Hacking USB LOADER COVER IMAGES

[wishmasterf]

very good - and someone moderated it already - thanks and well spotted.

moderated but not corrected......

 

[oggzee]

I would still like to see at least one example of two different covers that share the first 4 letters.

Let's see... I made a list of what seems to be the differences... Can I post them here as inlined images?
Below are NTSC images, to me most seem just duplicates, or different cut&paste jobs, with the exception of guitar hero, mario kart and mlb power pros and RTNE*.
I can't seem to make a conclusion. Are the duplicates below valid? Are RTNE* valid?
I can do this for pal images too if there is interest, and is allowed?

R2DE: R2DEAP R2DEEB

RB8E: RB8E70 RB8E78

RDTE: RDTE00 RDTEAF

RGHE: RGHE41 RGHE52 RGHE5D RGHE70 RGHE8P RGHEGD

RIME: RIME36 RIMEGM

RKFE: RKFE00 RKFEH4

RKSE: RKSE00 RKSENR

RL8E: RL8E00 RL8E54

RM6E: RM6E99 RM6EEB

RMCE: RMCE00 RMCE01

RMPE: RMPE00 RMPE54

RNUE: RNUE00 RNUE8P

RSCE: RSCE00 RSCE7D

RTNE: RTNE01 RTNE41

RUFE: RUFE99 RUFEMV

RWCE: RWCE00 RWCE4Z

RYIE: RYIE98 RYIE9B

 

[djtaz]

very good - and someone moderated it already - thanks and well spotted.

moderated but not corrected......

it has been corrected - if you open the image and refresh the page it should flush your cache and you should see the updated one.
Your PC is holding on to the old image in its cache and so your still seeing that.

 

[djtaz]

I would still like to see at least one example of two different covers that share the first 4 letters.

Let's see... I made a list of what seems to be the differences... Can I post them here as inlined images?
Below are NTSC images, to me most seem just duplicates, or different cut&paste jobs, with the exception of guitar hero, mario kart and mlb power pros and RTNE*.
I can't seem to make a conclusion. Are the duplicates below valid? Are RTNE* valid?
I can do this for pal images too if there is interest, and is allowed?

The ones with the 00 are from people who dont know the last 2 digits , but have the first 4.
The problem is its really hard to confirm or deny a lot of these and some do seem to be different.

The one im most worried about is the Links crossbow training as this is a different game with the same code if its correct.
Work away on the Pal if you wish.

 

[oggzee]

Ok, I'll continue then.

Here are the ntsc-j images with different last 2 letters:
The only difference in this case seems to be the sharpness in some images.

RFRJ: RFRJ5G RFRJC0

RPSJ: RPSJ49 RPSJ4Q

RT3J: RT3JDL RT3JEL

btw, the list is generated with:

for A in `ls | cut -c1-4 | sort | uniq -d`; do echo $A: $A* | sed 's/\.png//g'; for F in $A*; do echo -n '[img]http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/ntscj/'$F'[/img] '; done; echo; done

 

[oggzee]

The ones with the 00 are from people who dont know the last 2 digits , but have the first 4.
The problem is its really hard to confirm or deny a lot of these and some do seem to be different.

The one im most worried about is the Links crossbow training as this is a different game with the same code if its correct.
Work away on the Pal if you wish.

Power pros looks strange too, it looks to me the power pros and power pros 2008 are different games, so i guess the cover for RNUE8P should actually be what it is for RNUE00. but that is my guess.

Well, if nothing else, this comparison might point out wrong images...

I'll do PAL now, but it's gonna be HUGE.

 

[oggzee]

PAL cover images, with the first 4 letters in common:
To me it seems the most duplicates are actually USA/NTSC covers?

