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3DS4Wii (Is Fake)

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:50:00 +0000

I knew I was forgetting something in my post last night! I have been meaning to write about my "3DS Emulator For Wii! Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D" video. Of course the video is a fake, but here it is.

What I did:

In the video you can see that there is an actual app that is run and that part is real. What I did was create an icon, which is something that I do in my free time anyway, as well as the application. I then recorded that part of the video. The app I ran was actually a modified version of DeSmuME Wii by Arikado, etc. The modifications I did were simple ones such as switching out the DeSmuME Wii text for my "3DS4Wii" text. The other modifications I did were to the ROM directory and the filetype filter. I made it look for ROMs in SD:\3DS\ROMS\ and made it look for *.3ds files rather than *.nds ones. The 3DS games in the video are really just text files with a bunch of gibberish that I renamed to 3ds files.

The gameplay of Ocarina of Time 3D comes from a YouTube video of someone playing the game. I'm actually not quite sure how it was recorded because it seems to be direct from the 3DS itself. In the video there is a frame around each screen which shows a 3DS image (it looks like it's being played as a demo for a trailer). What I had to do was crop out the background of the top and bottom screen and separate them. You can still see a bit of the background on the top screen but I was too lazy to make it precise. Now that I had separate videos for each screen I just had to edit them together. I used DeSmuME Wii as a reference with how you are able to switch between showing each of the screens or both and emulated that for the video. I also slowed down all the gameplay in order to give the impression that it is running slower. All the gameplay is by the person who made the video as well as the random cropping that occurred throughout the gameplay. Since I used a video from someone else, there was a title on top of the game's intro which is why I made it start off with a black screen.

The download that I included in the description is the modified DeSmuME Wii that I used but I changed the text to say that it is fake and there is no 3DS emulator. It does the same things as in the video though (it looks for 3ds files but can't run them).

Thanks for playing!

Cumulative Update

Sun, 27 May 2012 06:05:00 +0000

It's been a few months since I have made a new blog post so I figured I would make a post for all of the stuff that's been going on since my last post. I feel like I am forgetting some things.... Well, most recently I have updated my Wii Homebrew Guide once again.

Wii Homebrew Guide Updates:

Updated to show Wilbrand (the alternative to Letterbomb) as well as how to use both the GUI and CLI versions. I've spent the past hour or two writing up the guide and taking pictures/screenshots to demonstrate how the exploit is used.

Check my Wii homebrew guide out here.

Pokemon Battery Replacement Video:

The other day the opportunity arose for me to re-do my old "How to fix a GameBoy Color Pokemon game that won't save" video. The old video was done in a rush with bad lighting, a fairly bad camera, and I basically just explained what I did after the fact. In my new one, I planned it out a little more and was able to shed some light on the whole process one step at a time (no pun intended). This time I actually went out and bought the new battery and I was able to use a GameBit that I had bought previously. I used my phone to record the video which turned out to be very good quality in my opinion, however I did do it all late at night which sort of shows in the way I speak. Anyway, without further ado, here's the video.

Personal Updates:

As for myself, quite a lot has happened in the past few months. I have been having some personal issues that I have been attending to, and will continue to deal with for now. On another note, I have been meaning to make another Halo Reach video although my account has expired for now. I will keep everyone posted as to when I get it back. I would like to contribute more than I have been but I'm not quite sure how that's going to play out yet. We shall see. I am going to be taking summer school classes as a Computer Science student, so that should be fun :) I will be learning to code and hopefully I can actually produce something useful for you all.

One more thing, I am pretty sad to see that my buddy Arikado is giving up his name and leaving the Wii scene, but he's given so much to the community and I'm glad I was able to be there through it all. I will continue to support whatever his next projects are, he's a good developer and maybe someday I will know enough to join him.

That's all I've got to say for now, hopefully I'll be able to post something again soon.

Homebrew Channel Theme - "Wii System Settings" v1.1

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:20:00 +0000

This is a Homebrew Channel theme that I made that looks like the Wii's System Settings. I have now released an updated version that uses a Wii font as well, so if you have the new HBC v1.1.0 then you can use this theme. Pictures and download link below.

This is the first, and as far as I know the only, theme with a custom font. Custom fonts were just barely introduced in the Homebrew Channel version 1.1.0 and as you can see allow for much more customized themes. In my opinion it just looks much better to have a font to match with the theme.

