Hacking Configurable USB Loader

[GolfDude]

what are all those test dols on google about?

 

[pesaroso]

Question: How can I add cheats to the Configurable USB-loader manually?

The game Resident Evil Archives: Res Evil 0 is still not in the cheat database, and I've found some here: http://geckocodes.org/index.php?search=RBHE08 (It matches on the game ID as well)
However, when I copy-paste it into notepad and put the .txt onto the sd:\usb-loader\codes with the correct filename (RBHE08.txt), it won't show up within the options on the game in the USB loader.

When I open another random .txt from the SD-card on my computer, it looks like the text is all mashed together, no structure. If i copy-paste it into i.e. pastebin, it looks good and structured. Maybe there's a hidden metadata I cannot see, or what?
PS: Also tried to DL the .gct-file, didn't work either.

Do I need a special app, or is there another site where I can dl this one file?

I cannot stand cheating in games, but I really fucked up on my last save, saved with both characters on "danger" on health, and with exactly 1 shotgun shell and 10 pistol rounds left, and all rooms around the save room is surrounded by these green fucked up zombies that won't die ><



PS: On the latest build of the loader (52), it found all of the missing covers on URL#2, which is great! But they are all in Spanish (or French?), is that supposed to happen? It even changed a couple of my English covers like Drawn to Life, The Next Chapter. The front was okay, but I think the back of the cover were missing, so it swapped it out, with a non-English one ^^
Not a biggie, but kinda weird having a cover with a certain design on the full cover, and another design on the 3d-cover =P


Thanks a lot for your continues work on this great app! Use it every single time I play

 

[nitrostemp]

what are all those test dols on google about?

for testing i suppose

 

[Dr. Clipper]

PS: On the latest build of the loader (52), it found all of the missing covers on URL#2, which is great! But they are all in Spanish (or French?), is that supposed to happen? It even changed a couple of my English covers like Drawn to Life, The Next Chapter. The front was okay, but I think the back of the cover were missing, so it swapped it out, with a non-English one ^^
Not a biggie, but kinda weird having a cover with a certain design on the full cover, and another design on the 3d-cover =P


Thanks a lot for your continues work on this great app! Use it every single time I play

Hmm... Nothing much changed in the code that would make it not hang, but I can explain the foreign covers. WiiTDB splits the full covers up by language, and sometimes there is a full cover in French or Spanish, but not English. The users of Wiiboxart have been taking whichever full cover exists at WiiTDB without looking at the language and just adding it so that they have a full cover.

Given this, and the fact that they also have some corrupted images up for download, we will probably remove Wiiboxart from the default download links again. For those that want to remove them now, just add the following lines to config.txt:
CODEcover_url =
cover_url =+ http://wiitdb.com/wiitdb/artwork/cover/{CC}/{ID6}.png
cover_url =+ http://boxart.rowdyruff.net/flat/{ID6}.png
cover_url_3d =
cover_url_3d =+ http://wiitdb.com/wiitdb/artwork/cover3D/{CC}/{ID6}.png
cover_url_3d =+ http://boxart.rowdyruff.net/3d/{ID6}.png
cover_url_disc =
cover_url_disc =+ http://wiitdb.com/wiitdb/artwork/disc/{CC}/{ID6}.png
cover_url_disc =+ http://wiitdb.com/wiitdb/artwork/disccustom/{CC}/{ID6}.png
cover_url_disc =+ http://boxart.rowdyruff.net/fulldisc/{ID6}.png
cover_url_full =
cover_url_full =+ http://wiitdb.com/wiitdb/artwork/coverfull/{CC}/{ID6}.png

 

[DGenerateKane]

Question: How can I add cheats to the Configurable USB-loader manually?

The game Resident Evil Archives: Res Evil 0 is still not in the cheat database, and I've found some here: http://geckocodes.org/index.php?search=RBHE08 (It matches on the game ID as well)
However, when I copy-paste it into notepad and put the .txt onto the sd:\usb-loader\codes with the correct filename (RBHE08.txt), it won't show up within the options on the game in the USB loader.

