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[Alexios]

Yes, since you haven't installed this yet.

Yeah I tried it, it seems to fix the issue in Wii Fit Plus but I'm not 100% sure yet I only tried it briefly. I'd try Wii Sports Resort where it was more obvious but I don't have it ripped to the HDD atm since I was running it off the disc.

 

[NewFresh]

What's the state of installing gamecube games to a hard drive? Is anyone working on getting it accomplished?

I am pretty sure it is impossible

Just to clarify there is a way to do it using either sd-gecko or usb-gecko. But it is not as compatible or as easy as Config Loader or WiiFlow

 

[Starwolf_UK]

What's the state of installing gamecube games to a hard drive? Is anyone working on getting it accomplished?

If you mean installing as in dumping the data to them (for use with Dolphin or whatever). I hear CleanRip is good. If you mean actually playing off that hard drive on your Wii with no hardware modifications. As was said in the previous post. No not really.

 

[Clipper]

On the GCN stuff, yeah, don't wait for that. Nobody is really working on it.

Yes, since you haven't installed this yet.

Clipper, the latest Cfg has a new interface but I honestly prefer the old one (including having a game preselected). Is there an option to disable the new interface in newer versions?

gui=2

Yeah I tried it, it seems to fix the issue in Wii Fit Plus but I'm not 100% sure yet I only tried it briefly. I'd try Wii Sports Resort where it was more obvious but I don't have it ripped to the HDD atm since I was running it off the disc.

There is another solution using the newer d2x cIOS which has been released recently. I'm going to revamp the whole tutorial to use it very soon as it fixes several big problems that were in Wanin's IOS and also manages to properly bypass IOS reload, meaning the handful of games that never worked should now all work perfectly.

Stay tuned to the thread, as I'll definitely announce the changes here when I get time to make them.

 

[Alexios]

That's pretty sweet. Is there a safe way to uninstall unused IOS after that? Like that one I have on slot 250 there...

Btw for some reason, before I installed 224 to solve the problem, when I tried to start Wii Fit Plus with 247 instead of 248 the remote and stuff wouldn't sync and pressing the reset button on the Wii just restarted the game, not the whole system, is that supposed to happen or something borked with the install?

 

[AColdDay]

Alright I just installed the Homebrew channel on my Wii, version 1.0.8. I also put the boot.elf file from Hack Mii in my SD card root folder.

Alright, I know that this sounds like a question that is beyond all known levels of stupidity, but is it safe to connect to my wifi network at home now? Or is there something I should do with the HBC or another application to make it safe to connect?

I really want to use the homebrew browser, but it is useless without the internet.

Like I said, I'm sure this is stupid, but I really appreciate any help anyone can give me.

P.S. How are the homebrew PSX emulators? I want to play SaGa Frontier and FF7 again and I hope this is the way to do it.

 

[Clipper]

That's pretty sweet. Is there a safe way to uninstall unused IOS after that? Like that one I have on slot 250 there...

Btw for some reason, before I installed 224 to solve the problem, when I tried to start Wii Fit Plus with 247 instead of 248 the remote and stuff wouldn't sync and pressing the reset button on the Wii just restarted the game, not the whole system, is that supposed to happen or something borked with the install?

Some games do that with certain IOSes. Make sure your remotes are properly synced to your Wii, though.

Alright I just installed the Homebrew channel on my Wii, version 1.0.8. I also put the boot.elf file from Hack Mii in my SD card root folder.

Alright, I know that this sounds like a question that is beyond all known levels of stupidity, but is it safe to connect to my wifi network at home now? Or is there something I should do with the HBC or another application to make it safe to connect?

I really want to use the homebrew browser, but it is useless without the internet.

Like I said, I'm sure this is stupid, but I really appreciate any help anyone can give me.

P.S. How are the homebrew PSX emulators? I want to play SaGa Frontier and FF7 again and I hope this is the way to do it.

Yes, it's perfectly safe.

Sorry, can't help on your emulator question, though.

 

[Alexios]

It's perfectly safe, you can even go to the nintendo/shop channels with no issues and even update to new firmware (for now at least, don't know if some new firmware will undo homebrew), though you might have to reinstall some things if you do.

 

[RurouniZel]

So, since Nintendo of America are being dicks and not giving us Xenoblade or Last Story, I want to hack my Wii.

