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[Bigfoot]

Yes, the new HBC survives the 4.3 update. You would then need to reinstall IOS249, IOS222 and IOS223.

Before you even attempt it, I'd retry the shop update, though.

I updated my HBC yesterday. Is there any benefit to doing the 4.3 update vs. updating the shop and cIOS249 on its own?

I know I have 222 and 223 installed but I'm not sure what base or version.

Also, 249 and 250 are both rev 19 but I have no idea what base anymore.

It sounds like only 249 rev 20 (base 56) covers everything in Cfg now... is that right? If so, is there any reason to have the 222 and 223 installed? Does WiiMC need them?


Edit: This is the guide I used for my cIOS when I updated to 4.2: cIOS Guide

I'm not sure how it matches up with the GAF Wiki Guide which I used for most things, but for some reason I went with this guide for the cIOS selection as it made sense at the time. These are the cIOS it installed:

IOS202[60]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = USB2.0 for MPlayer, WiiXplorer and stuff
IOS222[38]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = Stable IOS with the ability to install Wads
IOS223[37]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = For use with Music Games with USB devices like Rock Band, Guitar Hero...
IOS224[57]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = Better speed for USB loading. However, some Games might not work

IOS249[57]-v19 (rev19 of Waninkokos cIOS) = Recommend by Waninkoko. Improves speed for USB loading. However, some Games might not work.
IOS250[38]-v65535 (rev19 of Waninkokos cIOS) = Stable IOS with the ability to install Wads


One last thing... I have always been using IOS249 as the main IOS for Cfg. I only used 223 for Guitar Hero and RB (never needed it for anything else I own).

 

[Clipper]

I updated my HBC yesterday. Is there any benefit to doing the 4.3 update vs. updating the shop and cIOS249 on its own?

I know I have 222 and 223 installed but I'm not sure what base or version.

Also, 249 and 250 are both rev 19 but I have no idea what base anymore.

It sounds like only 249 rev 20 (base 56) covers everything in Cfg now... is that right? If so, is there any reason to have the 222 and 223 installed? Does WiiMC need them?


Edit: This is the guide I used for my cIOS when I updated to 4.2: cIOS Guide

I'm not sure how it matches up with the GAF Wiki Guide which I used for most things, but for some reason I went with this guide for the cIOS selection as it made sense at the time. These are the cIOS it installed:

IOS202[60]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = USB2.0 for MPlayer, WiiXplorer and stuff
IOS222[38]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = Stable IOS with the ability to install Wads
IOS223[37]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = For use with Music Games with USB devices like Rock Band, Guitar Hero...
IOS224[57]-v65535 (v5 of Hermes cIOS) = Better speed for USB loading. However, some Games might not work

IOS249[57]-v19 (rev19 of Waninkokos cIOS) = Recommend by Waninkoko. Improves speed for USB loading. However, some Games might not work.
IOS250[38]-v65535 (rev19 of Waninkokos cIOS) = Stable IOS with the ability to install Wads


One last thing... I have always been using IOS249 as the main IOS for Cfg. I only used 223 for Guitar Hero and RB (never needed it for anything else I own).

No. Don't update to 4.3 via the Nintendo update unless you have no other choice. I only suggested it to jufonuk as an attempt to check why he's getting download errors. I don't think the official update will fix the problem, I just don't have any more ideas.

As for your IOSes, rev 20 base 56 should allow you to play Guitar Hero and RB in addition to all other games and you might even see faster loading times for the music games. WiiMC only needs 202. There is no problem with leaving 222/223/224 on your system. However, I have to ask if you had any issues using 223 for the games. Cfg is not fully compatible with v5 of Hermes' IOS and many people experience random crashes during the game. Did you have this problem?

 

[Bigfoot]

As for your IOSes, rev 20 base 56 should allow you to play Guitar Hero and RB in addition to all other games and you might even see faster loading times for the music games. WiiMC only needs 202. There is no problem with leaving 222/223/224 on your system. However, I have to ask if you had any issues using 223 for the games. Cfg is not fully compatible with v5 of Hermes' IOS and many people experience random crashes during the game. Did you have this problem?

Since updating to 4.2 / rev5 of Hermes, I think I have only played GH:WT a few times and I don't remember getting any crashes. I don't think I've played RB2 since I updated. I've been meaning to try the Rawk application for RB2 so I can play all the songs together but I never got around to it.

