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GAF Wii Homebrew thread: Homebrew, emulators, USB disc installs! Easy tutorial!
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FishSquared
Member
Thanks for the heads up, I won't update. I haven't updated in a while anyway...
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Bizzyb said:
look two posts above yours?
:beaten:
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Clipper said:
Still doesnt work.
You know what makes this whole thing retarded? The game progresses a little further each time I rip the disk. At the moment I still cant get past the Visceral logo, but each time Ive made a fresh rip of the disk it gets half a second further than it did on the last rip.
How does that even make sense? Maybe my disk reader is fucked and is ripping the disks badly. Then again, that wouldnt make sense since I can play it fine via the disk.
Should I try scrubbing the image Ive ripped? Is there any content, like a disk check or something, that I could look for?
Bizzyb said:
It work for me, I´m on 4.1U
If the Wii Shop Channel insist in update after updating via WiiSCU, just update the IOS61 (-trucha) with the same app.
It won´t affect your Wii since the program donwloads everything fron Nintendo servers, but patch some inconvenient anti HBC things =P
Like the hat?
Banned
is there any other good/interesting homebrew, besides emulators and the usb loader? I don't use any emulators. I use the USB loader, but it annoys me that I can't keep track of my playtime when using it. I'm thinking of just going for the update and saying screw it to homebrew. oh, i don't import anything either.
I just want to know if there is anything interesting/cool for which I should hold off on updating.
I just want to know if there is anything interesting/cool for which I should hold off on updating.
Shadowlink
Member
Same here, but sometimes I do it without thinking :lolAmon37 said:
It's happened to me quite a few times xD
A Twisty Fluken
Member
JodyAnthony said:
Tyrian! Though it runs on just about everything. Still, any chance to bring it up. Just in case you don't have access to a Windows box, Mac, Amiga, Dreamcast, DS, GameCube, Gizmondo, GP2X, Nokia Internet Tablet, PSP, PS3 Linux, or Symbian.
JodyAnthony said:
Thanks Tunalover
As for good apps, Yes! There is one that allows you to save your Miis to your SD card should something happen to your Wii. Also there is an app that lets your save game files to your SD card. Files that are normally non copyable, like Brawl, Mario Kart, etc. Pretty much EVERY game that uses the Wifi connection in ANY way is stuck on your system memory and cannot be saved to the SD card as backup. So if your Wii bricks that means having to unlock everything all over again. This app solves that problem. These are two of the best apps around. Also, there is GeckOS that lets you play import games.
I'd rather not have to buy another one, what would be the point of doing that, other than wasting money? I shouldn't have to buy more than one of a console, ever. But I guess in an age where people have been through multiple X-Box 360's and PS3's I can see how that would 'solve a problem', but sod that.Bizzyb said:
Like the hat?
Banned
i'd have no problem spending the money to buy a replacement wii. my problem is all of my VC/WiiWare games (like $300 worth) being tied to that one console.
MidnightScott
Banned
Hell I don't think I want to update my Wii ever again. I own 5 import Wii games and I don't wanna be shit-out-of-luck playing them. I also don't really buy anything from Wii Shop Channel anymore. I'm worried if I try to update it with WiiSCU I'll somehow brick it. I mean I tried updating my newly purchased Acekard2i so it would work on my 1.4 DSi and I bricked that >_>;
A Twisty Fluken
Member
JodyAnthony said:
I believe Nintendo does transfers if you call them.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
wow, this thread got scary.
MidnightScott
Banned
No I don't have Bootmii, I probably screwed myself by updating the Wii in the past. My Wii is 4.1 right now =dNabs said:
Pancakes R Us
Member
What, just over the phone without having to send your console in?A Twisty Fluken said:
A Twisty Fluken
Member
Pancakes R Us said:
Yes, just ask for Amber and tell her your Wii kicked the bucket and your wildest fantasy is being all tied up to a new hot young console
Starwolf_UK said:
I recently (as in less than a month ago) sent in my bricked wii to get repaired under warranty and they sent me back a new/refurb (although I think it was new because it was pristine!) without any issue.
My Wii bricked because Wiiconnect24 was on and I guess my system didn't shut down properly, so it was sitting there overheating for a week with no fans; when I ultimately disconnected my Wii, it was the hottest I'd ever felt it.. so I imagine it fried the video chip on the internals long before I had realized it wasn't fully 'off'.
My Wii still had the HBC and USBLoader installed on the menu, but the nature of the brick was that the system wouldn't even boot up (it was a black screen) and everything was dead.. so perhaps they couldn't even check it at all and just sent me a replacement right away (I had my machine sent in and back within 3 days of sending it).
*shrug* anecdotal evidence at least.