Problem is I'm not sure I can since I'm on 4.3U

Is it still somehow possible to make my Wii region free, or am I royally fucked?

 

[Mejilan]

Check out Clipper's tutorial.
It's still possible to hack 4.3.

 

[RurouniZel]

Check out Clipper's tutorial.
It's still possible to hack 4.3.

Thanks! Thank god I still have Smash Brawl! I've got some work ahead of me. ^^

EDIT: Wow, um, that was... exceedingly easy. Had I known I'd have done this ages ago. ^^

 

[Big Papa Husker]

I'm getting real close to hack mine so I can play Xenoblade when it comes out and hopefully The Last Story eventually.

 

[Mejilan]

Thanks! Thank god I still have Smash Brawl! I've got some work ahead of me. ^^

EDIT: Wow, um, that was... exceedingly easy. Had I known I'd have done this ages ago. ^^

You're welcome. And as to your edited addition, that's by faaaaaar the most common response that Wii hacking newbs make post-hacking. This is very much the case of a task looking much more daunting than it actually is. Congrats.

 

[creid]

I'm probably going to end up modding for Xenoblade, but I've been thinking about playing it on an SDTV instead of my HDTV. I'm not sure if a PAL game would work on my 480i NTSC television, however. Are there conversion options?

 

[Starwolf_UK]

I'm probably going to end up modding for Xenoblade, but I've been thinking about playing it on an SDTV instead of my HDTV. I'm not sure if a PAL game would work on my 480i NTSC television, however. Are there conversion options?

Component at 480p will not be an issue, since I don't think 480p has any region or different colour encoding.

S-Video and crappy Composite can have issues (the latter has less). Gecko OS and other loaders have force NTSC options but they don't always work perfectly**. For instance (using force PAL60 which is basically the opposite) in one game (wordjong Party) it crashes whenever I press the home button but otherwise is perfectly playable. Thing is it might be worse going form NTSC>PAL due to no PAL mode being made while Xenoblade already had an NTSC mode when it was in Japan.

**-They usually fail when the Wii game is one of those few sameful 50Hz only (so 576i only) ones. Xenoblade will almost certainly be 480i/576i/480p (Monolith's other Wii game Disaster was like this as are at least 95% of PAL Wii releases) with it auto setting to whatever the Wii is set at (but the 480i will be PAL60 hency why NTSC force needs to be done).

 

[creid]

Component at 480p will not be an issue, since I don't think 480p has any region or different colour encoding.

S-Video and crappy Composite can have issues (the latter has less). Gecko OS and other loaders have force NTSC options but they don't always work perfectly**. For instance (using force PAL60 which is basically the opposite) in one game (wordjong Party) it crashes whenever I press the home button but otherwise is perfectly playable. Thing is it might be worse going form NTSC>PAL due to no PAL mode being made while Xenoblade already had an NTSC mode when it was in Japan.

**-They usually fail when the Wii game is one of those few sameful 50Hz only (so 576i only) ones. Xenoblade will almost certainly be 480i/576i/480p (Monolith's other Wii game Disaster was like this as are at least 95% of PAL Wii releases) with it auto setting to whatever the Wii is set at (but the 480i will be PAL60 hency why NTSC force needs to be done).

I would be doing Component at 480i, if anything. Does 'force NTSC' degrade the quality of visuals? If so, is the degradation worse than upscaling to 720p?

 

[Gvaz]

One more question: I followed the tutorial and have been playing games from my USB drive, but have been having weird controller issues. When I'm playing either twilight princess or animal crossing, the control seems to rwndomly drop for a second once in a while. other games seem to work fine (smg, etc) but for those two it's an issue. Is it something to do with just those games? Makes twilight princess pretty annoying.

I am using a wd essentials 320gb hdd, formatted to fat32, if that makes a difference.

This may have already been answered, but your hard drive is going "back to sleep" so to speak. You want a hard drive dock that doesn't do this.

 

[truly101]

I'm trying to get a homebrew channel up on the Wii and I have no luck because I have no idea how to do the most rudimentary of software operations.

I've downloaded the Hackmii file and the Smack Pak or whatever exploit. Here is what I have no idea to go (get ready to laugh)


1. Format the SD card to FAT16 or FAT32

2. Copy boot.elf to sd:/boot.elf I have no idea how to access the SD card root directory

3. Delete or rename any boot.dol file in the root directory

4. Connect the SD card to your computer and rename the "private" folder to "privateold" in the root of the SD card.

5. Copy the "private" folder from the Smash Stack download to the root of the SD card

I have no idea how to do any of this. It needs to be explained to someone who only uses a PC to surf the net, because thats all I do with it (cept work). I am computer stupid.

