Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[XFlak]

FYI, best renaming app I've found is "renamer" found here:
http://www.den4b.com/?x=downloads

 

[VashTS]

I just tried to exit a game, the yellow highlighted button was OK but when i hit "a" it selects cancel. In the preceding menu the yellow highlighted button does what its suppose to. Is this possibly a bug?
I see covers have to be "game name.ext.png" that is a little over kill to me.

 

[mastershoes]

FYI, best renaming app I've found is "renamer" found here:
http://www.den4b.com/?x=downloads

Thanks, will check this one out!

 

[FIX94]

I just finally finished at least the nes emu with manual save and load support, test it please:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3szi6ojlw72375r
It's 400kb smaller than the file before, english only and the strange open/close menu sounds are removed

 

[VashTS]

i keep getting duplicate SNES listings. i even deleted the cache folder and it had only 1 per rom in there, but then after exiting a game, the dupes were back.

 

[secamfr]

I just finally finished at least the nes emu with manual save and load support, test it please:
http://www.mediafire...3szi6ojlw72375r
It's 400kb smaller than the file before, english only and the strange open/close menu sounds are removed

Don't work for me, the Wii restart to the Wii menu (first version run great but no save).

 

[FIX94]

Hm, I'll look into it, just finished to do the same with the snes and gba emu:
http://www.mediafire...lc7814lo9bfu6o4
The cache problem should be gone too now in the included boot.dol.

edit:
Found the problem with restarting, here is a fixed pack of all emus and wiiflow:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4id1eru91kmm35w
Just make sure you delete the emulator settings file before.

 

[fledge68]

replace XXXXXX with the name of the new button - which we don't know yet cause the source hasn't been released - only Fix94 knows. So you'll just have to use default.ini for now.

It's "EMU_BTN", not very good name but explains what it is

Thanks Fix - BTN in correct position now
still need a way to adjust the homebrew/Emu coverflow mode, can this be done by editing the ini too?

Abdallahterro - yesterday at work I realized you could just backup your carboniki.ini and then start WiiFlow and go to 'Adjust Coverflow' and click 'Save'. It will rewrite carbonik.ini adding all the names of labels and buttons including the new ones. You could do this for all the themes and just look for 'MAIN/EMU_BTN' and change the 'x=' and 'y=' to the same values as the hombrew, channel, usb, and dml buttons. The graphics won't match b/c it will use WiiFlows default graphics but at least it will be in the correct postion and work.

As for COVERFLOW just look under '_COVERFLOW' to see how it's set up. I have a feeling 'COVERFLOW' hasn't changed but inside the WiiFlow source code it detects what you are viewing and uses a different box mesh (Size) for homebrew view and emu view. But I'm just logically guessing.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

replace XXXXXX with the name of the new button - which we don't know yet cause the source hasn't been released - only Fix94 knows. So you'll just have to use default.ini for now.

It's "EMU_BTN", not very good name but explains what it is

Thanks Fix - BTN in correct position now
still need a way to adjust the homebrew/Emu coverflow mode, can this be done by editing the ini too?

Abdallahterro - yesterday at work I realized you could just backup your carboniki.ini and then start WiiFlow and go to 'Adjust Coverflow' and click 'Save'. It will rewrite carbonik.ini adding all the names of labels and buttons including the new ones. You could do this for all the themes and just look for 'MAIN/EMU_BTN' and change the 'x=' and 'y=' to the same values as the hombrew, channel, usb, and dml buttons. The graphics won't match b/c it will use WiiFlows default graphics but at least it will be in the correct postion and work.

As for COVERFLOW just look under '_COVERFLOW' to see how it's set up. I have a feeling 'COVERFLOW' hasn't changed but inside the WiiFlow source code it detects what you are viewing and uses a different box mesh (Size) for homebrew view and emu view. But I'm just logically guessing.

Thanks, It worked
I guess Fix should tell us how to adjust the coverflow in homebrew and Emu modes since it's not in the ini yet.
I also need something like Wii Backup Manager to batch rename all my roms. Does anyone know if such a tools exists?
Is there a Roms title database? Renaming thousands of rom files manually is out of the question.

