Hacking Crap, easy to use channel creator

[rAiN mAn 2o0o]

any chance of increasing the size limit of 4mb on crazy installer???

 

[wiixale]

Hi WiiCrazy, I found some other strings not translated.

I was installing a wad through the "Test / Install" feature, and this is what appeared:

As you can see, in the red rectangles the text is not translated.
I was not be able to find the strings in language file.

 

[WiiCrazy]

any chance of increasing the size limit of 4mb on crazy installer???

Possibly no. You don't need it for game channels.

QUOTE(wiixale @ Apr 10 2010, 08:25 PM) Hi WiiCrazy, I found some other strings not translated.

I was installing a wad through the "Test / Install" feature, and this is what appeared:

As you can see, in the red rectangles the text is not translated.
I was not be able to find the strings in language file.

Well I was talking about these actually. Today I've worked on Crazy Intro, adding mii display support so this week is done in terms of wii development. Possibly next week I'll update this Crap

 

[wiixale]

Well I was talking about these actually. Today I've worked on Crazy Intro, adding mii display support so this week is done in terms of wii development. Possibly next week I'll update this Crap

Uh, okay.

It's not a defective issue, anyway.

 

[Tagg7]

Is there any way to make a channel that loads using cIOS223 (Hermes)? I'm trying to create a forwarder for Monster Hunter Tri and this seems to be the only setting that works using a USB Loader.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Is there any way to make a channel that loads using cIOS223 (Hermes)? I'm trying to create a forwarder for Monster Hunter Tri and this seems to be the only setting that works using a USB Loader.

You should add "ios=223-mload" to the extra parameter field so that it looks like...

partition= ios=223-mload

 

[blaze91]

is there a way to do extra parameter with the 1.6 loader to change which ios to boot off of? hermes seems to have the best compatibility for MP3 in MPT and with alt dol and putting in new banners i could make channels of each game. great job on the alt dol btw, most channel making programs dont incorporate it and the ones ive seen with it dont offer to choose a dol or make it as easy to use. are the loaders incorporated in the channel forwarders for each game because i tried to put the 1.6 in its own folder in apps and rename it too boot.dol and just got a black screen. havent been able to find much reading on the 1.6 usb loader i know its stand alone and not a forwarder though. im running x19 as 249 and rev 5 for hermes 222 and 223 if i need to do something to make the loader work on its own with wbfs or if it needs a game forwarder, i normally run usb gx btw

 

[Dialexio]

Nope, USB Loader 1.6 is based on Waninkoko's, which exclusively used IOS249. (It dates back to before Hermes was even known of.)

I believe that only USB Loader GX and Configurable USB Loader (forwarder) channels will let you use IOS222/3/4.

 

[harmor]

I haven't read any posts so I don't know if this was suggested but why can't we type the path of our usb loader?

Instead of a drop-down menu we have a text field. in said field we can type "sd:\apps\usbloader\" or "fat:\apps\usbloader\".

 

[Dialexio]

I haven't read any posts so I don't know if this was suggested but why can't we type the path of our usb loader?

Instead of a drop-down menu we have a text field. in said field we can type "sd:\apps\usbloader\" or "fat:\apps\usbloader\".

???

The drop-down menu tells Crap what loader/forwarder to embed in the channel. The loader is inside of the channel unless you opted to use a forwarder.

If you're asking why a forwarder won't use a custom directory, I've seen little (if any) demand for that.

 

[XFlak]

U would have to modify the source code of the loader and compile a new dol to do that, I've done that already and released my version a few pages back, there's no reason why u can't customize the forwarder paths and do the same

 

[WiiCrazy]

Ability to choose the location of the actual loader for the forwarders is a valid request. But that will just complicate the business for most of the users... those who can't even differentiate between a built-in loader and a forwarder. So no, that will not be implemented, as Xflak pointed out one can simply tweak the source for the forwarder and recompile and add it as a new loader.

Crap is a flexible program, you are not limited to the loaders provided by me, you can add your own.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Currently making the extra parameters stuff for Configurable Usb Loader forwarder a bit user friendly. I need all the nifty parameters we can pass to the loader... those we set in the game options menu and some device specific ones...

