Hacking wwt+wit: Wiimms WBFS+ISO Tools

[Skeeve]

I get this:

$ wit list *.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: D43P01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GJKD52.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GKDP01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GLMP01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GM4P01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GM5D7D.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GMSP01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GSWD64.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GTKP51.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GZ2P01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: GZLP01.iso
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: PZLP01.iso
ID6	 0 discs (0 GiB)
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Total: 0 discs, 0 MiB ~ 0 GiB used.

 

[Wiimm]

Are the dumps ok? You you play them?

 

[Skeeve]

Are the dumps ok? You you play them?

No, not yet. I simply dumped them. But I played another one, which I converted with DiscEx. The resulting, converted ISO was not recognized by wit either.

 

[Wiimm]

"DiscEx" is the keyword? Ok, I will check what DiscEx does.

 

[MortenGrnvig]

@ Wiimm

This morning when me and my daugther wanted to play wii, the wii froze up (it has done that before if the correct options for what cios to use is not chosen, it can be different for certan games, but you know all about that), i had 273 games and not all have been played before so i ran in to one taht did not work with standart options, i've usually been able to just turn off the wii and start over and choose another cios.

But today the harddisk could'nt be recognized after that episode, it has a driveletter when i use it with the pc, but wbfs manager can't see it as a wbfs drive anymore too - when looking at it in paragon partition manager (in "edit sectors") i can see all games are still there. But somehow the information about the harddrive beeing a wbfs drive and all the games got lost.

Do i have the slightest chance of restoring anything?

** Edit **

Problem Solved.

Thanks to Wiimm for his wonderfull program. And then following the wise words Wiimm is laying out there in this thread : http://gbatemp.net/t...nce-to-recover/

@ Wiimm - I have the utmost respect for you, thank you.

 

[Skeeve]

"DiscEx" is the keyword? Ok, I will check what DiscEx does.

I've just "installed" a GameCube game using cfg usbloader and wit can't verify this either:

$ wit verify /Volumes/WIIWARE/games/D43P01/game.iso
*****  wit: Wiimms ISO Tool v1.01c r1366 mac - Dirk Clemens - 2010-07-11  *****
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: /Volumes/WIIWARE/games/D43P01/game.iso
! wit: No valid source file found.

 

[Wiimm]

Thanx Skeeve, I collect the info but I haven't the time to analyze this in the next days.

@MortenGrnvig
Hope you haven't used the old "EDIT" command. "RECOVER" and "FORMAT --recover" are more automated.

 

[MortenGrnvig]

@ Wiimm

I used (in admin mode/win 7) :

wwt analyze

and then

wwt init --recover /dev/your_drive

and then when i was happy with what i saw i went with the --force option

wwt init --recover --force /dev/your_drive


i had 273 games on there - i got 264 games back, and i am more than happy with that
wii backup manager recognizes the harddisk again, but were those last 9 games went i have no idea. But it works on the Wii again.

I was under the impression that a "init" and "format" did the same thing, but just to be sure i did "wwt format --recover" and after that with the --force option, as per your question.

that seemed to do the same thing and only the 264 of the 273 games came back.

I have been reading all pages in the link i reffered to - so i saw your warnings about the "edit"

Wiimm you wrote..

1. try "wwt analyze /dev/your_drive" to get info. If you get more than the CALC lines there is a good chance to rescue. See docu for "command ANALYZE" in file "wwt.txt"

2. try "wwt init --recover /dev/your_drive" to see, what format would do. If you like that than call same command with option --force.

Actually the games missing, are the ones that began to act up a little, ex. wii sports for revolution (the game that was with the wii), were the tennis game suddently did not work, I think i'll by a coupple of extra harddisks and begin to take backups hehe

 

[Wiimm]

my tools make some plausibility checks. For each disc, the disc header is copied to the WBFS management section. My tools compare them and only verified discs are candidates to recover. And this means, that some of your discs are have been overwritten by other discs.

 

[Wiimm]

"DiscEx" is the keyword? Ok, I will check what DiscEx does.

I've just "installed" a GameCube game using cfg usbloader and wit can't verify this either:

If I try it (CFG v70) it only say: "Not a Wii disc!!"


EDIT: v70-r15 accept GC discs

 

[Wiimm]

"DiscEx" is the keyword? Ok, I will check what DiscEx does.

