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[BocoDragon]

So I have priiloader installed as per some tutorial I used a long time ago told me. The hacks I have enabled are skipping the health screen and blocking disc updates. I see that you mentioned that it was not worth the risk of messing with the menu, so should I uninstall it? How should I do that?

Since you've done it... the risk is over. You're fine.

I think Clipper's being careful, and as the FAQ maintainer, that's wise... but personally I think you can use things like Prilloader or StartPatch to skip warnings, etc, and it's probably going to be ok. Might carry a bricking risk, but I think it's an acceptable risk. It won't likely go wrong.

But I defer to Clipper if he wants to argue otherwise...

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Say, it there any way to make the games played in the CFG get logged with their name, and not as Homebrew Channel? Sorry if this is too stupid, but it annoys me a little.

 

[Madao]

there's an option for that in the game's options when you press 1 in the CFG menu. should be something like "write playlog"

 

[Jzero]

So I have priiloader installed as per some tutorial I used a long time ago told me. The hacks I have enabled are skipping the health screen and blocking disc updates. I see that you mentioned that it was not worth the risk of messing with the menu, so should I uninstall it? How should I do that?

I actually had it before with the welcome screen and disc update removals with no problems, think i'm going to install it again.

 

[Wario64]

Would using the Wii as a DVD movie player do any significant wear-and-tear on the drive than it normally would with a regular Wii game?

 

[UltimateIke]

Would using the Wii as a DVD movie player do any significant wear-and-tear on the drive than it normally would with a regular Wii game?

Yes. DVD movies read constantly.

Game disks read much less often, only when loading bits and pieces to RAM.

 

[BocoDragon]

Yes. DVD movies read constantly.

Game disks read much less often, only when loading bits and pieces to RAM.

Although... you'll be finished that movie in 2 hours.

I wouldn't really worry about it... if you watch DVDs like I do these days (once a month, if that).

 

[The Spoony Hou]

there's an option for that in the game's options when you press 1 in the CFG menu. should be something like "write playlog"

Oh my God! I didn't know that... Fuck, I'm an idiot.

Thanks.

 

[UltimateIke]

Oh my God! I didn't know that... Fuck, I'm an idiot.

Thanks.

Add write_playlog=1 to the config.txt to change it for all games.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Add write_playlog=1 to the config.txt to change it for all games.

This is beautiful. Many thanks.

 

[Clipper]

it's NTSC, and you're right, he might not have the options forcing that mode. again though, he insists on playing from the disc, are there any IOS files in particular he'd need to do so for that game?

ill check on other import games, i'm inclined to say no but i know i did mine the same way and have played several, though a) from USB loader and b) i have more current IOS files on mine. thanks here, clipper.

If it's an SDTV, then forcing the video mode will probably fix it. Playing from the disc is fine and all the region free techniques, including Cfg, support it and most allow you to force the video mode, so that should be enough.

So I have priiloader installed as per some tutorial I used a long time ago told me. The hacks I have enabled are skipping the health screen and blocking disc updates. I see that you mentioned that it was not worth the risk of messing with the menu, so should I uninstall it? How should I do that?

To be honest, I don't know. Your safe for now, so just leave it that way. It's the act of turning them on which is potentially dangerous, not leaving them on. Just be very wary of future updates, as they;ll be the only thing to brick you at this point.

Since you've done it... the risk is over. You're fine.

I think Clipper's being careful, and as the FAQ maintainer, that's wise... but personally I think you can use things like Prilloader or StartPatch to skip warnings, etc, and it's probably going to be ok. Might carry a bricking risk, but I think it's an acceptable risk. It won't likely go wrong.

But I defer to Clipper if he wants to argue otherwise...

Yeah, I'm not just being careful. We had someone mention just a few pages back they were bricked by the patch to skip the health screen in the early 4.3 StartPatch. These patch types just aren't future proof and the chance of bricking is sizable. It's not worth it just to save yourself the push of a button.

Yes. DVD movies read constantly.

Game disks read much less often, only when loading bits and pieces to RAM.

