Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[Gaiaknight]

thats why they are workprints and not stable releases if your gonna complain about wiiflow atleast complain about something other than a BETA revision.

 

[panmusic]

Well,of course I know that this is a BETA revision.I repeat that I respect everyone who is currently involved with Wiiflow and all his hard work.My fear is that there are TONS of new features implemented that may (MAY) cause overcomplexity and some speed issues.Another weird thing is that Wiiflow is not recognizing my HDD (using 249 rev20b) for the first time.
Wiiflow is a loader designed around simplicity and the best compatibility.I guess that I don't want Wiiflow to become a mess like USB Loader GX which the community practically killed.
Anyway,I don't want to start a fight here,my intentions were pure.
Perhaps,the wisest thing is to wait for the next official release.

 

[mgrimmenator]

Well,of course I know that this is a BETA revision.I repeat that I respect everyone who is currently involved with Wiiflow and all his hard work.My fear is that there are TONS of new features implemented that may (MAY) cause overcomplexity and some speed issues.Another weird thing is that Wiiflow is not recognizing my HDD (using 249 rev20b) for the first time.
Wiiflow is a loader designed around simplicity and the best compatibility.I guess that I don't want Wiiflow to become a mess like USB Loader GX which the community practically killed.
Anyway,I don't want to start a fight here,my intentions were pure.
Perhaps,the wisest thing is to wait for the next official release.

quick ? for you, you said you noticed some slowness. in what area? loading or the coverflow gui? if in the coverflow then i ask did you wait for all your covers to get their cache created? Just wondering, cause if you have valid slowness issues then that is something to report on irc.

 

[Etheboss]

Well,of course I know that this is a BETA revision.I repeat that I respect everyone who is currently involved with Wiiflow and all his hard work.My fear is that there are TONS of new features implemented that may (MAY) cause overcomplexity and some speed issues.Another weird thing is that Wiiflow is not recognizing my HDD (using 249 rev20b) for the first time.
Wiiflow is a loader designed around simplicity and the best compatibility.I guess that I don't want Wiiflow to become a mess like USB Loader GX which the community practically killed.
Anyway,I don't want to start a fight here,my intentions were pure.
Perhaps,the wisest thing is to wait for the next official release.

quick ? for you, you said you noticed some slowness. in what area? loading or the coverflow gui? if in the coverflow then i ask did you wait for all your covers to get their cache created? Just wondering, cause if you have valid slowness issues then that is something to report on irc.

I read panmusic's comment again, and i just remembered, coverflow is slower when rev20 is used. I bet that's causing most (or all) of the slowdown...

 

[panmusic]

I tried everything mgrimmenator told me and things seemed to work at start.
I waited for all the cache to be created and after that I restarted Wiiflow.From now on,Wiiflow chooses to load only a few covers while all the rest boxcovers show the loading comment for ever...
The weird thing is that when I try to click on them,Wiiflow freezes.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((

 

[Pakatus]

I tried everything mgrimmenator told me and things seemed to work at start.
I waited for all the cache to be created and after that I restarted Wiiflow.From now on,Wiiflow chooses to load only a few covers while all the rest boxcovers show the loading comment for ever...
The weird thing is that when I try to click on them,Wiiflow freezes.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((

It happened to me...and as i remembered, the wiiflow had a bug that could extract corrupt covers.
So i deleted all covers..and let it flow again...

PS: You deleted all wiiflow.ini and ini files under \apps\wiiflow?

 

[XICO2KX]

Hello!

I'm trying to compile WiiFlow from the latest SVN source, but it gives me this error:

menu.cpp
c:/Programs/devkitPro/projects/wiiflow/source/menu/menu.cpp: In member function 'void CMenu::_startMusic()':
c:/Programs/devkitPro/projects/wiiflow/source/menu/menu.cpp:1385: error: 'mem_open' was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [menu.o] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

I'm using the latest devkitPPC_r21 and the latest libogc-1.8.3...

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

 

[Pakatus]

Hello!

I'm trying to compile WiiFlow from the latest SVN source, but it gives me this error:

menu.cpp
c:/Programs/devkitPro/projects/wiiflow/source/menu/menu.cpp: In member function 'void CMenu::_startMusic()':
c:/Programs/devkitPro/projects/wiiflow/source/menu/menu.cpp:1385: error: 'mem_open' was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [menu.o] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

I'm using the latest devkitPPC_r21 and the latest libogc-1.8.3...

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

Just compiled it.
U sure you have portlibs?

 

[panmusic]

I tried everything mgrimmenator told me and things seemed to work at start.
I waited for all the cache to be created and after that I restarted Wiiflow.From now on,Wiiflow chooses to load only a few covers while all the rest boxcovers show the loading comment for ever...
The weird thing is that when I try to click on them,Wiiflow freezes.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((

It happened to me...and as i remembered, the wiiflow had a bug that could extract corrupt covers.
So i deleted all covers..and let it flow again...

