DKCR (original disc) Issue on 4.3E softmodded Wii

Hello,

I softmodded my Wii some time ago and have never had an issue playing genuine discs. I recently bought Donkey Kong Country Returns, though am always met with a black screen 'error has occurred' message. I re-softmodded my Wii so as to bring everything up to date using both ModMii and the guide from this very site on seperate occasions so assume that my IOS's are up to date. However, nothing seems to work. The disc itself is fine as it plays in my Wii U.

The channel displays properly (with picture and sound), but when you try to load the game you hear the disc drive going 'chk-chk-chk' before eventually showing the error.

Priiloader is currently working to prevent disc updates - without this option checked, DKCR tries to force an update on boot.

I have tried loading through Neogamma with no luck.

My sysCheck report is as follows:

sysCheck v2.1.0b18 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: Unknown
Homebrew Channel 1.0.0 running on IOS0
Hollywood v0x21
Boot2 v4
Found 114 titles.
Found 56 IOS on this console. 4 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[57] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[56] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/17/12.

Can anyone spot any obvious issues or direct me to a certain IOS, CIOS I should try?

I suggest trying the following guide: http://www.wiihacks.com/wii-games/10...rns-guide.html
If you can't get it to work, resoftmod using the softmod any wii guide here on wiihacks. I can tell from your syscheck that you didn't do all the steps in it, as you have an outdated hbc.

I'll go through all steps again after work tonight and see where that leaves me. Is the HBC the only notable entry out of date?

Actually, it's not a bug, the latest HBC (v1.1.2) when installed shows up in sysCheck as 1.0.0 running on IOS0. So, your HBC is actually the latest one.

Curious. I'm comparing his syscheck to my syscheck (since I can run this game flawlessly - son loves it), and I'm noticing some differences.

Now, mind you, my hack a little bit out of date (initially hacked over a year ago before I found this place, rehacked properly about a year ago), and there are some noticeable differences, such as using d2x v7 rather than v8, but what I'm seeing here is this:

Many of his "official" IOSes are of revision 16174, whereas mine are all revision 54321. This occurs with IOS 11, 20, 40, 50 and 60. He also has IOSes 3 and 62, and I do not. He also has IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, and IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, whereas I have IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub and IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub. Now I'm not saying that mine is the hack by which all others should be measured, it's merely my basis of comparison. However, once I started looking at his vs mine, I had to ask myself, "What could account for such differences?" Since I was unable to supply myself with the answer, I figured I had no recourse by to pass folks with a bit more expertise than I have.

Could these differences explain his troubles? Triumph, have you tried ripping and running the game from a USB loader yet?

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Originally Posted by BabyDaddy

Curious. I'm comparing his syscheck to my syscheck (since I can run this game flawlessly - son loves it), and I'm noticing some differences.

Now, mind you, my hack a little bit out of date (initially hacked over a year ago before I found this place, rehacked properly about a year ago), and there are some noticeable differences, such as using d2x v7 rather than v8, but what I'm seeing here is this:

Many of his "official" IOSes are of revision 16174, whereas mine are all revision 54321. This occurs with IOS 11, 20, 40, 50 and 60. He also has IOSes 3 and 62, and I do not. He also has IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, and IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, whereas I have IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub and IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub. Now I'm not saying that mine is the hack by which all others should be measured, it's merely my basis of comparison. However, once I started looking at his vs mine, I had to ask myself, "What could account for such differences?" Since I was unable to supply myself with the answer, I figured I had no recourse by to pass folks with a bit more expertise than I have.

Could these differences explain his troubles? Triumph, have you tried ripping and running the game from a USB loader yet?

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The IOSes which you have, BabyDaddy, which have v54321 are maxed out in order to prevent Nintendo from stubbing them. They also have all patches enabled, which is useful incase your Wii gets bricked.

IOS 3 is a useless stub while IOS 62 is used by the Wii U transfer tool.

Your stubbed IOS40 is just the IOS used by system menu 3.3K, and is useless. IOS 52 is used by system menu 3.5K.

So, most of the differences can't explain his troubles.

What I would recommend to the OP is to check and repair (if necessary) his DVD drive which is making weird noises. There seems to be no wrong IOSes, which are used to load games from discs. Just install all the WADs from the IOS-Update.zip from the Softmod ANY Wii guide (link in my sig) just to make sure.

What I can't understand is why the game would force an update when the Wii is already on the latest system menu (4.3).

I read up somewhere else on this site that the update may be trying to force out an IOS it doesn't recognise, Priiloader deals with all that though.

Shall I try rolling back to the IOSs mentioned by BabyDaddy? It's possible to use MMM to roll back isn't it? That would ensure that they're the Nintendo certified ones wouldn't it?

Tonight I'll test some other games to see if the drive is still ok, then resoftmod and post a new sysCheck report if it still doesn't want to play. I haven't got a hard drive to hand to try ripping with USB loader, so can't go that far just yet.

Right, here's what I've done.

Resoftmodded, following the guide from this site exactly. I installed the modpack, IOS update pack AND the updated shop channel pack.

I downgraded to system menu 4.1e on the off chance it made a difference.

The drive itself plays other games that I tested fine.

(EDIT: tried a variety of newish titles, including SMG2 as it uses IOS56 like DKCR - they all loaded fine, so for now the issue seems to be totally isolated to Donkey Kong!)

Disc channel still wanted to update the console (though again, Priiloader worked its magic and prevented that from being a recurring issue).

The game still doesn't play when using the disc channel, Neogamma, Wiiflow or Gecko.

IT DOES play when mounted through USB Loader GX.

Any ideas? As much as this means it is 'fixed' as I can at least play the game with a little fiddling, I'd still like to get to the bottom of all this.

FINAL EDIT:

Fixed it.

Installed version v65535 of IOS56 via Wii Mod v3.2 from the NUS servers and it suddenly started working. Not entirely sure why, just happy I managed to find a solution! Mods feel free to lock this thread as you see fit.

Cool. Glad to hear it's working. I know it'd be a sad day at my house with Mario Brothers or Donkey Kong...

Curiously, that was a one play fix. Totally flummoxed now!

Messing around with IOS56 sometimes lets me boot the game once, but then produces the error everytime after.

Oh well.