Hacking Configurable USB Loader

[oggzee]

oh ok, no worries

i noticed before i updated the .txt via the loader, all the names were in english, even though they were japanese games. but, via the loader i can only seem to update to the japanese.txt?
how can i get the one i had before?

thank you!

Right.
the default titles url will in fact use JA titles.txt because it is set to:
titles_url = http://wiitdb.com/titles.txt?LANG={CC}
so you will have to change it to:
titles_url = http://wiitdb.com/titles.txt?LANG=EN
or
titles_url = http://wiitdb.com/titles.txt

I will probably change that to use EN in case the wii is in a region for which there are no font support.

 

[cearp]

wow thank you! and finally, will there ever be unicode support?

i have heard it is very difficult to implement, so don't worry!

 

[oggzee]

wow thank you! and finally, will there ever be unicode support?

i have heard it is very difficult to implement, so don't worry!

Well, unicode (utf8) decode is already there. The problem is the fonts. Configurable uses a simple .png for a font, which becomes way too large if you want to use it for full unicode characters. A solution to that would be to use .ttf fonts, but that is very low on my priority list, i'm not sure i will even try to do that. So to answer your question: unlikely.

 

[cearp]

oh ok thanks

 

[r3lay]

Following the changes oggzee made in cfg v49a:

Games in subdirs on FAT: /wbfs/GAMEID_TITLE/GAMEID.wbfs

Here's a liitle app to move all your wbfs files (and txt) into their own sub dir, keeping the naming convention as set out by oggzee.

wbfs folder before:

wbfs folder after:

before doing this ive included a test folder that contains a few fake wbfs files(really txt renamed) for you to test it on.

Download FileMover

 

[Elfish]

Following the changes oggzee made in cfg v49a:

Games in subdirs on FAT: /wbfs/GAMEID_TITLE/GAMEID.wbfs

Here's a liitle app to move all your wbfs files (and txt) into their own sub dir, keeping the naming convention as set out by oggzee.

wbfs folder before:

wbfs folder after:

before doing this ive included a test folder that contains a few fake wbfs files(really txt renamed) for you to test it on.

Download FileMover

wow thats pretty handy

. do we have to use the gameid as subfolders? or could we use let's say scene release names as folder names?

 

[r3lay]

Games in subdirs on FAT: /wbfs/GAMEID_TITLE/GAMEID.wbfs

This is the way cfg works so thats how it is.

 

[oggzee]

wbfs_file v1.9

wbfs_file_1.9.zip
included sources and binaries for windows linux and macosx
Changes:
v1.9:
* new options:
-d : Create a GAMEID_TITLE directory and place
the created .wbfs file there
-0 : Don't split (split size: 10000000000)
* new command: id_title
will print the GAMEID_TITLE string suitable for the directory name
(special characters :/\'"*? are replaced with _ space is kept)
* included move_dirs.bat which will move *.wbfs files (and *.txt)
to GAMEID_TITLE subdirectories

 

[Elfish]

wbfs_file v1.9

wbfs_file_1.9.zip
Changes:
v1.9:
* new options:
-d : Create a GAMEID_TITLE directory and place
the created .wbfs file there
-0 : Don't split (split size: 10000000000)
* new command: id_title
will print the GAMEID_TITLE string suitable for the directory name
(special characters :/\'"*? are replaced with _ space is kept)
* included move_dirs.bat which will move *.wbfs files (and *.txt)
to GAMEID_TITLE subdirectories

even better. all in one

 

[EeZeEpEe]

wbfs_file v1.9

wbfs_file_1.9.zip
included sources and binaries for windows linux and macosx
Changes:
v1.9:
* new options:
-d : Create a GAMEID_TITLE directory and place
the created .wbfs file there
-0 : Don't split (split size: 10000000000)
* new command: id_title
will print the GAMEID_TITLE string suitable for the directory name
(special characters :/\'"*? are replaced with _ space is kept)
* included move_dirs.bat which will move *.wbfs files (and *.txt)
to GAMEID_TITLE subdirectories

Do you know if move_dirs.bat works in Terminal for Mac OS X? I don't know how to get it working.

 

[oggzee]

Do you know if move_dirs.bat works in Terminal for Mac OS X? I don't know how to get it working.

It doesn't of course

 

[LxTrix]

I moved my usb-loader folder from my sd to my hard drive and for the life of me i can't get the cfg base to load from usb, am i doing something wrong?

 

[EeZeEpEe]

Do you know if move_dirs.bat works in Terminal for Mac OS X? I don't know how to get it working.

