Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[Damian666]

ok, uninstalled the channel, and installed the forwarder.

i have 1 fat32 partition, with wiiflow on it in apps/wiiflow/

is there a certain folder name i have to give to the place i put my games?

Damian

 

[shareisfun]

The new wiiflow have so many new things that are cool. One of the new cool things is channels, with that added it's not necessary to start the wii up in wii menu, is it possible to make it boot directly into wiiflow? That would be cool

 

[Spidy1000]

ok, uninstalled the channel, and installed the forwarder.

i have 1 fat32 partition, with wiiflow on it in apps/wiiflow/

is there a certain folder name i have to give to the place i put my games?

Damian

Use Wii Backup Manager it will create the correct structure when you install games on it

http://gbatemp.net/t188295-wii-backup-manager-for-windows?

 

[Stewy12]

The new wiiflow have so many new things that are cool. One of the new cool things is channels, with that added it's not necessary to start the wii up in wii menu, is it possible to make it boot directly into wiiflow? That would be cool

Yes it is possible using either priiloader or bootmii I believe.

 

[Damian666]

hmm... weird shit, still no games show up...

wtf is it with me and wiiflow xD

Damian

 

[shareisfun]

damm, priiloader. I forgot all about that.

Of course it is the way to do it. THANKS

 

[Spidy1000]

hmm... weird shit, still no games show up...

wtf is it with me and wiiflow xD

Damian

make sure you have a wiiflow ini in usb:/apps/wiiflow

the line
data_on_usb=yes
should be in there

 

[Damian666]

wasnt there, so i added it at the end of the file, still nothing though >.<

Spoiler

[ GENERAL]
allow_texture_compression=yes
alphabetic_search_on_plus_minus=no
box_mode=yes
cat1=Category 1
cat10=Category 10
cat11=Category 11
cat2=Category 2
cat3=Category 3
cat4=Category 4
cat5=Category 5
cat6=Category 6
cat7=Category 7
cat8=Category 8
cat9=Category 9
category=0
cheat=no
compress_cache=no
cover_buffer=120
current_game=
data_on_usb=yes
dir_bca=usb:/apps/wiiflow/codes
dir_box_covers=usb:/apps/wiiflow/boxcovers
dir_cache=usb:/apps/wiiflow/cache
dir_cheat=usb:/apps/wiiflow/codes
dir_fanart=usb:/apps/wiiflow/fanart
dir_flat_covers=usb:/apps/wiiflow/covers
dir_music=usb:/apps/wiiflow/music
dir_themes=usb:/apps/wiiflow/themes
dir_trailers=usb:/apps/wiiflow/trailers
dir_txtcheat=usb:/apps/wiiflow/txtcodes
dir_wip=usb:/apps/wiiflow/codes
error_002_fix=yes
exit_to_wii_menu=no
favorites_on_startup=no
fbi=no
game_language=0
hidechannelsbutton=no
insertnamehere=
install_directory=yes
keep_png=yes
language=DUTCH
last_cf_mode=1
max_fsaa=5
parent_code=
partition=WBFS1
returnto=
rumble=yes
sound_volume_bnr=255
sound_volume_coverflow=255
sound_volume_gui=255
sound_volume_music=255
theme=DEFAULT
tv_height=480
tv_width=640
tv_x=0
tv_y=0
video_mode=0

Edit:

anyway, reverted back to wbfs, and it sees it right from the start, no problems whatsoever xD

Damian

 

[xbry23]

EDIT: I fixed it now

 

[guitarloser85]

@ Damien - Looking at your ini file, your partition is set to WBFS1 (13th from the bottom "partition=WBFS1"). I think you'd need to change that to something along the lines of "FAT32" (though I'm not sure cuz I haven't messed with it at all)
I know that if you wanna be sure, delete wiiflow.ini and the first time you run the app it'll ask you what partition you'd like to use.

