Hacking CustomizeMii 1.2

[Leathl]

CustomizeMii is a 100% legal custom Channel creator for the Wii.
It's completely written by myself (some parts are based on other 100% legal codes).
Use legal Base WADs to create your own legal custom Homebrew Channels.
The .NET Framework 2.0 is required to run this application!

There is also a mono version which runs under Linux / Mac OS X (Requires the mono framework to be installed!)

New is the built in forwarder creation. It can create simple forwarders or complex ones based on the forwarder source from the USB Loader GX Team (This one required devkitPPC and libOGC!)

For any further information, see: http://customizemii.googlecode.com
Please use the Issue Tracker there to report any occuring bugs.

Thanks to icefire / Xuzz for the basic idea of this Application!

Download: http://code.google.com/p/customizemii/downloads/list
(Please just link to this site instead of mirroring the archive, thanks!)

Changelog:

Version 1.2

• Fixed writing/reading of channel titles, so japanese characters will work now
• Added checkbox (Options tab) to turn security checks off
• Added built-in forwarder creator (Needs the ForwardMii.dll which is separately avaiable)
• You can choose MP3 files as channel sound (Needs lame.exe in application directory)
• Bugfixes

Version 1.1

• Note: License upgraded to GNU GPL v3!
• Sound is working now
• Added brlan and brlyt tabs (for advanced users)
• Added displaying of image width and height in preview window
• Added "Make Transparent" checkbox for TPLs
• Fixed IA8 previewing / extracting
• Improved bricksafety (hopefully!)
• Added Tooltips
• Added update check at startup
• Wrote basic instructions (see Instructions.txt or instructions tab)

Version 1.0

• Initial Release

 

[WiiShizzza]

very nice...
...I'm following this app since the first version.

thx for sharing.

 

[Leathl]

ForwardMii updated to 1.01
Now the forwarder creation is working.

 

[Slimmmmmm]

Great stuff again Leathl, your apps make life easy for us

 

[giantpune]

it doesnt seem to work right in mono for me. the program loads up and seems to run fine. then i open a wad i got from wadder and click save and nothing else. and i get the error that banner_IN.brlan is not a valid file name.

maybe has something to do with linux's case sensitivity?

 

[G0dLiKe]

Another appreciated app, thanks Leathl!

 

[MarioMadness]

it doesnt work in Mono for me either, i have all the mono-devel and other windows.form libs installed..the program opens

but it just wont do anything

 

[Leathl]

it doesnt seem to work right in mono for me. the program loads up and seems to run fine. then i open a wad i got from wadder and click save and nothing else. and i get the error that banner_IN.brlan is not a valid file name.

maybe has something to do with linux's case sensitivity?

Is banner_in.brlan a valid filename? I thought only banner.brlan, banner_start.brlan and banner_loop.brlan will work

Try to use the "disable security checks" checkbox, if banner_in.brlan is valid..
I only tested it on my Macbook and it worked except for random crashes.

 

[giantpune]

ok. cool. disabling the safety check let it do its thing and the wad installs fine. no brick either. so i guess your safety checks are just a tad bit too safe

so is this open source? id like to default the safety checks to on or something. its 3 more mouse clicks i gotta do to turn that booger off.

 

[Leathl]

yeah it's open source, just check the project page on google code

 

[WiiShizzza]

there you go, the 2 right people met.

...awaiting new version

 

[lejong2002]

Thanks for this util.

But I found out one thing...

Comparing the wadchannelsupdater,
the channel files made by CustomizeMii are a little bit bigger than the files made by wadchannelsupdater.

I prefer small block size channel , because of lack on my NAND.

CustomizeMii is really awesome.

 

[Leathl]

Turn on the Lz77 Compression on the options tab.
I should have done that by default

 

[ether2802]

very cool app, thanks Leathl...!!

 

[lejong2002]

Turn on the Lz77 Compression on the options tab.
I should have done that by default

Thanks Leathl

One more question.
How can I change the spash image?

Greetings.

 

[_eyCaRambA_]

Wow, looking really nice =)
Thank you for this useful utility!
greetz

 

[Leathl]

One more question.
How can I change the spash image?

The whut?

 

[lejong2002]

One more question.
How can I change the spash image?

The whut?

Oops, I mean the splash image.

Some forwarder channel files have splash loading images...

How can I change the splash loading images?
Can I handle it with CustomizeMii?

Greetings.

 

[pepxl]

One more question.
How can I change the spash image?

The whut?

Oops, I mean the splash image.

Some forwarder channel files have splash loading images...

How can I change the splash loading images?
Can I handle it with CustomizeMii?

Greetings.

you cant you need to recompile the source with the new image, CustomizeMii 1.2 can compile the boot.dol needed but you also need Devkitpro and the modified libogc for the GX Forwader source aswel(correct me if im wrong lol)

EDIT

Thanks for the great tool leathl, its a must need for me when ive been creating my own forwarder and hybrid channels, keep up the good work :-)

 

[Leathl]

Absolutely right, you'll need devkitPPC installed along with the right libOGC (downloadable on the CustomizeMii project page).
If you got that, a menu point "Complex Forwarder" will appear, which means that it will be compiled from the source, therefore you can change the splash images for it.