EDIT: Going through Clipper's guide now

 

[truly101]

Yeah, I've read and read and I don't know the basics that everyone here knows so I'm going to need help.

How can I format my SD card to FAT16 or FAT32

How do I get to the root menu of the SD card?

Steps 2 and four don't make sense to me. Shouldn't my SD card already be connected to do step 2, why and I reconnecting it to the computer in step 4? What am I missing here?

 

[Clipper]

Yeah, I've read and read and I don't know the basics that everyone here knows so I'm going to need help.

How can I format my SD card to FAT16 or FAT32

How do I get to the root menu of the SD card?

Steps 2 and four don't make sense to me. Shouldn't my SD card already be connected to do step 2, why and I reconnecting it to the computer in step 4? What am I missing here?

Your SD almost certainly already is FAT32. You get to the root directory by accessing the drive in My Computer. If your SD card is mapped to drive E, then the root directory is E:\.

As for your question on steps, which set of steps on which page are you discussing?

 

[truly101]

Your SD almost certainly already is FAT32. You get to the root directory by accessing the drive in My Computer. If your SD card is mapped to drive E, then the root directory is E:\.

As for your question on steps, which set of steps on which page are you discussing?

I've now got the homebrew channel up. To be honest, I wasn't familiar with all the terminology. I didn't equate the main SD card name and directory with root menu, but I looked it up. I also looked up how to format to fat32.

Now I'm having an issue with Gecko. I downloaded it and unzipped it, but the next steps don't make sense to me.

Unzip Gecko OS and copy the gecko1901/gecko1901/HBC/gecko1901 folder to sd:/apps

I.e., you should have sd:/apps/gecko1901/boot.dol, sd:/apps/gecko1901/icon.png and sd:/apps/gecko1901/meta.xml when you are done.

only my folder is Gecko1931 and I've the DOL and HBC folders. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to copy the entire gecko1931 app folder or the DOL and HBC folders

 

[truly101]

I think Gecko installed as there is a small gecko Icon on the lower right hand side...but I don't have an import game so I have no idea if it works. There was no confirmation it uploaded or anything.

 

[truly101]

Apparently you can launch any game from the Gecko OS and I see no way to do that here meaning, I've done something wrong. Hell if I know what it is.

 

[Clipper]

I've now got the homebrew channel up. To be honest, I wasn't familiar with all the terminology. I didn't equate the main SD card name and directory with root menu, but I looked it up. I also looked up how to format to fat32.

Now I'm having an issue with Gecko. I downloaded it and unzipped it, but the next steps don't make sense to me.

Unzip Gecko OS and copy the gecko1901/gecko1901/HBC/gecko1901 folder to sd:/apps

I.e., you should have sd:/apps/gecko1901/boot.dol, sd:/apps/gecko1901/icon.png and sd:/apps/gecko1901/meta.xml when you are done.

only my folder is Gecko1931 and I've the DOL and HBC folders. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to copy the entire gecko1931 app folder or the DOL and HBC folders

They've updated the version number is all. Copy the gecko1931 subdirectory and its contents into sd:/apps. You'll then have files called boot.dol and meta.xml in sd:/apps/gecko1931

 

[Linkhero1]

This has probably been an issue here before but I haven't been in the scene for quite some time and I recently installed homebrew channel on a 4.3u Wii. My problem comes when I want to play games using the configurable usb loader. Each time it boots up it doesn't recognize a hdd until I switch usb ports. So if I switch it and it works, later on if I boot configurable usb loader up again it won't recognize the hdd until it switches back to the usb port it didn't work with. I looked online a bit and wasn't able to find anything. I followed a guide elsewhere since your guide had a few dead links on the ios236 page.

 

[Clipper]

This has probably been an issue here before but I haven't been in the scene for quite some time and I recently installed homebrew channel on a 4.3u Wii. My problem comes when I want to play games using the configurable usb loader. Each time it boots up it doesn't recognize a hdd until I switch usb ports. So if I switch it and it works, later on if I boot configurable usb loader up again it won't recognize the hdd until it switches back to the usb port it didn't work with. I looked online a bit and wasn't able to find anything. I followed a guide elsewhere since your guide had a few dead links on the ios236 page.

