Wode Jukebox

EDIT: Now with pictures and in great details. It is now n00b friendly from start to finish.


So I went over to ext3 with my external HDD and it was well worth it 2.0 works without any hiccups and ripping speeds more than doubled. I saw the guide that was posted here but I didn't want a Linux OS on my HDD so I went about figuring out how to do this within Windows without the need to use Linux. Here are the things well will need in order to do this.

[1] gParted - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/
[2] ext-FSD - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/files/Ext2fsd/0.48/Ext2Fsd-0.48.exe/download
[3] CD/DVD Burner & CD-R/DVD-R
[4] App to burn ISO - http://imgburn.com
[5] A little time and common sense
[6] External HDD/USB flash drive - Delete all partitions to make choosing proper drive easy later. If you don't do this you are on your own and may choose your PC HDD to format. So please take 5 seconds and go into disc management and delete all partitions it makes this so much simpler later on.

First things first install the drivers to actually be able to read/write to ext3 in Windows. There is already a nice guide here so I will borrow this part.




After that go ahead and download the gparted disc. I used the latest stable build of this app. After downloading the ISO fire up your favorite app and burn the ISO to a disc. Again I used IMGburn as I do with all my images. It is free and easy to use. So fire up your app and select the highlighted feature.


After that you will see the following screen. The box in the upper left corner is where you select the 'gParted" ISO. The bottom box starts the burn so sit back for a few and write down the info from the middle box. You will need this in a few to change to the proper boot order.



Make sure you have the drive you want to format connected via USB/firewire and reboot your PC with gParted disc in drive. Upon restart go into BIOS or the boot menu and set your computer to boot from the the optical drive that you wrote down the info from IMGburn above. To get into BIOS or boot menu, you generally need to hit a button upon startup before you see the windows logo, often it can be, delete, esc, F12, F2, F8, or any other, these are the general ones. Go to your boot order and make sure your optical drive is first in your boot sequence.



Then exit saving changes and then the PC will restart and boot gParted.



Upon the start up of the app choose the first option "Gparted LIVE CD (Auto Configuration)" and press enter.



Ok on to the next screen. You want to use the default keymap so simply press enter on this screen.



At the next screen the app ask you to input your language details. For the sake of this guide I am using 33 as it is English my native language. So choose yours accordingly for your native tongue.



Ok up next you need to get the video drivers working. When the CMD prompt gparted comes up type this exactly the way I write it or simply look at the highlighted area for those of us that would prefer a picture to reading. (But you have to read this picture anyhow back to your regularly scheduled tutorial.) Here it is folks!! "Forcevideo" without quotes of course.

[ Now a little side note if your video card is already compatible you may not have to do any of these steps till we get the the actual app booting. So if you go straight into the app don't worry your not in trouble, your just lucky.]



Ok now we need to choose the driver. Type the "vesa" without quotes for the generic video driver. It should work for everyone, if not try one of the other drivers that are listed above the CMD prompt.



Ok one last step and we will be able to actually use the darn application. The default video drivers are "1024x768" and should work for most. Check your settings before hand but if my Acer will load up on default anything will. So lets just hit enter for goodness sakes and get to dirty work. Or your your like me type "1024x768" and hit enter as I didn't read and I happened to luck up I guess.



Once this is done you will finally be able to format your HDD/USB drive. In the upper right hand corner select your drive and press enter. For this guide I am formatting my 32gb flash drive.



Highlight the partition you want to format and press the "Delete" key if needed. If not simply press "Ctrl+N" to make a new partition.



Now a little box will pop up. Go to filesystem tab and change it to "ext3"



Now if you don't want to use the whole drive for whatever reason go to "New Size" box and adjust accordingly. If you want the whole kit-n-kaboodle just hit enter and proceed my friends, and I promise were are almost there.



Now go over and left click the add box to queue up your formatting of the drive. If you need multiple partitions go ahead and feel free to create them here as well. This app supports all *nix, Apple, and Windows file partitions. I used to share mine with the 360 & PS3 so it works great for multiple systems.



