WiiWare on Wiimmfi

NintendoFan · 28. März 2015, 02:23

Hello Wiimmfi community,

Is it possible to patch WiiWare games(such as Dr. Mario Online Rx) to work with Wiimmfi?

christian8246q · 28. März 2015, 06:18

Maybe yes, but no one has tested it yet.

BeanJr · 28. März 2015, 07:17

I tried patching Dr Mario Online with the private server patch in USBLGX and it didn't seem to take. Perhaps theres more that needs to be done here but right now we don't have a way of bringing wiiware games to Wiimmfi

NintendoFan · 28. März 2015, 17:29

BeanJr schrieb:

I tried patching Dr Mario Online with the private server patch in USBLGX and it didn't seem to take. Perhaps theres more that needs to be done here but right now we don't have a way of bringing wiiware games to Wiimmfi

I'm no expert on this kind of thing but maybe it couldn't connect to wiimmfi because the game is not supported.

Also, what private server patch?

christian8246q · 28. März 2015, 17:51

USB Loader GX can patch a game automaticly, so you can use Wiimmfi without patching it on the PC. But this doesn't work with every game and I don't know if it works with WiiWare.

NintendoFan · 7. April 2015, 02:55

@Wiimm , @Leseratte any ideas on how to make these games work?...

Sepalani · 7. April 2015, 08:44

Did you try to edit the WAD file? You need to find the Nintendo URLs and replace them with the Wiimmfi ones with an hex editor.

ShowMiiWads and CustomizeMii can edit WAD to extract and replace files. However be extremely careful if you don't have bootmii on boot2 with a backup'd NAND dump. You can brick your Wii with a corrupted WAD file, you're warned.

Wiimm · 7. April 2015, 09:45

I never used WiiWare and know nothing about it.

Fabulator · 7. April 2015, 10:09

try it out with Dolphin

Wiimm · 7. April 2015, 11:29

Fabulator schrieb:

try it out with Dolphin

Why should I waste my time?

Fabulator · 7. April 2015, 12:16

i mean the .wad ;)if it isn't correct, you can install easy Dolphin again. So your Wii cant brick

Sepalani · 7. April 2015, 21:10

@Fabulator
As they said, it's "our" job to make a not supported game working, not theirs. @Wiimm and all the active developers manage(d) to get a solid base for Nintendo servers. Plus they're maintaining the whole system, so it's the least we can do.

Nonetheless, you have a point, you can load WAD files on Dolphin and install them. This way you won't brick your Wii, just Dolphin instead. But keep in mind that Dolphin is banned, so you've to backup your Wii's NAND and load it in Dolphin for the installation.

@NintendoFan
I've already patched WAD files, but none of them go online so I can't really help you. You've to extract the WAD file, search for the URLs, replace them and repack the WAD. Then you should try to sniff the network traffic to check where the game goes and see what are the game requests and the servers answers.

NintendoFan · 9. April 2015, 03:28

Sepalani schrieb:

@NintendoFan

I've already patched WAD files, but none of them go online so I can't really help you. You've to extract the WAD file, search for the URLs, replace them and repack the WAD. Then you should try to sniff the network traffic to check where the game goes and see what are the game requests and the servers answers.

how do I do that? I tried using the wad editing programs you mentioned but I have no idea how to use them properly

Tock · 9. April 2015, 03:34

I just tried to look into Onslaught (an awesome WiiWare Multiplayer game) and I didnt managed to find any URL. And yes I have extracted the .app files from the .wad and yes I also unpacked the U8 .app files.

While sniffing the Network I saw it using naswii.xx so sadly a DNS Server wouldnt be enough...

Sepalani · 9. April 2015, 21:14

@Tock
That's all you have to do. If you unpacked the WAD and its U8 app files, you're done. Then you should double-check the app files (just to be sure you didn't miss anything because some of them may not be U8 archives). After that you should have all the files the game has access to. So, unless there are others compressed files like .ccf, .lz11, etc. you should be able to find plain-text strings through an hex-editor. Alternatively, you can try to run your .wad on Dolphin, pause the game when it tries to go online. If you dump the RAM at this exact moment and didn't find the string it probably means the string is encoded in a very particular way. The Dolphin logs may show you what files are loaded on the fly, which can be useful.

@NintendoFan
With ShowMiiWads, you need to generate the common-key (Tools > Create Common-key). After you generated the common-key, do "File > Open Folder" and browse to your .wad folder. It will show your .wad on the list, at this point right click on it and select "Extract > To Folder". You should get the .app files @Tock talked about. To extract their contents go to "Tools > Unpack U8 Archive" and choose the .app files, it may not work for all of them. And that's it.

Tock · 9. April 2015, 22:19

00.app, 02.app, 03.app, 04.app, 05.app and 06.app are U8 archives. 00 has the banner, icon and sound.bin, 02, 03 and 04 have the homebutton stuff and 06 has strapImages.

05 has the main Data chr.bin, dat.bin, efc.bin, map.bin, snd.b (brasd file), some csv files and Images about the controls. The .bin files have PSC8 files, PTC files aswell as SHTXFWII files. The dat.bin seems to have the text files (found story related German and English text).

The 07.app does not seem to be encrypted (as I can read text like "An error has occurred..Press the Eject Button, remove the.Game Disc, and turn off the power to the.console." in there).

The 01.app seems to have it but the URL is segmented. I found "n.intendow.ifi.ne" at 0x1351FD. And some hundred lines above it "https"

Leseratte · 9. April 2015, 22:32

When the URL is segmented, the file might be compressed and you need to decompress it somehow.

Sepalani · 9. April 2015, 22:44

That's funny I had the same issue with the Professor Layton games on NDS :vP. If your file begins with the byte 0x11, it's LZ11 compressed. There are lots of tools for that, initially for the Wii or the DS. For the Professor Layton games I used this pack: gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-ds-gba-compressors.313278/

Tock · 9. April 2015, 22:57

looks like you were right about the LZ11 archive

Is there a way to use the Wiimmfi patcher on such files or do I have to do it myself?

Sepalani · 9. April 2015, 23:10

I did it by myself to be honest, replacing all the https with http and the urls. I don't know if Wiimmfi patcher can patch files instead of image disc files.

Tock · 10. April 2015, 00:11

Managed to do it to the Pal version of the game and got the error code 23922 which means that Wiimmfi has no support for this game currently

@Wiimm: Are there any logs about a new game?^^

Edit: Time was at around 0:08 for the WiiWare Game Onslaught.

Wiimm · 10. April 2015, 01:15

Tock schrieb:

@Wiimm: Are there any logs about a new game?^^

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10-00:08:05 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:08:08 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:08:11 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:09:07 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:09:10 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:09:13 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:10:11 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:10:14 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP
10-00:10:18 #GAMEID WSAJ=WSAP

Tock · 10. April 2015, 01:44

Sadly I have no idea about the secret. The Europe name of the game is "Onslaught" and the Japanese one is "マッドセクタ" "MadSecta". I didnt find any info about it in the gslist.cfg file...

NintendoFan · 10. April 2015, 06:33

@Sepalani

I have GAME.DAT and INFO.DAT, what now? I tried viewing the game.dat in Notepad, but as far as I went(which was not very far) and all I found was a whole lot of garbage data and names of a few sound tracks in Dr Mario Online Rx.

Leseratte · 10. April 2015, 07:27

@Tock: Make a network dump and look for the DNS querys - when the game is correctly patched, it should query "qwertzuiop.available.gs.wiimmfi.de".

The string "qwertzuiop" is then the internal game name and you may find the password in the list.

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