Hacking POC Launcher

[Wiisel]

how i missed v0.3 i dont know ive been watching this thread like a hawk thanks for the update WiiCrazy will try it out now

 

[buby78]

@ wiicrazy
i see that in wiibrew it says to name the pic and sound to boot.jpg and boot.mp3. but when you do that it does not work. but when you name theme just boot it works. is that only me or everybody?

 

[Popopinsel]

@ wiicrazy
i see that in wiibrew it says to name the pic and sound to boot.jpg and boot.mp3. but when you do that it does not work. but when you name theme just boot it works. is that only me or everybody?

Maybe your windows explorer doesn't show known file extensions. If this is the case and you rename your picture (jpg-file) to boot.jpg it actually is boot.jpg.jpg. So be sure windows explorer shows known file extensions before you rename your *.jpg!

 

[WiiCrazy]

@ wiicrazy
i see that in wiibrew it says to name the pic and sound to boot.jpg and boot.mp3. but when you do that it does not work. but when you name theme just boot it works. is that only me or everybody?

Well yeah, like popopinsel said... if you can't see the file extensions for known types then you just need to rename the relevant files as boot . Even if you can't see, the filename will be like boot.mp3, boot.jpg and so on...

That default setting of file types drive me crazy, so whenever I make a new windows installation the first thing I do is to remove the check for the hiding of those extensions then checking the show hidden files option then checking the show protected operating system files option...

 

[Adr990]

Woah, v3 is totally awesome!
I gonna test out now!

really 1337

How to work with these?

 

[D-Jay]

@ wiicrazy
i see that in wiibrew it says to name the pic and sound to boot.jpg and boot.mp3. but when you do that it does not work. but when you name theme just boot it works. is that only me or everybody?

You're completely wrong.
The two files have to be named boot.jpg and boot.mp3. And nothing else.

 

[DaWiis]

@ wiicrazy
i see that in wiibrew it says to name the pic and sound to boot.jpg and boot.mp3. but when you do that it does not work. but when you name theme just boot it works. is that only me or everybody?

You're completely wrong.
The two files have to be named boot.jpg and boot.mp3. And nothing else.

He isn't wrong, just a bit n00b.
He has to name them just "boot" because his windows hides the extensions.

Naming them boot.jpg would translate to boot.jpg.jpg on his computer.

 

[WiiCrazy]

Woah, v3 is totally awesome!
I gonna test out now!

really 1337

How to work with these?

Well to get effects for the picture (like in the below video)... but probably either in 0.4 or 0.5 I'll fully implement them... If only I had time at my hands...

 

[DaWiis]

I just made an awesome wii Boot video

Hope you manage to release the video version of the Launcher soon so that I can use it

Here is the vid if anyone is interested: http://diemetrix.net/dawiis/WiiBoot.avi [12MB]
(Explosion fading into a Nintendo graffiti logo)

 

[noobwarrior7]

just tried using a system channel, like HACA "Mii Channel" with up-button couldn't get it to work...no clue why.

 

[WiiCrazy]

just tried using a system channel, like HACA "Mii Channel" with up-button couldn't get it to work...no clue why.

it uses low 32 bit of the title id, so it's limited to installed channels currently (high 32 bit 00010001)

 

[wolffangalchemist]

hadn't been on in some time and wow things have gotten loads better in wii homebrew! O_O
among other things like the gcloader this looks nice just gotta go buy a wii switch the guts out with my broke one and get my money back then try it! >.<
deathnote into is flipping awesome!

 

[kedest]

so this does now support displaying a video yet like in the youtube video examples?
the readme still only mentions a boot.jpg

 

[WiiCrazy]

so this does now support displaying a video yet like in the youtube video examples?
the readme still only mentions a boot.jpg

Well no it doesn't support video yet... as you can see in the youtube video (death note one) there is some garbled display at the start of the video... that's the main issue along with mplayerwii compiles to size 5.58 MB (preloader doesn't like) which can only be compressed down to 2.68 MB with dollz (preloader accepts)

But actually a single codec like mpeg1 or mpeg2 is sufficient for the video stuff which may not be easy to get... mplayer is a huge beast and afaik there is no other video library ported to the wii at the moment.... I will try to accomplish reducing the video libraries size with a custom compilation of mplayer libs... if I can't do that then may resort to a custom mplayerwii... or maybe something else, dunno...

With that garbled display and with huge (2.68mb) size I don't think it would be release quality...

Hope I can actually work on stuff rather then tripping through ideas

 

[D-Jay]

What about compiling-on-the-fly feature? Is there any way to have just a dol-file that's installed in preloader without the need of mp3 and jpg?

That would be a very very nice feature, cause some friends of me don't have a SD-Card (yes, they're cheap).

 

[WiiCrazy]

What about compiling-on-the-fly feature? Is there any way to have just a dol-file that's installed in preloader without the need of mp3 and jpg?

That would be a very very nice feature, cause some friends of me don't have a SD-Card (yes, they're cheap).

Once I find or create a default mp3/jpg that I can distribute, that feature will be there along with a pc program to customize it.... though it's not called compiling-on-the-fly but instead let's say theme injection into the dol...

 

[Wiisel]

blank image and silent mp3?

 

[WiiCrazy]

blank image and silent mp3?

Hmm, nice catch but I really want a default theme for this

 

[kedest]

What I'd really like to see is the following
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb6EyvaNn7M...feature=related
the little wii animation from about 5 - 7 sec. That would a cool intro.
So you just told actual video is still a problem, but would it be possible to turn that into an animated gif and the sound in a mp3?

 

[D-Jay]

Once I find or create a default mp3/jpg that I can distribute, that feature will be there along with a pc program to customize it.... though it's not called compiling-on-the-fly but instead let's say theme injection into the dol...That sounds interesting...

QUOTE(Wiisel @ Feb 11 2009, 02:13 AM) blank image and silent mp3?

Hmm, nice catch but I really want a default theme for this

If you want some, give me a try