Wii Sports Resort - Storm Island

Wii Sports Resort: Storm Island
Wii Sports Resort: Storm Island
General
Author	The Storm Island Team
Type	Game Hacks
Version	9.0
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2021/09/21
Links
	Download
	Website

Wii Sports Resort: Storm Island is a full in-depth modpack created by The Storm Island Team. This is a modpack that modifies and adds new features to Wii Sports Resort.

There are many, many features in this modpack, but the highlight features of this modpack are listed below.

Note: Always enable the "Storm Island" option and "Home Button Hotline Bling", they are required for this modpack to work properly.

Features

Cycling No Heart Loss - This mode allows you to pedal through courses without losing any hearts.
Bowling Speed Hack - When you throw the ball, it will move across the lane at high speeds. (If you throw the ball backwards, it will give you a practice shot.)
Sentient Golf Ball - Whenever you hit the ball, it will have a random path. It makes for quite an amusing playthrough.
Texture Randomizer - Every time you move around the map, the textures around you will change.
Masters Ping Pong - A new challenge for Table Tennis. Every time that you hit the ball, it bounces higher and higher. (You will have to hit the ball softly while serving).
No Flyover Timer - This disables the timer in Island Flyover.
Wii Play Ping Pong - Every time you hit the ball in Table Tennis, it gets faster and faster.
Dunk Only Basketball - Exactly what it sounds like. (A 3 point dunk is possible, you just have to time it correctly).
510 MPH Winds - A new challenge for Golf.
Masters Showdown - Bored of regular showdown? This feature will add an amusing result to the defeat of an enemy.
True Texture Randomizer - The textures in the game will be randomized whenever you press the B button.
Negative Wind - You can alternate between regular wind and negative wind in golf by pressing the minus button.
Tsunami on Command - In Power Cruising and Canoeing, pressing the B button will trigger a massive wave. (You have 14 seconds to press B again after activating the Tsunami before the game crashes).
Cycling Tornado - When cycling, pressing the B button with this feature will send you flying into the air. If done right, you can skip over half the course.
Colored Text - Colored Text. Truly Revolutionary.
Debug Menu - This feature enables the hidden Debug Menu within the game (shown in the last image). It works for Power Cruising, Island Flyover, and Wakeboarding.
- This will only work if you disable everything except for the "Storm Island" feature and "Home Button Hotline Bling".

Installation

Note: This will not work on PAL Wii U console (NTSC - America; PAL - Europe).

Riivolution patch

Installing the patch:

Download the 7z mod file and unzip it.
You should see 3 folders. they should be named "apps", "riivolution", and "WSR".
Move all 3 of these folders to the root of your SD Card.

Loading the game:

Go to the Wii Menu.
Put your SD Card into your Wii.
You should see The Homebrew Channel. Launch it.
When it loads you should see an app named "riivolution" Launch it.
Insert your Wii Sports Resort Disc, Then wait about 20 seconds for Riivolution to load.
Then at the right side of the screen you should see an option that says "Install". Select it then exit the app.
You should see the riivolution channel installed on your Wii menu. Launch it.
You are now ready to play Wii Sports Resort: Storm Island.

Troubleshooting

You get sent to the Wii Menu after select "Launch" from Riivolution:

This happens because Storm Island does not load the Wii Motion Plus Menu.
If you don't have savedata (It only detects if you have watched the videos or not) then this problem will occur.
All you have to do to fix this is playing the game from the disc channel and then play through the opening skydiving intro, which creates savedata after you finished.

Archery Crashes/Freezes the game:

Turn off The Custom Swordplay Showdown levels and the "Lightsabers" Option from the Bonus Content option.
They seem to conflict with archery somehow.

User guide

Home Button Hotline Bling

This is a feature that powers a large majority of the features in this modpack.
Always enable it. Set it to "HotlineBling".

Golf

Play on the golf courses from Wii Sports Club. This feature took over 3 months to port every course and get them working in game.

Jesus Mode - This allows you to go into areas that are normally out of bounds. (ie: The river of Classic Hole 6).
Reverse OOB - With this mode, you will only be able to golf in the out of bounds areas. You will have to try the best you can to make it to the green.
Out of this World - A new set of background elements for every course. This feature alone took almost 2 weeks to make.
Give Up Faster - This could be used to quickly speed through a game.
Blind Golf - The further you get to hole 18, the harder the courses are to complete.
One Shot Golf - This makes golf a lot more challenging, you will have to swing as hard as you can, because the ball will not bounce once it touches the ground.
N64 - Somehow, the tree animation in this mode looks a bit more realistic than the actual one used in the game.
Wii Sports Club - This is probably the most anticipated feature of this entire modpack. This was created with fellow modder, boz.

The following features will not work unless Enhancements and The Swordplay Showdown Randomizer are disabled:

Quest Of Clubs - The more you hit the ball, the less clubs you are able to use.
Gliderball - After hitting the ball, pressing minus allows the ball to move forward without losing it's initial momentum. If done correctly, you can get a hole in one on hole 18.
Tannenbaum's Quest - Pressing minus after hitting the ball and deactivating it a second later will cause it to move to a random location, depending on how quickly you use it, it can help you progress further across the course.

Bonus content

ImpossiPong - In this mode, Cole becomes a very skilled player, even better than Lucia! You have to play it yourself to get the full experience.
Enhanced Basketball - This extends the maximum shooting range all the way up to the half court line (Try this with Dunk Only Mode).

