Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[mastershoes]

B2TF also working with Emu Saves.

 

[shortz1994]

I've ran them on over a dozen Wii's with exactly the same problem. May I ask how you did your mod?

if your talking about when i first modded my wii? i did it with smash stack over 2yr's ago.
all my games are a dump from an original disc. if not in my possession, one of my family members has the game/games. but try as i said if your having problems with launching these games. just get an alt.dol an use that to first launch the game.(only need to do one of the games though.) then change it back to launch normal. it should work after that.(yes i had to do the same thing with smurfs,mw3 an a few others.) no i get no problems. except tin tin, but that's the same for everyone.

I haven't seen the ability to use an alt.dol for some time. Can't find it in the current WiiFlow.

if you have gx , you can play it in that loader, an it will save on the wii nand.( or where ever it saves it) that way you only need to watch it one time, an not every time you run a game. you'll have to load it on sd card. an click a game, then go into the settings for the game, then select the path were the alt dol is.( i have mine on the root of sd card, named "alt dol"..)
should add the feature back to wiiflow. "just in case".. cause as i said. i had to go this route several times before to get "problem" games to work. an it all worked out in the end.

 

[fledge68]

one more teaser post.

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some of the images are stretched a little just need to edit them in PS. I've got the image displaying down just need to fix it so it does the right thing when you click on them. But running short on time today with the kids out of school early. just to give a little heads up - the console images will be in wiiflow/source_menu folder along with the source_menu.ini which will tell wiiflow what image to use for each button. For those of you that like to make or edit themes you should be able to override the default images in the source_menu folder.

@Fix94 - I haven't broken the background music but was wondering why whenever I add something to menu.hpp it kills the background music?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

@Fix94 changes made to 413 and 414 did not affect okami nor kirby EY they still giving a black screen.

 

[FIX94]

@Fix94 - I haven't broken the background music but was wondering why whenever I add something to menu.hpp it kills the background music?

Sometimes that can happen, so please test that before adding something. Same goes for video.hpp and coverflow.hpp.
Great pic btw

@Fix94 changes made to 413 and 414 did not affect okami nor kirby EY they still giving a black screen.

Works fine, no idea whats the problem for you, may make some full cleanup and reinstallation, check the hdd for errors and make sure you just have cIOS249 and 250, no other ones.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

@Fix94 - I haven't broken the background music but was wondering why whenever I add something to menu.hpp it kills the background music?

Sometimes that can happen, so please test that before adding something. Same goes for video.hpp and coverflow.hpp.
Great pic btw

@Fix94 changes made to 413 and 414 did not affect okami nor kirby EY they still giving a black screen.

Works fine, no idea whats the problem for you, may make some full cleanup and reinstallation, check the hdd for errors and make sure you just have cIOS249 and 250, no other ones.

I have d2x-v9beta cios245-251, are we supposed to delete all except 249&250!!

 

[Tanubi]

Sorry to be a complete noob but I have a rather dumb questin to ask. After trying for just over a week now (I think), I have not been able to set up Wiiflow Mod too well. My only problem is with Emulators. I can run them without Wiiflow perfectly fine but the moment I jump into Wiiflow and move to the emulator section I get nothing but the same old "I have not found any emulator plugins or games" I am sporting plugins as I can select them but.. still no luck in actualy seeing anything past that screen.

I first thought my .ini set up might be wrong but I think i have my plugin .ini files set up to find roms. For example "romDir=Wiiflow\plugins\genplusgx\roms" I have been out of anything Wii related for three years now so I know I am a little rusty but this makes me feel like a right idiot, so I guess I am just a noob. I have searched around but I can't seem to find any help. Could someone here sort of give me a hand on what I am doing wrong?

I also started fresh, deleted everything and used the Wiiflow Mod Installer that I found a few pages ago on this topic but I am still no closer to getting past this "Not found any emulator plugins or games" screen.

