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repiv
Aug 13, 2009

MatchaZed posted:

Do we have a separate thread for Steam Deck getting things working? Been struggling figuring out Xenia since I want to install Geometry Wars 2.

there's a deck thread and a general linux gaming thread

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3973713
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4004994

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Jolo
Jun 4, 2007

ive been playing with magnuts tying to change the wold as we know it

I recently put Evilnat CFW on my Slim PS3 but am quickly realizing that the 150GB Hard Drive in there fills up incredibly fast when you're storing bluray discs on there. What's the process for moving to a new Hard Drive?

I know the PS3 has a built in transfer tool, but I'm not sure if that still works correctly with the CFW going.

Echophonic
Sep 16, 2005

ha;lp
Gun Saliva
I just use HEN, but I haven't had any issues using a fast microSD card in a small USB adapter for my PS3 games. PS1 games need to be on-console, though.

Substandard
Oct 16, 2007

3rd street for life

Echophonic posted:

I just use HEN, but I haven't had any issues using a fast microSD card in a small USB adapter for my PS3 games. PS1 games need to be on-console, though.

On CFW at least PS3 and PS1 games can be on USB and only PS2 games have to be on the console.

Jolo posted:

I recently put Evilnat CFW on my Slim PS3 but am quickly realizing that the 150GB Hard Drive in there fills up incredibly fast when you're storing bluray discs on there. What's the process for moving to a new Hard Drive?

I know the PS3 has a built in transfer tool, but I'm not sure if that still works correctly with the CFW going.

it's the same as a regular ps3. literally just turn off the console pull the old drive and put a new one in. You should be able to use the transfer tool to save existing stuff but I've actually never done that.

*edit* you do have to re-install Webman and other CFW apps, but the CFW itself sticks around just fine.

Substandard fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Mar 5, 2024

Jolo
Jun 4, 2007

ive been playing with magnuts tying to change the wold as we know it

Substandard posted:

On CFW at least PS3 and PS1 games can be on USB and only PS2 games have to be on the console.

it's the same as a regular ps3. literally just turn off the console pull the old drive and put a new one in. You should be able to use the transfer tool to save existing stuff but I've actually never done that.

*edit* you do have to re-install Webman and other CFW apps, but the CFW itself sticks around just fine.

Ok cool. I wasn't sure if the firmware was installed to the hard drive that was being replaced or to some memory on the console itself.


Echophonic posted:

I just use HEN, but I haven't had any issues using a fast microSD card in a small USB adapter for my PS3 games. PS1 games need to be on-console, though.

I hadn't really thought of that. That's good to know because the main downside to using the internal drive is that transferring a bunch of files over FTP is pretty slow.

Echophonic
Sep 16, 2005

ha;lp
Gun Saliva
I could have sworn I had issues with PSX games off of USB, but it's been a bit. I could be misremembering.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

A friend of mine had a spare launch era Switch sitting around. I just ordered a jig. I'm gonna jailbreak it this weekend. I scanned a few pages back but didn't didn't see one, is there a 3DS.guide style site for jailbreaking Switch? If not, what's the current way to do it?

I just want to be able to dump my Switch carts to play on my PC and Steam Deck. Is that still easy to do? I remember Nintendo had that lockpick program removed sometime last year.

MagusDraco
Nov 11, 2011

even speedwagon was trolled

Detective No. 27 posted:

A friend of mine had a spare launch era Switch sitting around. I just ordered a jig. I'm gonna jailbreak it this weekend. I scanned a few pages back but didn't didn't see one, is there a 3DS.guide style site for jailbreaking Switch? If not, what's the current way to do it?

I just want to be able to dump my Switch carts to play on my PC and Steam Deck. Is that still easy to do? I remember Nintendo had that lockpick program removed sometime last year.

I think these are the current recommended guides.

The first is from the piracy reddits/discords and assumes some familiarity with switch hacking. In homebrew and misc it gives you instructions on how to dump games from your switch.

https://rentry.org/SwitchHackingIsEasy

The second one is from one of the switch homebrew discords and gives more detailed instructions.

https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/

MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 21:55 on May 1, 2024

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


That second one is the best.

Echophonic
Sep 16, 2005

ha;lp
Gun Saliva
I'd also get an RCM Loader. I got one for like 10 bucks from AliExpress and it's so much less of a pain in the rear end.

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012



Echophonic posted:

I'd also get an RCM Loader. I got one for like 10 bucks from AliExpress and it's so much less of a pain in the rear end.

If you have an Android phone you can use Rekado - it's what I've been using and it's nice and easy.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

Alright, I think I figured it out for the most part. I got Atmosphere running on the Switch. Pretty painless for the most part. Before I started, I removed all the wifi connections to the Switch like it suggested. To access the homebrew store, it needs wifi. Is there a way to input wifi through Atmosphere or do I gotta do it on the normal Switch level?

