Hacking Wiiflow 5.4.8 - missing Icons for Computers, PC engine etc..

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Hi!
Downloaded the latest v5.4.8 of Wiiflow Lite and all looks great.
I noticed that there are .ini files for the Computer emulators (Example: Amiga) and the Masterpack that I downloaded has the matching emulators for the respective Computers

Yet...
I am unable to see them in the list of available consoles by category.
(Aka I have used an older version of Rhapsodii Shima in the past and was able to see the emulator icons. (Again I see I have the plugins/images for these emulators)

I know I am missing something small, any ideas? *How does one add missing emulator icons into their respective categories? (Aka add PC Engine to the consoles or Amiga to Computers)

Oh and also,
Silly question, I looked at the .ini files for the romdir (Rom directories) for some of these emulators and I am able to get some roms to show but, is there a best practice around adding a USB\Root?
Aka Roms folder would it be like


[PLUGIN]
arguments=-fs|-default-machine|cocous|-joy-left|joy0|-run|{device}:/{path}/{name}
bannersound=
consolecoverid=
covercolor=ffffff
coverfolder=TANDY
displayname=Tandy CoCo 1/2
dolfile=dragoncoco.dol
filetypes=.vdk|.rom|.cas|.bin|.dsk|.ccc|.zip
magic=434f434f
romdir=ROMS/TANDY

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[PLUGIN]
arguments=-fs|-default-machine|cocous|-joy-left|joy0|-run|{device}:/{path}/{name}
bannersound=
consolecoverid=
covercolor=ffffff
coverfolder=TANDY
displayname=Tandy CoCo 1/2
dolfile=dragoncoco.dol
filetypes=.vdk|.rom|.cas|.bin|.dsk|.ccc|.zip
magic=434f434f
romdir=USB1/ROMS/TANDY
 
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Figured it out.
Edit the source_menu.ini make sure to match the magic IDs to the inis in the plugins folder in wiiflow and you will be set.
 
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Happy that you sorted it out. Take into consideration to use the Plugins Pack (link in my sign) instead of the outdated Masterpiece pack
is there a best practice around adding a USB\Root?
romdir=ROMS/TANDY
rompartition=1

This last line tells Wiiflow to look for ROMS/TANDY into USB.
rompartition=0 is SD
rompartition=-1 is the default partition you've set in Wiiflow settings.
 
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Oh nice! Thanks I got all the games loaded quite nicely. :)

Question,
I am trying to match the covers now for each game and I have them all pointing to the box covers respective folders for each plugin via their respective .ini files.

A few consoles are working quite nicely and the majority aren't, I am assuming they need to be a 1 for 1 name match. (gotta love how some roms are like. "Game_title (U) 1f (clean dump) Md"
In their naming conventions.

Is there a best practice to match the names of the covers?

I have read elsewhere you must name something like this:

Game_title.png must be like game_title.n64.png
Is that the case?

Also, I have seen a tool called fuzzy renamer?

Thanks again!
So glad that you were able to reply + omg it's so gorgeous! I really love this UI.
 
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Oh nice! Thanks I got all the games loaded quite nicely. :)

Question,
I am trying to match the covers now for each game and I have them all pointing to the box covers respective folders for each plugin via their respective .ini files.

A few consoles are working quite nicely and the majority aren't, I am assuming they need to be a 1 for 1 name match. (gotta love how some roms are like. "Game_title (U) 1f (clean dump) Md"
In their naming conventions.

Is there a best practice to match the names of the covers?

I have read elsewhere you must name something like this:

Game_title.png must be like game_title.n64.png
Is that the case?

Also, I have seen a tool called fuzzy renamer?

Thanks again!
So glad that you were able to reply + omg it's so gorgeous! I really love this UI.
yes. basically if your game is named 'abc.xyz' then your cover has to be 'abc.xyz.png'
I hateit too when the roms have all that info in the filenames. I spend more time renaming the roms than actually playing.
I'm not on windows so I've never used fuzzy renamer. I use thunar bulk rename for that
 
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