USBLoaderGX changelog

General
Fix HDD detection issue
Fix Network freeze after random delay since r1254 (need a re-init network) Reverted to r1252 without SSL support.

Neek2o
- Add Neek2o support for Channels
- Add Neek2o support for Wii game discs (dropped for now)
- Add Neek/2o support for DM/L(dropped for now)
- Add Cheatcode support for Neek2o
- Rework EmuNAND menus and options. --> maybe will be done after 3.1

Gamecube
- Complete user's menu for gamecube features (copy to SD, copy to USB, delete games, etc.)
- add SSL download support for nintendont update

Release 3.1

Overall menu update
- use full widescreen width for all settings
- Reorganize settings by categories (Wii, Gamecube/dm/devo/nin, Channels/real/emu, etc.)
- Use tab system

Plugin system
- Adds plugins support
- adds new menus settings per plugins
- adds plugins list in the Game origin prompt (4th menu icon)
- changed Game origin prompt to scrollable list


Release 4.0 Final


User Guide
continue the USBLoaderGX User Manual located on Wiki (to be moved on proper webpage when moving to Sourceforge)
- detail all options/menu/settings
- adds hidden feature/possibilities by combining existing settings

Classed by importance/to do before release.

Important - Do before release v3.1
- If there's only gamecube games (and only one?), sometime it disappear from the channel layout. it also happens when clicking on the Search button. The banner preview disappear but the game can still be selected and big banner animation is zoomed.
- Deleting a Gamecune game (FST only?) only deletes the ISO, not the empty folder. The game is still listed after deletion.
- Copying a gamecube game from USB to SD triggers wiinertag, even if the game is not launched.
- dumping GC to SD still try to mount USB. https://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-954#post-5302593
- Dual port support issue when creating a folder on USB port1 it creates it on USB Port0 : https://gbatemp.net/conversations/usb-loader-gx-vwii-usb-port-question.263984/
- Existing Ocarina codes from geckocodes don't work with cIOS redirected EmuNAND Channels. Ocarina itself works fine, but codes need to be re-created to match new memory addresses. Find how to translate addresses or fix channel loading to work with existing codes.
- Title list issue (game count?) when displaying Gamecube only. reproduce : List Gamecube from SD, List only gamecube from 4th icon, List only one title (adds fav or category or only one ISO on SD). Trigger it this way : 1) Go to banner layout, click on the game and cancel the banner disapear. 2) any layout, click on Search icon and there's no suggested letters or Titles, no game are found.
- Loaders freeze when launching a game if HDD free space is not displayed yet (if enabled in GUI). reported by OriginalHamster. --> Add a timer or check free size before launching a game
- EmuNAND doesn't load animated banners (remove banner cache to test!) if path is in 2 subfolders (usb:/nands/nand1/) https://gbatemp.net/threads/vwii-neek2o-issues.397072/#post-5664515 (probably same issue with hyphen in name)
- Launching homebrew which require HDD access can't detect HDD. https://gbatemp.net/threads/snes9xg...unched-via-usb-loader-gx.438179/#post-6606601

Less important - Do before release v4.0
- When the Theme downloader freezes, There's no way to cancel, pulling the cord is required. ---> Adds a time out for downloads and/or progress bar GUI value stuck detection.
- WiiMC launched from Forwarder channel doesn't grant USB access to WiiMC. (probably because it reloads cIOS before launching a channel) --> allow requested IOS to be loaded instead. make it an option.
- Fix (or warn user when enabling/setting path) when using dual port support with some active user's path set to USB : Media player, settings set on USB, etc. (possible HDDcorruption !!!! freeze when playing a background music physically present on the unloaded port)
- Channels : Aspect ratio not working
- Channels EmuNAND : Ocarina not working, Aspect ratio not working (probably other patches too)
- Wii wbfs games are not launching if the file is write protected (only on FAT32?). Thanks to LibFAT1.0.13 we can now edit the file attribute