It doesn't of course

I thought so. lol. Okay I'll just work with the command lines then. Thanks.

 

[oggzee]

I moved my usb-loader folder from my sd to my hard drive and for the life of me i can't get the cfg base to load from usb, am i doing something wrong?

Try removing sd:/apps/usbloader/config.txt
or removing sd:/apps/usbloader completely and moving it to usb:

 

[oggzee]

Do you know if move_dirs.bat works in Terminal for Mac OS X? I don't know how to get it working.

It doesn't of course

I thought so. lol. Okay I'll just work with the command lines then. Thanks.

Here is the .bat rewritten as a shell script for the linux/macosx:

move_dirs.sh

 

[EeZeEpEe]

Do you know if move_dirs.bat works in Terminal for Mac OS X? I don't know how to get it working.
It doesn't of course

I thought so. lol. Okay I'll just work with the command lines then. Thanks.

Here is the .bat rewritten as a shell script for the linux/macosx:
CODE

#!/bin/sh

# move_dirs.sh by oggzee
#
# Usage:
# 1. place wbfs_file in same directory where this .sh file is located
# 2. run ./move_dirs.sh /path/to/wbfs
#
# or:
#
# 2. edit the below variable: WBFS_DIR
# 3. run: ./move_dirs.sh


WBFS_DIR=/mnt/usb/wbfs


##########################################


WBFS_FILE=./wbfs_file

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
ÂÂÂÂecho Using specified wbfs dir: $1
ÂÂÂÂWBFS_DIR="$1"
fi

if [ ! -e "$WBFS_DIR" ]; then
ÂÂÂÂecho Error: missing wbfs dir: $WBFS_DIR
ÂÂÂÂexit
fi

if [ ! -e "$WBFS_FILE" ]; then
ÂÂÂÂecho Error: missing $WBFS_FILE
ÂÂÂÂexit
fi

echo Games to be moved in $WBFS_DIR:
echo

for I in "$WBFS_DIR"/*.wbfs; do
ÂÂÂÂecho "$WBFS_FILE" "$I" id_title
ÂÂÂÂ"$WBFS_FILE" "$I" id_title
ÂÂÂÂif [ $? != 0 ]; then
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂecho ERROR $WBFS_FILE "$I" id_title
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂexit
ÂÂÂÂfi
done

echo
echo move these games?
read ASK
if [ "$ASK" != "y" ]; then
ÂÂÂÂecho bye
ÂÂÂÂexit
fi

echo
echo Moving: ...
echo

for I in "$WBFS_DIR"/*.wbfs; do
ÂÂÂÂFN=`basename $I .wbfs`
ÂÂÂÂIDT=`"$WBFS_FILE" "$I" id_title`
ÂÂÂÂecho Moving to: "$IDT"
ÂÂÂÂecho mkdir "$WBFS_DIR/$IDT"
ÂÂÂÂmkdir "$WBFS_DIR/$IDT"
ÂÂÂÂecho mv "$WBFS_DIR/$FN*.*" "$WBFS_DIR/$IDT"
ÂÂÂÂmv "$WBFS_DIR/$FN"* "$WBFS_DIR/$IDT"
ÂÂÂÂecho
done

echo
echo ===== DONE =====
echo

I would have uploaded it to googlecode, but the site is under maintenance.

Great. I'll try it out when I get the chance.

 

[EeZeEpEe]

Okay I tried it out and it works with one exception. It only created folders and moved the .wbfs files that were not split. Games like SSBB, Okami, and Dead Space remained in the same place.

 

[oggzee]

Okay I tried it out and it works with one exception. It only created folders and moved the .wbfs files that were not split. Games like SSBB, Okami, and Dead Space remained in the same place.

whoops you're right

I will fix that...
ok, here is the fixed version:
move_dirs2.sh

I still need to fix the move_dirs.bat for windows too.

 

[hmaidhoff]

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here.

I recently hacked my wii, and I have installed USB Loader which works like a charm on my 1TB WD Drive.

#1 question- I always boot into the priiloader, and then have to either choose HBC or Main.. Is there a way to go directly into main?

#2 - Does anyone have the software that will allow me to create a channel so that I do not have to go into HBC and run USB loader everytime I want to play a game?

I know these are probably simple fixes, but I just have not been able to find the answers. I did find a software to do the channels, but cannot get to it, because of all the pop ups on the site..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[gannon]

1) Yes, just change autoboot to system menu in settings
2) It's out there, but there should be an up to date wad a few pages back, might be linked to from the front page even.