 

[Alpha_eX]

Hey everyone, I just got back from Japan and managed to find a copy of Fatal Frame 4. I know there is a translation patch to play it but i'm not sure of two things.

How to run the patch.
How to run the game on a Modded UK (PAL) Wii.

My Wii can run Homebrew stuff, it has the Homebrew channel but I think I need some sort of region unlocker thing?

Can anyone help me out, would really like to play this tonight. My Wii is connected online, doesn't have the latest firmware and I also have SD card ect so I can download things, just not sure exactly of what I need and how to run it.

Big thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out.

 

[Dascu]

Hey everyone, I just got back from Japan and managed to find a copy of Fatal Frame 4. I know there is a translation patch to play it but i'm not sure of two things.

How to run the patch.
How to run the game on a Modded UK (PAL) Wii.

My Wii can run Homebrew stuff, it has the Homebrew channel but I think I need some sort of region unlocker thing?

Can anyone help me out, would really like to play this tonight. My Wii is connected online, doesn't have the latest firmware and I also have SD card ect so I can download things, just not sure exactly of what I need and how to run it.

Big thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out.

1. How much is a Japanese in-store copy of Fatal Frame IV?
2. Just check out http://www.cameraslens.com/forum/index.php?board=76.0 As I understand it, you just need to copy the contents of the patch onto an SD card. You don't need to install any homebrew or region-free code.

 

[woodsey1982]

Hi everyone, I'm having real trouble playing multi-game GC backups on my wii at the moment!

I've used MultiGameISOCreator to mount both Luigi's Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine onto a DVD-r however, both Neogamma R8 Beta 7, and Gamecube Backup Launcher ( from homebrew channel ) give me errors - Neogamma gives the 1053 error, GC Backup launcher says no disk installed!?


I have no problem running Wii backups via USB loader...it just seems to be my GC Backups ( all burned at 2x ).

Any help?

 

[Clipper]

Hi everyone, I'm having real trouble playing multi-game GC backups on my wii at the moment!

I've used MultiGameISOCreator to mount both Luigi's Mansion and Super Mario Galaxy onto a DVD-r however, both Neogamma R8 Beta 7, and Gamecube Backup Launcher ( from homebrew channel ) give me errors - Neogamma gives the 1053 error, GC Backup launcher says no disk installed!?


I have no problem running Wii backups via USB loader...it just seems to be my GC Backups ( all burned at 2x ).

Any help?

I suggest you stop using burnt discs in your Wii altogether. There is a lot of evidence to show that burnt discs severely lower the lifetime of the Wii's laser. Play from your originals for now. Also, wait for Dios Mios, which is slated for launch in October or so. Then you can play GCN games you own from USB.

 

[Htown]

Hey, I was trying to update the Wii Shop via the WiiSCU tutorial on the wiki, but when I start installing it says "Downloading content #1 of 15 .. hash BAD" and then kicks me back to the HBC menu when a button is pressed.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

4.2 firmware, just installed ios236 and the new version of 249 without problems, all following the wiki instructions.

 

[Veal]

Hey, I was trying to update the Wii Shop via the WiiSCU tutorial on the wiki, but when I start installing it says "Downloading content #1 of 15 .. hash BAD" and then kicks me back to the HBC menu when a button is pressed.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

4.2 firmware, just installed ios236 and the new version of 249 without problems, all following the wiki instructions.

I tried to use both of the methods described in the wiki and got that response from both of them. In a moment of desperation, I use nintendo's official updater. I now have no USB Loader It's not such a big deal, since I still have my games on disc, but still...

 

[Hesemonni]

Also, wait for Dios Mios, which is slated for launch in October or so. Then you can play GCN games you own from USB.

*fap fap*

 

[Clipper]

Hey, I was trying to update the Wii Shop via the WiiSCU tutorial on the wiki, but when I start installing it says "Downloading content #1 of 15 .. hash BAD" and then kicks me back to the HBC menu when a button is pressed.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

4.2 firmware, just installed ios236 and the new version of 249 without problems, all following the wiki instructions.

Delete the sd:/00010002/48414241/v19 and any similar directories from your SD card. It is likely you have a previous installation of a different version of the shop messing things up. If that doesn't work, perform the offline installation I just added to the tutorial for method 2.

I tried to use both of the methods described in the wiki and got that response from both of them. In a moment of desperation, I use nintendo's official updater. I now have no USB Loader It's not such a big deal, since I still have my games on disc, but still...