From now on, I've turned off WiiConnect24 for good, as it caused more harm than good.
koam said:
Yes!
The one Nintendo sent back to me was a virgin 3.2U system (surprisingly, I was expecting 4.0+) and I was able to go through the process in a little under an hour or so once I grabbed all the requisite files for bannerbomb etc.
It's very likely that any Wii you buy from a store or online will be 3.2 or 3.3.
I don't think any Wii's that aren't in warehouses are 4.0+ yet, as there's usually a pretty decent delay between a company like EB or Amazon buying a Wii from a distributor, it getting to their warehouse, then going through enough stock to finally get to the Wii's that are 4.0+
Think of it like a grocery store or Costco, you see the stuff on the floor that you buy? They've probably had that for 2 months, if you look up on the shelves at the stuff still in boxes, it usually says "Shipped xx/xx/xx" which is usually only a few weeks ago, but the stuff on the floor is probably two months prior to that... There's an inherent shelf life when it comes to consoles and how fast system revs hit the retail world en masse.
Surprisingly, Nintendo even transfered my clubNintendo license to my new Wii, as when I logged into the Shop Channel, it was already linked to my Wii without me needing to do it or log-in or anything.
I was able to redownload all my VC content without issue, which was very very convenient.
koam said:
Obviously, if it's a LU64 or above, it is still hackable but it takes slightly longer.
the system they sent me back was a LU63, which was hackable without issue, but I couldn't install bootMii to boot2, so instead I installed preloader for all my disc-update blocking needs.
I skipped bootMii since I couldn't do a NAND backup on the LU63 they sent back, so just be sure to check your serial number as it'll determine the ease at which you can hack your Wii.
But, like I said, your Wii will be hackable, regardless if it's a 63 or 64, you just won't have the added security of a NAND backup
Shadowlink
Member
Yeah it has! I'm hoping Nintendo doesn't do this with their future games.beelzebozo said:
Actually, post-LU64s take exactly the same amount of time to hack as pre-LU64s now.DrEvil said:
For anybody still worried about the shop, it worked for me and I updated the tutorial to match before going to bed last night. It also worked for a friend with an NTSC Wii. Perhaps there's some cred to this v16/v17 thing, though I can't work out what the difference is between them.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
So bushing has posted a news item Wii Menu System 4.2. It basically comes down to "lol nintendo".
Also comex writes about Bannerbomb in the comments there:
Told you guys not to start freaking out. This is Nintendo.
Also comex writes about Bannerbomb in the comments there:
comex said:
Told you guys not to start freaking out. This is Nintendo.
Yeah, reading through the Hackmii blog post about the 4.2 update, it really does seem like a very targeted attack at very specific (and for the most part, easily modify-able) files and title IDs. So much like their initial attempts to quash the Twilight Hack, easily defeated.
Regarding Clipper's Shop Channel restoration tutorial, I can confirm that it works with wired connections (official Nintendo LAN adapter) as well. I've added a notation to the tutorial accordingly.
This is a pretty trivial countermeasure, easily undone with a properly run exploit, methinks.
Regarding Clipper's Shop Channel restoration tutorial, I can confirm that it works with wired connections (official Nintendo LAN adapter) as well. I've added a notation to the tutorial accordingly.
GaussTek said:
This is a pretty trivial countermeasure, easily undone with a properly run exploit, methinks.
A Twisty Fluken
Member
quick someone send the good news to g4, let's get the word out
the continued specific targeting going on here makes me think that nintendo's biggest concern is large numbers of casual pirates taking advantage of comfortable, well-known, and well-documented exploits. either that or they have some extremely incompetent full-timers in charge of system security :lol
the continued specific targeting going on here makes me think that nintendo's biggest concern is large numbers of casual pirates taking advantage of comfortable, well-known, and well-documented exploits. either that or they have some extremely incompetent full-timers in charge of system security :lol
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
If casual pirates are the overwhelming minority (say >90%), the really simple measures they've been employing might be cost/time effective for stamping it out without escalating the "arms race" and making it hard for them to institute fixes and/or countermeasures.A Twisty Fluken said:
Either that or they have the work experience kid doing their security code.
What this update has also done is broken half of the tutorials out there for installing piracy apps. So many of them go and package everything into one neat package, which is now completely obsolete and a recipe for disaster. Couple that with the fact that nobody bothers updating them and you just found a bunch of casual pirate wannabes trying out the tutorials, having them failing dismally and then giving up on homebrew entirely (which is a great thing).
A Twisty Fluken
Member
How is a situation where frustrated pirates give up on hacking not a great thing?Link1110 said:
DeathbyVolcano
Banned
Link1110 said:
what?