No importance defined for that bug. Fix it anytime
- Setting a different game's origin (Wii/GC/NAND/EMU) doesn't save it to GXGlobal.cfg right away, if application crashes, it's set back on load.
- Moving Wiitdb.xml path in the settings doesn't move the existing .xml file. Done by Greywolf in r1244
- Wiitdb titles not always successfully loaded at loader's launch, games appear with default ISO/folder name. Maybe it requires a delay before calling gamebrowse to fully read the xml? temp solution: force a refresh title when OFF+ON the wiitdb in features menu?
- Theme downloader (or any zip to be extracted) : Accentuated letters inside zip are crashing the loader.
- Overscan value doesn't affect the cursor ratio
- Smash Bros doesn't dump correctly (all DVD9 games? maybe user didn't set the partition dump info correctly) not a bug, user's fault. --> todo: set default dump mode to remove update instead of game partition only.
- Channels on NAND don't have correct parental control value (parental settings set to default for Titles loaded from NAND before loading Wiitdb)
- Deleting a game doesn't affect free space without restart
- export gamelist (cvs) not in utf8?
- channel sound not loading if nand emu path has a subfolder (sd:/nands/nand1/) or a non letter character? (SD:/nands-1/)
- Some japanese games banner doesn't display japanese characters http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-875#post-4845743
- Third party CCPro crashes. search forum for fix. look on Nintendont svn, thanks to AbdallahTerro for the fix.
- gameconfig.txt not loading if there's not at least one cheatcode enabled Done
- custom Background music still played when entering Credit page
- EmuNAND doesn't work with 4k drives. report
- progress bar to starts at 100% (0/0) instead of 0% (0/100) (issue 2185)
- Gamecube GameID read from folder name is wrong when using ID6_Title, if the first 6 letters are not a GameID. Example : Luigis_mansion, Donkey_kong. Add a check for proper GameID (all caps?)
- /wbfs/ path is hard coded in usbloaders/wbfs/wbfs_fat.c instead of using the user's defined path for wii games. 100% of users are using /wbfs/ so it's not a real issue, but just in case someone want to change the path it will cause issues. could affect wii wbfs on SD on future features.


Forwarder
- vWii : the forwarder (old 2.0 and 5.1fix) are affecting the video output. a screen tearing effects appear until vWii mode is exited. Report
- HDD not reinit when exiting a game using the forwarder : https://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-957#post-5318101

Classed by addition impact/difficulty to add

Major request (features addition, new menus)
- Adds plugin system
- Adds homebrew display in main game list / origin prompt (4th menu icon)
- Adds tab system and per-tab settings : new option on master setting : always boot "last tab, xxx tab". check booted profile for lock state
- Adds a full cheat editor (adds/edit code value, see comments, etc.)
- Adds Wii game disc (wbfs/iso) support from SD card : (attention, if SD card is WBFS partition format instead of FAT32 : cIOS r18+ or Hermes v5+ required)
- Adds external DVD reader support: patch files here : http://code.google.com/p/usbloader-gui/issues/detail?id=2287#c9
- Revamp overall warning messages to explain better what's the issue : instead of "you need FAT32 primary" --> "Your partition is currently set as Extended, you need to set it to primary" "you curent partition is not located at the beginning of your partition table" etc.
- Batch for Wad install Done in r1260
- adds neek2o
- Add uStealth menu to switch the drive state directly in the loader.
- Adds a game cache option (not game title's cache which already exists) to fasten loading time for users with many games/GC/emuNAND/etc. by preventing scanning HDD every time, and add a "refresh Title list" option.

