Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

fledge68 · Jul 4, 2012

VashTS said:
so can anyone tell me how to adjust these two? http://filetrip.net/view?zG5EmEj7Uo

I don't know what parameters its under in the theme ini file.

on a side note, i actually got wii games to launch! i had to go to d2x v9b49, and change emu nand to gamesave only. then i have to set the IOS (i think so, ref back to picture i can't really see it due to overlapping) and it works! bit of a pain in the ass but it works at least.

well it appears there is 3 options in that mess. i moved IOS. but i don't know the other two.

i found the options! yeahhh! but the only problem is that i didn't change the IOS, i changed the nand emu setting. nand emu is not working for me in wiiflow any longer. it was working when overjoy fixed it. and it still works in other apps. oh well, not a biggie im sure it will be worked on.

That looks like an old theme. It definetly doesn't look like any I've modified. I'll check when I get a chance to get on the Wii. just checked - That's not any I've posted. You might want to try the pack in my sig.

@[member='massiverican'] can the fanart be converted to custom banners?

FIX94 · Jul 4, 2012

So yeah, here is the final look I suppose:
[yt]s9IcrWLgz_k[/yt]
And a download link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?elk02xsqaa00ohs

Catastrophic · Jul 4, 2012

FIX94 said:
So yeah, here is the final look I suppose:
[yt]s9IcrWLgz_k[/yt]
And a download link:
http://www.mediafire...elk02xsqaa00ohs

That looks amazing! It's been a long time since I last used Wiiflow

matto21 · Jul 4, 2012

FIX94 said:
So yeah, here is the final look I suppose:
[yt]s9IcrWLgz_k[/yt]
And a download link:
http://www.mediafire...elk02xsqaa00ohs

this is amazing
thanks FIX94

drakorex · Jul 4, 2012

Great job on the banners, Fix94. I do however have some issues. Tried 530,Every now and again I get a random code dump when browsing games. On top of that, it has a problem loading all the covers in one pass. I have to keep reloading the cache when it fails to load a cover. After a certain point, it refused to load anymore at all. I had to create a second cache and load the ones that didn't load and combine them. Perhaps a memory issue.

Also I have a request. Could you add the game settings button when in full banner view? I've noticed that when banners are playing, they persist when going to the game settings, I dunno if this was intentional, but if it is, it'd be nice to have full screen banners there too.

Another thing I noticed was the PoP TFS didn't want to play the banner or even launch at first. I had to do a clean install for it to work. (Spectrobes Origins stopped working altogether. When I use USB Loader GX, it shows as an empty selectable space when in banner view. Might be a different problem altogether.)

Finally, maybe a sky high fantasy, but now that Wiiflow supports banners, Would it be possible to incorporate a banner into themes? It would be sort of a living background. (wiiflow orange forwarder banner with the matching theme would look sweet.)

Great job, keep it coming.

kineticUk · Jul 4, 2012

Looks excellent, thank you FIX94.

One request if its ok, would it be possible to add an option to leave the banner security check on, if you are not using custom banners?

bostonBC · Jul 4, 2012

FIX94 said:
So yeah, here is the final look I suppose:
[yt]s9IcrWLgz_k[/yt]
And a download link:
http://www.mediafire...elk02xsqaa00ohs

I've been playing with r535 for a while and it looks awesome! The lag in displaying banners while switching games is gone.

WiiFlow is the best USB loader out there by far. With all the updates and fixes you and the team have done in these past months it has surpassed my wildest expectations.

Thank you very much for all of your hard work.

thatfloorguy · Jul 4, 2012

First off Thanks again for all the work you guys put into this, these revs are flying out!!
I just updated to 522 and forcing NTSC in main loader settings doesn't work. In order to play any PAL game on my console I have to set default to NTSC in main loader settings, as well as in each individual PAL game setting.

Etheboss · Jul 5, 2012

bostonBC said:
FIX94 said:

So yeah, here is the final look I suppose:

[yt]s9IcrWLgz_k[/yt]
And a download link:
http://www.mediafire...elk02xsqaa00ohs

Click to expand...

