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1. https://gbatemp.net/threads/wiiflow-lite-theme-rhapsodii.511833/
Put it in your "themes_lite" folder
From any game boxes menu, hover at the bottom of the screen, click the gear icon. Go to page 2 and change your theme to "Rhapsodii"

2. https://sites.google.com/site/wiiflowiki4/plugins-setup
Create an .ini file for each system in your plugins folder. Here's two examples so later I can answer your question 4

Code:
[PLUGIN]
displayname=Snes9X2010
magic=51305301
coverfolder=snes
dolfile=sd:/apps/retroarch-wii/snes9x2010_libretro_wii.dol
romdir=roms/snes9x2010
filetypes=.smc|.fig|.sfc|.gd3|.gd7|.dx2|.bsx|.swc|.zip
covercolor=000000
bannersound=sounds/SNES.ogg
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}

Code:
[PLUGIN]
displayname=Snes9X
magic=51305300
coverfolder=snes
dolfile=sd:/apps/retroarch-wii/snes9x_libretro_wii.dol
romdir=roms/Super Nintendo Entertainment System
filetypes=.smc|.fig|.sfc|.bs|.swc|.zip
covercolor=000000
bannersound=sounds/SNES.ogg
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}

Now in your source_menu folder, you need to edit source_menu.ini There's 12 "buttons" in there, but here is just one to go along with the example
Code:
[BUTTON_3]
image=SNES.png
image_s=SNESb.png
title=Super Nintendo Entertainment System
source=plugin
magic=51305301, 51305300

The magic number has to correspond to the one in your plugins ini file. Normally, you would only have one magic number and one plugin ini file for each system (but in this case, since hacked and translated SNES games often don't work in SNES9x (due to being based on old rips with headers), I keep those games in a different folder and set them up to play with SNES9x2010.)

3. https://github.com/Fledge68/WiiFlow_Lite/releases
The latest stable version is Nov 26th. Just overwrite the contents of the apps/wiiflow_lite folder.

4. The above example shows you how to combine two systems into one source_menu.

5. For my setup, I hit the home button, that drops me into RetroArch's UI, I navigate to Quit RetroArch, that drops me back into WiiFlow Lite. I hit B on the WiiMote to get to the game boxes select screen, then I hit Home again, that gives me this big menu of options where I select Exit To, that gives me yet another menu of options where I select System menu.

Supposedly there are combination hot keys but they don't work for me.

I hope there is some way to customize that big menu. There really should be a more elegant way to quit out of WiiFlow Lite.

ps: I have no idea how that complicates things. I only have a Wii.
 
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1. https://gbatemp.net/threads/wiiflow-lite-theme-rhapsodii.511833/
Put it in your "themes_lite" folder
From any game boxes menu, hover at the bottom of the screen, click the gear icon. Go to page 2 and change your theme to "Rhapsodii"

2. https://sites.google.com/site/wiiflowiki4/plugins-setup
Create an .ini file for each system in your plugins folder. Here's two examples so later I can answer your question 4

Code:
[PLUGIN]
displayname=Snes9X2010
magic=51305301
coverfolder=snes
dolfile=sd:/apps/retroarch-wii/snes9x2010_libretro_wii.dol
romdir=roms/snes9x2010
filetypes=.smc|.fig|.sfc|.gd3|.gd7|.dx2|.bsx|.swc|.zip
covercolor=000000
bannersound=sounds/SNES.ogg
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}

Code:
[PLUGIN]
displayname=Snes9X
magic=51305300
coverfolder=snes
dolfile=sd:/apps/retroarch-wii/snes9x_libretro_wii.dol
romdir=roms/Super Nintendo Entertainment System
filetypes=.smc|.fig|.sfc|.bs|.swc|.zip
covercolor=000000
bannersound=sounds/SNES.ogg
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}

Now in your source_menu folder, you need to edit source_menu.ini There's 12 "buttons" in there, but here is just one to go along with the example
Code:
[BUTTON_3]
image=SNES.png
image_s=SNESb.png
title=Super Nintendo Entertainment System
source=plugin
magic=51305301, 51305300

The magic number has to correspond to the one in your plugins ini file. Normally, you would only have one magic number and one plugin ini file for each system (but in this case, since hacked and translated SNES games often don't work in SNES9x (due to being based on old rips with headers), I keep those games in a different folder and set them up to play with SNES9x2010.)

