Trying GoldenEye 007 Wii "New Server" GCT file in WFL:
- old unknown version ~4KB from mid-2020 works OK (I forgot to save it when upgrading my setup, doh)
- latest 3.1 version ~10KB from late 2022 does not work (black screen)
Using USA GoldenEye wbfs, Ocarina ON, hook type VBI.
No cheats other than the GCT file and accompanying gameinfo.txt.
(I even tried a really old WFL with default theme v5.4.6 May 16th 2020, same problem)
LOG from latest WFL
Welcome to WiiFlow WFL 5.5.4 beta 3!
This is the debug output.
Real Wii
AHBPROT disabled = yes
Found WiiFlow Save
Loading IOS Settings from wiiflow save
Using Port Settings from wiiflow save
Using SD Only Settings from wiiflow save
AHBPROT disabled after IOS Reload: yes
Now using D2X IOS249[56] v11
FAT Partition at sd: mounted.
Wiiflow boot.dol Location: sd:/apps/wiiflow
Data Directory: sd:/wiiflow
Setting Wii games partition to: 0
Wii Games Directory: %s:/wbfs
GameCube Games Directory: %s:/games
Devolution found
Nintendont found
emunand = sd:/nands/default
savesnand = sd:/nands/default
Running sound thread
Loading cIOS map
Found cIOS in slot 222
Found cIOS in slot 223
Found cIOS in slot 224
Found d2x base 38 in slot 248
Found d2x base 56 in slot 249
Found d2x base 57 in slot 250
Found d2x base 58 in slot 251
Bootup completed!
Creating Gamelist
Adding plugins list
Adding gamecube list
Adding wii list
Games found: 30
Displaying covers
Update Play log
Launching game SJBE52
Game ID SJBE52 requested IOS 56.
User selected 0
cIOS slot 249 chosen.
Cleanup Coverflow
Stopping sound thread
Stopped sound thread
MEM1_freesize(): 7385072
MEM2_freesize(): 41641472
Ocarina: Codes found.
For the life of me cant get just dance 2018 and 2019 to work ive tried setting the game ios to 250 base 57 i tried leaving it on auto i even tried cios 224 base 57 and no go im using Wiiflow 5.5.4 beta 2. The games work just fine on usb loader gx and configurable im using d2x cios v11 anyone know of a solution?
NAND Emulation = Full
Saves NAND Emulation = Off*** (This may be your issue)
If you have the same setup, it is possible you need a certain file fledge updated not long ago that fixed Back To The Future and both Sam & Max games. Ill post my WFL apps files if you are still having issues.
Had some friends over last night, and they were looking through my Wiiflow retro games collection, and struggling to find what they wanted. I realized that it would be really helpful to create a mechanism to browse by game genre. I'm already using all the different types of categories available in the GUI, and am struggling to figure out how I would go about adding genre categorization info, and then utilizing that with plugins, etc. Does anyone have any advice on how to make such a thing happen with Wiiflow?
Had some friends over last night, and they were looking through my Wiiflow retro games collection, and struggling to find what they wanted. I realized that it would be really helpful to create a mechanism to browse by game genre. I'm already using all the different types of categories available in the GUI, and am struggling to figure out how I would go about adding genre categorization info, and then utilizing that with plugins, etc. Does anyone have any advice on how to make such a thing happen with Wiiflow?
I have to admit that wiiflow is a fantastic game loader, I'm currently using the latest beta, I noticed that every now and then when loading the program through the channel, Wiiflow crashes and is it the fault of the beta? And how to add the missing covers to the homebrew and emunand applications? Wiiflow does not display them and the download does not go
Hi @fledge68.
Will it be possible from wiiflow, to enter another wiiflow (another boot.dol perhaps) with other different paths defined in wiiflow_lite.ini, in such a way as to have another plugins folder, another platform.ini, etc...?? Maybe something from the meta.xml?? I don't know... will it be possible?
