Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[mastershoes]

Having to re-ask.

Its usb:/wiiflow/plugins.

in the wiiflow.ini I've set everything to usb1: because otherwise it doesn't find the covers etc for anything all. It just creates defaults folders and files on the SD card.

Though, now that I have the plugins in the correct wiiflow folder, I tried scummvm, but it fell over after not finding anything in the usb1: folder, I guess because it's looking for usb: ???

So how should I set up the wiiflow.ini? I haven't touched what is ever happening in the scummvm.ini settings.

Make sure you DO NOT have a keyboard or anything else plugged into the other usb port!!! It prevents both ScummVM and Wii64 from loading roms!!

 

[wiimanofthenorth]

Make sure you DO NOT have a keyboard or anything else plugged into the other usb port!!! It prevents both ScummVM and Wii64 from loading roms!!

Ahh thanks for that. (I have an usb hub for charging up controllers and a balance board)... sadly though LOOM CD doesn't work fully. It loads, but then hangs at the Please choose a skill level. No pointer, and no sound. Though I do know it works fine with the normal SCUMMVM 1.3.1. without having to unplug my hub.

EDIT: Forget to mention I do have the mod3 version installed for wiiflow, but I've renamed the old mod1, and renamed mod3 to mod1.

Also, out of interest, is there a reason why such an old version of Scummvm is being used? My programming skills fall way back when VB was getting started. I was a paid-programmer back then. I changed career. So think of it as, I know how a panio works, I can play the odd tune, but I can't build a panio, and I can't play Mozart on it.

So please don't take it as I'm knocking what you guys are up to with todays programming languages. It is, just some interest on what is going on behind the scenes as it were.

And as a end user, I'm always amazed on how far mods come over the years and pushing gadgets way past what they were "built" to do.

For the young kids, I'm not brown nosing, it's just giving credit, where credit is due!

 

[AbdallahTerro]

EmuNand no longer showing after pressing B on mode btn!! I'm on 408
It works on/off after editing wiiflow.ini file to enable it

 

[AbdallahTerro]

@Fledge how can I remove "Wii Games", "GC Games" "Wiiware" and "Homebrew" buttons from the filter (the one you press + on mode), I don't need them since we have shortcuts, this way I can see all emu-plugins on same page.

edit the startup_menu.ini - to hide them set the their page = 0, they should be buttons 0 thru 3. Then move the other buttons up into their row and column.

I did this:

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[BUTTONS]
button_0_row=0
button_0_col=0
button_0_page=0
button_1_row=0
button_1_col=1
button_1_page=0
button_2_row=1
button_2_col=0
button_2_page=0
button_3_row=1
button_3_col=1
button_3_page=0
button_4_row=0
button_4_col=0
button_4_page=1
button_5_row=0
button_5_col=1
button_5_page=1
button_6_row=1
button_6_col=0
button_6_page=1
button_7_row=1
button_7_col=1
button_7_page=1
button_8_row=2
button_8_col=0
button_8_page=1
button_9_row=2
button_9_col=1
button_9_page=1
button_10_row=3
button_10_col=0
button_10_page=1
button_11_row=3
button_11_col=1
button_11_page=1
button_12_row=4
button_12_col=0
button_12_page=1
button_13_row=4
button_13_col=1
button_13_page=1
button_14_row=0
button_14_col=0
button_14_page=2
button_15_row=0
button_15_col=1
button_15_page=2
button_16_row=1
button_16_col=0
button_16_page=2
button_17_row=1
button_17_col=1
button_17_page=2
button_18_row=2
button_18_col=0
button_18_page=2
button_19_row=2
button_19_col=1
button_19_page=2

but I'm back to system menu when + is pressed on mode!
I'm kinda happy cause pressing home is codedumpin instead of going back to SM

 

[fledge68]

I did this:
but I'm back to system menu when + is pressed on mode!
I'm kinda happy cause pressing home is codedumpin instead of going back to SM

ummm, well it looks correct to me. I hate it when wiiflow does things like that. wiiflow has a mind of its own sometimes. I'll look into it but really have no idea. just so you and everyone else know I'm thinking of changing the startup_menu.ini to something like this:

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[SOURCE]
button_0=wii
button_1=dml
button_2=nand
button_3=homebrew
button_4=magic #
button_5=magic#
...
button_18=magic #
button_19=magic#

magic # is of course a plugins magic number. you would be able to move them around or even remove wii, dml, nand, homebrew and make those buttons plugins too. no more row, col, page. that's too complicated and time consuming. But you may have to be patient cause I have alot to do around the house so it might take a while for me to finish changing it. Also may change startup_menu.ini to source_menu.ini. And maybe even work on adding console pics instead of buttons but that might be a long shot so for now stick to editing themes if you want console pics.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Thanks Fledge, take your time

 

[fledge68]

okay, I need help for some reason wiiflow will not launch any wii game for me when I compile it myself. drakorex supplied my a pre compiled dol and it works fine. so i uninstalled devkit pro and reinstalled it and downloaded the libogc from google source and put it in my devkitpro folder replacing the one already there and created a new folder for wiiflow source a re checked out wiiflow. and the compiled it with programmers notepad but it still won't work. I'm use devkit ppc r26 - could that be my problem? any ideas?

