Homebrew postLoader4

[Excelsiior]

Just checked PL again and I was like... OMFG!!! This shit is A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

Now I just feel like HBF is obsolete ... then I remembered PL can't categorize homebrew. *phew*.

Small bugreport:
I just started PL4 without USB-Drive, it doesn't respond to the B-button (does not abort scanning).

This will be my new all-in-one Game-Loader.

 

[stfour]

Thank you guys!

Lol, you could have given me a heads up. I've been waiting to release SE GUI v1.7 because pL4 wasn't out.

sorry joostin I've completely forgotten you where waiting for me before releasing new s.e.

 

[stfour]

there is no online update file "Team File"... send via wiilload and will work, as joostin has said.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I wasn't ready to release it anyway, since I hadn't tested out your last change to the booter, which worked better and faster btw.

Even though I don't use pL very often (I don't really use my Wii that often besides testing these days), I would like to say that this new update is a huge improvement in my opinion.

 

[Excelsiior]

Are you planing on adding Not64/Wii64 support? That would be even more (possible?) awesome.

 

[stfour]

Are you planing on adding Not64/Wii64 support? That would be even more (possible?) awesome.

Yes, sure

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[Taleweaver]

!!! BETA WARNING !!!

Release note

> Added emulator frontend page (currently fceugx, vbagx, snes9xgx, genplusgx), roms must be in //roms as they should.
> Added uid.sys an system menu channel visibility managment for neek (neek2o)
> Added TTF support
> Added direct shortcut for SettingEditor GUI and WiiMod (thx to both for their permission)
> Redesigned menu interface
> Greatly improved the stability and reliability
> Boundled there is dimension2.0 theme (a mix of dimension and setting editor gui default theme)

Known Issues

> There may be a little delay on page changes. This due to cover cache thread locking that can happens during reading of big png
> gensplus fails starting roms

A BIG thank to FIX94 for his hard work on emulators plugin !


postLoader 4.b11

* d-cross up select wii games/dml. down for emu.
* added selection for dml mode (0.x for < 58, 1.x for new dml)
* added more video modes for dml (only 1.x mode)
* added nodisc and padhook flags in per game settings (only 1.x mode)
* wbfs games on first FAT32 partition can be booted via neek2o from real nand (neekbooter 1.4 is required as priiloader autoboot installed file in /nand/pl2o nand image)
* note: genplus doesn't work for me

postLoader 4.b10

* corrected a bug in grlib drawimage functions, that may not scale correctly the texture
* covercache: fixed threading and now start caching current page items instead of previous one.
* icons: fixed possible fault with long text

postLoader 4.b9

* huge speed improvment in importing emu snapshots
* Added support for genplusgx emulator

postLoader 4.b8

* postLoader is capable of import saved snapshots as covers (fceugx, vbagx, snes9xgx)
* rendering speedup checking and disabling offscreen objects

postLoader 4.b7

* in dol embedded configuration is stored only when needed (great speedup on hb start)
* corrected long filenames exception for emulators

postLoader 4.b6

* Integrated uid.sys manager for neek is partially working. Press [home] in channel mode (under neek2o/neek)
* Now hb apps are loaded directly to mem2... launching is even faster
* Added emulator support for fceugx, vbagx

postLoader 4.b5

* Changed the HDD keep live function
* Updated all sorting functions to qsort
* Changed escape code for TTF flags, as char 255 caused wrong behaveur in mbstowcs
* new TTF width caching system, with full support for wide chars
* fixed icon font size during scrolling

postLoader 4.b4

* Changed a lot of on-screen informations
* Corrected a bug on apps name from xml in homebrew mode
* Corrected a bug on channels name

postLoader 4.b3

* Adjusted position of some user inteface items...
* Semplified HOME menu for all modes
* Added a direct shortcut for Setting Editor GUI in the bottom bar (S.E. Gui must be installed in /apps/SettingsEditorGUI/ or /apps/Settings Editor GUI/)

postLoader 4.b3

* Added texture based cache system for GRRLIB ttf implementation
* Added a cache for ttf character size in GRRLIB
* emuBrowser: now using qsort for sorting
* Added topbar for selecting browser mode
* Added bottombar for selecting about/setup/disc/neek(bootmii)/setting editor (if installed)
* Now disc is checked before starting it.
* priibooterGUI 2.7: little change in fade timing to give a little more time to press a key on wiimote

postLoader 4.b1

* Now postLoader uses TTF fonts
* Fixed a bug on GRRLIB when measuring character width (TTF)
* Fixed a bug on homebrew parameters detection
* Corrected some memory allocation bugs
* Added emulator page (actually only snes9xgx, and roms must be in /snes9xgx/roms). A great THANK to fix94 for his hard works on emulators
* Corrected a random bug that was causing the hang of cover cache thread.

Wow, dude! You sure have been busy lately!


I feel kinda sorry to say it, but I barely use my wii anymore. It's still amazing, though.

 

[Hielkenator]

Not very bug free....
I'mgetting constant errors...
High sqeeking noises after about 5 minutes...
Unable to write cfg.ini to sd card.
Not able to show my Wii channels- instant error dump...
Unable to load any rom...for snesgx
Tells me posloader.dol is not present while it is...
Booting Wiimod results in black screen.
showing Wii games crashes HARD.
It's very slow...

