Hacking HomebrewFilter (vWii)

zektor

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Old thread I know, but I just tested rev44 on the vWii (Wii U 5.51 firmware) after running into some oddball issues with HBC 1.1.2 (black screens when returning from homebrew randomly) and I must say this is one heck of a replacement! Works like a dream, no black screens...just awesome. I did run into an issue in which for some odd reason Mednafen cannot mount the SD card when launched from HBF but everything else works fine. Really liking this. Thanks!
 
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rev45 now available. It's been 2 years and 7 months since rev44.

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//rev45:
- built against libruntimeiospatch 1.5.2
- fixed loading newly downloaded HomebrewFilter from online update of standalone builds
- always return 0 (not found) for bootmii on vWii
- add IOS5 rev 65280 to list of stub IOS
- fix Settings Editor GUI path for SD Gecko in GC MC Slot A
- fix 'Exit to Wii U menu' not visible in vWii builds
- hide 'SD Gecko' setting in vWii builds
- various Makefile improvements
- other minor or internal changes
 
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rev47 is now available. rev46 has not been announced here, so here's the ChangeLog for both:

Code:
//rev47:
- build against libruntimeiospatch 1.5.3
- rename "SD Gecko" to "SD Card Debug Log" in Settings
- rename "Wifi Gecko" to "Wifi Debug Log" in Settings
- only scan list of available IOS once per session
- disable 'SD Card Gecko' by default (debug log on SD Card),
  because it's causing a MASSIVE slow down when opening an
  app's details dialog the first time in a session, when
  using a shitty class 2 or whatever SD Card
- fixed that newly build vWii forwarder accidently was the
  same than the Wii forwarder
- fixup BootMii (IOS) detection on Wii
- fixup showing device icon for apps
- add ISO0 (any version) to list of known stub IOS
  (it's a custom IOS installed by several old apps)
- update german translation

//rev46:
- fix size and layout of device prompt in vWii builds
- remove 'All' button from device prompt in vWii builds
- re-enable 'SD Gecko' setting in vWii builds
- support for Wii U Pro Controller trough FIX94's libwupc
- support for Wii U Pro Controller in the installer
- treat Y button on Game Cube Controller, Classic Controller
  and Wii U Pro Controller like 1 button on the Wii Remote
- treat X button on Game Cube Controller, Classic Controller
  and Wii U Pro Controller like 2 button on the Wii Remote
- press Z on Game Cube Controller or L Classic Controller or
  Wii U Pro Controller to open Settings menu
- press R on Classic Controller or Wii U Pro Controller to
  open External Applications menu (no unused button left for
  Game Cube Controller)
- press ZL on the Classic Controller or Wii U Pro Controller to
  open the device selection prompt (no unused button left for
  Game Cube Controller)
- press ZR on the Classic Controller or Wii U Pro Controller to
  open the system selection prompt (no unused button left for
  Game Cube Controller) [only on Wii]
- previously only the first controller was honoured, now all
  four are being connected, though only the first one of each
  kind (Wii Remote, Game Cube Controller or Wii U Pro Controller)
  can be used, each additional non-unique controller is ignored
- in partition mounter replace debug_printf with xprintf
- disable several DVD and Memory Card related functions in vWii
- don't initialize DVD drive on start in vWii builds
- allow 'SD Gecko' and 'Wifi Gecko' in parallel
- update german translation

Things left to do (no ETA):
- fix png issue #1 (HBF crash when doing to much stuff, excessively scroll through stuff at some point the images will disappear and a bit later it will crash)
- fix png issue #2 (not all images are properly displayed)
- fix wiiload issue on vWii (it's crashing way more often on vWii than on Wii)
- unify builds for Wii and vWii (IsWiiU() instead of -DVWII)
- need unified Forwarder for Wii / vWii
- need updated installer that embeds both Wii / vWii Full Channel Wad
- UStealth? I don't know.

Download-Links in first post.
 
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Tell me what im doing wrong.
1. place HomebrewFilter.vWii.Standalone to SD:/apps/ folder
2. install HBF0.vWii.wad with WAD manager
3. run HomebrewFilter from Wii menu
4. black screen :( and no response

but if run from homebrew channel everything works fine

UPD

Installer works fine but forwarder seems broken
 
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