Skydiving+Basketball+PNG

This feature adds a background theme to Skydiving, Basketball, and Table Tennis.

Unused stages

Unused Archery Stages:

This feature allows you to play on the unused archery stages left in the game.
(Not all of them work due to their impossible locations placed back when the beta island was being used for the game.)
This feature can be loaded with the "Things To Do In Storm Island" feature.

Unused Cycling Stages:

This feature loads the 2 unused cycling stages left in the game. (Stage 1 can't be completed unless you use Cycling Tornado Mode).
This feature can be loaded with the "Things To Do In Storm Island" feature.

Swordplay showdown

Custom Stages:

The "Things To Do In Storm Island" feature has 8 custom showdown level packs.
3 of them take place on different maps (for more info on that, read the section under this).
The 5th level pack (Swordplay Showdown Ultimate) has every single CPU set to the highest possible difficulty, even harder than Matt.

Island Maps:

The latest update brings 3 new maps to Swordplay Showdown. They can be chosen with the "Things To Do In Storm Island" feature. The maps are the following:
- The Mysterious Upside Down Pyramid (WiiPlayPyramid) - A map from the author's upcoming project "Matt: A Wii Sports Story". It is the full location and environment of the Fishing Game from Wii Play.
- Lake Moderato - Another map from my upcoming project, It's a valley with a golden lake in the center.
- Paper Platform - It was created to test bump maps. This pack is actually slightly more difficult than "Swordplay Showdown Ultimate" because of a quicker attack time for certain enemies.
These maps were designed only for Swordplay Showdown. They will not work correctly if played in any other game.

Randomizer:

Tired of the same exact sequence of enemies and difficulty in Swordplay Showdown? Then this is a perfect feature to use.
Every time you restart the game, the enemy armor type, heart amount, and difficulty gets randomized. Making every level different. This feature has 3 different settings, make sure to try them out.
This feature will only work if you:
- Disable "Enhancement" and any of the indicated Golf options.
- Enable the "Storm Island" option and "Home Button Hotline Bling".

Screenshots

Media

Wii Sports Resort : Storm Island 1.0 Release (JimmyKazakhstan)

Known issues

Golf related:

To put it simply, the game only allocates a certain amount of memory for golf, a few of the courses come extremely close to exceeding that amount. So we were not able to port over every single tree that exists in the WSC version of the courses
"Heavy Rough" or any collision type similar to it does not exist in Wii Sports Resort, so it was changed to a regular rough.
Due to how the intro cameras work, we were not able to recreate the original course intros from Wii Sports Club.
The team tried literally everything to fix the lag on Hole 7, sadly nothing can be done without breaking the collision.
The map display dimensions are hardcoded, so the position of hole 8's map couldn't be changed.

Changelog

V9.0

Misc:
- BG music - this will add a background theme to basketball, skydiving, and ping pong.
- Posteffect updates - a few updates to the posteffect enviorment files.
Enhancements:
- Debug menu - this will enable the debug menu in the game. It works for power crusing, island flyover, and wakeboarding.
- This will only work if you enable the storm island feature, the home button hotline bling feature and disable everything else.
Golf (Wii Sports Club):
- This is probably the most (and only) highly anticipated feature! I worked on this with fellow modder boz. This mode allows you to play on the golf courses from wii sports club!
Swordplay Showdown (swordplay showdown randomizer):
- In order for this feature to not be yet another long period of time I've spent making something that was completely forgotten about, (like in f3 2021) I've decided to include it in this modpack.
- This feature randomizes the levels in swordplay showdown. Each time you pause the game and hit "Restart" the game will randomize the cpu difficulty level and armor type.
- There are 3 different settings for this feature. Each one changes a certain aspect of the game.
The Mysterious Upside Down Pyramid:
- (This was specifically for use in swordplay showdown only. This will not work properly in any of the other games.)
- This feaure allows you to play swordplay showdown on the "Extended map" of the wii play fishing lake. Ever wondered what was behind the lake in wii play fishing? No....? Well I made a map that gives an answer to that question anyway! If the "Demo video" I'm making preforms well on the channel, I'll be including this map in matt: a wii sports story.
- You can enable this by selecting the "Wiiplaypyramid" option within the "Things to do in storm island" feature.
  - This will not work correctly unless you enable the storm island option and the "Home button hotline bling" option.
  - The showdown randomizer is also a good feature to enable along with this.
Lake Moderato:
- (This was specifically for use in swordplay showdown only. This will not work properly in any of the other games.)
- This feaure allows you to play swordplay showdown on a map from the upcoming 3rd installment of my "Wonderful world within wii sports" series.
- You can enable this by selecting the "Lake moderato" option within the "Things to do in storm island" feature.
  - This will not work correctly unless you enable the storm island option and the "Home button hotline bling" option.
  - The showdown randomizer is also a good feature to enable along with this.
Play Against Your Own Miis:
- This feature was supposed to replace the cpu mii characters with your own. However, it doesn't work due to the miis having a checksum at the end of their data. I can't manage to calculate it with code. It's a shame since the rest of the code worked perfectly.
- If by nearly impossible means, this generates some sort of interest, I might be able to add it in later on, but don't count on it.

Credits

Special thanks to:

Nicroveda.
PointCrow.
Eckleo.
Alaskaxp2.
Tanman.
Minigeek2000.

External links

Official website - https://jimkatz.github.io/WiiSportsResortStormIsland.html
Gamebanana - https://gamebanana.com/mods/322739