Agreed. Almost all the reports that I hear of people's disc drives failing have been those that have either been playing burnt discs and/or watching DVD movies. It's just a correlation, but there seems to be much fewer drive deaths amongst those that only play Wii games. There are also a lot of people that play movies without any issue whatsoever, so again it is a risk you need to decide whether you want to take. However, if you have other methods to watch the discs, I suggest you don't bother.

 

[blahness]

ok I have a old launch wii at 4.3u and have installed the HBC and bootmii through letterbomb successfully. I am a bit confused as what I need to do next in order to run a usb based backup. I get that i have to install ios236 but then i get confused as to what comes next. Do I end up installing multiple ios versions? which ones do i install? what wads do i need to download?

 

[Fuzzy]

ok I have a old launch wii at 4.3u and have installed the HBC and bootmii through letterbomb successfully. I am a bit confused as what I need to do next in order to run a usb based backup. I get that i have to install ios236 but then i get confused as to what comes next. Do I end up installing multiple ios versions? which ones do i install? what wads do i need to download?

Just read the last line of the HBC page (since you already have it installed) and then follow those links and do the steps.

To run games from a hard drive, install IOS236 then d2x followed by USB Loader

http://gwht.wikidot.com/homebrew-channel

 

[blahness]

Just read the last line of the HBC page (since you already have it installed) and then follow those links and do the steps.

http://gwht.wikidot.com/homebrew-channel

Awesome! Thanks!!!

 

[Fuzzy]

Awesome! Thanks!!!

The guide is pretty straight forward with "What you should install first" at the beginning of each page and "What Next?" at the end of each page.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Just bought an external HDD yesterday, and ripped my collection onto it.

Sorry if it's previously been covered, but I was wondering if I could avoid having to go back to the Wii main menu everytime I wanted to change a game? Is there a way to go right back to USB Loader's game selection menu?

 

[Fuzzy]

Just bought an external HDD yesterday, and ripped my collection onto it.

Sorry if it's previously been covered, but I was wondering if I could avoid having to go back to the Wii main menu everytime I wanted to change a game? Is there a way to go right back to USB Loader's game selection menu?

I pretty sure you need to have a forwarder installed first (instructions in the guide) and then edit config.txt.

I want my games to return to Cfg or another channel when I quit them.

return_to_channel = ##0##, JODI, FDCL, AF1BF516, … bold is the default you have right now

This option controls what happens when you push the Wii Menu button after pushing the Home button on the Wiimote. 0 will not change anything and the console will go to the Wii Menu as usual. Alternatively, you can set a channel ID to launch, such as the HBC or a forwarder channel ID. The channel ID can be either a four character ASCII value of the ID or an eight character hex value of the ID.

http://gwht.wikidot.com/configurable-options

I don't know exactly what you have to change the bolded part to.


EDIT: After checking the Fowarder page the id is UCXF but you'll lose the ability to write the playlog to your Wii message board.

Making games return to Configurable USB Loader when you push the Return to Wii Menu button

You can make games launch a channel on exit instead of going back to the Wii Menu with a forwarder installed. The required option to make this happen with this forwarder is:

return_to_channel=UCXF

Note that the write_playlog feature (to properly store your games' play times to the Wii message board) will not work properly if you use this feature (the Wii Menu must be accessed to actually write to the log).

You can launch any other channel, like the HBC instead by specifying its four character or eight hex digit ID.

 

[Clipper]

One other thing to note about return_to_channel is it now has an auto value too, so return_to_channel=auto would work too. It still has the restriction that it won't work with write_playlog.

I need to get around to updating the Configurable Options page one of these days...

 

[zulfate]

god i hate doing this but i am sure this is been asked before many times, i cant seem to play PAL games...im trying to find something, gecko os isnt working and ive read some wikis but honestly it seems to complicated for me....does anyone know of an app that will let me play PAL?

i installed tinyload but it doesnt show in homebrew channel...

nvm i read the last few pages and my head is spinning so i quit lol, i never felt so stupid

 

[Dead Prince]

i went and bought an HDD Today to wait for xenoblade. so currently i'm currently ripping MHTri to the HDD. so far so good. i followed the instructions here and it was very easy to do!

 

[SmokedMeat]

Thanks for the responses guys. Not so sure I want to go through with it now though, as it sounds like I have to completely override the home button to return to the USB Loader menu everytime.