R2PP: R2PP99 R2PP9B
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/R2PP99.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/R2PP9B.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
R4BP: R4BPGT R4BPJZ
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/R4BPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/R4BPJZ.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RB2P: RB2P6K RB2PGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RB2P6K.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RB2PGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RBBP: RBBP18 RBBP99
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBBP18.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBBP99.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RBFP: RBFP20 RBFP7J
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBFP20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBFP7J.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RBMP: RBMP5G RBMPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBMP5G.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBMPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RBPP: RBPP4Z RBPPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBPP4Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBPPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RBQP: RBQPNR RBQPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBQPNR.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RBQPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RCCF: RCCF00 RCCFGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCCF00.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCCFGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RCCP: RCCP5G RCCPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCCP5G.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCCPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RCEP: RCEP5Z RCEPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCEP5Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCEPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RCPP: RCPP00 RCPP18
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCPP00.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCPP18.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RCSP: RCSP20 RCSP7J
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCSP20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCSP7J.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RCTP: RCTP5Z RCTPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCTP5Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCTPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RDBP: RDBP70 RDBPAF
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RDBP70.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RDBPAF.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RDSP: RDSP70 RDSPAF
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RDSP70.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RDSPAF.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RDTP: RDTP00 RDTPAF
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RDTP00.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RDTPAF.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RF3P: RF3P52 RF3P6M
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RF3P52.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RF3P6M.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RG2P: RG2PGT RG2PXS
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RG2PGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RG2PXS.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RGCP: RGCPGT RGCPXS
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGCPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGCPXS.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RGHP: RGHP41 RGHP52 RGHP5D RGHP70 RGHP8P RGHPGD
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGHP41.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGHP52.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGHP5D.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGHP70.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGHP8P.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGHPGD.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RGJP: RGJP4Z RGJP7U
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGJP4Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RGJP7U.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RHIP: RHIP41 RHIPXJ
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHIP41.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHIPXJ.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RHLP: RHLP4Z RHLPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHLP4Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHLPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RHUP: RHUP20 RHUP7J
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHUP20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHUP7J.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RIBP: RIBPKM RIBPS5
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RIBPKM.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RIBPS5.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RIMP: RIMP6M RIMPGM
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RIMP6M.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RIMPGM.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RJSP: RJSPNR RJSPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RJSPNR.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RJSPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RK2P: RK2P01 RK2PEB
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RK2P01.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RK2PEB.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RKDP: RKDP01 RKDPEB
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RKDP01.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RKDPEB.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RKFP: RKFP7U RKFPH4
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RKFP7U.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RKFPH4.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RKIP: RKIPNR RKIPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RKIPNR.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RKIPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RLAP: RLAP20 RLAPMR
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RLAP20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RLAPMR.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RLKP: RLKPFK RLKPGY
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RLKPFK.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RLKPGY.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RMLP: RMLP7U RMLPH4
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RMLP7U.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RMLPH4.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RMMP: RMMP7U RMMPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RMMP7U.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RMMPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RN2P: RN2P70 RN2PAF
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RN2P70.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RN2PAF.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RNHP: RNHP41 RNHP99
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RNHP41.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RNHP99.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
ROTP: ROTP20 ROTP7J
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/ROTP20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/ROTP7J.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RQBP: RQBPNR RQBPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RQBPNR.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RQBPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RQTP: RQTP6U RQTP6V
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RQTP6U.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RQTP6V.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RRUP: RRUPJF RRUPRT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RRUPJF.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RRUPRT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RRXP: RRXP5Z RRXPUG
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RRXP5Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RRXPUG.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RSSP: RSSP7U RSSPH4
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RSSP7U.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RSSPH4.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RSUP: RSUP41 RSUPNR
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RSUP41.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RSUPNR.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RSYP: RSYP20 RSYP7J
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RSYP20.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RSYP7J.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RUBP: RUBP7N RUBPVN
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RUBP7N.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RUBPVN.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RUFP: RUFP99 RUFPMV
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RUFP99.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RUFPMV.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RWKP: RWKP5G RWKPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RWKP5G.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RWKPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RXCP: RXCP4Z RXCPGT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RXCP4Z.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RXCPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RXPP: RXPPGT RXPPXS
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RXPPGT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RXPPXS.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
RYDP: RYDP6V RYDPLT
<img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RYDP6V.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RYDPLT.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />

 

[wishmasterf]

very good - and someone moderated it already - thanks and well spotted.

moderated but not corrected......

it has been corrected - if you open the image and refresh the page it should flush your cache and you should see the updated one.
Your PC is holding on to the old image in its cache and so your still seeing that.

You are right. There is anything correctet but not all. In the game-name there ist still 2008 instead of 2009.

i have rereported this issue.

