Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

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I made a small updated/mod version in order to have WiiFlow to be
compatible with the latest Nintendont(EX:Native Control, Video Deflicker on/off)
and to be able to use ocarina/cheat
in Nintendont. You can either copy .gct file to the default path
(EX: /wiiflow/codes/gct ) or to download/make cheat file from WiiFlow
directly.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/h51qel
The changes/patch file is in the attached below.

Thank-You, Going to try it out today!!!! :yaywii:
I've been waiting for GC cheats in winflow.
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Tried it, crashes if you hit the Home button or load a GC game. Wii games still work ok.
I deleted the winflow.ini, didn't help.
Deleted the whole winflow dir, except the emu-nand & box covers, didn't help.
Guess it needs debugging.
 

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Thank-You, Going to try it out today!!!! :yaywii:
I've been waiting for GC cheats in winflow.
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Tried it, crashes if you hit the Home button or load a GC game. Wii games still work ok.
I deleted the winflow.ini, didn't help.
Deleted the whole winflow dir, except the emu-nand & box covers, didn't help.
Guess it needs debugging.

Treid it to, same problem with home button
 

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Hello good people.

I need some help.
When i play snes emulator with Gamecube controler i have massive delay between the buttons actions. I tryed replace .dol i find in that post (Link) but snes9gx wont load. I have AbdallahTerro pack.
Thanks in advance.
 

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Could somebody tell me why wiiflow 4.2.1 freezes for me at the boot screen? It doesn't get any further then that. Cfg usb and Usbloader gx
work fine, home-brew and everything else does too, so I'm certain this is a wiiflow specific issue. It was working before then I edited wiiflow.ini to find my nand
path and now it don't start. I just get the blue flashing light and it stays stuck on the boot screen. I thought I'd post here cause my other wiiflow post didn't get
any replys. If anybody needs a system check or anything please let me know. Might reformat my sd, and see if that does the trick. Rather odd though that after editing the wiiflow.ini for my nand, that the nand now works in cfg usb and usbloadergx, and wiiflow don't even start. Any help would be much appreciated on this.

P.S. Like all the problems I've had in the past, with a little trial and error I was able to just put
the new dol from the master pack and it worked fine. I wasn't deleting the folder that has the covers
and all that other stuff on the root of the sd. Was just always deleting the one in the apps folder. lol!!
 

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Does anyone know how to get Wiiflow emulator plugins working in neek2o? I've tried gensplusgx and snes9xgx, they both work fine standalone or launched from wiiflow on realnand, but give stack errors or black screens through neek2o.
 

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Sry for doublepost...

I got a problem here:
Wiiflow recognizes all my Gamecube games (I use Nintendont v2.253), shows the covers and banners...

But evertime I start a Gamecube game in Wiiflow I only get a black screen and Wiiflow reboots after a few seconds!
When I start the same games in the homebrewchannel they work fine.

(I use an older version of Wiiflow - 4.1.3-r439, because I made a custom theme for it and I'd love to keep it.)

What am I doing wrong? Please help:-(
 

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Sry for doublepost...

I got a problem here:
Wiiflow recognizes all my Gamecube games (I use Nintendont v2.253), shows the covers and banners...

But evertime I start a Gamecube game in Wiiflow I only get a black screen and Wiiflow reboots after a few seconds!
When I start the same games in the homebrewchannel they work fine.

(I use an older version of Wiiflow - 4.1.3-r439, because I made a custom theme for it and I'd love to keep it.)

What am I doing wrong? Please help:-(

You're not gonna get [any recent version of] Nintendont working on that version of Wiiflow, it's probably trying to boot through Dios Mios and I suspect you're missing the mIOS. DM/Devo is your only option if you really must stay on that rev - why not backup, try the latest wiiflow, and see what kind of changes are needed to get your custom theme working on it? Might be little more than a few position changes after all...
 
