Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[.:Plasma:.]

can the screenshots of the priiloader screens be put on the website?

Sure if you mean the Wiki I'll see about adding some PriiLoader screen shots with the settings etc.

Plasma

 

[hippiepuppet]

Hey there, not sure if this problem has already come up...

I had been using WiiFlow r304 IOS249 (57) r20 with no problems at all on a WD Caviar 500 GB (FAT32/NTFS) with over 80 roms. I added a couple new games and all of a sudden I get a DSI error (black screen with lots of random text) upon load of ANY game and my Wii resets after 5 seconds. Rolling back to the previous version produces no errors, everything loads fine, but I guess that version has no network connection support? I liked r304.

I tried to load the 222 and 223 versions of r304, but I get a black screen on load. 224 and 250 versions run, but I get the same DSI error.

Went back to IOS249[57]r19, same results.

Any suggestions? I read somewhere that I may need to restore Trucha bug?

Thanks in advance for your input!!

HippiePuppet

 

[hippiepuppet]

Hey there, not sure if this problem has already come up...

I had been using WiiFlow r304 IOS249 (57) r20 with no problems at all on a WD Caviar 500 GB (FAT32/NTFS) with over 80 roms. I added a couple new games and all of a sudden I get a DSI error (black screen with lots of random text) upon load of ANY game and my Wii resets after 5 seconds. Rolling back to the previous version produces no errors, everything loads fine, but I guess that version has no network connection support? I liked r304.

I tried to load the 222 and 223 versions of r304, but I get a black screen on load. 224 and 250 versions run, but I get the same DSI error.

Went back to IOS249[57]r19, same results.

Any suggestions? I read somewhere that I may need to restore Trucha bug?

Thanks in advance for your input!!

HippiePuppet

Found the culprit: StarNight theme. Reinstalled it, but same error. Loaded a different theme, games load again, Jeez, so much for my troubleshooting skills! restored Trucha, at least my ios 36 is back to normal LOL!

 

[hybridLearner]

Thanks so much plasma, I'm sure a lot of people will benefit from that!

 

[jaouad]

Hi guys, I thought I asked this before but i cannot find my post anywhere. Mustve forgotten to click on add reply.

Anyway, i've been having trouble downloading covers with the newest revision of wiiflow. Either it goes incredibly slow, or it gets stuck. I was a major fan of wiiflow but especially lately i've been getting lots of trouble with it, sigh.

Edit: Found out the problem, it was the cable

 

[PhyniX]

Hello
I have an Question ,is the wiiflow project over ?
no new revisions
or no infos can i find

 

[Gaiaknight]

wiiflow is certainly not dead we are just taking a break and working on other things right now but wiiflow will never die i promise you that.

 

[Donkey Plonk]

wiiflow is certainly not dead we are just taking a break and working on other things right now but wiiflow will never die i promise you that.

Try not to take this the wrong way.

I've heard around, mainly when I asked in wiiflows irc channel. There is a private beta, obviously what you devs and testers are testing.

BUT, since you are not working on it at the mo and this version is supposedly more stable than the current r304. (reason I went into irc is I was noticing crashed in r304 and wanted to check you guys were aware, I basically got slagged off and told I didn't know what I was talking about and it was not an issue in private beta.)

As I say, you aren't working on it and wiiflow has lost a lot of users due to these crashes, lots of people now using cfg who were using wiiflow. I mean even if its buggy, who cares, so is r304 and thats crashing bugs, considering you guys said the crashes don't happen, who cares about functionality bugs, as long as games launch and the interface doesn't have the random crashes then people will be happy.

And also, the person who said it wasn't an issue in private beta was miigotu himself so I don't doubt it, but would love to see it. Its been a long time since r304 came out, and its buggy as hell, I ended up rolling back to 2.1a2r92 or something like that just to stop the crashing.

 

[WiiUBricker]

It seems that Wiiflow has been abandoned.

 

[.:Plasma:.]

It seems that Wiiflow has been abandoned.

If you read back 2 posts you will see that it has NOT been abandoned and is NOT dead. The dev's have been taking a break (a well deserved one at that) they had been working nearly flat out getting us to where we are so is it too much to ask for people to be patient? Sure some people may have left to use Config / GX but I guarantee, as soon as the next stable public release is out they will come back. That's because Wiiflow is the Ferrari of loaders, the rest are just super car wanna-be's!!