The tutorial has ways for you to get everything back. Take a look and post again if you have trouble finding what you need. It is safe to reinstall anything you still have, so just treat your Wii as if it didn't have any of the needed IOSes.

 

[Htown]

Delete the sd:/00010002/48414241/v19 and any similar directories from your SD card. It is likely you have a previous installation of a different version of the shop messing things up. If that doesn't work, perform the offline installation I just added to the tutorial for method 2.

So just the folder that says v19 or everything under 00010002?

 

[Mejilan]

I wanted to mention that following the wiki guide, I had a much easier time than expected getting all of my (101) Wii games off my WBFS formatted HDD and converted to a FAT32 friendly formatted. I then proceeded to delete the small FAT32 and huge WBFS partitions from that HDD, reformatted the whole thing into a single FAT32 partition, and got all 101 back onto it. After a quick update of Cfg USB Loader and a few tweaked settings via Configurator, I had no problems getting the newly reformatted HDD, and all of it's games, properly recognized and functioning. It all took longer than I would have imagined, but being a mostly automated and hands off process, it beats refilling all od those games! Cheers!

 

[Clipper]

So just the folder that says v19 or everything under 00010002?

Delete the whole directory. It just contains pre-downloaded versions of the shop channel. Deleting them will force it to redownload.

 

[Krev]

Hey, I was trying to update the Wii Shop via the WiiSCU tutorial on the wiki, but when I start installing it says "Downloading content #1 of 15 .. hash BAD" and then kicks me back to the HBC menu when a button is pressed.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

4.2 firmware, just installed ios236 and the new version of 249 without problems, all following the wiki instructions.

I tried to use both of the methods described in the wiki and got that response from both of them. In a moment of desperation, I use nintendo's official updater. I now have no USB Loader It's not such a big deal, since I still have my games on disc, but still...

I had the same problem (minus the using Nintendo's updater thing) and tried downloading the new Shop Channel through DopMii. It worked perfectly where the other two methods failed, and I have no idea why the GWHT doesn't recommend it for this purpose.

 

[Htown]

Nope. None of the methods are working for me. Not WiiSCU, not Dop-Shop with a download, not Dop-Shop with the stuff downloaded from NUS onto the card, nada. Same thing every time, something saying that the hash is bad when it's time to install the first content.

Before trying this stuff, I did install IOS236 and then use that to install the new version of 249. Both of those installations completed successfully.

I don't get what the problem is.

 

[Krev]

Nope. None of the methods are working for me. Not WiiSCU, not Dop-Shop with a download, not Dop-Shop with the stuff downloaded from NUS onto the card, nada. Same thing every time, something saying that the hash is bad when it's time to install the first content.

Before trying this stuff, I did install IOS236 and then use that to install the new version of 249. Both of those installations completed successfully.

I don't get what the problem is.

Not Dop-Shop...DopMii. You can use it to download the new version of the shop channel. As long as you have ios236 and updated 249 before you download it, you're good to go.

 

[Htown]

Not Dop-Shop...DopMii. You can use it to download the new version of the shop channel. As long as you have ios236 and updated 249 before you download it, you're good to go.

Great Scott! You were right! Thanks a ton!

Still had that program from when I did the safe update to 4.2, and using some tiny modifications to the Method 2 from the upgrade wiki page, it installed fine!

I guess you need ios236 and the updated 249 for this to work:

Method 2: Dop-Mii

Start the Homebrew Channel and run Dop-Mii.
Press A at the intro screen.
Select IOS236 to install other IOSes with left/right and push A.
Select Channels and push A.
Select Shopping Channel.
Do NOT under any circumstances change the region.
Push + to install.

and so forth

 

[Krev]

Great Scott! You were right! Thanks a ton!

No problem.

I think this method should be added to the Wiki, since I've seen a bunch of people run into problems with the WiiScu/DopShop methods.

 

[Clipper]

I'll add the Dop-Mii method. The methods that try to get the latest version from the shop, like Dop-Mii, tend to fail on many Wiis (downloading the wrong version), though. That's why it wasn't in there. If it's the only way to fix this hash bad error, though, I guess it's needed.

 

[blu]

wiiSCU perils here. version 0.25 fails to install IOS38 -truch with a message:

Installing IOS38 without trucha bug ..
ES_Decrypt returned -1017

Downloading content #1 of #15 ..hash BAD

after which any button press terminates wiiSCU.

same with IOS58 & 61 :/ system menu is 4.2U, HBC is 1.0.7, IOS61 v22.29.

and all that after wiiSCU 0.24 had installed flawlessly every single IOS from its set 5 minutes earlier.

