Wii Ultimate UnscrubberThe tool can unscrub a scrubbed Wii ISO to it's original state. That matches Redump.org checksum.The original discussion topic is at Romshepherd (category 'tools'). Can unscrub ISOs scrubbed with many tools (wiiscrubber, wit, WiiBackUp Manager).
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Can decrypt/encrypt ISOsChangelogv0.4 beta. Added support for WBFS. Can use everywhere the ISO is expected. Can use UPDATE partitions from other ISOs, to restore ISOs that don't have UPDATE partition.
Can use Redump DAT file to verify the unscrubbed ISO. The redump DAT file is required to unscrub an ISO that has no UPDATE partition. In some cases can restore a modified header.
Works if the game title (name) is not too long.Ok, how it works. If your ISO/Wbfs has an UPDATE partition, then just drop the iso on the UltimateUnscrubber.exe to unscrub it. If it doesn't have an UPDATE partition then you need 2 things. First is a Redump DAT file (any name, make sure the extension is.dat) Put that file into UltimateUnscrubberfiles folder which is located where the UltimateUnscrubber.exe is. I have already included such a DAT file into the archive, but if you want a more recent version, then replace it.Second you need a collection of extracted UPDATE partitions.
Those should be placed at UltimateUnscrubberfilesupdatepartitions.Those partitions you can either get from somewhere (download from the internet, ). Or extract them yourself, if you have a big collection of good ISOs.
To extract UPDATE partitions, drop a folder with your good ISOs or WBFSs on UltimateUnscrubber.exe.v0.3.2 changes. Added support for complex partition tables (the only known game using it 'Super Smash Bros. Brawl'). Added support for unscrubbing ISOs with strange UPDATE padding, if the padding was not removed by scrubbing tools.
(more info below)v0.3.1 changes. Added support for korean ISOs. Added support for multi-disc games (the only known game 'Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online')v0.3 changes. Unscrubber now takes into account 'Keep Headers' option in wiiscrubber.v0.2 changes. always try to unscrub, even if the ISO does not seem to be scrubbed.
added 'decrypt' switch, to decrypt the ISO instead of unscrub.H3 CHECKSUM ERRORIf you get 'H3 checksum error' in the unscrubber, then you should first verify if the ISO is damaged. Use: 'wit verify game.iso'. If the wit tool gives an error too, then the file is damaged, and there is no need to report this error here.WHY AN ISO CANNOT BE UNSCRUBBED?1. The often reason of an unsuccessful unscrub is the lack of an UPDATE partition inside the ISO or WBFS. The 0.4 beta version can integrate UPDATE partitions extracted from other ISOs.2.
Another reason could be that the header was modified. Especially it's known that some scene releasers add their name to the game's title inside an ISO.3. The least probable reason is that the ISO is listed in the red list belowISOS THAT CANNOT NOT BE UNSCRUBBED (unless scrubbed with WBM, more info below)- Ant Bully (RI3E5D, RI3P5D)- Rampage: Total Destruction (RPGE5D, RPGP5D)- Link's Crossbow Training (only korean RZPK01)WHY THE ISOS LISTED IN THE RED LIST CANNOT BE UNSCRUBBED?Those ISOs contain some strange data after UPDATE partition. I didn't find what it is, and was not able to generate it. It is identical in USA and EUR discs for both games, but different in the korean one. Which makes me think, this could be data encrypted with an unknown encryption key (which are different for korean and non-korean). The 'wii common AES key' for decrypting partitions, didn't work for that data.All those games are from the first generation games for wii.
They were in development when the console was not even released at that time. So it makes me think, they used very old Wii SDK for development. And that SDK (maybe beta version) had some strange behavior (maybe a bug).Almost all scrubbing tools I tried, remove that data. The only way to preserve it when scrubbing is to use 'Wii Backup Manager' with option 'enable full scrubbing mode' disabled.I will try to somehow workaround this situation in 0.4 version, by extracting that data, and preserving it separately. But for now those discs might be impossible to unscrub.WHAT ARE PARTITIONS?almost all wii isos contain only 2 partitions: UPDATE and DATA.
Some isos contain additional partitions. All partitions except DATA are mostly not needed for playing a game. So WBFSs oftenly contain only DATA partition.All these isos can be unscrubbed if the partitions were not removed.the following games contain a CHANNEL partition- Wii Fit- Wii Fit Plus- Rabbids Go Home- Mario Kart Wiithe following game contains about 12 VC sample partitions. Their exact number depend on the region.- Super Smash Bros. Brawlthe following japanese games contain a new partition type which actually contains most of game's data files. Without this partition the game does not work.