Now you should see your allocated space with the proper file systems. I only have ext3 but this is what it should look like. Make sure you don't exit just yet as we haven't actually formatted the drive just got the app ready to do it's job.



Now look in the upper right topside and select the "Apply" button.



Now a screen will pop up making sure you want to do this as it is not reversible from this point on but there is good news. We only have one more click left so just hit apply once again.



Now sit back and watch your progress or go grab a drink your deserve it as you now can have your HDD detected quickly unlike NTFS users or the file size limitations of FAT32. Besides the rip times more than double that of NFTS does.



Now if all went well your final end screen should look just like mine. You can tick the "Details" box to see what the app actually did or if there were any problems if you walked away while it was doing it's job. You can also save the results to a drive so long as it isn't HFS+ or NTFS as Linux doesn't have read/write access to those partition types.



I hope this helps some of you all around here getting the best file format for your WODE. No more long "Please Wait" screens, ability to use the rip feature without down/upgrading, and best of all your ripping speeds will be doubled. Any questions or comments please feel free to post here and I will do my best to answer or amend the article if needed. So go ahead get to it what are you waiting for all these apps are free (and legal I might add) all you need is a blank disc which most of us have at home. You can install gparted to a flash drive but that can be googled easily so have fun. This wasted a lot of my day off. So sorry about the cell pictures I didn't find out how to make screen shots from gparted till I had already finished cropping and resizing these pictures.

There is a corrupted file on my hard drive (Can't delete, move, rename, etc)

Go to My Computer and right click your drive, choosing "Properties." Then, go to the "Tools" tab, and click "Check now" under "Error-checking." It'll attempt to fix any corrupted areas of your drive.

Also, a word of advice. These corrupted files can be caused by removing your drive while it is in use. Always "Safely Remove" your drive from your computer and make sure WODE is off when unplugging it.

How to Swap 2 Disc GameCube Games by Zephyr

Due to the Region Patch option causing an issue a shortcut created by TA to allow you to select another disc in a multi disc game you must do the following:

1. When prompted for the next disc press eject on the Wii
2. Use the Joy Stick on the LCD Panel of the WODE to highlight the next disc
3. Press right to select the next disc but hold it for a few seconds
- Generally I hold it until I see that the disc has been accepted

It should now load fine for you

Release notes from the 1.24 Firmware Release Topic:

Note, multidisk games & region hacking: When BKO (or any other 2 disk GC game) asks for the "other disk" it is important that the region hacking code isn't triggered, it prevents the game from recognising the "other disk". We have implemented a workaround for this - when you right click on the "other disk" to load it you should keep the joystick pushed to the right until the console starts to read the disk (blue LED blinks, read counter increments). This will prevent the region hack from activating (you could also navigate to the settings menu & turn off region hacking before loading the "other disk" but I think this is easier)

Finding and Resizing Game Covers by Zephyr

This is a good site... I just updated lots of covers from here.

http://www.freecovers.net/browse/wii/17.f.html

1. Find the Game Name and click it - (normally states front but it is front and back)
2. Click the picture
3. On next screen click "Download Uncompressed Picture Gold Members Only" - Sadly - you must pay to be a member to get these covers now But the below is still good for resizing Covers

The you have to resize the image to be 1024 x 680. I use this link:

http://www.resizemypicture.com/ - You may upload JPG, GIF, or PNG images up to 3MB in size and 3000 pixels wide. (If it is too big to start with use Microsoft photo Editor to resize - I would use this to get 1024 x 640 BUT Photo Editor never makes it exact)

1. Click Browse - Select Picture File
- Or click resize Multiple Photos and select them
2. Click More Options
3. Click Specify your Height and Width
4. Width = 1024 and Height = 680
5. Picture Quality = 100%
6. Click here to resize
7. Right Click on the Picture - Save Picture As
8. Name the file and Save it to your desired location

Now to convert to PNG:

1. Open MS Paint
- Start - Run - mspaint.exe - OK
- Right Click Picture - Open With - Paint
2. File - SaveAs
3. Name it the Title ID of the Game
4. Save as type - PNG (*.PNG)
5. Select Destination to save

Now you have a nice cover for WodeFlow

TUTORIAL: Convert an iso to a .wbfs using a Mac (potential for Linux users too)

This is my first tutorial so please let me know if I've missed/mucked up something or all this is not clear enough.