The links are not broken, it's just that the site hosting it is down temporarily. Sharebee seems to be going down a lot lately, unfortunately.

Anyway, the drive will only work on the outermost USB port. This has always been the case and any decent tutorial should mention it. Some drives also need to be power cycled between uses due to spindown and other effects. You can try looking for apps for your drive to disable that too.

 

[Effect]

Once the homebrew channel is on your Wii is it possible to completely uninstall it if you need to send your console in for repair? Do any traces of it remain?

 

[Clipper]

Once the homebrew channel is on your Wii is it possible to completely uninstall it if you need to send your console in for repair? Do any traces of it remain?

It is possible, but only if you do a BootMii backup immediately after installing the HBC. You would then revert to that BootMii backup and then uninstall BootMii and the HBC using the HBC installer.

 

[Dalthien]

Clipper,
Any updates yet on the new d2x cIOS that you mentioned a few weeks back?

 

[Clipper]

Clipper,
Any updates yet on the new d2x cIOS that you mentioned a few weeks back?

It's really good, I just haven't had time to do the tutorials for it. Hopefully this weekend.

 

[Dambrosi]

Clipper,
Any updates yet on the new d2x cIOS that you mentioned a few weeks back?

d2x? What's that?

 

[pgtl_10]

I tried to install the HBC using Smashstack because my menu is 4.3. I did everything but when I got to stagebuilder, the game froze and made a sound. Need help.

 

[Clipper]

d2x? What's that?

It's a modification of IOS249 which makes it better in almost every way. It allows IOS reload blocking, so that gives us virtually 100% compatibility with games, and several other awesome things. I've been wanting to add it for a few weeks now but I just can't find the time.

I tried to install the HBC using Smashstack because my menu is 4.3. I did everything but when I got to stagebuilder, the game froze and made a sound. Need help.

Are you using an SD card and not an SDHC card? Try deleting everything on the card and trying again. Also make sure you are using the correct region's stage files.

 

[Bigfoot]

It's a modification of IOS249 which makes it better in almost every way. It allows IOS reload blocking, so that gives us virtually 100% compatibility with games, and several other awesome things. I've been wanting to add it for a few weeks now but I just can't find the time.


Are you using an SD card and not an SDHC card? Try deleting everything on the card and trying again. Also make sure you are using the correct region's stage files.

Does this mean I can finally install Metroid Prime Trilogy? Yes, I knew about the work-arounds but never bothered to try them. I was thinking of trying to get through Echos again after the thread earlier this week.

 

[Clipper]

Does this mean I can finally install Metroid Prime Trilogy? Yes, I knew about the work-arounds but never bothered to try them. I was thinking of trying to get through Echos again after the thread earlier this week.

Yes, I haven't tried it myself yet, but it should work with MPT.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Okay I planned to spend today to tackle installing this so I can have Region Free on my Wii

just made a silly mistake while connecting my will online and updated firmware argh...

so I'm at 4.3U which it seems makes things more complex, I do have a copy of Brawl but it also said something about the SD card needing to be (≤ 2GB, not SDHC)

I am not sure where my old SD card is... I think I erased it on my macbook while adding files to it. I have a bunch of 4GB SD cards around but not sure if they would work.

so I guess I'll wait and order one that would work

----

One question I have now does it matter if I download all of these things using my macbook?
Or must I work on the Windows 7 side to make sure the files work?

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

clipper: I was reading over at gbatemp that you can uses the latest D2x with Cfg loader. Is it as easy as installing d2x and Cfg will just use it? Is there any special settings one should use to get Cfg to recognize the new cios?

 

[hikarutilmitt]

clipper: I was reading over at gbatemp that you can uses the latest D2x with Cfg loader. Is it as easy as installing d2x and Cfg will just use it? Is there any special settings one should use to get Cfg to recognize the new cios?

Nope, just make sure you run the d2x installer form an SD card, install it where you would install regular cIOS and point CFG to it like you normally would for cIOS. It's one of those things that Just Works(tm).

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

Nope, just make sure you run the d2x installer form an SD card, install it where you would install regular cIOS and point CFG to it like you normally would for cIOS. It's one of those things that Just Works(tm).

Awesome, I'll give it a shot later. Can't wait to play mpt without having to load alternate dol files : )

 

[hikarutilmitt]

Heck, I installed it because I was having controller lag and drop-outs playing SMAS.

