Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[Damian666]

hmm, ok, copying works, BUT... xd

when its doen and it launches, it gives the appsize is 0 error, when i restart, and launch the same game again, it works right away... xd

 

[luck_gh0st]

If anyone is interested, DM works fine in emunand mode, all you need to do is:
1.copy diosmios.bin(this is DM neek 00000008.app file renamed) to usb:\sneek folder (using uneek2o rev90+, tested with rev92b6 )
2.open wiiflow.ini and change that line as follows:
[DML]
always_show_button=yes
3.play the game

That's cool but unfortunately, I have one of those Wii's that shut down to red when I try to boot a GC game from the disc channel of the emunand. Does it work from the Wiiflow launched through emunand?

 

[FIX94]

And RC6 lol:
-fixed theme reloading sometimes didnt work properly
-fixed return from plugins, homebrew or devolution killed wiiflows proper nand management
-fixed devolution boot with ios249
-fixed gamecube games didnt boot after copying from usb to sd
http://www.mediafire...b7j3qj9wb7ibu49

 

[luck_gh0st]

and RC4 is ready, yet another bugfix release
-fixed wiimote doesnt properly resync on entering emu nand
-fixed installing gamecube disc 2 with wiiflow installer
-fixed exit to neek2o for people who got their nand in a folder
-some general cleanup and speedup
http://www.mediafire...uo5zqfvicz07axt

Thanks! I will check this out this afternoon. Maybe it will fix my Exit to Neek2o problem. Oh, and on reverse side of that, if I start up Uneek and launch WiiFlow through PostLoader then the "Exit to Neek2o" option of the home screen becomes "Exit to Real Nand" and it works..
Another thing that I noticed last night on r681 was that DIOS-MIOS was working all fine and good unless I set the GC mode to default. I thought that if the game wasn't set that it would automatically use DIOS-MIOS. I have this GC Superman game that I couldn't get to boot anymore and it worked before, it was set to default and black screen but once I set it to DIO-MIOS it works fine. Of course you may be aware of it already. It seems that you are really narrowing down these little bugs.

 

[spacepimp]

http://soundcloud.com/spacepimp/sets/fixs-12c-forwarder-alternative/
I'm not a fan of the eurotrance sounds of the wiiflow forwarder (Fix's default v12c) , so here's some alternatives. They're similar or smaller than the original in size, and differ from the original only in the sound that they make. EDIT: i.e. the video/animation is the same
They all stem from experiments in trying to make 'music' using the samples from the wiiflow interface.
1 final bootsy loose wad http://www.mediafire...6peimskhytoxaxt
2 Dunky frummer wad http://www.mediafire...9tvrktgeffxrkbc
3 Wiiflow power v3 wad http://www.mediafire...9tvrktgeffxrkbc
Enjoy!

 

[spacepimp]

whoops!
apologies

 

[AbdallahTerro]

If anyone is interested, DM works fine in emunand mode, all you need to do is:
1.copy diosmios.bin(this is DM neek 00000008.app file renamed) to usb:\sneek folder (using uneek2o rev90+, tested with rev92b6 )
2.open wiiflow.ini and change that line as follows:
[DML]
always_show_button=yes
3.play the game

That's cool but unfortunately, I have one of those Wii's that shut down to red when I try to boot a GC game from the disc channel of the emunand. Does it work from the Wiiflow launched through emunand?

It should work yes, asaik, but remember you need mios 10, bc 6 installed then either replace 000000008.app or copy it to sneek as diosmios.bin
If it doesn't work ask OverjoY

 

[kineticUk]

Launching Wiiware VC etc from emunand I have on SD still not working on latest stable 663...
I would love to use wiiflow to launch my wiiware especially now with the neek and cios options, maybe I could launch n64 using neek.

When I try with partition 0 and the path set to my wii's nand on SD (used for savegame emulation) Wiiflow displays the screen with three buttons "select partition" "disable nand emulation" and "extract nand".
Only works on partition 1 or nand emulation disabled.(http://code.google.c...es/detail?id=95)

I hope somehow its possible to fix this before the next big release.

 

[FIX94]

I hope somehow its possible to fix this before the next big release.

I tried that now a few times, but it seems like it just doesnt want to work...

