Hacking Cover Flow USB ISO Loader by Beardface

[Kosaic]

I have no objection about the fact of donating to get the ability to download the covers directly from the site to your Wii. But it would be so cool if there was the ability to download all the covers (2D and 3D) in the needed dimensions from 1 or several packages hosted on, I dunno, megaupload or whatever. Obviously someone should do it... I'm just suggesting it, I have no time to do it myself, but it would be nice.

*Yawn* ... You need to go back and do some reading .. This was the way it all started, and trust me, we dont want to go back to that method.

Pay a damn dollar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm simply astonished here lately ... all over freeking cover images for STOLEN games ... for the low cost of a $1 dollar donation, you can all help get your hundreds of games to have a pretty image when you click it, right from your loader. And if you dont pay a dollar, you can still go grab them, individually till your heart is content, for FREE.

 

[|-RoY-&#124]

I'm in love with CoverFloader, it rules ! And I made a freaky 1.50€ donation to DJtaz, and ... it worth it

 

[jhoff80]

@Scoobyscoobydoo @jhoff80:
there is *NOT* any difference in speed between 2 developers compilation!
I have no problem running coverflow with any build (have 22 games).
So please stopping telling that, it's ridiculous

If you have problem there could be other reason, did you noticed no one else reported the same problem?
I'm not saying that you don't have that "bug" but I can assure you it is not that the problem.
And for the user that can't compile, sorry, wait for the official release...we are short in time for now, so it's a miracle we are still releasing new versions.

Honestly, there is an issue and I can't think of any other reason it'd be the case. Maybe you don't see a difference with 22 games, but with many more than that, there's a huge difference. There's absolutely no reason based on the changelog that says that should be the case.

Seriously, what else explains why something would work horribly on RC7, RC7U1, which I believe was rev 706, and work horribly on RC7U2, which was rev 714, but work perfectly on rev 709 and every other in between build I've used?

If you've got some better reason, please, let me know, but looking at the changelog, nothing that should have anything to do with read-speed has changed since.

Edit:

RC7U2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsw24yuRNI

rev709:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgGCP9_n2I

 

[Aku]

I was running Cover Floader RC6 without any real problems, I went to go load in a new game (Wii Sports) and it gave me a weird error, something -2. Before starting trouble shooting I figured I would update any programs. Updated Cover Floader to RC7rev2 and fired it up. it told me my config file or whatever was obsolete and erased it. Now my titles are all duct up. I understand I can't get cover images any more and that's ok, I plan to donate to be able to. but how do I go about fixing the titles? titles.txt now states "You don't have permission to access /titles.txt on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

I guess my gripe is, I had corrected titles before upgrading and now I don't, also it doesn't appear to be any way for me to manually fix them other than donating, as where with covers I just have to drop in my own. Unless I'm missing something...

 

[rutny]

@ Devs -
Out of curiosity, will you be looking for other options in regards to getting covers for the coverfloader due to recent events? I saw where one guy said he could do it for the community for free....dunno just a thought....it does sorta take the kick out of kick ass app for those who dont want to feel forced to donate to have that functionality working...


*sigh* where does it end....next thing you know...uploaders are going to start wanting money for what they upload....strange things are brewing

Anyone can still get the covers for free by going to the site and getting them manually and putting them on your sd card.
DONT FORGET TO PUT IN THE SIZE YOU WANT FOR THE IMAGES AS SOME PEOPLE HAVE DONE !!

Mate everybody knows this...and I still give you props ..however...its like skirting the point. It isn't about whether you can or cannot download an image, its about the functionality of the FREE program Coverfloader ( as well as others) so that is what I am asking of the devs..will they be looking for over alternatives vs allowing their users to have to pay (yea $1 euro I know....not the point) for a functionality of their program.

 

[RolloS60]

... Now my titles are all duct up. I understand I can't get cover images any more and that's ok, I plan to donate to be able to. but how do I go about fixing the titles? titles.txt now states "You don't have permission to access /titles.txt on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
...

wiiboxart.com returns 403 Forbidden error. CoverFloader stores the content of this page to titles.txt with 12 titles...

Sorry for this...it's now an official issue...thanks to you pointing it out.

Delete this titles.txt and get a new one. At the moment wiiboxart.com is on.

 

[RolloS60]

RC7U2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsw24yuRNI

rev709:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgGCP9_n2I

Your video RC7U2 seems to be "private"...please reload!

 

[dancemonkey]

RC7U2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsw24yuRNI

rev709:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgGCP9_n2I

Your video RC7U2 seems to be "private"...please reload!

WOW. Any chance you could PM me with a link to V709. RC7U2 is really slow for me with covers.

Thanks.

 

[jhoff80]

Sorry, RC7U2 video should be public now. There's really a drastic difference.

