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donny2112 said:
Is the image made by USBLoader tied to a single Wii, then? If not, I'm still failing to see the difference between an image created by USBLoader and an image downloaded from the PC, if the USBLoader image can be transferred to a PC. :/
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I would guess because it's perfectly legal to rip your own iso from a retail wii disc, but it's illegal to download an iso from a disc that isn't yours.

Silly? Yeah...But that's the way it is, as far as i understand.
 
Nicktals said:
I would guess because it's perfectly legal to rip your own iso from a retail wii disc, but it's illegal to download an iso from a disc that isn't yours.

Silly? Yeah...But that's the way it is, as far as i understand.
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That's the way it is in the US, so you're good. In Australia and some other places, it is illegal for us to be using USB Loader to rip our own discs as well. Stupid Australian copyright law.
 
New HBC lets you run HB off of a FAT partition on your HDD? Does that mean you don't need to keep any HB* on a SD card any more if you don't want?

*Once updates are made to things like USB Loaders which look for things in specific folders on a SD card.
 
Fuzzy said:
New HBC lets you run HB off of a FAT partition on your HDD? Does that mean you don't need to keep any HB* on a SD card any more if you don't want?

*Once updates are made to things like USB Loaders which look for things in specific folders on a SD card.
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It'll need some updates to the apps first. They will need to be running off one partition (FAT) and reading images off the other (WBFS). That probably won't be too hard soon.
 
Dragona Akehi said:
As far as I know, it is not. But if you're talking about PC-rips of Wii games, you can find other boards to talk about them upon. While I'm very pro-consumer/pro-homebrew etc., I'm also very anti-piracy.

While Wii-to-HDD rips are less likely to be pirated, it is a different story about "PC-rips".
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What category would ripping a Blockbuster disc fall under? (Just kinda popped into my head when I read that).

I suppose this weekend I'll give the bootmii beta a shot. Hopefully it won't work (launch wii, so doubtful) and I can give Twiizers some useful feedback :D
 
Dragona Akehi said:
It's a fine line, I know, but it has to be drawn somewhere. USBLoader has a perfectly capable ripper that will dump the image directly from the retail disc in the Wii to the HDD.
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I completely agree with this, actually, there's very little reason for going straight from PC to Wii except for one case: unofficial translation/etc. patches for discs. For example, there's a translation patch of NPC Prime 1 going around. If they come up with a way to patch games already on the WBFS USB HDD, then I can't think of a really useful reason to go PC to Wii.

At the same time, given how easy it is to use USBloader to pirate already, I'd just assume be given all the options rather than making an arbitrary distinction based on my own perception of what is useful and what's not. There have been several times I've been extremely annoyed with the community for a belief that some random feature that's important to me only is useful for piracy.
 
So, what awesome thing does it do right now ? Aside from, you know, preventing your Wii from being bricked. Which is still pretty awesome of course, but is nothing to try out provided you don't purposely brick your Wii to see how it works D:
 
HisshouBuraiKen said:
What category would ripping a Blockbuster disc fall under? (Just kinda popped into my head when I read that).
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It would still be piracy because you'd end up keeping an image of a disc you don't own. Another example would be ripping one of your games and selling the disc to Gamestop: you wouldn't own the game anymore.
But would installing one of your games and then lend the disc to a friend still be piracy? Probably not, but what if it's an online game, and both you and your friend use this method to play together online?
It's a really fine line.
 
HisshouBuraiKen said:
What category would ripping a Blockbuster disc fall under? (Just kinda popped into my head when I read that).
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depends, are you a majority share holder in bockbuster?
 
Ok trying to install custom cIOS and getting as far as this message

Installing ticket Error (ret 2011)


Any thoughts?

4.0u with hbc via bootmii
 
itxaka said:
Holy fuck, bannerbomb!

Time to send my wii to repair without any fears of being unable to install the homebrew channel!
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Of course, that is assuming you will be getting the same Wii back. Also if they give you a replacement you may not be able to install bootmii on boot2. But yes, we are definitely in much better shape today than yesterday.
 
VAIL said:
Ok trying to install custom cIOS and getting as far as this message

Installing ticket Error (ret 2011)


Any thoughts?

4.0u with hbc via bootmii
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Did you do the partial downgrade thing mentioned in Stump's tutorial?
 
Clipper said:
Did you do the partial downgrade thing mentioned in Stump's tutorial?
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I think I might have missed that...if you would be as so kind to direct me to it, I will see if I missed a step.
 
LovingSteam said:
Of course, that is assuming you will be getting the same Wii back. Also if they give you a replacement you may not be able to install bootmii on boot2. But yes, we are definitely in much better shape today than yesterday.
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Wait...I thougth bannerbomb is a exploit that works on all firmwares.

Mine is totally fucked up (CPU burn) so I knew I was gonna get a new one, probably with the latest firmware, so I was waiting for a new exploit to appear like this one.

Am I mistaken?
 
itxaka said:
Wait...I thougth bannerbomb is a exploit that works on all firmwares.

Mine is totally fucked up (CPU burn) so I knew I was gonna get a new one, probably with the latest firmware, so I was waiting for a new exploit to appear like this one.

Am I mistaken?
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This isn't a bannerbomb thing, it's a BootMii thing. New Wiis won't allow BootMii to be installed as boot 2. BootMii should work as an IOS on all Wiis soon enough (not as powerful as when it's boot2), though.
 
Just don't expect that level of improvement with every game.
Load times, yes. Performance increases... that's quite a bit rarer.
 
