Hacking USBLoader with Game Images

[bluebird12]

What exactly is this thread about now ?

Are any of the original "Thread's team" around, or did they all get scared away ?

bluebird12, usptackle, nixx, etc... ?

I cant leave for 5 minutes, things go wild.

I go to sleep when its 9 pages.. comeback and its 27... go away again and its 38. The changes I was going to made were already made by some people, so I saw no point in continuing. The best option now would be to combine everything just as it had been in the Gamma Launcher. (Option pages, set forces, set ocarina etc. ).
AND.. I saw others working on different GUI's so whats the point on working on this when another one will be released tomorrow... it will just keep continuing again.

 

[djtaz]

Not my loader, i just created the wad using someone elses dol and someone elses images - none of that is mine , but im glad it worked all the same.

 

[BIG MOE]

Not my loader, i just created the wad using someone elses dol and someone elses images - none of that is mine , but im glad it worked all the same.

DJTaz gives the magic touch again like usual , great work bro , by the way long time no see man

what's new

 

[maddoc]

I spawned a new topic for a new GUI.

Kosaic I need you to see it because due to limitations, covers must be 160x224px!


Forgot to link to it: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147262

 

[Kosaic]

I spawned a new topic for a new GUI.

Kosaic I need you to see it because due to limitations, covers must be 160x224px!

Ok, Thats an easy Fix .... (I missed teh last number of pages, but I can do that in minutes)

Also, Here is a new BG I was playing with, if anyone is interested ...

Enjoy

 

[Kosaic]

What exactly is this thread about now ?

Are any of the original "Thread's team" around, or did they all get scared away ?

bluebird12, usptackle, nixx, etc... ?

I cant leave for 5 minutes, things go wild.

I go to sleep when its 9 pages.. comeback and its 27... go away again and its 38. The changes I was going to made were already made by some people, so I saw no point in continuing. The best option now would be to combine everything just as it had been in the Gamma Launcher. (Option pages, set forces, set ocarina etc. ).
AND.. I saw others working on different GUI's so whats the point on working on this when another one will be released tomorrow... it will just keep continuing again.

Understand .... Everyone can thank themselves for the "Non-Patience" and the fact we STILL do not have an all in one loader ... FRUSTRATING

I think I'm also out, no more Covers or info ... I'm just doing all this work, so everyone can run off with it and do as they please. (which I wouldnt mind if it had a Main Purpose, which everyone has now ruined.)

Thanks either way bluebird12 ... ping me if you want to do anything quietly behind the scenes ...

 

[djtaz]

If your on about the site i did , it has a purpose - the loaders can now be modified to auto get the images from an online source for anyone with an internet connection if someone wants to code that in.
None of the sites that had the images would have been able to supply the boxart in the format required to do this as there was no wii game code -> boxart translation.

 

[icebrg5]

If your on about the site i did , it has a purpose - the loaders can now be modified to auto get the images from an online source for anyone with an internet connection if someone wants to code that in.
None of the sites that had the images would have been able to supply the boxart in the format required to do this as there was no wii game code -> boxart translation.

If thats possible then the use for an sd card would be gone right? because you could just install a wad and the wad would fetch the files from the internet right?


Also great work making that wad.Ive tried a few and yours in the only one working for me.Im using your wad along with this dol file
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A3LTZUAB and a background i like.I've used a few different back grounds now.



Any chance someone can link me to some 16:9 backgrounds.All the current backgrounds leave 2 black bars on both sides of the screen.

 

[Kosaic]

If your on about the site i did , it has a purpose - the loaders can now be modified to auto get the images from an online source for anyone with an internet connection if someone wants to code that in.
None of the sites that had the images would have been able to supply the boxart in the format required to do this as there was no wii game code -> boxart translation.

NOTHING to do with what you did djtaz !

It has Everything to do with all the beggers, leachers (did I say beggers yet?) and people who just wouldnt let a good team of folks do something they set out to do.

Lots of people contributed here, but WAY MORE didnt give a rats ass about any more than getting a WAD out of this ... Which quite honestly if they had done some reading, EVERYONE of them could have created their own in 5 minutes.