In addition, is the current app do dump roms in the homebrew store?

Witters
Jan 14, 2008

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Detective No. 27 posted:

Alright, I think I figured it out for the most part. I got Atmosphere running on the Switch. Pretty painless for the most part. Before I started, I removed all the wifi connections to the Switch like it suggested. To access the homebrew store, it needs wifi. Is there a way to input wifi through Atmosphere or do I gotta do it on the normal Switch level?

In addition, is the current app do dump roms in the homebrew store?

If you need internet for some reason there's a way to set up an internet connection that does not connect to Nintendo on either Atmosphere or the normal level. I think this is called a DNS90 server connection.

https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/extras/blocking_nintendo/

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

I'm really confused. I used a 64gb microSD card for this. I followed the directions on the guide, and I basically got only 32gb on it after the partition. Not much, but I didn't want to mess with it, as it worked. I was able to dump a few carts. When it got low on space, I cut/paste the rims onto a computer and deleted the roms off the SD card. But the card says I got 700mb of free space now, despite me deleting the roms. I'm not sure how to clear it up without messing everything up.

I got a 128gb microSD card so I decided to start this one clean, to the same thing again, with more space. I get to the part where I launch Atmosphere FSS0 emuMMC, and it gives me a yellow screen. I can't figure out why. I followed the steps to the letter.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

Alright, I solved the phantom lost storage problem. It turns out, if you delete something on an SD card on Mac, you also gotta empty the trash bin to fully delete it. So I'm able to dump games again.

As for the yellow screen issue, haven't figured that one out yet. I think I'll try redoing everything on my Windows PC later.

Echophonic
Sep 16, 2005

ha;lp
Gun Saliva
Ok, so I think I've declared victory on my WiiU setup, finally. Converted my HDD to a pair of SD cards, one for the WiiU filesystem, one hidden one for USBLoaderGX. My vWii's got USBLoaderGX working, I have a system for adding games. The WiiU is up to date with Aroma after using Tiramisu for a bit, have Homebrew loaded on the menu, whole nine yards. Super nice all around.

However, there were issues. I managed to gently caress up the Wii card's filesystem like twice. Something you have to do do stop the WIiU from bitching every time you start it. The cheap adapter I got had garbage contact in my PC and scraped up my card pretty badly, so I had to upgrade it.

Overall, worth it, though. Next up is getting ahead of the eMMC, I guess, since I have the failure-prone Hynix kind.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Echophonic posted:

Overall, worth it, though. Next up is getting ahead of the eMMC, I guess, since I have the failure-prone Hynix kind.

How do you know which one you have and how will you prepare for it?

Echophonic
Sep 16, 2005

ha;lp
Gun Saliva

Saoshyant posted:

How do you know which one you have and how will you prepare for it?

There's a tool called WiiU Ident that lets you see the various components. There's a type of eMMC that has proven to be on the short-timer's list. There's a few ways to do it, both of which bypass the eMMC and either redirect to an installed SD card via a thing called a NAND-Aid or a bootloader hack to let you run it off of a partition on the normal SD card.

Honestly? Not sure where to start. My WiiU is currently fine, so there's got to be a way to just clone it into redNAND or whatever. I'm just keeping an eye out for better solutions.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/fixing-system-memory-error-160-0103-failing-emmc-without-soldering-using-rednand-with-isfshax.642268/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-nand-aid-emmc-recovery-and-replacement-interposer-public-test.630798/

Echophonic fucked around with this message at 17:27 on May 9, 2024

George RR Fartin
Apr 16, 2003




Echophonic posted:

Ok, so I think I've declared victory on my WiiU setup, finally. Converted my HDD to a pair of SD cards, one for the WiiU filesystem, one hidden one for USBLoaderGX.

....How does one go about this? I have two hard drives strapped to my Wii-U. It looks like an IED, and it's a bother to have to get up to plug things in just to play Wii games.

Echophonic
Sep 16, 2005

ha;lp
Gun Saliva

George RR Fartin posted:

....How does one go about this? I have two hard drives strapped to my Wii-U. It looks like an IED, and it's a bother to have to get up to plug things in just to play Wii games.

There's a few ways, at least for FAT32 formatted drives. They all do the same thing, adjust a byte in the filesystem. I don't know about NTFS. The app in question has to support it, the compatibility list is available in the UStealth thread. But the latest of WiiFlow and USBLoaderGX both do. I'm unsure if you can load homebrew from a hidden drive like that, but I think it's expected it's all on the SD card.