Sorry to say this, because it's an awesome app but , unusable for me now.

 

[stfour]

Not very bug free....
I'mgetting constant errors...
High sqeeking noises after about 5 minutes...
Unable to write cfg.ini to sd card.
Not able to show my Wii channels- instant error dump...
Unable to load any rom...for snesgx
Tells me posloader.dol is not present while it is...
Booting Wiimod results in black screen.
showing Wii games crashes HARD.
It's very slow...

Sorry to say this, because it's an awesome app but , unusable for me now.

I can't really reproduce any of these bugs... for me it is working for everything (and it is much faster than any previous version). Do you have installed pl3 before ?

 

[Hielkenator]

Not very bug free....
I'mgetting constant errors...
High sqeeking noises after about 5 minutes...
Unable to write cfg.ini to sd card.
Not able to show my Wii channels- instant error dump...
Unable to load any rom...for snesgx
Tells me posloader.dol is not present while it is...
Booting Wiimod results in black screen.
showing Wii games crashes HARD.
It's very slow...

Sorry to say this, because it's an awesome app but , unusable for me now.

I can't really reproduce any of these bugs... for me it is working for everything (and it is much faster than any previous version). Do you have installed pl3 before ?

No clean install right from google download page.
No previous setups.
Using Priiloader 0.8beta4 if that matters.

Remebering a lot of revs of postloader before, worked like a charm...
Seems postloader can;t acces my real nand, and can't read my hdd with wii games.
It crashes.
also navigating through gamecube games results in high pitched soud crash.

I cannot load any roms.
Post loader tells that the xxx.dol is'nt in the pl folder, while in fact it is....
Wiimod 3.2 start via the bottom icon results in black screen.

 

[stfour]

Ok, thank you for the info... I will try a clean install. Do you have installed on SD, right ?

Do you have mp3 playing ?

 

[stfour]

Last question... do you have installed postloader in priiloader ?

 

[Taleweaver]

Strange...as far as I tried things out, it was pretty much flawless. And I probably updated pretty much the same way as you, Hielkenator (moved most of the existing folders or files aside, put everything from the zip file in place, start priiloader, tell it to boot neekbooter.dol).

However you mention "posloader.dol" and "the pl folder". Even assuming the former should be posTloader.dol, I have neither of those. Are we talking about the same source file? (linky to beta 11 zip on the google page)



The only "bugs" I can report right now seem pretty normal for a beta release.
1. I'm on neek2o. Though the 'emulators' department can see the content of both SD:\snes9xGX\roms\ and USB:\snes9xGX\roms\, only the games on SD actually load and play. When trying to load from USB, the counter goes to 100% loaded, black screens and then restarts postloader. VGAGX has the same thing (haven't tested fceuGX or genesis yet).
This is normal in the sense that Tantric's emulators were never adapted to find data on the same device that holds the emu-nand, but I kinda thought that would've adapted here...
2. perhaps I haven't found it in the new GUI yet, but could it be that the option to manually rearrange the items on the screen went missing?


Either way: awesome work thus far. I didn't even imagine postloader could've improved from postloader 3. I was wrong.


EDIT after stfour's last notes, it's probably convenient to mention:
1. I'm still on priiloader 7.
2. I do have a song playing in the background (my own .mp3).


EDIT 2: @stfour: you may want to update your signature to "postloader 4 is out".

 

[stfour]

I don't think that tantric emulators can se usb under neek2o... but postloader can. We should ask FIX to embeded uneek_fs obcd library in his emulator mods.

Anyway something strange in loading dol exists... I can't run wii games with cfg loader, but I can with gx... I will check later.

 

[GartimusPrime]

I have had almost no issues.....my only issues are that wii games don't boot from postloader, even after i choose which loader to use, it just boots me back to postloader. Oh and filtering options do not do anything for me in the wiiware vc screen as well.By the way, GX is the loader I am choosing for wii games. It goes to black screen and back to postloader. Also I have Setting Editor GUI and it shows up in the bottom bar. When I go to load it, it brings me back to the homebrew channel.

 

[GartimusPrime]

I was also thinking since there are 5 places to go now (Homebrews,Channels, Wii Games, GC Games and Emulators), I find that the directional pad cann be confusing, I think is no longe needed especially with the cool drop down menu. But that is just my opinion.

 

[stfour]

I have already implemented (but it is disabled) mode switching in cyclic mode using up/down in the dpad. Right/left five page jump. But I'm not sure will be better...

 

[GartimusPrime]

So I have all covers for NES and SNES emulators, I just used Mastershoes 2D covers and renamed them all and they show up great, they can be a little slow sometimes showing up but otherwise it is very cool!

 

[stfour]

that covers are very big... you can use a batch conversion program (like irfanview) and resize them to lower size (just remember that width and height must be divisible by 4).

 

[kylster]

I was also thinking since there are 5 places to go now (Homebrews,Channels, Wii Games, GC Games and Emulators), I find that the directional pad cann be confusing, I think is no longe needed especially with the cool drop down menu. But that is just my opinion.

Maybe link these to emulators? NES,SNES,GBA,GEN or replace the NES one with Medafne???