Tenbatsu said:
Am I able to install a few region Wii Shop Channel with Boot Mii? Or in future?
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Not on its own, no. You need to change your Wii's region and/or get copies of the channels and install them onto your Wii using other apps. Both of these processes are questionably legal and dangerous.
 
Mejilan said:
Consider that this is an early beta, is not feature-complete, and currently has no easy uninstallation, before jumping.
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All this time I thought the point of BootMii was that it wouldn't need installation, and just hijack the system from boot with the SD card.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
All this time I thought the point of BootMii was that it wouldn't need installation, and just hijack the system from boot with the SD card.
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bootmii is two things - the replacement for boot2 is what people (should) generally refer to as "bootmii." The .dol/.elf that this new boot2 launches from SD (if it's detected) is what I would call the bootmii APP. If the bootmii app isn't detected, it launches the system menu instead.
 
Got BootMii installed, I came across a bug where the HBC was completely garbled when ran from BootMii, enabling standbye connection fixed that :/

Also it seems to be ignoring my bootmii.ini and won't autoboot the HBC, anyone else experience this?
 
Does anyone know if you can use an iPod as a USB hard drive with the USB Loader? I have a 160gb just sittin' around that I could use if it worked. Any ideas?
 
Dacvak said:
Does anyone know if you can use an iPod as a USB hard drive with the USB Loader? I have a 160gb just sittin' around that I could use if it worked. Any ideas?
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you know, you could TRY it, christ
 
Anony said:
you know, you could TRY it, christ
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Oh, damn. DAMN! You're right! Or, I mean, I could ask if someone else has done to see if it's worth the effort. =P

I'm going to try it anyway, though.
 
Dacvak said:
Oh, damn. DAMN! You're right! Or, I mean, I could ask if someone else has done to see if it's worth the effort. =P

I'm going to try it anyway, though.
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Looking online, it seems it might just work. I doubt anyone else would have tried it, though, as it will become useless as an iPod as soon as you format it to WBFS.

...then again, adding wbfs to my search to check that I spelt it right turned up this post. I guess you won't be the first one to try it after all (it works).
 
I find this funny. I have The Homebrew Channel installed and it detects my SD Card when I use the 1GB Micro SD Card...yet when I use a 128 MB one, the channel loads up, but doesn't read the contents of the SD Card.
 
Boot mii is out but it needs the twilight hack to work? I thought the point of this was to remove dependency on the twilight hack?
 
Been using Ultimate Loader 7.4 since it came out more or less, I've seen that they have it up to 7.407 now but anyway what Loader would you guys recommend? This one works beautifully but more features and eye candy can't hurt ;)
 
Cynar said:
Boot mii is out but it needs the twilight hack to work? I thought the point of this was to remove dependency on the twilight hack?
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The point was to remove dependency on Nintendo's firmware. To allow Homebrew developers low-level access to the machine, and the benefits that come with that. It was never to stop being dependant on an exploit to install it.
 
I have an issue, I have a seagate 320gb external that I just used a few times for Configurable USB Loader v29d, I ripped a few games onto it and played a couple to check it out. Today I wake up to go and play some SSBB and when it does it's 30 second count down it now says ERROR (ret= -1) I tried restarting it a few times and it does the same thing, it makes no sense.

*Edit* interestingly enough I find out though that if I have my Wii shut off with the red light that it loads it, but if I shut it of in standby mode with the yellow light that's when I get this error. It's really weird, but at least I found a work around.
 
Synless said:
*Edit* interestingly enough I find out though that if I have my Wii shut off with the red light that it loads it, but if I shut it of in standby mode with the yellow light that's when I get this error. It's really weird, but at least I found a work around.
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It sounds like one of the shutdown type errors. Should be fixed soon, or you can try one of the apps to change your drive's behaviour. You'll probably find it will work if you toggle power on the drive, or unplug and replug the USB between periods of inactivity.
 
oh wow! my wii dvd drive started making a really loud annoying noise so i stopped using it. playing them from hdd instead will be sweet
 
What do I do if HBC doesn't recognize my apps but I have everything set up correctly. Does my SD card need to be formatted to FAT32 or does it come out of the factory already formatted to FAT32? If I need to format, can I just chuck my old files back in?
 
So I haven't been keeping up too well, but about to install bootmii and get my HBC updated. But what do I do about the system update to so I can access the shop channel?
 
can someone explain the whole IOS/CIOS thing to me?

i keep seeing warnings about which versions you need and none of it makes any sense to me. is it something to do with the wii firmware version? it sounds like you can have more than one installed at once or something?! how do i know what i have on my wii at the moment?
 
Hrm, was able to update my HBC, but couldn't install bootmii. It failed the test for trying to read boot1 and boot2. As far as I know, it's a launch wii, still sitting on 3.2. Stiil @ IOS51. I checked out the bootmii option and set up and SD card, bit that's all I was able to do.
 
How do I get DVDX to work? I used bannerbomb to launch HackMii, and then installed HBC, DVDx & BootMii as boot2. All seems to be in order, but I can't find any trace of DVDx.

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Thanks! I suspected as much, but couldn't be sure. More work to do on my side.
 
The barebones DVDX installation only sets up a stub, which is then used by media apps such as Geekbox, MC Player, etc. Go get one of those apps. Most are available via the HBB. It was also this stub installation that Nintendo had blocked with the 4.0 update.
 
I was having the problem where Bootmii was taking 10+ seconds to load. Went out and bought a new SD card today figuring I could use the old one to backup my NAND, and now Bootmii comes up almost instantly with the new card. Phenomenal.
 
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