[zoidfreak]

Thanks Mate…

Guess what – a new SD sorted everything.

WiiMC now fires up within seconds and the remote stays active. THANKS!!!

I did notice that my original SD card is a 2GB version but is only showing 1GB capacity…(?). Very odd. Must be a dodgy SD card or something has happened to the partitioning on the card.

Anyways….I’m a very happy camper!

Update: I formatted the SD card with a new laptop, and the SD card is now back to 2GB capacity!..and working fine on a different wii I have…interesting to see how a ‘slow’ SD card impacts performance. All the best.
Cheers

[zoidfreak]

@rodries wrote:

@Skryten wrote:

…..and the remote stays on when launching from HBC….need to ‘reconnect’ the remote when launching from Channel/forwarder….

Are you using an original wiimote?
Have you tried to format sd card?
Have you tried another sd card?

Thanks Rodries

I am using an original wiimote…have tried several different ones with the same result.

Will format the sd card and try again (will also test a different SD card although mine is a fairly new SanDisk 2GB SD card).

Just to confirm – what is the best format for the SD card? FAT, FAT32, etc???

Cheers
S

[zoidfreak]

…..and the remote stays on when launching from HBC….need to ‘reconnect’ the remote when launching from Channel/forwarder….

[zoidfreak]

just one more observation….

Launching WiiMC from HomeBrewChannel (HBC) takes ~15 seconds

Launching WiiMC from the WiiMC channel takes ~25 seconds

I’m pussled!!

[zoidfreak]

and one more thing……(just in case it shed any further light to my issue):

The Wii remote loses connection with the console after WIIMC loads….I need to press any button on the remote to get the remote going again…Not a big deal but strange behaviour nevertheless.

Cheers

[zoidfreak]

@gbl08ma wrote:

Homebrew browser does not understand WBFS partitions as far as I know. Perhaps you’re launching the channel from the SD card and the card is slow, that’s why it takes so much time to load.

Or are you using other homebrew than the Homebrew Channel to launch WiiMC? If yes, that might be causing the slowness.

Hi and thanks for your input.

I’ve got the WiiMC dol on an SD card (in the apps folder) which is the app launched when selecting the channel. If I launch WiiMC directly from HomeBrewChannel I get the same slow result. I have also tried to disconnect the USB drive and hooked up a NTFS formatted drive with movies, music, etc….same result. Have had this issue since I first installed WiiMC (5-6 versions ago).

The other wii I have tested on (i.e. same setup – same WBFS formatted USB HDD, SD card, WiiMC channel, WiiMC dol) fires up WiiMC very quickly. Second wii is a 4.2U rather than 4.2E but otherwise the same (including the softmod updates).

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There must be something slowing down the start up process……but what………..??

Any further thoughts appreciated…

Cheers
S

[zoidfreak]

@Fred-Bear wrote:

@Skryten wrote:

IOS68

Is that a typo? and not IOS58 ?

My bad….should be ISO58….i.e. a typo

[zoidfreak]

I’ve now done some more testing….

My IOS 58 is up to date and so are the other hack required to play HDD games…(e.g. 249/222/223/etc)

The wii was hacked in Nov 2010 so fairly recently.

Would be great to get some pointers on what could be delaying the startup in particular. COuld the WBFS partition only have anything to do with this?

All thoughts appreciated.

S

[zoidfreak]

Thanks for your replies.

I do have a USB drive connected – WBFS formatted so no media (games only). Network is wired with USB LAN Adapter.

Are there any particular IOSs that meed updating to stop the wiimote turning off issue? Wii is on 4.2E

I unplugged the HDD, but the startup time is still 20-25 seconds.

Any other thoughts?

thx
S

[zoidfreak]

Voila…

Problem fixed.

updated the HBC by moving the boot.elf file from hackmii installer to new folder in ‘apps’.

“new” HBC is now using IOS58 and the WiiMC channel installs like a dream….

Appreciate all your help..

[zoidfreak]

Cheers…

So get a version of latest hackmii installer…

copy to SD card (root?)

Then launch installer through existing HBC

Install HBC on top of existing…??

makes sense?

Thx for helping with this.

[zoidfreak]

OK…Thanks…Does this mean deleting the existing Homebrew Channel (through Data Management) and the use Bannerbomb/Hackmii installer to reinstall????

thx again

[zoidfreak]

Do I dare ask when a new version will become available…like the sound of improved USB Lan..

[zoidfreak]

Well…

I think the issue is unstable wi-fi (could be small glitches) which cause many of the SMB issues.

Stable video streaming is best left for wired connections (as a general principle)…in my humble opinion…

[zoidfreak]

Buy a USB LAN ADAPTER and stream over ethernet cable.

Solves these problems. Trust me!

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