Minor request (fixes, edit in existing menus)
- Adds missing Wbfs path supported by WiiBackupManager (default path in WBM not working!) /wbfs/xxxx/GameID.wbfs
- Adds an option to display only boot.dol (and boot.elf?) instead of all .dols in homebrew browser
- Adds a visual sign to differentiate SD or USB for title's location (different cursor color, different highlight color, text placed somewhere etc.)
- Adds free size on SD card on Gamecune delete window. (and on USB if doing a SD to USB prompt)
- Add an option to group gamelist by sources/categories/combination of both
- Adds dPad up/down support in settings menu (in float menu)
- Wall layout : Add the patch for flat 4 rows (see issues on googlecode)
- Adds an option for "dump this channel to EmuNAND"
- Adds better user's prompt when dumping to EmuNAND -> EmuNAND save or EmuNAND channel ? (change the name, better overall rewrite of all emuNAND features)
- Adds a "press B + wiimote move to scroll" on Wall/caroussel layout
- Big revamp of the settings menu using big icons (Wii, Gamecube, Channels, plugins, etc.)
- Make all the settings bigger to fit widescreen TV
- Adds Autoboot last played game if A is pressed at launch (check first that the game is not part of locked/parental control/different tabs, etc.)
- Adds a remember last played game setting per tabs (when tabs added)
- Rename wiinertag filename to Gamertag
- Adds a gamertag edition setting in the loader with pre-configured Wiinertag and DUtag.
- Restore title.txt support. Request by DEFIANT http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-870#post-4813282
- instead of the text "use global", display which setting is used by "global". for example "*PAL 480p*" or put the setting in bold. Request by Naxil http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-870#post-4813317
- Adds a IOS selector : Display list of cIOS/Slot/Base installed on the console and let the user pick one, instead of entering slot number manually. Request : Naxil http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-870#post-4813317
- Adds a Refresh/rebuild cache for banners/titles. http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx-not-recognizing-newly-added-titles.357775/#post-4830161
- Adds an auto refresh cache for banners animation deletion/download
- Don't filter game title's articles (the, a, an, der, super, le, la, les, etc.) http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-872#post-4830629
- Adds an automatic deactivation of "Return to" for Prince of persia if not using d2x v6+
- Adds an automatic deactivation of all patches if not using gameconfig for Kirby return to dream land
- Adds a prompt to download Kenobii wii/gc files if not present
- Adds redump.org md5 support when dumping GC discs
- Prevent MIOS selection/launch on WiiU
- Add a choice to list homebrew from SD and/or USB, and to load only 1 Boot.dol or all dol/elf found in the folders.
- Separate EmuNAND save setting in two (Wii games and Channels). Put channels settings together (like Gamecube section)
- Add option for realNAND channels to use their requested IOS instead of using cIOS
- Add WiiU widescreen as a setting (global and per game)
- Add a prompt when launching game if gameconfig.txt if found. Requested here
- rename/rework WiiU Widescreen setting : display 4:3 and 16:9 as option instead of ON/OFF.

- Adds more noob error prevention :
-- warn user is using cIOS < rev18 for ... (I forgot what rev18 added)(added WBFS support on SD among other things)
-- disable "return to" with d2x < 6 for Prince of persia.
-- warn user if launching game on HDD sector sizes > 512B with FAT32/NTFS (Requires d2x v6+)
-- warn user if using dual port support with user's path set to USB = possible HDDcorruption, media player bug, etc.



Classed by roadmap


Before 3.1
- adds neek2o
- Adds missing Wbfs path supported by WiiBackupManager (default path in WBM not working!) /wbfs/xxxx/GameID.wbfs
- Adds free size on SD card on Gamecune delete window. (and on USB if doing a SD to USB prompt)
- Adds an option for "dump this channel to EmuNAND"
- Adds better user's prompt when dumping to EmuNAND -> EmuNAND save or EmuNAND channel ? (change the name, better overall rewrite of all emuNAND features)
- Adds a prompt to download Kenobii wii/gc files if not present
- Prevent MIOS selection/launch on WiiU
- Add a choice to list homebrew from SD and/or USB, and to load only 1 Boot.dol or all dol/elf found in the folders.
- Add option for realNAND channels to use their requested IOS instead of using cIOS
- Work on Gameconfig.txt (see for adding a prompt when launching game - Add a prompt when launching game if gameconfig.txt if found. Requested here)

To do after 3.1, before 4.0
- Big revamp of the settings menu using big icons (Wii, Gamecube, Channels, plugins, etc.)
- Make all the settings bigger to fit widescreen TV
- Adds plugin system
- Adds homebrew display in main game list / origin prompt (4th menu icon)
- Adds tab system and per-tab settings : new option on master setting : always boot "last tab, xxx tab". check booted profile for lock state
- Revamp overall warning messages to explain better what's the issue : instead of "you need FAT32 primary" --> "Your partition is currently set as Extended, you need to set it to primary" "you curent partition is not located at the beginning of your partition table" etc.
- Adds an option to display only boot.dol (and boot.elf?) instead of all .dols in homebrew browser
- Adds a visual sign to differentiate SD or USB for title's location (different cursor color, different highlight color, text placed somewhere etc.)
- Add an option to group gamelist by sources/categories/combination of both
- Adds a remember last played game setting per tabs (when tabs added)
- instead of the text "use global", display which setting is used by "global". for example "*PAL 480p*" or put the setting in bold. Request by Naxil http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-870#post-4813317
- Adds a IOS selector : Display list of cIOS/Slot/Base installed on the console and let the user pick one, instead of entering slot number manually. Request : Naxil http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-870#post-4813317
- Separate EmuNAND save setting in two (Wii games and Channels). Put channels settings together (like Gamecube section)
- Adds a game cache option (not game title's cache which already exists) to fasten loading time for users with many games/GC/emuNAND/etc. by preventing scanning HDD every time, and add a "refresh Title list" option.