PS: You deleted all wiiflow.ini and ini files under \apps\wiiflow?

Yes Pakatus!

 

[Pakatus]

@panmusic

Do a quick test.
Change name in covers to _covers
and boxcovers to _boxcovers.

See if its slow...

 

[XICO2KX]

Hello!

I'm trying to compile WiiFlow from the latest SVN source, but it gives me this error:

menu.cpp
c:/Programs/devkitPro/projects/wiiflow/source/menu/menu.cpp: In member function 'void CMenu::_startMusic()':
c:/Programs/devkitPro/projects/wiiflow/source/menu/menu.cpp:1385: error: 'mem_open' was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [menu.o] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

I'm using the latest devkitPPC_r21 and the latest libogc-1.8.3...

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

Just compiled it.
U sure you have portlibs?

Yes, I have all the portlibs downloaded from the portlibs sourceforge.net page...

I think that "mem_open" function is from "libtremor"...

I have both "tremor-lowmem-ppc.tar.bz2" and "tremor-lowmem-arm.tar.bz2" extracted to "\devkitPro\portlibs\ppc" and "\devkitPro\portlibs\arm" respectively!
Any ideas?

 

[w!!]

Have any of the versions since r122 fixed the bug with loading multiple partitions (WBFS/FAT32) when using CIOSX Rev20 or Hermes V5/5.1?

I looked at the latest change log, but there isn't an overall version by version log that aggregates all of the changes from previous versions in one that I could find... If not that's cool... I know I can downgrade to hermes 4 or cios

 

[panmusic]

@panmusic

Do a quick test.
Change name in covers to _covers
and boxcovers to _boxcovers.

See if its slow...

I just tried it.
Unfortunately,the same results happened.The boxcovers are loading for an eternity and again when I clicked to a cover,Wiiflow freezed.
Do you think that I might give a try to 222 version?Do you know any places to download it?

 

[misteromar]

Is there a way to select the path where wiiflow looks for covers?

 

[Pakatus]

@panmusic

That seems a "dirty" install...bloated with old ini's (but you told me you cleaned them).
you can try it, but im not sure if it will help.
Have you tried to change \wiiflow\ folder to \_wiiflow\ and just place the boot.dol within \apps\wiiflow\?

@misteromar.

For reference, look in here
http://www.wiiflowiki.com/configuration/wiiflow-ini

 

[minjeeta]

Just updated wiiflow and the hbc. Now using the forwarder dol with priiloader, has there ever been one with a splash screen to fill my blank tv screen while my hdd starts up?

Loving the new features thank you for all your continued efforts....m

 

[mgrimmenator]

New version of Wiiflow Fanart Creator and Wiiflow THP Video Converter are now available on wiifanart.com. Here are the links

Wiiflow Fanart Creator


Wiiflow THP Video Converter

 

[pepxl]

i know its a beta but i just updated to R144 and updated to the current theme revs also, when i lauch WiiFlow no covers are showing and the default skin is used, Q is have the default directories been change again as WiiFlow doesnt seem to want to use my wiiflow.ini which worked fine before and has with each beta update till R144

EDIT

Nevermind, just realise there was an error in the wiiflow.ini
[ General] should be [General] and the cache need rebuilding

 

[funkmasterta]

I think it's great that people have gotten this to work, but I just spent LITERALLY an entire weekend (surfing many forums & trying many combinations of cIOS) trying to get this on my chip modded wii w/o success. It was working today but then crashed. :/

Hopefully someday, this will be as easy, simple and stable as USB Loader GX.

Just a warning so others don't waste their time, if you can't set it up as quick and easy as USB Loader GX, I wouldn't waste anymore time on it.

 

[mgrimmenator]

I think it's great that people have gotten this to work, but I just spent LITERALLY an entire weekend (surfing many forums & trying many combinations of cIOS) trying to get this on my chip modded wii w/o success. It was working today but then crashed. :/

Hopefully someday, this will be as easy, simple and stable as USB Loader GX.

Just a warning so others don't waste their time, if you can't set it up as quick and easy as USB Loader GX, I wouldn't waste anymore time on it.

The problem is not wiiflow. It is easy to setup. YOU obviously are too new to know enough to set it up and obvious don't read the first page of this post which explains that if you have issues then come to irc for help.

Before you start down talking this program get your head out you a$$ and ask for assistance. It is just as easy as usbloadergx or any other to setup. YOU just don't know what you are doing.

As for the ios's the same ones you need for any loader you need for wiiflow (no more, no less).

Sorry if this is harsh but so was your lame a$$ post, that only clarified you are a dump a$$.