Hey
@popckorn thank you so much for all your kind words. Rhapsodii Shima is my love letter to the gbatemp community, which gave me so much, and I'm happy when my work and my posts are useful to people with the same passion like you.
Let me tell you, if within 3 weeks you managed to install and configure everything by yourself, including Rhapsodii Shima and the gargantuan Plugins Pack, with just this single issue... then I congratulate you, because there's a lot to know.
Ok, let's see if I can help!
I think it can be two things:
1) In the plugin .ini file, check what file types are supported and add .cue if it's missing. Chances are that you're seeing .bin files in your cover flow.
2) Maybe you placed the blank cover in the foler and reloaded cache before putting the actual game covers?
If so, maybe wiiflow cache was created with blank covers for every game.*
Try this: go to wiiflow/cache/PlayStation, and delete all the .wfc files. Then boot Wiiflow and do a Reload Cache.
* Once a cover is cached, Wiiflow doesn't care if the .png file is replaced with a new one. It will always load the .wfc file. Even if you do a Reload Cache, it will skip that game, because the file result already cached, so I always delete all wfc files manually when I want to update some covers.
By the way, I'm working on a new set of PSX covers, all in PAL cases format (which I prefer).
They are not yet ready for release, however if you want to try with new covers, I could send them to you
Much obliged!
I have been using Linux (Mint, but still) for about 10 years.
I spent January - April setting up the perfect RG280V so I got well mentalized for the grinding.
I also spent last two years revisiting retro consoles of my youth (1987 here) with RetroArch, so that also prepared me for the level of geeking-out this hobbie entails. Retroarch is EXTREMELY satisfying once you learn it properly. But the curve is steep.
I also managed to make MAME work for my particular collection of SHMUPs, which is another messy experience...
But above all, the only reason I never rage-quitted is because you have really answered ALL the questions that I came up with, granted I had to google a lot to find them, trying different ways of expressing my problem, and all the results would invariably direct me to you. This is really a well supported project. Outstandingly so.
Back to the matter:
[ Before trying your possible solutions, let me tell you I already checked the Cache folder, and there is only the generic cover in there, a single wfc file that is used for all the covers, no game is mentioned in the cache. But Wiiflow shows all my games by name and launches them. So I am guessing it is not the cache. I am a bit afraid of deleting that single generic cover, because I deleted the cache of another console in the past and I was left with the ugly empty white boxes, not even the generic cool one. I might delete the single cache'd file if everything else fails. ]
So I went to the plugin's .ini file, instead, thinking it is not the single file in the cache:
GOTCHA!
[PLUGIN]
arguments={device}:/{path}|{name}
bannersound=ZZ--Sounds/PS1.ogg
consolecoverid=Sony
covercolor=111111
coverfolder=PlayStation
displayname=PlayStation (WiiSXRX)
dolfile=PlayStation/WiiSX_RX/WiiSXRX.dol
filetypes=.bin|.img|.iso|.cdi <---------- THERE IT IS! INCONSPICUOUSLY PRESENT (TELL ME ABOUT IT) IN ITS ABSENCE!
magic=53585258
romdir=WiiSXRX/isos
rompartition=0
So I will be adding .cue to it and try again! I will update ASAP!
As to your new update, I would be honored to try it out. I reckon the PAL boxes are the vertical DVD-like boxes?
I like those much better indeed (My PC-Engine collection is using those).
I would love to try it out and even help you trial anything you might need me to.
Now that those other boxes come into subject, something weird happened yesterday when I was trying to reload the cache from the Standard Theme, and then from Rhapsodii Vanilla, just to see if it would work in those...
The WiiSXRX boxcovers in those two are DVD boxes with the CD boxcover stretched over them. Yet as soon as I got back to Shima the boxes were back to their Jewel Case shape, albeit without the cached covers, but back to the CD box.
I thought there might be a reason for that glitch, and dared to think it would be related, now I know what the problem was, but still you might want to know that glitch. By the way before realizing the DVD covers are gone from the thread, I wanted to use those but then I realized I do not know how to chose the shape of the Boxcover... I only know they shift depending on the Theme.
Will add .cue to the .ini file and reset my Wii, BRB.
[ Edit: It turns out the SDCard got corrupted and became read-only, so I had to reformat it and speedrun the installation, I will try the solution ASAP, will update ]
FINAL EDIT [[ S O L U T I O N - H E R E ]] :
IT WAS THE INI FILE! After adding .cue to it, the covers where recognized, but now I have all the .bin jewelcases as double aand triples depending on the number of .bin files in a given game. Is it safe to remove .bin from the ini file?
I dread I might be breaking access to sound tracks or something. Is the ini file only for covers? If I will be giving covers to .cue files, may I remove .bin from the ini file?
Thank you! It is so simple once you fix it. In retrospective it is a simple and straight forward design. But it takes some initiation! I hope I can get rid of all the repeat jewel cases either by removing .bin from the ini, or any other way,