Emulation Homebrew Need help with custom "missing covers" inside of WiiFlow

[Trudes]

I've been trying to get custom missing box arts working inside of WiiFlow with no luck. I followed this tutorial for getting my WiiFlow setup originally so basically I'm using the plugin pack and the Rhapsodii shima theme. I did also setup the database from here and I'm hoping to keep that intact through the process of getting this all working. In summary, I'm hoping to have my WiiFlow setup like this when all is said and done:

• Boxarts displaying for all games on all systems
• Database data displaying when clicking on a game
• Custom boxarts per-system displaying for games when no boxart is detected

I've done a bunch of searching everywhere and even tried getting AI to help to no avail. I'm not sure how complicated or easy this is supposed to be but from what I can tell from those who have done it, it doesn't seem like it should be too hard and some of the stuff I've tried has definitely felt overkill. I'll link the resources I used to try and get it working if it might help you help me:

• Old missing covers thread
• Cover collections and cover collections part 2
• Github discussion from 2019 discussing this exact issue with some relevant info from @fledge68 himself
• A similar thread but it didn't really help me solve the problem
• WiiFlow plugin reddit guide
• Abz masterpack from reddit as referenced by fledge in the github discussion

So here's where I'm at: after reading the github discussion, I searched around for the Abz masterpack just to see how it was configured compared to my current setup because from the sounds of things I figured everything in there was setup to work already with custom missing box arts, so I was trying to copy whatever settings and such were over there over to my current setup just to get custom boxarts working. I noticed in the theme ini for the old masterpack (which was using a different, and I assume outdated, theme) referenced specific images for missing boxarts, so i tried to copy that to my ini with everything placed correctly but it didn't work. I tried simply copying PNGs named the magic number of their respective plugin to the wiiflow/boxcovers folder but that didn't work either. I've tried placing the image files in every place I can imagine they might need to be and renaming them to a bunch of different things each time to no avail. I've been sure to reload cache each time I try something new too.

Any info to help me get this working would be greatly appreciated! It's one of the last few pieces of the puzzle to my setup being perfect and uniform and I plan on posting a complete and detailed guide once I get it all setup. Thanks in advance for any help! Definitely let me know if any more info from me can help you figure this out!

Post automatically merged: Feb 1, 2025

I have also tried manually adding this to the rhapsodii shima ini

Spoiler: Code

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I placed these files inside the main rhapsodii shima theme folder where everything else referenced in this ini is located. I also placed them in the sd/wiiflow/boxcovers folder as mentioned before, named the same and everything.

Post automatically merged: Feb 1, 2025

UPDATE: I FINALLY figured it out. One tiny post inside a thread about the covers did the trick.

Update: added the full set for missing covers. It features blank covers for Plugins, Wii, GC, HB, Channels...everything.
There's a total of 68 covers plus 8 alternate covers. The .png's are compressed to take less memory as possible in wiiflow.
You'll have to reload the cache to make them appear.
If your Wiiflow is already short on memory (you have themes, downloaded lots of covers) there could be some cases where some plugins are suddenly not showing games anymore. Just reboot your Wii (even multiple times if necessary) and everything will come back into place.
Link in the 1st post.
Extract it in wiiflow/boxcovers/blank_covers.

So to anyone with extreme OCD like myself who couldn't figure it out, there ya go. Simply extract the images from the pack into the folder mentioned in the quote. I feel like this should be added to the theme/plugin pack by default personally

 

[Tetsuo Shima]

Thanks for the feedback my friend! I'm glad you were able to sort it out by yourself. To avoid it from happening again to others, I've added the installation path in the Missing covers section.
I decided to not include them inside the Plugins Pack, which is already so big and should only contain plugins in my view, but if there will be enough requests I could tell @RunningSnakes about it