So I need help

Here are the ones I gathered so far,

debug=1
device=sdhc
device=usb
ocarina=1
language=english
language=japanese ... (french, italian, spanish, possibly more)
video=ntsc
video=pal ... (other modes?)

 

[XFlak]

ios=223-mload
ios=222-mload
ios=249 (i think)
ios=250 (i think)
etc.

I also think there is a parameter for alt-dol... i can't remember what it is right now (probably just "alt-dol=1" or something like that). You could probably change where the wii-menu button takes u also (can't remember the parameter for that though... maybe "return_to"??)

if u want to see more parameters, check out the configurator for configurable, have it create the config files with w/e settings interest you, then browse them.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Thanks Xflak, Configurator hopefully did the job... I haven't tested any of the configuration options, hopefully they will work (with the restrictions possibly enforced by cfg. usb loader if any)

Btw, here is the new version

download : CrapV3.3b

Changes :

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Crap v3.3b -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
30/04/2010 WiiCrazy (I.R.on)
----------------------------------------------------------------
* Multilanguage fixes, added new keys into several language files
in English. 

* New configuration string in crap.cfg to list extra parameters
for forwarders. 

* Semi-user-friendly filling of extra parameters. Just double 
click from a list of all possible configuration strings.

* Added Italian language (thanks to wiixale)

 

[XFlak]

no problem!

Great work!! It even starts up faster than before!

Has the no intro loader changed? Just curious if I need to update my custom categorii-friendly loader dols or if my existing ones are still up to date (i suspect they are still up to date)

btw, all the "home=*" options can be removed, those settings only apply when in configurable USB loader, but not in the game

just to clarify, any parameters entered into the conf forwarder channel will take precedence over the configurable USB loader settings... but if an option is omitted from crap, then the channel will use the settings in conf usb loader, correct? For example, if I make the forwarder channel with IOS=222, it will load with 222... but if I don't add anything, then the game will load using whatever settings I have defined in conf usb loader (ie. IOS249), correct?

also, shouldn't we be able to pass parameters into the non-forwarding loaders? (like conf. USB Loader direct FAT)... or is this not possible?

What I would really like to see in future releases is having 1 forwarder channel that check multiple partitions for the game (in the order defined by the user).

For example, it would be awesome to have 1 forwarder try to launch the title from FAT1, then FAT2, then WBFS1, WBFS2, then NTFS1, NTFS2 etc. But I imagine this would have to be built into configurable usb loader before CRAP can even support it.

Thanks again!

 

[WiiCrazy]

@Xflak:
Well let's go one by one,

1. No loader changed in this new release
2. home=*, thought they patched the game's home option through this. Not so usable though I've thought it would be useful when testing the games through homebrew channel.
3. Yes I assume settings work as you described. To add, if you specify an extra parameter like ios=222 then your channel will always use ios 222 no matter what you select in cfg. usb loader settings.
4. Passing extra parameters to direct loaders (cfg/gx) is not possible unless the feature is implemented in either loader or in the nand loaders.
5. About trying possible partition/filesystem, I think it's a bit overkill... yeah currently fat&ntfs support relies on cfg. usb loader so what you say is definitely correct.

 

[wiixale]

Thank WiiCrazy for the new release!

I'll try it as soon as I come back home.

P.S. You can give a look here at official CFG Loader tutorial page: under the "Game Loading" section there are all the possible settings for game loading.

 

[wiixale]

I run the app and I found an error. But this time it's mine!

In the translation, I also translated a key entry, so when I entered into the NAND Loader or IP Configuration, it gave me a JIT error.

So I updated the translation, correcting also few language bugs. You can find it here.

 

[WiiCrazy]

I run the app and I found an error. But this time it's mine!

In the translation, I also translated a key entry, so when I entered into the NAND Loader or IP Configuration, it gave me a JIT error.

So I updated the translation, correcting also few language bugs. You can find it here.

Hmm I fixed a similar error in another language file (Danish) but didn't notice this. Thanks

I'll distribute the fixed file along with next version.