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Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by Duncan Idaho, Jul 6, 2011.

  1. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Or just go purely external HDD and skip the disc problem entirely.
     
  2. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    sure but the one i want is over 1.200 bucks not chepa there was one 300 bucks cheaper but it was sold plus, going external means i need the .dol and .elf files of the games? i remember reading i needed those for Metroid prime triology.
     
  3. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    lol.
    Don't bother with getting the most expensive external HDD...
    It's a Wii. Get the cheapest 500 GB external that is USB powered (I got mine for $70) and format it to WBFS. The only things you'll need is a few extra IOSes, USB Loader, and the ISO images of the games. I have never heard of getting the .boot or .elf files for a specific game. I have SSBB on my external and it runs fine, if not better than if it were disc based.
     
  4. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    they are practially the same HDD the difference is that one is a slim the other is not.
     
  5. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, mine is pretty slim.
    Not sure what currency you're using and how that equates to USD. 1200 whatever might be equivalent to $70 USD.
     
  6. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    do a rule of three the dollar is about 3.50 if you buy it from the goverment, however wha most people do is buy the black dollar on the black market, there is at 9 bucks doing the rule of three it dishes around 630 bucks plus an added of 590 to get a margin of gain (there is no law that establishes a band of prices of electronic things) so that is why i am contemplating waiting to see if they get the one of 900 buck, it needes to be connected to the power but is cheaper.
     
  7. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    I can tell you right now, that you're going to HATE an external drive if it needs to be plugged in from the outlet. It has to be single USB powered for it to work on the Wii. The Wii will not use both USB ports in tandem where one is for data and the other is for power. I tried doing this and it refused to work.

    I'm not sure if external drives that require an independent power source work on the Wii. Just go with the simplest one, 1 USB port that sends both data and supplies power. I know the Wii uses those for sure. That, and it's 10x more convenient than requiring 2 USB ports or 1 USB port and 1 outlet.
     
  8. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    I did not got a close look at it but what it seemed it was that one was an AC plug for the EHDD and then the USB ports i am not sure, in other words, there goes my PSP investment, a PSP is around 1700 bucks so... do the math :(, i magnage to get a decent buck out of my small busniess (hacking wii's and selling piate games, i wont be going on deep legal stuff but anti piracy measures in my country have not been applied since 2000-2006 so it can be considered as dead)
     
  9. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I can't guarantee that the one with an AC plug will work.

    PSPs are alright as long as you can find one with a really low firmware and you can put CFW on it. Otherwise, screw it.
     
  10. LuckyTrouble77

    LuckyTrouble77 Well-Known Member

    Low firmware is irrelevant. Every firmware up to 6.39 either has a temp or permanent hack (same hacks, just a permanent patch available for the right motherboards). These hacks are just as good as the 5.00, the 5.03, or the 5.50 CFW that people were using for the longest time. I'm personally using 6.20 PRO-B8 on my 1000 series and popsloader support, PSN access, and top notch game compatibility are all the average user will ever need. There is plenty of plugin support too.

    The CFW is good for the 1000's to the Go's too. If by some fluke, you have 6.40 (on one Japanese Gundam game), you are stuck with Half-Byte Loader. The odds of being on 6.40 are so incredibly low outside of Japan though, that it doesn't really matter. Even in Japan, unless the game that needed it was a big hit (which I don't know about), it wouldn't be all that popular either.

    The PSP scene has really transformed over the past few months.
     
  11. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Temp hacks suck. For how often games freeze and force you to pop out the battery, I'd hate to have to rehack it every single time.

    Same goes for PS3 Jailbreaking. I HATED having to rejailbreak it every time I turned it on.
     
  12. LuckyTrouble77

    LuckyTrouble77 Well-Known Member

    Except rehack is just going to your game folder and launching it again. The permanent patch can be applied to about 85% of the PSP's out there too. The boot up for the PRO CFW is only about five or six seconds. Not that bad unless you are the most impatient pirate to roam the planet. Also, games only freeze a lot if your CFW or PSP sucks. I have had so few freezing issues. Hell, the only one I can remember that wasn't the SNES emulator or my fault was in Dissidia 012 while I was still on 5.50 Prome-4, back when I first got my PSP (so that may have been my fault, I dunno). Haven't tried it on PRO-B8 yet, but I would assume it works fine since nobody reports an issue.

    Seriously, hacking a PSP is the easiest, most painless thing on the planet thanks to the tools out there that do 99% of the work for you. You just have to know where to drop what folders on the memory stick, and that's about it. Hell, you can even get step by step directions for that, so there is really no excuse when it comes to people saying it's too hard or too much work.
     
  13. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    Well wii is working fine, still issues with the CMIOS, an ideas? since i get an error when i try to install it via network with the CMIOS app for the homebrew channel
     
  14. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Why do you keep using these weird ass installers?
    The only installer you ever need is Wad Manager, unless the particular item has it's own app like Neogamma, and even then, they use the same method to install.