I think I'm going to scream! this blows my mind.

 

[FIX94]

May you still have some portlibs folder in devkitpro? If yes rename it to something else.

 

[ECSS]

FIX94 many thanks your r410 upload but where is your SDL lib file ^^?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

okay, I need help for some reason wiiflow will not launch any wii game for me when I compile it myself. drakorex supplied my a pre compiled dol and it works fine. so i uninstalled devkit pro and reinstalled it and downloaded the libogc from google source and put it in my devkitpro folder replacing the one already there and created a new folder for wiiflow source a re checked out wiiflow. and the compiled it with programmers notepad but it still won't work. I'm use devkit ppc r26 - could that be my problem? any ideas?

I think I'm going to scream! this blows my mind.

Just delete the whole open-wiiflow-... folder and svn checkout again (this is what I've done when I had slow loading issues)

 

[FIX94]

FIX94 many thanks your r410 upload but where is your SDL lib file ^^?

hm? it's included in the wii mednafen source directly.

 

[ECSS]

is should have sdl.a at lib directory if use from sdl wii willbe no working ....

 

[FIX94]

You use the libogc and portlibs from the emulator libraries I uploaded?

 

[ECSS]

yes

 

[secamfr]

More test with emulators and i just found a little bug :
If you have many emuls, on the second page on wiiflow parameters, select plugins, you can't check/uncheck the box to choose emuls, it work only on the 1st page.

 

[Maxternal]

/snip

Just to be sure, is that #2 that we're looking at in your post?

Ah, now it is working nicely for SNES games with these settings:

[EMULATOR]
current_item=
disable=no
dump_list=no
last_cf_mode=2
lastlanguage=EN
partition=1
smallbox=yes
sort=0

But when I enable NES or other games whose case is not rotated those images appear rotated. When you manually have to switch views depending on which emu game type is displayed that isn't very good.

I believe what needs to happen is that WiiFlow needs to know if an emulator covers are rotated or not and if it is displaying that case art auto-rotate/override what the theme says. I believe it is just the SNES and N64 ones that should be rotated -90 degrees when showing them.

fix94/fledge - is this possible?

Also what to do about the N64 cover art? Does anyone have any graphics that are formatted the way that WiiFlow expects to load them longwise?

I think it's in the startup_menu.ini or source_menu.ini depending on your revision and you may have to add the file yourself

[FCEUGX]
8bit playground=1
CARBONIK=4
default=3
orchid=1
starnight=1
violet=1

[GENPLUSGX]
8bit playground=1
CARBONIK=3
default=1
orchid=1
starnight=1
violet=1

[SNES9XGX]
8bit playground=1
CARBONIK=2
default=2
orchid=1
starnight=1
violet=1

[VBAGX]
8bit playground=1
CARBONIK=6
default=4
orchid=1
starnight=1
violet=1

I think you use something like this to tell it which one to use for which button in the select source menu.
You would just set all of the n64 and SNES games to 2 and all of the Game Gear and Gameboy games to 6

Almost forgot. I want to set my WiiFlow up so it only shows regular Wii games and emu games... no NAND or Homebrew. Is there anyway to bypass those when cyclng through the game types?

I think there's something like "disable=yes" or "disable=no" in each of the sections of wiiflow.ini for each coverflow.

Is anybody else having problems with Black Ops and MW3 working? It tends to freeze at the loading screen everytime. It use to not do this til I had updated my WiiFlow. Any advice would help, Thanks.

Both those games need to be started with a cIOS with base 56 in order to work. If the auto IOS selection isn't working it may be because you don't have one installed.

EmuNand no longer showing after pressing B on mode btn!! I'm on 408
It works on/off after editing wiiflow.ini file to enable it

You could always try the "real NAND" and "emu NAND" buttons in the select source menu.

 

[fledge68]

status update - I appear to be back in business. I believe my emu nand got corrupted and the games i was trying I previously set up to use nand game saves. when I go into game settings page 4 and switch nand emulation from default to off they work. Thanks Fix94, AbdallahTerro, and Drakorex for your help. by the way the choices are default, off,game save, region switch, full - what is default? and what is region switch used for?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

I was thinking why don't you make a Disc flow mode? This woukd be easier to make than icon/bannerflow mode, right!
Edit: can we use the regular WiiMC dol with the new plugin or we need a modded binary?

 

[FIX94]

I was thinking why don't you make a Disc flow mode? This woukd be easier to make than icon/bannerflow mode, right!
Edit: can we use the regular WiiMC dol with the new plugin or we need a modded binary?

Its just mplayerce, and that works with the regular dol.

 

[Maxternal]

status update - I appear to be back in business. I believe my emu nand got corrupted and the games i was trying I previously set up to use nand game saves. when I go into game settings page 4 and switch nand emulation from default to off they work. Thanks Fix94, AbdallahTerro, and Drakorex for your help. by the way the choices are default, off,game save, region switch, full - what is default? and what is region switch used for?

I would guess you default would set it to whatever you have in the global settings. (unless you're already looking at the global settings, then I don't know what to tell you.)
As I understand it, region switch is a new feature in d2x v9 for a couple of rare occasions where a game is made to check the region on the wii and refuse to work when it's not what it's looking for.

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