What I did was go with a tool called UStealth that does it. Basically, you unhide it when you plug in the drive to your PC (Your PC will complain about formatting it instead) to add games (I'm using Wii Backup Manager) and re-hide it when you're done. https://gbatemp.net/threads/ustealth-wii-u-format-disk-nag-workaround.352786/

One's a homebrew tool called USBHide, but apparently you can only have the drive you're trying to hide/unhide plugged in when you toggle it. I haven't tried it, myself. https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-usbhide-on-console-format-nag-stopper.612871/

Looks like there's a Wii homebrew app called USB Toggle that does it. https://oscwii.org/library/app/USB_Toggle

You can also do it yourself with a hex editor like HxD. Just have to change the last two bytes of sector 0 to from 55 AA to 55AB.

Like I said, UStealth did bork my filesystem once, but it was just re-copying games after I reformatted it. I blame the lovely Ali USB adapter I got.

Echophonic fucked around with this message at 22:38 on May 9, 2024

tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!
I’ve ripped my physical copy of 007 Everything or Nothing to my OG XBox. It will not boot at all, but the disk loads perfectly. I’ve read something about Access Control Lists, which apparently the ripped copy needs. How would I apply an ACL to the ripped files?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

tango alpha delta posted:

I’ve ripped my physical copy of 007 Everything or Nothing to my OG XBox. It will not boot at all, but the disk loads perfectly. I’ve read something about Access Control Lists, which apparently the ripped copy needs. How would I apply an ACL to the ripped files?

DVD2XBOX should do that automatically as long as your console and game region match, as far as I can tell

also that game fuckin rules

tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!

kirbysuperstar posted:

DVD2XBOX should do that automatically as long as your console and game region match, as far as I can tell

also that game fuckin rules

I followed a couple of tutorials but the ripped game just won’t load. No biggie, I’ll keep enjoying the original disk that I bought many years ago.

loudog999
Apr 30, 2006

I dug my Wii U out so my daughter could play through the splatoon single player. Now that she is done I want to play around with the latest mods before I banish it back to the closet. It’s been so long that I don’t remember how any of it works, just wanted to verify what I should do to start. I currently have haxchi on the system, so I should uninstall it through the Wii U settings, format the sd card that I had with the old mod stuff on it, and start with step 1 of the new guide?

Also, before I do that, how is the state of homebrew on Wii U now? Do you all use it? I remember the first time I did it there was a lot of trail and error and frustration on my part, and I never did get GameCube games working on it so I gave up.

ROCK THE HOUSE M.D.
Oct 9, 2003

I've got a case of malt liquor stashed in the trunk, Mr. Marvin Gaye on the CD. We are gonna get all the way down.


loudog999 posted:

I dug my Wii U out so my daughter could play through the splatoon single player. Now that she is done I want to play around with the latest mods before I banish it back to the closet. It’s been so long that I don’t remember how any of it works, just wanted to verify what I should do to start. I currently have haxchi on the system, so I should uninstall it through the Wii U settings, format the sd card that I had with the old mod stuff on it, and start with step 1 of the new guide?

Also, before I do that, how is the state of homebrew on Wii U now? Do you all use it? I remember the first time I did it there was a lot of trail and error and frustration on my part, and I never did get GameCube games working on it so I gave up.

I have a modded Wii U and was in a similar situation. I had modded it once a few years ago with Mocha, and then like maybe 6 months ago started fresh with the newer method. It has come a looong way. I remember with Mocha and the web workaround it always took me 3 tries of rebooting the system and injecting the web workaround to get it to work. This method works every time and is much faster.

Now though, I don't really have a need for my Wii U anymore since I got a Lenovo Legion Go which can handle Wii U emulation. I've been playing Twilight Princess HD on it, it runs very well.

loudog999
Apr 30, 2006

ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:

I have a modded Wii U and was in a similar situation. I had modded it once a few years ago with Mocha, and then like maybe 6 months ago started fresh with the newer method. It has come a looong way. I remember with Mocha and the web workaround it always took me 3 tries of rebooting the system and injecting the web workaround to get it to work. This method works every time and is much faster.

Now though, I don't really have a need for my Wii U anymore since I got a Lenovo Legion Go which can handle Wii U emulation. I've been playing Twilight Princess HD on it, it runs very well.

Sounds good, I already own all the Wii U games I would want to play and do most of my emulation on my steam deck, but want to give devils third a try without paying $300 for it. Sounds like I have a weekend project. Thanks

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

So I’m in a pickle. Bought a refurbished New 2DS XL last year and home brewed it. I’m in a Pokemon mood lately and was hoping I’d still be able to access Pokemon Bank.

The problem is that apparently the region has been changed so it cannot connect to the eshop. I understand I can CFW a region change myself, but a couple of issues arise:

1. How do I know what the original region for my device was?

2. What are the downsides to region changing back to whatever the original region is?

3. To be clear, I don’t need eshop to download Poke Bank. I need it for Poke Bank to actually function. I’ve already downloaded it from hShop.

