Neek2o Just to let you see what it's all about

[happy_highlander]

The official website of our project can be found here:
custom-di - nand emulation - Google Project Hosting

Our IRC channel is on irc.abjects.net #cdi.

As usual, Xflak has beaten us, and support in modmii came out before our official release:
modmii - ModMii - Google Project Hosting
The version you are looking for is 4.7.6 or anything higher.

Within this announcement, I would like to thank in no specific 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.
Xflak 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 fix problems.
Stfour for supporting it in postloader and letting us use priibooter as launch framework.
JoostinOnline for his artwork (I hope his book is finished 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.


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 fly. 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 modifications,
using the isfs filing 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 files like gamesaves.

If something serious goes wrong with the wii operating system files, it's sometimes difficult to fix the issue.
A pc can be booted from a cd/dvd or an usb stick to fix things, but the wii doesn't have this luxury. In worst case
the flash 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 flash 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 flash only has a size of 512Mb. The emulated nand on harddisk can be several Gigabytes in size. So, you don't have
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 difficult to setup in the beginning.


Now I know this is a lot if info to take on board in one hit but I will write a walkthough tutorial....It's not as difficult as it looks thanks to xflax and modmii.

Just thought I would put this out here and let you have a read.....By the way this will load your tintin backup from hdd with no freezes. This gives you an idea of the capabilities of this system and the hard work that haas went into by al the guys mentioned above in the credits.

[N8Parks]

I've said this already, but ... I like it. Now I'd like to have another wii, a V-Wii (Virgin) to set up.

Is it possible to just update to 4.3 to re-virginize the Wii to then go this approach when it's fully ready? Will it work with the already soft-modded Wii?

Side note: Would it ever be possible to emu the games with better quality like Dolphin produces using the Wii as an in between?

[happy_highlander]

I've said this already, but ... I like it. Now I'd like to have another wii, a V-Wii (Virgin) to set up.

Is it possible to just update to 4.3 to re-virginize the Wii to then go this approach when it's fully ready? Will it work with the already soft-modded Wii?

Side note: Would it ever be possible to emu the games with better quality like Dolphin produces using the Wii as an in between?

You will never make the wii games any better quality than they already are. You can use a an HD composite lead which will bring your wii output up to 480i on an hd tv. There is no need to virginize your wii keep what you have.....What this does in very basic terms is installs an almost virgin (virtual) wii onto your hdd. What happens is once you launch neek2o your wii will restart straight from the boot 2 stage so in essence whatever nand you decide to build is what your emu nand will be ie if you build a 4.3u nand you will be running a fully fledged 4.3u virgin console with no need for cios to run your backups as this uses the original wii ios (making better compatibilty) AP does not effect this setup as you are using original ios. and the same if you buid a 4.3e this will play pal backups...This system supports multiple nands so you can have as many different emu nands as you like.
Another benefit is that if you have any apps you may want to try out e.g any beta wads that may still be buggy can be installed to your emu nand as you would your true nand (wii) and you are at no risk in bricking your wii as it is on your hard drive, just put the hdd on the pc and delete the wad that caused a problem and plug it back into wii.
I'm sure there going to be a million more questions but have a read through the tutorial I have just completed and it will make things a lot clearer.


EDIT>>>>>>>>This will work on any wii whether it be brand new out the box or your tried and tested softmodded. The idea of the enhancement to neek2o is so that unlike sneek or uneek it cam work in tandem with bootmii instead of against it so this is just like having another usb loader.