Also, before I start I must acknowledge that essentially all this information was sourced by rduke. I am indebted to him for making this possible for me.

Now this tutorial presumes you have a mac and some iso files that you've ripped previously off your own original discs and now want the convenience of being able to convert them to .wbfs without have to boot up Wii Backup Manager on virtual windows or a pc.

This also avoids using other macosx wbfs managers that require a WBFS formatted disc to write to. If you follow this tutorial correctly, you will be able to write a .wbfs file on any WODE supported disc including HFS+.

That said you might also note that the below may very well work on Linux so if you want a .wbfs converter that will work on Linux, you may also be in for a treat.

OK, if the above is still you lets begin.

Firstly, (thanks to rduke), download the following file: http://cfg-loader.googlecode.com/files/ ... le_2.9.zip

Unzip the file and you will notice there are a number of folders. Open the mac_osx folder and copy and paste the wbfs_file into the Applications folder (use the wbfs_file from the Linux folder if that is the os your applying this script to - obviously you know where to paste this file in your os).

That's the simple part.

Second (the not so simple part), open a blank text file with TextEdit (I'm using this but any text editor will work just as well).
Inside you will have to cut, paste and configure the following script:


Now, as you can see, the script has comments which basically tell you what to do however, I'm here to explain what it's actually saying.

Before you start typing anything into the script, you have to decide where your source (SRC), folder will be located and where your destination (DEST), folder will be. This is entirely up to you however for the purposes of this tutorial I will explain with an example.

I want to put my iso in a folder called game_iso (you can call it whatever you like) and it will be in my 'home' directory - on a mac, this directory as an icon of a house on it.

I will call this directory 'home' but you need to call it whatever name appears in Finder to the right of that house icon.

The full path of my game_iso folder would be (you can see this in Finder), Macintosh HD/users/home/game_iso

However, in the script above you need to replace the line:

with:


OK, that's the source taken care of, now for the destination.

Testing this I've found the the smallest .wbfs files are written to a Fat32 formatted disc so I wrote the next part of the script to send the .wbfs file to the Fat32 partition on an external hard drive and to a folder named 'iso'. I've named this partition 'WII_FAT', but you will have to put the name of your corresponding partition and/or drive - it will be the name that shows up on your desktop when the partition/drive is mounted.

This is how you write that part of the script:

our new line replaces this one from the script above:


You don't have to save to an external drive. If you want to save back to your mac hd you can.
Here's an example of the script you might wright if you wanted to destination to be a folder called 'wbfs' your desktop:


And that's it!

All you have to do now is save the script and give your mac permission to access it. (I've edited this bit from the original so if you've had a go and it didn't work - this additional bit will fix it.

Go to File (in TextEdit), select Save As and then give your file a name (can be whatever), and save as a 'plain text encoding' Unicode (UTF-8), .txt file.

Once you've saved this file, open up Terminal (it's located in Applications/Utilities), and type the following:


where 'nameofscript.txt' is obviously the name of your script - don't forget the extension.

Lastly, go back to the file on your desktop and click on it so it is highlighted (as you would to change the name of a file), to change the extension (Please note: the extension may not be visible at this stage - it doesn't matter you can just type the following anyway). Type the extension .command after the file name.

OK, now place the iso or iso's (this will convert all the iso's in your designated source folder simultaneously!), in the folder you chose earlier and make sure your destination partition/drive is mounted.

Once the file and drive are in place, just double click on the script file and a terminal window will pop up and you will be able to view the program as it runs and completes the conversion/s like magic.

That's it Tutorial completed!