*Edit* Using r258 wiiflow just freezes when I try to move to that section.

 

[Maxternal]

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Sorry to be a complete noob but I have a rather dumb questin to ask. After trying for just over a week now (I think), I have not been able to set up Wiiflow Mod too well. My only problem is with Emulators. I can run them without Wiiflow perfectly fine but the moment I jump into Wiiflow and move to the emulator section I get nothing but the same old "I have not found any emulator plugins or games" I am sporting plugins as I can select them but.. still no luck in actualy seeing anything past that screen.

I first thought my .ini set up might be wrong but I think i have my plugin .ini files set up to find roms. For example "romDir=Wiiflow\plugins\genplusgx\roms" I have been out of anything Wii related for three years now so I know I am a little rusty but this makes me feel like a right idiot, so I guess I am just a noob. I have searched around but I can't seem to find any help. Could someone here sort of give me a hand on what I am doing wrong?

I also started fresh, deleted everything and used the Wiiflow Mod Installer that I found a few pages ago on this topic but I am still no closer to getting past this "Not found any emulator plugins or games" screen.

*Edit* Using r258 wiiflow just freezes when I try to move to that section.

-If running your emulators normally finds all the ROM's just fine they might actually just be in genplusgx/roms and not in wiiflow/plugins/genplusgx/roms so you might want to check on that.
-Make sure your /wiiflow/plugins/ folder is on the same partition as your ROM files are even if the rest of your wiiflow files are not.
-Make sure in your /apps/wiiflow/wiiflow.ini file under the [general] section it actually says it is on the right partition (that it starts with the right SD:/, USB1:/, USB2:/, etc.)
-In the setting screen in wiiflow itself make sure that the "partition" setting is also set to that same setting.
-Make sure in the INI for each plugin in the /wiiflow/plugins/ folder has the name right of the DOL file for the plugin that's also in that same folder.

 

[Anorhc]

one more teaser post.

Spoiler

some of the images are stretched a little just need to edit them in PS. I've got the image displaying down just need to fix it so it does the right thing when you click on them. But running short on time today with the kids out of school early. just to give a little heads up - the console images will be in wiiflow/source_menu folder along with the source_menu.ini which will tell wiiflow what image to use for each button. For those of you that like to make or edit themes you should be able to override the default images in the source_menu folder.

@Fix94 - I haven't broken the background music but was wondering why whenever I add something to menu.hpp it kills the background music?

You know what would be cool? A 3D model of each of those images.

 

[Maxternal]

You know what would be cool? A 3D model of each of those images.

Yeah, that would be cool. It would be like a coverflow of coverflows ... or a "sourceflow."
It would be a little bit easier to implement, though, if loading a 3D model was as easy at loading a PNG image.

you could use something like this for the testures

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but unfortunately not all the consoles are as simple to render as the NES

 

[Tanubi]

Spoiler

Sorry to be a complete noob but I have a rather dumb questin to ask. After trying for just over a week now (I think), I have not been able to set up Wiiflow Mod too well. My only problem is with Emulators. I can run them without Wiiflow perfectly fine but the moment I jump into Wiiflow and move to the emulator section I get nothing but the same old "I have not found any emulator plugins or games" I am sporting plugins as I can select them but.. still no luck in actualy seeing anything past that screen.

I first thought my .ini set up might be wrong but I think i have my plugin .ini files set up to find roms. For example "romDir=Wiiflow\plugins\genplusgx\roms" I have been out of anything Wii related for three years now so I know I am a little rusty but this makes me feel like a right idiot, so I guess I am just a noob. I have searched around but I can't seem to find any help. Could someone here sort of give me a hand on what I am doing wrong?

I also started fresh, deleted everything and used the Wiiflow Mod Installer that I found a few pages ago on this topic but I am still no closer to getting past this "Not found any emulator plugins or games" screen.

*Edit* Using r258 wiiflow just freezes when I try to move to that section.

