Hacking YAL-binaries for injection into channels.

[Tichinde925]

What game are you trying to install?

If its Wii Sports, I have trouble with that one too, but all the games I have tried that came out from 2008 onward work for me.

Average Block size is 5.

The biggest channel is Mario Kart Wii at 7 blocks.

 

[WiiBlaster]

What game are you trying to install?

If its Wii Sports, I have trouble with that one too, but all the games I have tried that came out from 2008 onward work for me.

Average Block size is 5.

The biggest channel is Mario Kart Wii at 7 blocks.

Thanks Wiicrazy now i have all my games on the wii menu,


Wiisports does work, got it on mine,

anyways something weird i noticed, when hex editing the TIk and TMD, i was having problem when naming the ID, cause i would put them 1 digit aaprt from one another, and some channels wouldn't show up doing this, so i had to name the ID father apart and that seemed to work just fine. Well Thanks again

 

[troa11]

Maybe I should try a different game then...I've been trying to get Wii Sports to work and I just can't and I thought it was the process I was using...

I can make a generic wad that launches Wii Sports just fine...

or I can make a wad with the Wii Sports animated icon/banner that locks up when you launch it.

Guess I should try something else. Tichinde, if you get Wii Sports to work would you share how you did it?

 

[Tichinde925]

Well WiiBlaster got his to work, he should share it I say!

 

[joda]

I got Wii Sports working with a perrty banner as well ... Schweeet!

Well anyways, my workflow is:[*]Injected the dol with Autoinjectuwad to set the title properly and ticked id to something random.[*]Unpacked said wad with wwpacker, replaced 00000000.app with opening.bnr.[*]Repacked with wwpacker using nomods.

 

[WiiBlaster]

Fair enough,

I done nothing special to get it to work, NSTC USA VERSION

Dumped Original Copy from Wii to USB Hard Drive,

I used a Wad Manager channel has my base Wad cause it was small

Yal loader boot dol renamed 00000001.app and rename the opening.bnr file to 00000000.app injected into wad
on my TIK and TMD i used XAAB has my ID, and hex edited the Yal Loader dol to RSPE01 like i said nothing special, Works good, no problem here

 

[gumbyscout]

What game are you trying to install?

If its Wii Sports, I have trouble with that one too, but all the games I have tried that came out from 2008 onward work for me.

Average Block size is 5.

The biggest channel is Mario Kart Wii at 7 blocks.

It was runefactory frontier. Maybe I just have outdated tools or something...

 

[spiritofcat]

Just read through all the info in this thread and I'm a bit overwhelmed with it all.

Anyone care to make a step-by-step guide for making a channel to boot a game from the HDD?
Including links to the required tools and files would be ideal.

 

[troa11]

Just read through all the info in this thread and I'm a bit overwhelmed with it all.

Anyone care to make a step-by-step guide for making a channel to boot a game from the HDD?
Including links to the required tools and files would be ideal.

As soon as I manage to make a working one for myself...I wholly intend to.

 

[Tichinde925]

I wouldnt call this a "dummies" guide but I guess someone can fully translate this and use easier tools, but this is what I said here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=1872038

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First of all, IOS 222 is needed. Obtain a copy here:

http://www.tehskeen.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=3671

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This is my method for obtaining the Banners from Games (fastest method for me):

Open up the .ISO with WiiScrubber.

Go to the Data Partition.

Scroll down until you see "opening.bnr"

Right click and hit "Save/Extract"

Rename that file to: 00000000.app (This contains the Banner/Icon/Sound files)

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Now for getting the channel to launch the specific game, I have quoted WiiCrazy:

Here is the dol : http://www.tepetaklak.com/data/yal-channel.rar

Find the string RCPP18 in the dol and change with your disc id...

You are supposed to use any Hex Editor and find the text "RCPP18"

Then replace that with the game ID of your .ISO

Mario Kart Wii (NTSC-U) = RMCE01

So if you wanted a Mario Kart Wii Channel, you would replace RCPP18 with RMCE01.

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Obtain a wad file you would like to use as the base.

Unpack the wad, replace the 00000000.app with the one from the ISO.

Rename the .dol to 00000001.app and replace it.

Repack the wad.

I then used the app: "NEW VC INJECTOR" to give the channel a title ID corresponding to the game.

NEW VC INJECTOR: http://www.mediafire.com/?mtixbylxdye

For Mario Kart Wii, I gave it a title ID of: MKWI

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You may use Wadder if you would like as it may be easier but I like doing things manually.

But this is exactly what I do to make channels that launches games stored on a USB drive.

 

[Kurisai]

I'm lost on how to use VC injector. Opening the .exe crashes for me, dragging my wad onto it crashes me... Can't figure out how to make it work.

Do I need other files for it to run?

 

[spiritofcat]

you need to run VC injector in a command line

The usage is:
VC file.wad

then it will ask you to enter the region as a number 0-3, and then the four letter ID.

 

[gumbyscout]

I was able to get the channels made and working thanks to the guide above! Thanks a bunch.

 

[spiritofcat]

Excelent guide Tichinde925, I've got it working now. Thanks so much!

 

[WiiPower]

Sorry did not read the whole thread, but am i the only one seeing that YAL is a SoftChip mod?

 

[snaker]

I just used an opening.bnr and all i get is a question mark in channel.Is there a posibility some opening bnrs not to contain sound banner and stuff?This one was 450kb,too small.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

I dont feel comfortabble try making these myself, anyone working on an "app for dummines"

 

[troa11]

Seem to have encountered a problem with Mario Party 8. Game was ripped in the Wii from an original disc to the hard drive, then extracted with winwbfs delta. When I open it in WiiScrubber to find the banner info, the file browser just says "Wii Disc" with no options or anything. Anyone else want to try this to find the banner info? Or had the same problem with this or another game?

 

[Kurisai]

Seem to have encountered a problem with Mario Party 8. Game was ripped in the Wii from an original disc to the hard drive, then extracted with winwbfs delta. When I open it in WiiScrubber to find the banner info, the file browser just says "Wii Disc" with no options or anything. Anyone else want to try this to find the banner info? Or had the same problem with this or another game?

This happened to me with Brawl. I just assumed it was because of the Dual-Layer thing. This also was the only game I copied form an original disc to my HD and then to my computer.

I also am having trouble installing the IOS 222. I have the .dol, but I'm dumb and don't know what program to use to install it. Any help?

 

[Tichinde925]

I just used an opening.bnr and all i get is a question mark in channel.Is there a posibility some opening bnrs not to contain sound banner and stuff?This one was 450kb,too small.

Im having trouble with Wii Sports.

But 450 kb is not too small.

After installing the channels, my biggest working channel was Mario Kart Wii, and that only took 7 blocks.

There were some channels that were only 4 blocks, while the average was 5 blocks. These opening.bnrs are compressed the way they should be.

QUOTE(Kurisai @ Apr 3 2009, 02:28 AM) I also am having trouble installing the IOS 222. I have the .dol, but I'm dumb and don't know what program to use to install it. Any help?

Rename the .dol to "boot.dol"

Put it inside a folder, and name the folder anything you like.

Move that folder to the Apps folder on the SD Card.

Start up the Homebrew Channel and navigate to the app with the same name as the folder you named. This will be the boot.dol.

Just start the app and it will be ready to install.