3. https://github.com/Fledge68/WiiFlow_Lite/releases
The latest stable version is Nov 26th. Just overwrite the contents of the apps/wiiflow_lite folder.

4. The above example shows you how to combine two systems into one source_menu.

5. For my setup, I hit the home button, that drops me into RetroArch's UI, I navigate to Quit RetroArch, that drops me back into WiiFlow Lite. I hit B on the WiiMote to get to the game boxes select screen, then I hit Home again, that gives me this big menu of options where I select Exit To, that gives me yet another menu of options where I select System menu.

Supposedly there are combination hot keys but they don't work for me.

I hope there is some way to customize that big menu. There really should be a more elegant way to quit out of WiiFlow Lite.

ps: I have no idea how that complicates things. I only have a Wii.

thank you, @suspendedhatch for clarifying my doubts. but the most uncomfortable and annoying problem is that:
1- when I'm playing and I want to go to the Wii menu, a black screen comes out and freezes. then I have to unplug the power, but when I turn on the Wii u as the vwii I do not recognize the SD card. I want to know if this problem is normal or not. and how can I solve it?
2- I would also like to know how to save the games, because when I open it again I have to play from the beginning.
3 - I also have another problem like updating the list of games since I have a hard drive with 30 games and I only get 2 games with which I try the first time
 

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thank you, @suspendedhatch for clarifying my doubts. but the most uncomfortable and annoying problem is that:
1- when I'm playing and I want to go to the Wii menu, a black screen comes out and freezes. then I have to unplug the power, but when I turn on the Wii u as the vwii I do not recognize the SD card. I want to know if this problem is normal or not. and how can I solve it?
2- I would also like to know how to save the games, because when I open it again I have to play from the beginning.
3 - I also have another problem like updating the list of games since I have a hard drive with 30 games and I only get 2 games with which I try the first time
how are you launching wiiflow lite? are you going to the vwii menu first and then launch wiiflow lite via the forwarder channel? or are you launching wiiflow lite directly from the wii u menu using wiiflow lite injected into a wii vc game?
what type of game are you playing via wiiflow lite? wii? gc?
do you have wiiflow lite forwarder installed?
are you using wiiflow lite? or wfl_as_wiiflow?

#2 - saving games is done via the emu plugin you are using. usually pressing the 'home' or 'start' button on your controller should bring you to the emulators menu where you can save your game and load it. when playing the game you may have to load that save state to continue from where you left off.

#3 any time you add more games you will need to start wiiflow lite and go to the home menu and select reload cache to update the cached list of games.
 

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how are you launching wiiflow lite? are you going to the vwii menu first and then launch wiiflow lite via the forwarder channel? or are you launching wiiflow lite directly from the wii u menu using wiiflow lite injected into a wii vc game?
what type of game are you playing via wiiflow lite? wii? gc?
do you have wiiflow lite forwarder installed?
are you using wiiflow lite? or wfl_as_wiiflow?

#2 - saving games is done via the emu plugin you are using. usually pressing the 'home' or 'start' button on your controller should bring you to the emulators menu where you can save your game and load it. when playing the game you may have to load that save state to continue from where you left off.

#3 any time you add more games you will need to start wiiflow lite and go to the home menu and select reload cache to update the cached list of games.

thank you @fledge68

First I enter the vwii, then homebrew channel, and I just opened wiiflow lite and at the moment I'm playing wii games, I do not have installed forwarder or injected to the wii u menu. I would also like you to help me in some things:
1-As I have a wiiflow lite forwarder in the wii menu
2- how can I open from the wii u menu, without entering the vwii
3- how to play with the wii u pro controler
4- When I download covers from wiiflow lite, I can notice that some covers do not load and others are pixelated
5- There is some way to show wii and gamecube games together

I was using version 4.x and probe with the last 5.1 in this version I do not have the problem of the black screen, but when I press home and I want to select wii menu or any other button on the screen, the pointer of the command disappears and appears according to how I'm getting closer to the button.
 

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released v5.1.0 today

I'm running latest WiiFlow Lite v5.1.0 Dec 17th 2018 and can't find a working forwarder channel for it. I can still load this through the homebrew channel and it works fine. Tried all the forwarders linked in post 1 and none work.