 

[Clipper]

wiiSCU perils here. version 0.25 fails to install IOS38 -truch with a message:

Installing IOS38 without trucha bug ..
ES_Decrypt returned -1017

Downloading content #1 of #15 ..hash BAD

after which any button press terminates wiiSCU.

same with IOS58 & 61 :/ system menu is 4.2U, HBC is 1.0.7, IOS61 v22.29.

and all that after wiiSCU 0.24 had installed flawlessly every single IOS from its set 5 minutes earlier.

Why are you trying to install IOS38 with WiiSCU? There is absolutely no need to do it. Also, WiiSCU 0.25 is going to try to install the exact same IOSes as WiiSCU 0.24. I'm not sure if the official IOSes will like being upgraded with their current version.

 

[Beth Cyra]

Can any one point me to the exact part of the Wiki that will teach me which thing I need to install to keep the Wii from updating so I can keep my Homebrew?

I am tried to play both Metroid Prime Tri and Tats VS Capcom and it asks me to update. I am cool if there some wya that allows me to by pass it using disks (not given much of a chioce, it locks up everytime I install my copy of MP Tri anyway.) but I am looking in the wrong area, tried both hardware and software sections on the Wiki.

I am probably over looking it but I was hoping someone could hlep me out.

 

[Clipper]

Can any one point me to the exact part of the Wiki that will teach me which thing I need to install to keep the Wii from updating so I can keep my Homebrew?

I am tried to play both Metroid Prime Tri and Tats VS Capcom and it asks me to update. I am cool if there some wya that allows me to by pass it using disks (not given much of a chioce, it locks up everytime I install my copy of MP Tri anyway.) but I am looking in the wrong area, tried both hardware and software sections on the Wiki.

I am probably over looking it but I was hoping someone could hlep me out.

http://gwht.wikidot.com/avoid-disc-updates

 

[Beth Cyra]

http://gwht.wikidot.com/avoid-disc-updates

Thanks Clipper.

Didn't get it to work, probably the wrong Firmware version, but that said I was finally able to get MPT to install on my USB loader, problem is now when ever I select one of the three options it just gives me a black screen and never leaves it.


Intresting when I select default it boots into the game and I can start Prime 3 but after the scene with Samus shooting her beam canon it kicks me back to the Wii Menu.

Edit:

Was able to solve all the above problems. Got Prime 1 and 2 to load because I had saves of them so I just need to have a save of Prime 3, which leads me back to needing to get Prime 3 to load but now I just need to find which update I need to the Startpatch.

 

[Clipper]

Thanks Clipper.

Didn't get it to work, probably the wrong Firmware version, but that said I was finally able to get MPT to install on my USB loader, problem is now when ever I select one of the three options it just gives me a black screen and never leaves it.


Intresting when I select default it boots into the game and I can start Prime 3 but after the scene with Samus shooting her beam canon it kicks me back to the Wii Menu.

Edit:

Was able to solve all the above problems. Got Prime 1 and 2 to load because I had saves of them so I just need to have a save of Prime 3, which leads me back to needing to get Prime 3 to load but now I just need to find which update I need to the Startpatch.

You don't really want to play MPT from USB. You will be stuck with Veteran difficulty and the first save slot. However, I guess you are already using the alt dol method to play them if you got them working at all. If MP3 is not working, then it sounds like you have one of the older versions of IOS249 with the dual layer bug. Reinstall it according to the reinstallation section of the tutorial and it should work. Note that you will also have to delete MPT from your drive and rerip it. The currently installed version of the game will be wrong.

As for avoiding the updates, you can verify the firmware version ion the Wii settings. The patches shouldn't apply if you don't have the right version, so maybe you forgot to select the save option at the end?

In any case, the updates on the discs you mentioned are safe to run, so if you can't figure out how to avoid the updates, then just run them (provided the discs are from your region, of course).

 

[Beth Cyra]

You don't really want to play MPT from USB. You will be stuck with Veteran difficulty and the first save slot. However, I guess you are already using the alt dol method to play them if you got them working at all. If MP3 is not working, then it sounds like you have one of the older versions of IOS249 with the dual layer bug. Reinstall it according to the reinstallation section of the tutorial and it should work. Note that you will also have to delete MPT from your drive and rerip it. The currently installed version of the game will be wrong.

