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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: yotsuya on December 24, 2014, 06:10:01 pm
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The DVD drive in our Wii keeps spitting discs out. Anyone ever replace the drive, or hack the device so a drive isn't necessary? Any ideas?
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I'm giving these instructions by memory so if I screw up a step Google "letterbomb" and you can find better instructions. Go here
http://please.hackmii.com/ (http://please.hackmii.com/)
Enter the Wii's MAC address, which can be found in the settings. Cut either wire, it doesn't matter. Copy the contents of the file you download (a RAR I think) to an SD card. Go into your console's envelope menu in the lower right corner, and you should see a message. Click it and let the fun begin.
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I personally used the letterbomb hack, Twilight Hack, Lego Indiana jones hack. Once I found out I could hook up a external hard drive to the wii and use Wiiflow as a front end, everything changed.
Let me know if you need any help. If you do go with the hack make sure you have a "Original" 2gb SD card. Mine didn't like the SDHC ones.
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If you do a software hack, make sure you use a game that can be used to hack a wiiu as well.
Might as well be prepared if you're spending the $10 anyway. GameStop will likely have the compatible games conveniently grouped together.
Lego Star Wars did both consoles for me...
:cheers:
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I modded my Wii so long ago that I havent looked at any mods in a few years. External HD makes it simple for my kids to switch games. I need to look at more homebrew stuff now. I think the last thing I added was "Bags" (cornhole) and that was probably 5 years ago.
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I personally used the letterbomb hack, Twilight Hack, Lego Indiana jones hack. Once I found out I could hook up a external hard drive to the wii and use Wiiflow as a front end, everything changed.
Let me know if you need any help. If you do go with the hack make sure you have a legit 2gb SD card. Mine didn't like the SDHC ones.
Define "legit". I think I have a branded Wii SD card somewhere but to that end can you still even get 2GB cards anymore? Ballpark smallest I've seen these past 6 months are the 8GB.
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I personally used the letterbomb hack, Twilight Hack, Lego Indiana jones hack. Once I found out I could hook up a external hard drive to the wii and use Wiiflow as a front end, everything changed.
Let me know if you need any help. If you do go with the hack make sure you have a legit 2gb SD card. Mine didn't like the SDHC ones.
Define "legit". I think I have a branded Wii SD card somewhere but to that end can you still even get 2GB cards anymore? Ballpark smallest I've seen these past 6 months are the 8GB.
I changed my wording to "Original"
Basically anything not SDHC like this one (http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Class-Memory-SDSDB-002G-B35-Change/dp/B000BQ7GW8/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1419644679&sr=8-12&keywords=2gb+SD), please someone correct me if I am wrong. I just remember not beaing able to get the hack to work without one.
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SD for the hack, SDHC for the games.
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Thanks for all the tips, guys! I'll try Justin's first, and go from there...
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I personally used the letterbomb hack, Twilight Hack, Lego Indiana jones hack. Once I found out I could hook up a external hard drive to the wii and use Wiiflow as a front end, everything changed.
Let me know if you need any help. If you do go with the hack make sure you have a legit 2gb SD card. Mine didn't like the SDHC ones.
Define "legit". I think I have a branded Wii SD card somewhere but to that end can you still even get 2GB cards anymore? Ballpark smallest I've seen these past 6 months are the 8GB.
I changed my wording to "Original"
Basically anything not SDHC like this one (http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Class-Memory-SDSDB-002G-B35-Change/dp/B000BQ7GW8/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1419644679&sr=8-12&keywords=2gb+SD), please someone correct me if I am wrong. I just remember not beaing able to get the hack to work without one.
Christ, those things are $18+ a pop.
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Ok, I got the Homebrew Channel installed. I'd like to go about ripping my games to a HD and using that. Any tips?
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Couple things to remember:
The HD needs to be partitioned a certain way:
Depending on how your going to load your homebrew apps (SD, or HD)
The External HD will need to be formatted to FAT32 (For the Wii games) On my HD I had a 15 gig NTFS partition for the apps (mostly emulators/Roms and a few homebrew tools) and then the rest was FAT32 for all the Wii games.)
I use WBFS Manager 3.0 (https://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/releases/view/26808) to do the formatting.
This app you install on your PC. If you have the ISO files already on your PC this app can convert and transfer them to the HD. Overall a very good app to have.
I'm not sure but you may be able to use this to dump the games. I'm at work so I cant test it.