Many, many thanks in advance
I have to admit that wiiflow is a fantastic game loader, I'm currently using the latest beta, I noticed that every now and then when loading the program through the channel, Wiiflow crashes and is it the fault of the beta? And how to add the missing covers to the homebrew and emunand applications? Wiiflow does not display them and the download does not go
Do I help you. Try this first:
1st Method: From Wiiflow
1) Go to the section in question
2) Press the HOME button on the remote. Then go to "settings" and on page 2, select the THEME "Default". Press B, to exit and load the theme.
3) Once there, press HOME again, and go back to Settings.
4) On the first page you will see the option "Download Covers and banners". Right there you click on "Adjust"
5) In this place you will click on "Download" and depending on how many games you have in the section it will take longer or less to complete the task.
6) At the end you will review and you will see if all the covers have been downloaded.
If any are missing, you will redo the process from step 3, but instead of clicking download, in step 5 you will do the following:
7) Where it says "Download Settings" you will click on "Adjust" and there you will see two options where you can pull to see if that is how the game cover is.
* Download Order: From there you select if priority will be given to original covers or personalized covers, or if you want to cancel any.
* Regions (Country Flags): From there you can choose which region you will search for the covers. You can choose one or several. You must try, going back to the previous screen and clicking "Download" again. Insist with the different settings options
8) After this you can return to the theme of your choice
What should I do if, despite all this, there are still missing covers to download?
If there are many, try the 2nd Method (if they are from Wii). If there are few (2 or 3 covers) the 3rd method is more appropriate. If they are not Wii skins, same thing, you will have to use the 3rd method.
-2nd Method: Using WiiBackup Manager
1) With this application, once the USB drive with the Wii games is mounted (in Unit 1, for example), you will see the COVER BUTTON, where you will click on the option "Synchronization and Download all"
2) Once the download is finished, in the application folder itself, you will see a folder called "cache" created. In there you will have a folder for each REGION ("EN" for example). And inside those folders we will see two folders that we care about. FULL (the most important) and FRONT.
3) At first, you will have to go into the "full" folder to find the .png files you need for WiiFlow.
These files will be copied to the unit where you have wiiflow in the following path:
wiiflow/boxcovers/
5) In case Wii Backup Manager does not find the full cover and only finds the front cover of the game, you must enter the "front" folder and copy the files from there into the "wiiflow/covers/" path of the drive.
4) Then on the wii, and from WiiFlow we go to the section in question.
5) Press the HOME button on the remote. Then go to "settings" and on page 2, select the THEME "Default". Then press B to exit and load the theme.
6) Press HOME again and click RELOAD CACHE, so that the covers are created.
7) After this you can return to theme according to your preference.
8) Optional Step: Once you see the covers in wiiflow, if you wish, you can delete the PNG files from the "wiiflow/boxcovers/" and "wiiflow/covers/" folders, if you want to save space on your drive. Wiiflow will not need those files again.
What should I do if, despite all this, there are still missing covers to download?
Do it using the 3rd Method
3rd Method – Download Manually
1) Find out the ID Code of each game without cover:
- Go to the section in question, click on in the game. To see the ID you can press + on the controller, or go to the game settings. In the first case you will see the ID at the bottom of the screen. On the other hand, if you have entered the game settings, you will see the ID at the top, next to the title. It will say "Settings [ID code]".
- You can take note of each code, or easier, take photos with your cell phone.
2) Download each cover manually
a) Go to the site www.gametdb.com
b) Enter the "Wii & Game Cube" section
c) Then click on "Wii Search"
d) Write the game ID code in the first field and click "Search" to search.
e) When the results come out with all the images of the game, you will look for the FULL or complete cover, by clicking on the link above the image. Where it says "HQ"
f) When you open the large image with the game art, you will right click on it and choose "Save image as..."
g) If you have more covers to download, you will repeat from step "b"
NOTE: In some cases, the cover may not be found with that particular code, but it may appear with another ID. This is because you may find the cover of another region or in another language. In that case you can still download it and rename it as a figure in your game, so it works the same way.