 

[Alexios]

How about a link to the latest version of that installer (is it 2.1?)? I'd like it for HoTD 2 & 3. Btw how can I safely delete uneeded cIOS after that? I figure this should be good to just keep one version of it installed as 249, and then maybe just keep 224 also for potential compatibility issues? Can I somehow just stub the rest I've got atm?

Edit: I installed d2x v6 with the v2.1 installer I found. It works great but we probably still need it on two slots, one with base 56 the other with base 57, just to make sure we're covered. Other games worked with base 56 but Black Ops still wanted base 57 for me. The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return work great without changing anything, with base 56.

So now I'd just like a way to stub/uninstall my 250 cIOS which I don't even know why I have, so that I can just keep slots 247, 248 (both with d2x bases 56 and 57 as said already) and 224 (Hermes, for games like Wii Fit and Wii Sports Resort that had issues with the Balance Board and Motion Plus momentarily freezing every so often) so that I won't come across any games that don't work right with one of these. But yeah, I'm anal about keeping unecessary things so please help

 

[Clever Pun]

Quick question about the Smash Bros. (US Wii) launch method (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Smash_Stack)

When it says to wait 24 hours, is that only if you have levels from the Smash service, or no matter what once you've removed the samples that come on a new file?

 

[Chuckpebble]

Yeah, thats only for the files from the smash service. I'm assuming that's because you can't manually delete them from your system anywhere. If you never enabled the Smash service, I think you're OK. Actually, I don't even know if that is still in operation, come to think about it.

 

[Clever Pun]

That's what I was hoping to hear - thanks!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

got the homebrew channel on my Wii but it seems useless and missing something

tried to install StartPatch 4.3.1U not getting a prompt or a list of Apps
same goes for IOS236_Installer_v5

I ended up taking the SD card that came with my 3DS I moved all the 3DS files over to a 4GB card works nicely

but so far I am lost with this HBC and how it works and how to install StartPatch for region free

 

[Clipper]

So now I'd just like a way to stub/uninstall my 250 cIOS which I don't even know why I have, so that I can just keep slots 247, 248 (both with d2x bases 56 and 57 as said already) and 224 (Hermes, for games like Wii Fit and Wii Sports Resort that had issues with the Balance Board and Motion Plus momentarily freezing every so often) so that I won't come across any games that don't work right with one of these. But yeah, I'm anal about keeping unecessary things so please help

Nintendo installs those stubs. You should leave them there. That's why I moved to 247, 248 and 224 in the tutorial as those are not stubbed by Nintendo's discs and hence you can play from the discs without killing your IOS setup.

got the homebrew channel on my Wii but it seems useless and missing something

tried to install StartPatch 4.3.1U not getting a prompt or a list of Apps
same goes for IOS236_Installer_v5

I ended up taking the SD card that came with my 3DS I moved all the 3DS files over to a 4GB card works nicely

but so far I am lost with this HBC and how it works and how to install StartPatch for region free

What directory do you have the files in on the SD card? Please report a full path of one of the files, like:
sd:/apps/StartPatch/boot.dol

 

[Clipper]

For anyone interested, I'm starting to write up the d2x tutorial now. Should be ready in an hour or so, I guess, as it's pretty easy. I'll post again when it's done.

 

[Mejilan]

Well what's so darn special 'bout this new-fangled cIOS?
Will it make me toast?
Will it play me some GCN games?
Will it play me some PS3 games!?

 

[Anticitizen One]

I have Wii ver 4.3U and I just want to play GC/wii games on dolphin what homebrew do i need and how do I install it?

 

[Clipper]

New changes are complete. The new d2x page replaces IOS249. Also, update your Cfg to v69d.

The most important thing about this new cIOS is it makes pretty much all the games that didn't work... work. Metroid Prime Trilogy, Sam and Max, Smash Bros. Virtual Console stuff and other things should all work fine now.

I have Wii ver 4.3U and I just want to play GC/wii games on dolphin what homebrew do i need and how do I install it?

Us the tutorials there to install the Homebrew Channel, d2x and Configurable USB Loader. It will help you rip the games to the hard drive (check the notes on the Cfg page about how to get ISOs for Dolphin). There's also another app which might rip a little faster, but I can't remember the name right now (I think it's CleanRip or SmartRip).