Homebrew Elf/Dol Forwarder for Custom Channels

[SpaceJump]

I´m glad you got it working.

 

[djdynamite123]

eh, that's exactly the same as spacejumps apart from a capital for W wii

 

[Patryc]

eh, that's exactly the same as spacejumps apart from a capital for W wii

Huh? No its very different

 

[Cyan]

does 3 or 4 commented lines changes anything ?

 

[djdynamite123]

Your file: # Path to elf/dol file:
/apps/MPlayerWii/boot.dol

My file: # Path to elf/dol file:
#/apps/geexbox/boot.elf
/apps/MPlayerWii/boot.dol

where's the difference in the PATH of that mplayer????? it's like spotting impossible whares wally!

how can it find the correct .dol to load if you have about 4 path, 4 channels with the same 4 forwarder injects, how does it know which .dol to load? it's obviously getting confused.
or is which craft happening?

 

[Patryc]

Your file: # Path to elf/dol file:
/apps/MPlayerWii/boot.dol

My file: # Path to elf/dol file:
#/apps/geexbox/boot.elf
/apps/MPlayerWii/boot.dol

where's the difference in the PATH of that mplayer????? it's like spotting impossible whares wally!

how can it find the correct .dol to load if you have about 4 path, 4 channels with the same 4 forwarder injects, how does it know which .dol to load? it's obviously getting confused.
or is which craft happening?

Haha. All I know is the file spacejump sent me worked
But when i try it myself it doesn't

Spacejumps file

# Elf/Dol Forwarder configuration file
# This file needs to be in the root of your SD card!
# Path to elf/dol file:
/apps/MPlayerWii/boot.dol

I tried another app and it cant find the dol

# Elf/Dol Forwarder configuration file
# This file needs to be in the root of your SD card!
# Path to elf/dol file:
/apps/Wadmanager/boot.dol

 

[djdynamite123]

so what's the point? i think im not going to bother with this it's too much hassle.....

what i dont get is e.g.
you have mplayerwii channel
geexbox channel
homebrew browser channel

now you tell me in the config file, how are these 3 channels meant to find their path? without fucking up?

have the path set up correct yeah, which i did, and with all 3 injected with the forwarder, how the hell can it decide to load a .dol for that channel without which craft happening lol, thats what is freaking me out!!!
e.g. how can it tell to load geexbox elf, when it will get confused with browser and mplayer, get what i mean??

it can only have the one path in the config i recon

 

[Cyan]

I don't understand why you inject or install 3 forwarder for 3 different dol.

You can only specify 1 dol and 1 path in the config file.

the # lines are only comment and is an example.
the one read is the line without the # comment.

now if you need more, it may be usefull to have the Wad TitleID in the config file. (idea for future update -_^)

something like
# path 1
[ABCD]
/aps/name1/boot.dol

# path 2
[EFGH]
/aps/name2/boot.dol

 

[Patryc]

so what's the point? i think im not going to bother with this it's too much hassle.....

what i dont get is e.g.
you have mplayerwii channel
geexbox channel
homebrew browser channel

now you tell me in the config file, how are these 3 channels meant to find their path? without fucking up?

have the path set up correct yeah, which i did, and with all 3 injected with the forwarder, how the hell can it decide to load a .dol for that channel without which craft happening lol, thats what is freaking me out!!!
e.g. how can it tell to load geexbox elf, when it will get confused with browser and mplayer, get what i mean??

it can only have the one path in the config i recon

Patryc, can you check in your .conf file if after boot.dol there are empty spaces or empty lines (go right with the cursor till the end, it must stop at the "l"). If so, remove them and try it again.

The clue is here! It does work! You just have to follow this exactly.

It works for one app at at time I think but not sure if you can have multiple apps in the same conf. file

 

[djdynamite123]

It works for one app at at time I think but not sure if you can have multiple apps in the same conf. file

would be good if you could have many paths....

 

[Patryc]

It works for one app at at time I think but not sure if you can have multiple apps in the same conf. file

exactly, so it's pointless. would be good if you could have many paths....

Don't say it's pointless..Spacejump is just trying to help us guys...Maybe he is working on a solution to add multiple apps

 

[djdynamite123]

very true, +respect to him, i take that back, just was annoyed with it all day

 

[SpaceJump]

I don't understand why you inject or install 3 forwarder for 3 different dol.

You can only specify 1 dol and 1 path in the config file.

the # lines are only comment and is an example.
the one read is the line without the # comment.

This explains it exactly! The Elf/Dol Forwarder only loads one elf/dol, the line without "#". The lines with "#" are only comments. It shouldn't matter how many comment lines you have.

That what causes your errors are spaces and empty lines (as Patryc also found out). I will fix this by removing these spaces from the path string before passing the parameter, but this will take some days cause time is rare right now. In the meanwhile just check and remove whitespaces and it should work.

 

[SpaceJump]

Update: on request of Banjosancho I compiled versions for the following apps:
snes9xGX
fceuGX
Genplus
SMSPlus
vbaGX
ScummVM

Download links in the first post.

 

[kevenz]

do they support sdhc?

 

[SpaceJump]

That depends on the version you use.

 

[kevenz]

Humm...... if I understand correctly.

These .dol can be injected into a .wad and they will auto-boot the real boot.dol file on the apps/emu of my sd card?

This should make the .wad file smaller, which is a good thing....also removing the use of autoinjectuwad but I guess if the forwarder doesn't support sdhc and you're using one sdhc card..... it will code dump ?

Anyway thanks this is a great find.

If you could make a quake gx and wiiengine version too

 

[SpaceJump]

Humm...... if I understand correctly.

These .dol can be injected into a .wad and they will auto-boot the real boot.dol file on the apps/emu of my sd card?

This should make the .wad file smaller, which is a good thing....also removing the use of autoinjectuwad but I guess if the forwarder doesn't support sdhc and you're using one sdhc card..... it will code dump ?

Anyway thanks this is a great find.
If you have a SDHC card try it and report back, but it shouldn't work

I will add SDHC support once I have the time to and once I find some code examples.

QUOTEIf you could make a quake gx and wiiengine version too

What are paths?

 

[djdynamite123]

thanx for them forwarders spacejump, ill try them

 

[SpaceJump]

If anyone inject the Forwarders into wads, please upload the wads