When I open another random .txt from the SD-card on my computer, it looks like the text is all mashed together, no structure. If i copy-paste it into i.e. pastebin, it looks good and structured. Maybe there's a hidden metadata I cannot see, or what?
PS: Also tried to DL the .gct-file, didn't work either.

Do I need a special app, or is there another site where I can dl this one file?

I cannot stand cheating in games, but I really fucked up on my last save, saved with both characters on "danger" on health, and with exactly 1 shotgun shell and 10 pistol rounds left, and all rooms around the save room is surrounded by these green fucked up zombies that won't die ><



PS: On the latest build of the loader (52), it found all of the missing covers on URL#2, which is great! But they are all in Spanish (or French?), is that supposed to happen? It even changed a couple of my English covers like Drawn to Life, The Next Chapter. The front was okay, but I think the back of the cover were missing, so it swapped it out, with a non-English one ^^
Not a biggie, but kinda weird having a cover with a certain design on the full cover, and another design on the 3d-cover =P


Thanks a lot for your continues work on this great app! Use it every single time I play

Did you copy/paste from the link you provided? You need to copy/paste from http://geckocodes.org/codes/R/RBHE08.txt as it is in the correct format and should work. Also, are you sure your game is in fact NTSC and not Pal or NTSC-J?

 

[cambric]

what are all those test dols on google about?

see here

 

[techfreak713]

Note to devs... (oggzee and Dr. Clipper)

Waninkoko has posted on his twitter he changed the ECHI module...

"Note for developers. EHCI module device name has been renamed from /dev/usb/ehc to /dev/usb2 so... prepare your tools for rev18 ;-)"

Source: http://twitter.com/hackinblack

 

[SuLeGNa]

Hi,

I use Conf USB loader since the start and it's a really great apps.
I would like to request/ask a thing...
I have a HDD with more than 300 games... some are played by me and some by my child...
I use favorites to filters games I like but the limit of 100 favorites are not enough anymore...
hidding games are not possible due to the fact that it's not 'profile' based!
Do you think that it will be possible to up the limit of favorites? 150/200????

once again, thanks for the hard work and for this great apps...

 

[wiixale]

hidding games are not possible due to the fact that it's not 'profile' based!

What does it mean? That you don't have (or don't want to have) profiles?
If yes, why not?

 

[pesaroso]

@Dr. Clipper: Thanks a lot for your answer, it does make sense! Guess I'll just delete the non-English covers and remove the URL manually before trying again later on. Thanks!

@DGenerateKane: I'm terribly sorry, I didn't notice at ALL the "NTSC-U" at the top. My game is PAL, it didn't even cross my mind that cheat codes was region-based as well :/

That explains it, though! Will keep on looking for cheats in PAL for that game, then!

Thank you very much for the quick info, your eye is way better than mine ^^

 

[Jabe]

I updated and recap my suggestions for translations to fix for cfg v53 alpha on Language Files for Configurable USB Loader topic.

 

[AdamBrunt]

Where do I find info about this new, to me anyway

. profile/favourites groups ? ie how to set them up and use them ?

 

[Knocks]

The reason why we try to avoid reading each .wbfs or .iso file to get the title is startup speed, if you have many games doing that gets really slow. libfat uses a 64kb block size for cached reads, so even if the disc header size is only 256bytes and the title is only 64 bytes, it reads a lot more data. For example if you had 100 games that would mean 6.4MB of data read for getting the titles, plus there's quite a bit of overhead because of all the seeking and filename lookup and io calls. Compare that with titles.txt file which is only 69kb in size or wiitdb.zip file which is only 500kb.
You can try moving all the ID.wbfs files back to a single /wbfs directory, remove wiitdb and titles.txt and then compare the startup time. Depends how many games you have there - if it's just a dozen or two then it won't be as noticeable but if you have much more the delay will be obvious.