I've been playing with r535 for a while and it looks awesome! The lag in displaying banners while switching games is gone.

WiiFlow is the best USB loader out there by far. With all the updates and fixes you and the team have done in these past months it has surpassed my wildest expectations.

Thank you very much for all of your hard work.

I second that.

FIX94 · Jul 5, 2012

kineticUK said:
Looks excellent, thank you FIX94.

One request if its ok, would it be possible to add an option to leave the banner security check on, if you are not using custom banners?

Yeah thats a good idea, done that now in r536

Thanks for the positive feedback, I hope wiiflow works still fine for everyone.

Jiiwah · Jul 5, 2012

VashTS said:
so can anyone tell me how to adjust these two? http://filetrip.net/view?zG5EmEj7Uo

I don't know what parameters its under in the theme ini file.

on a side note, i actually got wii games to launch! i had to go to d2x v9b49, and change emu nand to gamesave only. then i have to set the IOS (i think so, ref back to picture i can't really see it due to overlapping) and it works! bit of a pain in the ass but it works at least.

well it appears there is 3 options in that mess. i moved IOS. but i don't know the other two.

i found the options! yeahhh! but the only problem is that i didn't change the IOS, i changed the nand emu setting. nand emu is not working for me in wiiflow any longer. it was working when overjoy fixed it. and it still works in other apps. oh well, not a biggie im sure it will be worked on.

Have a look here : http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__4285299

and as I said in this post ,I want a favor for categories and plugins screens ,if possible of course.
I really don't like the checkbox system ,I think this does not correspond to the graphic style of WiiFlow.
So for my theme I changed the checkbox system by the old system, with buttons. But there is a problem ,the text is under the button. Here are 2 screenshots :

My wish is to have text over the buttons.
I think and hope that will not break the checkbox system.

thx

bostonBC · Jul 5, 2012

Jiiwah said:
VashTS said:

so can anyone tell me how to adjust these two? http://filetrip.net/view?zG5EmEj7Uo

I don't know what parameters its under in the theme ini file.

on a side note, i actually got wii games to launch! i had to go to d2x v9b49, and change emu nand to gamesave only. then i have to set the IOS (i think so, ref back to picture i can't really see it due to overlapping) and it works! bit of a pain in the ass but it works at least.

well it appears there is 3 options in that mess. i moved IOS. but i don't know the other two.

i found the options! yeahhh! but the only problem is that i didn't change the IOS, i changed the nand emu setting. nand emu is not working for me in wiiflow any longer. it was working when overjoy fixed it. and it still works in other apps. oh well, not a biggie im sure it will be worked on.

Click to expand...

Have a look here : http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__4285299

and as I said in this post ,I want a favor for categories and plugins screens ,if possible of course.
I really don't like the checkbox system ,I think this does not correspond to the graphic style of WiiFlow.
So for my theme I changed the checkbox system by the old system, with buttons. But there is a problem ,the text is under the button. Here are 2 screenshots :

My wish is to have text over the buttons.
I think and hope that will not break the checkbox system.

thx

I for one like the check boxes - they look a lot better than the old buttons we had. And I have never seen a multi-select button interface. Usually a button is for an immediate action rather than group selections.

Maxternal · Jul 5, 2012

bostonBC said:
Jiiwah said:

VashTS said:

so can anyone tell me how to adjust these two? http://filetrip.net/view?zG5EmEj7Uo
I don't know what parameters its under in the theme ini file.
on a side note, i actually got wii games to launch! i had to go to d2x v9b49, and change emu nand to gamesave only. then i have to set the IOS (i think so, ref back to picture i can't really see it due to overlapping) and it works! bit of a pain in the ass but it works at least.
well it appears there is 3 options in that mess. i moved IOS. but i don't know the other two.
i found the options! yeahhh! but the only problem is that i didn't change the IOS, i changed the nand emu setting. nand emu is not working for me in wiiflow any longer. it was working when overjoy fixed it. and it still works in other apps. oh well, not a biggie im sure it will be worked on.

