Hacking WiiWare Releases

[Hadrian]

Alien Crush Returns is on WiiWare now, been looking forward to it.

 

[berlinka]

Alien Crush Returns is on WiiWare now, been looking forward to it.

Never heard of it before. But according to this little clip it's AWESOME AWESOMENESS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFl7P6Wc_4

(Metroid Prime Pinball, eat chain!)

 

[Hadrian]

Alien Crush Returns is on WiiWare now, been looking forward to it.

Never heard of it before. But according to this little clip it's AWESOME AWESOMENESS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFl7P6Wc_4

(Metroid Prime Pinball, eat chain!)

Yeah I dunno if you've heard of Alien Crush or Devils Crush on the PC Engine/TurboGrfx but they were great too. Really pleased with what Hudson have done with WiiWare.

 

[samsam12]

Alien Crush Returns (USA) has been dumped.

 

[skroooagh]

So I found the MM9 PAL DLC, a complete WAD with all DLC included, but it won't install! Gives me -1022 errors with Wad Manager 1.3. I'm running 3.3E and HBC beta 8, if that matters. The regular MM9 game installs just fine, and other incomplete DLC packs have installed before, so this is really annoying, especially as I had to delete my save file. Any help?

 

[Kajun]

So I found the MM9 PAL DLC, a complete WAD with all DLC included, but it won't install! Gives me -1022 errors with Wad Manager 1.3. I'm running 3.3E and HBC beta 8, if that matters. The regular MM9 game installs just fine, and other incomplete DLC packs have installed before, so this is really annoying, especially as I had to delete my save file. Any help?

I have a similar problem as skroooagh.

My setup: Wii 1st gen (+Wiikey clone), Firmware 3.2E, Homebrew Channel beta9, Wad Manager 1.3.

Problem 1: MM9 PAL DLC and Dr. Mario PAL WADs install fine, but upon starting them the well known problem of a Wii Reboot will come up.

Solution Attempt 1: Following Tichinde925's guide here. Didn't work (problem 2).

Problem 2: When dragging & dropping the folder with unpacked files to IOS33-Plus or IOS35-Plus, I get first get an error 'Unknown File Structure!' when uncompressing 00000001.dol, and then later on 'no video mode found' when trying to detect video modes. Also, when using the Generic Wii Patcher, no error 001 string or country string can be found. The resulting packed WAD will not install on the Wii.
Also, when just using the IOS33 or IOS35 batches (no plus), the packing process will have no error, but trying to install the WADs on the Wii will result in a -1022 error.

Since the original WADs install just fine, I don't think they are corrupt files. There is something wrong in the patching process, but I can't quite figure how to solve it. Is my common-key.bin right? Its contents is an ascii string "Key=**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**,**", is that correct? (Please note that I'm not asking for the key itself, just that a verification that the format I gave is the right one).

EDIT: OK, this wasn't obvious for me, but the contents of common-key.bin should not an ascii string, but rather the hex representation (I think). Using the latter solved the problems for me. Looking at the various posts over the 'net, basically a 'ret -1022' might mean:
- that the game is not (properly) uninstalled, from a previous session. You might want to retry uninstalling the game;
- the game is corrupt. Try redownloading the game;
- the common key bin used is not correct. Make sure it's in hex format.

 

[jetix5]

Has Shining Force II been dumped?

 

[KIT786]

Any news of Volfied (PCE JP) being dumped yet?

 

[Hazz]

I got target toss pro today. Does anyone have a guide on how to dump the game? I'd like to share with the community here if anyone is interested.

 

[vegeta4ss]

I hear a bit of talk about bad .wad installs bricking systems. To date, has there been any releases of wiiware or virtual console that could be potentially dangerous?

 

[toastert2003]

I hear a bit of talk about bad .wad installs bricking systems. To date, has there been any releases of wiiware or virtual console that could be potentially dangerous?

stick with the wads you see released in here.. the exact file name released here... if it is for your region and it has the same filename as what you read here, you should be fine... i think somewhere there is a thread that tells you exactly the filesize of the releases the 'scene' has made, and the 'scene' for wiiware basically consists of the stuff that is reported here.

as far as 'dangerous' if you wanna keep yourself protected, the bad things are "injected wads" that haven't been tested thoroughly, because sometimes the image files for the banners aren't right, and that causes a "banner brick"

from what i have read though, if you install a file that isn't from your region (e.g. if you are NTSC, and you install a PAL wad) you actually should be fine, because it just gives an error upon booting it, and you should then be able to still just remove the wad file that didn't work.)

but, no.. there are really no rampant reports of lots of bad wad files for wiiware/vc.... don't install anything you don't trust, and grab them from somewhere that has comments section where other people have stated they work.

 

[DarkLG]

I know I haven't got bricked from a wad.

 

[Jetpac]

digging up an old thread here, but is there a fully working version of Family Table tennis for PAL dumbed yet? (that doesn't have the home button error)

 

[cucukshow]

can somebody is update list of wiiware games worked with freethewads?? some good new games is comed out now i lick to try them

 

[DsHacker14]

hey this thread is great. Does anyone know where i can find a download link to freethewads? Im trying to play a ntsc j wiiware game on ntsc u wii.

 

[middeloni]

try to google before you dig up ages old threads, this link was found on the FIRST hit on google http://rapidshare.com/files/111774833/freethewads.rar.html

 

[NGFan830]

How to download the wads?

 

[GreyWolf]

How to download the wads?

http://gbatemp.net/threads/important-non-permitted-files.158071/

Also, this thread is from 2009.

 

[lisreal2401]

This brings me back so hard. Was such a cool era in the Wii scene - everything was so early. Nice bump hehe.