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Waninkoko has released a new app at teknoconsolas.info for importing Miis from a SD Card

Mii Installer v1.0

Description:

This application installs all Miis stored on an SD card into the Wii.

How to Use:

1. Create a directory named “miis” at the root of an SD card.
2. Copy all the Miis you want to install in the directory created in the previous step.
3. Run the application and all Miis is copied from the SD card to your Wii.

Greetings!

Download: Mii-Installer_v1.0.zip

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Waninkoko has released a new app at teknoconsolas.info for extracting Miis to a SD Card 

Partial Translation from Spanish to English by Google

Mii Extractor v1.0

It seems to me that I’m fond of doing programs to copy to XD

Description:

This application extracts all of your Wii Miis to an SD card.

How to Use:

Run the application and all Miis are copied to the directory “miis” in the SD card.

Greetings!

Download: Mii-Extractor

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D2Pro has released new firmware updates.
This is not the fix for the new “Un-Moddable” D2C Wii!!!!

New firmware updates released! - 2008.05.07
Firmware v1.3 for 15/19-wire installs as well as the official release of v1.0 for 9-wire installs has been added to the resources section. Fixes include the eject issue, a media detection bug for 15-wire chips and an update issue for 9-wire chips.

To see information and downloads for these updates, follow the link below.

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The D2CKey Team is reporting that they have dumped the new “Un-Moddable” D2C Chip

New d2c chip in the wild, dumped by d2ckey team - 2008-05-05

We received the first drive with the new d2c chip on yesterday and we can confirm that is indeed different. We have dumped the firmware and are just starting to analyze it. It seems that nr reader mode has been disabled in this firmware (see nice screenshot of firmware disassembly).

WiiNewz is reporting that The D2Ckey Team have confirmed exclusively to WiiNewz that they have been successful in cracking in the new D2C chip. Expect a new 9-wire mod solution soon.

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The Infectus Team has released a 9 Wire Beta Firmware of their Wasabus code for the Argon.

INFECTUS TEAM - ARGON SPI - 9 WIRES FIRMWARE BETA RELEASE
“BETA .DAT FIRMWARE ONLY FOR ARGON WITH ACTEL A3P250″
the version A3P125 will be available on monday!!!!

Download all here:
ARGON-SPI-9WIRES-BETA.zip

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xiaNaix has posted a Front Page News Article on WiiNewz regarding Certain D2C Wiis recently hitting the market in the US being un-moddable at this time.

Many experienced and trusted modders have posted in the thread with confirmation of some Wii’s not reading backups using any of the D2C Modchips.

According to the long thread, the D2Pro Team has been sent one of these un-moddable Wii’s and are investigating the issue.

Un-Moddable Wii’s In The Wild

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Wii’s sold in North America the last week with LU567xxxx serial numbers will not work with any of the D2C chips, including the original versions and the new 9wire clones now showing up. The console internals look the same (same drive board, same D2C markings on the chip) but, after installing a mod, backups will still not boot. It is possible that Nintendo has made some major changes to these new systems so, if you can get older D2C models, it’s best to get them now!

There is a lengthy discussion thread located HERE .

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According to sources at wiibrew.org a USB Mass Storage device is in testing for the Wii.

1 May 08: A USB Mass storage device file/folder lister demo has been released on the #wiidev channel by svpe, the same person who made the first SD elfloader. It is still in testing stages and the code needs to be cleaned up, so no download link will be provided here. It is compatible with anything that adheres to the USB Mass Storage Device specification and FAT16, including USB memory sticks, flash drives, certain phones/MP3 Players, some FAT-formatted USB Hard Drives and even single-slot card readers. When a cleaned-up version is released it will be posted here. Very early and probably buggy source code is available now

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GBAtemp member Dack has updated his Wiiscrubber program to make available smaller compression and fix some bugs.

WiiScrubber is used to shrink a Wii iso’s filesize when compressed. In this new version, ISOs can be compressed smaller. There are a few other changes, as well as some bug fixes. See the changelog below for more information.

 Download: WiiScrubber 1.2

(Changelog)

Wiiscrubber 1.2

Think you’ll like this version

Whats new?

1. Smaller compressed sizes possible as a bug fix was marking data that wasn’t actually used.

2. Allows for replacement of files on the ISO -i.e Right click LOAD menu works

3. Allows for replacement of files larger than the original

4. Auto Trucha signs if a file is replaced

Bug fixes:

1. Another 32/64 bit error meant that I was marking data used that wasn’t. This saves about an extra 100-200 Meg from an image.

2. Few display errors corrected

3. A 32/64 error meant some files could not be extracted correctly

Thanks to Waninkoko for releasing the source of the WiiFrii code as it allowed me to implement the Trucha bits.

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Over at TehSkeen, Nuke has released a stand alone ELF which can boot import games on your Nintendo Wii using just the Twilight Hack. This works similarly to the Datel Freeloader, but requires no purchase to use.

From the release notes:

Instructions:

Load boot.elf from Chain Loader. Insert any Wii Game and press reset. Enjoy your region free gaming.

Cool Additional Bonus (optional)

If you own a USB Gecko it will install a remote debugger and screenshot engine into memory and will hook. This means you can load Gecko Tool version included and grab screen shots and use the remote debugger in any Wii game. This is all done on the fly and silently, and has no effect on none USB Gecko users.

Technical Gargon:

Gecko Region Free was created with the homebrew libogc library. No certs, Tmd, Tik, Keys or other Nintendo copyright material were used or attached in the file, making it a pure homebrew release. No Datel code was used either, so please don’t call this a clone etc as this and Freeloader work in completely different ways.

The decryption is done by the hardware, not in software and the correct IOS version of the game booting is selected and used. This is done by reading the information off the DVD using the low level read commands and then passed back to the starlet.

My own apploader was written, and will completely ignore the update partition, no patching is done except a region flag which is required.

This of course only works with Wii games.

Disclaimer:

Please note I take ‘no’ responsibility for the use of this software, If a game doesn’t work you can report this in the USB Gecko forums, and I will try to fix it for the next release. It has worked on all games i’ve tried however I can not afford to buy all games so will need beta testers :)

Download: Gecko Region Free v1.0

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Bushing from Hackmii.com has a translated post, originally posted on elotrolado.net by marcansoft. This is in reference to the recently released tools from Waninkoko, which use exploits that were to be used to downgrade the IOS. Now, these holes are known to the public and will probably be patched by Nintendo.

[In Spanish]

I’ve ranted a bit about how we need to be responsible as coders and consider the effects that releasing software will have on the community — in terms of hardware damage. I didn’t think that I had to also point out the need to consider broader, longer-term effects.

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