Correct way to install large DLC?

Dime333 · 02-26-2019, 04:38 AM #1

I installed a 900 MB DLC for Just Dance 2014. I got a popup saying that it was successfully installed. Now my NAND is full (0 blocks left) but I can't find the DLC when I go to manage wii save data in the wii menu to remove it. How can I remove the DLC and what is the correct way to install large DLC like this? Can you install it directly to an emulated SD card?

**mbc07** · (This post was last modified: 02-26-2019, 05:02 AM by mbc07.)

You won't be able to have all Just Dance DLCs installed on your NAND at the same time (on a real Wii that was't possible either, unless you had modded it with sneek/usneek to bypass the 512 MB size limit). Boot the game and use its in-game management tool to move some DLC songs from the NAND to the virtual SD Card. Also keep in mind that in Just Dance 2014 and 2015, you can only play DLC songs that are stored on the NAND, so you'll need to do some moving around whenever you want to play a DLC song that is stored on the SD Card.

Dime333 · 02-26-2019, 05:16 AM #3

OK. Thanks for the info. So how am I supposed to do this correctly. Nothing shows up in the in-game manager. I may have screwed something up in the process. Am I supposed to install only part of the DLC? If so, how do I do that?

Dime333 · 02-26-2019, 05:33 AM #4

I think I got it. I used WadMii to extract the files from the WAD. Now where do I put the files? Like I said, I think I screwed something up when I installed the DLC before and now I have 0 blocks free. Any idea how I can free up some space? I think I'm gonna do a clean install of Dolphin anyway. Can I place the DLC files somewhere so it shows up on the SD card?

**mbc07** · 02-26-2019, 09:06 AM #5

If nothing is showing on the in-game "Archives" menu then you screwed your NAND. I suggest you export all your Wii saves (if you have any) through by going into Tools => Export All Wii Saves then start with a fresh NAND (you can do that by deleting the Wii Folder found inside My Documents\Dolphin, but keep in mind you'll lose all WiiWare and Virtual Console titles and DLCs and saved games as well). Prepare the fresh NAND by going into Tools => Perform Online System Update => <region that matches your games>, then copy keys.bin extracted from your real Wii to My Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Wii.

Then, I don't know if this still works since the Wii Shop Channel was shut down recently, but try copying only the ticket file of Just Dance 2014 from your Wii's NAND to Dolphin's NAND, then boot the game and go to the in-game store, all songs you already purchased will appear to redownload for free. If this doesn't work but you have the DLCs on your Wii's NAND, you can try dumping it with BootMii then importing it directly in Dolphin through Tools => Import BootMii NAND Backup...

Dime333 · 02-26-2019, 10:12 AM #6

Thank you very much for your help. I backed up my current Wii folder and started fresh. Feels lovely. One last question. Is it possible to figure out where to manually place DLC content for a game?

**mbc07** · (This post was last modified: 02-26-2019, 12:52 PM by mbc07.)

Yes if you know the folder structure. I won't help you with this though, as is very easy to mess the NAND by moving files manually and all sorts of weird issues starts happening in Dolphin when you have a bad NAND. WiiBrew may have some interesting info on this subject, if you know what you're doing...

Dime333 · 02-26-2019, 03:59 PM #8

OK. Thanks.