Triforce Mario Kart GP / GP 2

[derekb]

http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/s....php?tid=23763

[kuze]

Nice, looks like as of today they fixed the controls for Triforce in Dolphin.

[Shinebi]

Just a heads up: Mario Kart Arcade GP1, Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 and F-Zero AX all work with the Quadforce wad on a software modded Wii.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/crediar-r...ce-2-0.347158/

What is QuadForce?
QuadForce is an awesome cMIOS for the Nintendo Wii that allows you to play the 3 most well known Triforce Arcade games from your SD card. Mario Kart Arcade GP, Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, and F-Zero AX.

This thread aims to help anyone with the a Wii, The Homebrew Channel, and a working method for installing WAD files get QuadForce running.

You will need:
-A Wii with the following:
---The Homebrew Channel
---A Method for Installing WADs (Trucha Bug, AHBPROT based WAD Manager, whatever works)

-A 2gb or larger SD card
-Any kind of decent SD card formatter
-A gamecube controller

I will not be providing you with these, as all of the software mods required are obtainable through the PC tool "ModMii of Windows"

Tutorial:
You will first need to format your SD card to FAT with 64K Clusters. This is the setup with the highest success rate although this appears to differ from card to card. There are reports of FAT32 working, as well as reports of 32K Cluster Size working, albeit at a slower SD read speed. You'll need to do a full format too, however I don't recommend the Windows Formatter, but you can give it a try if you feel daring. If you're using SDHC, higher classes are recommended.

Next, you'll Need to get the most recent QuadForce wad. (at the time of this being written, it is 2.0)
*I also recommend keeping a copy of the RVL-MIOS-v10.wad so that you can reinstall regular GCN support any time you want.*

Next, You'll need to get Dios-Mios Booter app to load the games.

Put DM Booter on the SD card and Put the .wads in whatever folder you put wads in on your SD card (Maybe SD:/wad or SD:/wads?)

Now you'll need the triforce games. Extracted they eat up about 1.2gb of space, pretty small considering.
Now this is how the games are structured on the SD card
GP1: SD:/games/GGPE01/
GP2: SD:/games/GGPE02/
F-ZeroAX: SD:/games/GFZJ8P/

In each of these directories, there should be a "game.iso" file, and a "sys" folder (except for F-Zero AX, which just has the game.iso)

So your SD card should look something like this (showing just the files I provided to you, you SHOULD have more files than shown, including a wadmanager, like multimodmanager or something...)


Now all that you need to do is use a WAD manager to install the Quadforce wad, launch Dios Mios Booter, choose a game, and you should be playing it. If not, check your SD card, and if all else fails, try another SD card.

Now for the control stuff.

About Wavebirds/Wireless Controllers
If you are having trouble getting your wavebird to work, make sure it is switched on before booting any games with QuadForce, and if that alone doesn't do it, you should hold down a button or two on the controller to make sure QuadForce picks it up.

(a small tip from <snip>: some 3rd party memory cards are detected as USB geckos in slot B, remove devices from slot B if you are having any trouble with freezes)

F-Zero AX Controls:
Note: When starting F-Zero AX it says "Initializing Motor..." it will shortly after ask you to calibrate the controls, circle the analog stick around a few times and press A, then B, then press Start.

Analog-Stick: Steer
A: Acceleration
B: Brakes
Y: Boost
L: Drift left
R: Drift right
Digital-Pad: change views

Mario Kart GP 1&2 Controls:
Analog-Stick: Steer
R: Acceleration
L: Brakes, and Tapping L jumps and activates sliding, during sliding you get a shield.
A: Item button, use items, can also be used as OK button
B: VS Cancel button, can do certain things depending on situation (read on-screen instructions)

If you like QuadForce, HELP FUND IT, PLEASE.
Crediar has made many wii hacking efforts and deserves the money because this crap isn't easy.
if donations reach 400€ We will get CARD support
if donations reach 450€ We will get USB support
if donations reach 500€ We will get any and all future updates to QuadForce.

Verify you have Working ISOs
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VERIFIED WORKING ISOs

I only have some mild slowdown on MKAGP2 on a cat 4 SDHC... anyone else have similar issue or a higher cat card without slowdown?

[Jackalus]

The video on the thread really shows how poorly it works. The game speed is like 1.5x and skippy. :(

[Goemon]

On quadforce? no the games playing at 100% speed on the wii except some minor slowdowns on the menues on MK GP2

[Jackalus]

Well in the thread there was a video of gameplay and the game was way too fast, like 1.5x fast forwarded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kImXxdADPvo

[Shinebi]

Quadforce 4 is out, along and compatible with Virtua Striker 4 ver. 2006 (International)

[Lum]

So are both English and Japanese versions of F-Zero AX publicly available, or does it use the console language setting?

[Shinebi]

F-Zero is in English anyways, I don't think it matters, there are two versions around, both Jap, but the first one had a wrong header, that's all.
VS4 is in two versions available.

[wombat]

In the post of Shinebi I read the following; *I also recommend keeping a copy of the RVL-MIOS-v10.wad so that you can reinstall regular GCN support any time you want.*

Let's say you accidentally deleted that file, is it replaceable with a generic copy from the WWW, or do you need a specific version tied to your console?

[Shinebi]

I think it's standard, I grabbed it anyways. (that quote is outdated a bit, as the OP on TiZ had updated it already)

I can only get Quadforce games running by first installing the Quadforce wad on MIOS, then launch a game of choice from SD card ONLY with the DM Booter app, it won't work with a DM(L) plugin on any other launcher (such as USB CFG for instance).

When wanting to have the ability to launch 'regular' games again from SD/USB, you should reinstall the DM wad or DML wad on that MIOS accordingly.
At the moment, this is the only way (...although there is talk of combining with Sneek I think, but haven't bothered, as I need to read into this virtual NAND matter as of yet)

[Lum]

F-Zero is in English anyways, I don't think it matters, there are two versions around, both Jap, but the first one had a wrong header, that's all.
VS4 is in two versions available.

That was the SNES game. AX has some boring looking Jap text, system & menu stuff mostly.

[Shinebi]

Ehhh, no? It's in English. You asked AX, I replied AX.

EDIT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dqwg5X-fh8
main parts in English as it's an arcade game, obviously Japanese side info, yes.
I don't think this was released outside of Japan?

[Lum]

I don't think I'm mistaken. Here's the English version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzWk6VejXOI

[Shinebi]

Indeed. SO I assume I have the English version... have to check tonight.
I first had the version with wrong header (Virtua Striker 2002 IIRC?), and grabbed the one with correct header.
Didn't have time to compare both, but will do and will post here if these are actually different. Both were marked as Japanese, hence my 'mistake'.

[Lum]

Well console setting is possible if unlikely. They did consider that for GX, Japan version has remnants of the idea.

[urbangangsta101]

In the post of Shinebi I read the following; *I also recommend keeping a copy of the RVL-MIOS-v10.wad so that you can reinstall regular GCN support any time you want.*

Let's say you accidentally deleted that file, is it replaceable with a generic copy from the WWW, or do you need a specific version tied to your console?

You can download it with NUS downloader.

https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/gamecube

Just do step 1.

[la-li-lu-le-lo]

I'd like to get like an 8 or 16GB SD card for my Wii, but I've read that the Wii doesn't support SDHC, except within Homebrew Channel. That's fine, except that I want keep iBoot on the SD card, and if I put iBoot on an SDHC card the Wii won't load it, correct?