But Nooooooo, some people are too lazy

(sorry if I sound bitter)

 

[djtaz]

Lol , no ur ok. I made the wadder site and hosted it for icefire cause the app is really good and makes life easy for people - i was making them manually before wadder came out and it got to me. Yes anyone can make a wad if they search around and find out what they need - they are just lazy

 

[Blue Zoidberg]

Lots of people contributed here, but WAY MORE didnt give a rats ass about any more than getting a WAD out of this ... Which quite honestly if they had done some reading, EVERYONE of them could have created their own in 5 minutes.
But Nooooooo, some people are too lazy

(sorry if I sound bitter)

Actually, most attempts to make a .wad (or forwarder) have failed for the multitude of people who'd tried. Least, that's what seems to be a big contributing factor.

 

[Kosaic]

Mine worked just fine ... Everyone was having issues, maybe because they didnt know what they were doing, or didnt read all that they should have ?

Either way, that is my take ... It is all just too bad.

Back to my super secret coding now ... before the wife yells at me again tonight.

 

[starstremr]

ok can some one help me please i can not get the covers to show i have tried all kinds of things i am using nixxloader.

what folder and where ?

caps or no caps some help please!!!!!

 

[bula]

thats good to know, because that may have been my problem all along. is there a blank.png anyone can upload here for me?

kosaic

you should add a blank.png to your image pack, because nothin on the first page, has anything with blank.png, just noimage.png and bg.png, missing the blank.png

It does check first release of this app.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

So i've been modding as well (who isn't

) And I think my mod is kinda cool, but I need some *real* programmers to help me finish it. It's working as is, but there are some bugs I can't get rid of, I'm more of a php/javascript guy... So, any good programmers want to help me out? PM me!

Here's a picture of what I've been working on:

click to enlarge...

LOOKIN' NICE! I was wondering how long it would be before someone would put something like this together! Any YouTube action shots??


TiMeBoMb =)

 

[kedest]

A loader like this would be awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjXx1A6EO4c

 

[Davedom]

Yeah but for one the 3d would be a lot harder to code and where would we find the 3D cover art.

I think that if we simply had it with zero to few effects with the covers that we have it would be awesome though

 

[usptactical]

Sorry guys, I've been sleeping and then working all day. Besides I figured everyone jumped to Shizzy's thread.

Now I see there are multiple GUIs going on (again) - with some using libWiiGui (Snes GX menu). I admit, I started playing with it and even have the source to one of the projects, but in the end I just want a simple loader that can quickly show the images and run the games. Not like I'm going to be in the loader more than 10 seconds anyways.

So to keep the first page updated, which is the most current working source? Is it this one?

Here you go.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mzfzmyikene

I change how the loader mounts to sd in usb-loader.c. Also I made the menu.c unmount the sd when a game is selected to boot.
For Ocarina I didn't found the codes when I made the changes. So I made fst.c mount the sd after you chose the game and then unmount if it doesn't find codes or if you select to applied the codes to umount after the codes ha been loaded.

BTW, Thanks for integrating the SD fix 56killer!

The blank.png file is NOT needed for nIxx's version (I'm looking at the code now). I only used it in my first version to deal with game images that weren't all the same size.

AND Regarding WADs:
The only WAD I would think anyone would want at this time is the forwarder, unless you enjoy installing and uninstalling WADs. Just install the forwarder and always place whoever's USBLoader version in the apps/usbloader directory. Besides, you need the SD Card for the images anyways unless you are loading them from the internet, which is going to be a lot slower than loading off the card anyways.

To anyone having trouble loading images, with the forwarder and nIxx's version you need to put the images in the /app/usbloader/images directory. At least it worked for me. Putting them in the root images directory didn't work. Maybe I'm using an old (2 days ago) version, but that worked for me.

 

[tripellex]

Yeah but for one the 3d would be a lot harder to code and where would we find the 3D cover art.

I think that if we simply had it with zero to few effects with the covers that we have it would be awesome though

First, 3D cover art would not be hard at all. Simply a matter of scanning the insert (which is a single wraparound piece anyways) and applying it as a skin to a generic white box template. Just makes me wonder how long it will take before one of the big brains out there snags a Starlight and reverse engineers the firmware. I'm making predictions now...within a month we'll see a hacked Starlight interface ported to the older Wiis, much the same way other big brains figured out how to port the newer iPod interfaces for the Classics line to other, older iPod gens.

**throws in $5 to the pot**

Anyone else care to wager? 1 month, if that.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

@Kosaic... Just curious if you've finalized your cover list yet?? If not, how many do you have left?

P.S. ~ With a little tweaking, I think maddoc has a good thing going here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147262