 

[oggzee]

These seem to be different games: ??
RMMP: RMMP7U RMMPUG
RSUP: RSUP41 RSUPNR

 

[nindim]

I am almost finished my Original disc label package (original as in what was in the box when you bought the game, not original artwork by me!), it currently consists of 18 NTSC-J, 160 NTSC-U and 109 PAL disc images. There's still a little cleanup work to do, but I'm wondering whether it would be a good idea to rotate them so the images are all upright (a lot of them are at funny angles). The GUI USB LOADER which first spurred the gathering of these images will be rotating them in code anyway, so I don't think it's an issue for them, but for general use, it might be.

Bear in mind that there will be a small loss in quality in order to do the arbitrary rotation, shouldn't be all that noticeable to be honest. What do you guys think? To rotate or not to rotate? That is the question!

As a side note, if anyone knows where I can find Japanese disc labels, I'd be grateful. I've scoured the usual places, http://www.console-covers.com/ http://www.cdcovers.cc/ and http://www.teambadattitude.co.uk/art/wii/disc.htm and I've done quite a bit of random googling for the more unknown sites, but not much luck.

Still have a little bit of cleaning up to do, but should be able to post something this evening

 

[Realproductions]

I would like to take a moment to thank all the people that make this possible. I really do appreciate it.
or i will if some one could kindly tell me how to get these to work with ultimate USBloader 7.4
I am just starting to get in to wii home brew, so a little help would be nice.

 

[Realproductions]

double post! sorry

 

[Knocks]

These seem to be different games: ??
RMMP: RMMP7U RMMPUG

They're just typos by the uploaders.

Ninjabread Man Popcorn Arcade RNMP 06/26/07 EU
Mercury Meltdown Revolution Ignition Entertainment RMME 10/15/07 US


Link's Crossbow Training should be RZPE, and the second Mario Kart cover is a fake.

 

[djtaz]

excellent work nindim - thanks a million and ill be +1 to say rotate and keep them the right way up for non rotating loaders with disc art.

 

[nindim]

excellent work nindim - thanks a million and ill be +1 to say rotate and keep them the right way up for non rotating loaders with disc art.

Are you cool to host them at 600 x 600? I know it's quite a bit larger than the current requirements, but requirements change

Would be nice to have some really good quality disc images on screen at some point. What kind of resizing algorithm does the site use anyway? Bicubic or bilinear interpolation? Or is is just nearest neighbour....I hope not

I'm just wondering what one of the covers would look like if it were resized from 600x60 to 160x160......

 

[djtaz]

We can throw one or 2 up and have a look and see what they are like when made smaller - im really not sure , but its worth a try

 

[djtaz]

I am having a huge problem getting the transparent images to remain transparent when i resize them - ill keep at it , but it seems hard to get this to work which means the backgrounds come out black when resized

**edit** ok go it at last - just need a few images to test now.

 

[djtaz]

Right - tested on 2 images :

The original is
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/disc/RED.png

Auto Resized to 600x600 is
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/diskart/RED.png {option to add /width/height to it}
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/diskart/RED.png/250/250


The original is
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/disc/RRR.png

Auto Resized to 600x600 is
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/diskart/RRR.png {option to add /width/height to it}
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/diskart/RRR.png/250/250

 

[nindim]

OK guys, I promised I'd have something for this evening, and I know it's late, but things took a lot longer than I thought they would. I've only managed to get through the tweaking of the NTSC-J images, but I'll post them here anyway just to whet your appetite

Was more of a learning curve of how to alter and tweak them just right so they SHOULD all spin about their centre and look really sexy... I hope....

I haven't tested them anywhere so would be happy for feedback.

From the included readme

This is a sample of the work I've been carrying out on the original disc images I've been able to gather. They are fully transparent beyond the circumference of the disc and also in the centre. I have added a hand made graphic (made by me!) into the centre to give the appearance of the plastic that is in the centre of the disc.

It will probably take me a while to get through all the other images, (they're all renamed, just need to tweak them), but some of them take a while to fix up properly (missing pieces at the edges, rotation so they sit upright etc).

Anyway, I hope you guys like it (it's been a lot of work!) and look forward to the rest of the release!

Here's the link anwyay: Sample NTSC-J original disc label pack

 

[djtaz]

Thanks nindim - i thought we were going to go with 3 digit names for these ones ?
Its going to confuse things if your using 4 and everyone else is using 3.