Hacking Coverflow demo

[djtaz]

Hibern has been busy and i delayed him a little on his release while myself and blinddude were getting the full covers working on the boxart site.
He was waiting for the link before he could code it and it meant putting things off for a little while, but i believe that part is now resolved and he has that bit working the way he wants.

The loader looks well i have to admit. very clean smooth crisp look to it.
Lots of functions and easy to use once you figure out where things are initially.

Its worth waiting for him to finish this fully - most would be happy with it as it is now , but Hibern is a bit of a perfectionist so his first release on this will pretty much be a finished product from what i can see.

 

[mooseknuckle2000]

lol...it seems that way, but I know Hibern is working hard on this. I just didn't realize how many people he would let test or I would have thrown my name in the hat! It sounds like it's worth the wait though.

 

[djtaz]

lol...it seems that way, but I know Hibern is working hard on this. I just didn't realize how many people he would let test or I would have thrown my name in the hat! It sounds like it's worth the wait though.

It was more of a necessity with me as i needed to know how to code the site for this.
I had to figure out the best way to get the images to display and see if it was worth making an effort to have it working well with a whole new section to the site.

(it was by the way)

 

[mooseknuckle2000]

ya, it makes sense in your case Djtaz. How's the site coming along for this? How many covers are upped?

 

[cedwii]

Hibern has been busy and i delayed him a little on his release while myself and blinddude were getting the full covers working on the boxart site.
He was waiting for the link before he could code it and it meant putting things off for a little while, but i believe that part is now resolved and he has that bit working the way he wants.

The loader looks well i have to admit. very clean smooth crisp look to it.
Lots of functions and easy to use once you figure out where things are initially.

Its worth waiting for him to finish this fully - most would be happy with it as it is now , but Hibern is a bit of a perfectionist so his first release on this will pretty much be a finished product from what i can see.

What size for the full covers download?(512x512)?

 

[kyogc]

Hibern has been busy and i delayed him a little on his release while myself and blinddude were getting the full covers working on the boxart site.
He was waiting for the link before he could code it and it meant putting things off for a little while, but i believe that part is now resolved and he has that bit working the way he wants.

The loader looks well i have to admit. very clean smooth crisp look to it.
Lots of functions and easy to use once you figure out where things are initially.

Its worth waiting for him to finish this fully - most would be happy with it as it is now , but Hibern is a bit of a perfectionist so his first release on this will pretty much be a finished product from what i can see.

What size for the full covers download?(512x512)?

512X340 on http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/index.php

 

[djbubba2002]

if you need help , with full covers i have them all ... PAL and NTSC .. let me know ..
the one ? i have is , how is there 580 ntsc games covers , if there is only 528 games in the usa, tongiht it will be 530 but , just helping out

 

[BlindDude]

Channel forwarder for Hibern's WiiFlow loader. With .cfg file in case you want to change the path of the dol.




Wiiflow Forwarder

 

[djbubba2002]

do i have to resize mine , mine are big ,, 3mb to 7mb ,, they are 3240+2175

7 Action Girlz Racing done !!!!

17 Apace Chimps RP9ERS spell wrong ..should be Space Chimps

you guys should came to me , along time ago .. i would had this done ..hehehhe.. what ae the full covers for anyways...

I am geting ERROR.....There're something error in your file - It may be too large to upload , keep the filesize below 2 Megs

mine are to big , i haev to resizes them

BlindDude i have all of or missing covers on there .. i will make a pack and you can downlaod it of off me .. i will put all of the missing ones in the pack for you ...

 

[djtaz]

Thats excellent - the upload script on the site only allows a certain size , but we can FTP them up at the largest size.

If you pack them we can upload them all directly as long as they have the correct codes on them.
They should be 4 or 6 digits and in JPG format if you have them ?

They are to be used for Hiberns new coverflow loader (this loader) when he releases it and for anyone else who wants something like this.
The uploads are in JPG format, but the site returns a resized PNG when it spits it back to the users.

