#Running Korean Wii game discs on PAL Wii U’s vWii

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slender epoch
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As title says, I’m trying to get a Korean Wii game to boot on my PAL Wii U’s vWii. I am using a retail disc, I am not using a backup or a burned disc.

I recently acquired a Korean disc copy of Call Of Duty World At War, and am currently running into problems trying to get it to load. My Wii U essentially soft locks when the disc starts reading. Wii remotes disconnect, it becomes unresponsive to the power button. I tried getting around this using GeckoOS and launching the disc that way, but it freezes the console. A summery of my set up is below

vWii obviously homebrewed
I have Priiloader Installed, Region Free Everything is enabled.
I have CIOS installed to slots 249, 250 and 251. All in according to this page on the Wii Hacks Guide site https://wii.hacks.guide/cios-vwii.html
I have a patched IOS 80, also in according to the Wii Hacks Guide guide site

I don’t use USBLoaderGX or WiiFlow, nor do I have either app downloaded. But if that’s a good way to go for loading Korean discs then I’ll take up installing them.

Aside from that, the only things I use the vWii for is Wiimmfi disc patcher, I don’t have anything else installed to the NAND.

Any suggestions would be great!

wraith bramble
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or, if you launch priiloader, and choose load disc in there, that should also work

slender epoch
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My Wii froze trying to launch through Priiloader, should’ve mentioned that too 😅

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I’ll try USBLoaderGX, I’ll see if I can get through with that

slender epoch
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It crashes when inserted before pressing the disc icon

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It also can’t seem to recover from the automatic reload either

wraith bramble
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that's... odd

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I don’t have any NA or Japan games to test, but all my PAL discs work totally fine, I don’t believe it’s a disc drive issue 🤔

slender epoch
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Experimented around a bit more.

Tried setting the language as Korean in WiiFlow and Gecko but didn’t get it working.

I figure that maybe the game runs under an IOS that’s exclusive to the Korean Wii, that would be required for this game. Someone mentioned that the game runs under IOS 46 or something

wraith bramble
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hmm

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that would make sense somewhat

slender epoch
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It would explain why I can dump the disc no problem

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I don’t really know how feasible it is to install a Korean IOS to my Wii so I might be at a dead end with it

wraith bramble
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on wii it wouldn't be a problem

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on vwii tho

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yikes

slender epoch
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Yeah 😅

wraith bramble
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wiibrew doesn't list it as using that ios

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hmm

slender epoch
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If there’s no great way to get the game to load, I’m not opposed to dumping and playing through dolphin as I have a dolphin bar, or maybe one day I dig out my old Wii for this. Using the vWii would’ve been ideal for this adventure but it’s not a huge huge loss if it ends out a dead end

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(Plus it’s cool to own the game on the shelf!)

wraith bramble
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if you've dumped it, you should be able to load it on vwii

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i'm just trying to look into this game

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i have very lacklustre knowledge on korean wii things

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wraith bramble
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a thing you could try is going into the priiloader system menu hacks

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and enabling "force discs to load under cios 249"

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then, try launching the game through priiloader

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Ah yeah, tried that. But it would freeze here (image 1). I did the same with WiiFlow where I set it to force a CIOS (Image 2)

Haven’t even bothered USBLoaderGX since it would crash before I could interact with anything when I insert the disc

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slender epoch
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I did also try CFGLoader because why not. And yes, same result. It was expected

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wraith bramble
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not cfg 😭

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it looks like it can't actually open the disc drive properly

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(0.00GB isn't normally a good sign)

slender epoch
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Hmm

wraith bramble
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it might just work if you run a dump instead

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but obviously no storage

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It’ll be something I return to… probably tomorrow.

I do have USBs with enough storage, but it’s a case of having to find one to format and dump to. I think I’m going to take a break from this for today, and I’ll return tomorrow with actual storage. The 16GB SD Card is currently being used with something else which is why I have a 2GB one 😅

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Is it okay to leave the thread open, and return tomorrow, or should it be closed and I make a new one when I return

wraith bramble
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yeah leave it open, it's no problem

slender epoch
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Lovely, big up. Thanks for sticking around and sharing thoughts, I’ll try dumping tomorrow and see where I end up after work tomorrow 🫡

slender epoch
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Currently in the process of dumping it, I am using an 8GB USB stick. I should probably be using something other then a regular USB Stick but whatever

