GAF Wii Homebrew thread: Homebrew, emulators, USB disc installs! Easy tutorial!

ballerusk said:
Edit: Ofcourse, I hadn't installed the IOS236 Installer ... d'oh! Seems to be working now. I'll update later to share my stupidity :D

Edit2: Works like a charm now, thanks for the tip regarding IOS236 fernoca, I can't seem to remember to have read it anywhere, must have crossed my eyes somewhere.
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No prob. With IOS this and download that and do this, press 1...

Unlike someone I know, that just installed the Homebrew Channel; thought that was it. Then wondered and asked me about the option to rip games after putting a disc. "Oh, I thought it was like the 360 and I could do it from the main menu". :p

Glad that it worked.
 
Like the hat? said:
my hard drive is NTFS, am I better off reformatting to FAT32 and re-ripping my games? I haven't noticed any problems with NTFS, but I dunno.
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There's no need for you to go from NTFS to FAT32, especially if it's working for you. WBFS is the only one you want to consider abandoning.
 
Clipper said:
There's no need for you to go from NTFS to FAT32, especially if it's working for you. WBFS is the only one you want to consider abandoning.
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The only thing he might consider is adding a small FAT32 partition if he didn't want to use an SD card to store his HB apps.
 
I've ripped all the games that I care to let my nephews play (they're probably a bit young for Mad World or Godfather) but I hate my external HDD remains on constantly as long as it is plugged into the Wii. I do unplug it from the USB port after I shut off the Wii, but unplugging it while the platters are spinning is probably not going to do good things for its longevity. I think I'll try to find a cheap 32GB flash drive, but can I just make a direct copy of all the contents of the HDD to the flash drive and have everything work fine?
 
You can also use the Hide function in Cfg to hide those games you don't want the kids playing. You'll then just need to enter a password on the Wiimote that you set yourself to access those games.

The default password is BUDAH12, meaning B-Up-Down-A-Home-1-2, but read the options page in the tutorial to see how to change it. To enter the password, hold down the options button (1 by default) for a few seconds. Once you are in admin mode, you'll have access to the Hide option on games and exiting admin mode will hide them from the list.
 
Any ways to rip my Gamecube games? No problem with Wii games but I don't know if its possible with GC games via the Wii and I have a lot of GC games I'd like to rip!
 
Yep. And to play the GC games you need Dios Mios Lite and it only works on SD Cards.

So, when ripping GameCube games; keep the size of your SD card in mind (if you want to play them on Wii).
 
fernoca said:
Yep. And to play the GC games you need Dios Mios Lite and it only works on SD Cards.

So, when ripping GameCube games; keep the size of your SD card in mind (if you want to play them on Wii).
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Does it make them region free? Japanese imports on PAL gamecube? I assume you still need a memory card,
 
Dash Kappei said:
Does it make them region free? Japanese imports on PAL gamecube? I assume you still need a memory card,
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Nope, not at the moment at least. From what I've read and seen you can only play them on the same region your Wii is.

And yep, GameCube controller and memory card are needed while using it on Gamecube mode. Though there's an app called "No More Memory" which lets you save on SD Cards. But that is still a work in progress, and most games are not compatible with that.

Someone is working on separate version that allows GCN games on Wii, though USB and lets you use Wii Remotes and Classic Controller, Nunchuck, etc. But is still early; and most are not looking forward for it; since the original Dios Mios stopped been updated because outside a few games on USB, most didn't worked. Since the Wii on GCN mode doesn't recognize uSB ports, only recently some discovered that it recognized SD Cards.
 
I just started fooling around with Dios Mios Lite this week. I bought a 16GB SDHC card, class 10. I ripped a few games using Config-MOD (R22) and they worked fine (after unplugging my microphone). I shrunk them on my PC and again, they worked fine.

I made a FAT32 partition on my USB drive and put them in a folder labeled "Games". It's my understanding that Config-MOD is supposed to auto-copy games from this location to the SD card when launching them.

When I tried to start a game, which was about 100 MB when shrunk, it took about 5 minutes, and then loaded a blank screen.

Has anyone else had success with using this autocopy functionality in Config-MOD?
 
My launch-day wii stopped reading games some months ago and I was wondering if there's a way to put the games from disc to hard drive using my pc. anyone knows if such a method exists?
 
Psymon_Stark said:
My launch-day wii stopped reading games some months ago and I was wondering if there's a way to put the games from disc to hard drive using my pc. anyone knows if such a method exists?
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Yes and no. You need a particular class of LG DVD drives that hasn't been manufactured for years and is now pretty much impossible to find. So yes in possibility but no in practicality (unless you are very lucky and happen to have one of those drives already)
 
OK simple question that I'm not sure if its been answered before. I have the Homebrew Channel on my Wii, have so since the HBC came out. I'm just wondering if there is a way I can use the HBC to back up all my old Wii saves, WiiWare, VC and DLC so I can transfer it all to a new system? I think my Wii is having some issues at the moment and I'm not sure if sending my Wii to Nintendo will get the issue resolved as I do have the HBC on my Wii and some of the WiiWare/VC games I have on my system aren't from the Australian Wii Shop (I've changed my system to UK a few times to get some of the games we didn't get down here such as the C64 games).