Program installed:
SD:\apps\wiiflow_lite

Where can I download a WiiFlow Lite forwarder that works with this version?
 
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I'm running latest WiiFlow Lite v5.1.0 Dec 17th 2018 and can't find a working forwarder channel for it. I can still load this through the homebrew channel and it works fine. Tried all the forwarders linked in post 1 and none work.

Program installed:
SD:\apps\wiiflow_lite

Where can I download a WiiFlow Lite forwarder that works with this version?
Arr you on a wiiu?
 
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thank you @fledge68

First I enter the vwii, then homebrew channel, and I just opened wiiflow lite and at the moment I'm playing wii games, I do not have installed forwarder or injected to the wii u menu. I would also like you to help me in some things:
1-As I have a wiiflow lite forwarder in the wii menu
2- how can I open from the wii u menu, without entering the vwii
3- how to play with the wii u pro controler
4- When I download covers from wiiflow lite, I can notice that some covers do not load and others are pixelated
5- There is some way to show wii and gamecube games together

I was using version 4.x and probe with the last 5.1 in this version I do not have the problem of the black screen, but when I press home and I want to select wii menu or any other button on the screen, the pointer of the command disappears and appears according to how I'm getting closer to the button.

@fledge68 help please!!
 

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thank you @fledge68

First I enter the vwii, then homebrew channel, and I just opened wiiflow lite and at the moment I'm playing wii games, I do not have installed forwarder or injected to the wii u menu. I would also like you to help me in some things:
1-As I have a wiiflow lite forwarder in the wii menu
2- how can I open from the wii u menu, without entering the vwii
3- how to play with the wii u pro controler
4- When I download covers from wiiflow lite, I can notice that some covers do not load and others are pixelated
5- There is some way to show wii and gamecube games together

I was using version 4.x and probe with the last 5.1 in this version I do not have the problem of the black screen, but when I press home and I want to select wii menu or any other button on the screen, the pointer of the command disappears and appears according to how I'm getting closer to the button.
1 & 2 - stick to the way you are doing things. injecting to wiivc on wii u is complicted and you can only launch gc and plugin games if you do.
3 - can't play wii games with wii u pro controller. you can use it in wiiflow lite to choose your game but then it doesn't work in wii games. it will work for some plugins (mainly the gx plugins) and nintendont.
4 - PAL region games seem to be missing covers. plus there's a coding mistake in wiiflow lite 5.1.0 that causes front covers to be stretched over the back and front of the box. this has been fixed and will work correctly in the next release of wiiflow lite.
5 - there are 3 ways. here's one - goto source menu then press 'home' btn on wiimote. on the menu that appears turn on multisource. now when you click a source btn the border will turn yellow if it is selected. click it again to turn it off. choose the ones you want and click 'back' or 'done' btn in lower right.
 

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WiiFlow Lite 5.10 fucken bugfest on vWii and SD
same game may start or black screen 3-5 times before boot.
better stick with 100% working USBLoader GX and usb hdd.
 
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WiiFlow Lite 5.10 fucken bugfest on vWii and SD
same game may start or black screen 3-5 times before boot.
better stick with 100% working USBLoader GX and usb hdd.
what a stupid ass comment. you diss on wiiflow lite on vwii and SD and then say stick with usb loader gx on USB HDD. what about usb loader gx on SD? oh wait wii games don't even work via SD card at ALL!
 

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I'd like to specify a folder, other than sd apps, for homebrew games. I'm sure I used to be able to do this , but it now escapes me. Btw I have a wiiflow install running completely from sd, booting wfl as wiiflow straight from the priiloader dol. Runs smooth for me, nice work fledge.
 
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I'd like to specify a folder, other than sd apps, for homebrew games. I'm sure I used to be able to do this , but it now escapes me. Btw I have a wiiflow install running completely from sd, booting wfl as wiiflow straight from the priiloader dol. Runs smooth for me, nice work fledge.
Kaisersozeh! long time no see!

so, i could add to path manager menu so you could change the apps path but then you would have to change it back to sd:/apps when you wanted to launch actual homebrew apps.

or you could use the homebrew.ini (extra plugin) and i could make wfl read the romdir= to get the apps folder to look in. and you could still use the normal homebrew source button to always look in sd:/apps.
 