If you can't find any cover in any way (something very rare), you'll have to use an image application. Do something on your own, seeing what you find out there using other skins as a model and naming it according to the ID.
3) Once you have all the PNG files of the downloaded covers, you will copy them to the unit where you have wiiflow in the following path "wiiflow/boxcovers/"
4) Then on the wii, and from WiiFlow we go to the section in question.
5) Press the HOME button on the remote. Go to "settings" and on page 2, select the THEME "Default". Then press B to exit and load the theme.
6) Press HOME again and click RELOAD CACHE, so that the covers are created.
7) After this you can return to the theme of your choice:
8) Optional Step: Once you see the skins in wiiflow, if you wish, you can delete the PNG files from the "wiiflow/boxcovers/" and "wiiflow/covers/" folders on the drive. Wiiflow will not need those files again.
Hi @fledge68.
Will it be possible from wiiflow, to enter another wiiflow (another boot.dol perhaps) with other different paths defined in wiiflow_lite.ini, in such a way as to have another plugins folder, another platform.ini, etc...?? Maybe something from the meta.xml?? I don't know... will it be possible?
Many, many thanks in advance
Hi all, thanks for the great work. Wondering if it's possible to have source menu buttons for two different emunands? I would like to keep N64 and Wiiware separate, however I took a look at the plugins/source menu files and couldn't figure out how it worked. Guess I can lump them all together worst case scenario. Thanks!
Would it be possible for the private server setting to be a global setting as well, rather than just game specific, so that you can just patch all your games for Wiimmfi with one option?
Hi @fledge68.
Will it be possible from wiiflow, to enter another wiiflow (another boot.dol perhaps) with other different paths defined in wiiflow_lite.ini, in such a way as to have another plugins folder, another platform.ini, etc...?? Maybe something from the meta.xml?? I don't know... will it be possible?
Many, many thanks in advance
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Do I help you. Try this first:
1st Method: From Wiiflow
1) Go to the section in question
2) Press the HOME button on the remote. Then go to "settings" and on page 2, select the THEME "Default". Press B, to exit and load the theme.
3) Once there, press HOME again, and go back to Settings.
4) On the first page you will see the option "Download Covers and banners". Right there you click on "Adjust"
5) In this place you will click on "Download" and depending on how many games you have in the section it will take longer or less to complete the task.
6) At the end you will review and you will see if all the covers have been downloaded.
If any are missing, you will redo the process from step 3, but instead of clicking download, in step 5 you will do the following:
7) Where it says "Download Settings" you will click on "Adjust" and there you will see two options where you can pull to see if that is how the game cover is.
* Download Order: From there you select if priority will be given to original covers or personalized covers, or if you want to cancel any.
* Regions (Country Flags): From there you can choose which region you will search for the covers. You can choose one or several. You must try, going back to the previous screen and clicking "Download" again. Insist with the different settings options
8) After this you can return to the theme of your choice
What should I do if, despite all this, there are still missing covers to download?
If there are many, try the 2nd Method (if they are from Wii). If there are few (2 or 3 covers) the 3rd method is more appropriate. If they are not Wii skins, same thing, you will have to use the 3rd method.
-2nd Method: Using WiiBackup Manager
1) With this application, once the USB drive with the Wii games is mounted (in Unit 1, for example), you will see the COVER BUTTON, where you will click on the option "Synchronization and Download all"
2) Once the download is finished, in the application folder itself, you will see a folder called "cache" created. In there you will have a folder for each REGION ("EN" for example). And inside those folders we will see two folders that we care about. FULL (the most important) and FRONT.
3) At first, you will have to go into the "full" folder to find the .png files you need for WiiFlow.
These files will be copied to the unit where you have wiiflow in the following path:
wiiflow/boxcovers/
5) In case Wii Backup Manager does not find the full cover and only finds the front cover of the game, you must enter the "front" folder and copy the files from there into the "wiiflow/covers/" path of the drive.
