My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Hello everyone. I'm going to try to explain my problem as thoroughly as possible hoping someone can help me because I can't find any solution anywhere on any site or forum and not a single tutorial about this subject which I don't understand ><

First off my Wii is a Wii without the GameCube controller ports, it's on version 4.3E hacked with Pimp my Wii 2.32 which did everything automatically to install all the cios. I want to point out that I'm a bit of a beginner with the Wii even though after several tutorials I've understood quite a few things.

The Cios 236 and 249 are correctly installed, in fact Zelda Skyward Sword works very well in Wiiflow 4.04 r434. Everything is installed on a small hard drive a Wd my passport 1To. So everything goes through Usb and not Sd although I have what I need to modify Sd cards on my pc with a normal 2 gb Sd.

I created 2 partitions on my 1 To hard drive. The 1st of 120 gb as primary that I created for all the installs of wads, Ww, Vc or Homebrews. The 2nd that I turned into Wbfs with Wbfs manager for all the Wii games.

To launch Wiiflow I have a Forwarder, carbonik if I'm not mistaken which works very well and launches Wiiflow very quickly. I checked the Wiiflow version carefully and it is indeed the very latest when I click on the? at the very bottom left of the screen.

So it detects my folder with my Homebrews from the Apps folder very well when I click on the button and on the pot, of course it also detects the partition with my Wii games very well by clicking on the USB icon as well as my real Nand by clicking on its corresponding icon.

But here's my problem, when I click on the Emulation icon I get a message on screen that says: Welcome to Wiiflow. I have found any plugins. Select partition to select your partition type. Below that I have the Select Partition button. I clicked on this button and tried to choose all the partitions since I have 4 to choose from, Usb1 to Usb4.

I then clicked on the real Nand icon and pointed to the emulation icon at the bottom right and pressed the B button. From there I get a message telling me: Welcome to Wiiflow, i have not found a valid NAND for NAND Emulation. Click Extract to Extract your NAND, or click disable to disable NAND Emulation.

If I click on Disable NAND Emulation I go back to my real NAND and I see all my channels installed on my Wii. If I click on Select Partition in the Game partition tab I have to choose from Usb1 to Usb 7 and SD. I tried all of them and none worked.

But the strangest thing is when I click on Extract NAND. It does extract my NAND fine, I see plenty of bars advancing and files being copied until reaching 100%. If I check on my hard drive I see my NAND properly extracted in the wiiflow/nandemu folder. All the folders of my extracted NAND are indeed there because I also checked with the Show My wads program on my PC and in Show My Wads I see all my channels installed on my Wii.

In short when the extraction of my NAND reaches 100% I click on the Back button and it shows me the same message again: Welcome to Wiiflow, i have not found a valid NAND for NAND Emulation. Click Extract to Extract your NAND, or click disable to disable NAND Emulation.

I even checked in my hard drive in the apps/wiiflow folder in the wiiflow.ini file to see if the path address was correct and it was indeed path=/wiiflow/nandemu in the NAND tab right at the bottom. Note that I edit INI files with Notepad++

Well as I said above I tried to figure it out myself and find tutorials on how to emulate a Nand in Wiiflow and install Wads but I found nothing and nothing talks about my problem except for one topic here but it wasn't exactly the same. I'm pulling my hair out because I don't know what else to do I've tried everything.

I really thank everyone who takes the trouble to read me to the end and help me.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Hi,


not knowing what pimp my wii installs, I'd recommend installing manually THE latest d2x (v9 beta r49fix ).
use wiiflow mod installer in order to dl the latest version of one of the proposed forwarder channels. Older versions can cause a few issues with the latest versions of wiiflow.

other useful info... what did you use to format your partition. use https://www.mediafire.com/?o6lckaft5isbkew to format it in FAT32, primary partition and especially with a 32ko cluster size.

lastly do a syscheck then paste us a copy of the resulting report.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Hi, thanks for your reply. I'll do all that. I did use Easeus to make my partition FAT 32. But I don't remember the cluster size. Best is to redo the partition from the start and I'll post the syscheck result. So I'll be back, thanks :D
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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what do you recommend already for creating a nand?
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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To answer you both, I created my Nand directly in Wiiflow with the very latest version. In fact I just reinstalled it, I downloaded it with the program you recommended, the Wiiflow mod installer. I also of course installed one of the Forwarder channels which I downloaded with it and I do have the new channel and Wiiflow still launches just fine. However now I have a new menu in wiiflow with the emulator icons, the real nand icon and the Emulated Nand icon. Before I didn't have all that, when I pressed the B button I just had 4 icons. I tried redoing the nand extraction from this wiiflow but still the same error. However I haven't installed the d2x Cios from the link you gave me yet, I was about to do that now.

Thanks to both of you for your replies, that's kind :)
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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There are two ways to extract the NAND from WiiFlow.
The first, which seems the most obvious, via the NAND page (the one you used) and via the Wii game backup config page.
The first one has often given me trouble, so try the other one.
If it still doesn't work with WiiFlow, you can try with USB Loader GX or the best option as @mamule indicates, the dump via BootMii.
It's true that given the steps involved you might as well go for a uNeek2o NAND which offers better compatibility with WW/VC.