Also, for the record, I do have originals for all of these games, even the really bad ones, roommates and I split them for the shared system, so it's not just like I have a ton because I'm downloading them.

 

[Rambytes]

yeah, please post the 709....

 

[dancemonkey]

RC7U2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsw24yuRNI

rev709:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgGCP9_n2I

Your video RC7U2 seems to be "private"...please reload!

WOW. Any chance you could PM me with a link to V709. RC7U2 is really slow for me with covers.

Thanks.

Thanks for the link. 709 makes it useable again

 

[Aku]

... Now my titles are all duct up. I understand I can't get cover images any more and that's ok, I plan to donate to be able to. but how do I go about fixing the titles? titles.txt now states "You don't have permission to access /titles.txt on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
...

wiiboxart.com returns 403 Forbidden error. CoverFloader stores the content of this page to titles.txt with 12 titles...

Sorry for this...it's now an official issue...thanks to you pointing it out.

Delete this titles.txt and get a new one. At the moment wiiboxart.com is on.

Thank you RolloS60, that fixed it!!

 

[RolloS60]

@jhoff80: Do you have these issues also with 2D-covers? Thx for videos...

@dancemonkey: How many games/covers?

 

[dancemonkey]

@jhoff80: Do you have these issues also with 2D-covers? Thx for videos...

@dancemonkey: How many games/covers?

A fair few I think it's around 70 / 80. Not near my Wii now. But the difference is the same as the videos posted. It really is unusable with the latest release. 709 is awersome though

 

[Scoobyscoobydoo]

@jhoff80: Do you have these issues also with 2D-covers? Thx for videos...

@dancemonkey: How many games/covers?

A fair few I think it's around 70 / 80. Not near my Wii now. But the difference is the same as the videos posted. It really is unusable with the latest release. 709 is awersome though

Could you pm me the link for r709, ive just re-compiled my old 709 and its running like the lastest builds very slow, something very strange going on with the build library.

 

[Scoobyscoobydoo]

There is a problem with the latest revisions and loading time of the covers for sure.

Ive just compiled the latest build and also used R709.

The difference is just like the youtube video's.
R709 loads the covers instantly whereas the lastest builds are very very slow and lag the whole loader down making it unuseable until all the covers have loaded up which can take about 30-50 seconds.
R709 is instant you dont see any of the covers being drawn.

What I dont understand is i re-compiled R709 on my own machine and got the very slow cover loading.
Ive just tested R709 compiled and supplied by jhof80 and its instant.
There has got to be something different with some of the liberies somewhere i think.

Hopefully one of the developers can work this out.

Im running 3.4 pal wii, rev10 with about 60 games.

 

[Scoobyscoobydoo]

Done some more testing.

It looks like its a issue with the 3d covers with the latest builds..

The 2d covers load instantly still with the latest builds, switch to 3d covers and it lags like crazy.
R709 is fine with both 2d and 3d covers, both load instantly.

 

[Chris87]

Having trouble getting my 3d covers working,

they work fine when i manually put them in the /usb-loader/3dcovers folder

but i cant download the covers straight from coveflow, everything seems ok looks like its downloading then nothing

i have donated to wiiboxart and put the pass file with my user + pass in to the /usb-loader folder

what am i doing wrong someone please help , other than that it works fine just not downloading covers even tho i have a username and password ???

 

[rutny]

Having trouble getting my 3d covers working,

they work fine when i manually put them in the /usb-loader/3dcovers folder

but i cant download the covers straight from coveflow, everything seems ok looks like its downloading then nothing

i have donated to wiiboxart and put the pass file with my user + pass in to the /usb-loader folder

what am i doing wrong someone please help , other than that it works fine just not downloading covers even tho i have a username and password ???

Chris I just tried going to wiiboxart.com to grab a couple images I needed..and it's gone...been suspendend


edit: seems to be back up for the moment

edit 2: and back down again

 

[Nullkill]

There is a problem with the latest revisions and loading time of the covers for sure.

Ive just compiled the latest build and also used R709.

The difference is just like the youtube video's.
R709 loads the covers instantly whereas the lastest builds are very very slow and lag the whole loader down making it unuseable until all the covers have loaded up which can take about 30-50 seconds.
R709 is instant you dont see any of the covers being drawn.

What I dont understand is i re-compiled R709 on my own machine and got the very slow cover loading.
Ive just tested R709 compiled and supplied by jhof80 and its instant.
There has got to be something different with some of the liberies somewhere i think.

Hopefully one of the developers can work this out.

Im running 3.4 pal wii, rev10 with about 60 games.

I've been working on figuring out what is wrong with loading slowly; and my only guess is someone built 709 with a different version of the devkit... (svn?)

Who build the fast 709 for you? If they build a current release; is it fast as well?

They are the one I need to talk to to find out what is different about their build environment....