I've just "installed" a GameCube game using cfg usbloader and wit can't verify this either:

$ wit verify /Volumes/WIIWARE/games/D43P01/game.iso
*****  wit: Wiimms ISO Tool v1.01c r1366 mac - Dirk Clemens - 2010-07-11  *****
!! wit: ERROR #21 [WRONG FILE TYPE] in SourceIteratorHelper() @ src/lib-sf.c#3239
!!	  Not a ISO image: /Volumes/WIIWARE/games/D43P01/game.iso
! wit: No valid source file found.

Ok, I was sleeping .....

I have tested it (dump via cfg loader) and I'm wondering to have no troubles. And now I see "VERIFY".
* GameCube discs haven't any check sums to verify.

 

[Wiimm]

WIT: Wiimms ISO Tools v2.04a - 2012-03-10
A command line ISO+WBFS tool set for various os.

WIT (Wiimms ISO Tools) is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii ISO images and WBFS containers. The two main tools are called wit (Wiimms ISO Tool) and wwt (Wiimms WBFS Tool, the WBFS manager).

Feature overview:

• WIT (Wiimms ISO Toolset) is a set of command line tools.
• wit (Wiimms ISO tool) is the main Wii and GameCube ISO manipulation tool.
• wwt (Wiimms WBFS tool) is a complete WBFS manager including FS checking and repairing, time stamps and multi WBFS support.
• wdf (Wiimms WDF Tool) is a little tool to manage WDF, CISO and WIA files.
• wfuse (Wiimms FUSE Tool) mounts Wii and GameCube images and WBFS files and partitions using FUSE.
• WIT supports 6 Wii disc file types (ISO, CISO, WDF, WIA, WBFS and FST) and can read from pipes (indirect RAR/ZIP/7Z support).
• wit can verify and compare (diff) Wii and GameCube ISO images.
• wit can extract and compose Wii ISO images.
• wit can patch Wii and GameCube ISO images while copying.
• wit can mix partitions from different sources into a new Wii ISO images.
• wit and wwt support many diagnostic commands.
• Advanced shell support.

Visit http://wit.wiimm.de/features.html for more details.

Download of the current version:

• wit-v2.04a-r3554-i386.tar.gz : Linux/i386 version
• wit-v2.04a-r3554-x86_64.tar.gz : Linux/x86_64 version
• wit-v2.04a-r3554-mac.tar.gz : Mac OS universal binaries (ppc, i386 and x86-64)
• wit-v2.04a-r3554-cygwin.zip : Cygwin (Windows) version
• Other releases are available at http://wit.wiimm.de/download.html.

There are also some GUI available:

• QtWitGui, manipulate and convert single ISO images.
  This QT based GUI focuses on manipulating single ISO images. It can do much more.
  
• Wii Backup Fusion, a WBFS and ISO manager.
  This QT based GUI is a complete WBFS manager and ISO tool.
  
• Wii Covers Download & WBFS Manager for Windows, a WBFS and ISO manager.
  This is a very young Java based WBFS manager. (GBA temp discussion)

Change log:

wit v2.04a r3554 - 2012-03-10

- New option: wit --force: Ignore partition size errors and allow access to
damaged partitions. "wwt --force" works similar.

- New options: --disc-id=id, --boot-id=id, --ticket-id=id, --tmd-id=id and
--wbfs-id=id: Patch only the specific ID. These options are handled after
the --id and --modify options. patching the WBFS ID while adding a game is
now also possible.

- New implementation of command "wit ID6": It generates an ID6 list of all
sources. This is similar as before, only the meaning of the parameters
changed. If option --long is set, a table with 5 IDs (DISC, BOOT, TICKET,
TMD and WBFS) is printed. BOOT, TICKET and TMD IDs are taken from the main
partition. If --long is set twice, all IDs of all partitions are printed.

- wwt LLLL: List contains date and time (in seconds) columns.

The source is published under the license of GPL2. Checkout the sources directly from the SVN repository or browse the source. Visit http://wit.wiimm.de/ for more information.

