IOS...A few questions.

Ive seen a lot of talk about "IOS" and stuff and some talk about "cIOS" or something and that you can change the IOS on your wii and whatnot. Can someone explain what this is and should it be tampered with or no? Because I hear a lot of people doing modifications to the IOS and I want to know whats the use with this. Thaks :)

cIOS is mainly used by pirates. tona's cIOS rev5 clone is legal though. tona's cIOS clone is useful for Wiis with the Oct 23 update, 3.4, or later, mainly installing fake-signed titles. The average person does not need cIOS. Though there are some homebrew that uses cIOS, but these install modified titles.(Mainly sysmenu modifications.)

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[url=http://wiibrew.org/wiki/IOS
Wiibrew IOS[/url]]
IOS is the operating system that runs on the Starlet coprocessor inside the Hollywood package. It provides the services that are used by Wii code to access most of the system devices.

The services/devices accessible via IOS are as follows: disc drive, Ethernet, keyboard, WC24, USB, networking, wireless, Wii front input buttons and LEDs.

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yellowstar
cIOS is mainly used by pirates. tona's cIOS rev5 clone is legal though. tona's cIOS clone is useful for Wiis with the Oct 23 update, 3.4, or later, mainly installing fake-signed titles. The average person does not need cIOS. Though there are some homebrew that uses cIOS, but these install modified titles.(Mainly sysmenu modifications.)

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[url=http://wiibrew.org/wiki/IOS
Wiibrew IOS[/url]]
IOS is the operating system that runs on the Starlet coprocessor inside the Hollywood package. It provides the services that are used by Wii code to access most of the system devices.

The services/devices accessible via IOS are as follows: disc drive, Ethernet, keyboard, WC24, USB, networking, wireless, Wii front input buttons and LEDs.

If I had system menu 3.2, I heard with that you can basically do anything right? Without using any IOS modifications you can install anything you wish. Unfortunatly I DO have 3.4 so If I got tona's cIOS clone what good would that do for me?

Well, I guess you could try Truncha Bug Restorer. Then you could install tona's cIOS.(I never used it though, I installed tona's cIOS before updating to 3.4 because of Wii Sports Resport, then used Dop-IOS to re-enable the fake-sign bug in a few IOS. Note that this was for only installing modified titles I modified myself, not piracy.)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/25/2009 05:13AM by yellowstar.

And that would let you install fake-signed stuff. (There's not really anything you can do with it that doesn't relate to piracy..)

Yes, useless for the average person for legal uses.(Really, it's only useful for devs installing modified titles, which is the only thing I use tona's cIOS for, no piracy.) TBR is basically useless unless you want to, say, install sysmenu patches, but that's not really needed...

You dont need cIOS. You can just use TBR then Dop-IOS MOD running on IOS36.

But there are uses for trucha bug beside piracy. preloader for example. and there are other things as well.

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yellowstar
Yes, useless for the average person for legal uses.(Really, it's only useful for devs installing modified titles, which is the only thing I use tona's cIOS for, no piracy.) TBR is basically useless unless you want to, say, install sysmenu patches, but that's not really needed...

For that reason, TBR isn't supported here. Please refrain from any further discussion about it unless it's unsupported stature is changed.

-Thanks

can we talk about CMDVDX34 here arikado?

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TopGun96
can we talk about CMDVDX34 here arikado?

To quote marcan, "No."

Why not? It doesnt do anything illegal does it? (I'm not arguing, just curious as to why its not allowed.)

It's pointless on a number of levels.

1)It was never supported by WiiBrew due to it's originally intended purpose

2)It is no longer used for it's originally intended purpose

3)Trucha IOSs are useless for the average user unless said user is a pirate