 

[UltimateIke]

Thanks for the responses guys. Not so sure I want to go through with it now though, as it sounds like I have to completely override the home button to return to the USB Loader menu everytime.

If you make the changes sugggested, pushing Home and selecting Wii Menu will take you back to the Cfg Loader instead of the Wii Menu. Once Cfg loads, you can push Home again and select Exit to go back to the Wii Menu; you can also select to go back to the Homebrew Channel from within the Cfg Loader Home menu.

 

[SmokedMeat]

If you make the changes sugggested, pushing Home and selecting Wii Menu will take you back to the Cfg Loader instead of the Wii Menu. Once Cfg loads, you can push Home again and select Exit to go back to the Wii Menu; you can also select to go back to the Homebrew Channel from within the Cfg Loader Home menu.

Sounds nice, but I'm a little afraid of the chance I could brick my Wii by adding a channel. It's just not worth risking, for a little convenience imo. Thanks though.

 

[Fuzzy]

Sounds nice, but I'm a little afraid of the chance I could brick my Wii by adding a channel. It's just not worth risking, for a little convenience imo. Thanks though.

If you're talking about the forwarder then there's no risk or else Clipper wouldn't have it in the guide. As long as you follow the steps in the guide there's nothing that will brick your Wii.

 

[Clipper]

Yep, the forwarder in the tutorial is a safe one.

god i hate doing this but i am sure this is been asked before many times, i cant seem to play PAL games...im trying to find something, gecko os isnt working and ive read some wikis but honestly it seems to complicated for me....does anyone know of an app that will let me play PAL?

i installed tinyload but it doesnt show in homebrew channel...

nvm i read the last few pages and my head is spinning so i quit lol, i never felt so stupid

If you're playing on an SDTV (or without component cables) then you probably need to Force NTSC. You can do this with Gecko, StartPatch or Cfg, but not tinyload.

 

[IrishNinja]

If it's an SDTV, then forcing the video mode will probably fix it. Playing from the disc is fine and all the region free techniques, including Cfg, support it and most allow you to force the video mode, so that should be enough.

ah, dude's on an HDTV & i loaned him my component cables to boot, so if he cant find the option for force that video mode in the loader i left, we're ass out there. gonna go check the region free links, i'm assuming since we've already got it wide open it shouldn't be harder than having him put an app on his SD card and running through homebrew channel or something likewise easy, hopefully.

 

[Magnus]

Noob question:

Is the OP's information still up-to-date and awesome, or are there more efficient/better ways to accomplish Wii Homebrew now, specifically for the purpose of playing imports? (hi, Xenoblade)

 

[HolyCheck]

Hi Guys!

Just turned on my Wii for the first time since September 26th 2008 (checked the calender) as I've moved out of home, have my own pad, TV and internet I thought since I wont be moving between parents houses every few days, now is the time to do this!

I'm having a read through the wiki so will follow along on a few things there, if it's worth my time... I guess my big WANT is the ability to play videos / movies off of a HD that's plugged into my Wii, or even off the SD card in my wii.. is something like this doable?

I remember about 3 - 4 years ago I had some systems set up where I would just stream media from my own network.. but I'd wager things have advanced much past that!

Cheers

 

[SecretMoblin]

Noob question:

Is the OP's information still up-to-date and awesome, or are there more efficient/better ways to accomplish Wii Homebrew now, specifically for the purpose of playing imports? (hi, Xenoblade)

Just follow the guide and you'll be set:

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Clipper, is the Wii scene pretty much dead? By that I mean there shouldn't be any significant developments or announcements from here on out, right?

 

[Magnus]

Just follow the guide and you'll be set:

Right on. Followed it all the way, and seemed to be pretty much set, until the USB Loader stage. My drive isn't being recognized by the Wii, for some reason. I guess I need to read up some more and prepare the drive correctly before attempting to use it...?

 

[SecretMoblin]

Right on. Followed it all the way, and seemed to be pretty much set, until the USB Loader stage. My drive isn't being recognized by the Wii, for some reason. I guess I need to read up some more and prepare the drive correctly before attempting to use it...?

What type of format are you using? I use an NTFS drive and had to add the lines

ntfs_write = 1
fat_split_size = 0

to config.txt.

