• Casper v0.2

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    Red_Gh0st
    Published on 01-18-2012 06:34 PM
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    giantpune has released Casper version 0.2. Casper is a program written for the Wii. This program was created to load bootmii from an SD card. Now you can run those fun MINI programs on your little sister's Wii even if your mom doesn't want you to hack away on it.

    -Usage-
    1. To use it, you'll want to grab the executable from bootmii-IOS (or write your own) and save it as "SD:/bootmii_ios.bin".
    2. You'll need a squeaky clean copy of one of several IOSes. Casper should work for you if your console was updated to 4.2 or 4.3 by some official means.
    3. Use one of the many different methods available to start the casper.elf and cross your fingers.
    4. If it kicks you back to the system menu, then it didn't like something about your Wii.
    5. If it crashes; woops, my bad.
    6. If you've already been hacking away at your wii and you just want to see casper work, you should be good to go by making sure you have a clean IOS53 v5663
    7. Even though it is reading the data from the SD card, casper DOES write something to the NAND. Under normal circumstances, the file it writes will be deleted next time you boot the console. And the deleted data will be overwritten as games create save data and stuff like this.

    Download Casper v0.2
    Official Page

    Changelog v0.2

    a few changes suggested by tueidj
    accept parameters via argv. supported are:
    "--iosV=" specify ios version. 8-bit dec number is allowed.
    "--iosR=" pass an ios revision to set for loaded module. 16-bit dec or hex with the prefix "0x" is allowed
    "--app=" specify a file to be read from the SD card. it should start with "sd:/".
    "--geckoChannel=" load from USB gecko flash. this is the gecko slot to use: 0 or 1.
    "--geckoOffset=" offset in the usb gecko flash to read the binary. format is the same as the twilight hack a u32 is read from that offset which is the size, and the rest of the data follows. 32-bit numbers in dec, or hex with a 0x prefix are allowed.
    If loading the SD path fails, then try to load from USB gecko flash at 0x20000 in slot 1 then slot 0
    default to passing IOS 254 v0xff01 to module so if it loading is ceilingcat, it will skip the autoboot
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Casper v0.2 started by Red_Gh0st View original post
    Comments 5 Comments
    1. dniMretsaM's Avatar
      dniMretsaM - 01-19-2012, 05:42 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by Red_Gh0st View Post
      @dniMretsaM Why an icon and a meta? This doesnt need to be launched from the HBC
      No it doesn't. But if you just want to test it that's the place your gouing to launch it from.

      EDIT: I also wanted an excuse to make something with GIMP. Lol.
    1. Red_Gh0st's Avatar
      Red_Gh0st - 03-25-2012, 04:19 PM
      Casper v0.3 released
    1. Tigran's Avatar
      Tigran - 10-22-2012, 12:22 AM
      Okay, I hate to bump an old thread, but I've been looking and I can't figure it out.

      I try to use ModMii to make a casper run to run Neek2o, however I keep getting a screen saying, Path sd:/bootmii_ios.bin IOS Flags 254 v65201.


      Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong here? Or some links to instructions?
    1. mauifrog's Avatar
      mauifrog - 10-22-2012, 07:55 PM
      Did you update ios53?
      What is your method of loading Casper? Wilbrand works well, Casper is rather picky with the loading method.
      Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
    1. Tigran's Avatar
      Tigran - 10-23-2012, 06:06 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by mauifrog View Post
      Did you update ios53?
      What is your method of loading Casper? Wilbrand works well, Casper is rather picky with the loading method.
      Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
      This is one of the blue wii's that came out a year ago... so I'm not sure if the ios53 is updated or not. Is there a specific disk or way to check to see if it's updated without hacking it?

      Also, I tried the method from ModMii, so I'm not sure what method it was using.