Startup speed is of course a priority, so if that's the reason for avoiding reading the headers, so be it. Apparently the new version of Wii Backup Manager allows internal ISO renaming and exporting to a custom-titles.txt. I'll try that option.

 

[richiefs]

I have issues with "write_playlog" option. I tried it with cfg 0.52

I tried two games:
Scene it Lumières! Action! SSCFWR --> in the log the title of the game is blank, i only have the play time
Okami ROWP08 --> i can't load my savegame, the game hangs when it loads it. The name of the game is correctly displayed. it works flawlessly when the option is disabled.

 

[beemisc]

I got weird issue with Cfg Usb Loader.

Usualling when launching, Cfg Usb Loader stops at the intro screen (the first logo screen), the DVD blink once and then the HDD is connected.

However, recently sometimes I got into the situation that Cfg Usb Loader stucks at the intro screen, the DVD light keeps blinking forever. Note that, this doesn't always repro and I don't have a solid repro step as well. It comes and leaves at will.

What might cause this issue?

Thanks!

 

[Dr. Clipper]

Where do I find info about this new, to me anyway

. profile/favourites groups ? ie how to set them up and use them ?
The same places you go to find out about any of the options...
README-CFG.txt
My Cfg's options explained page
The Configurator (hover over the options for tooltips that explain them)

I have issues with "write_playlog" option. I tried it with cfg 0.52

I tried two games:
Scene it Lumières! Action! SSCFWR --> in the log the title of the game is blank, i only have the play time
Okami ROWP08 --> i can't load my savegame, the game hangs when it loads it. The name of the game is correctly displayed. it works flawlessly when the option is disabled.
What language is your console set to and is it a PAL or NTSC console? What does Scene It! report itself to be when you play it from disc? I use the language that your Wii is set to to name the game, but I guess the name your Wii chooses for Scene It is blank.

As for Okami, I don't know what's going wrong there. It works fine for me. My saves for Okami were made when I was playing from disc, though, so maybe that's why it works for me (if it somehow tries to check if the game names are the same). Are you able to start a new game, save that and then load it? You have multiple slots so it shouldn't be hard to test (except for the long intro

).

QUOTE(beemisc @ Feb 15 2010, 04:39 AM)

I got weird issue with Cfg Usb Loader.

Usualling when launching, Cfg Usb Loader stops at the intro screen (the first logo screen), the DVD blink once and then the HDD is connected.

However, recently sometimes I got into the situation that Cfg Usb Loader stucks at the intro screen, the DVD light keeps blinking forever. Note that, this doesn't always repro and I don't have a solid repro step as well. It comes and leaves at will.

What might cause this issue?

Thanks!

This is likely a drive incompatibility. If you aren't already, use IOS222 as your launching IOS. Do this by either adding "ios=222-mload" to config.txt or use the -fat versions of Cfg. If you are launching from the HBC, wait for the network light at the bottom right to stop blinking before you start Cfg. Also, you might like to try experimenting with turning your drive off then on (or unplugging it then replugging it) when the error occurs.

 

[DGenerateKane]

@Dr. Clipper: Thanks a lot for your answer, it does make sense! Guess I'll just delete the non-English covers and remove the URL manually before trying again later on. Thanks!

@DGenerateKane: I'm terribly sorry, I didn't notice at ALL the "NTSC-U" at the top. My game is PAL, it didn't even cross my mind that cheat codes was region-based as well :/

That explains it, though! Will keep on looking for cheats in PAL for that game, then!

Thank you very much for the quick info, your eye is way better than mine ^^

Try these: http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,4987.0.html

 

[tylerzentz]

Which version of Ocarina does this loader use? the new or old one?

 

[Dr. Clipper]

Which version of Ocarina does this loader use? the new or old one?

Old, and none of the current devs have any interest in integrating the new one.

 

[tylerzentz]

Which version of Ocarina does this loader use? the new or old one?

Old, and none of the current devs have any interest in integrating the new one.

Dang. Do any other usb loaders use the new one?