Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[Marsje79]

If you have a gecko, you might be able to get some debug messages, and maybe pinpoint the delay.

Anyway, I guess it's not something you are doing wrong.

Delay problem found without gecko!

After studying the code, the common thing that was done before launching (game or channel) is storing the configuration (m_cfg.save()).

The delay in loading games and channels was only when you load wiiflow from the USB drive. When using the SD for the wiiflow to there was no delay!

For test i removed the m_cfg.save() in Launch and Launchchannel and tried it again from USB.

Loading of games and channels is now fast! Saving to usb is perhaps to slow or it contains a bug for when storing on USB

Could you or miigotu have a look at it?

Hm...it makes sense, of course. We have to call a save because we update the playcount. We could, of course, move the playcount to another file, but I guess that will not solve this problem.

File IO is known to be slow, but I think we still need this save. It's strange that it's taking such a long delay though. May I ask how many games you have?

As of now I have 181 games, I might found the problem but I need to test it out.
In my cover dir all my covers are non hq, but WIIflow's cache has all hq covers cached.
So I try to download the hq covers and put them in my normal cover dir, maybe WiiFlow starts
to download them again to cache if it finds a non hq one in the cover dir

 

[TeenTin]

@Benjay

I use the latest VIOLET theme on the latest build of WiiFlow (R122).

I found that on the third page of the general option, the third option is absent leaving a blank space. Is it supposed to work like this ?

Many Thanks !

 

[icebrg5]

@Benjay

I use the latest VIOLET theme on the latest build of WiiFlow (R122).

I found that on the third page of the general option, the third option is absent leaving a blank space. Is it supposed to work like this ?

Many Thanks !

The button layout has been changed since r121.
http://code.google.com/p/wiiflow/source/detail?r=121
Log message

*Add Screenshot feature, Z button on any GCPad will save a screenshot in
apps/wiiflow/
*Removed settings option "Search Mode" (next added button will go here, or will
be rearranged) it is no longer needed with the new layout.
*Change button layout:
-B+UP is now search by previous alphabet letter
-B+DOWN is now search by next letter
-B+RIGHT is next page
-B+LEFT is previous page
-B+MINUS is cycle selected partition
-B+PLUS is cycle sorting types (NOTE: Using B+UP/DOWN will set sorting to alpha)

*Fix a bug where sorting would crash wiiflow if titles.ini is not present.
*Further cleaning of the ini loading and paths detection.
*Changed some types of some variables (should be more to follow) so they are
restricted to acceptable ranges and use less space in memory.

Pretty sure thats the button your talking about.

 

[w!!]

I think I've found another bug... I'm running Wiiflow r104 249 and I updated to CIOSX 249 Rev 20. Everything works fine, but I get a core dump when I have a GC controller plugged in and run Wiiflow. It loads up fine without one in, but will immediately core dump if a GC controller is inserted at anytime. Anyone else get this?

 

[Gaiaknight]

please dont report bugs unless you have tried the latest rev first.

 

[mgrimmenator]

I think I've found another bug... I'm running Wiiflow r104 249 and I updated to CIOSX 249 Rev 20. Everything works fine, but I get a core dump when I have a GC controller plugged in and run Wiiflow. It loads up fine without one in, but will immediately core dump if a GC controller is inserted at anytime. Anyone else get this?

This was an already known bug and has already been fixed in a later revision.

 

[Valguerra]

Been out of the scene for awhile.

I know that wiiflow you could boot with fat, ntsc, play video.
But did they ever get the bug fix about installing gaming on ntsc and fat?

what else is new with wiiflow?

Where to get the game trialers?

thanks

 

[icebrg5]

Been out of the scene for awhile.

I know that wiiflow you could boot with fat, ntsc, play video.
But did they ever get the bug fix about installing gaming on ntsc and fat?

what else is new with wiiflow?

Where to get the game trialers?

thanks

Wiki for wiiflow should answer most of your questions.

http://www.wiiflowiki.com/

irc channel if you want to talk to other people just choose a nickname and hit GO

http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23wiiflow...irc.abjects.net

 

[w!!]

