Homebrew app Support blackb0x by a sponsored/donated WiiU

Sypherone · Dec 7, 2022

Hello gbatemp administrators and members,

this is a suggestion about supporting the developer blackb0x and his work on USB Loader GX by sponsoring him or donating him a WiiU, as he don`t own one.

@blackb0x is putting a lot of affort to the project of programming the USB Loader GX for Wii and WiiU. BUT he doesnt own a WiiU by himself to properly work, test and debug issues on it. When he can successfully replicate bugs on his own hardware then 9 times out of 10 he will quickly fix things, since he can properly debug the issue and he don't need to wait for anyone to try out any changes. For that reason till now he is giving test versions out to users to try out.

As this is in interest in a lot members who like to use USB Loader GX and are happy if bugs are debugged and new improved future versions are released. There should be a possibility to collect that money to spend blackb0x a WiiU, to make his life easyer and also giving something back by the community as its a win situation for everyone. A WiiU on a Marketplace costs around 100€ - 150€, its not that high goal to reach and shouldn`t be a big deal. Without its additional costs for at minimum one external drive where USBLGX loads its stuff from or other additional peripherie.

As the WiiU is to support blackb0x and making his life to work on USB Loader GX a lot easyer, there should be understandable he cant guaranty fixes or can`t provide them within shortest time.

I`m open to any suggestions or ideas
Sypherone

Blauhasenpopo · Dec 7, 2022

I'm willing to donate....maybe via PayPal ?

Sypherone · Dec 7, 2022

Ya, iam too. Maybe Paypal is an option.

There exist gofoundme to collect donations also by paypal. As you can also see how much is raised and still needed to reach the goal. But cost 5 - 10% goes to the platform. So the goal needs to be set finally around 160€.

Aheago · Dec 8, 2022

Why not something simple like paetreon or kof fee

I’d avoid PayPal at all costs

Blauhasenpopo · Dec 9, 2022

Aheago said:
Why not something simple like paetreon or kof fee

I’d avoid PayPal at all costs

What is wrong with the little PayPal gal?

Sypherone · Dec 9, 2022

Aheago said:
Why not something simple like paetreon or kof fee

Thx for the tip. But Patreon is for regulary payments or they publish something what you can get if you pay for. Kof-fi looks got and has a nice feature for supporting such one time donations and its free, but paypal takes ~10% of the donation. If using stripe in kof-fi you will pay 2,9% +0,30€.
So i think using paypal and friend option is the simplest solution.

Aheago · Dec 9, 2022

Blauhasenpopo said:
What is wrong with the little PayPal gal?

PayPal is known for randomly freezing accounts or holding funds

They are just a mess of a company in general and I no longer trust them. Back in the Xbox 360 days they suspended quite a few accounts of people I know that where involved in the Xbox homebrew scene and that money is still in limbo

MikaDubbz · Dec 9, 2022

I want such a dev to have access to a Wii U for sure. But, genuine question, what more work does USB Loader GX even need at this point? It's not a buggy mess on the Wii or Wii U, and every feature I could think of that I'd want from the loader already exists. I'm sure little things here and there can be done to improve the app, but overall it really feels like it's as polished off as it'll ever really need to be, and has felt that way for quite awhile.

Anxiety_timmy · Dec 9, 2022

MikaDubbz said:
I want such a dev to have access to a Wii U for sure. But, genuine question, what more work does USB Loader GX even need at this point? It's not a buggy mess on the Wii or Wii U, and every feature I could think of that I'd want from the loader already exists. I'm sure little things here and there can be done to improve the app, but overall it really feels like it's as polished off as it'll ever really need to be, and has felt that way for quite awhile.

If I had to guess maybe Wii U side loading, but other than that there's not alot.

MikaDubbz · Dec 9, 2022

Anxiety_timmy said:
If I had to guess maybe Wii U side loading, but other than that there's not alot.

What exactly does that mean? Like making USB Loader GX a native Wii U app instead of a vWii app? If that's the desire, I still see no real need for it, once you boot a game it would still have to then boot into the vWii regardless to boot the Wii game, so either way you have to deal with the system changing modes. Unless I misunderstood you and you mean something else.

tmnr1992 · Dec 9, 2022

MikaDubbz said:
I want such a dev to have access to a Wii U for sure. But, genuine question, what more work does USB Loader GX even need at this point? It's not a buggy mess on the Wii or Wii U, and every feature I could think of that I'd want from the loader already exists. I'm sure little things here and there can be done to improve the app, but overall it really feels like it's as polished off as it'll ever really need to be, and has felt that way for quite awhile.

Loading games from an SD card would be a nice feature to have, also being able to disable certaing usb ports at launch, so that I can have both my vWii and Wii U HDDs plugged in at the same time (I've read this is already possible but my Wii U HDD just freezes the loader). I guess it does seem like it has everything most users could possibly need, but there's always room for improvement.