As for avoiding the updates, you can verify the firmware version ion the Wii settings. The patches shouldn't apply if you don't have the right version, so maybe you forgot to select the save option at the end?

In any case, the updates on the discs you mentioned are safe to run, so if you can't figure out how to avoid the updates, then just run them (provided the discs are from your region, of course).

Oh awesome I didn't think I could run them, and yes Prime is from my region. Thank again.

 

[blu]

Why are you trying to install IOS38 with WiiSCU? There is absolutely no need to do it.

i normally do en masse updates of all available IOSes in wiiSCU.

Also, WiiSCU 0.25 is going to try to install the exact same IOSes as WiiSCU 0.24.

IOS58 is actually new.

I'm not sure if the official IOSes will like being upgraded with their current version.

well, they didn't mind that in wiiSCU 0.24.

 

[Beth Cyra]

Actually there has been something I have been meaning to ask.

I have been using a 1.5 terrabite external HDD. But the thing is i locks up every now and then during cutscenes or load when it goes to load.

Would this be helped if I had a smaller drive? As it stands I only have about 12 Wii games in my collection rigth now so using a drive this massive is overkill and if I can get better performance by changing it out for something smaller I would definitly do it.

If the drives don't matter well then it is probably a firmware homebrew thing, after all I almost screwed my Wii up when I did all the installs and everything.

If it does matter, could someone recommend a good drive to use to keep my games running smooth?

Edit: While I am sure most have guessed I am an idiot by now I just realized how big myself. For some reason I never though to click on the banner and for some reason always went and Homebrew Wiki instead of GafWii Wiki. I didn't get that they where infact two seprate things.

You guys did a great job, now that I am actually at the right place I am getting all the info I could need and it really helped me iron out most of the kinks. Sorry again Clipper for asking you althose questions when the info was right there.

Edit2: Damn things really are so much easier when you just follow the guidlines.

Still I am having problems because I don't think my drive likes it but installing the new rev and a few othre pieces of homebrew where easy as pie, I loved it.

Now if I can just get a drive that doesn't cause it to freeze up at Initlaizing USB or freezing up on cutscenes I will be made in the shade.

Edit3: Well i hope it is the drive anyway, power cycliing gets me passed the Wake up part but now it freezes up before I even get past the Wii remote strap warning. Don't see how it could be anything but the Harddrive but then again I had a hard time setting up some really easy shit so I don't really trust myself here.

Well I went ahead and reformatted because, and it did fix my problem, it is probably a temproary fix but it works so that is all I care about for now.

 

[Clipper]

I think I have discovered the issue which causes the Hash Bad error. IOS249 rev20 base56 seems that it might not support unsigned IOS downloads fully. I was helping someone softmod a Wii today and discovered the issue for myself. And for some reason, Dop-Shop wouldn't let me choose IOS236 (I used 222). I'll do some more research into this soon.

TruePrime, glad to hear you discovered the GWHT and solved your issues. Your problem sounded like spindown, so I'm really surprised that reformatting fixed it, as that shouldn't have changed anything.

I do wonder if there are others that don't realise how to get to the GWHT. Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this? Maybe changing the title to "Click Mario in the second post to answer most of your questions" or something?

i normally do en masse updates of all available IOSes in wiiSCU.

Be very careful doing this. It is not really recommended as there is no need to upgrade those IOSes and doing so could even cause your Wii to brick in future (especially if a Firmware 5.0 shows up and they stub IOS70).

IOS58 is actually new.

OK, but you only need this if you are using a webcam game, and you are better off using the update on the disc for these.

well, they didn't mind that in wiiSCU 0.24.

They were new versions in 0.24, I think. If you hadn't done any updating since 4.3 came out, then running the 0.24 version would have installed a bunch of 4.3 IOSes onto your Wii. They have more stringent checks, especially when updating IOSes to different versions, and that would explain why you are having trouble now (i.e., it's the first time you are using them, perhaps).

 

[Clipper]

A new version of the HBC is out, but it doesn't add too much special. However, it has made Team Twiizers let piracy protection get to their heads a little and they've gone through Wiibrew and removed all apps that related to installing IOSes apart from the official ones. Most of the apps were hosted offsite, but WiiSCU and probably a few others were actually hosted there and now only exist as downloaded copies on users' drives.