 

[FIX94]

Just uploaded r239 to the svn!
Changes from r230 are that the wiiflow default click sounds are fixed now, they sound correct again, they are also smaller, if you have DML view set to USB, you will now see if the game is already copied to sd card, behind the game title will be "(on SD)" now, you'll need to reload cache for that. Fixed the bug that if you try to launch a DML game from usb and its not on sd, and the sd havent got enough space, that it tried to boot the game anyway which resulted in a blackscreen. Also fixed a wrong displayed message when copying from usb to sd. The libpng is now reverted back to the older rev, that fixes codedumps and problems with covers dont load properly. The cache of the DML view will now also reload if copying a game from usb to sd. Wiiflow now also tries to find new installed games better, that takes a bit time and may freezes wiiflow, option is "extended_list_check" (enabled by default). The long loading time after installing a wii game should be gone too now. Launching big homebrew files, over 5mb should finally work, the limit now is 32mb, not tested that big files, just in theory
This rev is also on the normal wiiflow svn as r428
Update via internal wiiflow update or google code as always. The emulator stuff will come in the next release.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Hey Fix, since you're still working on the Emulator mode, can you make custom path in wiiflow.ini for nes, snes, gb, gbc and gba roms along with a custom filter for emulator mode so that one can see only one emulator at a time if needed?
Thanks for the update

 

[FIX94]

The folder for roms etc wont be changeable, thats what I can say for sure already, sorry... A filter will maybe come, my plans for now are to make it like only if the emulator dol is found to display the games then.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Alright, no problem but at least make separate folder for GB, GBC and GBA roms. The others have their own folders already.
I know this info will be available later but just for more testing, what's the default rom path, cover path and cover name format for all emus right now?

 

[FIX94]

fledge if you please would commit the png too? otherwise I cant make it ready to use

Path for nes is fceugx/roms, for snes snes9xgx/roms and for gb etc its vbagx/roms. Covers are still wiiflow/covers and the name need to be the same than the rom file.

 

[bostonBC]

Fix - I'm getting these errors on compiling r240:

menu.o: In function `CMenu::_buildMenus()':
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:942: undefined reference to `checkbox_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:942: undefined reference to `checkbox_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:944: undefined reference to `checkbox_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:944: undefined reference to `checkbox_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:946: undefined reference to `checkboxs_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:946: undefined reference to `checkboxs_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:948: undefined reference to `checkboxs_png'
c:/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu.cpp:948: undefined reference to `checkboxs_png'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/c/Users/Bob/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/boot.elf] Error 1
"make": *** [build] Error 2

 

[AbdallahTerro]

What's the maximum number of roms that we can use in Emu mode, I added 2000 files thought it froze but after 15 secs after clicking the button it worked
I find a temporary workaround by renaming all nes roms to NES_(Rom Name), GB to (GB_(Rom Name) etc...
now things are more organized and using B+UP or down takes me from one emu to the next.
I'll free SD space to download covers now
Great job

Edit: Running GBA zipped files takes me to SM!
Edit2: same with Snes smc files!

 

[FIX94]

@[member='bostonBC'], yep thats because fledge forgot to add the needed pngs.
BTW I uploaded a rev with emu support to my svn finally, see here. From now on it only displays the games you want if the dol file is found in wiiflow/plugins (you may need to create this folder by yourself). Sources for fceugx, snes9xgx and vbagx will follow in the next minutes

 

[panmusic]

I am a little confused.
I know where to put Wiiflow's dol but what about the emu's dols?
Should I put them in the coresponding emulators folders in the apps replacing the old ones or just leave them inside the apps/Wiiflow folder?

 

[FIX94]

They go into device:/wiiflow/plugins, btw here are the emulator sources:
http://www.mediafire.../?f9cjgdh6rty0l

 

[AbdallahTerro]

I'm getting this while compiling rev241

Spoiler

menu_game.o: In function `CMenu::_gameSoundThread(CMenu*)':
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1391: undefined reference to `nes_ogg_size'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1391: undefined reference to `nes_ogg'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1391: undefined reference to `nes_ogg_size'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1391: undefined reference to `nes_ogg'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1397: undefined reference to `snes_ogg'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1397: undefined reference to `snes_ogg_size'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1397: undefined reference to `snes_ogg'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1397: undefined reference to `snes_ogg_size'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1403: undefined reference to `gba_ogg'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1403: undefined reference to `gba_ogg_size'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1403: undefined reference to `gba_ogg'
c:/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/source/menu/menu_game.cpp:1403: undefined reference to `gba_ogg_size'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/c/Downloads/open-wiiflow-mod-read-only/boot.elf] Error 1
"make": *** [build] Error 2

> Process Exit Code: 2
> Time Taken: 01:18