Hacking Cover Flow USB ISO Loader by Beardface

[asuperdad]

hmm, can you upload that 667 dol for me? If you don't have an account anywhere, just use sharebee

Troy: I noticed that fishears just requested that folks do not post compiled DOL's from the SVN. My guess is that the development team wants to avoid unstable builds (made with different tool chains) from polluting the internet.

I'm going to try compiling r669 later, based on LoRD RPG's posted success.

 

[LoRD RPG]

Not sure if I spoke too soon or not, but this morning my daughter wanted to play Spyro: Dawn of the Dragons. Loaded it up and found the WiiMote had stopped responding at the screen where you need to press "1"

The only thing I was able to do with the WiiMote was to use the Power Button to shut the unit down.

I did get the game working with R669, but I'll get to that further on......

I removed the SDHC Card and reverted back to RC6, then booted the Wii. When I loaded CoverFloader, it loaded, but that was all it would do. The CoverFloader RC6 would not respond to the WiiMote even though one of the 4 LEDs was lit to show it was connected.

I tried using RC6 twice with the same results, so I reloaded R669.

After this, I opened CoverFloader, then selected Spyro: Dawn of the Dragons. But this time I clicked on the settings Cog in the upper right corner and enabled VIDPATCH after which I loaded the game and I was able to get past the point where you need to press "1".

The WiiMote is working just fine as my daughter and her friend are busy playing it right now.

A couple of notes, in CoverFloader - the main settings, I have video mode set to Automatic seeing as I have both NTSC and PAL games installed. With my games, I usually don't touch the individual settings per game.

But it appears that when you upgrade from RC6 to one of the current builds, you can't revert back to RC6 "possibly" cause of the deletion of the old gameslist.xml or maybe something else that was changed by the current builds.

 

[fishears]

Not sure if I spoke too soon or not, but this morning my daughter wanted to play Spyro: Dawn of the Dragons. Loaded it up and found the WiiMote had stopped responding at the screen where you need to press "1"

The only thing I was able to do with the WiiMote was to use the Power Button to shut the unit down.

I did get the game working with R669, but I'll get to that further on......

I removed the SDHC Card and reverted back to RC6, then booted the Wii. When I loaded CoverFloader, it loaded, but that was all it would do. The CoverFloader RC6 would not respond to the WiiMote even though one of the 4 LEDs was lit to show it was connected.

I tried using RC6 twice with the same results, so I reloaded R669.

After this, I opened CoverFloader, then selected Spyro: Dawn of the Dragons. But this time I clicked on the settings Cog in the upper right corner and enabled VIDPATCH after which I loaded the game and I was able to get past the point where you need to press "1".

The WiiMote is working just fine as my daughter and her friend are busy playing it right now.

A couple of notes, in CoverFloader - the main settings, I have video mode set to Automatic seeing as I have both NTSC and PAL games installed. With my games, I usually don't touch the individual settings per game.

But it appears that when you upgrade from RC6 to one of the current builds, you can't revert back to RC6 "possibly" cause of the deletion of the old gameslist.xml or maybe something else that was changed by the current builds.

As far as I can remember, once you've been into a game's settings then they will override the main settings... What I'm trying to say is, clicking the settings button is the same as "touching" the game's settings... does that make sense to you

If you delete the gamelist.xml ALL revisions will create a new one that works with that revision. Bye bye settings but Hello working loader.

 

[LoRD RPG]

Kinda figured as much

Main settings = General settings for all games
Individual game settings = over ride CF settings for the selected game.

BTW.....

Being fairly new to the scene, it hadn't stopped to think that the gamelist.xml file would be on the SDHC card. Call it a brain fart if you will, but for some reason I was thinking it was stored in the nand.

Had a flash of foresight and checked the SDHC card just before typing this reply.

- NEED MORE COFFEE

Only been doing this since I first read about it on LifeHacker.com

 

[Nullkill]

Updated first post to provide link to RC7 release (r673).

Enjoy

 

[LoRD RPG]

Updated first post to provide link to RC7 release (r673).

Enjoy

Thanks!

Works great and the art work is clean.

In R669 the art work was a bit pixelated (blocky), Most notable when you
would zoom in on the images, but not so noticeable when default size.

 

[elmerohueso]

* Anti_002_fix from WiiPower? working with cIOS rev10
* 002 Fix from WiiPower? working with CIOS 13a (Indy, MySimsRacing?, GBusters all work)

I just want to make sure I understand this, but the first point says these games with the 002 work with rev10, while the second point says they work with rev13a, so I'm a bit confused. I have rev10, so will RC7 make Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones work? Will I have to download the Anti_002_fix, or is it built in? Or do I have to install rev13a?
Bottom line is, what do I need apart from rev10 and RC7 for Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones?
Also, please provide links if I need rev13a (I can only find rev13b anymore), or if I need anything else.