I think I've fixed all the links on the tutorial to counteract this prohibition, but I have temporarily removed WiiSCU until it finds a new home. If anybody finds any more broken links, please let me know and I'll fix them up.

This is a bad day for those of us that use USB Loaders responsibly .

 

[Dragona Akehi]

A new version of the HBC is out, but it doesn't add too much special. However, it has made Team Twiizers let piracy protection get to their heads a little and they've gone through Wiibrew and removed all apps that related to installing IOSes apart from the official ones. Most of the apps were hosted offsite, but WiiSCU and probably a few others were actually hosted there and now only exist as downloaded copies on users' drives.

I think I've fixed all the links on the tutorial to counteract this prohibition, but I have temporarily removed WiiSCU until it finds a new home. If anybody finds any more broken links, please let me know and I'll fix them up.

This is a bad day for those of us that use USB Loaders responsibly .

It does make me worry that in future releases HBC will refuse to boot USBLoader, or look for IOS222/249 and refuse to boot at all. It's entirely their prerogative, but I own fifty Wii games that are all installed on my HDD that I've ripped myself...

 

[Dogbert8]

With IOS56 and IOS58 making the news recently, I spent the day upgrading my Wii to catch up from missed updates over the past year. I updated HBC (1.0.8), Wii System Menu (4.3), IOS249 (rev 20b), and various homebrew apps. Everything seems to be functioning, except for one very odd problem. I seem to have lost USB2 support (at least for some apps) somewhere along the way!

I think the problem stems from HBC not loading on IOS58. It shows IOS61 in the corner on the menu. I am on 4.3, and I even ran the IOS58 installer after I noticed the problem in case there was some weird glitch in my update, but no dice. Any ideas why HBC would be running off 61 instead of 58?

Update: Never mind... Turns out because I didn't have IOS58 installed before HBC, it set 61 as the default. Now that I do have 58, a quick reinstall of HBC solved the problem. Hurray!

This is a bad day for those of us that use USB Loaders responsibly .

Indeed. It seems all sides point at each other with accusations of piracy. There are legal uses for all homebrew, and it would be nice if people out there didn't automatically assume the worst.

 

[Remfin]

They've already said they have no intention of ever doing anything like stopping people from loading other stuff. They simply aren't going to go out of their way to support it anymore since it has all been rendered obsolete.

This is honestly more of a wake-up call than anything else. CIOSes should have been progressing to this point anyway, but they've been stuck in a rut. Riivolution is the model of what should actually be done instead of the ugly hacks that have been going on.

 

[nincompoop]

I started having a weird issue trying to watch videos with WiiMC today. The video playback seems fine, and the pause/volume/rewind and fast forward buttons still work when I use them on the remote, but the user interface doesn't show up like it's supposed to when I use them, nor does the interface pop up when I point at the screen. (The pointer still works when navigating menus though.) Also when I hit the home button to go back to the file select menu it appears to lock up. I just moved into a campus apartment today which doesn't have wireless so my Wii is offline for the time being, but that's the only thing that's changed since yesterday (when it worked just fine) and I'm not sure why that would have any effect on WiiMC.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

So my Wii has started to freeze up when playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I played some Ogre Battle on the VC and never had a problem, but it seems as if I might be having an issue with Super Smash Bros. Is there any way to reflash all the IOSes easily to fix any errors there might be?

 

[Fess]

There are legal uses for all homebrew, and it would be nice if people out there didn't automatically assume the worst.

Well, it's basically the same thing with p2p file sharing and torrents, mp3s, etc. This is what happens when there are thousands, or more, pirates for every legal user.
And you know what, personally I know about 5 people using the homebrew possibilitiy on the Wii. And all of them use it primarily to get games for free. :/

 

[Dragona Akehi]

So my Wii has started to freeze up when playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I played some Ogre Battle on the VC and never had a problem, but it seems as if I might be having an issue with Super Smash Bros. Is there any way to reflash all the IOSes easily to fix any errors there might be?

Can you still play the game from the disc? If that's the case then it might be an IOS error. If you can't then there's something probably going south on your Wii's hardware.

 

[Metal Gear?!]

Is there a single (custom) IOS version that can support FAT32, WiiSpeak, YourShape Camera, Rockband Instruments, and SDHC all in one?

 

[Clipper]

So my Wii has started to freeze up when playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I played some Ogre Battle on the VC and never had a problem, but it seems as if I might be having an issue with Super Smash Bros. Is there any way to reflash all the IOSes easily to fix any errors there might be?