 

[WiiShizzza]

impressive work!!

Keep up the awsome work.

//EDIT:
I would like to overwork your buttons, so if you don't mind, post them.
Really hope to see that loader in a usable version, soon.

Don't forget to implement the 16:9 fix ^^

thx

 

[ganons]

yep the buttons are one of the things i didnt like but can live with

well after he is happy to release the source im sure you can play with it

 

[djtaz]

Shizza and NeoRame and pretty excellent at buttons and images - Hibern is doing well to get Shizza on board for this and if i were him id take him up on that straight away.

This loader is great and with the people volinteering their time to improve the areas they are good at , while still keeping it as Hiberns loader.

People will be very impressed when this is released properly.

 

[mooseknuckle2000]

@Hibern, do you have a status update? Are you just putting the polishing touches on or have you decided to add more features before a first release?

 

[Hibern]

I was hoping to find more time to finish it.
I realize i can't, so i give up, and here is a "public beta".

I hope a few artists will manage to use theme.ini to make it look better.
To help them i've done 2 little things :
- A pre-filled theme.ini : http://hibernatus34.free.fr/wii/theme_pack.zip
But remember that you can do more than replacing pictures and fonts.
You can modify animations, color/position/size of every gui element.
- And a gui for adjusting the coverflow (you'll find it in the settings menu). It almost has all the parameters from theme.ini.

So here is my incomplete loader gui :
http://hibernatus34.free.fr/wii/WiiFlowBeta.zip

In the coverflow, try to press left, right, up, down, +, -, 1, 2
Press A to select a game
You can point at the screen too, and you'll find the settings menu.

When you've selected a game, press +, -, left, right, up, down, and if you don't point at the screen press A to launch the game or B to get back to the coverflow.

In the settings menu you can use +/- to navigate faster.

The covers take ages to load, and they even disturb the display. I am awar of that but i haven't had time to find a solution. I've been told a new version of devkitpro might bring faster access to the SD card, so i'll wait for it.

I'm sorry i didn't finish it, maybe in a few weeks i'll be able to.

Before you start making suggestions, here is a little comment :
The purpose of a game loader is to load games. What makes a good loader is that it's handy, and you find and launch a game in no time. An animation should never block the user. You'll never see an animation which adds a useless wait in my loader.
I also think i should keep it simple.

There may be serious bugs because only two persons have tested this version. So use it at your own risk.

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Forgot to say :
There may be 2 or 3 parameters available only through loader.ini, like fsaa (2x, 3x or 4x, since the graphics are not optimized at all, 4x might be too slow).
The loader can load up to 300 (maybe more) covers in 512x340, and almost 2000 in 160x225, the settings are in loader.ini too.

Oh, and there's a language.ini. If you want to add your language, add a [MYLANGUAGE] and write in UTF-8 and save it without the BOM.
I will take any language you ive me for an "official" version.
I might also take a theme too if some one makes a nice one.

 

[AgentX]

Great work!

 

[cedwii]

This loader is the best!!!!!
Merci Hibern .).

 

[Hibern]

Forgot another thing. Please someone adjust the coverflow for wide screens.

 

[jebrown19]

Can't Wait to test it out Hibern,

Can't wait for my Girlfriend to stop playing Dr. Mario so I can test it that is... just looking at the directory structure,

I'm not sure if you would even know this or care, but I see that both this and Coverfloader point to the same root directory.. Has anyone tried this two loaders together? I'm just wondering if they can work together on the same SD card.

Not a criticism just a curiousity. Again, can't wait to test'er out I've been following this since the beginning.

 

[cdreams]

Hi Hibern.

Just had a shot of your loader, been interested to see what you had. Nice work there. Funnily enough you actually have very similar to what we are working on albeit some different styling for backgrounds and stuff.

I actually used your configuration to make it look like our loader lol.

So well done mate and great work