Filed under All, Modchip, Nintendo Inc., Nintendo-Scene, Wii, hacking, homebrew by tom35 | 8 comments
In his blog over at at teknoconsolas, Waninkoko has released a “Trucha Safe” version of System Menu 4.1.
From the Readme:
[ DESCRIPTION ]:
- This application allows you to update your console’s firmware, installing *only* the
most important updates (System IOS, System Menu, new channels…).
Thanks to this you can keep some features like Trucha bug that affected first IOS
versions.
[ REQUISITES ]:
- 150-250 free blocks.
- Internet connection.
[ HOW TO USE ]:
- Run the application with any method to load homebrew and the update will be done
automatically.
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Filed under All, Nintendo Inc., Nintendo-Scene, Wii by tom35 | 0 comments
News article from Tehskeen:
Version 4.1 of the System Menu for the Nintendo Wii was built on June 24th, 2009 and released on July 3rd, 2009 in Japan, and released in America and Europe on July 15th, 2009.
Apparrently, there is a bugfix whereby if a VC/WiiWare game is played from SD, and then Wii Sports Resort is played, it forces you to watch the motionplus tutorial, although it was meant to be only watched once, on the first run.
Wiimpersonator log
Nothing has been broken with this update, bannerbomb works fine, using the hackmii installer to install the likes of the HBC is fine, so no need to worry.
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Filed under All, Backups, Nintendo-Scene, Wii, homebrew by tom35 | 5 comments
Zapf Bandit has released WiiDump v1.5.1
This is a Wii-mode disc dumper that dumps to the Wii’s front-SD or to a USB2 drive. A SD gecko is not required at all.
Readme:
Wii disc dumper - v1.5.1 by Zapf Bandit, nitrotux & CaitSith2
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This is a Wii-mode disc dumper that dumps to the Wii’s front-SD or to a USB2 drive. A SD gecko is not required at all.
First install ios5.wad (obtained from previous version) using a wad manager, or install waninkoko’s cios 249.
WARNING: Installing WAD files is dangerous and might permanently brick your Wii. Only do this if you know what you are doing.
I take no responsibility if you brick your Wii.
The “wiidump151″ folder should be inside the “apps” directory of the SD card.
Then simply run the boot.dol file and start dumping.
Dump however many parts is required for the Disc type present in drive. There are not very many DL Wii game discs out there.
With an 8G SDHC card or a >8G USB2 FAT formatted drive you should be able to rip Wii games in one go.
If you are using a smaller cards simply copy all the “*.bin” files to the computer then restart wiidumpsdhc, it should then resume from where it left off.
Important!!! Do not move the “*.info” file off the SD card until all parts are dumped.
When you have all the “*.bin” files and the “*.bat” and “*.sh” file on the computer run either the “*.bat” of “*.sh” file and wait until the joining is complete.
This script will check the validity of the parts and the final “*.iso” file.
Make sure the drive you are going to join the iso is *NOT* FAT or FAT32 (e.g. NTFS) or the join will fail.
A big f-you to teq, you suck.
PS If any linux script junkies could make a good joining script I would love to be able to add a generated “*.sh” script.
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Filed under All, Hardware Mods, Nintendo-Scene, Wii, hacking, homebrew by tom35 | 0 comments
From Hackmii
I’ve been asked whether installing the Homebrew Channel (or Twilight Hack or whatever) will void the warranty on a Wii. I’ve generally said something like “Technically, yes, but I doubt they will enforce that.” This seemed reasonable, given some of the anecdotes I’ve heard — stories of people ruining their drives with a soldering iron and still getting free repair work done under warranty, etc. I’ve also said that if a Wii is bricked (and won’t boot), then they have no way of actually checking to see what is installed on the Wii — and I still believe that to be true, at least most of the time.
I’ll be the first to admit that was wrong, given some recent evidence:
My German’s pretty bad, but I see “…. Softwarehack … EUR 210″. That seems awfully excessive, given that the price of a new Wii is EUR 250, no?
I would write this off as an isolated incident — maybe someone installed some truly awful warezloading hack. However, I was sent the following email through an anonymous remailer last month, and it would seem to support the invoice above:
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Filed under All, Nintendo-Scene, Wii, homebrew by tom35 | 1 comment
With the recent sudden departure of Marcan, Bushing releases a screenshot and some promising info on BootMii.
