Hello, I'm sorry if there is already a thread for this, I just can't find anything.
Anyway, what I want is this:
I want a way to have a button on my Home Screen (or a bubble / tile / icon / channel.... you know, the thing you click to launch a game? Yeah, that thing.)
... that when clicked, will launch a specific homebrew on my WiiU (in my case, I want to launch RetroArch. A WiiU Homebrew, it is NOT a vWii Homebrew...)
... But I also want to customize the sound and the little logo up top, and the splash image it displays while loading.
From the little I know, I need to generate something I will then install using WUP Installer GX2.... that's what I did on the first.... button/bubble thingie.... that launched RetroArch on the Home Screen (it was corrupted when I tried updating to 1.8.6.... and failed because I don't know if it even is available for WiiU, still at 1.8.5, but now I can only launch it via Homebrew Channel... It's stuck loading when I try to launch via Home Screen.... and it has AWFUL sound and images anyway....)
Therefore I need the actual tool / procedure to generate these files I will install.
I'm a JS Programmer, I'm not a total noobie, so I don't mind if I need to Hex-Edit something.... But I also don't want to end up bricking my console or losing my games progress.... So....
How do I do this thing I want to do?
P.S.: I've used TeconMoon's WiiVC Injector to make GameCube buttons on my Home Screen, and another tool to inject ROMs as a Custom Virtual Console button (as RetroArch isn't very fond of N64 on WiiU).... but I don't know how to make these buttons for Homebrews... Which is RetroArch's case. Also, it'd help to have a shortcut to that SwapDRC homebrew, so I can play Splatoon without turning on my TV, or launching Homebrew Channel...
EDIT: I've stumbled on the post mentioned in here:
Anyway, what I want is this:
I want a way to have a button on my Home Screen (or a bubble / tile / icon / channel.... you know, the thing you click to launch a game? Yeah, that thing.)
... that when clicked, will launch a specific homebrew on my WiiU (in my case, I want to launch RetroArch. A WiiU Homebrew, it is NOT a vWii Homebrew...)
... But I also want to customize the sound and the little logo up top, and the splash image it displays while loading.
From the little I know, I need to generate something I will then install using WUP Installer GX2.... that's what I did on the first.... button/bubble thingie.... that launched RetroArch on the Home Screen (it was corrupted when I tried updating to 1.8.6.... and failed because I don't know if it even is available for WiiU, still at 1.8.5, but now I can only launch it via Homebrew Channel... It's stuck loading when I try to launch via Home Screen.... and it has AWFUL sound and images anyway....)
Therefore I need the actual tool / procedure to generate these files I will install.
I'm a JS Programmer, I'm not a total noobie, so I don't mind if I need to Hex-Edit something.... But I also don't want to end up bricking my console or losing my games progress.... So....
How do I do this thing I want to do?
P.S.: I've used TeconMoon's WiiVC Injector to make GameCube buttons on my Home Screen, and another tool to inject ROMs as a Custom Virtual Console button (as RetroArch isn't very fond of N64 on WiiU).... but I don't know how to make these buttons for Homebrews... Which is RetroArch's case. Also, it'd help to have a shortcut to that SwapDRC homebrew, so I can play Splatoon without turning on my TV, or launching Homebrew Channel...
EDIT: I've stumbled on the post mentioned in here:
However, it's not what I'm looking for, as it has no tutorials / howto's and, the one linked in that thread is for vWii, not WiiU Homebrews.1 Second Google found me this: https://gbatemp.net/threads/create-forwarder-for-wii-u-homebrew-apps.489707/
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