Hacking Coverflow demo

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has anyone tried the NTSC version of Wii Fit? i'm using latest build and cIOS 13a and it just green screens
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got mine working great now. preloader boots straight into it and game return to it without a hitch when u quit from them. The only thing that bothers me now is the loading of the covers? before when they saved to the cache after the initial setup it took a while to do that and then theyd load automatically but now with my new full boxart covers, they take a substantial time to load and sum just give up loading. each time you boot into the loader you find covers missing (? symbol) that were there the time before. Is there a cache limit? or is this a slow sd card reading. Surely someone has encountered this.
This is an amazing loader, can only get better
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EDIT: oopss i must of unticked the 'compress textures' button on the fourth page of the settings, that's sped it up significantly, not instant loading upon boot, but i wouldn't expect it to with the HQ covers i have now. Might get optimised with code in the future but great for now!
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Great work, love it!
 
Liink said:
EDIT: oopss i must of unticked the 'compress textures' button on the fourth page of the settings, that's sped it up significantly, not instant loading upon boot, but i wouldn't expect it to with the HQ covers i have now. Might get optimised with code in the future but great for now!
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Great work, love it!

I don't think the initial size of your covers makes any difference (they just have to be under 1024x1024). I'm fairly sure that the loader resizes the images before the compression takes place. If it's still taking a bit of time to load, it could come down to the speed of your SD card, rather than that of the loader. I've got Wiiflow with the same covers (72 of them) on 2 Wiis in my house, and the covers are nearly instant on one (if you instantly start scrolling, you'll catch the tail end of a blank, but barely), but take a few seconds to load on the other, with the only difference being the SD cards themselves. The Sandisk cards for Wii are actually pretty decent compared to the PNY card I'm using in the secondary Wii.
 
imapterodactyl said:
Liink said:
EDIT: oopss i must of unticked the 'compress textures' button on the fourth page of the settings, that's sped it up significantly, not instant loading upon boot, but i wouldn't expect it to with the HQ covers i have now. Might get optimised with code in the future but great for now!
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Great work, love it!

I don't think the initial size of your covers makes any difference (they just have to be under 1024x1024). I'm fairly sure that the loader resizes the images before the compression takes place. If it's still taking a bit of time to load, it could come down to the speed of your SD card, rather than that of the loader. I've got Wiiflow with the same covers (72 of them) on 2 Wiis in my house, and the covers are nearly instant on one (if you instantly start scrolling, you'll catch the tail end of a blank, but barely), but take a few seconds to load on the other, with the only difference being the SD cards themselves. The Sandisk cards for Wii are actually pretty decent compared to the PNY card I'm using in the secondary Wii.

Hmm so maybe it is my card. I have an Sandisk 2gb SD card im using and after i ticked that option and it did speed up significantly, prob takes like 30 seconds to get around my covers (prob about 32 of them). I made them myselfs, scaled them to 1024 x ## (constrained the proportions) in photoshop as the ones it downloaded were horrible quality, there about 1.2mb each...could this be the problem?
 
Has anyone got 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen' to work with Wiiflow?
Gamecode: RXIP52

If so, please let us know the settings you used
 
Hi, first of all great loader. I have a problem though.
I have CIOS36 rev10.
system 3.3E
Everytime i click download covers it some up with stack dump and code dump.
I tried putting the covers manually onto my sd card. But when loaded in wii flow they look blurry and dont fit in the cover in the menu.
Any ideas why im getting errors while trying to download covers?
 
Benjay said:
yes it is.
1.2Mb per cover , it's really too much.

Is it though? I thought the loader actually resized them to the res they need to be, then compresses them to cache. You even have the option of deleting the pngs altogether afterward, since it doesn't load them.

Perhaps it resizes to a minimum size or smaller (if the original is smaller), rather than a single specific res? I'm talking out of my ass here, so I'll have to check into it. I would actually be willing to wait a few extra seconds for covers to load if I could keep a high enough res to actually be able to read all the words on the back of the boxes.....
 
sidishere said:
Hi, first of all great loader. I have a problem though.
I have CIOS36 rev10.
system 3.3E
Everytime i click download covers it some up with stack dump and code dump.
I tried putting the covers manually onto my sd card. But when loaded in wii flow they look blurry and dont fit in the cover in the menu.
Any ideas why im getting errors while trying to download covers?

You can't currently download through the loader. It points to the wrong site (but still doesn't stack dump for me... are you using a LAN adapter?).

I've answered this in your other thread, but I'll type it again:

FRONT covers ONLY: wiiflow/covers
FULL covers ONLY (front,back,spine) wiiflow/boxcovers
If you have any front covers in wiiflow/boxcovers, it will stretch them out over the whole box.
Covers can be any size under 1024x1024, they don't have to be resized to work in this loader.
Also, don't use the 3d covers for GX. They look like shit in this loader. If using front covers only, use the regular ones. Get 'em at wiiboxart.com.
 
If someone can help me configure a system like the one that's in place currently for downloading covers I can host them on my site for free. I'm not sure how many times I've got to make this offer.
 
Spidy1000 said:
Has anyone got 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen' to work with Wiiflow?
Gamecode: RXIP52

If so, please let us know the settings you used

yes mate 002 fix on only ! rest at default
 
geedub said:
Spidy1000 said:
Has anyone got 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen' to work with Wiiflow?
Gamecode: RXIP52

If so, please let us know the settings you used

yes mate 002 fix on only ! rest at default

Thanks, i'll give it another try
 
@Hibernatus

Can you please post an update on what you are planning to do for the cover downloading
 
Hibern is on move for the week.
he told me he was not sure to have internet during this period. So don't expect him here.
BUT , he should be working on the final release of wiiflow , and covers are on his to-do list
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i suggested him to add a "box" where to put a link to download covers , so everyone can use the site he wants.
We will see what happen ^^
 
Benjay said:
Hibern is on move for the week.
he told me he was not sure to have internet during this period. So don't expect him here.
BUT , he should be working on the final release of wiiflow , and covers are on his to-do list
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i suggested him to add a "box" where to put a link to download covers , so everyone can use the site he wants.
We will see what happen ^^

Thanks for the update Benjay, i saw Hibern (at least someone using the nick hibern) in the shoutbox on djtaz's site, but he just said hi...

Guess we'll just need to be a bit more patient for now
 
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Thank you spayrosam, your forwarders are great, and the way you packaged everything is nice. Much appreciated
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Hello Hibern,

I tried your loader, the gui is awesome.... wonderful job....

one suggestion for your development.... please, add the chance to config different paths for your three covers folders (fullcovers, flat and disc), this allows to use in your loader images already downloaded by other ones... (e.g. sd:/images/fullcovers/, sd:/images/2d/, sd:/images/disc/)

The improvement is that we save internet bandwidth, we save space in the sd, and the loader gets much more cool and configurable....

In a couple of days I will post the italian localization for your loader....
 

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