Homebrew WAD Manager v1.5 (NAND emulator support)

[illinialex24]

This is going to be very useful

 

[Bladexdsl]

have to wait till rev15 to use this now

 

[nIxx]

Hi i made a simple Wad Manager GUI and of course all credits go to Waninkoko
if anyone wants it here (put the WAD files into SD:/WAD or USB:/WAD and there is no NAND Installation yet)
http://sharebee.com/cce5b830

nIxx

 

[illinialex24]

Any pictures?? Wait, so no nand installation? But is there the emulation jw? So is this based off 1.5?

 

[nIxx]

Yep it´s baded on 1.5 but just try it out. About the NAND installation i took it out for now but will be added sooner or later and SMB support most likely too (i mean i have it already working needs just to be cleaned upped and so).

 

[TrickyTony]

nixx thanks for making this happen, have you talked to pune about working with him on his, seems like you two have similar ideas, maybe the whole "putting your heads together" thing might be handy with getting features up on this?

 

[nIxx]

Wad Manager with SMB support
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zhzm1jgky5t

 

[computerboy]

Thanks nIxx. I tried Wad manager with SMB support but it says it can't load when I choose SMB in the browser even though I have the right settings. Could you please release the source code?

 

[Meannekes]

hey nixx nice work!

a i fund a little bug:

it needs a config.txt because
it always start with your smb configuration ^^but i think you know that

 

[zektor]

This is going to be very useful

But how useful really? I just don't know. I understand the ability to store nand on the SD card, boot it and install wads....but it just seems like a whole lot to do just to get wad files loading off the SD card. I mean, even in an emulated nand, the Wii is still going to take the installed channel and copy it to the emulated nand to run it (as it does on the real nand), meaning there will be alot of writes to the SD card running the games.

Maybe I am missing the big picture here? Any other real benefit to emulating the nand off the card? Will it allow a larger sized nand (based on card size) or be limited to a 528MB nand?

Back when I first heard about wad loading from card, I thought that some sort of wad launcher had been written. Looking at it now it seems that it is just a roundabout way of accomplishing this...

 

[nIxx]

Well i don´t see any reason to install games on the emulated NAND myself (okay at least you can replace a SD Card easier as the NAND in the wii

) but i think the VC/WW loading from SD Card don´t even needs a emulated NAND just the game on the SD Card/USB Stick

 

[acky]

But how useful really? I just don't know.

Being able to use an external drive as the NAND memory provides peace of mind knowing your Wii will still be okay and your hax can be backed up no matter how badly you muck around with it.

 

[slickbit]

hey nixx nice work!

a i fund a little bug:

it needs a config.txt because
it always start with your smb configuration ^^but i think you know that

Hey i agree, Loving the GUI. Any ideas on how to add a config file?

 

[Bladexdsl]

This is going to be very useful

But how useful really? I just don't know. I understand the ability to store nand on the SD card, boot it and install wads....but it just seems like a whole lot to do just to get wad files loading off the SD card. I mean, even in an emulated nand, the Wii is still going to take the installed channel and copy it to the emulated nand to run it (as it does on the real nand), meaning there will be alot of writes to the SD card running the games.

Maybe I am missing the big picture here? Any other real benefit to emulating the nand off the card? Will it allow a larger sized nand (based on card size) or be limited to a 528MB nand?

Back when I first heard about wad loading from card, I thought that some sort of wad launcher had been written. Looking at it now it seems that it is just a roundabout way of accomplishing this...

do you realize every time your copying a ww/vc from the sd to the nand it's damaging it a small way. over time doing this again and again and again will corrupt the nand resulting in bad blocks!

 

[UranusKiller]

by then he will be another 10 years older, so not to worry xD

 

[Sabin_Figaro]

I can install wads in the emulated nand @ usb, but not unisntall, gives error -1024. Any help?

 

[Ossot]

Only the first thing you do in wad manager works (when emulating). Re-start after every (un)install.

 

[Sabin_Figaro]

Thanks, never figured that out

 

[Sabin_Figaro]

Actualli, gave me an error -102 when tried to uninstall Super Mario 64 wad. It deleted the contents but not the title. Did not do anything before trying to delete

Installs just fine, but does not uninstall

 

[aabbccdd]

Yeah, you can't properly uninstall wads from nand, you have to use your computer/wiixplorer to delete them manually.