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You're not gonna get [any recent version of] Nintendont working on that version of Wiiflow, it's probably trying to boot through Dios Mios and I suspect you're missing the mIOS. DM/Devo is your only option if you really must stay on that rev - why not backup, try the latest wiiflow, and see what kind of changes are needed to get your custom theme working on it? Might be little more than a few position changes after all...
Thank You for your reply!

I rebuilt my theme for the newest WiiFlow...

But: does anyody know how to start my Gamecube-games using Nintendont?
Everytime I load a Gamecube-game through Wiiflow I come to the Nintendont Menu and where I have to start the game manually.
Can't I load it directly - so that I klick at the Gamecover in Wiiflow and the game starts?
 

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Kirby Dream collection won't run the games, but cfgusbloader does, cfgusbloader uses 249 and I force wiiflow to use 249 but all I get is black screen.
 

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I made a small updated/mod version in order to have WiiFlow to be
compatible with the latest Nintendont(EX:Native Control, Video Deflicker on/off)
and to be able to use ocarina/cheat
in Nintendont...
The changes/patch file is in the attached below.

Hey airline38, can you also update the source/patch of your Wiiflow_r1076_mod6?
(http://mail.gbatemp.net/threads/wiiflow-an-open-source-gui-usb-loader.204106/page-785#post-5163004)
Thanks in advance.

Kirby Dream collection won't run the games, but cfgusbloader does, cfgusbloader uses 249 and I force wiiflow to use 249 but all I get is black screen.

I run this game on Wiiflow (r1076) with ios=Auto (my wii is NTSC and have cIOS d2x-v10-beta52) and default for the other options. Perhaps you should also force the video to NTSC.
 

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I made a small updated/mod version in order to have WiiFlow to be
compatible with the latest Nintendont(EX:Native Control, Video Deflicker on/off)
and to be able to use ocarina/cheat
in Nintendont. You can either copy .gct file to the default path
(EX: /wiiflow/codes/gct ) or to download/make cheat file from WiiFlow
directly.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/nt5vne
The changes/patch file is in the attached below.
Tried to launch this today to compare an issue with Abz mod that I'm having but I can't even launch it, it stacks dump during WiiFlow loading screen, clean install on both USB/SD and same thing happens. I transferred the imgs folder from official 4.2.1 and inserted it in your folder airline38. Using a Wii U. Any chance if I post the stack dump it might help figure out the problem?
 

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Tried to launch this today to compare an issue with Abz mod that I'm having but I can't even launch it, it stacks dump during WiiFlow loading screen, clean install on both USB/SD and same thing happens. I transferred the imgs folder from official 4.2.1 and inserted it in your folder airline38. Using a Wii U. Any chance if I post the stack dump it might help figure out the problem?

Have you replaced the "bins" folder ? It's necessary.
 

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Have you replaced the "bins" folder ? It's necessary.
Yes I used your bins folder, dol and the imgs folder from the original 4.2.1 r1076 release. Right now the only issue I'm having with the Abz mastermod is that it won't launch Nintendont at all. Forget autoboot, it won't even launch into Nintendont period. The stack dump is so immediate I don't even think that settings get written to wiiflow.ini under the [DML] section.

I'm able to launch GC games normally with Just Nintendont and USBL-GX, but I want it to work in WiiFlow. Here's a quick recap and a dump that I'm getting whenever I choose a game in WiiFlow with abz mastermod.

Settings
Wii U
Nintendont rev 2.65
Use HID yes
Default GC loader Nintendont/WiiFlow.ini says 2
Emumc enabled 251 I don't think I have a choice in WiiFlow. Left it at 251 in Nintendont no multi.
Downloaded controllers.zip and using Wavebird with official Nintendo GC adapter.(I've tried to put the controller.ini on the root of my USB device as well and have scrapped HID entirely and attempted to just use bluetooth devices. Everything works as long as I don't try to launch a game with WiiFlow.)
Deleted nincfg.bin still a no go.
IMG_3507_zpsc8a50f24.jpg
I get the same dump everytime, it's constant and immediate. I can take a video with all my settings and how the dump occurs if it helps.

airline38 I have not attempted to launch your MOD more than a few times. I'll give it a few more attempts prior to linking the dump I get when launching. All I need is to replace the bins folder and boot.dol of the official WiiFlow 4.2.1 app and launch with a clean install correct?
 

