Mighty Channels

[Cile]

Users Who started using this or want to set up don't.

Nand Emulation is coming to USB loaders

You can get beta releases of GX/Wiiflow if you want to try it out.


Cheers



Mighty Channels

(Previously known as Triiforce MRC)

Mighty Channels is a channel loader for Wii that uses Waninkoko's cIOS NAND emulator. It loads your SD card or USB device like if it was your Wii's NAND, so you can play your purchased Wii Shop Channel titles from your SD card or your USB HDD!.Has to be Fat32...NO! it doesn't work with NTFS or WBFS

Q:If you can load games of SD card via SD menu why would i use this?
A:When you load the vc/wiiware from SD, the games have to be installed to your nand everytime you launch them so it can have an affect on wii(s) nand while if you use Mighty Channels your are using your SD or USB and causes no harm to your wii.

Features:

• Minimalist & fast GUI
• Downloads images WiiTDB
• A button: play game
• 1 button: configure game
• 2 button: sort games by system
• B button: sort games at your own
• HOME button: Home menu
• Requires Waninkoko cIOS rev21 d2x (Improved by Davebaol)

Download

Mighty Channels v11.1

Password: hacksden

You will need IOS58, otherwise the forwarder will return to the system menu!

Mighty Channels Forwarder v10 by Cile
Mighty Channels Forwarder v10 by Cile [Pics by Comfaithgenesisraven]
Mighty Channels Forwarder v10 by Cile [Pics by RiderFx3]

The only difference between the forwarders is banner & icon.

:/apps/mighty_channels/boot.dol/elf
:/mighty_channels/boot.dol/elf

File Structure For Mighty Channels:

On the root of your USB or SD:

* import
* meta
* Shared1
* Shared2
* sys
* ticket
* title
* tmp
[Flash filesystem - WiiBrew]

To get that structure you can use Bootmii or SimpleFS Dumper

Applications for your Choice:
ShowmiiWads
SimpleFS Dumper

Bootmii NAND Back Up

Launch Bootmii and create a NAND back up, needs 600mb free on SD.
(most of you should have one if you followed a guide on hacksden)

1.Move the NAND back up from the SD(if you just made it) to your Computer..

2.Start ShowMiiWads Allow Internet Access...Go to Tools and select create COMMON-KEY it will tell you so type "45e"

3.Then Under Tools select Extract BootMii Dump.

4.Find where your bootmii dump is and select nand.bin

5.Let the program do its work . Once its done a new folder called nand-extracteda will be at the same directory as the nand.bin. Copy all Folders inside this folder to the SD card root or USB root(which ever one your using for your emulated nand)

They should be:

* import
* meta
* Shared1
* Shared2
* sys
* ticket
* title
* tmp

ShowmiiWads Error

Is caused by Racket Sports Save so delete and re-dump

SimpleFS Dumper

SimpleFS Dumper put in apps folder on your SD and launch via homebrew channel make sure you have 600 MB free on SD.Let it run should take 10min+, put your SD in the computer and check you have the following folders:

* import
* meta
* Shared1
* Shared2
* sys
* ticket
* title
* tmp

Place them on the root of the SD or USB(which ever one your using for your emulated nand)[/SPOILER

Adding Titles To the e-NAND

Needed:ShowmiiWads

1. In Showmiiwads, go to the Options menu and select Change NAND Backup Path.

2. Navigate to you SD/USB where the nand back up is and press OK.

3. Click on the View tab and then select showmiinand. You should see a long list of everything that is in the nand backup listed.

4. Click on the View menu and select showmiiwads.

5. Click on the File menu and select Open Folder.Find the folder where you have your wad files located and press OK.

7. Select the game you want to install in the list and right click on it and select Extract then To NAND. Now if you go to the ShowMiiNand view, you will see the game listed at the bottom of the list.

You can right click on a game and select Delete to remove it.You can also delete the nintendo,weather,news and other channels you dont want so all you have left would be your vc/wiiware....

cIOS Set Up For Mighty Channels

For Mighty Channels to work best you need cIOS[38,53,55,56,57] D2X
You will need 2 or 3 depends what games work with what base.
It can be in ANY slot as long as you use arguments in your meta.xml

cIOS D2X Installer



Download Extract (should be SD:/apps/d2x installer/boot.dol)
On first screen chose an IOS with Trucha(Fakesign Bug) 236,36,249,250

1.Select D2X vX(always go for the newest)
2.Chose the base IOS
3.Pick your slot(each time you chose the same slot the installation will overwrite)

meta.xml Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<app version="1.0">
<name>Mighty Channels</name>
<version>11</version>
<release_date>201101250000</release_date>
<coder>Marc</coder>
<short_description>USB/SD Channel loader</short_description>
<arguments>
<arg>--ios=2XX</arg>
<arg>--auto=USB</arg>
<arg>--partition=1</arg>
<arg>--path=/nand</arg>
</arguments>
</app>

Using cIOS D2X you can have all the folder inside one /nand makes it a lot easier & if you have more then one partition you can chose which one to load from.Changing which IOS the game will load with

SD or USB:/nand/import,meta,shared1,shared2,title,sys,ticket,tmp

Loading Mighty Channels

Put the mighty_channels folder(from the download) in your apps folder on SD or USB
[Use the meta.xml example from here]

You can launch the MC from homebrew channel it will auto use the device you tell it to if you add in the arguments auto= USB or SD.

You can use the forwarder linked above and you will get the channel but it will load mighty channels from SD or USB.(where ever you have it stored pay attention to forwarder paths)

MC should load up and display channels = games/titles.

