Hacking Hardware Homebrew WiiFlowLite Game Crash: Kirby’s Return to Dreamland (USA)

[PKthunder2006]

Recently I’ve playing some of my favorite Wii games with my nephew off my SD card using WiiFlowLite to boot them. WiiFlow has worked for a variety of games up to this point, however when we got to Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, we would experience a situation were the WiiFlow would boot it, the game would load up and take us to the title, but when we tried to start the main story mode after choosing a file, the game would crash to a black screen instead of playing the usual CGI intro cutscene. Initially, I thought to mess with the IOS settings in WiiFlow, all I managed to figure out is that IOS 249 and AUTO are the only settings capable of getting to the file select, the other options froze upon trying to boot the game. Other than WiiFlow I did manage to delete and reinstall the game from a new source with Wii Backup Manager formatting and everything, yet still I find the same issue. Which leads me to believe this is an issue with the system/WiiFlow rather than the game file. Any advice?

 

[godreborn]

common problem. I think that game uses metafortress ap. there's a config file from @blackb0x that works, but that may only be for usb loader gx. I think his next update will fix the issue entirely. I don't know about wiiflow though.

 

[jeannotte]

Recently I’ve playing some of my favorite Wii games with my nephew off my SD card using WiiFlowLite to boot them. WiiFlow has worked for a variety of games up to this point, however when we got to Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, we would experience a situation were the WiiFlow would boot it, the game would load up and take us to the title, but when we tried to start the main story mode after choosing a file, the game would crash to a black screen instead of playing the usual CGI intro cutscene. Initially, I thought to mess with the IOS settings in WiiFlow, all I managed to figure out is that IOS 249 and AUTO are the only settings capable of getting to the file select, the other options froze upon trying to boot the game. Other than WiiFlow I did manage to delete and reinstall the game from a new source with Wii Backup Manager formatting and everything, yet still I find the same issue. Which leads me to believe this is an issue with the system/WiiFlow rather than the game file. Any advice?

Hello,

Read this ==>https://gbatemp.net/threads/kirbys-return-to-dream-land-white-screen.462119/page-2#post-9176440

 

[godreborn]

that game is a pita to get working. without the patch, you might go into a pipe, then black screen. another option, at least for usb loader gx, is to disable all global patches for that specific game.

 

[jeannotte]

that game is a pita to get working. without the patch, you might go into a pipe, then black screen. another option, at least for usb loader gx, is to disable all global patches for that specific game.

everything is correct what you say @godreborn

 

[godreborn]

everything is correct what you say @godreborn

I think I have a save for the game. I don't recall if I originally had issues with it, but later on down the road, I did.

 

[SylverReZ]

MetaFortress is a pain to disable. You might have to either try a different loader, use a different cIOS or apply a patch.

 

[jeannotte]

I play more on USB than on SD. (sorry)

You might have to either try a different loader, use a different cIOS or apply a patch.

the simplest ==> USB and test with the three loaders

 

[SylverReZ]

I play more on USB than on SD. (sorry)

USB is the best way to go if I'm honest, using an SD card is more slower.

 

[godreborn]

I just use the sd for my cube games. it's a little slower to load them, but they do play at full speed iirc.

 

[jeannotte]

I just use the sd for my cube games. it's a little slower to load them

you need a branded SD card and good writing and reading speeds. (personal opinion)