Homebrew Channel beta9

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I guess things got a little better as WiiGator renamed the tool and removed Nuke's, kenobi's, Y.S.' and my name.. it's really looking as if we helped which in fact noone of us did.. Nuke for himself didn't want to have anything to do with backups (legal problems also: usbgecko.com is hosted in USA and the legal situation there is hard - and he's living in Hong Kong.. where it isn't easy either).. I for myself tested the backup launcher: it's working well.. but still: I do not and will not support it.. this forum is busy enough with regular Gecko OS and WiiRd related stuff.

Though: as the backup launcher is based on Gecko OS I assume it still hunks the WiiRd code handler into the game.. I haven't confirmed that myself.. if it does.. fine: I could imagine Backup Launcher users hiding in that forum.. and it would be really hard to uncover them as long as the backup launcher behaves like Gecko OS. Thus. if they have WiiRd problems.. maybe I can help - but that's all of it.

However: "How to get that backup running" support, general "How does Backup Launcher work", "What is it", "How do I use it", "Do I need to adjust my ISOs for Backup Launcher" - those people won't find support here.. atg least not by me.. it's the same for people using modchips..

What however is allowed to be discussed here: "How do I make copies of games using USB Gecko" - or generally how can I backup my Wii discs to PC. Basically: backuping games is something worth doing in many cases.. maybe you want to listen to the awesome music of Super Mario Galaxy (it's in AST format and can play with a special Winamp plug-in on your PC) - or of Brawl.. or maybe you want to inspect model formats. Game inspection is absolutely nothing wrong and as it can't be done by just inserting your game into a PC drive. I for myself am perfectly fine with creating backups for that purpose. I even collected soundtracks of Mario Galaxy, NiGHTS:Journey of Dreams and Smash Bros Brawl that way btw. - I like the tunes of these games - what's wrong if I want to play them in my favorite player without having to do an analog Line-In recording.

[sith12345]

I guess things got a little better as WiiGator renamed the tool and removed Nuke's, kenobi's, Y.S.' and my name.. it's really looking as if we helped which in fact noone of us did.. Nuke for himself didn't want to have anything to do with backups (legal problems also: usbgecko.com is hosted in USA and the legal situation there is hard - and he's living in Hong Kong.. where it isn't easy either).. I for myself tested the backup launcher: it's working well.. but still: I do not and will not support it.. this forum is busy enough with regular Gecko OS and WiiRd related stuff.

Though: as the backup launcher is based on Gecko OS I assume it still hunks the WiiRd code handler into the game.. I haven't confirmed that myself.. if it does.. fine: I could imagine Backup Launcher users hiding in that forum.. and it would be really hard to uncover them as long as the backup launcher behaves like Gecko OS. Thus. if they have WiiRd problems.. maybe I can help - but that's all of it.

However: "How to get that backup running" support, general "How does Backup Launcher work", "What is it", "How do I use it", "Do I need to adjust my ISOs for Backup Launcher" - those people won't find support here.. atg least not by me.. it's the same for people using modchips..

What however is allowed to be discussed here: "How do I make copies of games using USB Gecko" - or generally how can I backup my Wii discs to PC. Basically: backuping games is something worth doing in many cases.. maybe you want to listen to the awesome music of Super Mario Galaxy (it's in AST format and can play with a special Winamp plug-in on your PC) - or of Brawl.. or maybe you want to inspect model formats. Game inspection is absolutely nothing wrong and as it can't be done by just inserting your game into a PC drive. I for myself am perfectly fine with creating backups for that purpose. I even collected soundtracks of Mario Galaxy, NiGHTS:Journey of Dreams and Smash Bros Brawl that way btw. - I like the tunes of these games - what's wrong if I want to play them in my favorite player without having to do an analog Line-In recording.

How DO you put a wii game on your computer? I thought you needed a SD card.

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Game inspection is absolutely nothing wrong and as it can't be done by just inserting your game into a PC drive. I for myself am perfectly fine with creating backups for that purpose.

How DO you put a wii game on your computer? I thought you needed a SD card.

Striped down my own text: I did write that they do not work in PC drives and therefore discussing how to do backups (SD card, USB Gecko, USB harddrive, whatever) is fine!

[Igglyboo]

Technically you can put it in a PC drive but only 4, very rare, LG drives( LG-8164b LG-8163b LG-8162b and LG-8161b)
But they take up to 20hours to rip a wii disc, the gecko is the best option.

[sith12345]

So if I burn the data.bin file to a blank cd will it work?

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if data.bin is the name of your Wii ISO.. and you have a modchip.. and you burn it on a DVD (the Wii cannot read CDs.. even ISOs smaller than 700 MB have to be burnt on DVD).. then yes, it should work..

[FireKirby7]

Please note: devkitpro creates malformed elf files - you should convert the ELF files of it to DOL.
Therefore: what you can do:

To fix other ELF files - download DevKitPro please and run the following command on the elf file:
powerpc-gekko-objcopy -O binary boot.elf boot.dol

OK, I'm stuck at this part.

I googled DevKitPro and downloaded it, but I don't see any file or folder called powerpc-gekko-objcopy, or whatever.

Help plz? I just need to know how to convert ELF into DOL, that's it. Sorry, I just didn't understand your instructions.....

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To convert an ELF file to DOL format, just use the following tool...

Super Simple Elf2Dol converter for Hombrew Channel beta9

[fortyniner235]

Hey, um, I just did the update, and when I try to run Ocarina, it says "This is not a valid wii application"

Can anyone help me?

[powerofthebeast]

Hey, um, I just did the update, and when I try to run Ocarina, it says "This is not a valid wii application"

Can anyone help me?

Well...u can't use ocarina now with the updated homebrew channel ^_^. So u have to download Gecko OS 1.7b...

[fortyniner235]

Hey, um, I just did the update, and when I try to run Ocarina, it says "This is not a valid wii application"

Can anyone help me?

Well...u can't use ocarina now with the updated homebrew channel ^_^. So u have to download Gecko OS 1.7b...

Yeah, you can, you just have to convert it to a dol.

So, anyways, I figured it out.

[pi*c]

you can still use ocarina if u want but it is out of date. besides gecko os is better. it can do way more plus it already has ocarina instaled in it