Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

thatfloorguy · Apr 28, 2012

OK I am really having trouble setting this up. I can normally figure these things out but.........after a cpl days of reading/trying I FAIL!!

I am using R258 with plugins pack, D2x v8 final. I have tried wiiflow and Gen plus both from USB1 and SD. USB is dual fat32 partitions, SD is 8 GB SanDiskSD. plugins path= wiiflow/plugins.
I have replaced the Genplus boot.dol with the one from plugins pack and it will run the Devmod version directly from forwarder or HBC. When booting from wiiflow, when I get to Emulators(via cauldron icon) it asks to select partition constantly whether I have it on SD or USB1 it does not see emus.

I am officially lost

bostonBC · Apr 28, 2012

FIX94 said:
bostonBC said:

The sourceforge page for devkitppc r26 is down. Does anyone have an alternate download location? I'm getting errors compiling r269 with the new libogc...

make[1]: stat: btnprevs.png: Bad file number
make[1]: stat: butesoffs.png.o: Bad file number
make[1]: stat: buthsleft.png.o: Bad file number
make[1]: stat: wait_05.png.o: Bad file number

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These are no errors, that just means the compiler loaded too much processes and need to repeat the png files, sometimes that can happen. Sourceforge is online here btw. Yeah I know that you cant really see if it froze or still working, its hard to make a proper wait message, I just dont like the old one I also had the idea to do it like this, this and this.

Thanks, I was finally able to download the r26 update, added the new libogc on top of it and compile without a problem. I did have to remove the -j5 option on the make to avoid the overloading.

The 273 version is VERY slow starting up. I've set the extended game check option to no and it's still very slow loading.

It is also very slow changing categories, almost like it's rebuilding the cache each time. When I exit a game it takes a very long time - a little over a minute to return.

Also - any idea why downloading the GameTDB would hang with the progress bar near the end? This is on a small 16GB flash drive I use for testing and not my 2TB beast so it only has 20 small games on it.

Looks like the usb1_wbfs.db cache is being built correctly - only 13K but in the settings only the gameconfig1.ini and titlesdump.ini got built. The wiitdb.zip has zero bytes.

And my emulated games give a stack dump when starting them.

edit - 274 is also incredibly slow to startup on my 2TB drive with 1100 games. And FWIW - I am using your download, not the one I built.

274 is locking up when I switch from USB to NAND... frozen on the WiiFlow splash screen.

I'm going back to 258 until this works a bit better.

I was never able to get it to return to WiiFlow from an emulated game in 258, it always went back to the main Wii menu. Any ideas?

FIX94 · Apr 28, 2012

Thats really bad to hear how it works for you, because here it is amazingly fast and stable now

edit: heh just deleted settings etc and now it always rebuilds cache here...

murasame72 · Apr 28, 2012

FIX94 said:
murasame72 said:

I've installed the DML 1.3 wad and try to run it using Wiiflow 258 but it seems you're all talking of more recent versions which I cannot find on the dedicated google code page.

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Yeah r258 is the current ready-to-use rev, the newer ones need to be compiled by yourself (well you'll see your lucky today )

murasame72 said:

Also, I've install th pluging pack but it keeps crashing when I click on the nes button in wiiflow. Do I need to remove my wiflow r239's old setting.ini ? Do I need to put my roms at some specific place ?

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Nope, I got some small idea why it crashes already

So yeah, I want a new rev to be tested, r274:
http://www.mediafire...bplccambsmgrlty
It's now fully working with 3tb+ hdds, but I still want a few tests and reports about it. Also please see how the stability is now for you and the wiiflow speed in general. I really suggest you to go into your wiiflow.ini and check if the "cover_buffer" is set to 20, if not then set it to this for speed and stability. Also test the emulator mode if it codedumps still.
If you get any codedump, please make a picture of it and post it here. Thanks.

r274 crashes too when switching to emulator mode (i.e : fceu). Indeed, it is locking up on switching to it... "frozen on the WiiFlow splash screen" as it was previously said.

Yet, I keep wondering if I am doing everything well :

r274 runs from my SD card's apps folder
I uncompressed the plugin pack in SDroot://wiiflow/plugins (again on my SD car
Am I doing something not as it should be ? Should I replace the emulators dols with the ones provided in the plugin pack ?

Additionnaly, I still can't get Pokémon XD (PAL) to work although it is marked as working since dml r59 and the new 1.1.

I'm clueless

FIX94 · Apr 28, 2012

OK, I found the first error, the one why it always freeze when entering emulator view, try r275:
http://www.mediafire.com/?66zmps4s4st9242
I'm still searching the one why it always reload wiiflow game cache...

murasame72 · Apr 28, 2012

FIX94 said:
OK, I found the first error, the one why it always freeze when entering emulator view, try r275:
http://www.mediafire...66zmps4s4st9242
I'm still searching the one why it always reload wiiflow game cache...

Indeed ! At least it's now working for me ! Thanks. Now I've just got to figure out where to put the covers (I haven't had a look at this yet but I guess it should be fairly simple).

FIX94 · Apr 28, 2012

bostonBC said:
edit - 274 is also incredibly slow to startup on my 2TB drive with 1100 games. And FWIW - I am using your download, not the one I built.