@Donkey Plonk ... I very much doubt you were slagged off; the IRC channel is there to help people and improve Wiiflow. I guess it all depends on your attitude and the way you asked, but if you come in whining that r304 crashes all the time and you want a new version then its likely you didn't get as much help as you might have had you gone about it in a different way.

r304 is "reasonably" stable, the current private beta while is does have a few fixes, it has some very annoying bug/features as well. So if we released that I'm sure there would be just as many complaining about that too. The final release will be out when its ready, Miigotu has already said he won't be leaving the project and is committed to getting v2.2 stable and out to the public. We just need to be patient give the dev's the time they need for their other projects and personal lives .............. Wiiflow will be along when its ready.

Plasma

 

[djbubba2002]

You guys need to understand Wiiflow is not dead ,Wont never be dead , the Good dev's Need a break .. they do have a life. They do this on there Free time .. just be happy what you got . (I am)

 

[Donkey Plonk]

@Donkey Plonk ... I very much doubt you were slagged off; the IRC channel is there to help people and improve Wiiflow. I guess it all depends on your attitude and the way you asked, but if you come in whining that r304 crashes all the time and you want a new version then its likely you didn't get as much help as you might have had you gone about it in a different way.
Now what is it they say about assumption again?
I WAS slagged off, I was dealt with very hot headedly. I did not go in and whine, I simply went in there, said, are you guys aware of the random crashing in wiiflow r304 to which I get told, there is none. OH BUT THERE IS. So first I was tried to be fobbed off with some serious what I can only call "god complex". Basically saying, nothing wrong with the software, its the user, trying to put blame on config files, millions of things I'd done wrong when reality is, r304 IS BUGGY! Pure and simple.

What I was trying to point out to them but seemed to just fall on deaf ears, I am not a noob who has only just discovered wiiflow, in fact, I rarely even use my wii, I concentrate more nowadays on literally just checking out the homebrew etc, and so when I spot problems, I like to make the devs aware if they aren't. And considering they were telling me the crashes didn't exist, it sounded pretty clear to me that they weren't aware, or were just being plain ignorant, in which case whats the point of the irc? I went in to let them know about a potential issue, all that they seem to talk about there is anything but wiiflow and you start asking questions about it and get the shit I was talking about above, so whats the point even having the room?

r304 is "reasonably" stable,
I 100% disagree. It appears stable for testing purposes, but when you start to use it on a day to day, when your kids start chopping and changing what games they want to play, changing themes etc the bugs soon appear, and once it starts crashing it just seems to get worse and worse. When I finally gave up on r304 it was at the point that 90% of the time that I had loaded wiiflow, I would get a dsi occur just as I was about to click start on the game.

QUOTE

the current private beta while is does have a few fixes, it has some very annoying bug/features as well. So if we released that I'm sure there would be just as many complaining about that too. The final release will be out when its ready, Miigotu has already said he won't be leaving the project and is committed to getting v2.2 stable and out to the public. We just need to be patient give the dev's the time they need for their other projects and personal lives .............. Wiiflow will be along when its ready.

And you say people would complain? As I said above, the current release of wiiflow, you can not have it run and launch games, that is its most basic functionaility and a lot of the time it crashes doing this, so how will releasing something that restores this albeit possibly breaking certain customisation options or whatever else. If it can run fine and boot games, I can't see why it would be left when the current "stable" release is actually less "stable" than previous releases

As you say, they have personal lives, other projects, so you never know, wiiflow may well get fully dropped regardless of them saying it won't. Just can't see why they are holding on to something that is better than what is currently out.

 

[xfcrowman]

You guys need to understand Wiiflow is not dead ,Wont never be dead , the Good dev's Need a break .. they do have a life. They do this on there Free time .. just be happy what you got . (I am)

Agreed. Wiiflow is still the best loader out there IMHO and I'm sure that we will see an update in the near future.

On a separate topic: has anyone on the Wiiflow team looked into the new game We Dare by Ubisoft?

I know that it is worthless shovelware, but it does seem to have some anti-piracy protection. Only one USB loader (Mighty Loader) is capable of running it on WBFS using cIOSx rev21, suggesting that the problem with We Dare may be due to the loader and not the cIOS.

Thanks!

 

[Donkey Plonk]

You guys need to understand Wiiflow is not dead ,Wont never be dead , the Good dev's Need a break .. they do have a life. They do this on there Free time .. just be happy what you got . (I am)

Agreed. Wiiflow is still the best loader out there IMHO and I'm sure that we will see an update in the near future.

