Well if any of you keep up with the Wii hacking scene like I do you maybe wondering what WiiGator has been up to.  Well today he has finally posted again in his blog with more great news.   WiiGator has been working on a Gamecube back up loader for the Nintendo Wii and is planing on releaseing it very soon.

Here is what he posted



Source: YouTube

WiiGator's Blog Wrote:The last days I was working on a loader for GC backups. This is only a preview. The release will be within the next week.

A tester made a video showing it in action. Sorry for the bad quality.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=YhheQgAoZbo

Here are some notes:

I tested it with the games I have. All games seem to be fully working. There may be games which are not working.

IOS249 with backup support need to be installed (e.g. my cIOS r7 from backuplauncher 0.3 gamma).

DVD speed is still limited to 3x.

There are sometimes problems with the DVD read speed. So there is sometimes a very short delay in a few games. The game play is only barely influenced. This was only the case for one of my games.

If you eject the disc, no disc can be detected after it. For 2 disc games use the second disc to boot, if you need to change the disc.

You will need to copy the following files to a SD card, if you don't have a internet connection (either Version 5 or Version 6, both is working). There are problems with the nintendo servers in the last time. You may not be able to download it.

EDIT: MIOS Version 4 is also supported.

MIOS Version 5
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...0101/tmd.5 » /00000001/00000101/v5/tmd.5
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...00101/cetk » /00000001/00000101/v5/cetk
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...1/00000005 » /00000001/00000101/v5/00000005
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...1/00000006 » /00000001/00000101/v5/00000006

EDIT: MIOS Version 6 seems not to be available from the nintendo servers. I thought that I have used it in the past.

MIOS Version 8
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...000101/tmd » /00000001/00000101/v8/tmd.8
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...00101/cetk » /00000001/00000101/v8/cetk
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...1/00000007 » /00000001/00000101/v8/00000007
http://nus.cdn.shop.wii.com/ccs/download...1/00000008 » /00000001/00000101/v8/00000008

This post has been edited by WiiGator: Yesterday, 10:54 AM

WiiGator Wrote:it doesn't support multigame discs. I don't have a multigame disc and I currently can't burn one, because my server with the DVD burner crashed. Maybe Waninkoko will add this feature.

I wasn't thinking about changing the game on a multi game disc while a game is running. The gamer must tell the system to change the game on the disc. The only way I currently could think about is using USB Gecko or change the game if a memory card is inserted in slot B.

I don't know if Metal Gear Solid is working. It will not support games reloading itself. All games which are running with SD-Boot should also work.

Tested games so far: Buffy the Vampires Slayer, Kao The Kangaroo Round 2, Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda 4 Swords, Crash Nitro Kart, Resident Evil 1 (2 discs), Luigi's Mansion, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and the game you can see in the video.

It is not intended to work with SD cards. The DVD is much faster (at least what I can see when comparing to SD-Boot). In general it works as SD-Boot. It patches the DVD read function in games.

Regarding the Wii Backup Launcher: Somebody already released a #002 error fix and you have also the CIOSCORP thing to get all games working.

I know the above links do not work yet but once he release's it I will be sure to add the links and make a new thread.


- Source: [WiiGators Blog]

(This post was last modified: 04/02/2009 01:07 PM by YoYoBallz.)

o this is great news,my boy wants a bunch of gc games so he'll be happy.thanks for the news yo yo !