 

[xbry23]

wasnt there, so i added it at the end of the file, still nothing though >.<

Spoiler

[ GENERAL]
allow_texture_compression=yes
alphabetic_search_on_plus_minus=no
box_mode=yes
cat1=Category 1
cat10=Category 10
cat11=Category 11
cat2=Category 2
cat3=Category 3
cat4=Category 4
cat5=Category 5
cat6=Category 6
cat7=Category 7
cat8=Category 8
cat9=Category 9
category=0
cheat=no
compress_cache=no
cover_buffer=120
current_game=
data_on_usb=yes
dir_bca=usb:/apps/wiiflow/codes
dir_box_covers=usb:/apps/wiiflow/boxcovers
dir_cache=usb:/apps/wiiflow/cache
dir_cheat=usb:/apps/wiiflow/codes
dir_fanart=usb:/apps/wiiflow/fanart
dir_flat_covers=usb:/apps/wiiflow/covers
dir_music=usb:/apps/wiiflow/music
dir_themes=usb:/apps/wiiflow/themes
dir_trailers=usb:/apps/wiiflow/trailers
dir_txtcheat=usb:/apps/wiiflow/txtcodes
dir_wip=usb:/apps/wiiflow/codes
error_002_fix=yes
exit_to_wii_menu=no
favorites_on_startup=no
fbi=no
game_language=0
hidechannelsbutton=no
insertnamehere=
install_directory=yes
keep_png=yes
language=DUTCH
last_cf_mode=1
max_fsaa=5
parent_code=
partition=WBFS1
returnto=
rumble=yes
sound_volume_bnr=255
sound_volume_coverflow=255
sound_volume_gui=255
sound_volume_music=255
theme=DEFAULT
tv_height=480
tv_width=640
tv_x=0
tv_y=0
video_mode=0

Edit:

anyway, reverted back to wbfs, and it sees it right from the start, no problems whatsoever xD

Damian

If you want to load from FAT32 first make sure your drive is formatted to FAT32 and not FAT16 because that was what i did...
and change your wiiflow.ini to say partition=FAT1 instead of partition=WBFS1
hope this helps...

 

[mugotu]

hmm... weird shit, still no games show up...

wtf is it with me and wiiflow xD

Damian

yeah change partition=WBFS1 to partition=FAT1
Im curious what order your partitions are in, is FAT32 partition the first one on your drive?

 

[Damian666]

hmm...

well, my partition was fat32, and it was my only partition, was set to active too.

it said no games found, select partition, but all that showed me was wbfs1, 2 etc, no fat ones in the list.

also tried 2 partitions, with the main one being games, and the second wiiflow stuff, also nothing.

only asks for wbfs, still no fat32

tried setting it to fat32 myself, but i see now it should be fat1.

so thats what ill try tonight, im not giving up on this, i love this loader, and im going to get it to work, even if its the last damn thing i do xD

Damian

 

[lildude]

hmm...

well, my partition was fat32, and it was my only partition, was set to active too.

it said no games found, select partition, but all that showed me was wbfs1, 2 etc, no fat ones in the list.

also tried 2 partitions, with the main one being games, and the second wiiflow stuff, also nothing.

only asks for wbfs, still no fat32

tried setting it to fat32 myself, but i see now it should be fat1.

so thats what ill try tonight, im not giving up on this, i love this loader, and im going to get it to work, even if its the last damn thing i do xD

Damian

Look in your wbfs folder on your FAT partition, and if there are folders, try taking the .wbfs files out of the folders. Just put it into the wbfs folder, so that there are no subfolders.

I had this same problem before.

 

[Damian666]

yeah, tried that too, with, and without subfolders.

thanx anyway, ill take another look when im done working today

Damian

 

[Spidy1000]

yeah, tried that too, with, and without subfolders.

thanx anyway, ill take another look when im done working today

Damian

change "partition=WBFS1" into "partition=FAT1" in the ini
if you still cannot get it to work, contact me at IRC, i will give you access to my wiiflow setup, i use it for modding wii's too with fat32 or ntsf so it should work straight away

 

[r-win]

Look in your wbfs folder on your FAT partition, and if there are folders, try taking the .wbfs files out of the folders. Just put it into the wbfs folder, so that there are no subfolders.

It can handle subfolders, but only when they have a specific name.

The complete list with supported names is somewhere on gbatemp

 

[Benjay]

If you want to use FAT or NTFS, the following filenames are accepted

USB:/wbfs/Game Title (Be Creative) [GAMEID].wbfs
USB:/wbfs/Game Title (Be Creative) [GAMEID]/GAMEID.wbfs
USB:/wbfs/GAMEID_Game Title (Be Creative)/GAMEID.wbfs

 

[Etheboss]

Compliments to the Wiiflow team...

I haven't looked at the wiiflow forum and irc for a few days and was surprised to see how good the wiiflowiki looked already...also the revisions follow up very fast....it shows you are on top of it.
So, again my compliments and appreciation for what you guys are doing...

Greetz
Erik.

 

[Jiiwah]

@Pakatus : thx for the channels

@Benjay & Translators : Come on IRC, themes and language.ini need to be update for new langs strings (r60)