Thanks a lot. This has made packing my Wii and games around so much simpler. Now just got to get Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones working for me.

 

[pepxl]

Updated first post to provide link to RC7 release (r673).

Enjoy

nice update but im having trouble with the covers cant get them working(offline way havnt got wii networked)) but disk art works ok.
ive placed covers in SD:/usb-loader/covers/ at 160x254 full 6 digit game id but nothing even tried 160x255

oh yeah and 3d covers dont work either ive olaced them it SD:/usb-loader/3dcovers as the read me say to but no go

any help would be great

thanks

 

[LoRD RPG]

All my covers are 160x224 and they're working just fine.

I've got 13b on my system, not 13a

 

[videoguy]

Also not getting 3d covers. I deleted my usbloader folder, then told RC7 to download them all. Took a few minutes getting them all, but after it was done, my 3dcovers folder was empty.

Copied the files over from the RC6 folders I'd backed up and it worked.

Also, +/- buttons no longer navigate.

 

[Dermy]

In r669 the covers loaded almost instantly. Now it takes as much time as it did in RC6 in RC7

 

[pepxl]

All my covers are 160x224 and they're working just fine.

I've got 13b on my system, not 13a

im on rev 10 that might be the problem but all other loaders work with covers exept this one???

whats your dir structure like for your sd and or usb??

 

[scognito]

All my covers are 160x224 and they're working just fine.

I've got 13b on my system, not 13a

im on rev 10 that might be the problem but all other loaders work with covers exept this one???

whats your dir structure like for your sd and or usb??

It works flawlessy, we didn't changed the cover code, except from where download (and it works ok since I tested it).

AND THE CIOS DOESN'T MATTER WITH COVERS

 

[pepxl]

All my covers are 160x224 and they're working just fine.

I've got 13b on my system, not 13a

im on rev 10 that might be the problem but all other loaders work with covers exept this one???

whats your dir structure like for your sd and or usb??

It works flawlessy, we didn't changed the cover code, except from where download (and it works ok since I tested it).

AND THE CIOS DOESN'T MATTER WITH COVERS

mmmm i might be doin something wrong but ive never had covers showing in any rev of coverfloader and cannot pinpoint why it if you can help that would be great?

i cannot download the covers directly can my wii isnt connected to the net

here my sd dir for the flat covers

 

[Nullkill]

What type/size SD Card do you have?

Is your SD Card locked or unlocked? I'm noticing you have all Pal Covers... are you sure you have all Pal games?

 

[fishears]

All my covers are 160x224 and they're working just fine.

I've got 13b on my system, not 13a

im on rev 10 that might be the problem but all other loaders work with covers exept this one???

whats your dir structure like for your sd and or usb??

It works flawlessy, we didn't changed the cover code, except from where download (and it works ok since I tested it).

AND THE CIOS DOESN'T MATTER WITH COVERS

mmmm i might be doin something wrong but ive never had covers showing in any rev of coverfloader and cannot pinpoint why it if you can help that would be great?

i cannot download the covers directly can my wii isnt connected to the net

here my sd dir for the flat covers

your 2d covers should be 160x224

 

[fishears]

Also not getting 3d covers. I deleted my usbloader folder, then told RC7 to download them all. Took a few minutes getting them all, but after it was done, my 3dcovers folder was empty.

Copied the files over from the RC6 folders I'd backed up and it worked.

Also, +/- buttons no longer navigate.

Were you in 3d cover mode on Graphics Settings when you clicked to download covers? It only downloads 3d if your display is set to that mode.
We moved the -/+ navigation to left/right on the d-pad - it was only ever meant to be there temporarily

 

[pepxl]

your 2d covers should be 160x224

lol i accidently added a 5 insted of a 2 in the image resizer doh!!

im such a noob lool

 

[LoRD RPG]

Sorry I wasn't around to reply, I had gone out for a while to take my daughter to the museum and Walmart.

The directory structure is:

:\apps\
:\private\
:\usb-loader\
:\wad\

The images directory structure is:

:\usb-loader\3dcovers\
:\usb-loadercovers\
:\usb-loaderdisks\
:\usb-loadergames\

:\usb-loader\gamelist.xml
:\usb-loadersshot.png
:\usb-loader\titles.txt
:\usb-loader\wiicoverflow.xml

BTW....

I hope you solved your problem seeing as you were using the wrong number in the image resizer.

 

[fishears]

This is the best loader by far i think

the new "Cheat Manager (beta)" the kids love it

question:
is there a way to download all cheat .txt files like covers
a button i can click. if not would it be posible to add one.

downloading one by one is a pain.

thanks

Thanks - that's great news because kids can be tough critics

A batch downloader for cheats is a good idea - it will definitely be in the next official download, and probably sooner....