These games are relatively new.- Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online- Dragon Quest X: Inishie no Ryuu no Denshou OnlineWHY WOULD YOU NEED TO DECRYPT AN ISOAll partitions inside a Wii ISO are AES encrypted. 'UltimateUnscrubber decrypt ' will decrypt an ISO. Decrypting an ISO makes it more compressible with ZIP or RAR. Up to 500mb regardless of scrubbing.But decrypted ISOs cannot be played on the console or the Dolphin emulator. They need to be encrypted back.My tool cannot scrub an ISO. So its 'decrypt' feature is more for debugging purposes.
If you want a more efficient decryption process, use the Wit tool. 'wit convert -enc decrypt', and to encrypt 'wit convert -enc encrypt'.
My tool encrypts a decrypted iso automatically when unscrubbing.And for the last wordAll ISOs, if they have all their partitions in place and are not listed in the red list above, should be 100% unscrubable. If you found an ISO with an UPDATE partition and it didn't unscrub, please let me know. Interesting that the 'junk' data isn't just random garbage; it's based on the game ID and some magic numbers.Some suggestions for a future release:. Support for CISO images in addition to WBFS. Main difference is instead of the drive information block and a block table, there's a 32 KB 'block present' table.
Support for RVT-R images. These use a different common key, and can be identified by the signature issuer 'Root-CA00000002-XS00000006'.
(Retail discs and I think Korean also have the signature issuer 'Root-CA00000001-XS00000003'.) I don't know if the garbage algorithm is the same on RVT-R, but it probably is. Support for GameCube images in both plain (ISO/GCM) and CISO format.
Googling for the magic number (0x1ef29123) brought up a not-working redump.org forum link that seems to imply GameCube uses the same algorithm.You might also want to consider hosting this tool on GitHub or a similar code hosting site.would it be possible to update wit to preserve the extra data after the UPDATE partitions for these games?EDIT: The function a10002710 looks familiar. Searching for its magic number (0x5d588b65) brings up references to, as well as the random number generator in.
(The C# one looks closer to this function, though it's still a bit different.). Click to expand. +1 for ssjkakaroto's suggestion.Being able to use WIT for everything would be nice, rather than having to rely on other tools like Wii Ultimate Unscrubber.If the user wants to archive/preserve their original disc collection, they'll want to keep (or have a way to recreate) the virgin/untouched images.
Being able to unscrub means they can greatly reduce the amount of disk space used since scrubbed images compress much better.An unmodified image is the only reliable way to tell you have a good one. You can compare with other people's SHA1 hashes. Different scrubbing software leaves varying amounts of padding/junk data in scrubbed ISOs, so there's no single good/canonical SHA1 for a scrubbed image.It seems most scrubbers including WIT actually leave some padding data behind.
Here are two specific examples. These were the only two ISOs I checked so far, so this issue probably applies to almost all scrubbed-by-WIT ISOs.GameCube Animal Crossing NTSC-U.
Wit scrubbing doesn't remove this padding:offset 0xFE620, 0x19E0 bytesoffset 0x55708000, 0x2838 bytesGameCube Zelda Wind Waker NTSC-U. Wit scrubbing doesn't remove this padding:offset 0x3D1DFC, 0x6204 bytesoffset 0x16848000, 0x1160 bytesoffset 0x3A92257C, 0x5A84 bytesoffset 0x3EC7CD5C, 0x6C4 bytes. I can think of a few good use cases to consider:. Converting back to a full 1:1 ISO to be burned and played on a Wii. Some people are interested in the archival of full ISOs (Redump.org). The hash data is useful for people to validate that their own dumps are good.
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Being able to unscrub back to a known good 1:1 ISO provides piece of mind that people can store their backups in a much more space-friendly way while still being able to restore the full ISO if they ever wanted to. Ability to create a consistently scrubbed set of backups from various sources. WBFS files made from various programs can be unscrubbed and rescrubbed with WIT so they are consistent. IMO, its always preferable to have a way to convert back and forth between formats.
Its just a matter of convenience if a single tool could handle this.I completely understand you probably have more interesting things to tackle, but just sharing my 2 cents.