 

[gcb]

i can't add a wbfs file to my wbfs partition

just got wit-v2.04a-r3554-i386 and tried to understand it... apparently i failed or hit a bug.

hobo$ wit-v2.04a-r3554-i386/bin/wwt SPACE /dev/sdc2
size used used% free discs file (sizes in MiB)
--------------------------------------------------------------
29828 26952 90% 2876 10/215 /dev/sdc2

hobo$ wit-v2.04a-r3554-i386/bin/wwt SPACE something.wbfs
size used used% free discs file (sizes in MiB)
--------------------------------------------------------------
1528 1528 100% 0 1/215 something.wbfs

hobo$ wit-v2.04a-r3554-i386/bin/wwt UPDATE something.wbfs /dev/sdc2 --test
***** wwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v2.04a r3554 i386 - Dirk Clemens - 2012-03-10 *****
!! wwt: ERROR #17 [NO WBFS FOUND] in AnalyzePartitions() @ src/wbfs-interface.c#448
!! no WBFS partitions found -> abort

hobo$ wit-v2.04a-r3554-i386/bin/wwt ADD --source something.wbfs   /dev/sdc2  --test
*****  wwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v2.04a r3554 i386 - Dirk Clemens - 2012-03-10  *****
!! wwt: ERROR #17 [NO WBFS FOUND] in AnalyzePartitions() @ src/wbfs-interface.c#448
!!	  no WBFS partitions found -> abort

could you guys please add the simplest way to do those basic things in the 1st post? i'd be very thankful

 

[Wiimm]

Direct answer: yes.







Ok, I start with some suggestions:

• use "--part /dev/sdc2" (or short "-p /dev/sdc2") to address a WBFS drive. Only some commands allow additionally to add a WBFS drive without option.
• Use --all instead of --part ... for auto detection of a WBFS drive.
• Try: wwt add -a something.wbfs -t

 

[Wiimm]

WIT: Wiimms ISO Tools v2.05a - 2012-04-14
A command line ISO+WBFS tool set for various os.

WIT (Wiimms ISO Tools) is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii ISO images and WBFS containers. The two main tools are called wit (Wiimms ISO Tool) and wwt (Wiimms WBFS Tool, the WBFS manager).

Feature overview:

• WIT (Wiimms ISO Toolset) is a set of command line tools.
• wit (Wiimms ISO tool) is the main Wii and GameCube ISO manipulation tool.
• wwt (Wiimms WBFS tool) is a complete WBFS manager including FS checking and repairing, time stamps and multi WBFS support.
• wdf (Wiimms WDF Tool) is a little tool to manage WDF, CISO and WIA files.
• wfuse (Wiimms FUSE Tool) mounts Wii and GameCube images and WBFS files and partitions using FUSE.
• WIT supports 6 Wii disc file types (ISO, CISO, WDF, WIA, WBFS and FST) and can read from pipes (indirect RAR/ZIP/7Z support).
• wit can verify and compare (diff) Wii and GameCube ISO images.
• wit can extract and compose Wii ISO images.
• wit can patch Wii and GameCube ISO images while copying.
• wit can mix partitions from different sources into a new Wii ISO images.
• wit and wwt support many diagnostic commands.
• Advanced shell support.

Visit http://wit.wiimm.de/features.html for more details.

Download of the current version:

• wit-v2.05a-r3591-i386.tar.gz : Linux/i386 version
• wit-v2.05a-r3591-x86_64.tar.gz : Linux/x86_64 version
• wit-v2.05a-r3591-mac.tar.gz : Mac OS universal binaries (ppc, i386 and x86-64)
• wit-v2.05a-r3591-cygwin.zip : Cygwin (Windows) version
• Other releases are available at http://wit.wiimm.de/download.html.

There are also some GUI available:

• QtWitGui, manipulate and convert single ISO images.
  This QT based GUI focuses on manipulating single ISO images. It can do much more.
  
• Wii Backup Fusion, a WBFS and ISO manager.
  This QT based GUI is a complete WBFS manager and ISO tool.
  
• Wii Covers Download & WBFS Manager for Windows, a WBFS and ISO manager.
  This is a very young Java based WBFS manager. (GBA temp discussion)

Change log:

wit v2.05a r3591 - 2012-04-14

- "wit VERIFY" will now ignore extracted file systems.
- wit --id=.....X: ID change failed if only the sixt character was modified.
- All ID patching options (--id, --disc-id, ...) accept now a plus sign '+' as
wildcard for multiple '.' to fill the complete entered ID to 4/6 characters.
- The listing command "wit ID6" accepts now all ID patching options to test
the effect of them.

