Hacking Configurable USB Loader

[oggzee]

Have you tested anything over 4GB?

Oggzee said in an earlier post that the program would lock up when trying to play a file that is over 4GB.

Not yet, I must've missed that post.

Will it lock up when you try to play it, or only while accessing the parts over 4 gig?

The bug was with files larger than 2GB on NTFS, but has been solved in 50b.

 

[SleepyPrince]

is that the only thing changed?
I am using FAT32, 50a works but 50b give me code dumps

 

[WiiPower]

Now if you could play Virtual Console/Wiiware off a USB HDD, that would be awesome.

Also many thanks to oggzee for the latest update

look for triiforce...

anyway.....
are there any chances to play games from a network share (smb) with softmod usbloaders?

I guess not anytime soon. Wifi speed is only 2-3 Mbit/s, ok, i don't remember, it could also be 2-3 MB/s, but i doubt it. Also even 2-3 MB/s would be slower than reading backup discs at half speed. And about the usb lan adapter speeds, i don't know. It's few people who have one and very few people who wrote code for it.

 

[oggzee]

is that the only thing changed?
I am using FAT32, 50a works but 50b give me code dumps

Please make a screenshot of the stack dump screen and post it here, or write down the numbers under STACK TRACE and post them here.
edit: also write exactly which version you used when posting the stack dump, preferably one of 50b or 50b-fat

 

[smf]

I guess not anytime soon. Wifi speed is only 2-3 Mbit/s, ok, i don't remember, it could also be 2-3 MB/s, but i doubt it. Also even 2-3 MB/s would be slower than reading backup discs at half speed. And about the usb lan adapter speeds, i don't know. It's few people who have one and very few people who wrote code for it.

It's 802.11g, so up to 50mb/s. Quite what throughput/latency you'll get from smb is another thing.

 

[oggzee]

It's 802.11g, so up to 50mb/s. Quite what throughput/latency you'll get from smb is another thing.

Heh, you wish

try measuring it...
edit: btw not sure if you were talking about bytes or bits, but the correct number is 54 Mbit/s, which makes for a maximum theoretical throughput of 6.75 MB/s, however actual numbers are much lower, in the range that WiiPower mentioned or even lower, anyway it's too slow. And I am certainly not adding that even if it would be fast enough.

 

[nicman000]

Yeah, theoretical maximum does not equal what you'll get.

 

[laurozza]

.iso files on ntfs...incredible...indeed the best usb loader...great work.

 

[smf]

It's 802.11g, so up to 50mb/s. Quite what throughput/latency you'll get from smb is another thing.

Heh, you wish

try measuring it...
edit: btw not sure if you were talking about bytes or bits, but the correct number is 54 Mbit/s, which makes for a maximum theoretical throughput of 6.75 MB/s, however actual numbers are much lower, in the range that WiiPower mentioned or even lower, anyway it's too slow. And I am certainly not adding that even if it would be fast enough.

It's probably just a crappy 'good enough' implementation, like nintendos usb drivers. It might be possible to improve it, but lots of work. Benchmarking the linux wifi driver would be interesting.

 

[GolfDude]

this will be perfect once the homebrew channel can read programs off of an NTFS drive and not a FAT Drive.

 

[GolfDude]

i also get the code dump on 50b-fat

Stack Dump:
80b0f3b0 --> 90b4d800 --> 90b40c08 --> 90b41b1c -->
80b436b8 --> 80b49ac0 --> 80b003a4 --> 80bc5ea8 -->
80bc5e44


like previous poster, 50a-fat works.

 

[oggzee]

i also get the code dump on 50b-fat

Stack Dump:
80b0f3b0 --> 90b4d800 --> 90b40c08 --> 90b41b1c -->
80b436b8 --> 80b49ac0 --> 80b003a4 --> 80bc5ea8 -->
80bc5e44

Code Dump:
[removed - not needed]

like previous poster, 50a-fat works.

Thanks, can you tell me when does it happen, what are the steps to reproduce it?
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me much:

strcasecmp
??:0
??
??:0
??
??:0
??
??:0
Menu_Loop
??:0
main
??:0
__crtmain

I'll probably make a debugging version that might tell more..

btw, to save you time next time, I only need STACK DUMP numbers, code dump numbers are not needed.

