Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

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What's the latest version/mod I should get if all I want to do is play wii games and gamecube games (nintendont) on my modded wii in a nice coverflow interface. I have it set up with about a year or two old version of wiiflow (4.1 or something) and without nintendont (don't think it was out back then). Used to work perfectly but I used burned gamecube backups (with yaasm hard mod) since none of the gamecube stuff supported audio streaming properly from hard drive.
 
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What's the latest version/mod I should get if all I want to do is play wii games and gamecube games (nintendont) on my modded wii in a nice coverflow interface. I have it set up with about a year or two old version of wiiflow (4.1 or something) and without nintendont (don't think it was out back then). Used to work perfectly but I used burned gamecube backups (with yaasm hard mod) since none of the gamecube stuff supported audio streaming properly from hard drive.
try wiiflow mod or mastermod along with nintendont mastermod in my sig they are always up to date

P.S> right click and save as nintendont boot.dol if you get an error page
 
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@AbdallahTerro Could you please add a global option in the Wiiflow ini for the screen width option in Nintendont so we don't have to halt autoboot and adjust it manually each time we start a game? Something like "screen width = ###" or something. Thanks.
 

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@AbdallahTerro Could you please add a global option in the Wiiflow ini for the screen width option in Nintendont so we don't have to halt autoboot and adjust it manually each time we start a game? Something like "screen width = ###" or something. Thanks.
If you use same value for all games it would be easier to make a custom nintendont dol
adding more buttons and more stuff to wiiflow will sure break the memory manager which is currently struggling :)
 

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This may sound easy to add but it would require lots of coding for both 1054 and 1076 mods since GC games are either booted via arguments (1076) or bin file (1054)
in both cases the GC code functions need to get updated in many places and this would require a lot of testing and what not...
I'll think about it though

Edit: again, having this as a global option will have the same effect as having a custom default width in nintendont mod (which btw is super easy to add/edit and wouldn't break anything)
 
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This may sound easy to add but it would require lots of coding for both 1054 and 1076 mods since GC games are either booted via arguments (1076) or bin file (1054)
in both cases the GC code functions need to get updated in many places and this would require a lot of testing and what not...
I'll think about it though

Edit: again, having this as a global option will have the same effect as having a custom default width in nintendont mod (which btw is super easy to add/edit and wouldn't break anything)
There any reason that custom couldn't become the new norm? And by "custom" what do you mean? would the option be adjustable, or a set number?
 

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There any reason that custom couldn't become the new norm? And by "custom" what do you mean? would the option be adjustable, or a set number?
in nintendont's loader source global.c we can edit both the videoscale and offset
ncfg->VideoScale = 0;
ncfg->VideoOffset = 0;
and this will be used as default when using the custom dol
 

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Hello!

I'm not sure if this is the right topic to ask this question, so I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong section. I've softmodded a vWii in my Wii U and installed WiiFlow. It works great, except the initial connection to my WiiMote (it's third party WiiMote, and I have to remove battery and try to connect it few times before it works), so I was wondering what does Install game WiiFlow menu option does? Does it install the game and show it in my vWii menu, instead of WiiFlow? It would be very useful if I could use it that way, because WiiMote works well in vWii. Is it safe to use Install game in vWii, since it's not Wii console, and I know that some stuff from Wii is not safe to use in vWii? Thanks in advance.

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Hello!

I'm not sure if this is the right topic to ask this question, so I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong section. I've softmodded a vWii in my Wii U and installed WiiFlow. It works great, except the initial connection to my WiiMote (it's third party WiiMote, and I have to remove battery and try to connect it few times before it works), so I was wondering what does Install game WiiFlow menu option does? Does it install the game and show it in my vWii menu, instead of WiiFlow? It would be very useful if I could use it that way, because WiiMote works well in vWii. Is it safe to use Install game in vWii, since it's not Wii console, and I know that some stuff from Wii is not safe to use in vWii? Thanks in advance.

