Did you fix plugins issues then!
Congrats!
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Did you fix plugins issues then!
Congrats!
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Do you mean the bug with plugins showing no games?
Yes, that was a Wiiflow bug that Fledge fixed some time ago.
There was a limit of 128 plugins in wiiflow, and strange things happened when you surpassed that number.
Now the limit is 32767, so it's safe to say it's now fixed.
But in v5.4.6? I had, at that time “no plugins” issues with that version and I fixed as I’ve mentioned before.
Weird
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No the fix will be in 5.4.7, with other really nice features coming along. It's not released yet.
In my case I wasn't able to fix it like you told me.
@Tetsuo Shima I just seen in your showcase video on YouTube you have Screenshots of the Game & The Cartridge/Disk Image in the game info! 
How on earth do you do that? It looks absolutely amazing 
Btw Thank you for the updated platform.ini everything is perfect now, it also fixed the Famicom Games that were showing sideways for some reason Bro.. at this point I don't blame you if you just told me to P*SS OFF for pecking your head.. but also what version of snes9gx do you use? I downloaded the latest version a few weeks back & it just gives me a black screen I really need to update it cause I'm rocking the 2012 version 
How on earth do you do that? It looks absolutely amazing Btw Thank you for the updated platform.ini everything is perfect now, it also fixed the Famicom Games that were showing sideways for some reason Bro.. at this point I don't blame you if you just told me to P*SS OFF for pecking your head.. but also what version of snes9gx do you use? I downloaded the latest version a few weeks back & it just gives me a black screen I really need to update it cause I'm rocking the 2012 version
Hey Tetsuo Shima. Thank you for all of your hard work! This theme is awesome!
I was wondering if you had image templates lying around for the top menu (wii, arcade, retro, etc.). I'm no graphic designer, but I know photoshop okay, and I was going to edit the menu for a Wii I'm putting together for my sister and her kid.
They don't care for all the consoles, so I was going to put GameCube, WiiWare and Wii as their own categories that don't have a sub menu, and leave retro consoles with their own sub menu for nes, snes and genesis.
I was wondering if you had image templates lying around for the top menu (wii, arcade, retro, etc.). I'm no graphic designer, but I know photoshop okay, and I was going to edit the menu for a Wii I'm putting together for my sister and her kid.
They don't care for all the consoles, so I was going to put GameCube, WiiWare and Wii as their own categories that don't have a sub menu, and leave retro consoles with their own sub menu for nes, snes and genesis.
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Sure, so if I understand it correctly you want the template for the Wheel Menu?
I have the source files in .xcf format (I made them with Gimp). I'll upload it here later.
No, the icons themselves. Like these. The white button with the shadow across it.
Additionally, if you know where I might find more hand-drawn icons like these, I would love the source. And if you made them yourself, then my hat is even more off to you!
Also, I read in another comment that the theme's images need to be pallette optimized. If you don't mind explaining, what do you mean by that?
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Sure, here it is
wheel buttons template.xcf
You are right, the images need a little "treatment" for Wiiflow, or they will consume too much memory, causing covers to not being cached anymore, and not showing up.
They also need to be saved as .PNG's, even if they will be bigger in size than .JPG's. Here's BlackB0x's explaination.
wheel buttons template.xcf
You are right, the images need a little "treatment" for Wiiflow, or they will consume too much memory, causing covers to not being cached anymore, and not showing up.
They also need to be saved as .PNG's, even if they will be bigger in size than .JPG's. Here's BlackB0x's explaination.
@blackb0x found this out, and here I will quote, from an old message, his guide to create optimized Wiiflow images:
I used IrfanView to get optimised paletted image. You'd just decrease the colour depth (Image > Decrease Color Depth) to 256 and enable Floyd Steinberg dithering and the "best color quality" setting. Then when saving set the compression level to 9 and select "Use PNGOUT PlugIn" and set the color type to palette.
GIMP can be used for RGB + Alpha or Greyscale + Apha. Basically if the image doesn't contain colour then save it as Greyscale + Apha, otherwise save it as RGB + Alpha. Doing this can save shave off a lot of space, depending on the size of the image.
You can check what colour type images are using with a tool like ExifTool. You'd just drag and drop the files or folder onto the exe file
Option: RGB + Alpha or Greyscale + Apha
Result: Max quality, but uses more memory. Greyscale with alpha uses less than RGB with alpha though.
Option: Paletted (256 colours) + Dithering + optimised colours
Result: Good for images without transparency (e.g. all of the settings screens) as it can save a lot of memory.
Option: RGB
Result: If there's a gradient then it'll likely have colour banding, so in most cases this should be avoided.
I made the icons glad you like them
. There's plenty of flat icons for old computers and consoles, just using google images, but they're often not free to use, or not the way I like. However, I also wanted to try to do every button/image by myself, even if I'm no expert. So thanks again for appreciating.Thank you so much! I'll take a whack at it. My brother is an artist and might try to come up with something. If it turns out well, I'll upload what I have back here.
However, I can't get that link to work. It comes up with a gbatemp error page. Am I doing something wrong?
It should start downoading. Weird, it works for me.
Try this other link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/j29f9rhn8fwsh4t/wheel+buttons+template.xcf.rar/file
Try this other link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/j29f9rhn8fwsh4t/wheel+buttons+template.xcf.rar/file
Sure! I'd be happy if it will be translated to other languages.
I've just fineshed updating them with the latest Wiiflow features (Source Menu Setup)
Here it is
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xcffxtw5igzt6bb/Tiers+BG+template.rar/file
You'll need the exo 2 medium font. (found in wiiflow/themes_lite/Rhapsodii Shima)
Tier 1 is 800*480, but it needs to be shunked to 640*480 after you've exported the final image.
The Tiers 2, 3 ,4, 5 are already shrunken to 640*480, so remember to scale the new text layers by 82% horizontally
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Well, I couldn't get my brother involved to make super fancy art, so it doesn't match your style, and I couldn't get GIMP to make the file any smaller, despite your guide -- though I did learn a lot about Ifranview and GIMP! But I'm hoping that just two images with a higher filesize won't be a huge deal.
I am NOT a graphic designer, but I'd love to give back in whatever small way I can. So, here these are in case they're useful to anyone trying to reconfigure the menu!
I spoke too soon... Here's what I'm seeing on WiiFlow. Working through the guide you quoted, and after some Google searches, I quickly began to realize that Ifranview is only helpful for non-transparent images. So I tried to use GIMP to save as RGB+Alpha, but my file sizes were slightly increasing, and I already had a .png with transparency. So I left it as is.
I'm at a loss now though. Could someone point me in another right direction?
I'm at a loss now though. Could someone point me in another right direction?
Well, if it's only those 2 button images I think you can safely skip optimization. After all you're not using a lot of backgrounds and buttons, so you should have a lot of free memory available.
You can just use the transparent png's you made with gimp
You can just use the transparent png's you made with gimp
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