I doubt it's an IOS problem, but if you want to upgrade everything anyway, every page of the tutorial has updating notes.

Is there a single (custom) IOS version that can support FAT32, WiiSpeak, YourShape Camera, Rockband Instruments, and SDHC all in one?

The only IOS that supports the camera is IOS58 and neither cIOS supports it at this stage. IOS249 rev 20 base 56 does pretty much everything else, though (perhaps not SDHC).

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

Possibly unrelated and/or already answered question... Has anyone tried doing a NAND backup from one system and restore that backup on another? I'd assume there would be issues involved with keys and serial numbers and things, but would there be a logical or practical use to it? Could you for example have a fresh Wii formatted and empty, but with all of the updated IOS in place for setting up proper homebrew and then just "flash" that on to different systems and go from there? I imagine this sets up an enormous host of issues depending on which system you start with, which you try to apply it to, etc, but in theory at least, could it be done?

 

[Clipper]

Possibly unrelated and/or already answered question... Has anyone tried doing a NAND backup from one system and restore that backup on another? I'd assume there would be issues involved with keys and serial numbers and things, but would there be a logical or practical use to it? Could you for example have a fresh Wii formatted and empty, but with all of the updated IOS in place for setting up proper homebrew and then just "flash" that on to different systems and go from there? I imagine this sets up an enormous host of issues depending on which system you start with, which you try to apply it to, etc, but in theory at least, could it be done?

It's not possible as you describe. The NAND of each Wii is encrypted for that Wii alone. However, the NAND emulation offered by SNEEK and UNEEK can allow that, but you would also get the same NAND encryption setup as anyone else using that image, so it would break a lot of things like the Wii Shop.

Thus, it's kind of possible in theory, but not if you plan to use Wii homebrew responsibly. Also, you have to hack the destination Wii to get SNEEK going, of course.

 

[Beth Cyra]

A new version of the HBC is out, but it doesn't add too much special. However, it has made Team Twiizers let piracy protection get to their heads a little and they've gone through Wiibrew and removed all apps that related to installing IOSes apart from the official ones. Most of the apps were hosted offsite, but WiiSCU and probably a few others were actually hosted there and now only exist as downloaded copies on users' drives.

I think I've fixed all the links on the tutorial to counteract this prohibition, but I have temporarily removed WiiSCU until it finds a new home. If anybody finds any more broken links, please let me know and I'll fix them up.

This is a bad day for those of us that use USB Loaders responsibly .

This is sadnews, I have been unwilling to upgrade offically because I didn't want to lose this fuction because I love having the games I bought being stored on the HDD, saving them from damage and keeping all of them at my fingertips.

Still So long as they don't take the function away before I can experince Other M after bringing it home I will survive though I do wish it hadn't of come to this.

 

[Clipper]

This is sadnews, I have been unwilling to upgrade offically because I didn't want to lose this fuction because I love having the games I bought being stored on the HDD, saving them from damage and keeping all of them at my fingertips.

Still So long as they don't take the function away before I can experince Other M after bringing it home I will survive though I do wish it hadn't of come to this.

Don't worry. They aren't taking the function away, nor will they. They just decided to delete a whole lot of information about the apps on a Wiki they control. All the apps are still available, but we have only lost the most useful resource we had to manage them.

It's kind of funny. You can basically separate homebrew users into three main categories:

1. Those that like apps, but shun any tool that can be used for direct piracy
2. Those that use the tools that could be used for piracy honestly for the other benefits they provide, such as faster load times and elimination of disc switching in USB Loaders.
3. Nasty, filthy, dirty pirates.

Being in group 2, I have always felt an affinity to group 1. We are still doing the moral thing, but taking advantage of all the Wii has to offer. With this event, Team Twiizers has now seemed to show that they pretty much fully associate us with group 3. Yet, they still scoff when Nintendo considers all three groups to be essentially the same.

I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that group 2 is probably a huge minority to both other groups (especially to group 3 which is almost certainly the largest). There definitely aren't many places where you'll find many of us (GAF being one, thank goodness). This could very well explain the apparent hypocrisy. There aren't enough of us to really matter to Team Twiizers. Or perhaps they don't know we exist or don't trust that we do.

In any case, we are here and we can continue to enjoy the benefits, even if Team Twiizers assumes we are pirates. Long live moral USB Loading!