I think I've found another bug... I'm running Wiiflow r104 249 and I updated to CIOSX 249 Rev 20. Everything works fine, but I get a core dump when I have a GC controller plugged in and run Wiiflow. It loads up fine without one in, but will immediately core dump if a GC controller is inserted at anytime. Anyone else get this?

This was an already known bug and has already been fixed in a later revision.

Thanks, I did check the issues on google code first but didn't see it reported as such. I can't seem to update to the latest rev through the app... The highest I could update to was R117... so i'll wait for the update server to be updated.

 

[djbubba2002]

W!! if you want to report a BUG, please come to IRC, if you need the new one , come see me on IRC, I will give you the new one , i help alot of people on IRC..

 

[ricerobo]

Been out of the scene for awhile.

I know that wiiflow you could boot with fat, ntsc, play video.
But did they ever get the bug fix about installing gaming on ntsc and fat?

what else is new with wiiflow?

Where to get the game trialers?

thanks

The feature of WiiFlow 2.1 has been intoroduced.
http://www.wiiflowiki.com/

Fanart and trailers of games can be got from
http://www.wiifanart.com/

 

[jpref]

wiifanart.com looks good, but too bad it never sends out an email verification..... at least to hotmail anyway if there is any site hosts watching this

 

[Spidy1000]

wiifanart.com looks good, but too bad it never sends out an email verification..... at least to hotmail anyway if there is any site hosts watching this

maybe it lands in your spam folder, talk to bubba by sending him a pm or come to IRC

 

[jodur]

File IO is known to be slow, but I think we still need this save. It's strange that it's taking such a long delay though. May I ask how many games you have?

I tested it with about 244 games. Normally a FAT drive should be as fast as a SD card i think?
In the code there is a FatMountSDOnly function that is called when wiiflow is used from SD and the configuration is saved, so i added the FatMount function when a USB drive is used. This doesn't speed up things!

 

[pepxl]

wiifanart.com looks good, but too bad it never sends out an email verification..... at least to hotmail anyway if there is any site hosts watching this

worked fine for me and im a hotmail user

 

[djbubba2002]

wiifanart.com looks good, but too bad it never sends out an email verification..... at least to hotmail anyway if there is any site hosts watching this

Come see me on IRC, then i can get you in ,

 

[Benjay]

@Benjay

I use the latest VIOLET theme on the latest build of WiiFlow (R122).

I found that on the third page of the general option, the third option is absent leaving a blank space. Is it supposed to work like this ?

Many Thanks !

Yes it is

This blank space will be filled with a new button soon.

 

[jpref]

wiifanart.com looks good, but too bad it never sends out an email verification..... at least to hotmail anyway if there is any site hosts watching this

thanks to bubba for getting me going from IRC

#WiiFlow on irc.abjects.net

Alternate servers..
irc.us.abjects.net - USA
irc.eu.abjects.net - Europe
irc.as.abjects.net - Asia (including the Middle East)

 

[ricerobo]

@jpref
http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23wiiflow...irc.abjects.net
Create an account and login. Hit 'GO'.
In this way, I can talk to other people in irc.

Edit: When you would not like to create an account, just choose a nickname and hit 'GO'.

 

[r-win]

File IO is known to be slow, but I think we still need this save. It's strange that it's taking such a long delay though. May I ask how many games you have?

I tested it with about 244 games. Normally a FAT drive should be as fast as a SD card i think?
In the code there is a FatMountSDOnly function that is called when wiiflow is used from SD and the configuration is saved, so i added the FatMount function when a USB drive is used. This doesn't speed up things!

Nah, internal IO (e.g. with the SD card slot) is a lot faster than USB. Even when it's USB 2.0, the SD card slot wins by far. Anyway, adding a FatMount won't help you, since it's being called when you mount a FAT partition (in other words: believe me, it will be called!).

Even creating another thread to save the stuff will not help, since libfat is still blocking when it comes to reading and writing at the same time (which makes sense...)