 

[Clipper]

ah, dude's on an HDTV & i loaned him my component cables to boot, so if he cant find the option for force that video mode in the loader i left, we're ass out there. gonna go check the region free links, i'm assuming since we've already got it wide open it shouldn't be harder than having him put an app on his SD card and running through homebrew channel or something likewise easy, hopefully.

With the HDTV, he only needs to set the Wii settings to 480p. It should work without forcing video to NTSC then. In fact, forcing video would be bad here (when you have component cables connected to an HDTV) as it would end up in 480i instead.

Noob question:

Is the OP's information still up-to-date and awesome, or are there more efficient/better ways to accomplish Wii Homebrew now, specifically for the purpose of playing imports? (hi, Xenoblade)

No, the awesome information is in the 2nd post. Namely the tutorial with the Mario image that was just posted. Gives you everything you need to know for Xenoblade in an easy to follow process. Perhaps it's time for me to make a new thread so we have a proper OP...

Hi Guys!

Just turned on my Wii for the first time since September 26th 2008 (checked the calender) as I've moved out of home, have my own pad, TV and internet I thought since I wont be moving between parents houses every few days, now is the time to do this!

I'm having a read through the wiki so will follow along on a few things there, if it's worth my time... I guess my big WANT is the ability to play videos / movies off of a HD that's plugged into my Wii, or even off the SD card in my wii.. is something like this doable?

I remember about 3 - 4 years ago I had some systems set up where I would just stream media from my own network.. but I'd wager things have advanced much past that!

Cheers

Video playback is indeed possible and quite easy to setup (although I haven't made a tutorial for it). The app you want is WiiMC and once you follow the other steps in the tutorial to get the HBC installed, WiiMC will be easy to install by the instructions on Wiibrew.

Clipper, is the Wii scene pretty much dead? By that I mean there shouldn't be any significant developments or announcements from here on out, right?

It's slowed significantly, I guess. Still, many apps are still improving. USB Loading now has almost complete compatibility with every game, which is prety awesome, but here's still more we can do with it too, once we get a bit of time to work on it.

 

[FreeMufasa]

Is it possible to install GC games and play them on the Wii?

 

[Clipper]

Is it possible to install GC games and play them on the Wii?

Only with hardware modification (i.e., Wode).

 

[fenners]

I need to hack my Wii for the upcoming arrival of my copy of Xenoblade Chronicles. I just realised I have no spare SD card lying around.

Is this a good solid choice for use with the Wii?

 

[Mejilan]

Is it possible to install GC games and play them on the Wii?

About a month ago I jumped into the WODE Jukebox hardware mod, and after a bit of fiddling (was my first hw mod ever), it's pretty great. Streaming audio won't play, but that doesn't affect too many games, and the games themselves still run just fine. It's just the songs that come as streaming audio won't play for those segments.

 

[Clipper]

I need to hack my Wii for the upcoming arrival of my copy of Xenoblade Chronicles. I just realised I have no spare SD card lying around.

Is this a good solid choice for use with the Wii?

An SD card would be better off than SDHC. You should be able to get everything done with that card, but going for a 2GB or less SD card (SD maxes out at 2GB) would probably be better off. You don't happen to have a 3DS, do you? The SD card in that is perfect and you don't need to delete or affect any of the existing stuff on there.

 

[fenners]

An SD card would be better off than SDHC. You should be able to get everything done with that card, but going for a 2GB or less SD card (SD maxes out at 2GB) would probably be better off. You don't happen to have a 3DS, do you? The SD card in that is perfect and you don't need to delete or affect any of the existing stuff on there.

I don't. But that advice helps, thanks.

 

[RS4-]

Ugh, I didn't run bootmii when I doing the whole letterbomb thing (now letterbomb doesn't show up in the...letters/notes thing) and I can't run bootmii on it's own via the HBC because I need a gamecube controller?

Anyway, I did the IOS236, D2X stuff already. Just curious if I could play games off a USB stick for now since I didn't pick up an external HDD yet? Bought a Wii last night with Mario Kart, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Motion & Sports.

