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As far as I am aware, outside of Loadiine (unsupported on Aroma), Loadiine forks such as GX2 (also unsupported) and System Config Tool (brick-prone), there's no real way to launch games that doesn't involve the Home Menu, so there's no good reason to cold-boot into anything else. Knowing that systems like Wii, DSi, Xbox 360 and some others have had alternative launchers that made loading games faster, easier, etc., there is a lot to be desired with the stock Wii U experience.
After having read Copetti's Wii U Architecture article some time ago, I realised that most of the slowness likely comes from the security model on the system. Given that it's been well and truly pwned for a while now, while I like Aroma's approach of integrating with the Home Menu for familiarity and no loss of feature parity (can you pair stuff in Homebrew Channel? I'd imagine not), there's a still lot of time wasted on loading screens for effectively no reason at this point.
I haven't personally tried Loadiine for anything, but I read multiple times that it causes slower reads due to unencrypted game files being stored loosely. Ideally of course, a true Loadiine successor would enable loading unencrypted and packed game files (just tar them beforehand? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) for maximum performance and the lowest waiting time, but I'm sure that was already considered.
Since it feels like hacking the Home Menu to eliminate slowdown would be a relatively impossible task at this point, is there any other project that effectively replaces Home Menu and works around its sluggishness?
After having read Copetti's Wii U Architecture article some time ago, I realised that most of the slowness likely comes from the security model on the system. Given that it's been well and truly pwned for a while now, while I like Aroma's approach of integrating with the Home Menu for familiarity and no loss of feature parity (can you pair stuff in Homebrew Channel? I'd imagine not), there's a still lot of time wasted on loading screens for effectively no reason at this point.
I haven't personally tried Loadiine for anything, but I read multiple times that it causes slower reads due to unencrypted game files being stored loosely. Ideally of course, a true Loadiine successor would enable loading unencrypted and packed game files (just tar them beforehand? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) for maximum performance and the lowest waiting time, but I'm sure that was already considered.
Since it feels like hacking the Home Menu to eliminate slowdown would be a relatively impossible task at this point, is there any other project that effectively replaces Home Menu and works around its sluggishness?