Click to expand...

Have a look here : http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__4285299
and as I said in this post ,I want a favor for categories and plugins screens ,if possible of course.
I really don't like the checkbox system ,I think this does not correspond to the graphic style of WiiFlow.
So for my theme I changed the checkbox system by the old system, with buttons. But there is a problem ,the text is under the button. Here are 2 screenshots :

My wish is to have text over the buttons.
I think and hope that will not break the checkbox system.
thx

Click to expand...

I for one like the check boxes - they look a lot better than the old buttons we had. And I have never seen a multi-select button interface. Usually a button is for an immediate action rather than group selections.

I guess it's a matter of asthetics and personal preference if one wants to use selectable buttons, check boxes or little pictures of cats and dogs when making up themes. (the language settings for downloadable covers are buttons and they're still multi select) I can see his point, though, that if you were to choose an image that overlaps the area used for text (for example, a glowing highlight around the selected box might overlap into that area a bit) it would be preferrable that the text were on top of the image. it wouldn't have any effect on the default check box which is completely apart from the text are.

(Come to think of it, just using a single flag and the already present checkbox images for the language selection would probably save on space as far as the DOL size, for what it's worth.)

Onanghy · Jul 5, 2012

Maxternal said:
Onanghy said:

Maxternal said:

Onanghy said:

Onanghy said:

Something is wrong with the disc button, when i try to play a game via disc drive and press the drive icon i get a black screen.. i use r513, is the same thing with r506 but with r428 is working fine.

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Please... Nobody help me...

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I hope to remember to try that when I get home.

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Oh.. thanks, I appreciate your help...

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I can officially confirm now that the disk button is broken in r506. I load a Wii game and it hangs at a black screen and Ii have to forcefully power down. The next time I run wiiflow, the game selected from the hard was the one on the hard drive. Gamecubve games, on the other hand, Do run the MIOS because I get the DIOS MIOS splash screen but DM isn't compatible with disk cames yet to my knowledge. One way or the other it gets stuck on that screen.

Please... Somebody can fix this issue...

AbdallahTerro · Jul 5, 2012

Banners are cool but here's my problem:
since BNR_cache was introduced I constantly get codedumps when I set banners folder to USB1:\whatever
having banners folder on SD works fine but I don't have enough space there for my 600 Wii/GC/Wiiware games
Temporary measure: back to old wiiflow with no banner support
Can we disable banner support in wiiflow.ini using latest rev? ofc until this bug is fixed

P.S. using data_on_usb option didn't help
Launching Wiiflow from USB also didn't fix my issue (I usually have it on SD)

what's use_full_banners option for?

Thanks

pepxl · Jul 5, 2012

MassiveRican said:
#7 : My vote goes to the first one, although I guess there is a technical limitation that doesn't allow it's fruition. The second gif is cool but I think that the flow motion should belong to the whole word "WiiFlow" and not just "Flow", it would look better in my opinion. Although at heart I still love the old school dot..dot..dot that used to be the WiiFlow logo

bostonBC said:

pepxl said:

OK, quickly done this while i had a spare min, but off to do work work now

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That is very nice but the app is currently set to display 1 of 5 png's with a .3 second delay between each. I dummied these up but I like the original dot..dot one.

(http://makeagif.com/i/d0Y2aj)

Click to expand...

Just putting my small 2 cents out there since most of these ideas I'm just agreeing with and riding on lol. Can't say it enough fix excellent work thus far, you haven't ceased to impress me with how far and fast WiiFlow is evolving.

You might like this, its currently the loading screen i use at the moment when compiling modified builds, 10 frames

Jiiwah · Jul 5, 2012

bostonBC said:
I for one like the check boxes - they look a lot better than the old buttons we had. And I have never seen a multi-select button interface. Usually a button is for an immediate action rather than group selections.