The source is published under the license of GPL2. Checkout the sources directly from the SVN repository or browse the source. Visit http://wit.wiimm.de/ for more information.

 

[Alouest]

Hello,

I have delete games on my wii's HDD... but not the good ones

I like to try new things so I try the RECOVER function of the WWT tool.

alouest@alouest-desktop:~/Telechargement/wii/wit-v2.05a-r3591-i386$ wwt RECOVER -a
*****  wwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v2.05a r3591 i386 - Dirk Clemens - 2012-04-14  *****

RECOVER /dev/sdd

!! wwt: ERROR #41 [FATAL ERROR] in RecoverWBFS() @ src/wbfs-interface.c#1155
!!	  ASSERTION FAILED !!!

Anybody here know where is the problem ?

Thanks for your help !

Al

 

[Wiimm]

It's a bug with the new WBFS Interface with only impact to the RECOVER command.

Try v2.02a, the last one with the old interface.


EDIT:
Download http://wit.wiimm.de/download/bin/i386/wwt-r3597 and replace the file /usr/local/bin/wwt

 

[Alouest]

Thanks a lot !!
It works perfectly.

 

[Wiimm]

WIT: Wiimms ISO Tools v2.05b - 2012-04-20
A command line ISO+WBFS tool set for various os.

WIT (Wiimms ISO Tools) is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii ISO images and WBFS containers. The two main tools are called wit (Wiimms ISO Tool) and wwt (Wiimms WBFS Tool, the WBFS manager).

Feature overview:

• WIT (Wiimms ISO Toolset) is a set of command line tools.
• wit (Wiimms ISO tool) is the main Wii and GameCube ISO manipulation tool.
• wwt (Wiimms WBFS tool) is a complete WBFS manager including FS checking and repairing, time stamps and multi WBFS support.
• wdf (Wiimms WDF Tool) is a little tool to manage WDF, CISO and WIA files.
• wfuse (Wiimms FUSE Tool) mounts Wii and GameCube images and WBFS files and partitions using FUSE.
• WIT supports 6 Wii disc file types (ISO, CISO, WDF, WIA, WBFS and FST) and can read from pipes (indirect RAR/ZIP/7Z support).
• wit can verify and compare (diff) Wii and GameCube ISO images.
• wit can extract and compose Wii ISO images.
• wit can patch Wii and GameCube ISO images while copying.
• wit can mix partitions from different sources into a new Wii ISO images.
• wit and wwt support many diagnostic commands.
• Advanced shell support.

Visit http://wit.wiimm.de/features.html for more details.

Download of the current version:

• wit-v2.05b-r3611-i386.tar.gz : Linux/i386 version
• wit-v2.05b-r3611-x86_64.tar.gz : Linux/x86_64 version
• wit-v2.05b-r3611-mac.tar.gz : Mac OS universal binaries (ppc, i386 and x86-64)
• wit-v2.05b-r3611-cygwin.zip : Cygwin (Windows) version
• Other releases are available at http://wit.wiimm.de/download.html.

There are also some GUI available:

• QtWitGui, manipulate and convert single ISO images.
  This QT based GUI focuses on manipulating single ISO images. It can do much more.
  
• Wii Backup Fusion, a WBFS and ISO manager.
  This QT based GUI is a complete WBFS manager and ISO tool.
  
• Wii Covers Download & WBFS Manager for Windows, a WBFS and ISO manager.
  This is a very young Java based WBFS manager. (GBA temp discussion)

Change log:

wit v2.05b r3611 - 2012-04-20

- Bug fix for assertion failure in "wwt RECOVER".

The source is published under the license of GPL2. Checkout the sources directly from the SVN repository or browse the source. Visit http://wit.wiimm.de/ for more information.

 

[moli]

Dear Wiimm,

First i'd like to thank your for your work on wit tools.
I've got some questions:

1) may i safely remove update partitions from the games? Calculating with the average image size it takes up about 10%, which is plenty enough. I'm asking this because majority of scrubbed games downloadable are already had its update partitions removed anyway.....

2) can i currently remove the update partition from a .wia without full recompression? Because i tried to copy a .wia to an other .wia and it looks like it recompressed the whole image. Is it because the partitions do overlap in the compressed chunks? Please try to implement this feature, would help me a lot.