EDIT: I misread the problematic Wii title due to the fact that Dolphin doesn't use hyphens while Wiibrew does.
————————————————————————————————
Original post
After never being able to import a NAND into Dolphin when I tried multiple times around a decade ago for reasons I could never really figure out, I finally revisited it today and it "just worked".
However, when running the "Check NAND" it complained of a damaged NAND to a single problematic title but, when I looked up on the internet what that title corresponded to, it seems to be the title for boot2...
Thing is, my Wii is a launch-day Wii so it has BootMii installed as boot2, so I'm wondering if the "Check NAND" doesn't take this into account and is only comparing to the official versions of boot2? Hence why I titled this thread "sanity check" so that maybe other people more knowledgeable in such things can confirm or refute this, i.e. whether other people with BootMii as boot2 NANDs also have Dolphin's "Check NAND" complain of supposedly being damaged.
(10-21-2023, 11:08 AM)Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote: the only information I can find is the following Wiibrew talk page stating that it's something to do with a file system dumper by Waninkoko:
...which is really weird because I remember always staying away from the ugly hacks stuff along with the general piracy side of homebrew that seemed to be the source of most (if not all?) of said ugly hacks which also meant avoiding anything that bore Waninkoko's name since him and piracy seemed to always go hand-in-hand to the point that I'm actually even somewhat paranoid even just speaking his name here (kind of like saying Voldemort I suppose?). Heck, on the subject of avoiding some of the more hacky-things, I never even installed Priiloader which the modern Wii softmod guides tend to include.
Thing is though, I don't recall ever dumping the Wii NAND in any other way other than BootMii, so I question why the heck this would even be present on my console.
That being said, I been following Wii homebrew since the very beginning—back when it was only the Twilight Hack and the Homebrew Channel wasn't even a thing, and even DVDX was required for DVD movie playback (which I did actually use at least one time in a real-world scenario) and the only way to dump games was over the network. So for all I know this could just be a reminent of some old homebrew stuff that got superseded later and I just never removed that title since I never knew of it?
Also, interestingly, the only other Wii's NAND I have access to also has this very same 00000001-00000000 title and throws up the exact same warning in Dolphin's "Check NAND". However, this other Wii, currently owned by a friend, was soft-modded by somebody else so I have no idea what got installed other than it's a newer system that required having BootMii as IOS and I think it might have Priiloader installed (but I never confirmed this for sure because I've never actually used Priiloader).
————————————————————————————————
Original post
After never being able to import a NAND into Dolphin when I tried multiple times around a decade ago for reasons I could never really figure out, I finally revisited it today and it "just worked".
However, when running the "Check NAND" it complained of a damaged NAND to a single problematic title but, when I looked up on the internet what that title corresponded to, it seems to be the title for boot2...
Thing is, my Wii is a launch-day Wii so it has BootMii installed as boot2, so I'm wondering if the "Check NAND" doesn't take this into account and is only comparing to the official versions of boot2? Hence why I titled this thread "sanity check" so that maybe other people more knowledgeable in such things can confirm or refute this, i.e. whether other people with BootMii as boot2 NANDs also have Dolphin's "Check NAND" complain of supposedly being damaged.
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64