How to load images/banners

It's recommended to use the automatic image downloader option,press HOME button in Mighty Channels menu
Offline method
* Download images: WiiTDB - Nintendo Wii games database
* Place them at sd:/config/mighty/channels/ or usb:/config/mighty/channels/
If you want to create your own images...
* Format: PNG without indexed palette
* Size: 192x112
* Name: XXXX.png (XXXX is the 4 character game ID)

Covers pack:
Marc-max Mighty_Images

Compatibility

• All Virtual Console games work.
• ~90% WiiWare games work.
  
  • If a WiiWare games does not work for you, the 'Load apploader' option in the configuration menu (press 1 button) can solve it in most cases. The other options should not affect compatibility.
  • Some games need an already created savegame before doing the NAND dump. Mighty Channels automatically creates the savegames for some of these games.
  • rev21 d2x users can try to install cIOS using different bases, some games only work using certain bases.
  • Wi-Fi connection during game does not work correctly.
  
  

Extra Info

• Select a channel and push 1 button, you will be able to configure different parameters like video mode or Ocarina cheats for that channel.
• Sort channels
  
  • Select a channel and hold B button, you will be able to move the selected channel to another position. You can sort the games like you want.
  • Otherwise, you can push 2 in order to automatically sort channels by system.
  
  
• If you are using cIOS d2x you can configure certain options (like the IOS to use or the partition and the path where the virtual NAND is located) editing the meta.xml file (removing the commented code) that comes with the application and using latest Homebrew Channel.
• The Manage NAND option in HOME menu lets you:
  
  • Fix 'Return to Wii menu': This options renames /ticket/00000001/00000002.tik file to _00000002.tik in the virtual NAND: This will force to reboot the console when you push the 'Return to Wii menu' button in the HOME menu in-game, avoiding a black screen freeze. Unfortunately, applications like Sneek won't boot anymore if this option is enabled. You can enable and disable this option whenever you want.
  • Update SYSCONF: update the System Menu configuration file from real NAND to virtual NAND, this fixes some Wiimote desync errors and also updates configuration (useful if we changed from a 4:3 to a 16:9 screen, for example)
  • Update Miis: update the Miis file from real NAND to virtual NAND
  
  
• Mighty Channels look can be modified using a custom skin.
  Copy all files on skin_example directory in sd:/config/mighty/ and edit them like you want following these rules:
  
  • PNG format
  • RGB (no indexed palette)
  • don't change the image sizes
  
  

FAQ/Errors

* NOTE: Some games require a savefile created before
getting loaded on Triiforce. The savefile must be
created before doing the NAND dump.
* Wi-Fi does not work (in cIOS rev17 or lower)

Source:Mighty Channels

Credit: Marc_Max Creator of Mighty Channels
RobGee [Info + Testing]
FIX94(Forwarder Source)
Muaddib & Cjizzle (Info on Rocket Save Error)


WARNING:NO LINKS TO NAND BACKUPS WITH DLC.IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE in RR or EVEN BANNED!!!.
It is illegal to obtain/distribute backups of games you do not own.
This guide, myself, and this site DO NOT SUPPORT OR PROMOTE SOFTWARE PIRACY. Play Fair
No help will be given to individuals with questions relating to this. You have been warned!

[RobGee789]

mighty_channels_beta6 is the latest version mate

[PE06MCG]

I see a reference in your tutorial to 'Sneek'.

Forgive my naiivity but how does this application differ from Sneek?
Is it a case of using one or the other (like USB Loaders) or do they actually have different purposes? (Mighty and Sneek that is).

[Cile]

Mighty channels loads game of emulated nand using cIOS(cIOS enables this) compatibility is crappy

Sneek is running emulated nand so what ever you load uses their hardcoded ios = 100% compatibility


sneek has a limit of displaying 47 titles so if you have more you can use Snort48<-sneek based mighty channels

[PE06MCG]

Bearing in mind the compatibility issues you mention, it seems Sneek would be the safer route for me to go (I am a quick learner but still a virtual novice regarding Wii softmods).
Do you or your associates intend to do a sticky guide on Sneek?

[Krafter]

Bearing in mind the compatibility issues you mention, it seems Sneek would be the safer route for me to go (I am a quick learner but still a virtual novice regarding Wii softmods).
Do you or your associates intend to do a sticky guide on Sneek?

We just so happen to already have a guide for that. Look here.

[RobGee789]

cile does have a guide for sneek , but i think mighty channel is easier to use than sneek and sneekis picky about hard drives, i use mighty channel for vc games (and i havnt found one that doesnt work and uloader for wiiware (and i havnt found a wiiware game that it doesnt load)

[PE06MCG]

Thanks for your views on this choice.
Certainly 'Mighty' does seem to have an easier installation process compared with 'Sneek' and I agree about the capabilities of uLoader, it certainly has my vote as a usb loader and like RobGee789 very few failures. In fact only one which was an inability to read my wbfs partition (formatted by an external manager). Letting uLoader format it solved everything.

I have an HDD (1 TB) where my backup games are stored and I have not yet tried the VC route.

I am eager to learn, perhaps there are guides for this process?

[PE06MCG]

Working through guide I have hit a problem.

Under 'Adding Titles to the e-NAND' section, item #7 says to right click on game and select 'extract'.

Perhaps I misunderstand but my list of games is already in wbfs form (on the FAT HDD) so is already extracted.
The right click options do not include 'extract' only ones to archive or compress.

What am I doing wrong?

[RobGee789]

the guide is for wiiware and vc games