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OP Nov 11, 2011  #1

Ok folks, for those who didn't knew already, we are making our project
public today:

The o�cial website of our project can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/custom-di/

obcd
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As usual, X�ak has beaten us, and support in modmii came out before our
o�cial release:
http://code.google.com/p/modmii/
The version you are looking for is 4.7.6 or anything higher.

Within this announcement, I would like to thank in no speci�c order:

Crediar for his wonderfull sneek package.

Overjoy for all the work and time he spent on it. He designed the
framework for di wbfs support.
X�ak for supporting it in modmii and his help upon taking the last hurdles.
GiantPune for showing us the magic in bootmii ios, and even working it out
when we failed to do so.
Scooby74029 for his support and attempts to �x problems.
Stfour for supporting it in postloader and letting us use priibooter as
launch framework.
JoostinOnline for his artwork (I hope his book is �nished by now..)
Lustar, the driving force behind wiitdb.com.
All our testers that supported us on irc. Not always with positive
announcements :-)
Wintermute for his free development packages.
Nintendo for their cheap piece of hardware that is part of our hobby.
Many many others, from which we picked source code or simply
ideas...Sorry for all those I forgot.
PM me, and I will edit this announcement...(This was a hurry job.)

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So, what is our project?

I like to see it as an enhancement of Crediar's sneek project. It has a

number of new features:

- It can launch backup games in wbfs format from a fat32 formatted drive.
- It can use an emulated nand in a subfolder of the drive, and not only on
the root of it.
- It can switch from one emulated nand to another on the �y. So you can
run a game in it's own
region nand.
- It has Uneek_usb_fs support. This means that homebrew can have usb
access again with minor modi�cations,
using the isfs �ling system.
- It can cooperate with bootmii. It doesn't launch automatically every time
on a bootmii as boot2 wii.
- It's prepared for an usb only setup. In the near future, you wan't need a
sd card anymore to use it.

For the noob's reading this, a little more explanation.

The wii contains an internal 512Mb nand chip that can be seen as the
harddisk of a pc. It contains the
operating system of the wii and other �les like gamesaves.

If something serious goes wrong with the wii operating system �les, it's
sometimes di�cult to �x the issue.
A pc can be booted from a cd/dvd or an usb stick to �x things, but the wii
doesn't have this luxury. In worst case
the �ash disk needs to be reprogrammed with an external programmer.
Deadly Foez is the specialist for this type of
repairs. A very important thing you need is the backup of your working
nand, or at least the keys that are used to encrypt
that nand. Without those, your wii can become an expensive doorstop or
paperweight.

Sneek and Uneek redirect the internal nand �ash read and write
operations to the wii sd card or usb disk.
Sneek uses the sd card and Uneek uses the harddisk. If something goes
wrong, you can restore the nand folders on your sd card or
your harddisk with a pc, and things are running again. The DI module that
comes with uneek replaces the original one that reads
games from a game disc, and reads the game data from the harddisk as
well. So, it's possible to place a backup of your game on
your harddisk and run it.

The original nand �ash only has a size of 512Mb. The emulated nand on
harddisk can be several Gigabytes in size. So, you don't have

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to erase gamesaves anymore to be able to install VC/Wiiware on your wii.

Pro's:

-Size of nand not limited to 512Mb

-Very brick safe as the original nand and it's ios aren't touched.
-Very good compatibility with VC and Wiiware. Some claim 100%
-Very good compatibility with Games.
-You can take your harddisk over to a friend with a modded wii and play
your games like you would be playing them on your own wii. (including
your gamesaves)

Con's that are solved or will be solved:

-Can't cooperate with bootmii on real nand.

-No homebrew usb access.
-Special game format. Games need to be extracted.
-HBC isn't running on it.

Con's that still exist:

-is a little slower than real nand as the drive acces itself is slower.
-some harddisks don't work very well with it.
-appears di�cult to setup in the beginning.

I will now try a setup myself, so that I can write a HowTo tutorial.

Stay Tuned and �re your phasers... (I mean, your questions..)

17-11-2011

Today, I have update the sources on our googlepage. The main reason are
some minor bug�xes.

-The system freezed with a black screen when either the games or wbfs
folder were empty (default situation with a modmii setup)
-The system also freezed when there were no games in either the games
or the wbfs folder or when those folders didn't exist.
-An invalid �le or folder in the wbfs folder made the previous game appear
twice in the game list.
-Added support for another game format in the wbfs folder

The dimodule.elf on our google svn page is still the old one. The new one
can be downloaded here:

http://www.media�re...6hhs3gs162s3t9h

Currently, your games in the wbfs folder need the following structure:

(Taking Wii sports as an example)

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wbfs/rspp01/rspp01.wbfs
wbfs/rspp01.wbfs
wbfs/rspp01_wii_sports/rspp01.wbfs
wbfs/wii_sports[rspp01]/rspp01.wbfs
wbfs/wii_sports[rspp01].wbfs

We will ignore requests for other formats. I think we have most formats
supported by usb loaders now.

if something changed to the games or wbfs folder, you need to rebuild or

delete the dicon�g.bin �le.
if something changed to the nands folder structure, you need to delete the
sneek/nandcfg.bin �le.