On a separate topic: has anyone on the Wiiflow team looked into the new game We Dare by Ubisoft?

I know that it is worthless shovelware, but it does seem to have some anti-piracy protection. Only one USB loader (Mighty Loader) is capable of running it on WBFS using cIOSx rev21, suggesting that the problem with We Dare may be due to the loader and not the cIOS.

Thanks!

Isn't we dare the same as the CSI games, its to do with ios reloading and so booting it via sneek/uneek should work?

 

[xfcrowman]

You guys need to understand Wiiflow is not dead ,Wont never be dead , the Good dev's Need a break .. they do have a life. They do this on there Free time .. just be happy what you got . (I am)

Agreed. Wiiflow is still the best loader out there IMHO and I'm sure that we will see an update in the near future.

On a separate topic: has anyone on the Wiiflow team looked into the new game We Dare by Ubisoft?

I know that it is worthless shovelware, but it does seem to have some anti-piracy protection. Only one USB loader (Mighty Loader) is capable of running it on WBFS using cIOSx rev21, suggesting that the problem with We Dare may be due to the loader and not the cIOS.

Thanks!

Isn't we dare the same as the CSI games, its to do with ios reloading and so booting it via sneek/uneek should work?

No I don't think that it is an IOS reloading game, because it can be run using a conventional USB loader (Mighty Loader). However, you are correct that We Dare does work using SNEEK/UNEEK as well.

 

[Donkey Plonk]

No I don't think that it is an IOS reloading game, because it can be run using a conventional USB loader (Mighty Loader). However, you are correct that We Dare does work using SNEEK/UNEEK as well.

To be honest I haven't used or heard of Mighty Loader, but I just googled it and in the features I see this: -
* Different IOS can be specified for games

I'm not 100% but it sounds like Mighty Loader can handle ios reloading properly and not just load an alt dol, if this is the case CSI should also work in Mighty loader.

 

[xfcrowman]

No I don't think that it is an IOS reloading game, because it can be run using a conventional USB loader (Mighty Loader). However, you are correct that We Dare does work using SNEEK/UNEEK as well.

To be honest I haven't used or heard of Mighty Loader, but I just googled it and in the features I see this: -
* Different IOS can be specified for games

I'm not 100% but it sounds like Mighty Loader can handle ios reloading properly and not just load an alt dol, if this is the case CSI should also work in Mighty loader.

No - that just means that you can select the ios used to run a game. For example, you can choose a hermes cIOS or a wanin cIOS to run a game. The only way to run an IOS reloading game on USB is through SNEEK/UNEEK, not a conventional USB loader.

 

[Donkey Plonk]

No I don't think that it is an IOS reloading game, because it can be run using a conventional USB loader (Mighty Loader). However, you are correct that We Dare does work using SNEEK/UNEEK as well.

To be honest I haven't used or heard of Mighty Loader, but I just googled it and in the features I see this: -
* Different IOS can be specified for games

I'm not 100% but it sounds like Mighty Loader can handle ios reloading properly and not just load an alt dol, if this is the case CSI should also work in Mighty loader.

No - that just means that you can select the ios used to run a game. For example, you can choose a hermes cIOS or a wanin cIOS to run a game. The only way to run an IOS reloading game on USB is through SNEEK/UNEEK, not a conventional USB loader.

LOL, oh yeah. God I'm stupid, the same feature thats on pretty much all usb loader, lol.
Sorry man, was in work and have bugger all work so I'm half asleep when I'm there, lol. Now I'm home and have had a joint I can see clearly, hehe

 

[Spidy1000]

i wished people stopped complaining about 304 being a release. IT IS NOT A RELEASE. IT IS A PUBLIC BETA. So offcourse there will be some bugs in it. But for now it will be the only beta released to the public as newer versions have other bugs that are less stable than 304.
Miigotu is working on getting the MP3 issues out of wiiflow that are making the complete loader buggy. Give him some time to iron out this problem, after that is done, we will get to better times again

 

[Valguerra]

Well need a little help


I was on wiiflow 1.1 working great. Got 2tb drive format fat32, install games. I tryed wifflow 2.2 304 (249) and 2.2 304 (222). In one I get a black screen. The other I get all the way to see the covers and than it freezes. I think am on custom cios 18. Is there a stable 2.2 that reads fat32 and were can I get it.

I install the 2.2 304(249and 222) on a new sd card. still got this problem.

am also misisng the wiiflow.ini file. Does anyone have it for 304 or 254?