Let me know what you think!

Download here: wiibrew.org

Liberty 3.2.0.0 - Halo Reach, Halo 3 and ODST Campaign Save Editor

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Here's the newest version of Liberty (11947) compiled by me. It includes support for Halo Reach as well as Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST. Since this is an unofficial release do not contact the authors for support.

This is the first version with full, working ODST support. Download below.

Credits to AMD, Xerax, ThunderWaffle, and XenonDev for this amazing application.

Download here: MediaFire

UPDATE: If you are using this for Halo 3 (not ODST) then this version (11947) is very buggy. Use this old version here: MediaFire

Liberty - Halo Reach Campaign Editor

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:20:00 +0000

I have compiled a beta version of the Halo Reach (and Halo CE Anniversary) campaign editor. Info is below and unofficial build is at the bottom. --wiisixtyfour

Information below was taking from this topic on Se7enSins: [se7ensins.com]

Liberty, is the first Halo: Reach campaign editor, that is 100% free, and doesn't require registration. It can also do more features than most of the current editors around. It was coded from 100% our research and we had no help at all from anyone who already had information on campaign saves. It is licensed under the GPL v3 Copyright act, which means you may use the Source-Code to learn, but can't simply edit it and release it for profit or without giving proper credit to the original owners.

Liberty, was developed by 4 people;

AMD: Backend Code/Research
Xerax: GUI/(some)Backend Code/Research
ThunderWaffle {Unknown Heck}: Research
XenonDev {Kontrol}: Research

And we would also like to thank;

Bloodrapter: Testing
DeadCanadian: Testing/Help Researching
Ascention Developers
Xbox Chaos Community
Team Viewer
Bungie: For being kickass, and leading the way in FPS's over the last 10 years. (also making a b**** of a save format

Q: I get an exception saying my Save is an "Invalid Package" watdo?

A: Well, that means it isn't a valid Halo: Reach Campaign Savegame, or it is corrupted. Try getting a clean/Untouched save.

Q: I get exceptions saying I don't have the correct file permissions?

A: Make sure you are running the application as Administrator.

Q: When i try to load a save from my USB, it says it can't detect any FATX Devices?

A: Make sure you are running the application as Administrator, and you don't have any other fatx viewers open.

Download - v3.2.0.0 - r10391 BETA

Trying To Recover Data From An iPod Touch 4th Gen = Impossible

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:00:00 +0000

So recently I've been asked by a friend to recover some photos from an iPod touch 4th generation. The person had forgotten the passcode and gotten locked out of their own iPod. I have read many tutorials and articles on data recovery on iDevices but they mostly say the same thing. "You must restore the iPod and use data recovery software on it" which is a complicated task in and of itself.

So I was hesitant to restore the iPod because that would erase the data from it, so I waited a while. In the end I decided there was no other option and in order to use the iPod it would need a restore anyways. So I restored/updated it and installed iOS5. After this all the guides say it must be jailbroken in order to make a disc image of the iDevice. So I used the latest redsn0w to do the tethered IOS5 jailbreak and it worked like a charm. (I've also improved my skills at putting the iPod in DFU mode.) After this the guides say you need MobileTerminal as well as some nearly-impossible to find utilities. I suppose I should remind you that these guides were made in the days of iOS3 devices, so the software that was available at that time is now much harder to find. So from Cydia I managed to install MobileTerminal, but it didn't work. It turns out that the version on Cydia is an old version and only newer versions work on iOS4+. At this point I was glad I had purchased iFile from my other iPod touch because I could now use it here to install the new MobileTerminal. So I downloaded the most recent version from the google code page and "SSHed" it onto the iPod. Then iFile was able to install it and I was able to run MobileTerminal. That's one problem down.

