Hacking WiiFlow Advanced

[masterjakeway]

more info.
no games load, or only certain games don't show up?
what ios in what slots.
did you actually choose a partition?
in the wiiflow ini change the partition to 1?

 

[mikenaly]

Well, I don't know what changed, but when I tried to bring things up again to give you more information, WiiFlow loaded my games instead of the system menu channels, so I guess at this point in time, it is fixed. If I run into other problems, I'll update.

 

[mikenaly]

OK, I have run into a new issue. Maybe I am too much of a newbie at this, although, I haven't really had many problems with anything I have done in the past. Now that WiiFlow has started working properly for me (I am able to see my games, my homebrew, and my system menu channels), I am trying to redirect it to look for my covers on the USB drive rather than storing them on the SD card in an effort to conserve space on the card.

I created the following directory structure on my USB Drive. In the root directory I created a folder called wiiflow_advanced (named identical to the one on the SD Card root directory). Inside that folder I created duplicate versions of the folders "boxcovers" and "covers" (again identical to the ones on the SD card).

I also edited the "wiiflow_advanced.ini file as follows. I edited "dir_box_covers=sd:/wiiflow_advanced/boxcovers" to read "dir_box_covers=usb:/wiiflow_advanced/boxcovers". I also edited "dir_flat_covers=sd:/wiiflow_advanced/covers" to read "dir_flat_covers=usb:/wiiflow_advanced/covers".

I can see no obvious reason to me why this would not work, but after making these two little changes when I try to launch WiiFlow, I wind up with a screen dump.

I launch my homebrew channel, then select WiiFlow and click load. The loading screen comes up for about 7 or 8 seconds, then I get the screen dump. It stays up for about 5 seconds, and then homebrew reloads.

Any ideas what I am missing? I can't find anything else in the .ini file pertaining to the covers except for "cover_buffer=18" and "sound_volume_coverflow=255". As far as I can tell these would have no bearing whatsoever on where it would look for the covers. I don't know if I am just plain missing something, or is it not even possible to put them on the USB Drive?

I have a 4.3u WII. when I hit the home button on the remote in homebrew, it shows 1.1.0 in the upper right hand corner and IOS58 v24.32immediately below that. I cannot give you the version information on my WiiFlow unless you know a trick I don't, because when I select WiiFlow, the screen that comes up with the delete, load and back buttons tells me "no description available".

To the best of my knowledge, everything is up to date, and I am attaching a copy of the syscheck file to see if that offers any additional clues.

sysCheck v2.1.0b13 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priilaoder installed
Homebrew Channel 1.0.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 128902382
Boot2 v4
Found 150 titles.
Found 55 IOS on this console. 6 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 526): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS13 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS14 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS15 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug ES Identify Flash Access NAND Access IOS17 (rev 1032): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS20 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 1039): Trucha Bug
IOS22 (rev 1294): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS28 (rev 1807): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS30 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS33 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS34 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS35 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS36 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS37 (rev 5663): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS38 (rev 4124): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS55 (rev 5663): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS56 (rev 5662): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS57 (rev 5919): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[57] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.2): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS224[37] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21008 Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v65535

Report generated on 2012/06/05.

 

[masterjakeway]

are you using advance?
the dir you are pointing too looks ok.
as does your syscheck...
as far as wiiflow info. there should be a ? or somesuch thing on the main screen

 

[mikenaly]

Yes it is wiiflow_advanced
I thought everything should be ok too
As for the wiiflow that I downloaded, all I got in the download was the boot.dol and nothing else. When I choose it in homebrew, I get a white image that says "wiiflow_advanced" at the top, "no description available" where there would normally be one, and then the three buttons at the bottom.

EDIT: OK, so in looking at the links at the very beginning of this thread, I followed the WiiFloWiki link and it took me to the page where I downloaded WiiFlow from, although I found it through a search engine when I downloaded it. What I downloaded was the "Official Nightly Build", a couple of days ago. As my syscheck shows, I already have IOS58 and 236. The d2x cIOS links both lead to pages stating that the files had been blocked for violation, but I have updated those through "Pimp MY WII", so I am not sure that there would be any help there anyway, but I can't find out if they are newer versions or not for sure.

 

[MrGreg]

mikenaly,

I just checked and it looks like the nightly build from the wiki page is the latest wiiflow advanced r426. However in the future get your releases here http://code.google.c...iflow-advanced/. I think that the wiki page is now shared between wiiflow advanced and wiiflow mod. So there is no telling what you will get there. As for your problem moving covers you need usb1:/ not usb:/. The 1 means that it is the first partition on the drive. In your case you have only one partition so it should be usb1. Change this and you should no longer crash. Finally the reason you have no description or image in HBC is because you are missing icon.png and meta.xml. They should be stored in same folder as boot.dol.

 

[papermanzero]

2 Features are missing.

The Download of Covers and Titles doesn't work anymore. Means if I download the newest database from TDB then the whole Game List is crashed. Means the titles and covers are all wrong.
I tried this feature in one of the first 2.0 versions and it was working without issue.

The second one is the selection of the used IOS.
In the past the user was able to select a costum IOS in the settings menu for the game. This was helpful especially for different kind of CIOS (hermes, wanin, d2x etc.)
Now it's not possible anymore to customize the used IOS.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Any news here?

 

[Phr3d13]

+1 for wbfs support

 

[papermanzero]

+1 for DiosMios support.

 

[Hunter X]

Either this is dead or Miigotu has tons of new features in store for us for next release (if it happens).

 

[MassiveRican]

Either this is dead or Miigotu has tons of new features in store for us for next release (if it happens).

It's the latter Hunter X. However Miigotu's attending 3 colleges right now so I don't think it's going to be released soon.

Good luck [member='mugotu'] and don't forget to give a friendly hello and update every once in a while

 

[AbdallahTerro]

I think this is it.

 

[MassiveRican]

I think this is it.

It's not, he spoke a bit on his IRC Channel about a week ago

 

[Maxternal]

The more time goes by, the more features he'll want to add and the more spiffy it will end up
but it's still a vicious cycle.

 

[Bauldrick]

What's the crack.... Jack?
What d'you know... Joe?

 

[FIX94]

Just unstickied that topic for now, it seems to be dead and most people just talk in the main wiiflow thread, if somebody wants that this topic gets back show me that something in here moves again, the first post was last edited nearly 4 months ago.

 

[Hunter X]

[...] show me that something in here moves again[...]

Well, this cat certainly is moving...