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Hey Fledge - good to see you!
The source option could allow for multiple app locations, each specified in an ini? (or in the source menu.ini entry) - sounds like a wonderful option!
If they could be code lockable...that would allow me to lock dangerous (and adult) stuff outside of the homebrew channel too.
Being able to arbitrarily put apps into folders I can name is an uber tool, thanks @fledge68 !
I have to add, fledge, loads of efforts have been made into making homebrew sortable, and you can just do it without raising your pulse. Beautiful.
EDIT:I wanted to ask what was special about the wiiflow forwarder dol used by priiloader - it just points at the loader channel, the one you access from the channel in the wii frontend, right?
Isn't there a wad building tool that write's a dol that points at a channel? Because, using that, you wouldn't have to release a wfl as wiiflow version at every release
 
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I think making just the one and taking on the "wiiflow" mantle is a great idea, but I find "WiiFlow wfl" "wfl WiiFlow" doesn't scan so well. Can I suggest "WiiFlow 5" or "WiiFlow X", V or something?
Open it up, I'm sure people will have suggestions. Or just call your release "wiiflow"

EDIT: Just on another thing - just a suggestion
I know you've removed the ftp server, is this because it effected performance?
I was wondering if you could include the ftp server, default it to off, but have it turn on when idle - when the screensaver would come on
As I boot into wiiflow, it would be cool to just leave it on as an ftp server when I'm not actively using the console to play games.
And perhaps start the screensaver/idle mode from the home button menu...would a wiiload server (hombrew over wifi) be a workable idea?
 
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While ftp is a cool feature, it's not exactly 'lite' to have another task running in background(and that's a bit less Ram). Morevover, it was very unstable. Even in WiiXplorer it's not that stable. From what I've tested, the most reliable solution was Homebrew channel + wiiload.
 
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I think making just the one and taking on the "wiiflow" mantle is a great idea, but I find "WiiFlow wfl" "wfl WiiFlow" doesn't scan so well. Can I suggest "WiiFlow 5" or "WiiFlow X", V or something?
Open it up, I'm sure people will have suggestions. Or just call your release "wiiflow"

EDIT: Just on another thing - just a suggestion
I know you've removed the ftp server, is this because it effected performance?
I was wondering if you could include the ftp server, default it to off, but have it turn on when idle - when the screensaver would come on
As I boot into wiiflow, it would be cool to just leave it on as an ftp server when I'm not actively using the console to play games.
And perhaps start the screensaver/idle mode from the home button menu...would a wiiload server (hombrew over wifi) be a workable idea?
i removed the FTP server because of 2 main reasons.
1. wiiflow is a USB Loader not an all in one app.
2. because (for me at least) it was very unstable and buggy. 7 out of 10 times it was always disconnecting or crashing and i had to either reset filezilla or walk into my living room and reset wiiflows ftp server. it was more of a pain than to simply just take the SD card out of the wii and put it in my pc and then back in the wii.

and 'WiiFlow WFL' is fine. what do you mean by hard to scan? scan what? besides i'm not going to retitle this thread and my github project. and the only place you will see 'WiiFlow WFL' will be the credits screen. and it so users know they are using the wiiflow lite mod of wiiflow.
 
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I had found ftpii absolutely fine in the past and only later did it become buggy. I believe it's the same ftpii code that wiiflow uses - I wonder if it follows a change in the library - I know @SuperrSonic has worked on wiiXplorer recently, don't know if that's anything to do with file transfer. Can't seem to find the source anywhere
@Wiimpathy, good to hear from you, it is as you say, not "lite" - hence the suggestion to keep it off unless in use - but if it's not workable...what do you do for file transfer over wifi?!
@fledge68 I wonder if it would be feasible to autoload a dol after a period of inactivity, perhaps as part of the screensaver implementation?
I'm not suggesting you retitle everything, I'm suggesting you do whatever you were going to do with "WiiFlow wfl", but don't use "WiiFlow wfl". I'm sure if you ask, people will suggest something you'll like more.
I am suprised you haven't come across "scan" used in this way - it means a phrase is phonetically meliflous or has a signficance close to the the intended meaning.
 
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