 

[FIX94]

So yea hello everyone, you see that right, here is some update for you, and this time its really badass
Because they are too many changes from the previous revision I will list the features you now have in 4.0, thats the easiest thing:
-Booting Wii games from SD, USB, as partition you can use FAT32, NTFS, EXT2 and WBFS
-Use Savegame Emulation for Wii games, that means no need to use real NAND for most wii games to save on
-Boot GameCube games, with the help of DIOS-MIOS Lite, DIOS-MIOS or Devolution, for DIOS-MIOS (Lite) just install its wad, for Devolution just put the loader.bin from the source package into your device:/wiiflow folder and set your games to boot via Devolution
-Boot Wii Channels, you can boot them via either your real NAND or emulated NAND, currently the emulated NAND only works from USB, the SD support is broken for some reason, you can boot them via wiiflows internal loader or neek2o
-Boot Homebrew, no matter which Homebrew Application you boot, wiiflow supports them all
-A Plugin System, that means you can play NES, SNES etc directly from wiiflow using these plugins (see the downloads section for the most up-to-date package)
-A really cool design thing, Banner support! WiiFlow will automatically load and cache them, you also can create custom banners, see the new wiiflow folder structure, the names are self explaining, both ID6 and ID3 is supported
-FINALLY, background music works for everyone and is as stable as it was never before, both mp3 and ogg works, and it goes through subfolders to find it
-A new boot animation, it looks pretty awesome and you guys will hopefully like it
To all the minor things:
-You can use ocarina cheats in both Wii and GameCube games
-You can return to wiiflow with installing the forwarder channel and set return to WiiFlow in global settings
-You can download covers for Wii games, Gamecube games and for some emulator roms
-You can still use themes of course, also switching themes works fine from now on
-You dont need to use d2x only anymore, you can boot wii games via d2x, waninkoko and hermes cIOS just fine
-You pretty much dont need a cIOS at all if you want to play Gamecube, Homebrew or Plugin games, wiiflow runs via IOS58 and AHBPROT as well, only Wii games and NAND emulation need one
-You can run WiiFlow from real NAND, neek2o and Dolphin-Emulator (if you compile it for Dolphin)
-You can play and install both Wii and GameCube games directly from disc
-You have a home menu where you can reload cache, read wiiflows help, exit wiiflow, see the about screen, enter the settings,...
I think these are the MAIN features which are important to mention, they are alot of more, find out for yourself whats all inside
Thanks a bunch to the whole team, that release is by FIX94, OverjoY, Fledge68, Yardape8000, entropy, xFede, Drexyl, and of course thanks to everyone who contributed something, I would like to mention all but that list would get too long
For support, news and WIP stuff come to:
https://code.google.com/p/open-wiiflow-mod/
You can get it on the official google code page.
Have fun with this release!

 

[MassiveRican]

Congrats to all involved in the new WiiFlow 4.0 release. It's very bad ass, Jam packed full of features and bug fixes, and I'm totally in love with it lol. Fix I noticed that the dol is way smaller, almost a full 2MB smaller than the last WiiFlow-Mod svn release which was like 4MB, how the hell did you do that with and still add even more fixes and features than before, without some form of dollz compression freakin' awesome. Yeah I just noticed I'm a dumbass and I was looking at the zipped file and not the actual dol file lol. Either way still very impressive how much quicker, smooth and responsive WiiFlow has become.

@[member='spacepimp'] nice beats bro, the WiiFlow sounds in em had me rollin very well done with some cool funky beats. Wii Power v3 and Final Bootsy I enjoyed the most

 

[AbdallahTerro]

WiiFlow 4.0-430
nice
Congrats Fix and everyone

 

[etlon666]

Does this version correspond to open wiiflow mod r687?

 

[bostonBC]

