Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[bostonBC]

Fix - quick question on the 3TB drive support. Do I format it as a GPT volume? If so can any other homebrew beside WiiFlow use it?

Can I setup my emulated games on it as well?

I have a 3TB drive I can play with for this but it has a lot of movies on it and instead of copying them off could I use one of my spare 2TB drives and format as GPT?

Please let me know. Thanks!

 

[FIX94]

I dont know if other homebrew detects GPT, so I'm not sure if it would work, try it out first. To wiiflow, its currently basic support, so no wii game launching from it, but if you want to test stuff for me it would be nice, that we can also get this to work

 

[shortz1994]

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Yardape8000, on 14 April 2012 - 11:41 AM, said:
Way off topic, but I just had a thought. WiiFlow-MC. Put the wiiflow front end on wiiMC, get the data from themoviedb.org, find a good source of DVD jackets, and presto. You have yourself a great media centre.
shortz 1994, on 14 April 2012 - you can already find dvd covers over on spiffy. why stop there just make wiiflow be able to load movies alreay saved on a harddrive like the games. that would be cool.

yep this was already talked about an mentioned, but i guess since it didn't come from a "higher" poster it was passed over, or when brought up we were called crazy.
it would be cool, to add wii mc in to wii flow, an beable to have the covers show up. ( just as the game covers do). spiffy360 has a link with the covers for movies, an to link with that to get the covers. would be awsome. i would be happy to test if it's added.

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[Brenry]

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[fledge68]

okay i'm back. seems fix94 has been busy while i was gone. can't wait to try things out but strangely my gateway/router died while i was on vacation. using parents pc right now. hopefully will fix mine tomorrow. wish me luck!

bostonbc - i didn't realize there was anything wrong with the new cat menu. pm me with your problem where you have to add 2 to number of cats

 

[Etheboss]

Hey fledge68, can you help Brenry with setting up his categories.ini?

I also want to see a pastie of yours if possible, i like to know how it works..

BTW Brenry and i are on IRC right now..

 

[bostonBC]

I dont know if other homebrew detects GPT, so I'm not sure if it would work, try it out first. To wiiflow, its currently basic support, so no wii game launching from it, but if you want to test stuff for me it would be nice, that we can also get this to work

Sure, I can help out. I have a new batch of 2TB drives in today and I'll try formatting one with GPT and see what happens.

 

[secamfr]

i Hope next emulators would be WiirtualBoy (for completing Nintendo emulators) and Wiicolem, two awesome emuls !

 

[ToddofWar420]

I've been waiting for WiirtualBoy too!

 

[Brenry]

Am I the only person who is NOT able to get Categories to work with Emulators? I have everything located on USB1 and not SD. Edited categories.ini and have used various apps to set up the emulator Titles to categories, just empty rom selection unless All is selected.

Also when I go into a rom game settings (where you would add favorites, etc) within Wiiflow emulator menu, manually clicking a rom to a Category just blips at me and does not add the Checkmark like the Wii games would normally act.

Looking at the googlecode on issues, apparently I am the ONLY one with this issue, could some people please input on this ??? Having all emulator system roms combined is a pain in the a**

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Am I the only person who is NOT able to get Categories to work with Emulators? I have everything located on USB1 and not SD. Edited categories.ini and have used various apps to set up the emulator Titles to categories, just empty rom selection unless All is selected.

Also when I go into a rom game settings (where you would add favorites, etc) within Wiiflow emulator menu, manually clicking a rom to a Category just blips at me and does not add the Checkmark like the Wii games would normally act.

Looking at the googlecode on issues, apparently I am the ONLY one with this issue, could some people please input on this ??? Having all emulator system roms combined is a pain in the a**

use this patch for the moment:

All u need is a batch file renamer:
Add same prefix to roms of the same feather, I use 64_ for Nint-64, GEN_ for Sega Genesis, BOY_ for Gameboy, SNES_ NES- ....etc... (just make sure each prefix has a different first letter)
then delete your old cache file or rebuild the cache.
Use B button + up or down to quickly go from one Emulator to another (by moving from one letter to the next)

You can get the batch renamer from here : http://www.mediafire...v4za52fad9p8c4p
Enjoy your sorted roms

 

[Maxternal]

i Hope next emulators would be WiirtualBoy (for completing Nintendo emulators) and Wiicolem, two awesome emuls !

I've been waiting for WiirtualBoy too!

