Modchip price starts at $10. $2 for soldering iron... And not all people can borrow Zelda.Originally Posted by crwys
anyways, in both ways, its pirating. I live in europe, so I cant buy the AC:CF, but I am gonna get it with Wii Speak when it comes out in a few days...
Either way. It cost money, and time. Hardly anybody can solder, so they have to pay for that too
FWIW: 'data.bin' format has been figured out, and Virus has mentioned he may support it in future.
BUT I've tried both, I don't see any reason why you'd want to use the Wii data.bin method instead of the gamesave extractor (assuming you have a game disc)
> I find (save files that have their save flag removed) a lot more convenient than using save extractor for some reason
Really? Am I missing something?:
From main menu, with Save Extractor
#1) Start HBC (2clicks), #2) Start Extract (2clicks), #3) Run it and exit (2 button presses), done
From main menu, using the Wii save method
#1) Start Wii utilities gamesave (4 clicks), #2) delete old gamesave from SD (4 clicks), #3) Save to SD card (3 clicks), #4) go back to main menu (4clicks, or home)
Also I find the actual writing to SD card to be much slower (even though it is writing approximately the same number of bytes). The reverse is just as bad.
The downside is the Game Extractor needs the game disc in the drive. All legal owners should have that, and I assume you just ran the game.
What am I missing?
Depending on the version wii, you can get a modchip for free. Yaosm still works on the early board sets and soldering is easier than one might think. With a monthly subscription to Newshosting or Giganews, it would seem almost retarded not to have a modchip.
Well my point was,
either way, whether modchip or Backup launcher, people pirated the game. And only modchip users can use ACToolkit because without modchip pirated games arent recognized by Waninkokos tools.
Anyways, i found out how to extract the data.bin.
>... without modchip pirated games arent recognized by Waninkokos tools
FWIW: if someone is interested in helping out, a hacked version of Waninkokos GameSave extractor/installer customized for AC:CF would be cool.
ie. patch the binary, put in the hard coded game id ("RUUE01"), no disc read, and perhaps get rid of the need for the button presses.
That would help all owners (legal and not so legal).
If the utilities were open source this would be easier (IMHO one tool for both Extract/Install would be ideal)
Last edited by DsPet; 11-30-2008 at 11:22 AM.
I have a good Idea but I'm not good at programming at all having a program that can decrypt a data.bin file into RVForest.DAT, etc. is there anyway around this just have a PC Program do you think it's possible?
I do have another Idea but I think it would take alot of work & time how about for those who have burned discs and can't extract saves how about Make AC Tool Kit Wii Homebrew cand you can edit stuff off the Wii and use the Gamecube Controller & Wii Remote with Classic Controller or Nunchuck or the Wii Remote itself and it only reads Animal Crossing City Folk Data only RUUE.
But like what I said earlier I'm not good at programming these are just ideas that I'm throwing out there and see if it anyone is going to do this.
It would probably be easier to write some emulator to run the existing software on.
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> ...having a program that can decrypt a data.bin file into RVForest.DAT, etc. is there anyway around this just have a PC Program do you think it's possible?
They already exist ('tachtig' and 'twintig'). Requires encryption keys to use ... I've said too much...
I'm not a fan of this approach for reasons stated above (too many extra steps, not to mention supporting piracy)
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> (OR)... how about Make AC Tool Kit Wii Homebrew cand you can edit stuff off the Wii and use the Gamecube Controller & Wii Remote
FWIW: that was discussed as an option. IMHO it doesn't make that much sense. A Wii user interface would be clumsy for complicated things like map editing (the WiiRemote makes a terrible mouse for precision selecting)
A dedicated Wii application would work well for simple things (like max bells, or a specific rare item), but there are already Ocarina/GeckoOS codes for those.
BTW: The old AC:WW "AR DS" code manager had an option of scrolling through an item list on the DS itself. It was impossible to use IMHO because there were thousands of items to scroll through (something that is easy to do on a PC with a mouse scrolling through a long list of items)
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