 

[autobzooty]

Is there a way to wipe all the cIOS stuff from my system and reinstall it from scratch? Things have just kinda not been working for me lately and I just wanna start over from step one on the GAF wiki.

Is there something special I need to do to get a fresh start, or would starting over from step 1 still work even though I already have a semi-functional homebrew channel on my system?

 

[Clipper]

Is there a way to wipe all the cIOS stuff from my system and reinstall it from scratch? Things have just kinda not been working for me lately and I just wanna start over from step one on the GAF wiki.

Is there something special I need to do to get a fresh start, or would starting over from step 1 still work even though I already have a semi-functional homebrew channel on my system?

The only nice way is if you had a Bootmii backup from before you started installing anything else. However, it's unlikely you have that.

Yes, you can just do everything in the Wiki again, which would approximate a fresh start. Nothing there will hurt you if you already have the stuff installed. The only thing this won't fix up is any stuff you installed to the Wii that wasn't mentioned in the tutorial, but there is no reason to have done that. If you did, then any other IOSes you installed should be updated to the latest official Nintendo versions with Dop-Mii.

 

[Metal Gear?!]

The only IOS that supports the camera is IOS58 and neither cIOS supports it at this stage. IOS249 rev 20 base 56 does pretty much everything else, though (perhaps not SDHC).

Ah it's too bad, but I guess only having to have two discs to swap between isn't that bad. At least my drive isn't dying yet.

It's too bad about the SDHC with Rockband 3 coming out soon.

 

[fatty]

Don't worry. They aren't taking the function away, nor will they. They just decided to delete a whole lot of information about the apps on a Wiki they control. All the apps are still available, but we have only lost the most useful resource we had to manage them.

It's kind of funny. You can basically separate homebrew users into three main categories:

1. Those that like apps, but shun any tool that can be used for direct piracy
2. Those that use the tools that could be used for piracy honestly for the other benefits they provide, such as faster load times and elimination of disc switching in USB Loaders.
3. Nasty, filthy, dirty pirates.

Being in group 2, I have always felt an affinity to group 1. We are still doing the moral thing, but taking advantage of all the Wii has to offer. With this event, Team Twiizers has now seemed to show that they pretty much fully associate us with group 3. Yet, they still scoff when Nintendo considers all three groups to be essentially the same.

I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that group 2 is probably a huge minority to both other groups (especially to group 3 which is almost certainly the largest). There definitely aren't many places where you'll find many of us (GAF being one, thank goodness). This could very well explain the apparent hypocrisy. There aren't enough of us to really matter to Team Twiizers. Or perhaps they don't know we exist or don't trust that we do.

In any case, we are here and we can continue to enjoy the benefits, even if Team Twiizers assumes we are pirates. Long live moral USB Loading!

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the problem I am encountering. The other day my daughter wanted to play Boom Blox Party from Configurable USB Loader and it was not wanting to mount the drive. Restarting the Wii and HBC and then HBC was telling me there was a new update available. Tried to download it and it froze on me. Now whenever I try to start HBC the screen just goes blank. And the bad thing is that I can't play it from the disc either unless I want to upgrade my f/w which I don't want to officially (I'm currently on 3.2U).

Is my best option just to follow this section of the wiki and manually copy the latest version of HBC over the one I currently have on the card?

...download the latest version of the Hackmii Installer and use the following procedure:

Create a subdirectory called sd:/apps/BootMiiHBCUpgrade/ on your SD card.
Download HackMii Installer v0.7 or later from this page.
Unzip HackMii Installer and copy boot.elf to sd:/apps/BootMiiHBCUpgrade/
Start HBC and load the /apps/BootMiiHBCUpgrade/boot.elf application.
Follow installation steps above.

 

[Clipper]

Is my best option just to follow this section of the wiki and manually copy the latest version of HBC over the one I currently have on the card?

yes

 

[Bigfoot]

I updated my WiiMC to 1.09 and used their channel installer to install the forwarder channel. However, when I use the channel, my Wii restarts. Apparently I need IOS58 for WiiMC to work this way now as it uses IOS58 for USB2.0. Is there a recommended way to install IOS58?

Update: I took a leap and used Dop-Mii. I had to get the latest version as v12 didn't have the 4.3 IOS updates. I installed IOS58 v6175 with no patches and now WiiMC works. Not sure if this is worth including in the Wiki, but from what I've read, using IOS58 for USB2.0 is better than (c)IOS202 as it is official instead of custom. I would guess a lot of apps will make the switch.