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airline38 I have not attempted to launch your MOD more than a few times. I'll give it a few more attempts prior to linking the dump I get when launching. All I need is to replace the bins folder and boot.dol of the official WiiFlow 4.2.1 app and launch with a clean install correct?[/quote]
Maybe you can try to use a different SD card or USB FAT32 device with a clean 4.2.1
(\apps\wiiflow and \wiiflow ) then replace "bins" and boot.dol.
Sometimes I try this way if I get a code dump issue.
 

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Maybe you can try to use a different SD card or USB FAT32 device with a clean 4.2.1
(\apps\wiiflow and \wiiflow ) then replace "bins" and boot.dol.
Sometimes I try this way if I get a code dump issue.
T'sup airline, just a heads up on my progress. I tried 3 different devices, an SD card, my main HDD and a flash drive. All 3 dump on me during while trying to boot into WFMod6. All I see is the WiiFlow loading splash screen followed by this. Clean installs with all 3 devices, same dump everytime tried on a Wii and Wii U.
IMG_3512_zps91426fe2.jpg
Anything useful there?
 

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Sorry for the double post but figured it would be nice to have this separate. I managed to get WiiFlow working with Nintendont somewhat. I can launch Nintendont through the Homebrew view and it will autoboot the last game I chose in Nintendont, when I use the exit to loader combo voila I'm back in WiiFlow. However I still can't click on a cover in GC view and launch the game I want. It goes straight to dump. Here's a log with Abz Mastermod 1076 this time and a few attempts at launching a GC game through Nintendont no HID, one with force cIOS on and one w/o.

Code:
Welcome to WiiFlow (Beta 4.2.3 Mod-r1075)!
This is the debug output.
vWii Mode
Real Wii
WiiFlow is in real nand mode
IOS58 v6432
patched isfs_permissions 1 times.
patched es_setuid 1 times.
patched es_identify 1 times.
patched hash_check 0 times.
patched new_hash_check 1 times.
Init ISFS
Found WiiFlow Save
FAT Partition at sd: mounted.
Changing USB port to port 0....
* * * * * * * * * * * *
* HDD Information
* Sectors: 3907029167
* Size [Sector Size]: 1.956 TB [512]
* * * * * * * * * * * *
FAT Partition at usb1: mounted.
NTFS Partition at usb2: mounted.
SHND: Running sound thread
Wiiflow boot.dol Location: usb1:/apps/wiiflow
Wii Games Directory: %s:/wbfs
m_mios_ver = 0; m_sd_dm = 0; m_new_dml = 0; m_new_dm_cfg = 0
Loading cIOS map
Found d2x base 56 in slot 249
Found d2x base 57 in slot 250
Found d2x base 58 in slot 251
Data Directory: usb2:/wiiflow
Nintendont found
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 23
start
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 516
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 10
Update Play log
Launching game GM4E01
 
Welcome to WiiFlow (Beta 4.2.3 Mod-r1075)!
This is the debug output.
vWii Mode
Real Wii
WiiFlow is in real nand mode
IOS58 v6432
patched isfs_permissions 1 times.
patched es_setuid 1 times.
patched es_identify 1 times.
patched hash_check 0 times.
patched new_hash_check 1 times.
Init ISFS
Found WiiFlow Save
FAT Partition at sd: mounted.
Changing USB port to port 0....
* * * * * * * * * * * *
* HDD Information
* Sectors: 3907029167
* Size [Sector Size]: 1.956 TB [512]
* * * * * * * * * * * *
FAT Partition at usb1: mounted.
NTFS Partition at usb2: mounted.
SHND: Running sound thread
Wiiflow boot.dol Location: usb1:/apps/wiiflow
Wii Games Directory: %s:/wbfs
m_mios_ver = 0; m_sd_dm = 0; m_new_dml = 0; m_new_dm_cfg = 0
Loading cIOS map
Found d2x base 56 in slot 249
Found d2x base 57 in slot 250
Found d2x base 58 in slot 251
Data Directory: usb2:/wiiflow
Nintendont found
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 516
start
 