Those �les will automatically be recreated upon the next boot into neek2o

JoostinOnline made some icons for people using the launcher from the
hbc, homebrew �lter or postloader. You can �nd those here (Post #20):
http://gbatemp.net/t...for-developers/
GartimusPrime made one as well. Will upload it if he agrees.

24-11-2011

Overjoy posted nswitch1.0.rar on our google svn. It allows to boot into a

uneek2o environment without the need of an sd card.
A small bug was resolved in the priiloader 0.7 installer. After it did it's work,
it didn't return properly to the system menu. This is
hopefully �xed now. The priiloader.app stays the same.
XFlak, cyb0rg, MassiveRican and 2 others

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Nov 11, 2011  #2

many many thanks for your hard work. i love it

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Nov 11, 2011  #3

awesome �nally. i love the new features!

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Nov 11, 2011  #4

Wait, do you want the icon to say neek2o instead?

JoostinOnline
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Nov 11, 2011  #5

Great release. Thank you guys !

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OP Nov 11, 2011  #6

@joostin

no, the application will be called bootneek. The project is called neek2o with sneek2o
and uneek2o

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Nov 11, 2011  #7

This sounds really cool! I can't wait for you to get your tutorials up so I can try it out!

Just a quick question though; in the "HowToNandSel" guide on the code page, it shows
the "nands" subfolder structure as "nand1", "nand2", etc. Is it possible to name these
anything? For example could you have "USnand", "WiiWare", "VCnand", etc? It's not
really an issue either way, I'm just curious.
mvgc3
Well-Known Member Anyway, like I already said, this sounds awesome! Thanks for keeping the Wii scene
Member alive an kicking!

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OP Nov 11, 2011  #8

Yes, you can name those wathever you like. They are just examples. The main "nands"
subfolder containing the others shouldn't change from name.

It was a shame sneek never received the attention it deserved. We hope things will
change and people will start to like it on their wii's.
Only then we can say "mission completed..."
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Nov 11, 2011  #9

Ok, I �gured that was the case.

And I agree that it's a shame the NEEKs never became more common. I only use it for
RB3, since .wbfs and pretty USB loaders are just a more convenient format for me.
Once I get this set up I may just leave my SD card plugged in

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Nov 11, 2011  #10

Hey, sorry if I released the ModMii neek2o update prematurely. I wanted to release it
on the 11th and that was my only opportunity. Great work guys!

XFlak
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Nov 11, 2011  #11

sweet

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OP Nov 11, 2011  #12

@x�ak, no big deal, I needed your program for my howto tutorial. So, it had to come
�rst.
Overjoy found it kind of funny...Actual, me too.

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Nov 11, 2011  #13

Hehe another topic.. Also funny

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Nov 11, 2011  #14

Excellent work guys. I am now actually interested in neek, before it seemed to

troublesome. Anxiously awaiting the tutorial.

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Nov 11, 2011  #15

thanks guys

great job

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Nov 11, 2011  #16

LoZ:SS actually works on this one without any cIOS patches

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Nov 11, 2011  #17

Only a minor problem with this I guess. Black ops / mw3 multilayer performance is
unplayable, even more so then discex format from default uneek 168 (same wbfs and
drive work without slowdown on usb cfg loader with d2x 53 or something). Otherwise
nice work getting this running, love the live nand switching.

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Nov 11, 2011  #18

Atlas_22 said: 

Only a minor problem with this I guess. Black ops / mw3 multilayer performance is
unplayable, even more so then discex format from default uneek 168 (same wbfs and
drive work without slowdown on usb cfg loader with d2x 53 or something). Otherwise
nice work getting this running, love the live nand switching.
PizzaPino
maybe you should try this
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http://gbatemp.net/topic/218725-sneekdi-quick-guide/
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Level 2 it helped me with another game.

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Nov 11, 2011  #19

PizzaPino said: 

Atlas_22 said: 

Only a minor problem with this I guess. Black ops / mw3 multilayer performance is
unplayable, even more so then discex format from default uneek 168 (same wbfs
nintendowii and drive work without slowdown on usb cfg loader with d2x 53 or something).
Well-Known Member Otherwise nice work getting this running, love the live nand switching.
Member

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maybe you should try this Click to expand...
http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__3961755
 is this no add for a next release of neek2o?

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Nov 11, 2011  #20

I am quite new to u/sneek + di and neek2o.

Question: how to use these �les? Where should they be in?

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