Hacking USB LOADER COVER IMAGES

[Knocks]

Yes , some have different covers with the last 2 letters being the deciding factor like Cooking Mama.
RCCPGT http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCCPGT.png
RCCP5G http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RCCP5G.png

RCCPGT and RCCP5G have the exact same cover. Your link provides covers of RCCP and RCCE.

Here are the IDs of all Cooking Mama releases:

CODECooking Mama: Minna to Issho ni Oryouri Taikai!ÂÂÂÂ ÂÂÂÂTaito CorporationÂÂÂÂRVL-P-RCCJÂÂÂÂ02/08/07ÂÂÂÂJP
Cooking Mama: Cook OffÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ÂÂÂÂ ÂÂÂÂMajesco GamesÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂRVL-P-RCCEÂÂÂÂ03/20/07ÂÂÂÂUS
Cooking MamaÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ505 GamesÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂRVL-P-RCCPÂÂÂÂ05/11/07ÂÂÂÂEU
Cooking MamaÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ505 GamesÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂRVL-RCCPÂÂÂÂÂÂ05/18/07ÂÂÂÂAU
Cooking Mama: Minna to Issho ni Oryouri Taikai! (Best)ÂÂTaito CorporationÂÂÂÂRVL-P-RCCJÂÂÂÂ12/11/08ÂÂÂÂJP

 

[oggzee]

Yes, of course, well, see, I'm the maintainer so to speak of the configurable loader, and I'd be happy to change the cover loading to a 4 letter id, if you could, pretty please, provide the images, I would make a new release with this change.

Thats just one loader - there are loads and i would need them all to change in order to change the format on the site.Im not going to break every other loader so one can work.

There is no need to break the 6 letter id images, they can keep on working as they do now.
I'm just asking if it's possible to get also images from a 4 letter id query.
In other words, an url like this:
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHAP.png
would return the exact same image as:
http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/pal/RHAP01.png
So, no need to break anything.

And please accept my apologies if it sounds like I'm criticizing, I'm not.
You're doing an amazing job and a service to the community, I'm gratefull for that!

 

[djtaz]

Its possible to do it, but the problem is that it will only find the first image even if there are 10
If you do a search for RCCP on the site you see 2 boxes , the script will only pick the first one if i can re-write it to do that, and the first one may be the incorrect box if there happens to be 2 as people not knowing the end of the code always end it in 00.

 

[oggzee]

i love that you redid the script for image resize but there is an little problem what causes some loaders to crash.

if you enter a gameID for which no image is availiable your script delivers a error massage. that will cause a crash in some loaders because they don't get an image. could you rework it to deliver a 404 or a "dummy no picture available"-picture instead of the script error?

e.g. http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts.../600/RJ2x52.png

Fixed for you now - no image comes up it the image didnt exist.

http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts.../600/RJ2x52.png

In my oppinion this is fixing a problem in the wrong end.
The loader should learn to understand the 404 code, not get dummy images.
The loaders already have a noimage.png which is displayed when there is no image, so if that noimage.png is different from this site you get 2 different noimage pictures, which looks weird.

 

[djtaz]

i love that you redid the script for image resize but there is an little problem what causes some loaders to crash.

if you enter a gameID for which no image is availiable your script delivers a error massage. that will cause a crash in some loaders because they don't get an image. could you rework it to deliver a 404 or a "dummy no picture available"-picture instead of the script error?

e.g. http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts.../600/RJ2x52.png

Fixed for you now - no image comes up it the image didnt exist.

http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts.../600/RJ2x52.png

In my oppinion this is fixing a problem in the wrong end.
The loader should learn to understand the 404 code, not get dummy images.
The loaders already have a noimage.png which is displayed when there is no image, so if that noimage.png is different from this site you get 2 different noimage pictures, which looks weird.

The site wasnt giving a 404 error , it was giving a php error based on the image resize of a null image and that caused the loaders to crash. I also cant rediect to a 404 error as the site isnt a stand alone and theotherzone.com is the main site on there and i have a 404 error for that (which i turned off last month and havent enabled again since, but i will)
Id prefer 2 different no images to the loader crashing.

 

[Screemer]

one other thing that i noticed. you script seems to be case sensitive.

e.g.: http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts...2e52.png
-> http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts.../240/RJ2E52.png

 

[djtaz]

one other thing that i noticed. you script seems to be case sensitive.

e.g.: http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts...2e52.png
-> http://www.theotherzone.com/wii/resize/nts.../240/RJ2E52.png

Lol - well i had expected coders to be able to work things that way which is why i asked for it , but i suppose i can put in some error checking for capitalisation to make sure its in the correct format.
Are you testing me Screemer ?

