Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

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Just uploaded r431 to google code ;)

This is a true WIP release, all reports about broken NAND Emulation will be deleted, its well known :P Its now broken for about two weeks (reason why they was no release last week) but now at least save emulation works.
Changes to r348 are that NAND extract and save emulation should work again (as said channel launching is still broken), added an Age Lock to the parental control menu, you can select an age from 2-19, where any game rated above is not displayed, it uses the age from the region of the game, 19 is all games. 2 is basically none, because the rating systems start at 3. You can override the rating by creating an age_lock.ini file. Just add the id under the domain heading and set it to an age, to set Call of Duty: Black Ops to an age of 5 you would enter this: "[GAMES] SC7E52=5"
The linker script now is finally gone, fixed fatal memory bugs, fixed a bug in ios reload, fixed a few greenscreens, fixed random flicker of previous images in wait message, fix for categories crashing in plugin coverflow, fixed missing background music, set up HDD cache, makes wiiflow alot of faster now, cleaned up and corrected whole wii game booting code, faster now, categories should be found faster now, made a few more and better debug prints, NSMBW and Prince of Persia now will be proper patched (may fixes problems for some people), fixed a few typos, made wait message faster and safer, fixed random codedump and problem if partition is set to -1 that it didnt set it to 0 (sd card) automatically, stop empty covers from being created, fixed case-sensitive OS compiling errors, limiting mem1 usage (still more than we use), moved quite alot things down to mem1, just faster, added some small check to see if path is valid, sometimes it codedumped on game path check, added option to select preferred plugin coverflow mode for plugins via source select menu, booting gamecube games should be faster too now, made homebrew booting more safe, shouldnt blackscreen or codedump anymore, added subdirectory reading for background music and plugin coverflow, enabled randomize_music by default, fix for plugin coverflow now it should show up right and be able to adjust it, fixed reading scummvm games from sd card, adjusted d-pad mode - now if you select the view you're already on it will show homebrew view, hopefully keep weird characters and names out of categories.ini, return to system menu should be a bit more safe now, added support for MPlayerCE (see new plugin pack update), homebrew now return to wiiflow too if the wad from the plugin pack v2 is installed, otherwise homebrew just returns to system menu, removed ios reload block disable, added possibility to delete files in plugin coverflow, changed wiiflows input, now doesnt reset cursor position if you click on some button, also if the cursor gets hidden the position doesnt reset anymore if you move it again, you can now use L and R on classic controller to fast scroll through covers and switch between menu pages instead of + and -, fixed bin and iso files not displayed in plugin coverflow, removed hide settings button if no game found to reload cache, removed ignore case in ntfs lib to show things properly, dont forget to reload cache if you use ntfs, made wiiflow smaller (its back on 3mb now), general code cleanup, all in all wiiflow is just faster now than before, but we are still not done with everything ;)
 

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Very excited now. Will have to try later. Must ask though, all my movies are in sub-folders. Will they be recognized?
Sure, added reading subfolders a few days ago :)


Ok got my movies on usb1.....now they loaded but not all

only a few and not reading subfolders i.e. i have

Movies/
Series & Shows
Anime
Music Videos

random video files show....only good thing is covers r showing
if your having trouble getting movies to show.(an they will play.).. just add it to the ini.(in the plugins folder,not mplayer) i had to add DIVX an now all my movies show. now what size are my covers "supposed" to be. :) guess it's time to splurge on 1tb hard drive :)
 

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Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get the latest version running properly after many months not using my wii (was using the old wiiflow)...

Can anyone using emulated Nand on SD can give me a few tips when setting up for the first time... Its the one thing I cannot get working yet
(I used to use savegame emulation off usb nand but would prefer to use SD now its possible)

I read online that set partition to 0 = SD and that I don't need to put the paths in all the different sections, that wiiflow will default to the path in the nand part of the settings file.

Do I need to specify SD in the path also? sg sd:/nand
If anyone uses the SD and has a settings file I can copy off or something.

Hopefully I'll get USB working until I can figure out a way around this but appreciate any advice. I'm using the most compatible SD card I have which works with bootmii and sneek.

But anyway I think this new version is fantastic, thanks FIX94 and all involved seems like there has been a lot of work put into it :)
 

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I updated to latest rev and plugin selection screen works now :)
I have to say that I really miss the old buttons though.
Thanks guys, hope to see Nand Emulation working again.
Thanks Fledge, I cleaned the plugin folder and only kept the inis and the dols for the plugin selection to work
 

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OK Updated to latest Rev....

Wii Games = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow
Fceugx = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow
Snes9xgx = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow
Genplus GX = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow
VBAgx = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow
Wii64 = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow
Mplayerce = Loads fine exits to Wiiflow.....Still not showing Subfolders just files in main Movies folder.Covers show fine actually looks good......

1 thing i noticed immediately was the Speed....everything is loading lighting quick :D Amazed at the progress budds finally having my movie library integrated is Fudgin sweet
Any way to add WiiMC to the Mix??? Mplayerce is a good barebones player but i prefer WiiMC as its features make it mare user friendly...
 

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so is it possible to pass arguments to mplayerce, meaning can i have a container file in my directory that points to an SMB share and loads the movie from that?

I would love to use the mplayer plugin (i referenced doing this a WHILE ago) but i do not keep movies on my wii hdd, they stay on pc and play through SMB. basically what i'm asking is kind of this

wiiflow plugin mode -> mplayer directory has config file which points to smb share file -> wiiflow loads mplayer -> loads the smb shared movie and plays it.
 

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mplayer ce plugin need partition choice ^^'
well then re code it. it's not the plug in that has the "partition" choice. it's mplayer. plugin just points to mplayer. while your at it. also make mplayer load from users choice of usb port.
 

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Arguing over themes is pointless. Open source is Open source. If someone wants to modify anything then they are entitled to do so, for better or for worse. Some very clever people started this ball rolling and I think it's fantastic that so much functionality has been added in the past month or two - themes would not be there without the original product so "new" themes are normally variations of old ones anyway, so you can't lay claim to them as "yours".
Stop the insults and grow up.
 
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ok, if all of you think that he can do everything with my work, do it fledge.
it's time for me to turn the page
 

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This is by no mean complete or final, just a quick draft, I'll make some HQ pngs later is the ppl like the idea:
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Hi,

Is it possible to run last WiiFlow r431 from uneek2o+di setup?
I start wiiflow from uneek2o. Then i see the wiiflow logo and the disc-led goes on/off.
After a while the disc-led goes off and the wii menu ist booting again.

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Wonderdoc
 

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thanks guys for all your support. I know you all got tired of waiting for themes to be updated like i did. but let's move on now and get back to WiiFlow and help Fix94 make it even better. :)

@abdallahterro - nice pics! looking good.
 
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Hey, no thats not possible, usb loaders are real nand.
OK thanks.
At the moment i use overjoy's Wiiflow-mod called joyflow.
So Wiiflow not run on emuNAND, i will go back to use joyflow for the moment.
Did you mean, that Wiiflow-mod will run on emuNAND in the future? Or is there no way?
 

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