Question Change time in RVLoader

[Shipyu]

HI, I managed to get the RTC Chip working with it's little battery but the time isn't correct on the Wii.
I didn't find any way to change the time while being in RVLoader. I know we can do it in the Wii System but I have no idea why, I'm getting a black screen when booting to the Wii main menu.

Is there a way to change the hour while being in RVLoader?

 

[GameCube4Life]

LOL, I was wondering the same thing, I asked under the RVLoader post. If I find out anything I will let you know!

 

[zombiegman]

Does anyone know if the only part you need to salvage from a Wii is the motherboards for a portable

 

[GameCube4Life]

Does anyone know if the only part you need to salvage from a Wii is the motherboards for a portable

Brother, just look up Wii motherboard trimming, that should set you in the right direction.

 

[zombiegman]

Thank you

 

[Xyzven]

HI, I managed to get the RTC Chip working with it's little battery but the time isn't correct on the Wii.
I didn't find any way to change the time while being in RVLoader. I know we can do it in the Wii System but I have no idea why, I'm getting a black screen when booting to the Wii main menu.

Is there a way to change the hour while being in RVLoader?

@Aurelio Is there a way to update the RTC in RVloader 2.0? I noticed it says "Fixed clock time being wrong on some Wiis". Just wanted to know since I have this same question and can't seem to find any info around it.

 

[Teatimetim]

If you patched out wifi and relocated Bluetooth you can update it from the Wii settings by booting into the stock Wii os. If you have wifi relocated you can also update it using a homebrew app called SNTP. Other than that I don't know of any other way.

 

[Xyzven]

Thanks much @Teatimetim, looks like I’m SOL. Great answer, I’ll look deeper into SNTP.

 

[Alvaro]

Sorry to revive this post but it may help someone in the future because I had this same exact issue (only able to use VGA and access to composite was hard to get to on my Wii Miicro).

I found two solutions: You can get RVLoader 1.4 and run the installer and apply the older VGA patch which will let you boot into the system menu and change the time.

Or you can use this Wii time changer homebrew I created with Claude and SNTP source https://github.com/AlvaroEPena/wii-time-changer
Compiled version in releases.

 

[Darkside19]

Sorry to revive this post but it may help someone in the future because I had this same exact issue (only able to use VGA and access to composite was hard to get to on my Wii Miicro).

I found two solutions: You can get RVLoader 1.4 and run the installer and apply the older VGA patch which will let you boot into the system menu and change the time.

Or you can use this Wii time changer homebrew I created with Claude and SNTP source https://github.com/AlvaroEPena/wii-time-changer
Compiled version in releases.

wow thank you will try that in a few days on my ashida, look for this for a long time

 

[Darkside19]

tried it worked fine, is it possible to add 24hr format instead of 12hr pm and am to show it in RVLoader in 24hr format?

 

[Alvaro]

tried it worked fine, is it possible to add 24hr format instead of 12hr pm and am to show it in RVLoader in 24hr format?

Yes this is possible. You have to change the lua code of topbar.

inside topbar.lua you can see here the format using os.date at line 46. Just replace with:
local timeStr = os.date("!%H:%M")

I didn't test it but that should work. os.date is standard to lua, you can read more here:

Programming in Lua : 22.1

 

[Darkside19]

Yes this is possible. You have to change the lua code of topbar.
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inside topbar.lua you can see here the format using os.date at line 46. Just replace with:
local timeStr = os.date("!%H:%M")

I didn't test it but that should work. os.date is standard to lua, you can read more here:

Programming in Lua : 22.1

how do you open it? if i try to open topbar.lua it just show weird letters

 

[Alvaro]

how do you open it? if i try to open topbar.lua it just show weird letters

are you sure you aren’t opening one of the other files with similar names? any text editor should be sufficient to open it, even default windows note pad.

 

[Darkside19]

are you sure you aren’t opening one of the other files with similar names? any text editor should be sufficient to open it, even default windows note pad.

lol yea oopsi I changed it and it worked thank you very much!! :-)