Hacking wwt+wit: Wiimms WBFS+ISO Tools

[Wiimm]

@[member='ice1006']
Please do: wit skel IMAGES... with both discs. After that, you have a skeleton directory named ".skel". ZIP it and please send it to me.

 

[ice1006]

@[member='ice1006']
Please do: wit skel IMAGES... with both discs. After that, you have a skeleton directory named ".skel". ZIP it and please send it to me.

Hi Wiimm, here is the file that you need:

https://www.dropbox....kb99py/skel.zip

 

[Wiimm]

It's a bug. Under Linux: "Segmentation fault"

About the skeletons: A skeleton is a decrypted copy of the source and all files contain only zero bytes. Also all checksums are removed. But the file system is intact. Good for tests like this.

 

[ice1006]

Very good~ glad to hear that , waiting for your update

 

[kylster]

Is it possible to safely split files converted to .WIA by 4GiB and then Convert those split files to .WBFS or will this not work properly? I ask cause I would like to archive my copy of brawl but it's 4.75GiB when converted to .WIA but if I can split those file while keeping .WIA it would be great

 

[Wiimm]

I have never tested it, but I'm sure, that it work because of software design: The copy function reads from one black box and write to another black box and does not know anything about splitting and file formats, only the black boxes know it.

 

[Anon10W1z]

I have never tested it, but I'm sure, that it work because of software design: The copy function reads from one black box and write to another black box and does not know anything about splitting and file formats, only the black boxes know it.

Are you speaking metaphorically?

 

[tueidj]

No, he's saying it only works on computers that have black cases. DUH.

 

[Wiimm]

"black box" is a software concept.

 

[shawnboutonyahoo]

i have windows 7 86x. is it compatible with this? im having some problems with installation and all

 

[W hat]

Yes. You install the CygWin version and can either:
run it from the command line (start->run->cmd->enter->type wit help or whatever command you want.)
run it from wit-console.bat, stored in the program files / wiimm / wit folder (or something close to that)

Either way, the official release does not have a GUI so everything is run by typing commands and pressing enter. QtwitGUI and probably other programs are out there that use WIT as a base but have a graphical interface.

 

[Wiimm]

@[member='ice1006']
I have found the bug. it *was* a problem if directories start with a "." like "file/.svn/filename"

The skeleton works fine now. Please test this windows version:
* http://wit.wiimm.de/download/bin/cygwin/wit-r3936.exe

 

[ice1006]

Oh, yeah, thanks wiimm for your hard work, I have tested it works very well as before now

 

[ryuku32]

wow. this is awesome. exactly the tool i needed, and open source so i could compile it on my little NAS which has an ARM cpu.

thank you. i can now process the files locally without the overhead of network transfers back and forth.

 

[Wiimm]

WIT: Wiimms ISO Tools v2.07a - 2012-07-14
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-v2.07a-r3955-i386.tar.gz : Linux/i386 version
• wit-v2.07a-r3955-x86_64.tar.gz : Linux/x86_64 version
• wit-v2.07a-r3955-mac.tar.gz : Mac OS universal binaries (ppc, i386 and x86-64)
• wit-v2.07a-r3955-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 v2.07a r3955 - 2012-07-14

- Bug fix: The automatic directory creation if using %-escapes in destination
file names was gone and is now back again.
- Bug fix: Extrating files of directories beginning with '.' fails sometimes.
- Bug fix: "wit edit --id=... a.wbfs" may now change the WBFS id too.
- Bug fix: wwt (but not wit) ignored the parameter of option --include-path.
- Because of compiler warnings: Switched from utime() to utimes().

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.

 

[cthulhu]

Using Linux on my Wii to write a game to a WBFS partition on an attached USB hard drive using the --raw option in wwt 2.03a (which I notice you have deleted from your download page) causes a Error 001 when I try to boot it. Using --psel data instead avoids his error but I want to know why --raw creates a non-working game with everything I've tested, which includes sources that have been scrubbed with wit and which only contain a data partition. Is this a bug? Everything on my WBFS partition verifies okay with wwt no matter if written with --psel data or --raw.

Also, did you change something that has resulted in the displayed space usage for each game on a WBFS partition having increased from 2 to 8 MiB depending on the game?

 

[Wiimm]

The usage size depends of the WBFS sector size which depends of the total WBFS size. A WBFS is always divided into maximal 65536 blocks.

--raw: I will test it later. Thanx for info.

 

[cthulhu]

The usage size depends of the WBFS sector size which depends of the total WBFS size. A WBFS is always divided into maximal 65536 blocks.

Okay. I was using a 120 GB hard drive before, now using a 250 GB.

--raw: I will test it later. Thanx for info.

Good to know. I may be able to help with testing if required.

 

[kylster]

If anyone is interested here some a zip file which only contains .bat files for use with wit (game conversion IOS

 

[Wiimm]

If anyone is interested here some a zip file which only contains .bat files for use with wit (game conversion IOS