Welcome to WiiFlow (Beta 4.2.3 Mod-r1075)!
This is the debug output.
Real Wii
WiiFlow is in real nand mode
IOS58 v6432
patched isfs_permissions 0 times.
patched es_setuid 0 times.
patched es_identify 0 times.
patched hash_check 0 times.
patched new_hash_check 0 times.
Init ISFS
Found WiiFlow Save
Loading IOS Settings from NAND
Reloading into IOS 249 from 58...
Deinit ISFS
AHBPROT after IOS Reload: 0
patched isfs_permissions 0 times.
Init ISFS
D2X IOS249[56] v10
FAT Partition at sd: mounted.
Changing USB port to port 0....
* * * * * * * * * * * *
* HDD Information
* Sectors: 3907029167
* Size [Sector Size]: 1.956 TB [512]
* * * * * * * * * * * *
FAT Partition at usb1: mounted.
NTFS Partition at usb2: mounted.
SHND: Running sound thread
Wiiflow boot.dol Location: usb1:/apps/wiiflow
Wii Games Directory: %s:/wbfs
m_mios_ver = 0; m_sd_dm = 0; m_new_dml = 0; m_new_dm_cfg = 0
Loading cIOS map
Found d2x base 56 in slot 249
Found d2x base 57 in slot 250
Found d2x base 58 in slot 251
Data Directory: usb2:/wiiflow
Nintendont found
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 516
start
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 10
Update Play log
Launching game GM4E01
 
Welcome to WiiFlow (Beta 4.2.3 Mod-r1075)!
This is the debug output.
vWii Mode
Real Wii
WiiFlow is in real nand mode
IOS58 v6432
patched isfs_permissions 1 times.
patched es_setuid 1 times.
patched es_identify 1 times.
patched hash_check 0 times.
patched new_hash_check 1 times.
Init ISFS
Found WiiFlow Save
Loading IOS Settings from NAND
Reloading into IOS 249 from 58...
Deinit ISFS
AHBPROT after IOS Reload: 1
patched isfs_permissions 0 times.
Init ISFS
D2X IOS249[56] v10
FAT Partition at sd: mounted.
Changing USB port to port 0....
* * * * * * * * * * * *
* HDD Information
* Sectors: 3907029167
* Size [Sector Size]: 1.956 TB [512]
* * * * * * * * * * * *
FAT Partition at usb1: mounted.
NTFS Partition at usb2: mounted.
SHND: Running sound thread
Wiiflow boot.dol Location: usb1:/apps/wiiflow
Wii Games Directory: %s:/wbfs
m_mios_ver = 0; m_sd_dm = 0; m_new_dml = 0; m_new_dm_cfg = 0
Loading cIOS map
Found d2x base 56 in slot 249
Found d2x base 57 in slot 250
Found d2x base 58 in slot 251
Data Directory: usb2:/wiiflow
Nintendont found
Creating Gamelist
Games found: 516
start
Cleanup Coverflow
SHND: Stopping sound thread
SHND: Stopped sound thread
MEM1_freesize(): 10436592
MEM2_freesize(): 39331584
Doesn't look like there's much there that could help but hey you never know right.

I've also tried deleting WiiFlow Save on NAND and deleted nincfg.bin, several times. I don't know what the hell is going on considering USBL-GX does launch Nintendont for me. I assume it should be something on my end, but I've tried just about everything I can think of. every other aspect of WiiFlow is working correctly for me, it has to be something simple or some kind of bug.
 
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