Homebrew postLoader4

[daxtsu]

Thanks for the new release! I'll check it out in a minute. You missed an S in my name, though.

Looks like the repeat stuff is still a bit wacky. It doesn't auto repeat on the Wii remote, nor on my GC controller, and holding down Zr/ZL to scroll pages on the classic controller slows the animation down, like it did in the Query function.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

postLoader 4.b28

* removed crosscheck of dml for sd games. This will give a great speedup for fst games scan, but will not check consistency from game on usb and the same on sd. (thx FIX94 for pointing that)
* removed an useless space check during dml scanner
* corrected autorepeat for wiimote keys (you can now keep +/- pressed to change pages)
* fixed classic controllers button and key repeat (thx daxtu!)
* added DML1.x and DM2.x cheats support (thx daxtu)
* removed source path from emulators filters (thx wever)
* corrected DM2.x game search (games on both sd and usb where not listed) (thx wever)
* remove bottom bar neek icon when postloader is already running in neek (thx wever)
* corrected gamecube game section under neek

Everything is perfect - no bugs to report
Can't wait for emulator custom icons
Thanks stfour

 

[stfour]

Thanks for the new release! I'll check it out in a minute. You missed an S in my name, though.

Oppss. fixed

Looks like the repeat stuff is still a bit wacky. It doesn't auto repeat on the Wii remote, nor on my GC controller, and holding down Zr/ZL to scroll pages on the classic controller slows the animation down, like it did in the Query function.

The repeat should work only with the wiimote.... for me it works like should... if you keep a button pressed for more then 1 sec it start repeating (obviously it make sense only for page scrolling). Tonight I will try to fix classic and gc controllers

 

[daxtsu]

It's not working for my Wii remote; if I hold - or + to try and scroll pages it just sits there. If I press either button once, it'll scroll a page as normal. Maybe it's because it's a newer Wii remote with Motion Plus built in it(Skyward Sword bundle gold one)?

 

[stfour]

I'm also using a wiimote with integrated motionplus. But I have also a standard one... I will check if it make any difference...

 

[stfour]

@[member='stfour']
Feature request before v4 is final:
Replace default (empty icons + rom name) for Emulator Games with the official PNG of the emulator in case no screenshot or cover is found.
Will look much nicer
We can still read the game name on the bottom of the screen - so no big deal if rom name is not in the box
Abz

I recommend these: http://www.mediafire...xayvuozesh997h4

Hey AbdallahTerro, do you have these icons without frame ?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Transparent you mean - or just black without frame?

 

[stfour]

Transparent you mean - or just black without frame?

Fully transparent will be the best !

 

[AbdallahTerro]

I have this old set http://www.mediafire.com/?7ka4g0qtv7n2786
though some icons needs a bit of editing - I'll try to fix it and post the new one

 

[stfour]

Thank you, this is ok !

 

[AbdallahTerro]

here's a new pack with some fixes: http://www.mediafire...jxa6uhcjmez12lm
all transparent - best used on black background - added 2 new icons for GB and Media player not present in above link

 

[Geren]

Couple of bugs I found:
-When hiding a game, it doesn't hide the game I flag, but instead it hides the last game in the page.
-Music doesn't replay, I only have one song as bg music, and when it finishes, I get a code dump.

I'll send you a log soon.

 

[stfour]

Couple of bugs I found:
-When hiding a game, it doesn't hide the game I flag, but instead it hides the last game in the page.
-Music doesn't replay, I only have one song as bg music, and when it finishes, I get a code dump.

I'll send you a log soon.

Thank you... I was suspecting that mp3 where causing one issue, but I never identified it. With one song I can replicate it

 

[Taleweaver]

That's kinda strange...I know for a fact that my (one single) background music file replays without a problem (it's an MP3 on the SD card).


On my end...I noticed plugins.conf hasn't changed. Also: postloader (or the mednafen-plugin) doesn't display subfolders. And with a \roms folder with 13 subfolders, things can get kinda messy. I edited my plugins.conf to see how it would look. Much better than in the previous version. Still not the best, though. It can display everything, but until a whole bunch of plug-ins are added, mednafen takes up most of the place.

