Practice Tools

Tools

Here you can find various helpful tools for speedrun practice and testing
(Note: Many of these tools require your wii to be already homebrewed and have homebrew channel installed)

GCMM 1.4f, a Gamecube Savefile Manager homebrew application for Wii/GC (Mod by: Dragonbane)
Neogamma TP mod, a loader for Wii homebrew that includes built in togglable cheats for TP (Mod by: Dragonbane)
Dolphin Zelda Edition, a modified version of Dolphin that includes extra tools for TP/TWW (Mod by: Dragonbane)
Twilight Editor, a Savefile editor for GC TP saves that allows you to modify values and flags (By: AECX)
tpgz, a practice tool that includes many helpful tools such as memory watch, inventory management, cheats, and map loading (By: Mid/Pheenoh/Taka/Kipcode)

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Setting up tpgz

Setting up SD card (GCN)

• Download Nintendont files
• Extract the 'nintendont' folder to the apps folder of your SD Card (SD:\apps\nintendont)
• Create a folder called 'games' on the root of your SD Card (SD:\games)
• Inside 'games', create a new folder and name it anything ('TPGZ' and 'GZ2E01' are popular choices)
• Open tpgz.io on your PC
• Select the desired patch version, and click 'Patch'
• Wait for the patcher to finish (may take a few minutes)
• Place the patched ISO into the second game folder (inside of the 'games' folder) on the SD card, and name the file 'game.iso' (remember to add '.iso' at the end)
  • Example: SD:\games\TPGZ\game.iso
• Insert the SD card into the Wii and open Homebrew Channel

Setting up SD card (Wii)

• Download Wiiflow files
• Extract wiiflow folder to the apps folder of your SD Card (SD:\apps\wiiflow)
• Create a folder called 'wbfs' on the root of your SD Card (SD:\wbfs)
• Download the romhack patcher
• Place your Wii ISO, the romhack patcher program, and patch file in a folder together
• Open command line in that folder, and run [./romhack.exe apply patchname.patch 'isoname.iso' 'outputname.iso']
  • (Example: ./romhack.exe apply 0.2-wii-ntscu-10.patch 'rzde10.iso' 'tpgzw.iso')
• Wait for the patch process to finish (may take a few minutes)
• Place the patched ISO into the games folder on your SD card, and name the file 'game.iso' (remember to add '.iso' at the end) (SD:\wbfs\game.iso)
• Insert your SD card into the Wii and open Homebrew Channel

Loading tpgz on a Wii

• Launch Nintendont
• Choose the file location of your tpgz ISO
• Open Settings, and make sure to turn 'Native Control' on
• Launch game

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Setting up GCMM on a Wii

Setting up SD card

• Download GCMM 1.4f
• Extract everything from the 'Release\SDCard' folder to your SD Card
• Create a Folder on the root of your SD Card called 'MCBACKUP' (SD:\MCBACKUP)
• Download any savefiles you may want from the Savefiles page
• Extract .gci files from the zip to the MCBACKUP folder on your SD card
• Insert your SD card into the Wii and open Homebrew Channel

Using GCMM

• Launch GCMM
• Select which source device you're using (A: SD card, B: USB)
• Press X to restore savefiles from SD to a memory card
• Select which memory card slot you want with A or B
• Select which savefile you want to put on your memory card and press A
• Press Start to return to Homebrew Channel

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Setting up Neogamma on a Wii

(Note: Neogamma is largely obsoleted as a practice tool by tpgz, however it is still a good alternative if needed)

Setting up SD card

• Download cIOS installer for Wii
• Extract the 'apps' folder from the zip to your SD card
• Download Neogamma TP
  • Extract everything from the 'release\cMIOS\SDCard' folder to your SD card
  • Extract everything from the 'release\Neogamma\SDCard' folder to your SD card
• Insert your SD card into the Wii and open Homebrew Channel

Installing cIOS

• Launch 'd2x cIOS installer' and press any button to continue
• Select recommended settings before installing
  • Select cIOS (v10 beta52 d2x-v10-beta52)
  • Select cIOS base 56
  • Select cIOS slot 249
  • Select cIOS revision 65535
• Press A to install
• Once it finishes installing, repeat for the second cIOS
  • Select cIOS (v10 beta52 d2x-v10-beta52)
  • Select cIOS base 57
  • Select cIOS slot 250
  • Select cIOS revision 65535
• Press A to install once again
• Once finished, press B to exit

Installing cMIOS

• Launch 'Installer for WiiGator's cMIOS'
• Choose IOS 249 to use and press A
• Read warning. Wait for the press 1 message to appear, then press 1
• Install cMIOS
  • Press A to go in MIOS menu
  • Press A to choose 'Install cMIOS'
  • Press A to load from SD Card
  • Press A to install cMIOS
• Press A to exit once finished

Using Neogamma TP

• Launch Neogamma from the homebrew menu
• Go to Options > TP Cheats
• Turn on Custom Cheats, and select whatever cheats you desire
• Return to Menu
• Launch Game on DVD (make sure a Twilight Princess disc is inserted)