 

[GolfDude]

it appears after the loading screen for the loader and before the game list should show up (which you see for about a tenth of a second) ..

just loading it straight from the HBC.. nothing special when it happens.. it just does... it loads fine loading it the very same way with .50a

 

[WiiPower]

It's 802.11g, so up to 50mb/s. Quite what throughput/latency you'll get from smb is another thing.

Heh, you wish

try measuring it...
edit: btw not sure if you were talking about bytes or bits, but the correct number is 54 Mbit/s, which makes for a maximum theoretical throughput of 6.75 MB/s, however actual numbers are much lower, in the range that WiiPower mentioned or even lower, anyway it's too slow. And I am certainly not adding that even if it would be fast enough.

Network loading is nice, i'm doing that at my ps2. I don't know if it was 2-3 MBit/s or 2-3 MB/s(but i think it's MBit/s) that linux gets. It seems the hardware is simply not capable of more and it's definatively not a 802.11g device.

 

[pzyro]

*ahem* maybe add .ciso support? (from the newer wbfs managers)

i backed up my games as .ciso's, formated my HDD to NTFS and um... realized it cant play .ciso's

or is there a way to convert them?

 

[Dark.Yoshi]

hello, cfg v50a is very great...

unfortunately, i have a small problem with the game names in german, eg "kiss" writes in german "küss"

that means "ä (ae), ü (ue), ö (oe) and ß (ss)" do not display properly.

is there already a solution ?

thx...

 

[oggzee]

A quick fix for stack dump crashes in v50b:

http://cfg-loader.googlecode.com/files/cfg50t3-fat.dol

Thanks to GolfDude for helping me identify the problem.

edit: forgot to mention: the crash was happening in cases where /wbfs uses a flat files only structure without subdirectories. - it's fixed now.

 

[Elfish]

It's 802.11g, so up to 50mb/s. Quite what throughput/latency you'll get from smb is another thing.

Heh, you wish

try measuring it...
edit: btw not sure if you were talking about bytes or bits, but the correct number is 54 Mbit/s, which makes for a maximum theoretical throughput of 6.75 MB/s, however actual numbers are much lower, in the range that WiiPower mentioned or even lower, anyway it's too slow. And I am certainly not adding that even if it would be fast enough.

Network loading is nice, i'm doing that at my ps2. I don't know if it was 2-3 MBit/s or 2-3 MB/s(but i think it's MBit/s) that linux gets. It seems the hardware is simply not capable of more and it's definatively not a 802.11g device.

ye it's cool. i'm planning a nas atm. that's why i'm interessted in a feature like that. i wonder tho what speeds the lan adapter allows us to have.
is it even technically possible to implement network share loading? wouldn't there be problems if you'd try to access the wlan/lan device during online play?

 

[smf]

I don't know if it was 2-3 MBit/s or 2-3 MB/s(but i think it's MBit/s) that linux gets. It seems the hardware is simply not capable of more and it's definatively not a 802.11g device.

There is an easy way to tell, disable 802.11b on your router. It's mini pci, so it's standardish and they put it on a fast bus. The starlet might not be up to it, or the code might not be great. It would be unlikely that nintendo purposefully throttled it though.

 

[oggzee]

ye it's cool. i'm planning a nas atm. that's why i'm interessted in a feature like that. i wonder tho what speeds the lan adapter allows us to have.
is it even technically possible to implement network share loading? wouldn't there be problems if you'd try to access the wlan/lan device during online play?

I don't care if it's possible or not, I'm not doing it, maybe ask someone else.
It's also in the FAQ:

Some known issues and suggestions that are frequently asked about:

* Return directly to the loader when exiting a game: use preloader!
* Black bar at the bottom of screen in console mode with 576i video mode
* Banner animations or icons
* GUI settings
* GUI game start screen
* New Gecko OS 1.9.x (aka Ocarina 2)
* DONE: GC and other controllers
* GC / DVD / HBC launcher
* DONE: Multiple wbfs partitions support
* DONE: Automatic download/update of titles
* Automatic download/update of themes,...
* Spinning discs
* NAND emulation
* Screensaver
* HQ cover zooming
* Coverflow Grid mode
* DONE: Profiles / Multiple favorite groups
* Disable intro screen
* WiitDB integration (game info: description, genres, which controllers, number of players, etc...)
* NO: Installing games over network

The list is here just so we can tone down the number of repeated requests on the forum
We might or might not work on any of the listed items.[/p]

edit: oh I see i need to update the FAQ to also read: NO: starting games over network.