Installing the WAD or booting it from the gamelist in version 5.0-5755 or newer may also repair titles without having to delete the savedata. If it's a save for something that doesn't matter, you can click yes and delete the incomplete data. Sometimes Dolphin will find a save without the necessary TMD. But, if the check finds problems that require further work, it'll warn users before proceeding. Many minor issues in the NAND can be fixed without any repercussions at all. In 5.0-5755, leoetlino gave users the ability to repair broken NANDs with a suite of fixes. To make things worse, these versions often have buggy and/or incomplete emulation which can easily further corrupt the NAND.
The sad fact is, if you've launched a Wii Channel from the gamelist prior to 5.0-5726, your NAND is very likely to be affected by this problem, because old versions of Dolphin do not copy the TMD or the ticket when launching a WAD. If some TMDs turn out to be missing (which is never supposed to happen), the shop will either just throw an error, or worse, behave weirdly and corrupt installs just loading the Data Management screen in the Wii Menu may cause the emulated console to crash! This means that it is normally impossible for a title to have save data without also having an associated TMD.īoth the Wii Menu and the Wii Shop Channel assume that these system files are always present. For channels and other NAND titles, it contains essential information about installed contents, so it is also always copied when installing a title. For disc games, the TMD is copied to the NAND the first time a game is launched. On a Wii, every channel or disc-based game has an associated metadata file: the TMD. This could result in some very, very, very strange behaviors. Unfortunately, some poorly thought out behaviors from Dolphin's past were making it very difficult to maintain a valid NAND. Without a valid NAND, accessing the Wii Shop Channel is not possible and you may run into crashes when using Wii Menu features. With the Wii Shop purchasing scheduled to turn off in 2019, giving users the ability to easily access the shop is of a high priority.
Notable Changes ¶ 5.0-5661, 5.0-5726, and 5.0-5755 - NAND Check and Launch WAD Hack Removal by leoetlino ¶ With all that in mind, we hope you enjoy this month's Dolphin Progress Report. Fortunately, there are still many very important changes that arrived this month. We shifted gears a bit too late and resulted in a tardy Progress Report. and then we realized it wasn't going to be done in time. A big feature (and blog article) was being worked on right up until the end of the month. While on the outside it may have looked like October was a slow month, the blog staff and devs have been busy behind the scenes. A little late, but, all here in one piece.