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to troubleshoot wiimote sync issues go to your vWii System menu then press red sync button on WiiU for 20 secs (this will erase all synced wiimotes)
Next, sync your wiimotes one by one (pressing wiimote and wiiu sync buttons simultaneously)
Launch wiiflow and all should be cool again
as for "install game" feature, it copies the game from DVD to hard disk (/wbfs folder)
to make a vwii system menu icon of your favorite games you need to use GSC (game shorcut creator) and Fix94 nand loader to make a wad file that is vwii compatible
install that wad and benefit (P.S. Always test the wad using dolphin on PC to make sure it's not corrupted or you will brick your vWii)
If wiiflow works fine as you wish you don't need to go through all that trouble though :)
 

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to troubleshoot wiimote sync issues go to your vWii System menu then press red sync button on WiiU for 20 secs (this will erase all synced wiimotes)
Next, sync your wiimotes one by one (pressing wiimote and wiiu sync buttons simultaneously)
Launch wiiflow and all should be cool again
as for "install game" feature, it copies the game from DVD to hard disk (/wbfs folder)
to make a vwii system menu icon of your favorite games you need to use GSC (game shorcut creator) and Fix94 nand loader to make a wad file that is vwii compatible
install that wad and benefit (P.S. Always test the wad using dolphin on PC to make sure it's not corrupted or you will brick your vWii)
If wiiflow works fine as you wish you don't need to go through all that trouble though :)

Thank you for your quick reply. I'll try to resync WiiMotes the way you said. If there is a chance to brick vWii, I will not try making games shortcuts, even if resyncing WiiMotes doesn't work. It's better to spend few minutes making it work, then having bricked vWii :) Once again, thank you.

Best regards,
Davor
 
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not messed with wiiflow for aaaages and need a little help............
just fresh installed Wiiflow 4.2.1 r441 and cannot seem to get custom banners working - is a line needed in the wiiflow.ini? (I have .bnr's for NSMBW customs already)
the 'download custom banner' button doesn't function either - is there a url I need to put in for this?

any help appreciated :)
 
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not messed with wiiflow for aaaages and need a little help............
just fresh installed Wiiflow 4.2.1 r441 and cannot seem to get custom banners working - is a line needed in the wiiflow.ini? (I have .bnr's for NSMBW customs already)
the 'download custom banner' button doesn't function either - is there a url I need to put in for this?

any help appreciated :)
grab one of the wiiflow mods in my sig
 

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thanks Abz, I've d/loaded your 4.2.3 mastermod but haven't had opportunity to stick it on yet....
is the 4.2.1 wiiflow deprecated? is it unable to display banners? it was the 'stable' version download from google.com/sites/WiiflowWiki4

cheers :)
 
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what's wrong? we have no problems here
wiiflow 1076 mod cannot copy games to hard drive it starts copying but it copies an incomplete file, when I delete games it has a bug it shows me the same game but counting all the games in my case 56 games but the same (excite trucks) sames covers for all games, and it doesn't load the last version of Nintendont, Wiiflow MMod it works better then 1076 but that doesn't work with Nintendont
 

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wiiflow 1076 mod cannot copy games to hard drive it starts copying but it copies an incomplete file, when I delete games it has a bug it shows me the same game but counting all the games in my case 56 games but the same (excite trucks) sames covers for all games, and it doesn't load the last version of Nintendont, Wiiflow MMod it works better then 1076 but that doesn't work with Nintendont
You know they are constantly updated, so you may try the link in my sig it has the latest dol and should work fine. I'm using 1054 mmod along with nintendont mmod with no problems since a very long time

P.S> FYI, As for the installation and cover issues it's a known problem for some users even when using the official dol since wiiflow has a memory bug that causes weird stuff. This is mainly what led the devs to quit updating it and adding new stuff
 
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P.S> FYI, As for the installation and cover issues it's a known problem for some users even when using the official dol since wiiflow has a memory bug that causes weird stuff. This is mainly what led the devs to quit updating it and adding new stuff
And that is the main reason you are not allowed to push stuff into my google code and git, talking about completely wrong things which are just not true, the only reason I paused working on the project is because by now I have so many other wii and wiiu projects to work on and university on the side which also takes up a ton of time. I never said anywhere that I "quit" wiiflow did I?
 
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