To do anytime
- Adds a full cheat editor (adds/edit code value, see comments, etc.)
- Adds Wii game disc (wbfs/iso) support from SD card : (attention, if SD card is WBFS partition format instead of FAT32 : cIOS r18+ or Hermes v5+ required)
- Adds external DVD reader support: patch files here : http://code.google.com/p/usbloader-gui/issues/detail?id=2287#c9
- Batch for Wad install done in r1260
- Adds dPad up/down support in settings menu
- Wall layout : Add the patch for flat 4 rows (see issues on googlecode)
- Adds a "press B + wiimote move to scroll" on Wall/caroussel layout
- Adds Autoboot last played game if A is pressed at launch (check first that the game is not part of locked/parental control/different tabs, etc.)
- Rename wiinertag filename to Gamertag
- Adds a gamertag edition setting in the loader with pre-configured Wiinertag and DUtag.
- Restore title.txt support. Request by DEFIANT http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-870#post-4813282
- Adds a Refresh/rebuild cache for banners/titles. http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx-not-recognizing-newly-added-titles.357775/#post-4830161
- Adds an auto refresh cache for banners animation deletion/download
- Don't filter game title's articles (the, a, an, der, super, le, la, les, etc.) http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-872#post-4830629
- Adds an automatic deactivation of "Return to" for Prince of persia if not using d2x v6+
- Adds an automatic deactivation of all patches if not using gameconfig for Kirby return to dream land
- Adds redump.org md5 support when dumping GC discs
- Add uStealth menu to switch the drive state directly in the loader.
- rename/rework WiiU Widescreen setting : display 4:3 and 16:9 as option instead of ON/OFF.

- Adds more noob error prevention :
-- warn user is using cIOS < rev18 for ... (I forgot what rev18 added)(added WBFS support on SD among other things)
-- disable "return to" with d2x < 6 for Prince of persia.
-- warn user if launching game on HDD sector sizes > 512B with FAT32/NTFS (Requires d2x v6+)
-- warn user if using dual port support with user's path set to USB = possible HDDcorruption, media player bug, etc.

gamecube ciso header : https://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx-doesnt-show-gamecube-ciso-files.489696/#post-7726810

r1259 status : released
* Rename meta.xml to lower case.
* Updated game's region detection and set "Region Free" instead of PAL as default value.
* Added RU/FI/SE cover download if EN is not found on gametdb.
* Remove outdated fileden.com specific code in image downloader functions.
* Set default game window change direction to XFLIP_SYSMENU for natural behavior.
* Force a game's title reload when selecting a different EmuNAND path.



r1256-1257 status : releasedAvailable on internal update menu.
- Updated URLs to use sourceforge repository
- Updated language file URLs to download files for the correct revision


r1255 status : released
- Fixed download issue
- Added favorite icon to banners (Thanks Suloku)
- Added GUI setting for favorite layout



r1254 status : released
- Added Nintendont CFG v6 support
- Added Nintendont PAL50 Patch
- Added Nintendont RemLimit patch
- Added Nintendont Video scale/offset to individual game settings


r1253 status : released
- Added SSL support, Thanks to Fix94
- Updated Nintendont update URL to github
- Updated http.c to use less memory (thanks nintendont)
- Added progressWindows support for downloads
- Disabled Theme Downloader Menu access (not enough memory)


r1252 status : released
- added Nintendont CFG v4 support
- added Nintendont VideoScale and VideoOffset option


r1251 status : released
- Fixed compiling on Mac/Linux
- Fixed "return to NK2O" not working with neek.


r1248-1250 status : released
- Added neek2o support for channels.
- Added a prompt to choose the EmuNAND path to use to dump NAND if they are different.
- Removed the check for cIOS d2x when selecting emuNAND options.
- Fixed EmuNAND choice when using "use global" with emuNAND channels (it was reading the global setting of EmuNAND save!)