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Just to get it dumped and test it after, works fine for now

wraith bramble
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flash drives are notoriously problematic with the wii, especially with backup loaders and cios

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Yeah I fully understand, which is why I’m not going to continue using this USB Stick if it happens to atleast load. I’ll actually invest in someone usable and long term if that’s the case. Just a little testing bed that’ll hopefully help by for a day or two as I try to get the game bootable

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But either way the dump will be preserved for usage on dolphin so we cooking 🫡

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I don’t ever actually use backup loaders on Wii/Wii U so I’m not totally equipped to use them efficiently 😅

wraith bramble
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yeah i totally get that

slender epoch
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50% reached on the rip so I shall leave the console to do its thing and return back once we golden

slender epoch
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Ripping is done (I procrastinated)

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Took longer then I thought I would

wraith bramble
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yeah wii disc drive is SLOW

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i spent hours ripping all my games 😭

slender epoch
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USBLoaderGX can’t seem to initialise my USB despite launching from it

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💀

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Oh that might be why (I had 7GB free how big is the damn rip)

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Stuck moment

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wraith bramble
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I had wrongly assumed WBM had that functionality to merge, my mistake

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We wait now with it merged 🫡

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That might be why it's taking a long while

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Lmao it appears I did a funny

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The ISO boots in Dolphin!

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Where did it go so wrong 💀

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wraith bramble
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oh yikes

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can you send your dump info txt?

slender epoch
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Yeah can do

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Where uhh… is that saved

wraith bramble
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should just be on the root of the drive the game dumped to

slender epoch
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I appear to not have one

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That's my root!

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wraith bramble
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odd

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it should be <GAMEID>-dumpinfo.txt

slender epoch
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Should mention I used Cleanrip

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If that means anything

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Only files I got were:
RVYK52.part0.iso
RVYK52.part1.iso
RVYK52.bca

And then the merged thing
game.iso

wraith bramble
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did you enable redump verification?

slender epoch
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I believe I did, but it's also possible that it just didn't do that

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In which case I can uhh... Just redump

wraith bramble
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it does look like it didn't

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I think what I'll do, I'll try the dump again.
Make 100% sure verification is enabled like it should've been

Can see where I end up from there

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It didn’t like me enabling it

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I am in shambles 💀

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The Wii U wants to be stubborn and I will be stubborn back, a war has grown, and I’m getting it to redump. Made 100% sure I pressed on the checksum thing

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wraith bramble
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how did it take 88 minutes 😭

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dayum

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well it looks like it's a valid dump, the checksum matches with redump's db

slender epoch
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It was to good to be true

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wraith bramble
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this seems to be a flash drive moment

slender epoch
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Yeah 💀

wraith bramble
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i will leave this here

slender epoch
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🫡

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A USB HDD will be something I have to grab

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Quickly searched around but sadly got no SD Card that’s got enough space on it, I suppose I’ll uhh, maybe try once or twice more on my own while I wait on a HDD, and ig just see what happens

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88 minutes was crazy though

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Wii U’s tired, might let the poor thing rest

wraith bramble
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Yeah thought as much 😅

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I also feel a bit bad for leaving the console on doing nothing but attempt to rip the same game over and over so it earns a rest

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Little update:
Testing about myself a bit, I went to “install the game” via USBLoaderGX instead of using CleanRip and finally got the game to appear on that menu. The banner doesn’t crash like it does when I use the disc, so it’s a decent step forward.

Tried IOS 249, 250 and 251 to try and get the game to even boot, and all crashed. I tried setting the language and video modes accordingly (NTSC video, Korean language). But hey, I can actually hit “launch” on the game now

CFG Loader mentions that the game runs under IOS45 when I looked at it through that. So I have a good feeling that’s the root of why this game doesn’t boot. PAL Wii U simply doesn’t have it

So I have a feeling unless there’s something more in USBLoaderGX I can try, I think that is my brick wall, and I probably won’t be able to progress much further

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So I’ll probably give up and just play through dolphin. Which isn’t totally ideal for my experiment but I atleast have a physical copy which is cool, and if ever in the future for some reason IOS45 becomes viable for vWii.

And I reckon if there’s nothing else I can really do then the thread can be closed 🫡

wraith bramble
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the thing is, the vwii does have ios45

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O

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Strange 🤔

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Might be something else I’m missing then ?

wraith bramble
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i honestly don't know

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there is uhh

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wiilauncher

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which you could try

slender epoch
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👍