Hacking Coverflow7 USB Loader

[Screemer]

i think you should share im data

 

[leemufc]

cd are you there?
i need you to tweak the settings to match the console and do some debug to see if everything is working like wanted.
if you don't show up in an hour, i guess i'll release a beta version for people to fgive me feedback.

seems the guys not been online for ages
its like not turning up for the gold medal in the olympics!!
i think hez been using a banned substance!!

 

[Don Killah]

perhaps, we'll see. i know he'll show up eventually.

 

[cdreams]

Sorry guys, filming ran way later than planned, just got home, long long day it was.

Anyhoo, sounds good fire away DK and tell me what you need.

 

[Don Killah]

i knew you'll show up. hope it all went like you wanted mate.
gimme me a few minutes and i'll pack a version to share.

 

[cdreams]

excellent

 

[Don Killah]

There's a small readme for instructions so if anyone wants to give some feedback, go ahead.
CD, can you check those things too please, (also on the readme.txt):

Can anyone please check on their screen that the covers are fitted to their placeholders the right way?
The tv i use to debug, is really tiny and shitty so i can't check it for myself: for me the big one is correctly fitted, the tiny ones on the left side too...
however the ones on the right seems a little bit out a few pixels on the right. if anyone can confirm this.

also... it's a debug version, so don't bother with the debug text, it will be removed in time.

USB Loader v0.9 alpha 1 by DK:
http://rapidshare.com/files/222241922/usbl...r-dk_v0.9a1.zip

Readme.txt:
QUOTEIt's based off USBLoader v1.4 so you'll need cIOS36rev10 to make it work.

Few notes:
On the Main screen: use left/right to navigate, A to run a game, Home to either reboot to SystemMenu/HBC, 2 to display the settings.

On the Settings screen: up/down to navigate throw settings, left/right to switch settings, 2 to return to main screen.

CD, don't forget to tweak the settings png, like stated in the readme mate.

 

[cdreams]

Downloading now and will check it out

 

[jhoff80]

What size do the small versions have to be? Is it still 66x93? I already have a folder of the regular size images downloaded, but I assume that this can't automatically resize them without downloading them again?

 

[cdreams]

Hey DK.

I just checked that and the images are going off a few pixels. I take it the loader is using the background image named: bg_last.png?

That is correct proportion wise so it's not that. The only thing I can think of is that I made a mistake with the coordinates earlier and updated the details in here, but maybe they haven't been changed to the slightly new ones in the actual loader, can you double check, here they are again just to be sure:

Coordinates
===========


Small Images:

X:8 Y:196
X:84 Y:196
X:160 Y:196
X:412 Y:196
X:488 Y:196
X:564 Y:196


Main Image:

X:238 Y:128

Cheers.

Apart from that I'm liking how you have the options stuff. I will modify the settings background to match it, but do you have the actual coordinates there to where it's supposed to load so I get it exact?

Cheers.

 

[cdreams]

Yeah small images need to be 66x93.

 

[Don Killah]

@jhoff80:
yep the small covers' size is 66x93. if you ever want to resize them, take the big ones and use a free tool to do the job. i use XNView but some use irfanview or even others.

@cdreams:
yep you can check the background in the config.txt, so it might be "bg_last.png".

my bad, you're right. here are the wrong coords that i've used:

#define COVER_XCOORD_RIGHT1ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ416, should have been 412
#define COVER_YCOORD_RIGHT1ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ196

#define COVER_XCOORD_RIGHT2ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ492, should have been 488
#define COVER_YCOORD_RIGHT2ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ196

#define COVER_XCOORD_RIGHT3ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ568, should have been 564 
#define COVER_YCOORD_RIGHT3ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ196

Don't worry, it's been fixed.

regarding the background coords, here's what i use:
CFG_CONSOLE_XCOORD = 288
CFG_CONSOLE_YCOORD = 156
CFG_CONSOLE_WIDTH = 332
CFG_CONSOLE_HEIGHT = 220

so if your coords are just 2 or 4 pixels around mine, that would be nice:
With a gap of 4, your coords should be
x1: 284; y1: 152
x2: 336; y2: 224

With a gap of 2, your coords should be
x1: 286; y1: 154
x2: 334; y2: 222


i'm off to bed, make all the usefull comments/improvements now, i'll check them tomorrow.