4. I’m aware I can’t use my original NNID on this device and I’m ok with starting a fresh empty Pokemon Bank. I just want to create a new NNID with this device so I can import to Pokemon Home on my Switch. I don’t mind replaying older games to get a Bank of cool Mons again.

leper khan
Dec 28, 2010
Honest to god thinks Half Life 2 is a bad game. But at least he likes Monster Hunter.

chaosapiant posted:

So I’m in a pickle. Bought a refurbished New 2DS XL last year and home brewed it. I’m in a Pokemon mood lately and was hoping I’d still be able to access Pokemon Bank.

The problem is that apparently the region has been changed so it cannot connect to the eshop. I understand I can CFW a region change myself, but a couple of issues arise:

1. How do I know what the original region for my device was?

2. What are the downsides to region changing back to whatever the original region is?

3. To be clear, I don’t need eshop to download Poke Bank. I need it for Poke Bank to actually function. I’ve already downloaded it from hShop.

4. I’m aware I can’t use my original NNID on this device and I’m ok with starting a fresh empty Pokemon Bank. I just want to create a new NNID with this device so I can import to Pokemon Home on my Switch. I don’t mind replaying older games to get a Bank of cool Mons again.

bad news about the eshop servers

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


Yeah Pokemon Bank is permadead until someone launches unofficial servers which I don't think has happened yet.

chaosapiant
Oct 10, 2012

White Line Fever

I thought Nintendo released a statement the Poke Bank would still be online and no longer cost anything? I can actually access Poke Bank on an older 3DS I have with a cracked screen. I have no Mons in that bank, but I can at least log into it.

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



Pokémon Bank is still online for the mean time. Nintendo made that clear after the 3DS servers went offline. I doubt they’ll be there that long though so I’d get on transferring asap.

Swilo
Jun 2, 2004
ANIME SUCKS HARD
:dukedog:

chaosapiant posted:

So I’m in a pickle. Bought a refurbished New 2DS XL last year and home brewed it. I’m in a Pokemon mood lately and was hoping I’d still be able to access Pokemon Bank.

The problem is that apparently the region has been changed so it cannot connect to the eshop. I understand I can CFW a region change myself, but a couple of issues arise:

1. How do I know what the original region for my device was?

You should be able to identify this based on the device serial number unless the guts have been swapped: https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Serials

Minidust
Nov 4, 2009

Keep bustin'
Question about Swiss on GameCube. If I’m using a save exploit to boot into Swiss, is it possible to still play the exploited game?

I’m using a MemCard Pro - so once the game in question loads, the Virtual memory card with the exploit would be automatically switched to a “clean” card reserved for that game (Wind Waker in my case). So seems like it should be okay, but wondering if there’s some risk I hadn’t thought of.

BadMedic
Jul 22, 2007

I've never actually seen him heal anybody.
Pillbug
OK I hacked my switch, and it's mostly fine
But it feels like there's something about Tinfoil that's poo poo the bed, and I'm not sure how to fix it.
Some of my games installed fine, but others had weird issues with installing update .nsp files. It throws errors like "Invalid PFS0 Magic!" and "Invalid NSP file" when I try to install them, and now a few games are in a weird twilight zone state where Tinfoil thinks they have been updated and not at the same time?
To top it off, there's one game in particular where Tinfoil's 'list' of nsp packages has gotten all weird and corrupted, listing ones that don't even exist. That game fails to install, getting stuck at ~10% every time now.

Is there some working directory that Tinfoil uses that I can just nuke and start fresh?
Cause at this point, I'm honestly considering just wiping the emuMMC and starting from semi-scratch.

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




What ever happened to the MIG card that was supposed to come out for switch? Did anyone ever get one?

BadMedic
Jul 22, 2007

I've never actually seen him heal anybody.
Pillbug

Beve Stuscemi posted:

What ever happened to the MIG card that was supposed to come out for switch? Did anyone ever get one?

From the reviews I've seen online, it works exactly as advertised, but with one small and one massive caveat:
First, it needs games in the .xci format, which is the physical game cartridge format and not the format most pirated games come in.
Second, every single switch cartridge has their own individual certificate, so if you download one of these .xci format games you are going to get banned anyways, since nintendo will notice that suddenly a thousand people are playing the exact same cartridge.

So it's only useful as a piracy tool if you have an unhackable switch, that you don't want to modchip, and you are ok with keeping it offline until the end of time.

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


I also haven't heard of anyone who's actually got one they paid for, the only people who seem to have gotten them are Youtubers and reviewers.

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)
They also stealth updated to V2 with a button to change games. Except some people already got their V1s lol. Pretty lovely behavior.

A good poster
Jan 10, 2010
Is it possible to apply a game update without phoning home to the eShop or any other way of installing an nsp to the system? Being stuck playing version 1.0 of any game seems like another huge drawback to the Mig.

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kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Sure, if you're on cfw

In which case the mig is kind of pointless

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