Hacking Homebrew GCN Gecko codes not working with modified game ID on Nintendont/Wii USB Loaders

[AKC12]

I am trying to play a modded version of F-Zero GX with cheats enabled where its game ID has been modified to either XFZE01 or UFZE01. I used Orcaina code manager to create the GCT file, named it by the modified game ID. Every time I launch it on Nintendont, I'd just get an indefinite black screen.
On a modded F-Zero GX (mainly stat changes and visual changes) with the ORIGINAL game ID, the game loads and the cheat works as intended.
The cheats works on Dolphin even with a modified Game ID. It worked on my very first attempt too.
So why would it work on Dolphin but not on Wii?
I attempted to try it with USB Loader GX but it keeps on giving errors when trying select the cheats. There was one time I managed to get the gct file to load but it didn't even list out the available cheats.

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

So why would it work on Dolphin but not on Wii?

Dolphin is an Emulator
Nintendont / Wii is the real Hardware,there is the Difference.
We also had this on Custom Games / .wad Files too.

Nintendont is not an Emulator,it is simply said,a Bridge - it converts the Calls to GameCube Functions into Calls to the corresponding Wii functions.

The changed ID´s are also not in the official Database...
https://www.gametdb.com/Main/Results?q=UFZE01

So I think Nintendont always tries to loads the Game with the regular ID....and fails...

But maybe one of our GBAtemp Nintendont Pro´s like @pedro702 know more for sure.

 

[AKC12]

There is typically no problem with launching games with adjusted IDs if cheats are turned off in my experience.
Perhaps there's a way to add the IDs to the list in my copy?

Update: Was made aware of the titles.txt and the .txt file within the zip folder of Nintendont. I added in the ID and game on both of them, but still no good.

 

[SuperrSonic]

There is typically no problem with launching games with adjusted IDs if cheats are turned off in my experience.

This is the patch you're skipping: https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont/blob/master/kernel/Patch.c#L1528
It's a fix to prevent cheat codes from crashing the game.

You could add the list to nintendont... or you could apply the patch to F-Zero permanently and not have to worry about future updates.

You could try opening the iso in a hex editor, and go to address 0x021234, if the value is 0x90831000 start overwriting it with 0x60000000 up to 16 times, a total of 64 bytes.

This does what the nintendont patch describes, but breaks the game in Dolphin, with this code below you can get compatibility back.

Remove nintendont patch
28005634 00006000
06005634 00000040
90831000 90831100
90831200 90831300
900D82F4 48000019
480002D1 80010014
7C0803A6 38210010
4E800020 9421FFF0
7C0802A6 90010014
48004D45 480120FD
e0000000 80008000

 

[AKC12]

You could try opening the iso in a hex editor, and go to address 0x021234, if the value is 0x90831000 start overwriting it with 0x60000000 up to 16 times, a total of 64 bytes.

I think this is the right spot. Let me know if I need to adjust how this is displayed.
Edit: Had the offset in decimal before.

Update 2: Was able to find the value in question, the modifications to the game shifted it down.
Update 3: It got to this part but is stuck at it. I will try a different mod. This particular mod has the AV logo replaced with the modder's own logo
Update 4: Same result with a different mod of GX. Is there a different way to apply the patch or was modifying the ISO the only way?

Update: Got it to work! CosmoCortney assisted with updating Nintendont itself to add XFZ to the title check. Thank you everyone for the responses!