 

[jhoff80]

I guess I probably turned on a feature that doesn't work yet. If I turn on download covers automatically it tells me "Error reading IP address" every time I scroll to a new cover. Also, it doesn't seem to save my settings changes using the GUI after a reboot.

There's also a typo on the settings.png. It says "Scorll through games and options" instead of "Scroll". And of course the console doesn't fit into there at all, but that's already mentioned. Once the console is removed on the main screen (and maybe hidden so that it's not visible when the app first loads either), this will be pretty perfect for me.*

Though I wonder, if instead of the console on the main screen (which doesn't show anything but the black space anyway) if it'd be possible to just have an image pop up telling you the game is loading or something. It'd look much cleaner that way.

A few other suggestions for future versions, if at all possible (once everything is working well in this, of course): A horizontal scrollbar would be nice, as would widescreen support.

*... Except, of course, that I only get a black screen when trying to load games, if I turn off Ocarina support. Not sure if anyone has the same issue. That, and even though my Wii is NTSC-U, when set to console default in this, it came up in Japanese, it seems.

 

[cdreams]

Excellent. Also just to note, I loaded up house of the dead overkill and my home button wouldn't work??

regarding the images, it seems none are showing, large or small. I have the folders in the correct places but just wondering if there is something with that. I know some loaders were changing it to the covers and small images being inside the actual folder where the dol was.

I seem to be able to load and play the games fine, even HOTD Overkill never had that annoying bug where the zombies (Dont use the Z word) jump around. As I say, the only issue I am having is covers not loading and those coordinates which you are fixing.

 

[Don Killah]

i'll check the IP-Error and ocarina bugs tomorrow. they were working but then i switched some codes from elsewhere and didn't checked back... assuming it's working.

the game showing in jap is a bug introduced with the ocarina fix made by Narolez, i guess my version wasn't bugged so i shouldn't have included this fix. expect an alpha tomorrow.


the folders should be like this:
sdhc:/usb-loader/ -> main folder with your images and config.txt located AT THE ROOT of your sd card.
covers/ -> the big images folder within the main folder (usb-loader)
small/ -> the small images folder within the main folder (usb-loader)

keep on bringing the feedback and wishlist. have a good night, i'm off.

 

[jhoff80]

Awesome thanks. To correct my earlier post, as it turns out, some games aren't working at all, regardless of whether Ocarina is turned on or off. An example I've found for that is Big Brain Academy, which loads fine with the standard 1.4. I wonder if maybe it's an issue with the whole forcing to Japanese thing and that language just isn't present or something.

And also, I edited this into my first post after you read it, my settings don't seem to be saved even after pressing the 1 button if I change them from the GUI. They'll be changed only for that one time of being run.

 

[cdreams]

DK, with regards to the console coordinates, why is there 2 sets of X's and Y's?

Or have you given coords for the front page console as well?

Posts merged

@jhoff80

I think this is one issue I was having, I never had the config.txt in my root of my card, i had it in the isb_loader folder, so maybe you need to do the same for that.

 

[pepperoni]

DK, with regards to the console coordinates, why is there 2 sets of X's and Y's?

Or have you given coords for the front page console as well?

I think it's because the console has 4 corners, so he gave you the top left and bottom right.

 

[cdreams]

So far with my testing:

Games load fine it seems for me, 3 games tried and all three worked perfectly fine. Seems my config never saved either but didn't really bother me that much.

With Muramasa, the game loaded in Japanese which was kind of cool and it even had my Wii buttons set to Japanese. I had it set to System Settings and I'm NTSC USA so I guess it didn't save that and must be on a default setting to match the disc region.

DK when you said you fixed the coords, have you uploaded the fixed version? In fact I'll try your link again and see

Almost got the console box on Config page sorted and I worked out what you were meaning with the 2 sets of coords, I take it there are 2 consoles on that page, one on top of the other but it just looks like one when it's loaded?

 

[Don Killah]

just a few words (yep, still not sleeping ^^)

pepperoni is right, they're are top-left and bottom-right corners for you to design the placeholder for the console in the settings screen.
there's only one console per page. the 1st row of coord is the upper left corner, and the 2nd row the lower right corner.

saving the config with 1 (as well as the Home button discarding the settings), doesn't work like stated in the relevant text. They're just here because i need to fix some bugs before including it in the next release.

Those are to be improved...
so they're not yet working:
Press 1 to save settings.
Press Home to discard settings.