Regarding the new options that have appeared within WiiFlow, when using WFMI, it makes preparing your HDD or your SD much easier. You end up with a plugin pack (a few old console emulators + 1 media player) and a source menu of my own making inspired by the StarNight theme.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Alright I just installed the dx2. I wanted to test just to see before making another Nand with Boot mii, the 2nd method Ayatus mentioned to me or even your Neek2o method which I haven't read yet but it's coming :P

So I re-extracted my Nand with Wiiflow after properly emptying the emunand folder in Wiiflow on my hard drive. I clicked the Emunand icon and now there's no error, it looks like it's reading my emulated Nand just fine. Well that's what I think but to be sure I reconnected my hard drive to install some random Wad with Show My Wads. I even deleted channels on purpose to see the difference right away in Wiiflow. But when I relaunch Wiiflow and click the Nand emulation icon there's no change lol Yet there are no more errors as if it perfectly recognizes my emulated Nand.

All this happened after following the D2x tutorial step by step very carefully. Apparently that must have fixed quite a few things already.

Anyway now I'm going to follow the Neek2o tutorial to extract my nand. I think this tutorial will explain to me how to do it with boot Mii? I'll look into all that and thanks for the compliment ^^
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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And then people will say we're obsessing over pimp my Wii ^^'

After your first launch of Wiiflow then your modification, when you relaunched Wiiflow it's possible it didn't refresh the wad list. To update it you need to update the title list via gametdb.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Hi again, sorry for replying so late I had work to do :D

I'll keep going with all that but now I have another issue, when I launch a Wii game now it doesn't launch anymore. This is after doing the 2dx ><

Before it launched just fine but not anymore now, it gets stuck loading the game :((

As for Oops please I don't understand how to do this update with gametdb. Isn't that about covers you're talking about? If it is about the covers that's not it because I don't see my new wads installed at all, not even without the covers. I looked at them all one by one and I just don't see it. Or maybe I didn't understand this update business. Please explain it to me, sorry if I seem too much of a noob.

As for the Wii games I don't really know what to do. I'm looking for a program that completely unhacks my Wii so I can then re-hack it with 2dx. just fyi I followed the tutorial for the d2x and at the end of the installation I had red squares on screen with numbers in boxes. Thanks again for your replies.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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For the update, in Wiiflow's general options/download it's the button right below the one for downloading covers.

Best before updating... in apps/Wiiflow delete Wiiflow.ini
In the Wiiflow folder that's at the root of your sd. Delete the settings folder. In wiiflow/cache delete lists.
Every time you modify your nand or your Wii games. Delete lists and/or update gametdb (all)

For the d2x... red I think that's not good. Start over. At the beginning on the first page select cios 236 and not 249.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Alright I'll do all that. Thanks for your quick replies. As for the update it had been official for a long time already. Never dared to do another update, I was scared of removing the Hack from my Wii and never being able to re-hack it. I don't even know what version the next update is, and even less whether that update is hackable. So I preferred to stay on 4.3E.

I'll do the syscheck and everything you're explaining :P
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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My god I can't believe it I did it, I succeeded :mrgreen:

So here's how I did it. After following your latest advice I hadn't dumped my NAND with Boot Mii yet. Which I did today. I dumped it with boot mii then extracted it on my Pc with NAND Tools. I followed this tutorial to do it: https://www.wii-addict.fr/forum/lofiver ... 17256.html

If you follow it to the letter you should manage it without trouble in 5 minutes and have your NAND extracted with all the necessary files to emulate it with Wiiflow. Once Wiiflow was launched with this new NAND dumped with Boot mii I did the update with TDB and it happened right away. I can see my Wiiwares and Vc just fine and everything I want to install in my emulated NAND with Show My Wads.

Also my Wii games work again too because I completely unhacked my Wii and re-Hacked it afterward with Pimp My wii lol. Yes lol because I got the impression this program wasn't well liked around here xD

Yet it's the one making all my games work great :98:

I don't think I would have ever managed without your help and I thank you so much. Even my wife who saw me happy as a kid says thanks to you :vacance: xD

My conclusion is that Wiiflow emulates your NAND very well but doesn't dump it correctly at all. I hope this topic can help more than one person and it would be nice if you could make an A to Z tutorial for launching Wiiwares and Vc from Wiiflow.

If anyone has questions I can help, don't hesitate.
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I'm happy for you but... :roll: I'll let mamule elaborate :evil: :62: :98:
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Mamule elaborate? Elaborate on what then? lol :98: A tutorial for learning how to launch these Ww, Vc and emulate your nand in Wiiflow would be great I think, especially since I don't think this tutorial exists. There are indeed some very good tutorials explaining lots of things about how to emulate your nand etc but a complete all-in-one tutorial on how to emulate your Nand to launch these Ww and Vc from A to Z, I don't think there is one. Otherwise it would be 1 tutorial gathering the relevant tutorials for this complete tutorial.

If I had the time I'd make it myself but the problem is I don't think I have the computer knowledge to create a really complete A to Z tutorial and I don't have much time right now.

Thanks again to you, I'm so happy I succeeded :74:
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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Your conclusion regarding Wiiflow is wrong, it's perfectly capable of extracting a working NAND, you're probably the exception that proves the rule. That said, you didn't give us the syscheck report we asked you for.

As for the hack itself, you can do without Pimp My Wii, it just takes the time to read up on it, the forum's tutorials are here for that. Also, it's not necessary to install everything, some Cios are only needed in specific cases.

A tutorial for launching WW/VC, what for, emulated or real NAND it's all the same, there is however a tutorial for neek2o which is the best route for NAND emulation.

If you haven't installed Priiloader yet, I strongly recommend doing so.

Edit: I briefly discussed with FIX94 who told me that a Cios or AHBPROT is a prerequisite (the d2x v8 final don't support this feature) for NAND extraction. So it's important to use a "recent" hack to guarantee a good extraction.
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Re: My nand is not detected by Wiiflow

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elaborate... a thought ^^' there you go, done as I expected :P

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