Next I had to make sure I could use SSH commands from the iPod and the guides say to "ping" your computer which must run an SSH server. So I downloaded some SSH server for Windows and it worked fine (the guides say to use Ubuntu Linux but I didn't want to set that up). Now I couldn't use ping from the iPod because the command wasn't found. So I looked that up and found that you need to install "inetutils" from Cydia. The problem now is that the package is nowhere to be found on Cydia nor the internet. So after some more searching I found that you could use the command apt-get install inetutils from the MobileTerminal to install it. Now I could not use the "apt-get" command. I had to find that in Cydia, but it also wasn't there. I ended up installing a few different APT related items and then somehow it worked. So that part was fine, I now had inetutils and I could ping my computer and SSH to it. So now I ran the command which makes an image from the iPod: dd if=/dev/disk0 | ssh <username>@<computer-IP> ‘dd of=ipod-dump.img’ This didn't work. There was a problem with the directory "/dev/disk0" which made it so it could not be accessed for the dump. So searching around I couldn't really find a solution. Most people suggested using commands from the PC side, but that wouldn't work for me.

After more searching I found out that for newer iOS devices the data stored on them is encrypted. This means that even if I were to get the dump, the files would be unrecoverable and unreadable. Unfortunately there's no way around this so there is nothing that can be done for these devices. So in the end I had to give up on trying to recover the photos.

And that is my story on data recovery from an iPod touch 4th gen.

How To Make Icons In Windows Using GIMP

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Here's a pretty quick tutorial on making Windows icons using GIMP.

Get GIMP here: GIMP.org

I also show how to extract icons from Windows programs so you can use them for other things.

Get Resource Hacker here: angusj.com

How To Give Your SD Card Its Own Icon

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:35:00 +0000

A while ago I posted a video about how to give your SD card (or USB flash drive or other storage device) it's own icon in Windows. You can get the "autorun.inf" file from here (Right-click and Save As).

Heres the video:

Giantpune's Wii NAND Tools For Mac OS X

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:15:00 +0000

Giantpune has made some very useful tools that allow you to do many things with a BootMii NAND dump. Check out the wiiqt project page here. I have finally compiled the latest versions of the four of giantpune's NAND tools for use on Mac OS X.

For Windows versions, see this blog post.

In order to run these you need to install the Qt libraries from here: [qt.nokia.com] or install the Qt SDK from here: [qt.nokia.com]

The first tool is "nandBinCheck" which is used to display information about a nand.bin for the Wii. "nandBinCheck" is a Command Line Interface (CLI) program, so there's no fancy GUI. It is able to display information about boot1 & 2, NAND filesystem, permissions, ecc, hmac, SFFS, detect causes of many different types of bricks (opera, 003, unbootable IOS). With this program, you are almost guaranteed that a nand.bin is safe to install on a Wii. Note: You must run nandBinCheck from a Terminal window. You can find Terminal in Launchpad in the Utilities folder.

Get nandBinCheck here.

The next tool is called "ohneschwanzenegger". It is a program for creating, formatting, & writing to a nand.bin. It allows you to create a nand.bin on your Mac that you can then install with BootMii or a flash programmer. It accepts WADs or can download titles and full updates from NUS. It is still recommended that you check the contents of a nand.bin before installing it to a Wii.

Get ohneschwanzenegger here.

The third tool is "nandExtract" which can extract some or all files from a nand.bin, as well as examine its contents. You can see all the blocks of the NAND dump as well as info about the boot sector and such.

Get nandExtract here.

The final tool is "punetwiin". It's basically like betwiin which converts a NAND.bin to use on a different Wii. It works slightly different though; It takes a full nand.bin for both done files. It pulls the files and filesystem from the first NAND, and it pulls boot1 and boot2, the keys and the bad block map from the second NAND. When its done, you will have the contents from the filesystem in the first NAND mixed with everything else from the second NAND. The full process should take about 2 minutes. Bad blocks are taken into account, so it should be safer that Betwiin. Anybody using punetwiin is encouraged to verify the content of the output file before installing it. Note: You must run punetwiin from a Terminal window. You can find Terminal in Launchpad in the Utilities folder.

Get punetwiin here.

Of course all credit for these apps goes to giantpune and all the people who originally figured this stuff out (Team Twiizers) all I did was compile them for Mac OS X.

Bannerbomb Site Down

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:45:00 +0000

UPDATE: Bannerbomb's site is back up. [Link]

It has come to my attention that the Bannerbomb site is down once again and appears to have been removed. If you would like to use the Bannerbomb exploit then check out my mirror of the site HERE.

Alternatively you can update to 4.3 and use the LetterBomb exploit.

~~wiisixtyfour