Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[MassiveRican]

Lmao @ r1047 poor fix, getting harassed over categories like that. Shame on ya'll

 

[Th3-Blu3BoMb3r]

i there any way possible to play Gaurdians a.k.a. denjin makai and pretty soldier sailor moon arcade game on wii i tried all cores in fba-alpha and mame but no luck and grooses compatability list says its playable so im not sure

 

[halen]

Houston, I have a problem!!! I reinstalled Wiiflow with the last version. I deleted all files. Well when i start the wiiflow and load the covers (Wii Covers) the covers load one by one but in the middle of the process, wiiflow reload? its happenned the same of gamecube covers. What is the problem?

 

[bostonBC]

r1047 has been uploaded to: http://www.mediafire.com/?61bc60r8p6sm7ag

And I've updated my Categories.ini at: http://www.mediafire.com/?gygydkxdvogb8jw

Now have 1345 titles including some Japanese ones and the latest English releases too.

 

[bostonBC]

Houston, I have a problem!!! I reinstalled Wiiflow with the last version. I deleted all files. Well when i start the wiiflow and load the covers (Wii Covers) the covers load one by one but in the middle of the process, wiiflow reload? its happenned the same of gamecube covers. What is the problem?

Possibly a bad cache copy. Try deleting all files in your wiiflow/cache.

 

[bostonBC]

I'm scared to run Wiiflow anymore (even though it is my favorite looking loader) as I ran it for the first time on my Wii U the other day, installed a game and it formatted my drive (wiping all of my games) to ntfs and installed the game to a wbfs file on the ntfs drive.. Has anyone seen this? This really stinks for me as many of the games were for my kids and i cant find the disc for 2 of them they play all the time.

Was your drive FAT32 or NTFS before?

 

[halen]

Boston, Ok I made a new instalation because it. I have 2 wii´s and a have the same issue. My HD is 4tbb Seagate with 2 partition. One with 1 tb fat32 and othe with 3tb ntfs. The wii games in 3tb and the wiiflow and plugins in 1 tb. When i reload the cache the covers dont load in plugins? I have problem when i try to update wiiflow with ftp (dont have enough memory). I used pimp-up to unlock my wii.

 

[marck]

Boston, Ok I made a new instalation because it. I have 2 wii´s and a have the same issue. My HD is 4tbb Seagate with 2 partition. One with 1 tb fat32 and othe with 3tb ntfs. The wii games in 3tb and the wiiflow and plugins in 1 tb. When i reload the cache the covers dont load in plugins? I have problem when i try to update wiiflow with ftp (dont have enough memory). I used pimp-up to unlock my wii.

Sorry to tell you but the wii isnt compatible with 4 tb hd even when you have 1 partition 1tb

 

[Maxternal]

Boston, Ok I made a new instalation because it. I have 2 wii´s and a have the same issue. My HD is 4tbb Seagate with 2 partition. One with 1 tb fat32 and othe with 3tb ntfs. The wii games in 3tb and the wiiflow and plugins in 1 tb. When i reload the cache the covers dont load in plugins? I have problem when i try to update wiiflow with ftp (dont have enough memory). I used pimp-up to unlock my wii.

actually, SOME homebrew is compatible with larger HDD's. WiiFlow is but some of it's plugins are not (and even then I'm sure some of it depends on what cIOS you have installed.)

 

[bostonBC]

Sorry to tell you but the wii isnt compatible with 4 tb hd even when you have 1 partition 1tb

I run a 4TB drive with a single FAT32 partition and pretty much everything works fine. A long time ago I messed with mixed partitions and didn't have good results so always format everything as a single FAT32 volume now.

For some emulators that don't work on the large drives I keep a 32GB SD card around and run it from there and then most everything works.

 

[naxil]

wow bostonBC 4tb drive? what drive do u use? i want know the info about that drive

 

[halen]

Boston OK! I try to format only one FAT 32 Partition but i dont load GC games because i have to format in FAT32 32k. More one question: And if i use two HDD´s in WII : is it possible? I use port 0 to put HDD 3 tb with Wii Games and in the port 1 other HDD 2 tb with my wiiflow and plugiins. if it is possible ? How i do to configure the wiiflow.ini?

