Homebrew Why does Team Twiizers block the HBC in Neek?

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I understand why they don't want it to be packed as a wad, because that would allow people to sell it as a scam. What I don't get is them not wanting people to use the INSTALLER in an emunand.

Ideally I would like a link to somewhere they have addressed it (I couldn't find anything), but if anybody has guesses on their reasons I'd like to hear them.
 

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Because of the same reason SNEEK was deleted from Wiibrew. For them SNEEK is a warez launcher and thus they are not supporting it.
So it's the same thing as with a patched IOS? They are just unable to see past the potential for loading (or installing in some cases) illegal backups?
 

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To protect against modifications by scammers to hide the fact that they're selling somebody else's product.
But if you run the installer you would see the scam screen, so they couldn't hide it. Preventing people from installing the HBC as a wad in a real NAND isn't the same thing as blocking the official installer in an emunand.
 

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"Each version"? All two of them?
What is the "new way" that you're talking about?

Edit: If you're going to use hindsight to edit your posts and manipulate the conversation, this is a waste of time.
 

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"Each version"? All two of them?
What is the "new way" that you're talking about?
See the edit I made.

We can't run v0.7+ installers (never tried v0.6 or below) in neek, and when it turned out you could dump v1.0.7 and the ticket from a real nand for an emunand (although there is still that annoying save issue), it just happened to get blocked in v1.0.8.
 

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the installer wont work in sneek. its just the way it works. it wouldnt work in the first place, so they made it fail earlier on purpose.
 

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I understand that the installer contains some magic to get the homebrew channel on the nand.
I don't understand what is so special about the homebrew channel itself compared to any other channel application capable of launching homebrew?
The reason I ask is because I am thinking of using the homebrew filter on my emulated nands.
I am curious why people really want the HBC, specially now that the HBF became open source.
Postloader is a valid alternative as well, but the Homebrew Filter has more resemblance to the homebrew channel.
It also might fix the return to launcher feature when a Homebrew uses exit(0); I don't think postloader already has that feature.
 

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hbf and postloader are having wiiload support. Just not from the usbgecko.
I assume the majority of users isn't ever going to use that feature?
 

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it would work very similarly to the network wiiload. replace the network reading with
Code:
int usb_recvbuffer_safe_ex(s32 chn,void *buffer,int size, int retries);

hbc is using 1 for the channel (chn), which is slot B, and 1000 for retries.
 

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Code:
diff --git a/source/Network/tcp.cpp b/source/Network/tcp.cpp
index efaecac..00eac47 100644
--- a/source/Network/tcp.cpp
+++ b/source/Network/tcp.cpp
@@ -49,15 +49,15 @@ int oport(unsigned short portnum)

// wait for a connection to occur on a socket created with oport()
int get_connection(int s, struct sockaddr_in *sa)
-{
+{
int t;				  /* socket of connection */
//  struct sockaddr_in sa;
sa->sin_len = 8;
sa->sin_family = AF_INET;
u32 buflen = 8;
t = net_accept(s,(struct sockaddr *)sa, &buflen);
-
-/*
+
+/*
debug("Incoming connection");
printf("Incoming connection from %d.%d.%d.%d\n",
(sa->sin_addr.s_addr >> 24) & 0xFF,
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ static void * tcp_callback(void *arg)
u8 *bfr[READ_SIZE];
bool compress = false;
struct sockaddr_in addr;
-
- redo:
+
+ redo:
s32 listen = oport(4299);
while(1)
{
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ static void * tcp_callback(void *arg)
if(client > 0)
{
//  client connected
-
+
GuiImage * progressImg = new GuiImage(new GuiImageData(Theme.progress));
progressImg->SetAlignment(ALIGN_CENTRE, ALIGN_MIDDLE);
-  
+
GXColor ImgColor[4];

ImgColor[0] = (GXColor){Theme.progressbar_color1_1, Theme.progressbar_color1_2, Theme.progressbar_color1_3, 200};  // oben links
@@ -148,19 +148,20 @@ static void * tcp_callback(void *arg)
ImgColor[2] = (GXColor){Theme.progressbar_color2_1, Theme.progressbar_color2_2, Theme.progressbar_color2_3, 200};  // unten rechts
ImgColor[3] = ImgColor[2];  // unten links

