Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[painless]

Spacepimp: Ok, got everything copied to my USB hdd and booted WiiFlow. At first try I got a stack dump and a reload. After reload now I can adjust my coverflow views (still default theme)! All my cover art is missing so I am starting the arduous process of redownloading the Wii games art now. After thats done, Ill check the plugins to see whats what as well as change to the carbonik (carbonic?) theme.

Thanks a lot for your help, and to everyone who has contributed here. WiiFlow, once I get it fully functional and Im satisfied with all it does, will be set to replace my standard Wii desktop!

Cheers.

 

[MassiveRican]

painless Just cut & paste your files on SD to USB, like the covers for example. Then delete your /WiiFlow folder on SD

It sounds to me like u had a problem with your directory paths, check your wiiflow.ini for paths that start with Dir_*** and make sure they're all pointing to USB1, alternatively (probably easier) I believe WiiFlow has a path manager now and u can set all your directories through the menu

 

[fledge68]

Gothic and green theme have been added to the wiki. also orchid and carbonik and carbonik abz have been udated. green source menu is still in the works.

Also black and white wii themes may be in the works. And as for starnight - i haven't heard anything but it would be nice if it was updated too.

 

[painless]

Well this was successful! Now I have total access to themes/plugins/box art and most important of all, WiiFlow display choices! I just copied the contents of my SD card over to my HDD. Even though I had already d/l's all the Wii games cover art, which was already on my SD card, I had to re-d/l it all again to my usb drive.

WiiFlow is a great thing. I feel it really enhances the entire console experience... for me at least. Thanks a ton you guys!

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

Any help appreciated: for some reason megaman 3 wont play unless i remove the box art from the wiiflow boxcovers folder. When i have the box art appear in wiiflow the game never loads need some help weird glitch?

EDIT PROBLEM SOLVED: needed to get a new .cht file the other one was corrupt

 

[Maxternal]

SOURCE MENU EDITOR
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5yb97ybeea6v9qr/SourceMenuEditor.zip (updated link ... plugin editor works now)
It's interesting that I finally find time to work on the thing when GBATemp goes down for maintenance

Anyway, changelog
- hopefully fixed those bugs that made WiiFlow crash.
- It also will ask you which theme's source_menu.ini you want to edit if it detects any folders inside the source_menu folder so you don't have to cancel and manually choose the folders anymore.
- Added a space to set "title"
- Added a plugin editor tab (unfinished) that you can at least use to save a plugins.conf file for PostLoader (you'll still have to copy the image files themselves over to PostLoader's plugins folder manually)


As always ANY FEEDBACK IS VERY WELCOME

 

[MassiveRican]

Any help appreciated: for some reason megaman 3 wont play unless i remove the box art from the wiiflow boxcovers folder. When i have the box art appear in wiiflow the game never loads need some help weird glitch?

Delete MM3 cover cache and cover and rebuild cache, then retry with another/same cover.

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

Delete MM3 cover cache and cover and rebuild cache, then retry with another/same cover.

no luck bigg guy i deleted mm3 cover cache and cover retried with same cover and another cover

 

[MassiveRican]

So if u have a cover for the game it won't load, but if u don't have a cover, the game loads just fine? Try forcing cIOS option to load the game with a cover. If it still dumps, Make a wi-Fi log and also take a pic of the dump and post it here with a spoiler, it might help fledge68 or fix94 debug or give u a suggestion to get things going.

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

So if u have a cover for the game it won't load, but if u don't have a cover, the game loads just fine? Try forcing cIOS option to load the game with a cover. If it still dumps, Make a wi-Fi log and also take a pic of the dump and post it here with a spoiler, it might help fledge68 or fix94 debug or give u a suggestion to get things going.

exactly but all the other games load fine with covers its only mega man 3

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

exactly but all the other games load fine with covers its only mega man 3 whats the cIOS option and how do i use it

 

[bostonBC]

Is it a FAT32 or NTFS drive and have you plugged it into a PC and ran a directory check on it?

 

[flamepanther]

There's only one possible answer to this:

Spoiler

Your game is a nudist.

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

Is it a FAT32 or NTFS drive and have you plugged it into a PC and ran a directory check on it?

Its fat32 I've never run a directory check I don't know how

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

There's only one possible answer to this:

Spoiler

Your game is a nudist.

Lol what's that mean

 

[apieandpint]

checkout r1008 - fixed it!


you really need to update to 4.2 - try the download links on that wiki page or Abz's pack

Just updated using Abz's pack and now works like a charm. Thanks

 

[bostonBC]

Its fat32 I've never run a directory check I don't know how

Simply attach it to your PC. In your My Computer right click on the drive's icon and select Properties from the pop up menu.

Click on the Tools tab. In the 'Error-checking' section click the 'Check now...' button.

Make sure that the 'Automatically fix file system errors' option is checked and then click the 'Start' button.

Windows will scan the disc and check and fix any file system problems.

If it shows any problems press control-C and then paste the results into a message here so we can see what it fixed.

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

Simply attach it to your PC. In your My Computer right click on the drive's icon and select Properties from the pop up menu.

Click on the Tools tab. In the 'Error-checking' section click the 'Check now...' button.

Make sure that the 'Automatically fix file system errors' option is checked and then click the 'Start' button.

Windows will scan the disc and check and fix any file system problems.

If it shows any problems press control-C and then paste the results into a message here so we can see what it fixed.

nice i usually use a mac for everything but i can use my other computer ill let you know how it goes thanks bro

 

[bostonBC]

nice i usually use a mac for everything but i can use my other computer ill let you know how it goes thanks bro

Cool, let us know how it goes. I've had really weird things happen when there is directory corruption so it may help.

 

[Maxternal]

SOURCE MENU EDITOR again
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5yb97ybeea6v9qr/SourceMenuEditor.zip
I finished the plugin editor tab.

Changelog
- Plugin editor works
- plugin.conf file saver for PostLoader now offers to copy images files to where PostLoader can use them
- plugin.conf file saver for PL should now work properly for plugin DOL files that are in subfolders (like retroarch)
- only known bug : sometimes it gets confused about whether there are unsaved changes to the source menu or not but saving when there's been no changes shouldn't hurt anything anyhow (as always, any further feedback is appreciated.)



I'll update the links on my previous post, too.