Hacking Configurable USB Loader

[erolz]

Try using ios 249 rev14 and latest cfg usbloader v44.

it works now! thanx a lot oggzee!

 

[erolz]

btw, shall i still use the ios = 223-mload option? or do you prefer 249?

got one problem... when i load a game from the USB HD using the loader and push the home button while in the game to go back to the wii menu, i only get a black screen and nothing happends... i can not go back to the wii menu

 

[9th_Sage]

btw, shall i still use the ios = 223-mload option? or do you prefer 249?

In most cases, that's up to you. For disc ripping I'd use mload's cIOS though (and for dual layer games like Smash Bros).

 

[bewitched]

Suddenly got some strange errormessages, i use a 8GB microSD in a Sandisk mobilemate microreader. Using CFG v44.
I got these messages:
wbfs error: file not found: with this game: R5XP69 My Sims Agent
This is not a wii disc: with this game: RJ4PRM Jewel Master Cradle Of Rome
Strangely enough the games can be started when pressing the A button...
I tried those games on another usb device and there where no messages at all?
I also reformatted the device. I use the wbfs.exe that comes with the latest uloader.

 

[pepxl]

WBFS Error - File Not Found
i think that error refers to banner sounds(opening.bnr) not the actual game, but MySims: Agents should play one

 

[cambric]

Some known issues and suggestions that are frequently asked about:
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Hi Oggzee,

just a two cents idea for the development of this very good loader.

Up to now, when a game is selected in a GUI mode we get back to the console mode, where the configurations can be done by pressing button 1

Actually, I find this transition reductive for the high level quality of this loader

Why don't you think to a graphical transition when a game is selected? for example like the one in WiiFlow... When a game is selected the covers gets bigger in the screen and the buttons for configurations appear close to the cover, at that point you can launch the game, configure it, or see the back cover of the box....

Take into account that you have already implemented something like this... I mean when we press the up button to see the back cover of the box...

This idea also answer to the requests of HQ images and GUI settings...

Thanks to the developers for their very good job

Cambo

 

[oggzee]

Suddenly got some strange errormessages, i use a 8GB microSD in a Sandisk mobilemate microreader. Using CFG v44.
I got these messages:
wbfs error: file not found: with this game: R5XP69 My Sims Agent
This is not a wii disc: with this game: RJ4PRM Jewel Master Cradle Of Rome
Strangely enough the games can be started when pressing the A button...
I tried those games on another usb device and there where no messages at all?
I also reformatted the device. I use the wbfs.exe that comes with the latest uloader.

As pepxl correctly guessed, the errors are because the opening.bnr for the banner sound cannot be found.
Why is that I don't know, maybe you have a bad dvd or bad iso image from which you installed or something...
Anyway the 1st message will be hidden in the future.

 

[oggzee]

...
Why don't you think to a graphical transition when a game is selected? for example like the one in WiiFlow... When a game is selected the covers gets bigger in the screen and the buttons for configurations appear close to the cover, at that point you can launch the game, configure it, or see the back cover of the box....
...

That was on todo list already for a very long time, but we just haven't gotten around to do it.
Most of the stuff that's missing is not because we can't think of it, but because we lack the time to do it

Ok, let me add this to FAQ as well, what should it be called, GUI game start screen?

 

[dlf]

Delete this post. It's not needed.

 

[stomp_442]

I haven't been following the thread as much as I used to, but I did see an inquire of TriForce NAND emulation, just wondering if this may be in the works for Configurable USB Loader?

 

[BedtimeGuy]

wow, i check this every now and then, i thought i would be checking it way too often to see updates each time, but instead there is usually two new version each time i check! keep up the AMAZING work on the best iso loader available upstatical and oggzee!

@ sickpuppy, i dont think that will happen for a while (just based on what the developers said), no matter HOW much i want it (a LOT

)

 

[9th_Sage]

I haven't been following the thread as much as I used to, but I did see an inquire of TriForce NAND emulation, just wondering if this may be in the works for Configurable USB Loader?

Since they express no desire to add this every time it comes up, I would say "probably not".

 

[cambric]

That was on todo list already for a very long time, but we just haven't gotten around to do it.
Most of the stuff that's missing is not because we can't think of it, but because we lack the time to do it

Ok, let me add this to FAQ as well, what should it be called, GUI game start screen?

The high quality of your job witness that not yet implemented features are missing just for the lack of time...
"GUI game start screen" is fine as a name for the to-do list....

 

[erolz]

got one problem... when i load a game from the USB HD using the loader and push the home button while in the game to go back to the wii menu, i only get a black screen and nothing happends... i can not go back to the wii menu

 

[milcoi]

is Metroid Prime Trilogy dual layer size iso working with the loader?

 

[Dr. Clipper]

is Metroid Prime Trilogy dual layer size iso working with the loader?

Yes, with IOS222 and alternative .dol.

 

[onionpalac]

I'm having trouble with Hermes' IOS222/223.
After the first time I installed the latest version following the GAF's Wii Homebrew Tutorial guide, which means I have IOS38 merged with IOS37 and IOS38 merged with IOS60, it would hang at the loading screen while trying to load Guitar Hero 4 using 222-mload.
I tried it on Rock Band Beatles with the same result.

Using 222 yal I got this:

ERROR: Offset(0xf800000) -128
ERROR: OpenPartition(0xf800000) -128
Returned! (ret = 0)

Then a "Exception (DSI) occurred!"

Any ideas on what the problem could be?

Thanks a lot!

 

[oggzee]

onionpalac:
1. I don't know why it hangs.
2. ios 222-yal can't be used with hermes ios.

hmm, i guess the 222-yal ios loading method is so old we could just as well remove the option.

 

[Dr. Clipper]

onionpalc: Does it work with uLoader? And does it work if you use v3 of Hermes' IOS? You can get v3 from the 2.8D version of the uLoader installer, I think. Just replace the 3.0B with 2.8D in the link name to get the older version. When testing v3, just install IOS223 as 36 merged with 37. There's no need to try the others.

 

[Narolez]

My forwarder pass ios=249 when you don't press a button. It seems it is an issue of CFG. Oggzee must consider whether the argument was passed and disable the config option.
The whole point in making the command line arguments the priority was so that a forwarder can override the settings early in the startup process. But I would not expect the default ios 249 to be always passed as an argument, as then the config file has got no influence on the ios selection anymore. As it will always be overriden by the forwarder. I think the forwarder should pass no options by default, but only pass an ios option if forced by a button press or something.

OK, here is the new Forwarder-Package with the new button mapping for passing IOS arguments:

CODE

ÂÂ- To pass the custom IOS argument to the USB loader, hold the following upon forwarder start:
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂHold 1 and 2 OR A and B: force ios=249
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂHold 1 OR A;ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ force ios=222-mload
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂHold 2 OR B:ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ force ios=223-mload
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂHold nothing:ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂno force, loader default

Download: < http://cloud.github.com/downloads/Narolez/..._NForwarder.zip >