I'll assume that it's ok to use a stick lol

edit - ignore the bit about me mentioning the GC controller for bootmii. I failed to read and realize you can use the power/reset buttons as well.

Scratch that about the USB stick, read that I have to edit or change a few things so it can be recognized as something other than a removable drive.

I guess I'll go look for that external drive this week.

 

[Clipper]

Ugh, I didn't run bootmii when I doing the whole letterbomb thing (now letterbomb doesn't show up in the...letters/notes thing) and I can't run bootmii on it's own via the HBC because I need a gamecube controller?

Anyway, I did the IOS236, D2X stuff already. Just curious if I could play games off a USB stick for now since I didn't pick up an external HDD yet? Bought a Wii last night with Mario Kart, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Motion & Sports.

I'll assume that it's ok to use a stick lol

edit - ignore the bit about me mentioning the GC controller for bootmii. I failed to read and realize you can use the power/reset buttons as well.

Scratch that about the USB stick, read that I have to edit or change a few things so it can be recognized as something other than a removable drive.

I guess I'll go look for that external drive this week.

Most USB sticks work, so try it anyway.

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Hey guys, been out of the loop for quite a while now but recently started using my Wii again and would like to bring it up to date. I am currently sitting on 4.1u, have bootmii and the hbc installed. I basically want to bring the wii shop upto date as I know I have points left on there I need to spend, that seems relatively straight forward if I follow the wiki but at this point is it worth just going to 4.3?

 

[RS4-]

Most USB sticks work, so try it anyway.

Thanks, will try it out. Will do USB loader then everything else that follows.

I remember reading that someone mentions having both USB loader and neogamma, still ok to do both?

 

[Clipper]

Hey guys, been out of the loop for quite a while now but recently started using my Wii again and would like to bring it up to date. I am currently sitting on 4.1u, have bootmii and the hbc installed. I basically want to bring the wii shop upto date as I know I have points left on there I need to spend, that seems relatively straight forward if I follow the wiki but at this point is it worth just going to 4.3?

Upgrading to 4.3 is the easier method and is safe now, so you might as well. Just make sure you upgrade the HBC first so it doesn't get deleted.

Thanks, will try it out. Will do USB loader then everything else that follows.

I remember reading that someone mentions having both USB loader and neogamma, still ok to do both?

Yep, they are just alternatives to each other and neither installs to your Wii, they sit on the SD card.

 

[Dead]

Sorry if that has been asked often, but is there any issue with playing european games on a modded wii if im playing on a regular crt?

I think I remember reading a post that said there was some kind of issue?

 

[Clipper]

Sorry if that has been asked often, but is there any issue with playing european games on a modded wii if im playing on a regular crt?

I think I remember reading a post that said there was some kind of issue?

If it's an NTSC TV, then you probably need to force NTSC to get it to display properly. Not all games like that patch, so there's no way to play them unless you get a different TV.

 

[omgkitty]

So I copied Xenoblade and am going to try to run it from an HD but I am having an issue. My HD was of course FAT32 and the ISO is 8gb so it won't go on the drive. The only thing I know to do is format the drive to NTFS. Will this be an issue? I read on the GWHT site that I needed to do something else to the drive but it's not very clear. Could someone help me figure this out?

 

[EarsOfASnake]

So I am trying to upgrade to boot2v4 and I get through the whole confirmation process but then it asks me to choose where to load a WAD from, choosing SD card causes the update to be cancelled, where am I supposed to get this WAD from?

edit: nvm, i bailed out and just updated the shop channel as that was all i was after.

 

[FreeMufasa]

I've probably saved about an hour of my life the past 2 weeks from reduced loading times.

<3 Homebrew & cfg USB

 

[UltimateIke]

So I copied Xenoblade and am going to try to run it from an HD but I am having an issue. My HD was of course FAT32 and the ISO is 8gb so it won't go on the drive. The only thing I know to do is format the drive to NTFS. Will this be an issue? I read on the GWHT site that I needed to do something else to the drive but it's not very clear. Could someone help me figure this out?

If you rip the disk yourself with Cfg, it splits dual layer games into two parts so they will work with FAT32.

Who did you order the game from to get it so quickly? It was on the 25th you were asking in the |OT| where to import from. I've been waiting since the 15th and still don't have it.