Here's my plugins.conf file, by the way:

#
# postLoader plugin configuration file
#
# =;;;,,...,
#
#
000=SNESGX;snes9xgx.dol;/snes9xgx/roms;smc,fig,sfc,swc,zip,7z
001=FCEUGX;fceugx.dol;/fceugx/roms;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,zip,7z
002=VBA;vbagx.dol;/vbagx/roms;agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,zip,7z
003=GENESIS;genplusgx.dol;/genplus/roms;gen,zip,iso,bin,smd
004=Nintendo64;wii64.dol;/wii64/roms;n64,v64,z64,rom
005=WiiMednafen;wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip
006=Game Boy (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Game Boy;agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,zip,7z
007=GBA (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Game Boy Advance;agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,zip,7z
008=Game Gear (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Game Gear;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip
009=Lynx (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Lynx;lnx,7z,zip
010=Master System (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Master System;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip
011=Genesis (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Mega Drive;gen,zip,iso,bin,smd
012=Neo geo pocket (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Neo Geo Pocket;zip,ngp,ngc
013=NES (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/NES;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,zip,7z
014=PC engine (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/PC Engine;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip
015=PC-FX (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/PC-FX;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip
016=SuperGrafx (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Supergrafx;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip
017=Virtual boy (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/Virtual Boy;zip,vb
018=WonderSwan (Mednafen);wiimednafen-mod3.dol;/wiimednafen/roms/WonderSwan;nes,fds,nsf,unf,nez,unif,gen,iso,md,smc,fig,sfc,swc,agb,gba,bin,elf,mb,dmg,gb,gbc,cgb,sgb,vb,lnx,ngp,ngc,pce,ws,wsc,gg,7z,zip

(yes, I still gotta figure out about what extensions about half of those emulators actually do)

 

[stfour]

Wow ! This is better then adding subfolder scanning

I will add in the next rel...

I don't know why mp3 repeat was working for you... but I found the bug... just one "=" missing...

 

[stfour]

postLoader 4.b29

* fixed all issues with supported controller (and extensions). Repeat should work fine for all...
* corrected a dump after the last song (thx Geren)
* adotped plugin.conf by wever (but renamed wiimednafen-mod3 to wiimednafen.dol)
* added emuicons for roms without cover (see plugin.conf). Covers height and width must be divisible by 4
* corrected displaying of hidden games

 

[GartimusPrime]

I have a possible bug.....and probably only I have it. Recently Overjoy released a version of neek2o that works with 3tb drives (ya for me!). So I reformatted and partitioned my drive in two 1.5tb partitions. I built a fresh nand via modmii and started neek2o up! woohoo! Imagine my excitement when it booted (it has been so long). Neek2o has the option built in to autoboot any channel. So naturally, I had it autoboot postloader. Upon restarting neek2o, it started autobooting postloader and my HDD shuts down. I then installed the modified version of priiloader for neek and installed neekbooter.dol. I restarted the wii and upon booting into postloader my hdd shuts down. If I uninstall priiloader and just boot neek2o itself all is fine. It seems postloader has an issue with my hdd in neek2o.......I think.

 

[Taleweaver]

Is that r83 or r84? I have that one as well. Okay, I'm using a 500GB single partition, but otherwise it's the same...and it has always booted fine (with priiloader...I didn't even know there was an 'autoboot any channel' in neek2o).

There is one thing...not sure if it's the same issue, but still... When I modded my (now ex-)girlfriend's wii, I couldn't get neek2o to boot directly (boot2 bootmii). The reason was that the hard drive was only initialised AFTER bootmii had done its thing. My "solution" was a bit of a detour: I installed priiloader on the hard drive and told it to load bootmii (as IOS). Which loaded neek2o. Which loaded priiloader on the emu-nand. Which was then able to load postloader.
(the details are probably somewhere in the neek2o thread around Christmas 2011...I'm too lazy to go look for it right now).

Now, before I advise to set up a construction like this...have you tried autobooting in another channel? (either by neek2o or by priiloader).

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Thanks stfour for adding custom pngs,
1 more tiny request - ability to hide name of game in the box (it's a bit crowded now)

 

[stfour]

Thanks stfour for adding custom pngs,

I think i will add a black strip under the name. Without name and cover it will be difficult to find a game... you will have to move the pointer on every icon to dicover what it is...