 

[halen]

Marck Thanks for the information!

 

[bostonBC]

wow bostonBC 4tb drive? what drive do u use? i want know the info about that drive

Seagate Backup+

They are advanced format sector drives but work fine with Wiiflow and regular Wii games and most emulators.

 

[bostonBC]

Boston OK! I try to format only one FAT 32 Partition but i dont load GC games because i have to format in FAT32 32k. More one question: And if i use two HDD´s in WII : is it possible? I use port 0 to put HDD 3 tb with Wii Games and in the port 1 other HDD 2 tb with my wiiflow and plugiins. if it is possible ? How i do to configure the wiiflow.ini?

GC games will only run under a drive with low level 512 byte sector formatting. All 3 and 4TB drives currently shipping (and some 2TB drives) have advanced formatting with 1024 or 4096 byte sectors so they won't work with DIOS MIOS.

To find out if your drive has low level 512 byte sectors use this command:

using win7 and command line

X:\>wmic DISKDRIVE get bytespersector, caption

resulting:
BytesPerSector Caption

"512 <device name>"

If it doesn't say 512 it's not compatible with the current version of DIOS MIOS.

I have run Wii games from port 1 and GC games from port 0 but you need to the alt CIOS's which allow access to the 2nd port and then setup the Wii games on USB port 1 in the settings menu.

 

[drakorex]

what do you do about gamecube games? Do you constantly have to switch hdds?

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[bostonBC]

what do you do about gamecube games? Do you constantly have to switch hdds?

EDIT: Ninja'd

No, if you have a 512byte low level drive in port 0 it works fine.

I like collecting more than anything else and toying with things.. the kids have a drive on their Wii with all the games they want. I have the big drive on my Wii

 

[halen]

Boston I am a collecting more than anything else!!! I have 1500 wii games and another gc games, snes and etc. I use a 4tb HDD because it. I need a 3tb partiiton to put all of my wiigames and more space to put plugins games. What is your configuration? 1 HDD for WII GAMES and 1 HDD for other games and where you install the wiiflow (in the SD card)?

 

[bostonBC]

Boston I am a collecting more than anything else!!! I have 1500 wii games and another gc games, snes and etc. I use a 4tb HDD because it. I need a 3tb partiiton to put all of my wiigames and more space to put plugins games. What is your configuration? 1 HDD for WII GAMES and 1 HDD for other games and where you install the wiiflow (in the SD card)?

I have a 4TB drive for everything. I hold my raw GC images there and then move them to a 32GB SD card if I want to play anything.

For some emu games that don't run nicely on a large drive I copy them to the SD card. I haven't found anything yet that doesn't work in that manner.

I can't keep all my GC games online at the same time but that's not a big deal for me.

At some point if nintendont or another option allows me to play them from the 4TB drive I'll be in heaven

 

[spacepimp]

actually, SOME homebrew is compatible with larger HDD's. WiiFlow is but some of it's plugins are not (and even then I'm sure some of it depends on what cIOS you have installed.)

I have a 4TB drive for everything. I hold my raw GC images there and then move them to a 32GB SD card if I want to play anything.

For some emu games that don't run nicely on a large drive I copy them to the SD card. I haven't found anything yet that doesn't work in that manner.

I can't keep all my GC games online at the same time but that's not a big deal for me.

At some point if nintendont or another option allows me to play them from the 4TB drive I'll be in heaven

I've 2 drives, 1 for Wii games and the other for GC, NAND and Emulators etc. I don't really use the SD except for admin stuff and older homebrew that won't run from USB.

I was thinking of buying a larger drive, and I wasn't aware of this issue, so this is excellent timing!

What's the upper limit of drive size before these problems start?

I was also wondering which plugins and homebrew are effected?

edit: I wonder if the authors of the effected homebrew are aware of the issue - is it easily solvable or a hardcore rewrite?