RiiConnect24: Alpha Mail!

Billy549 · 3. Dezember 2016, 07:56

RiiConnect24 is proud to announce an alpha WiiConnect24 Mail system! It works on Wii, but not currently vWii.
NB: You will not currently receive announcements from Wiimmfi Competitions: @Leseratte is working on a new patcher, but it is not yet done.

You will need:
- A Nintendo Wii (not a vWii!)
- NWC24MSG.CFG patcher: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments…4447947037671425/mail.zip
- The latest IOS Patcher: github.com/RiiConnect24/IOS-Patcher/releases
- WiiXplorer: wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiXplorer
- A WAD installer

Instructions:
1. Get `/shared2/wc24/nwc24msg.cfg` from your Wii NAND via WiiXplorer (If your WiiXplorer doesn't show NAND, update!)
2. Drag it onto mail.exe : this autopatches the nwc24msg.cfg to our servers (Linux x86 and x64 and Mac builds soon™)
3. Put it back onto SD card, enable WiiXplorer NAND writing (Settings -> Boot Settings), and copy it back to the folder, overwriting.
4. Install the IOS WADs created.

There are, however, some bugs: most channels will error out with 102032 - this is due to their IOS not having said patch (we are working on fixing this and removing the need for a patch, but it could take a long time)
We will be updating the IOS patcher for new IOSes some point in the future.

If you need any help, come to our Discord! discord.gg/sGRwfxx (If you are having issues patching IOS, you can ask someone who will surely help)

WARNING: RiiConnect24 is not liable for any damage caused by our patchers in any way, shape, or form. We recommend installing BootMii (@boot2 is the best, but @IOS if you cannot install @boot2), aswell as Priiloader, and taking at least one NAND backup before installing.

Please do not message me here for WADs or similar!

NintendoFan · 3. Dezember 2016, 09:21

Cool!

Not really sure what else to say, but it's good that you're making progress on making rc24 better.

Leseratte · 3. Dezember 2016, 12:19

Hm, the steps with "Copy file to SD, patch it on your computer, install it back to the Wii" could be omitted if we had a Wii version of the patch tool, right?

The nwc24msg.cfg only contains the Wii ID, the server URLs and the checksum. It shouldn't be so hard to create a Wii app doing this on-the-fly. Maybe I'll try doing that at the weekend.
Can you tell me the URLs you patch the file to?

Leseratte · 3. Dezember 2016, 12:49

Will there also be patches for IOS60 and IOS70, i. e. 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2? Or do we have to update to 4.3?
And what message domain are you using? This will probably interfere with the competition announcement letter.

Billy549 · 3. Dezember 2016, 14:48

PMed you all stuff so people can't read up

SuperNigaWii · 4. Dezember 2016, 10:03

It does not work for me. Did every step (installing IOSes, replacig the .cfg, etc.) but whenever I try to open the Wii Adress Book or the "Send Mesagge" option next to it, it ends up throwing an error message without any error code (WiiConnect24 has a problem, please try again later; or something like that). I set the language to English and still happens.

Billy549 · 4. Dezember 2016, 10:18

Are you on 4.3? What error code?

Like Wiimmfi, I can't help if we dont know the code

Leseratte · 4. Dezember 2016, 11:05

SuperNigaWii schrieb:

throwing an error message without any error code

Billy549 · 4. Dezember 2016, 11:07

Oh, that was because we had some issues. Literally try again later; the Wii has accurate descriptions for WiiConnect24

Leseratte · 4. Dezember 2016, 14:11

It might be a good idea to add a hint into this tutorial (and the tutorial on the rc24 page) saying that this breaks competition announcements.
I'll try implementing the RiiConnect24 patch (which is currently done by the mail.exe) into my competition patcher so it patches both and no patch breaks the other one.

Coolnez · 4. Dezember 2016, 20:49

Leseratte schrieb:

It might be a good idea to add a hint into this tutorial (and the tutorial on the rc24 page) saying that this breaks competition announcements.
I'll try implementing the RiiConnect24 patch (which is currently done by the mail.exe) into my competition patcher so it patches both and no patch breaks the other one.

That be Great, Because if that is fixed, all the features of Mario Kart Wii can finally work.