-If running your emulators normally finds all the ROM's just fine they might actually just be in genplusgx/roms and not in wiiflow/plugins/genplusgx/roms so you might want to check on that.
-Make sure your /wiiflow/plugins/ folder is on the same partition as your ROM files are even if the rest of your wiiflow files are not.
-Make sure in your /apps/wiiflow/wiiflow.ini file under the [general] section it actually says it is on the right partition (that it starts with the right SD:/, USB1:/, USB2:/, etc.)
-In the setting screen in wiiflow itself make sure that the "partition" setting is also set to that same setting.
-Make sure in the INI for each plugin in the /wiiflow/plugins/ folder has the name right of the DOL file for the plugin that's also in that same folder.

Thanks for the help. It turns out that everything but Genplus worked. I was using mutiple games to test Genplus out, not one of them were the file-types listed in the .ini files, and that was where my problem was. If I would of tried actually using Wii64 or one of the other plugins before using Genplus, I would of been able to work this out a little sooner instead of thinking everything didn't work. ini files had .MD for roms but no SMD, once added everything worked for those rom files.

So once more, thanks very much for the help and the fast replies. Thanks.

 

[FIX94]

I have d2x-v9beta cios245-251, are we supposed to delete all except 249&250!!

Thats my recommendation, because some things only work properly with base 56 and 57.

 

[panmusic]

Well,this is really weird.While choosing emu nand was always displaying my VC/Wiiware games,now it does not show anything besides Wii channels (Homebrew,Wii shop,Weather etc.)
I tried to refresh cache with no results.I extracted the nand again,I installed manually 50 games and nothing is showing up (I am using rev 414).

Please,help me!What can I do?May I alter anything in Wiifow.ini?

 

[KiiWii]

have you tried removing your categories.ini? back it up, delete it from your hdd, start up wiiflow see if it fixes it, if not revert to the back up.

 

[panmusic]

have you tried removing your categories.ini? back it up, delete it from your hdd, start up wiiflow see if it fixes it, if not revert to the back up.

Thanks for your answer.
I deleted categories.ini from both sd and usb with no results.Also I deleted titles.ini (Okami is missing the first letter,ti displays as kami for unknown reasons) but nothing changes. :-(

 

[FIX94]

Thanks for your answer.
I deleted categories.ini from both sd and usb with no results.Also I deleted titles.ini (Okami is missing the first letter,ti displays as kami for unknown reasons) but nothing changes. :-(

Here, r414 compiled by me:
http://www.mediafire.com/?l8a65u2mxz31a2t
Your sure nand emulation is enabled in wiiflow? Press b on the channel switch icon to see if its really enabled.

 

[panmusic]

Thanks for your answer.
I deleted categories.ini from both sd and usb with no results.Also I deleted titles.ini (Okami is missing the first letter,ti displays as kami for unknown reasons) but nothing changes. :-(

Here, r414 compiled by me:
http://www.mediafire...l8a65u2mxz31a2t
Your sure nand emulation is enabled in wiiflow? Press b on the channel switch icon to see if its really enabled.

FIX,I just tried your r414 but the problem still exists.I checked the channel switch icon and it displays NAND [USB1] with no Wiiware/VC games,only Nintendo channels.I tried both partial/full emulation in the settings with no luck.
Is something I have to change manually in the wiiflow.ini?I am running Wiiflow from SD and everything else is in usb.Does it matter?Also,is there a limit of how many games we can have in emu nand?

 

[VashTS]

you need to go into your /wiiflow/cache/ directory and delete the /lists/ folder. i believe this happens when you try to download titles or covers when in emuflow mode. you come back and nothing but real nand channels until you delete the lists folders.

 

[matto21]

just tested r414
ok with plugins, return to wiiflow
ok games wii, return to wiiflow
ok, after play, press home to return to the Wii menu
games wiiware code dumps when running games (screen shot below)

Spoiler

 

[FIX94]

The codedump there is no wiiflow one