 

[penetr8or]

Any chance the widescreen covers could be added to the zipped downloads aswell?

 

[wishmasterf]

Hallo

First of all thanks for your realy good work.

Following Cover is wrong:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2009
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

On the cover you see that this is from Rtl Winter Sports 2008 and not Rtl Winter Sports 2009

 

[Screemer]

Are you testing me Screemer ?

just a little

 

[djtaz]

Any chance the widescreen covers could be added to the zipped downloads aswell?
Nope - they are only created when the image is opened on a per image basis , so they dont really exist except for when someone opens the page and as such i cant make them zip

QUOTE(wishmasterf @ Apr 20 2009, 10:41 AM) Hallo

First of all thanks for your realy good work.

Following Cover is wrong:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2009
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

On the cover you see that this is from Rtl Winter Sports 2008 and not Rtl Winter Sports 2009

Thanks for pointing that out - i need to make a Flag Boxart option for images that are incorrect.
not sure if your able to make any boxart , but if you can and if you upload it , it will go into the moderation queue to be checked against the existing cover and a mod will then select to replace the cover.

 

[djtaz]

Are you testing me Screemer ?

just a littel

Fixed

 

[oggzee]

Its possible to do it, but the problem is that it will only find the first image even if there are 10
If you do a search for RCCP on the site you see 2 boxes , the script will only pick the first one if i can re-write it to do that, and the first one may be the incorrect box if there happens to be 2 as people not knowing the end of the code always end it in 00.

That sounds ok, just return the first found, if there are multiple...

 

[wishmasterf]

Hallo

First of all thanks for your realy good work.

Following Cover is wrong:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2009
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

On the cover you see that this is from Rtl Winter Sports 2008 and not Rtl Winter Sports 2009

Thanks for pointing that out - i need to make a Flag Boxart option for images that are incorrect.
not sure if your able to make any boxart , but if you can and if you upload it , it will go into the moderation queue to be checked against the existing cover and a mod will then select to replace the cover.

Thanks for your fast reply. The flag is a goo idear. No im not able to make boxart, but i would like to be able. Is there any information how you do that? Where do you get the cover-pictures? Ho i could resize them to 160x225 best?

 

[wishmasterf]

Hallo

First of all thanks for your realy good work.

Following Cover is wrong:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2009
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

On the cover you see that this is from Rtl Winter Sports 2008 and not Rtl Winter Sports 2009

Thanks for pointing that out - i need to make a Flag Boxart option for images that are incorrect.
not sure if your able to make any boxart , but if you can and if you upload it , it will go into the moderation queue to be checked against the existing cover and a mod will then select to replace the cover.

Thanks for your fast reply. The flag is a goo idear. No im not able to make boxart, but i would like to be able. Is there any information how you do that? Where do you get the cover-pictures? Ho i could resize them to 160x225 best?

Sorry for double post. i have done making thee right cover. I cant upload because there is already an Boxart but the wrong.... How to i upload the right?

 

[wishmasterf]

Hallo

First of all thanks for your realy good work.

Following Cover is wrong:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2009
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

On the cover you see that this is from Rtl Winter Sports 2008 and not Rtl Winter Sports 2009

Thanks for pointing that out - i need to make a Flag Boxart option for images that are incorrect.
not sure if your able to make any boxart , but if you can and if you upload it , it will go into the moderation queue to be checked against the existing cover and a mod will then select to replace the cover.

Thanks for your fast reply. The flag is a goo idear. No im not able to make boxart, but i would like to be able. Is there any information how you do that? Where do you get the cover-pictures? Ho i could resize them to 160x225 best?

Sorry for double post. i have done making thee right cover. I cant upload because there is already an Boxart but the wrong.... How to i upload the right?

i saw someobe correczt it in the wrong way.

True:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2009
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

False:

NAME: Rtl Winter Sports 2008
GAME_ID: RRUPRT

The Cover shows also 2008. Thats wront. i have to be 2009!

I already own the right cover. if anyone could delete the wrong i will upload the right.

 

[djtaz]

Just upload and it will ask if you want a moderator to check it - should be ok once approved

 

[wishmasterf]

Just upload and it will ask if you want a moderator to check it - should be ok once approved

done

 

[djtaz]

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

 

[Knocks]

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