coverflow swiching has been removed on these beta releases, you can use an old default.ini but remember that it's outdated so it could cause some odd problems like overlapping buttons among other things. Once a final release is near those things will be updated and you will be able to switch coverflows.
A faster hard disk helps. Depending on the hard drive I use I see this too... when you quickly scroll it can't buffer quickly enough. I don't see it much on the 7200 RPM drives as much as the 54/5900 RPM drives. Also if you setup the hard disk copy all the images to the drive first so they are close to each other. This reduces the seek time between images that may be scattered all over the disk. If you are using a disk defragmenter that has the option move all the files in the Wiiflow folder so they are together and near the first/quickest part of the drive. That may mitigate some of the delays you are seeing.
If this does get committed it would be good if it could include a bit of code to be able to accept/convert the existing "categories.ini" for those of us who DO want more categories but have already spent a good amount of time on our own custom "categories.ini" file. (I have just under 200 games on my disk and that's a bit of work but people have here mentioned having thousands. That's okay adding each game to the categories as you add them to the disk but having to redo them can be a bit tedious.) . . . You wouldn't want an auto-update to break it anyhow.
That wasn't too hard. Here are the updated categories.ini taken from a fresh copy of the latest full WiiTDB.xml.
Yeah, I find it hard to imagine exactly what would fit into those three, especially with the "general" option existing instead of the "others"
I guess I don't know enough about what information is in the GameTDB's XML file but although this is great for ESRB ratings for the US, how do they translate over to the European PEGI ratings? I also know NTSC-J games have yet another rating system and I understand some other countries have their own. I wouldn't even know how much of that is kept track of by the GameTDB but do they correspond directly to those ESRB ratings so they could just be fit into those same categories?
Yeah, that's basically what my app would have done anyhow along with adding the "categories=10000000000000000000" in the "[GENERAL]" section so I think I'll leave that to you guys
I need to map out the differences in the rating systems and come up with appropriate categories for the other rating boards. I'll start with the ESRB since I already mapped that one
I had a feeling you would like this. You were the inspiration - that and I tried usb loader gx and liked it but missed the fancy coverflow. Glad you like it!You just made my day
I will work on the app update this weekend and try and post the updated categories.ini
Thanks!
"numcategories=" isn't used - it set to be 20 no matter what. And actually I like the app idea - it keeps wiiflow from having to do something once that it will most likely never have to do again.
This is r415:
So is it exactly moving from r415 to r416 that those three games stop working for you? It's interesting that they work for some and not for others in WiiFlow. That has always puzzled me. Maybe now that there's someone else to compare notes with who's also reporting the problem this can finally get worked out . . . if it is precisely that revision maybe someone could take a look at what exactly was changed in the source code there.
tin tin doesn't work in none of the loaders. only on sneek. yes this is retail.. so before anyone ask.. though you can play every board until it auto saves, then it will freeze. but after words you can play the next stage. then it's back to square one.auto save ,freeze. then start next board. after you click out of game. then back in.
