Hacking Coverflow demo

[eXy]

here it is Red theme beta2

some little changes:
- font colors
- config backgrounds added
-many fine tunes

Here it is.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mznv3dnjmxn/Red-theme_beta2.zip


PS: something I noticed is that seems to be a max kb limit for the theme png the loader can manage, in particular now my theme has 4 backgrounds and to make it work I needed to resize all of them from 640x480 to 400x300, otherwise 2 of them randomly won't work and all box covers become broken, now that they are smaller and all the theme is less than 2 mb all works fine

 

[roku93]

I've got a few ideas hot to make my theme better and I've already started working on some of them but I'll be away from teh internetz for the next week (Damn, I'll miss the WWDC.. Someone text me if they announce a cheaper iPhone!) so do not expect any updates.. Probably a gamecube USB loader is also released while I'm away..

 

[bluescreen81]

well i've been working on a new version of my Skin since yesterday...
and now im finished working on it.

Thanks to Stonetempler for beta testing and thoughts / wishes.
I updated all Images to High Quality
Better settings menu overview
New Bar in Main Menu
New + and - Buttons for Cover Navigation
Newly designed interface if you choose a Game
New Progressbar

and and and....

I bet you will love it !

(Thanks to BlindDude for his nice Videos of all Themes !)

UPDATE (to make that clear for most people - 2 Files are available):

http://www.mediafire.com/?32be2dzzqzi
(only the Theme)

http://www.mediafire.com/?35yywyzzijt
(full pack Theme & Loader, you just have to unpack it to SD Card thats it)

Comments are welcome !

 

[ganons]

with all these themes changing them could be a pain. Hibern can you add a theme selecter in the loader?

 

[bluescreen81]

with all these themes changing them could be a pain. Hibern can you add a theme selecter in the loader?

well i dont need to change anything more on this v2 version cauz its already enough in my eyes

 

[BlindDude]

i got wrong video?
I got this from the above post

 

[BlindDude]

 

[mverason]

well i've been working on a new version of my Skin since yesterday...
and now im finished working on it.

Thanks to Stonetempler for beta testing and thoughts / wishes.
I updated all Images to High Quality
Better settings menu overview
New Bar in Main Menu
New + and - Buttons for Cover Navigation
Newly designed interface if you choose a Game
New Progressbar

and and and....

I bet you will love it !

http://www.mediafire.com/?jgz5ggjgnm2

Comments are welcome !
P.S. If some1 would be able to do a video again, that would be very nice !
I'll hope BlindDude will do this again.

You should let BlindDude become the beta tester

. He seems very diligent and persistent in the process of testing. Surely he'll get my vote as a beta tester when a new app is looking for beta testers.

 

[Sledge1]

Wow, got back from 2 week holiday and found this.. nice..
Is it a stable release yet? or what's the story?
Can it run from HDD?

 

[mooseknuckle2000]

Uh ya, all these loaders boot games from the hdd (the program itself is run from an sd, but accesses games on the wbfs partition of the hdd)....this release is still a beta, but is quite stable and is also themable.

 

[Sledge1]

Yeah i realise that, but there is at least 1 loader that runs from a fat32 partition on the HDD, so no SDcard needed..
that would decrease loading times etc..

 

[redia]

hibern,

great work on your loader...

I am sorry if I missed something but I can't find this information.
I have a couple of question about your caching method.
but you mentioned that if someone does not have internet your app can/will grab the png from the SD card and cache them.
1. Is that already implemented ? where should I host the pics ?

to give you a history behind this question I have to explain that I am testing more or less each loader that is out. For the fun of it, and also to try helping in debugging.
But you know that each loader have its requirement (folder/size/naming convention)
I got fed up having to download the covers for each loader. so I have created a small windows application that creates a repository of all the covers/3d/discart/fullbox on my PC (based of my wbfs drive or even a titles.txt file) .. then populate my SD card (or a directory on my usb fat partition) for each loader with the correct required files..
pros :
- no need to have internet on the wii
- it is a one click apps.
- the images gets downloaded only once.
- the repository gets updated with new images on startup
- I can handle multiple setup (for my friends)
cons :
- no gui
- only a ini file that has to be modified manually

but I am stuck with your loader... as I do not know where I should host the png files..
2. or maybe if you could give us some hints on how you are caching the images I could directly populate the cache folder.. (I am thinking out loud right now as I do not have my wii with me and I can't really look at the folder/filetype) ?

Cheers,
R

 

[waxlabo]

wow this is amazing!

 

[Spidy1000]

This loader looks amazing, where can i download the latest build, or find some more info about it, the first post is a bit unclear for me

 

[dsfanatic5]

This loader looks amazing, where can i download the latest build, or find some more info about it, the first post is a bit unclear for me

Page 28, in BlindDude's post. If you search gbatemp for BlindDude's Junk, you'll find it there as well. It took me a while to realize the loader had been released, since there isn't really an official release thread.

 

[ganons]

with all these themes changing them could be a pain. Hibern can you add a theme selecter in the loader?

well i dont need to change anything more on this v2 version cauz its already enough in my eyes

no i mean selecting different themes from users

 

[bluescreen81]

but this would take some more MB's from the SD cards.

You are currently able to choose which Theme you want, but not inside the loader. ^^

 

[Spidy1000]

This loader looks amazing, where can i download the latest build, or find some more info about it, the first post is a bit unclear for me

Page 28, in BlindDude's post. If you search gbatemp for BlindDude's Junk, you'll find it there as well. It took me a while to realize the loader had been released, since there isn't really an official release thread.

Thanks for the info, finally finished reading the complete thread, so i already stumbled over it

I can't wait to test this loader and available themes tonight

 

[mooseknuckle2000]

but this would take some more MB's from the SD cards.

You are currently able to choose which Theme you want, but not inside the loader. ^^

it would only take up more room if you choose to put more than one theme on your card...

 

[squablo]

Does anyone really care about using space on their SD cards? I mean really, I just bought an 8GB SDHC card for 20$. Thats 8GB! Whats a few MB anyways?