Added - (JUST REMEMBERED THE DISK DRIVE WAS MESSED UP ON YOURS)
For the dumping the wii games from the Wii console:
There are a few ways to do it, I installed WiiFlow (https://code.google.com/p/wiiflow/downloads/detail?name=WiiFlow%20v4.2.1.zip) This acts like a front end loader. Built into the app is a self dump tool. Once installed just insert the game, go into the options within Wiiflow. I think its just called "Install". this will rip the game to the HD. Wiiflow is a really cool app. Here is a Quick Overview of it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhggrlZ4eOI)
I might of missed a few things but that's the gist of it, Or at least the way I did it. Please someone let us know if there is a easier or different way. I haven't actually done a hack in a long time. I haven't really had to do anything since the initial hack which was a few years ago.
You can also use a WAD loader to install the actual wiiware games. We can get into that later.
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Just cracked open the Wii and saw that a little white tab on the drive mechanism has broken. Gonna try and see if I can fix the tab well enough to rip my games to disc.
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a big blob of placercene or "thumb tack" or "sticky tack" on the connector can hold it in place temporarily. if that works for you, hit it with a blob of hot glue to make it more permanent.
otherwise, rip your games from the internet and dump them on the drive.
WBFS is dead. (and stupid proprietary too)
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-convert-from-wbfs-to-fat32-or-ntfs.292391/
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I'd get ModMii, too. It's extremely user-friendly. It takes a snapshot of your current Wii state, then tells you exactly what you need to download in order to get the mods current.
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I'd get ModMii, too. It's extremely user-friendly. It takes a snapshot of your current Wii state, then tells you exactly what you need to download in order to get the mods current.
THIS x 1000.
modmii is the bomb diggity.
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I used Gorilla Glue on the tab, and it fit back perfectly. Let it dry, put it back together, popped in a disk.... And it accepted it.
However, when I tried ripping games, it would lock up after only like 2-3%. I'll try playing a game later to see what's up.
I'll check out ModMii, too. Thanks, guys!
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Thanks for all the tips, guys! I have everything running exactly the way I envisioned it! Also, the drive is working fine, so I can rip what I have. :cheers:
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrl6o2aSQl1r1wgqro1_250.gif)
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Did you keep the original FE or boot to a different one like WiiFlow?
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Kind of an odd thing to say but I wanted to thank Yots' drive for breaking. I never knew how easy it was to put emulators on the wii. I was in the process of creating buying a NUC computer with my Christmas money but saved about 200 smackers going this route and picking one up on fleabay. I got mine going in under 3 hours and will spend next week buttoning everything up. Thanks to everyone for the tutorials on doing it. And Im glad also to hear you got your drive fixed Yots.
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I hear you, brother. The info I got here was a million times better than Google. I added all my SNES and NES stuff and it's good as gold.
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Playstation and N64 is kinda buggy tho.
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NES/SNES 4 Lyf. Screw the rest.
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Did they ever release a menu system you could navigate without the remotes? I've got a wii I haven't turned on in at least three years.
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I assume the rest of the USB loaders were the same, but cfg usb loader works fine with a cube controller. I think I remember USB Loader GX being the same. Never tried Wii Flow, been using CFG for years.
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I use CFG, mainly because it did everything I wanted it to do the first time around.
Anyone have tips on ripping GameCube games? CFG didn't seem to recognize the one I have.
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I was wondering the same thing but I want to rip my old ps one games.
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I was wondering the same thing but I want to rip my old ps one games.
Would it even be able to read the PS1 discs?
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Sneek/Uneek seems to do it according to the feature list but I haven't figured out what the DI portion everyone mentions is.
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I was wondering the same thing but I want to rip my old ps one games.
Would it even be able to read the PS1 discs?
I guess I was vague in what I was saying. I would like to convert my PS One discs into *hmrf* form so that I can play them on an emulator. Because downloading *hmrf's* is illegal. ;D
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I assume the rest of the USB loaders were the same, but cfg usb loader works fine with a cube controller. I think I remember USB Loader GX being the same. Never tried Wii Flow, been using CFG for years.
I'm actually trying to select programs from the main splash screen without a remote, not navigate the ISO loaders. Probably not really worth the trouble given the system isn't HD.
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Anyone know of a way to boot directly into CFG Loader and bypass the Wii menu altogether? I haven't tried it but James' post right now made me think of it.
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Looks like this would do it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhixJiNIZ5g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhixJiNIZ5g)
Maybe I ought to blow some dust off the thing and give it a shot....
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Looks like this would do it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhixJiNIZ5g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhixJiNIZ5g)
Maybe I ought to blow some dust off the thing and give it a shot....
You should. Once the KADE+ dealie is done and I can use real controls on my Wii, I won't ever need to build a emulator console.