Things currently working when using neek option :
- Return to
- individual EmuNAND path

Things currently NOT working when using neek option :
- All video patches (video mode, dol patch, neek patch, VIDTV patch, aspect ratio)
- language patch

Things which WILL NEVER WORK when using neek option
- All other options (import patch, alt dol, private server, game's IOS, debugger, etc.)





r1247 status : released
- Fixed creating save path for emuNAND channels if EmuNANDChanPath is different than EmuNANDPath.
- Prevent listing deleted channels on emuNAND if ticket still exists
- Nintendont : removed kenobiwii.bin check for nintendont >= 3.336
- Fixed loading gameconfig.txt without Ocarina option enabled. Just set a hooktype to enable gameconfig.txt
- Prevent decreasing play count if game is launched but returned a value before boot.


r1246 status : released
* Added /wbfs/ID6/ as working path for Wii games.
* Removed shutdown to standby choice on vWii's Home menu.
* Set default dump mode to "remove update partition" (keep Game and Other, for SSBB fix for users with default setting)
* Updated Banner URL http://nintendont.gxarena.com/banners/ (thanks AbdallahTerro)
* Set Nintendont MaxPad back to 4 by default.


Comment for 1246:
As much as I would love to add features and allow users to be happy, it's not always possible. For security and update difficulty reasons, I've decided to drop the WAD to NAND installation and Full channel support.
It has already not been updated since 3.0 r1180 release, but I thought I would release a new version for 3.1, and provide Wii and vWii version of it.
With the googlecode website closing soon, it's hasting my plan and I would need to work on a solution to do a proper transition to sourceforge and would need to release a new channel before 3.1 release, create two new channels and add a proper Wii/vWii detector for channel updater.

Updating the full channel is also taking the risk to replace user-converted full channel for vWii with an internally updated Wii version, rendering a lot of channels unlaunchable.
users will not understand why it doesn't work and will report in mass that updating broke their loader.

The automatic WAD installation to NAND is not verifying downloaded file and can result in semi-brick, or even a full brick for vWii!. So it's safer to not auto-update wad file to NAND.
I think it's best to drop that channel version fully now, no more updates for two years should be enough for users to think it's time to switch to HBC version.
Users with the full channel are encouraged to uninstall it and install the forwarder channel instead.

I will try to promote the Forwarder a little more and modify the installer to download it instead of the full channel.

r1245 status : no download.
* Updated Windows's installer sources to check the update file on the new server.
* Installer updated to 1.9

r1244 status: released
* Renamed "Gametdb Path" to "Titles Path" and set default path for titles files to /titles/ subfolder. (Still wondering if a good idea to change the name)
* Added a prompt to move existing files when editing Titles folder. (Greywolf)
* Fixed compilation warning (Thanks Greywolf)
* Added current Version and revision number to boot screen
* Added an option to disable/enable Multi-disc prompt for DM/DML/Nintendont. Disabled by default now that Autoswap is working.
* Fixed button lag in exiting credit page (press B to exit)
* Set Loader's IOS setting to 58 if only 58 is available. (speed up next loader's launch time)
* Nintendont: Fixed Booting nintendont from USB if not using the first partition.
* Nintendont: Added the new Nintendont version string detection.
* Nintendont: Removed warning when using HID without controller.ini on r3.304+ (Auto-copy ini or folder to second device is working only if HID setting is enabled to boost game launch if ini not used)
* Nintendont: Fixed loading settings/cheats/controller.ini when booting from Disc if MCEmu was disabled.
* Nintendont: Warn user if kenobiiwii.bin not present if debug option is enabled on Wii consoles.
* Removed some IOS58 patches to speed loader's launch time when using that IOS. (Tests needed before release)

r1242-1243 status: released
* Updated LibFAT to 1.0.13
* Fixed compilation with DevkitPPC r27 (1 warning left)
* Few throw exception prevention.

r1241 status: released
* Changed partition detection for DIOS MIOS to allow logical partition located before primary partition. (thanks RCJayce)
* Changed partition detection for Nintendont to allow logical and primary partitions before the first FAT32 partition. (ex. NTFS primary+FAT32 primary)
* Moved IsWiiU() function to sys.c instead of being part of the IOS class.


r1239-1240 status: released Previous internal revision
r1233-1234 Status: released old
r1231 status: released old
r1226 status: released old
r1221 Status: Released old