Cyan
First things first, thank you for being the perfectionist you are. USBGX is a mad beast of a launcher, and you keep adding new features like crazy.
Wiiflow keeps crashing on my end, the menus are barren, there is a lack of proper configuration options and is quite a mess to set up properly. But I can always count on GX, simple, elegant yet powerful.
That being said, I have a simple question regarding the future of USBGX: Could it be possible to launch roms/apps from the main menu someday? With cover support and all that jazz.
USBGX works flawlessly, and the list view can be tweaked to look like a Mame front-end (by editing the 2D covers manually) which in turn could turn the Wii into the cheapest and most compatible arcade machine ever created. Could you also add video preview support like the one Wiiflow already has?
Just out of curiosity. Thanks again for all of your efforts.
Video preview?
for plugins it's using Avi as banner animation/preview? that's good I guess. I don't know how to read video format, but if Wiiflow does it then it can be done too.
I wish I could add plugin system to put anything the user want to the main display (homebrew, emulators, whatever can be launched), but I miss time and knowledge to make it properly.
having help would be great, but I'm alone working, testing and debugging. (in a sense, I'm happy to be alone, like you said I'm perfectionist and would like things to be done like I see it
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My vision for future version is :
- perfection Gamecube launching and Gamecube menus, add neek2o,
- Release 3.1
- Add plugin system to support emulators/homebrew/etc. on main list
- Overall settings menu changes, using categories (wii, gamecube, WiiWare, plugin1, plugin2, etc.)
- update interface to use tabs and create multi-user account (a tab = a setting, for example Tab1 = WiiWare, Tab2=Gamecube, Tab3=Kids with parental control, Tabx etc.)
- Release 4.0
But that's only an utopic roadmap.
I don't know how long it would require to achieve it, The wii homebrew will probably be old and forgot by users (using instead WiiU homebrew, PS4 homebrew, etc. lol)