Talk:IOS history

IOS38 - Animal Crossing disc update

Just a bit of info on IOS38 that comes on the Animal Crossing: City Folk disc. Nothing detailed, I merely wanted to know if it was a "safe" update to run, i.e. compatible with homebrew. I briefly looked at all the included on disc update files (by file names anyway), and IOS51 is not included. As well, the update.inf file has 2008/09/17 as it's date. If my understanding is correct, that means this update is pre-october23 (Even though the game came out mid-november). So as long as you have up-to-date homebrew stuff, this update should be "safe" to run and homebrew compatible, correct? So anyway I ran the disc update, it was very fast, and did not cause any of the homebrew problems that the October 23rd update did. (note: My system was up-to-date with Nintendo's updates, until October23, which I did NOT allow to run, obviously.) Just thought I should share this, since not much info is posted about IOS38 /the animal crossing update.--NikoKun 03:21, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Firmware 3.4 IOSs versions

I have a Wii with hombew channel and 3.4 FW version. I have many different versions of most of the IOSs and some IOS don't listed... Should I add this versions to the table or is it some reasen to don't do that?

My IOSs title lister output:

• 27: Title=1-f9 (IOS249) vers: 0.7 (7)
• 28: Title=1-10 (IOS16) vers: 1.1 (257)
• 29: Title=1-fe (IOS254) vers: 12.16 (3088)
• 30: Title=1-33 (IOS51) vers: 18.25 (4633)
• 31: Title=1-a (IOS10) vers: 3.0 (768)
• 32: Title=1-32 (IOS50) vers: 19.25 (4889)
• 33: Title=1-25 (IOS37) vers: 14.25 (3609)
• 34: Title=1-24 (IOS36) vers: 12.18 (3090)
• 35: Title=1-23 (IOS35) vers: 4.16 (1040)
• 36: Title=1-22 (IOS34) vers: 12.15 (3087)
• 37: Title=1-21 (IOS33) vers: 11.16 (2832)
• 38: Title=1-1f (IOS31) vers: 12.16 (3088)
• 39: Title=1-1e (IOS30) vers: 11.0 (2816)
• 40: Title=1-1c (IOS28) vers: 5.12 (1292)
• 41: Title=1-16 (IOS22) vers: 3.9 (777)
• 42: Title=1-14 (IOS20) vers: 1.0 (256)
• 43: Title=1-11 (IOS17) vers: 2.5 (517)
• 44: Title=1-f (IOS15) vers: 1.9 (265)
• 45: Title=1-e (IOS14) vers: 1.6 (262)
• 46: Title=1-d (IOS13) vers: 0.15 (15)
• 47: Title=1-c (IOS12) vers: 0.11 (11)
• 48: Title=1-b (IOS11) vers: 1.0 (256)
• 49: Title=1-15 (IOS21) vers: 2.10 (522)
• 50: Title=1-101 (MIOS) vers: 0.9 (9)
• 51: Title=1-100 (BC) vers: 0.5 (5)
• 52: Title=1-2 (System Menu) vers: 1.130 (386) FW: IOS50
• 53: Title=1-9 (IOS9) vers: 2.8 (520)
• 54: Title=1-4 (IOS4) vers: 255.0 (65280)

Stub IOS

I found that Stub IOS are IOS which revision are ending with 00 in HEX.

By example ios10 rev768 ( = 0x300) => 0x300 & 0xFF = 0, so it's a stub.

IOS16 rev512 => 0x200, a stub too.--Attila 22:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Good catch! -- Bushing 12:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Good Catch indeed. that kill my hacky method of detecting stubs :) i actually did it by contents & tmd size. stubs have 3 contents (2 shared, 1 of the ios itself) and a fixed tmd size --DacoTaco 08:50, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

IOS4 is a Stub IOS now ???

Isn't IOS4 the IOS used by the update partitions of disc based games? --WiiPower 07:23, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Mothball

What does Mothballed mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mpg187 (talk • contribs) 03:44 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Mothballed = stub. meaning the IOS is worth nothing now --DacoTaco 08:47, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Converting version number to minor

Can anybody explain to me how this works? Let's take IOS80 v6944 for example, if I type "6944" into my hex converter, it shows me "1B20". How do you get 27.32 out of that? I don't understand how this works at all. Also, exactly how is 4 = 0.4 but 706 is 0.7.6. Shouldn't it be 7.0.6? Or 70.6? Is there a converter or something I can use? I'm so confused. Fawe (talk) 23:39, 9 May 2021 (CEST)