So yea hello everyone, you see that right, here is some update for you, and this time its really badass
Because they are too many changes from the previous revision I will list the features you now have in 4.0, thats the easiest thing:
-Booting Wii games from SD, USB, as partition you can use FAT32, NTFS, EXT2 and WBFS
-Use Savegame Emulation for Wii games, that means no need to use real NAND for most wii games to save on
-Boot GameCube games, with the help of DIOS-MIOS Lite, DIOS-MIOS or Devolution, for DIOS-MIOS (Lite) just install its wad, for Devolution just put the loader.bin from the source package into your device:/wiiflow folder and set your games to boot via Devolution
-Boot Wii Channels, you can boot them via either your real NAND or emulated NAND, currently the emulated NAND only works from USB, the SD support is broken for some reason, you can boot them via wiiflows internal loader or neek2o
-Boot Homebrew, no matter which Homebrew Application you boot, wiiflow supports them all
-A Plugin System, that means you can play NES, SNES etc directly from wiiflow using these plugins (see the downloads section for the most up-to-date package)
-A really cool design thing, Banner support! WiiFlow will automatically load and cache them, you also can create custom banners, see the new wiiflow folder structure, the names are self explaining, both ID6 and ID3 is supported
-FINALLY, background music works for everyone and is as stable as it was never before, both mp3 and ogg works, and it goes through subfolders to find it
-A new boot animation, it looks pretty awesome and you guys will hopefully like it
To all the minor things:
-You can use ocarina cheats in both Wii and GameCube games
-You can return to wiiflow with installing the forwarder channel and set return to WiiFlow in global settings
-You can download covers for Wii games, Gamecube games and for some emulator roms
-You can still use themes of course, also switching themes works fine from now on
-You dont need to use d2x only anymore, you can boot wii games via d2x, waninkoko and hermes cIOS just fine
-You pretty much dont need a cIOS at all if you want to play Gamecube, Homebrew or Plugin games, wiiflow runs via IOS58 and AHBPROT as well, only Wii games and NAND emulation need one
-You can run WiiFlow from real NAND, neek2o and Dolphin-Emulator (if you compile it for Dolphin)
-You can play and install both Wii and GameCube games directly from disc
-You have a home menu where you can reload cache, read wiiflows help, exit wiiflow, see the about screen, enter the settings,...
I think these are the MAIN features which are important to mention, they are alot of more, find out for yourself whats all inside
Thanks a bunch to the whole team, that release is by FIX94, OverjoY, Fledge68, Yardape8000, entropy, xFede, Drexyl, and of course thanks to everyone who contributed something, I would like to mention all but that list would get too long
For support, news and WIP stuff come to:
https://code.google....en-wiiflow-mod/
You can get it on the official google code page.
Have fun with this release!

Fantastic - thanks Fix!

Is this r687?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Does this version correspond to open wiiflow mod r687?

yes

 

[shortz1994]

an to add to this here is a pre release of multi flow theme (still not sure why i named it that, so that might change.).. thanks goes to fledge68 for his help on the icon issues i was having.
this is not a final release by far. there are things i don't like an will fix. (an anyone can also give me input.(that would be sweeter.).

http://www.mediafire.com/?601gkuldtn213zh

**also up on spiffy360

 

[sdoc96]

Is this r687?

Does this mean we should be using code.google.com/p/wiiflow to compile latest updates now, instead of code.google.com/p/open-wiiflow-mod ?
Thanks for all the work Fix!

 

[drakorex]

Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to making such a great loader, Fix94. It is truly a masterpiece. I have a small request if I may. Could you please make the banner adjustable via the theme ini? I feel that as it is now, it limits what themers are able to do in the way of how their themes work, and also requires many great themes to be reworked. And also along those lines, could you make the banner click button constant instead of hiding when we have buttons set to hide? I ask this not only because it would allow users to enjoy the themes that they used to, but also because I have an idea for a theme that many people might like. Thank you again, and I strongly hope you consider this.

 

[seam]

an to add to this here is a pre release of multi flow theme (still not sure why i named it that, so that might change.).. thanks goes to fledge68 for his help on the icon issues i was having.
this is not a final release by far. there are things i don't like an will fix. (an anyone can also give me input.(that would be sweeter.).

http://www.mediafire...601gkuldtn213zh

**also up on spiffy360

your theme makes all the banners corrupt.. also it has that static noise when selecting buttons on the left hand side etc...

 

[shortz1994]

an to add to this here is a pre release of multi flow theme (still not sure why i named it that, so that might change.).. thanks goes to fledge68 for his help on the icon issues i was having.
this is not a final release by far. there are things i don't like an will fix. (an anyone can also give me input.(that would be sweeter.).

http://www.mediafire...601gkuldtn213zh

**also up on spiffy360

your theme makes all the banners corrupt.. also it has that static noise when selecting buttons on the left hand side etc...

i'll check this out. what rev are you on? i haven't had a chance to update to 663.(seeing as i have been at work an just got home.).. i'm still on 646 at thew moment. also check to see if you have your banners set to small.(not full sized.). as far as static there is no hover noice (but the default popping sound.) the only noice change i did was clicking..