Hacking Devolution - Public Release

[EzekielRage]

Hello from xenocracy_2001

I have a clean Harddisc 80 Gb Fat 32, 32k, single partition
with the German Game Mario Sunshine Pal Original Cd
On a German Wii. System 4.3E no Updates from Buy on 2010 Boot v4
Every Time the same Black Screen back to Hbc
I have no Modchip. Have only Hbc 1.1.0.0
With Hbc 1.2.0.0 the same.

Testet with:

Dios Mios running the Game
Devolution Loader no
Usb Loader Gx Devolution no
WiiFlow Devolution no

Copied with Cleanrip on Wii
Video is 576p on a Lcd Tv with Y,C,Br

Have the Projekt Builder a Idee ?

Greats xenocracy_2001

there has to be an error on your end. the game runs perfectly, since i have the german version as well and set it up just fine. i guess you have a harddrive problem, probably the HDD. if you load devolution from any otehr place than the sample loader you need the newest loader.bin in the devolution folder. perhaps you ahve set your folders up wrongly? have you tried a different HDD?

 

[Turndawg107]

I just recently updated from devolution r169 to r188. All my games used to work, but now every single one has the Wii LED blink 4 times then boot back to the HBC.

 

[tbgtbg]

I just recently updated from devolution r169 to r188. All my games used to work, but now every single one has the Wii LED blink 4 times then boot back to the HBC.

Have you tried putting the disc back in? Sounds like it's trying to verify again.

 

[Turndawg107]

Same results, even with the disc in the light just blinks 4 times and then boots me back to HBC.

 

[Maxternal]

I'd post a WiFi log just in case tueidj happens to lurk by so he can see what's wrong and have an idea how to fix it.

 

[xenocracy_2001]

Hello from xenocracy_2001

I have found the Error is the Harddisc :-( , 80 GB Sata 3,5 Zoll
Ok is a 8GB Usb Stick formating with h2format at heise.de
Formate my Stick in Fat32,32kb now I can play :-)

Have @all a Ready List of Harddisc this go with Devolution ?

Play Ready / no Play Fat 32, 32kb

SanDisk Cruzer Micro Usb Stick 8 GB / yes
Harddisc 80 GB Sata Samsung SP0812C on a Fantec Fanbox FB-35US2 Usb / no

Thanks @all for Help
xenocracy_2001

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

I just recently updated from devolution r169 to r188. All my games used to work, but now every single one has the Wii LED blink 4 times then boot back to the HBC.

You could always just downgrade back to r169...

I suppose I should add a link to it in my signature, but in the meantime:

Thanks to "SNES_Master" over at WiiHacks, I've uploaded a copy of Devolution r169. This includes both the sample loader and the loader.bin for other USB loaders:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7beb8cc7bqq40pc

 

[OriginalHamster]

I just recently updated from devolution r169 to r188. All my games used to work, but now every single one has the Wii LED blink 4 times then boot back to the HBC.

Is your MIOS clean, or it's patched?

 

[EzekielRage]

if it blinks 4 times it cant mount your storage device. changed anything on the HDD? is your USB slot working? tryied a different device?

 

[Cyan]

Is your MIOS clean, or it's patched?

MIOS has no effect on Devolution as it's not loaded. only IOS58 is used.

I have the same problem with r188, but I thought it was a HDD initialization problem.
I just made two logs, from SD and USB.


From SD card:

Devolution Engine r188 2013/02/10 05:30:44 Copyright (C) tueidj
USB Gecko initialized
AI clocks configured (1d8be041)
Exception vectors placed.
MMU initialized.
IOS was reloaded
stm_eh_fd: 0
stm_imm_fd: 1
GPIO Flags: 00ff8080
IOS communication initialized.
Starting to bring up wifi
HID FD: 2
SD fd: 3
sd rca: e6240000
sd status: 00110001
SD card is SDHC
Got negative IPC reply for 9321B720 (-1056964605)
Number of SD sectors: 62333952
SD initialized successfully
Using storage device: "SD 03 5344 SU32G March 2012", serial 16AF844D
MBR partition offset: 00002000
MBR partition offset: 00000000
MBR partition offset: 00000000
MBR partition offset: 00000000
Found a FAT partition at sector 8192 (1)
Number of bytes per FAT entry: 4 (FAT32)
Sectors per cluster: 64 (32K)
FAT1 first sector: 9362
FAT2 first sector: 16969
Root cluster / sector: 2 / 24576
First Data sector: 24576
End sector boundary: 62333952
Total number of clusters: 973584
Cluster for MEMCARD file: 0 (24448)
Specified cluster for iso file: 00024732
ISO file found: GQSE Disc 0 Version 0
Checking file fat chain...
Total allocated size of file: 1459978240 bytes in 2851520 sectors
Result: 1 fragments
Searching for a free cluster...
Found free cluster 973583 in FAT sector 16946 (11324)
HID device change callback was registered
HID device change: 0 devices present
HID device change callback was registered
GETLINKSTATUS returned 0
IOCTL_NWC24_STARTUP returned 0 (0)
IOCTL_SO_STARTUP returned 0
Got negative IPC reply for 9321B720 (-1062731771)
Host IP Address: 192.168.0.5
net init result: 1 (4)
Network initialization succeeded

and here it waits for disc verification. (2 flashes)

From USB:

Devolution Engine r188 2013/02/10 05:30:44 Copyright (C) tueidj
USB Gecko initialized
AI clocks configured (1d8be041)
Exception vectors placed.
MMU initialized.
IOS was reloaded
stm_eh_fd: 0
stm_imm_fd: 1
GPIO Flags: 00ff8080
IOS communication initialized.
Starting to bring up wifi
HID FD: 2
USB FD: 3
Found 1 USB devices while searching for Mass Storage
Device 0: id e71f0021 VID 0BC2 PID 2100
Device class 00, subclass 00, protocol 00
Number of configurations: 1
Configuration 1 has 1 interfaces
Interface 0 has 2 endpoints
Endpoint 01 Attributes 02 MaxPacket 0200
Endpoint 81 Attributes 02 MaxPacket 0200
Current device configuration: 1
Using config 1, interface 0, alt 0, ep_in 81, ep_out 01
USB device reset returned 8
Device MAX_LUN returned 9: 1
Cleared USB storage device error status
Got negative IPC reply for 9321B760 (-7102)
Bad result for cycle data stage: expected 36, got -7102
LUN 0 is a Unknown device
USB storage not found.
Unable to find FAT device (5342) or ISO file (47534150)
Couldn't find a storage device, exiting
Jumping to HBC stub...
GETLINKSTATUS returned 0

and it resets back to HBC.

My USB drive is a free agent Go, 250GO.
FAT32 on first partition, 32k cluster.
PID/VID found is fine (the one from seagate).
(I'm giving this info as my drive has some problem. sometime the drive is initialized with a different PID/VID and as OEM instead of seagate).

What is the IPC? why it's negative? Why is it expecting something else?

 

[Turndawg107]

Is your MIOS clean, or it's patched?

My MIOS is clean.

if it blinks 4 times it cant mount your storage device. changed anything on the HDD? is your USB slot working? tryied a different device?

I haven't changed anything on my HDD, and I did just test it with a different USB drive and it worked fine.

I just put r169 back in and all my games work again. I got the wifi log from the r188 crashes, too.