You have a NTFS partition? I noticed whats the error on there but no real idea how to fix it

Oh and its the same with r258 for me.

bostonBC · Apr 28, 2012

FIX94 said:
bostonBC said:

edit - 274 is also incredibly slow to startup on my 2TB drive with 1100 games. And FWIW - I am using your download, not the one I built.

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You have a NTFS partition? I noticed whats the error on there but no real idea how to fix it Oh and its the same with r258 for me.

No, I have it formatted as FAT32.

FIX94 · Apr 28, 2012

You may check if the problem started with r260 or r261.

bostonBC · Apr 28, 2012

FIX94 said:
OK, I found the first error, the one why it always freeze when entering emulator view, try r275:
http://www.mediafire...66zmps4s4st9242
I'm still searching the one why it always reload wiiflow game cache...

It is now launching the emulator games with no problem, thanks!

But it is hanging when returning to WiiFlow from the emulated games

I will see which version it started always rebuilding the cache.

Also - any idea why it would hang at the end of it downloading the GameTDB? After waiting 10-15 min I restart and there is a zero length xml file.

edit:

I went back to r258 and it looks like it reloads the cache every time. I even set

extended_list_check=no

and it still takes over a minute to load WiiFlow or return from a Wii game (returning from emulation still doesn't work).

I'll go back further and see when it stopped working.

FIX94 · Apr 28, 2012

What do you mean with it doesnt work? It just blackscreens or freeze on wiiflow logo?

bostonBC · Apr 29, 2012

FIX94 said:
What do you mean with it doesnt work? It just blackscreens or freeze on wiiflow logo?

Blackscreens. I tried deleting all my cache and retrying and now it blackscreens for 10 seconds and then returns to the main wii menu... and yes I do have it set to return to WiiFlow.

Also did you change the format on the categories?

I see them as this now:

[CATEGORIES]
NULNULNULNULNULNUL=/00000000000000000000
ckbe88=/00000000000000000000
dwfa=/00000000000000000000
haaa=/00000000000000000000
haba=/00000000000000000000
The first row has 6 nulls and each row has a / proceeding the categories now. It didn't used to have that. I'm afraid to overlay my category list that doesn't have that. Please let me know if it's a bug or the new format. And what's up with the NULs in the 1st row?

macmanhigh · Apr 29, 2012

FIX94 said:
OK, I found the first error, the one why it always freeze when entering emulator view, try r275:
http://www.mediafire...66zmps4s4st9242
I'm still searching the one why it always reload wiiflow game cache...

THX Budd Gonna test it out.... had the same problem switching to Emu Mode

Awesome work FIX keep it up

nobody_tw · Apr 29, 2012

FIX94 said:
OK, I found the first error, the one why it always freeze when entering emulator view, try r275:
http://www.mediafire...66zmps4s4st9242
I'm still searching the one why it always reload wiiflow game cache...

@[member='FIX94'],
Tested r275. It's OK to me.
No more titles problem.
No more dsi exception.
The loading time is faster too.

Thanks!!

FIX94 · Apr 29, 2012

Good to hear it works at least for a few people fine now.
@[member='bostonBC']:
I played around with it the night and now my HDD doesnt wanna work properly anymore, so please be careful...

FIX94 · Apr 29, 2012

If you guys would please test r277?
http://www.mediafire.com/?daujy3tik46lx7c
Test this especially if you have a 3tb+ hdd, also report back, thanks.
Oh and if you want a forwarder which is 3tb+ compatible here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?is8emtcxjwzkbmr

bostonBC · Apr 29, 2012

FIX94 said:
If you guys would please test r277?
http://www.mediafire...daujy3tik46lx7c
Test this especially if you have a 3tb+ hdd, also report back, thanks.
Oh and if you want a forwarder which is 3tb+ compatible here you go:
http://www.mediafire...is8emtcxjwzkbmr

Thanks, this looks good. I did find the problem with the cache reloading every time. The battery backup in my Wii died and when I turned it off recently and the clock was wrong... it thought the time was a month ago and set the cache file with a date of 3/24 each time. There must be some date logic with the cache that causes it to reload in this scenario.

It is still blackscreening for 10 seconds or so and then returning to the main Wii menu instead of Wiiflow when running emulated games.

I am still seeing problems with the categories and I think I found a new bug too. I went into the help/upgrade screen and after initing the network it found no updates. When I exited all the covers were gone and it showed loading under each cover icon but never loaded the cover. When exiting Wiiflow and then reloading the covers came back but I thought it weird.

Thanks!

FIX94 · Apr 29, 2012

I found my problem too why it always reloaded cache lol, for some reason the ownership of the wbfs folder was the one of some unknown number combination lol, I removed this person of the ownership list and re-added "everyone", now it works again.

fledge68 · Apr 29, 2012

okay I'm back! So what PPC I'm I supposed to be using? r24? r25? r26? and do I need to download anything else like a certain version of libogc or is that all included included in wiiflow wip source?

FIX94 · Apr 29, 2012

Use devkitppc r26 and the latest libogc from google code

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