Just a brief note, since I haven’t written in a while –
Yes, Marcan has shifted his attention to things non-Wii related. I can hardly blame him; the only reason any of us do what we do is because we find it fun, so when it stops being fun — what’s the point? He’s still around, if you know where to look, and I hope that once we release BootMii, we’ll see some neat projects emerge from it.
Yes, BootMii is still alive; I still can’t promise a release date, but most of the code has been written and we’re now to the point of testing it out and adding some polish. It’s been installed on about 12 Wiis so far and nobody’s been bricked; I hope that we can release a “public beta” within the next couple of weeks. (In this case, “public beta” will mean “we’ve tested this out quite a bit and are fairly confident that you won’t regret trying it, but not everything is finished and we can’t make too many promises). I would expect those of you who have older Wiis (i.e. those who have a vulnerable boot1) to have an easier time installing it, but we intend to eventually add support for as many of your Wiis as possible.
Anyway, here’s a sneak peek at what it will look like:
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USB Loader v1.1 Released
Waninkoko has released a new version of his USB Loader which was just released yesterday. This “loader” allows you to store and play back your legal backup collection from a USB Mass Storage device.
What’s New?
* No longer has the bug of the free space (which marked a great wrong in devices), plus show you the size of the games.
* Also added a possible fix for some games that might not work.
* The “date Bug” on Animal Crossing, Wii Sports and other games that use the date has also been fixed
Download: USB-Loader_v1.1.zip
Download: IOS36 rev9 Installer (Must be Installed for Loader to work)
CIOS usb2 rev 3 + loader Released at Tehskeen
Kwiirk has sent Brakken a new version of his CIOS usb2 named “CIOS usb2 rev 3 + usboader” which is meant to be used with Waninkoko’s USB Loader software. The archive contains a new version of his CIOS usb2 installer which allows you to use USB v2.0 devices in your Nintendo Wii and also includes a tool for formatting hard drives in the new WBFS format.
Additionally, the archive contains what seems to be a new backup loader for backup discs. Note - this is NOT required to obtain USB v2.0 speeds in Waninkoko’s USB Loader as it’s already built into the cIOS it uses.
Download: cios_usb2_usbloader.tar.bz2
Wii Backup File System (WBFS) for Windows (Beta 3) Released at Elotrolado
Kwiirk has released a port of his Linux based version of WBFS for Windows. It runs under the command line and doesn’t include a GUI, but will let you manage your USB Based device (format, copy, delete) that contains your legal backup collection on it from Windows. This makes for faster transfer times of your backups and such.
What’s New?
* improved the reliability of the usbstorage driver. It now resets the drive if it starts to error.
* implemented libwbfs, a filesystem to store wii backups on an harddrive (see readme in sources for details)
* implemented yal, the most simple usb-loader.
* Two versions are available.
** cios_usb2_install is IOS 202, and does not contain the DIP plugin nor yal.
** cios_usb2_dip_install is IOS 222, and is not distributed on wiibrew.org. Please do not link to it on wiibrew
Download: wbfswin.rar
Impaler’s WII ISO Installer V1.1 Released at Impaleriso
MorrisPS has released Gui based on Kwiirks version of WBFS for Windows for the command line challenged.
It is still in early development but i wanted to share it. It works as is and can List, Add, and Remove the ISOs from a currently installed WBFS hard drive.
UPDATE:
I just released 1.1, this version has a checkbox list for the games and allows the users to check the box for which to delete.
Download: ImpalerWIIISOInstaller.rar
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Filed under All, Modchip, Nintendo-Scene, Wii by tom35 | 7 comments
Nintendo-Scene member machinist let us know that D2Pro has released another new firmware update for their modchips. This update will allow you to block any game updates that you enable.
An Update Blocker feature has been added to d2pro and is available via a DVD update included in v1.7 of the utility disc available for download in the resources section. After running the utility disc and allowing the update of d2pro to proceed, d2pro will block all updates from other regions. You can also enable the blocking of all regions if via the utility disc.
v1.7 Utility Disc
European Region - bz2 archive - 95KiB
Japanese Region - bz2 archive - 96KiB
US Region - bz2 archive - 95KiB
Thanks again to machinist!
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