Wii: NTSC to PAL ISO Patcher released!

[Dirtie]

Apparently this is the source:

http://www.elotrolado.net/showthread.php?s...stid=1706976234

Which means the patched offsets are here...

Zelda PAL:

Wii sports PAL:

Warioware PAL:

Kororinpa PAL:

00004E000 Â 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 Â00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Â ................
00004E010 Â 80 80 80 00 03 03 04 03 Â00 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 Â €€€......€€€€€€€

Rayman PAL:

00004E000 Â 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 Â00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Â ................
00004E010 Â 00 80 80 06 03 03 04 03 Â07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Â .€€.............

Edit:
Wii Play PAL (exactly the same as Kororinpa):
CODE00004E000 Â 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 Â00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Â ................
00004E010 Â 80 80 80 00 03 03 04 03 Â00 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 Â €€€......€€€€€€€

Can anyone post the same area from some NTSC games?

 

[Achilles]

Warioware NTSC-U

0004e000h: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00; ................
0004e010h: 80 0A 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80; €.€€€€€€€€€€€€€€

Wii Play NTSC-U

0004e000h: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00; ................
0004e010h: 80 06 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80; €.€€€€€€€€€€€€€€

Elebits NTSC-U

0004e000h: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00; ................
0004e010h: 80 06 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80; €.€€€€€€€€€€€€€€

Excite Truck NTSC-U

0004e000h: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00; ................
0004e010h: 00 06 80 00 80 80 80 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00; ..€.€€€€........

 

[xiaNaix]

Offset 0x04E003 contains the region code...

00 = NTSC JAP
01 = NTSC USA
02 = PAL

Offsets 0x04E010 to 0x4E01F need to contain the 16 bytes from any other game in your region.

 

[SirDrake]

great news for pal console owners.

wii scene is moving nicely

 

[Dirtie]

Offset 0x04E003 contains the region code...

00 = NTSC JAP
01 = NTSC USA
02 = PAL

I thought as much, but what's the relationship of the other 16 bytes? Every game seems to be similar in some way, but I can't see any definitive pattern :/

 

[xiaNaix]

I don't know if they are releasing that info but here is some source to play with.

http://ebgp.org/wii/info/patch.c

 

[Dirtie]

List of possible values based on those used so far:

0x00004E01X


PAL ISO

0 Â1 Â2 Â3 Â4 Â5 Â6 Â7 Â 8 Â9 ÂA ÂB ÂC ÂD ÂE ÂF

00 80 80 00 03 03 04 03 Â00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 Â Â Â 06 07 07 06 07 Â07 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
    Â0C 0C 0B 0C 0C Â0E


NTSC ISO

0 Â1 Â2 Â3 Â4 Â5 Â6 Â7 Â 8 Â9 ÂA ÂB ÂC ÂD ÂE ÂF

00 06 80 00 80 80 80 80 Â00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 0A Â Â80 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80

(yeah I'm bored

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[ChowMein]

Now we only need a PAL to NTSC convertor

 

[Achilles]

This works brilliantly! I'm currently playing Kororinpa NTSC-J on my NTSC-U console! Sweetness!

 

[EarthBound]

This works brilliantly! I'm currently playing Kororinpa NTSC-J on my NTSC-U console! Sweetness!

If an update fixes all NTSC-J 2 NSTC-U im going to cancel my wiikey =)

 

[blindr]

ill get a wiikey just incase haha

 

[FAST6191]

Thanks for looking into how it was done guys. What hex editors are you guys using by the way?

 

[Deleted User]

khexedit is a GREAT hex editor. And it's an advice from someone making a lot of edit.

 

[Rocco Savadgie]

Do patched games play at 60hz on a PAL Wii? Or are they forced into crappy 50hz mode?

 

[Dirtie]

Thanks for looking into how it was done guys. What hex editors are you guys using by the way?

I was recommended Winhex not too long ago and it's great, makes me wonder how I put up with all those other crappy editors before (ie. Ultraedit, Hex Workshop, etc.)

The more we know about the disc structure, the better.

 

[ds_barf]

woohoow

best news since sliced-bread!

 

[pipesfranco]

I get an error when using the GUI version but V1 works fine

Error is "Unknown Name error" I have changed it to backup.iso first

anyone else getting this? I am on Vista, wonder if that has probs with it?

 

[iNFiNiTY]

use the new version to fix that error

 

[FAST6191]

I use a hex editor pretty much daily (much more if I am coding/hacking) even if only to replace end of line stuff.

Well I fiddled with rom hacking hex editors for quite a while (mainly for table support) before moving to hex workshop (a big step up from DOS and windows 3.1 style editors) but I just tried winhex and damn that is a fine editor.

I would try khexedit but I can not seem to find a windows version and have no *nix OS on hand.

In an attempt to steer the thread back on track DGSystems made a Java "port" (more a remake) http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=45378&hl=
If you get it working I am sure DGSystems would like some replies there though.

edit, my apologies for the mixup DGSystems

 

[levipols]

Wow, this is great