-  
+
GuiImage * progressbarImg = new GuiImage(0, 38, (GXColor *) &ImgColor);
progressbarImg->SetAlignment(ALIGN_LEFT, ALIGN_MIDDLE);
progressbarImg->SetPosition((screenwidth - progressImg->GetWidth()) /2 +36, 2);
-  
+
GuiText * PercentTxt = new GuiText("0%", 20, (GXColor){Theme.text_1, Theme.text_2, Theme.text_3, 255});
PercentTxt->SetAlignment(ALIGN_RIGHT, ALIGN_MIDDLE);
PercentTxt->SetPosition(-((screenwidth - progressImg->GetWidth()) /2 +36), 38);
-  
+

float Percent = 0.0f;
int temp = read_data(client, (char *)&read, 4);
-	if(temp < 0)
+	int temp2 = usb_recvbuffer_safe_ex(1, (char *)&read, 4, 1);
+	if(temp < 0 && temp2 < 0)
{
//   printf("read_data() error while reading check\n");
net_close(client);
@@ -176,53 +177,86 @@ static void * tcp_callback(void *arg)
mainWindow->Append(PercentTxt);
ResumeGui();
}
-	
+
if(read == 1212242008) // 1212242008 -> 48415858 -> HAXX -> wiiload
{
compress = true;
//   printf("HAXX\n");
-	
-	 read_data(client, (char *)&read, 4);
+
//   int WIILOAD_VERSION_MAYOR = (u8)(((u16)(read >> 16)) >> 8);
//   int WIILOAD_VERSION_MINOR = (u8)(((u16)(read >> 16)) & 0xFF);
//   int a	  = (u8)(((u16)(read & 0xFFFF)) >> 8);
//   int b	  = (u8)(((u16)(read & 0xFFFF)) & 0xFF);
-	
+
//   printf("wiiload v%x.%x\n", WIILOAD_VERSION_MAYOR, WIILOAD_VERSION_MINOR);
//   printf("args %x08\n", read);
//   printf("args a=%x  b=%x\n", a, b);
-	
-	 read_data(client, (char *)&size, 4);
-	 read_data(client, (char *)&uncfilesize, 4);
+
+	 if(temp < 0)
+	 {
+	  usb_recvbuffer_safe_ex(1, (char *)&read, 4, 1);
+	  usb_recvbuffer_safe_ex(1, (char *)&size, 4, 1);
+	  usb_recvbuffer_safe_ex(1, (char *)&uncfilesize, 4, 1);
+	 }
+	 else
+	 {
+	  read_data(client, (char *)&read, 4);
+	  read_data(client, (char *)&size, 4);
+	  read_data(client, (char *)&uncfilesize, 4);
+	 }
+
}
else
size = read;
-	
+
offset = 0;
-	while(offset < size && (read = read_data(client, (char *)bfr, (size - offset) > READ_SIZE ? READ_SIZE : (size - offset))) > 0)
+
+	if(temp < 0)
{
-	 memcpy(data + offset, bfr, READ_SIZE);
-	 offset += read;
-	
-	 Percent = 100.0f * offset/size;
-	 progressbarImg->SetSize(Percent*3.27f, 38);
-	
-	 char buffer[6];
-	 sprintf(buffer, "%i %%", (int)Percent);
-	 PercentTxt->SetText(buffer);
+
+	 while(offset < size && (read = usb_recvbuffer_safe_ex(1, (char *)bfr, (size - offset) > READ_SIZE ? READ_SIZE : (size - offset), 1)) > 0)
+	 {
+	  memcpy(data + offset, bfr, READ_SIZE);
+	  offset += read;
+
+	  Percent = 100.0f * offset/size;
+	  progressbarImg->SetSize(Percent*3.27f, 38);
+
+	  char buffer[6];
+	  sprintf(buffer, "%i %%", (int)Percent);
+	  PercentTxt->SetText(buffer);
+	 }
+
+
}
+	else
+	{
+	 while(offset < size && (read = read_data(client, (char *)bfr, (size - offset) > READ_SIZE ? READ_SIZE : (size - offset))) > 0)
+	 {
+	  memcpy(data + offset, bfr, READ_SIZE);
+	  offset += read;
+
+	  Percent = 100.0f * offset/size;
+	  progressbarImg->SetSize(Percent*3.27f, 38);
+
+	  char buffer[6];
+	  sprintf(buffer, "%i %%", (int)Percent);
+	  PercentTxt->SetText(buffer);
+	 }
+	}
+
usleep(100000);
net_close(client);
net_close(listen);
-  
+
if(compress)
{
u8 *zdata = (u8 *) malloc(uncfilesize);
if(!zdata)
return NULL;
-	
+
uLongf zdatalen = uncfilesize;
-	
+
int res = uncompress (zdata, &zdatalen, data, (uLongf)size);

if (res != Z_OK)
@@ -238,13 +272,13 @@ static void * tcp_callback(void *arg)
// free(zdata);
}
}
-  
+
CopyHomebrewMemory(data, 0, size);
if(data)
free(data);
//  if(zdata)
//   free(zdata);
-	
+
mainWindow->Remove(PercentTxt);
mainWindow->Remove(progressbarImg);
mainWindow->Remove(progressImg);

quick'n'dirty™ -- try this patch against the latest GIT version...
(thanks to my editor settings it contains whitespace cleanups...)

//Edit: use spoiler
 

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