Spoiler

Wifi is ready
Devolution Engine r188 2013/02/10 05:30:44 Copyright (C) tueidj
AI clocks configured (1d8768de)
Warning: ipc reply not from our heap (b33e0e00 0002000f 00000000)
Exception vectors placed.
Warning: ipc reply not from our heap (b33e0da0 00020011 00000000)
MMU initialized.
IOS was reloaded
stm_eh_fd: 0
stm_imm_fd: 1
GPIO Flags: 00ff8080
IOS communication initialized.
Starting to bring up wifi
HID FD: 2
GETLINKSTATUS returned 0
IOCTL_NWC24_STARTUP returned 0 (0)
IOCTL_SO_STARTUP returned 0
Got negative IPC reply for 9321B760 (-1062731769)
Host IP Address: 192.168.0.7
net init result: 1 (3)
Network initialization succeeded
Socket number for log: 0
Result from FCNTL: 0
bind returned 0
sendto returned 14
USB FD: 4
Found 1 USB devices while searching for Mass Storage
Device 0: id e71e0021 VID 0BC2 PID 3000
Device class 00, subclass 00, protocol 00
Number of configurations: 1
Configuration 1 has 1 interfaces
Interface 0 has 2 endpoints
Endpoint 01 Attributes 02 MaxPacket 0200
Endpoint 81 Attributes 02 MaxPacket 0200
Current device configuration: 1
Using config 1, interface 0, alt 0, ep_in 81, ep_out 01
USB device reset returned 8
Device MAX_LUN returned 9: 1
Cleared USB storage device error status
Got negative IPC reply for 9321B760 (-7102)
Bad result for cycle data stage: expected 36, got -7102
LUN 0 is a Unknown device
USB storage not found.
Unable to find FAT device (5342) or ISO file (47334645)
Couldn't find a storage device, exiting
Jumping to HBC stub...

 

[WiiUBricker]

Where is the changelog of r188?

 

[actar]

Where is the changelog of r188?

r188
- 16:9 widescreen patch (tested and working)
- wiimote support for the sample loader

 

[Drunk_caterpillar]

Yeah, my new 500GB WD Passport resets back into the main Wii menu, whereas my older 250GB one works. Both were formatted the same way. I never tried r169 though. I really hope a new update resolves this stuff though,

Also, what does the 16:9 patch do and how do I enable it?

 

[Maxternal]

Also, what does the 16:9 patch do and how do I enable it?

It makes stuff look less stretched on a widescreen television.

To enable it when running devolution through another loader the other loader will (The latest PostLoader, GX and WiiFlow at least do) have an option to turn it on.

When using the sample loader there's no way to turn it on or off. It's always off on the one on the OP.
Here's a version with it always on
http://www.mediafire.com/?pqk2ewju69ai4zb
You can just put them in different folders so they show up separately in HBC and just choose which one you want to run each time.

EDIT : here's a version where you can turn it on and off in an options menu.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/kq5xxl5ktybiaem/gc-devo-mod2-200.zip

 

[SuperrSonic]

If you compare it to the log I posted here, it's a very similar result
I also said the same thing: a common flash drive works but my HDD doesn't with r188

 

[Maxternal]

Sorry for everyone who downloaded my Devolution r188 plugin.
It had a major problem and does NOT work.
I had based it off of an incomplete copy of the r169 plugin source and so it ignores the autoboot request completely but has the original menus cut out of it and used part of the path for options instead of my new argument
... SOOO it crashed every time.

I know this is what I get for not testing stuff but come on, people, report bugs plz!!!

Anyway, I'm removing the link to it until I can get it fixed (It's a simple fix I already have done in the code but I need to find time to sit down and compile it.)
I'll post again when it's up again.

EDIT : FIXED NOW

 

[Maxternal]

Alright, now I fixed the Devolution r188 plugin.
I also added some links to alternate INI files that can be used to set the different options Devolution has.


See my plugin thread for a download link
http://gbatemp.net/threads/maxternals-wiiflow-plugins-and-java-apps.344802/

 

[Drunk_caterpillar]

Just tried out the DEVO Force Widescreen tag in USB Loader GX r1211. I don't know why I assumed this, but I thought that it was just going to take the typical 4:3 output of the GC and scale it so that it displayed properly when the Wii was outputting 16:9 (pillarboxing it, with black bars on either side). Little did I know that it was going to actually render everything in 16:9! That's actually pretty cool. It doesn't work well for every game--Rogue Squadron 2 only renders terrain within the 4:3 window as an example--but for games like Timesplitters 2 or THPS 3 it's pretty cool.

tueidj is doing some amazing work with this piece of software. I'm hope he's still developing it, because I can't wait to try this out on a Wii U with a Classic Controller Pro. I also hope beyond hope that he'll be able to integrate the ability to force some games to run natively in 480p. Is there a way we can donate to this project with PayPal or something?

 

[Etheboss]

The widescreen patch is not his, but yeah i agree, he did some amazing things here, lets hope he still finds the time and drive to perfect it even more, like ingame wiimote support.