Its just I'm not liking the possibility of losing all 120+ of my Downloadable games and my various game saves on the system just cause Nintendo doesn't have a reasonable system in place for users to transfer their data.
 
For something as drastic as that, I'd suggest SNEEK to re-emulate your whole NAND on a USB drive or another machine.

However, I'd also suggest just waiting it out and hoping for the best. We need to wait to see what the transfer system to the Wii U is going to be. That might be the easiest way to get some of your stuff over (provided you plan to buy an Aussie Wii again. Personally, I think I'm just going to import the Wii U from the start and keep my Aussie Wii for VC stuff and to play my PAL Wii games until the Wii U gets haked (and if it gets hacked).
 
Clipper said:
Yes and no. You need a particular class of LG DVD drives that hasn't been manufactured for years and is now pretty much impossible to find. So yes in possibility but no in practicality (unless you are very lucky and happen to have one of those drives already)
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thank you :)
I'll look into it, but like you said, I think will be near to impossible to find one.
The other solution is to bring my HDD and games to someone else who has a Wii and use his Wii to copy the games, right?
 
I did the USBloader for dummies guide installing HBC, IOS236, d2x, and the USBloader (v70). Tested it on Xenoblade and Zelda and everything worked just fine. Ripped a few more games, tested it again, and now the loader randomly freezes when starting a game (at "[+] Booting Wii game, please wait...") It is not a game specific issue, as I can get any game working but maybe in one try out of three, which of course makes it much more of a pain than switching DVDs will ever be...
 
jepense said:
I did the USBloader for dummies guide installing HBC, IOS236, d2x, and the USBloader (v70). Tested it on Xenoblade and Zelda and everything worked just fine. Ripped a few more games, tested it again, and now the loader randomly freezes when starting a game (at "[+] Booting Wii game, please wait...") It is not a game specific issue, as I can get any game working but maybe in one try out of three, which of course makes it much more of a pain than switching DVDs will ever be...
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This is perhaps caused by your hard drive going to sleep due to inactivity. There are a few other compatibility type things that could cause the same error. Unfortunately, apart from searching for techniques to disable spin down on your drive, there's no easy answer to figure out how to get it to work more often except by experimenting with different IOSes and usage patterns, perhaps.
 
Clipper said:
This is perhaps caused by your hard drive going to sleep due to inactivity. There are a few other compatibility type things that could cause the same error. Unfortunately, apart from searching for techniques to disable spin down on your drive, there's no easy answer to figure out how to get it to work more often except by experimenting with different IOSes and usage patterns, perhaps.
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Thanks, but the drive going to sleep doesn't seem to be the issue since it is clearly spinning and when I launch a game the drive does try to do something. I guess I'll try wiping the partition and setting up the loader again in case I messed up something. If that doesn't work I'll see if booting a game from the SD card works.
 
jepense said:
Thanks, but the drive going to sleep doesn't seem to be the issue since it is clearly spinning and when I launch a game the drive does try to do something. I guess I'll try wiping the partition and setting up the loader again in case I messed up something. If that doesn't work I'll see if booting a game from the SD card works.
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I looked at what was on the drive, and at least the txt file listing games was not complete. I manually edited it and also removed some games from the drive and now it's working again like it should. Weird, but it seems something had got corrupted when ripping the games.
 
For some reason CleanRip isn't fully ripping my GCN games. It just says write error and exits. Is there something else I could use or is there any way to fix this?
 
My friend's Wii is doing the black dots thing (just in time for Xenoblade, yay!), and he wants to send it to Nintendo for repair. He has BootMii and HBC installed, using the Brawl hack. We both followed the instructions from this thread, actually.

I'm under the impression that it's really easy to remove all traces of BootMii and HBC so Nintendo doesn't refuse service, but if there's an easy guide like the installation ones, I'm blind and missing it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 
It's not actually all that easy. It'll be in the play logs and stuff. Your best bet is to use Dop-Mii to restore all Nintendo IOSes and then use the HBC installer to uninstall Bootmii and HBC.
 
I doubt this is possible, but I have to ask. I imported EU Xenoblade, and was loving it but got distracted after about 20 hours and haven't returned since. I would love to support NoA and buy US Xenoblade, but I don't want to start over and I don't want to just buy the game and have it sit around.

Is it somehow possible to transfer/convert my save between the two versions? I have HBC, CFG, and all the other shit from the tutorial already installed.
 
Azriell said:
I doubt this is possible, but I have to ask. I imported EU Xenoblade, and was loving it but got distracted after about 20 hours and haven't returned since. I would love to support NoA and buy US Xenoblade, but I don't want to start over and I don't want to just buy the game and have it sit around.

Is it somehow possible to transfer/convert my save between the two versions? I have HBC, CFG, and all the other shit from the tutorial already installed.
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I've heard it's possible. Try this.
 
Alright I finally grew a pair and did this shit. I have the homebrew channel installed and I just installed BootMii/IOS since the guide told me to do that. What exactly is BootMii though, and what do I need it for?
 