Sypherone · Dec 9, 2022

@MikaDubbz There will be a new version of USB Loader GX with a lot of improvements and debuged bugs. An there are still a lot problems and bugs ideas/features user come up and ask for to solve them. Just look in the USB Loader GX thread or use the search for "USB Loader GX". I am myself decided to write a Troubleshooting guide because of this permanently upcoming requests. As iam not in details but as iam correct, the new version will e.g. give higher compatibility for games, higher compatibility for drives (this is still a major problem), you would be able to launch Wii games from SDCard and Riconnect24 will be implemented as standard. And as you use a vWii drive at same time with a Wii U drive there will be also improvements.

tmnr1992 said:
being able to disable certaing usb ports at launch, so that I can have both my vWii and Wii U HDDs plugged in at the same time (I've read this is already possible but my Wii U HDD just freezes the loader).

Try the ios 58 setup, as its especially for this case.

EldritchPenumbra · Dec 9, 2022

I have one sitting here that I could ship to him if he wants to get in touch with me.

Blauhasenpopo · Dec 9, 2022

EldritchPenumbra said:
I have one sitting here that I could ship to him if he wants to get in touch with me.

That is super kindly and i think it would help him a lot

So i tag him @blackb0x

EldritchPenumbra · Dec 9, 2022

Not a problem at all, I'd gladly like to contribute to anything Wii U related!
I am on restrictions on this site because of my various hate crimes, I.E. my load times are slow, I can't seem to "LIKE" anything, nor can I share links or photos, so in the off chance I can not receive private messages anymore, he can get in touch with me at:

EldritchPenumbra AT zohomail DOT com

Using the title: Wii U Donation

On a side note, for those on this site who like to toy around, this is one of my many burner accounts so I'm not worried about spam in the least.

Anxiety_timmy · Dec 9, 2022

MikaDubbz said:
What exactly does that mean? Like making USB Loader GX a native Wii U app instead of a vWii app? If that's the desire, I still see no real need for it, once you boot a game it would still have to then boot into the vWii regardless to boot the Wii game, so either way you have to deal with the system changing modes. Unless I misunderstood you and you mean something else.

Yeah basically thats what I meant. Something like a ui loader that boots into wii mode with the selected game, unless somehow theres wii code running in Wii U mode

Hayato213 · Dec 9, 2022

Aheago said:
PayPal is known for randomly freezing accounts or holding funds

They are just a mess of a company in general and I no longer trust them. Back in the Xbox 360 days they suspended quite a few accounts of people I know that where involved in the Xbox homebrew scene and that money is still in limbo

But what did the homebrew scene user did to get their paypal account suspended?

r1vver · Dec 9, 2022

Hayato213 said:
But what did the homebrew scene user did to get their paypal account suspended?

homebrew user? most likely sold moonshine

MikaDubbz · Dec 9, 2022

tmnr1992 said:
Loading games from an SD card would be a nice feature to have, also being able to disable certaing usb ports at launch, so that I can have both my vWii and Wii U HDDs plugged in at the same time (I've read this is already possible but my Wii U HDD just freezes the loader). I guess it does seem like it has everything most users could possibly need, but there's always room for improvement.

I have a version of USB Loader GX with SD loading. It was an experimental build from like a year ago (maybe even a bit longer than that), I assumed it had been fully implemented at this point. But I guess not. If you want it I can share the build, not sure if that's alright or not, don't even fully remember who gave it to me, but i have it and it works.

tmnr1992 · Dec 9, 2022

Sypherone said:
@MikaDubbz There will be a new version of USB Loader GX with a lot of improvements and debuged bugs. An there are still a lot problems and bugs ideas/features user come up and ask for to solve them. Just look in the USB Loader GX thread or use the search for "USB Loader GX". I am myself decided to write a Troubleshooting guide because of this permanently upcoming requests. As iam not in details but as iam correct, the new version will e.g. give higher compatibility for games, higher compatibility for drives (this is still a major problem), you would be able to launch Wii games from SDCard and Riconnect24 will be implemented as standard. And as you use a vWii drive at same time with a Wii U drive there will be also improvements.

Try the ios 58 setup, as its especially for this case.

Did you update your guide? I tried it months ago and it didn't work, but I tried it today again and it works great now. So I guess that's one problem solved now. Thanks!

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MikaDubbz said:
I have a version of USB Loader GX with SD loading. It was an experimental build from like a year ago (maybe even a bit longer than that), I assumed it had been fully implemented at this point. But I guess not. If you want it I can share the build, not sure if that's alright or not, don't even fully remember who gave it to me, but i have it and it works.

I just followed Sypherone's troubleshoot guide today and all of a sudden my 2 drives are recognized just fine after following the exact same guide months ago and running into problems, so I guess I won't need SD support now, but thank you anyway.

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