ISO's.
put the cygwin1 and wbfs files in that folder. Create a text file. rename the text file to wbfs.bat. make sure you have unchecked 'show file extensions for known file types' or it wont work.
copy this text into the bat file and save it.
@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1
right click this bat file and choose 'send to' ...'desktop(create shortcut).
now drag an ISO onto the newly created shortcut on the desktop.

house of the dead Overkill plays soooo smooth now. no more jerks. Lovin it.

I dont see any option for the show file extensions for known files types.

Also i tried to make a new bat file and now when i change the text file to wbfs.bat it does nothing and stays a txt file

 

[Mb*]

How do i create a WBFS partition with this:S please help, been stuck for like hours....

 

[tylerdurden007]

what version of windows?

create a folder named wbfs on the same drive as your ISO's.
put the cygwin1 and wbfs files in that folder. Create a text file. rename the text file to wbfs.bat. make sure you have unchecked 'show file extensions for known file types' or it wont work.
copy this text into the bat file and save it.
@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1
right click this bat file and choose 'send to' ...'desktop(create shortcut).
now drag an ISO onto the newly created shortcut on the desktop.

house of the dead Overkill plays soooo smooth now. no more jerks. Lovin it.

I dont see any option for the show file extensions for known files types.

Also i tried to make a new bat file and now when i change the text file to wbfs.bat it does nothing and stays a txt file

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab, and then, under Advanced settings, do one of the following:

To hide file extensions, select the Hide extensions for known file types check box, and then click OK.

To display file extensions, clear the Hide extensions for known file types check box, and then click OK.

this should work for vista/windows 7

 

[--JoCa--]

How do i create a WBFS partition with this:S please help, been stuck for like hours....

Run the USB Loader on HBC, it'll ask to format it.

 

[mat03111984]

just a quick question, when i use wiiscrubber i still get a full size iso. im scrubbing fritz chess. it says it will be 800 mb but when its finished the file even tho its name (compress) its still full size so wont fit on my 1 gb card. ne ideas?

 

[9600pro]

what version of windows?

create a folder named wbfs on the same drive as your ISO's.
put the cygwin1 and wbfs files in that folder. Create a text file. rename the text file to wbfs.bat. make sure you have unchecked 'show file extensions for known file types' or it wont work.
copy this text into the bat file and save it.
@echo off
wbfs.exe -p 0 add %1
right click this bat file and choose 'send to' ...'desktop(create shortcut).
now drag an ISO onto the newly created shortcut on the desktop.

house of the dead Overkill plays soooo smooth now. no more jerks. Lovin it.

Nice tip, now installation of wii games is more fast.
Thanks man!

 

[jimjim9001]

have a bit of a prob

i have usb loader up ad running i rip games from wii and all is ok
i then ripped game from iso on with wbfs tool and done ls to show list of games and that was aal ok
than play games of usb loader for and while , then decided to rip more iso from pc using wbfs tool
but when ls for list no games show up also if i plug hdd back in to wii loader says no games

i think this maybe a little bug with wbfs tool as i have ripped games again on wii with loader and unpluged hdd a few times and games all ok

and if i plug hdd back in to pc and wbfs tool to show games list it says no games
and then i have to start process again

 

[Harry Potthead]

I have the following Problem, hope that somebody can help me

I have 60 GB USB HD with Partion (j: & k. Formated the Partion k: with the USB-Loader and dumped 3 Games. The Games are working fine

Now I want to dump isos with the WBFS Tool on my PC. When I connect the USB HD on my PC it only shows j: und not longer k: !!!
When i started WBFS_win.exe und write WBFS_win.exe k list it comes: could not open drive: No error

Where the Problem ???? Please help !!!

 

[shanefromoz]

Can someone please make a basic gui for this please?

 

[tylerdurden007]

i've noticed some of my iso's wont work; it just closes the box quickly.
i used imgburn to create an ISO from my backup DVD. just so happens NONE of my backups on DVD+R work! Tested 2 so far (supermario galaxy, boomblox) .
Also tested 2 DVD-R, and those worked no problem (house of the dead overkill and deadly creatures).
more testing after work.....

had time for one more DVD+R = metal slug anthology, works great! 1.53 Gb.
not sure why the other 2 ISOs from the +Rs wont work...

 

[ty123aolcom]

I have an 80gb Hard drive in a maddog usb enclosure. I can install games from my wii and run them but when i connect it to my laptop and use wbfs tool it wont recognize it. I get the following error, "cannot find any wbfs partition (verify permissions)): No such file or directory" Any suggestions?

 

[--=ZerO=--]

i've noticed some of my iso's wont work; it just closes the box quickly.
i used imgburn to create an ISO from my backup DVD. just so happens NONE of my backups on DVD+R work! Tested 2 so far (supermario galaxy, boomblox) .
Also tested 2 DVD-R, and those worked no problem (house of the dead overkill and deadly creatures).
more testing after work.....

DVD+R only work if u set the booktype To DVD-ROM... even then it is a game of luck to get them to work.
Use DVD-R only.

 

[digitalforums]

do people know how to use commands in here?

heres what i did, it may sound simple but some people dont seem to get it to work.

rename your folder from wbfs_win..... to just wbfs.
rename your file from wbfs_....exe to just wbfs.exe.
then type in a command box to get to the folder your in
example for me c:\ documents...., so i write d: , then cd wbfs
and im in my folder, then i type wbfs and this brings up a list of uses.
to copy a file to the usb which my drive number is h.
i type wbfs h add blahblah.iso and it should copy.

and im only using a 2gb sd card

so you need to know your drive that the wbfs file is on and also the drive number of the usb and replace what i wrote with your own number

now i dont think you can shrink files using wii scrubber then use them to copy as it comes up with an error, so they have to be full discs, and the software will rip just the game out, i think??

df


edit: if you try and save a crypted file using wiiscrubber, and then load it you get "not a wii disc " no error

ryqp69 is the file i sent over from my pc, i did shrink it and removed the update using wiiscrubber, but it has to be a 4.3 gb file

pic added of what i typed

bula too true