The Beatles Rock Band DLC on Dolphin

[SiriusVI87]

I am trying to get this to work on Dolphin. This is what I did:

1. Converted the DLC to .bin files using wad2bin
2. Copied the .bin files to the appropriate folder within the virtual SDcard file
3. Installing the bogus wad on Dolphin crashed the emulator, so what I did was extract the contents of the bogus wad using a software called "ShowMiiWads" and moved the extracted files to the appropriate location in the Dolphin.

I couldn't get it to work unfortunately.

[DarkMatterCore]

@SiriusVI87 Sorry for the late reply -- my personal life has been awfully busy.

I'm not 100% sure Dolphin properly emulates all required ES IPC syscalls from IOS used by the game to load DLCs off the SD card. Even if that was the case, getting DLCs up and running via wad2bin can be troublesome because there are many different combinations you can try (w/nullkey, without nullkey, with a different parent title ID, etc.), which is exactly why I encourage people to carry out further trial and error on their own.

You may be further complicating these already complex scenarios by using Dolphin, which is something I never originally envisioned. I'd suggest to try different combinations on a real Wii, then try using Dolphin whenever you find a working one.

Hope that helps.

[r0bd0g]

Our best guess is that there's a Dolphin bug that prevents DLC from being recognized for the first time from the SD card (but maybe we're dumb and just haven't figured it out). So it has to installed to the nand instead. Customs installed this way can't be copied to the virtual SD after (this should be possible to fix but we don't know how to do it), so you'll be stuck with all of the issues that come with having a full nand, so be sure to create any save files you need before installing the songs. But the Dolphin install wad tool is picky and will crash if the wad has any slots not filled, which would be the case with all individual song wads. So what you have to do is create a big wad with every song you want to play included in it, and with every slot filled with -something-. So you would start by unpacking all the wads for all songs down to .apps (I feel like there has got to be a better way to do this, but what I've been doing is using wad2bin with 'use null key' checked [for the record you would NOT click use null key when installing TBRB songs to a real Wii], and then using a program called 'dlcunpacker' to convert the .bins to .apps), and then what we've been doing is creating tiny 1 byte files and renaming them to the correct names for the .app files for all the unfilled slots, and then using wadpacker to pack the entire generation up together into a single wad. That wad should install in Dolphin, but those tiny .app files we created will cause the game to crash on sight, so then first you have to go into the nand and delete them. (Complicating all of this is the fact that whoever archived the official TBRB DLC did so incorrectly and broke all Abbey Road in a way that would require players to delete their save files to begin to fix. Somehow the filepath in the DTA is in xbox/ps3 style rather than how Wii expects it. So if you want those songs you also have to unpack them with u8it, fix the filepath, and repack them to apps again first.)