This is your point of view ,not mine. My wish does not interfere in any way default theme ,so where is the problem?
Any themers can do what they want with their themes ,and I don't want checkbox if possible.
And I'm not going to force anybody to use my themes ,if you don't like it, don't use it!!

fledge68 · Jul 5, 2012

Jiiwah said:
VashTS said:

so can anyone tell me how to adjust these two? http://filetrip.net/view?zG5EmEj7Uo

I don't know what parameters its under in the theme ini file.

on a side note, i actually got wii games to launch! i had to go to d2x v9b49, and change emu nand to gamesave only. then i have to set the IOS (i think so, ref back to picture i can't really see it due to overlapping) and it works! bit of a pain in the ass but it works at least.

well it appears there is 3 options in that mess. i moved IOS. but i don't know the other two.

i found the options! yeahhh! but the only problem is that i didn't change the IOS, i changed the nand emu setting. nand emu is not working for me in wiiflow any longer. it was working when overjoy fixed it. and it still works in other apps. oh well, not a biggie im sure it will be worked on.

Click to expand...

Have a look here : http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__4285299

and as I said in this post ,I want a favor for categories and plugins screens ,if possible of course.
I really don't like the checkbox system ,I think this does not correspond to the graphic style of WiiFlow.
So for my theme I changed the checkbox system by the old system, with buttons. But there is a problem ,the text is under the button. Here are 2 screenshots :

My wish is to have text over the buttons.
I think and hope that will not break the checkbox system.

thx

Jiiwah - try r538. If this doesn't help my suggestion is to use the starnight favorites icon to replace the checkboxes.

@[member='bostonbc'] don't worry I like the checkboxes too.

bostonBC · Jul 5, 2012

fledge68 said:
Jiiwah said:

VashTS said:

so can anyone tell me how to adjust these two? http://filetrip.net/view?zG5EmEj7Uo

I don't know what parameters its under in the theme ini file.

on a side note, i actually got wii games to launch! i had to go to d2x v9b49, and change emu nand to gamesave only. then i have to set the IOS (i think so, ref back to picture i can't really see it due to overlapping) and it works! bit of a pain in the ass but it works at least.

well it appears there is 3 options in that mess. i moved IOS. but i don't know the other two.

i found the options! yeahhh! but the only problem is that i didn't change the IOS, i changed the nand emu setting. nand emu is not working for me in wiiflow any longer. it was working when overjoy fixed it. and it still works in other apps. oh well, not a biggie im sure it will be worked on.

Click to expand...

Have a look here : http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__4285299

and as I said in this post ,I want a favor for categories and plugins screens ,if possible of course.
I really don't like the checkbox system ,I think this does not correspond to the graphic style of WiiFlow.
So for my theme I changed the checkbox system by the old system, with buttons. But there is a problem ,the text is under the button. Here are 2 screenshots :

My wish is to have text over the buttons.
I think and hope that will not break the checkbox system.

thx

Click to expand...

Jiiwah - try r538. If this doesn't help my suggestion is to use the starnight favorites icon to replace the checkboxes.

@[member='bostonbc'] don't worry I like the checkboxes too.

No worries, not much gets me riled up. After 30+ years of software development I know a little about UI and some things work/look better than others that people have standardized on

bostonBC · Jul 5, 2012

Jiiwah said:
bostonBC said:

I for one like the check boxes - they look a lot better than the old buttons we had. And I have never seen a multi-select button interface. Usually a button is for an immediate action rather than group selections.

Click to expand...

This is your point of view ,not mine. My wish does not interfere in any way default theme ,so where is the problem?
Any themers can do what they want with their themes ,and I don't want checkbox if possible.
And I'm not going to force anybody to use my themes ,if you don't like it, don't use it!!

I meant no offense, I love the work you have done on themes - it is most appreciated. I was just stating my view that a multi-select button interface is not standard. If you want to add it to your themes cool.

What many folks are doing these days in checkbox multi-select is to not just allow clicking on the checkbox but to allow clicking on the text/graphic associated with the checkbox to change the status. That has the same effect of the 'button' but the visual change is still on the checkbox and not on the text/graphic. Some checkbox multi-selects change colors of the selected items as well to give another representation of the change but that is used less.

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