Baller said:
Alright I finally grew a pair and did this shit. I have the homebrew channel installed and I just installed BootMii/IOS since the guide told me to do that. What exactly is BootMii though, and what do I need it for?
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As explained on the BootMii page, it allows you to back up the Wii drive data so you can revert if you ever do something really stupid (which you won't if you follow the guide).
 
Alrighty, already asked this in the Dolphin thread, but will do hera again:

I want to hop on the dolphin train.

Installed all the stuff on my Wii according to the wiki from the OP and started up the USB loader. Everything up to that point works fine.

My problem: I can't seem to install/save my games to my usb drive. It always automatically goes to my SD card. I got the usb selected in the options (it's formatted FAT32) but somehow it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?

I'm probably missing something trivial here but somehow I can't figure out what it is.

Edit: actually reading the page before this one, could it be because I'm trying to install a GC game?

Edit2: Yeah I gues sthat is the case. That, or trying to use CleanRip. I should looks at the thread in more detail before asking questions..
 
Alrighty, I'm giving up on Dolphin (too unreliable) but I'm glad I tried it out because it got my Wii all home-brewed up, and I absolutely love Configurable USB Loader.

Does anyone know the best method for booting directly into CFG? I've downloaded Priiloader, installed it, copied the .dol file of CFG into my SD card root folder, "installed" the .dol file after booting into Priiloader, and set Priiloader to boot the installed file. I thought this was going to work without a hitch, but something isn't working. CFG does indeed attempt to load when I turn the Wii on, but it gives me this message:

ERROR:
Custom IOS 249 is a stub!
Please reinstall it.
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Then after a few seconds it boots the Homebrew Channel.

Anyone know what's going on with this?
 
Baller said:
Alrighty, I'm giving up on Dolphin (too unreliable) but I'm glad I tried it out because it got my Wii all home-brewed up, and I absolutely love Configurable USB Loader.

Does anyone know the best method for booting directly into CFG? I've downloaded Priiloader, installed it, copied the .dol file of CFG into my SD card root folder, "installed" the .dol file after booting into Priiloader, and set Priiloader to boot the installed file. I thought this was going to work without a hitch, but something isn't working. CFG does indeed attempt to load when I turn the Wii on, but it gives me this message:



Then after a few seconds it boots the Homebrew Channel.

Anyone know what's going on with this?
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Priiloader ignores the meta.xml. What you want to do is use the forwarder .dol as the thing which is launched.
 
Ok so actually...I still have a problem using the forwarder. The forwarder doesn't actually create a .dol file. The one included is simply the installer, so when I tell Priiloader to boot that it just takes me to the install screen again. The file in my sd:\ directory is a .wad, which Priiloader apparently doesn't recognize.

Any way around that?
 
Baller said:
Ok so actually...I still have a problem using the forwarder. The forwarder doesn't actually create a .dol file. The one included is simply the installer, so when I tell Priiloader to boot that it just takes me to the install screen again. The file in my sd:\ directory is a .wad, which Priiloader apparently doesn't recognize.

Any way around that?
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I thought it included a .dol version of the forwarder in the download. Perhaps that was the old forwarder, though... I'll look into it and see if I can find the .dol version...

In any case, I forgot to say earlier that I don't recommend autobooting directly to Cfg. The Wii Menu does a few housekeeping things that are sometimes worth performing (such as playtime logging).

Edit: OK, here's the info you need to get the .dol version...

Check this thread for the source of the Forwarder. You can use Modmii to compile this into .dol or .wad form. There's some posts in the latter part of the linked thread that indicate how to do that.
 
Ah, well if there are possible issues with playtime logging then I guess I'll keep things as they are. I currently have it set to boot into the Homebrew Channel. That's probably safe, right?
 
Baller said:
Ah, well if there are possible issues with playtime logging then I guess I'll keep things as they are. I currently have it set to boot into the Homebrew Channel. That's probably safe, right?
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You'll still miss out on the playtime logging that way. It's a process that happens immediately after the Wii gets back to the Wii Menu. If you never see the Wii Menu, it will never happen.

If the logging isn't important to you, it's safe to bypass the menu (none of the other tasks you miss out on are critical).
 
I have this issue where i'm launching CFG from SD:\ and my games are stored in USB:\ (NTFS) but i want to save my configuration and covers in the USB as my SD doesn't have enough space.

Is there any workaround? Thanks in advance.
 
SuperÑ;36835520 said:
I have this issue where i'm launching CFG from SD:\ and my games are stored in USB:\ (NTFS) but i want to save my configuration and covers in the USB as my SD doesn't have enough space.

Is there any workaround? Thanks in advance.
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Move your sd:/usb-loader directory over to the NTFS partition and it should work just fine. You have to move it to ensure that Cfg doesn't find sd:/usb-loader/config.txt, which is the first place it will look. After that, it will look in the same directory on the first partitions of the hard drive, and if it finds it there, it will use that as your base directory.

I'm assuming you already have ntfs_write=1 in config.txt as well to store your games on the drive, but that is important too, of course.
 
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