That would be cool. Actually, though, since WiirtualBoy is actually just a port of Mednafen and WiiMednafen is actually a port of a NEWER version with BETTER Virtual Boy emulation, I vote for the WiiMednafen. I have a hunch it already has some sort of argument support and it supports all kinds of ROM formats so that would add all kinds of support in one shot.

Is it possible to add the wiimc.dol for coverflow movies? THAT would be a great feature.

Actually, since WiiXplorer shows the option to open media files in WiiMC it looks like WiiMC already works with arguments so that shouldn't be TOO hard. It does seem a little outside of what what WiiFlow was originally meant for but I'm sure for some the emulator support is, too, and it does seem like a lot of people are asking for it so I'd say go for it.

It does seem like there's been a lot of ideas and features in the last little bit. Since I'm sure [member='FIX94'] is getting kinda bogged down with all of this I had a few ideas that might help spread out the load:
1. If there's a way WiiFlow could be made to use ANY plugin placed into the "plugins" folder and there were some sort of standardized format for the argument passing, other people who know how could help by getting started on other emulators and programs they want WiiFlow to be able to use.
2. For apps that already accept arguments some sort of simple "argument forwarder DOL" could be put together and placed into the "plugins" folder to translate the standard arguments into the correct format and open up the original DOL in the "apps" folder where it already is.
3. With so many other different emulators, movies, etc. in different plugins it would be all the more convenient to be able to separate the different plugins into different coverflows much the same way categories are separated out at the moment.

Edit : and while you're all having fun modding the different emulators, let the original developers know what changes you've made. As mentioned before on this thread, it would be nice if all emulators accepted arguments and could just be made to return to the loading program so they could be run straight out of the "apps" folder.
Besides using the "WiiFlowLoader.dol" to get back to WiiFlow on NTFS, I'm sure the original developers would just LOVE it if you added direct NTFS support to their apps for them.

 

[Etheboss]

I've been waiting for WiirtualBoy too!

Hehe, if we do this, you will use this wiiflow again??

 

[Ape8000]

Way off topic, but do all the people who compile their dols themselves know that they can speed up the compiling time using the -jX switch? Where X is cores + 1.

make -j3 ---- on a dual core
make -j5 ---- on a quad core

If you are using programmer's notepad, go to tools, options, tools and set the make parameter to -jX as needed.

 

[FIX94]

Ah yeah the -j trick, using it a while now, speeds up a lot, I have a hexacore here and just use -j, its faster than -j7 for some reason

 

[secamfr]

That would be cool. Actually, though, since WiirtualBoy is actually just a port of Mednafen and WiiMednafen is actually a port of a NEWER version with BETTER Virtual Boy emulation, I vote for the WiiMednafen. I have a hunch it already has some sort of argument support and it supports all kinds of ROM formats so that would add all kinds of support in one shot.

You're right, just test WiiMednafen and games run more faster for Virtual Boy! (Wiirtual Boy is no longer maintained)

 

[mastershoes]

 

[Brenry]

Mastershoes: It looks gorgeous with all the Sega games together! I can't wait until they figure out the categories system I would love to have more than one emulator on my system !

 

[Maxternal]

I just thought I'd mention two little, minor errors I've noticed:

1. On the Categories page on the bottom it says "1 / 2" which I assume means "page one of two" like in the settings pages BUT when I go to page 2 it does NOT change to "2 / 2" as it should. It just stays "1 / 2"

2. When I click on a game in the coverflow and it zooms in to just look at the one game I like to move from game to game staying up close BUT it looks like it only loads 16 covers in each direction and only in the moment you click on the game in coverflow. When I move farther than 16 covers to the left or to the right of the game I first selected, those covers just say "loading" with an SD 2.0 icon and never load. I can scroll back to the covers that are already loaded and they're fine and when I press or (Back) to go back to the coverflow, the covers load just fine again like normal.

 

[fledge68]

Hey fledge68, can you help Brenry with setting up his categories.ini?

I also want to see a pastie of yours if possible, i like to know how it works..

BTW Brenry and i are on IRC right now..

Sorry guys still no internet. Supposed to get a new gateway/router tomorrow. as for categories in emu mode - the problem is categories are based on game ID's which emu games don't have or it's a little too technical for me to figure out. plus using there names doesn't work because several games by the same name were made for different systems.

when i get back online - i will fix the minor bugs with the cat menu that maxternal and bostonbc have pointed out and see if there's a way to add emu games to categories.ini