4) Then on the wii, and from WiiFlow we go to the section in question.
5) Press the HOME button on the remote. Then go to "settings" and on page 2, select the THEME "Default". Then press B to exit and load the theme.
6) Press HOME again and click RELOAD CACHE, so that the covers are created.
7) After this you can return to theme according to your preference.
8) Optional Step: Once you see the covers in wiiflow, if you wish, you can delete the PNG files from the "wiiflow/boxcovers/" and "wiiflow/covers/" folders, if you want to save space on your drive. Wiiflow will not need those files again.
What should I do if, despite all this, there are still missing covers to download?
Do it using the 3rd Method
3rd Method – Download Manually
1) Find out the ID Code of each game without cover:
- Go to the section in question, click on in the game. To see the ID you can press + on the controller, or go to the game settings. In the first case you will see the ID at the bottom of the screen. On the other hand, if you have entered the game settings, you will see the ID at the top, next to the title. It will say "Settings [ID code]".
- You can take note of each code, or easier, take photos with your cell phone.
2) Download each cover manually
a) Go to the site www.gametdb.com
b) Enter the "Wii & Game Cube" section
c) Then click on "Wii Search"
d) Write the game ID code in the first field and click "Search" to search.
e) When the results come out with all the images of the game, you will look for the FULL or complete cover, by clicking on the link above the image. Where it says "HQ"
f) When you open the large image with the game art, you will right click on it and choose "Save image as..."
g) If you have more covers to download, you will repeat from step "b"
NOTE: In some cases, the cover may not be found with that particular code, but it may appear with another ID. This is because you may find the cover of another region or in another language. In that case you can still download it and rename it as a figure in your game, so it works the same way.
If you can't find any cover in any way (something very rare), you'll have to use an image application. Do something on your own, seeing what you find out there using other skins as a model and naming it according to the ID.
3) Once you have all the PNG files of the downloaded covers, you will copy them to the unit where you have wiiflow in the following path "wiiflow/boxcovers/"
4) Then on the wii, and from WiiFlow we go to the section in question.
5) Press the HOME button on the remote. Go to "settings" and on page 2, select the THEME "Default". Then press B to exit and load the theme.
6) Press HOME again and click RELOAD CACHE, so that the covers are created.
7) After this you can return to the theme of your choice:
8) Optional Step: Once you see the skins in wiiflow, if you wish, you can delete the PNG files from the "wiiflow/boxcovers/" and "wiiflow/covers/" folders on the drive. Wiiflow will not need those files again.
When I open the home menu in a game a press reset I end up on the Wii menu instead of the game just being reset. Is there a way to fix this?
Also, when I play Super Paper Mario it doesn't appear on that letter the Wii sends you with your playtime, but other games I load do.
Last official version (5.5.3), crash on download covers for Wii games on WiiU vWii. I have to revert to 5.4.8.
Does I need Game ID in the name of the game i.e "Red Steel 2 [XXXX].wbfs" ?
I tried wiiflow 5.5.4 beta and it works good except loading emunand games from sd card it gives me exception DSI and loading emunand games from usb gives me like half of the white loading bar then blackscreen same issue with v5.5.3. So i reverted to v5.5.3 because emunand works from sd on v5.5.3.
Last official version (5.5.3), crash on download covers for Wii games on WiiU vWii. I have to revert to 5.4.8.
Does I need Game ID in the name of the game i.e "Red Steel 2 [XXXX].wbfs" ?
I tried wiiflow 5.5.4 beta and it works good except loading emunand games from sd card it gives me exception DSI and loading emunand games from usb gives me like half of the white loading bar then blackscreen same issue with v5.5.3. So i reverted to v5.5.3 because emunand works from sd on v5.5.3.
I think it might be the 1TB hdd im using i was using a 750GB hdd with 5.5.4 beta 2 and it worked fine using emunand from usb maybe the 1TB is not compatable with emunand everything else works with it.
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