Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[seam]

hey guys heres me new bannersounds pack for the emulator plugins... i probably wont update it again until more emulator plugins get added to wiiflow.

emulator plugin banner sound pack v2 (May 21st 2012)

http://www.mediafire.com/?9lzdqbcepuyw42o

enjoy..

 

[Maxternal]

Just a thought, isn't it kinda redundant to have both a visible forwarder channel on the system menu AND a hidden one. Couldn't one be made to call the other or one double as the other in order to save a little more NAND space?

Also, since I'm too lazy to dig back through the thread and look, could anyone tell me how you get to the plugins menu?

 

[pepxl]

Just a thought, isn't it kinda redundant to have both a visible forwarder channel on the system menu AND a hidden one. Couldn't one be made to call the other or one double as the other in order to save a little more NAND space?

Also, since I'm too lazy to dig back through the thread and look, could anyone tell me how you get to the plugins menu?

Enable emulators in the wiiflow.ini and its should be visible in setting after that

To be precise

[EMULATOR]
disable=no

 

[bostonBC]

Just a thought, isn't it kinda redundant to have both a visible forwarder channel on the system menu AND a hidden one. Couldn't one be made to call the other or one double as the other in order to save a little more NAND space?

Also, since I'm too lazy to dig back through the thread and look, could anyone tell me how you get to the plugins menu?

I like that idea... one forwarder channel with an extra argument to allow direct loading of the emu page when it returns from an emu game.

To get to the plugins menu click the options button on the emu screen and then click the plugins.

 

[Maxternal]

Enable emulators in the wiiflow.ini and its should be visible in setting after that
To be precise
[EMULATOR]
disable=no

Oh, that's already enabled. I can see the emulator coverflow and I can get to the individual emulators or all of them at once through the select source menu.
I was actually talking about the menu that has check boxes for each one of the installed plugin that looks similar to the categories menu where you can select which combination of ROM's show up in the emuFlow.

 

[bostonBC]

Enable emulators in the wiiflow.ini and its should be visible in setting after that
To be precise
[EMULATOR]
disable=no

Oh, that's already enabled. I can see the emulator coverflow and I can get to the individual emulators or all of them at once through the select source menu.
I was actually talking about the menu that has check boxes for each one of the installed plugin that looks similar to the categories menu where you can select which combination of ROM's show up in the emuFlow.

That is on the settings menu in emu mode. There is a 'Plugins' button on the 1st page. Click Select and it brings up the ones that will be displayed.

 

[bostonBC]

This just about drove me crazy since I thought r396 was broken

Something corrupted my categories.ini file. If you look at rows 4353, 4497, 6825 you will see some junk:

http://www.filehosti.../categories.ini

Can any of the devs add a routine to strip off any invalid chars as they read the rows in the .ini file? Or better yet, ignore the entire row since the invalid chars may kill part of the app?

I believe it happened after using one of the emulators (FCEUGX - latest plugins pack from Google Code) and it didn't load the game but exited back to the main menu. FWIW - all the other emulators I tested (don't have scumvm) worked fine and returned to WiiFlow.

Also it looks like the code that adds the categories.ini rows for new games add a blank row for each emulator... Might be related to the corruption issue:

fceugx=
fceugx/10-yard fight (u)=

genplu=
genplus/3 ninjas kick back (u) [!]=

snes9x=
snes9xgx/2020 super baseball (u)=

vbagx/wario land 4 (ue)=
vbagx_=
vbgx=000000000000001010000

wii64/yoshi's story (u) [!]=
wii64_=

So 3 things to look int please... adding more defensive programming on the .ini read code, checking the categories.ini creator and checking the FCEUGX emulator.

Thanks!

I deleted my wiiflow.ini and had the system recreate it and all is good. FCEUGX games run fine and exit back to WiiFlow... awesome work.

It would still be nice to have some defensive coding in so nulls/junk in the categories.ini don't blow up things.

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[Maxternal]

To get to the plugins menu click the options button on the emu screen and then click the plugins.

That is on the settings menu in emu mode. There is a 'Plugins' button on the 1st page. Click Select and it brings up the ones that will be displayed.

OH, ok. I was hoping there something a little simpler. Oh, well.

It would be my suggestion, though, another shortcut be added like pressing the (+) button on the favorites icon or something. It would be nice to be able to get to it fast just like the "select source" menu (which similarly is the (+) button on the selector icon.)

 

[bostonBC]

Ok, now that the emus are all working and can return to WiiFlow I am trying to setup the cover art for my games.

In the plugins folder each emu ini has a

coverFolder=wii64 (corresponding to the emulator)

I placed my wii64 folder in the usb:\wiiflow\covers directory and also the usb:\wiiflow\boxcovers directory and tried rebuilding the cache by pressing settings-B but the graphics aren't showing up.

The graphics are named like:

1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).png

and the games are named like this:

1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64

Am I missing something in the naming convention or where the graphic folder should be?

Please let me know.

Thanks!

 

[masterjakeway]

Ok, now that the emus are all working and can return to WiiFlow I am trying to setup the cover art for my games.

In the plugins folder each emu ini has a

coverFolder=wii64 (corresponding to the emulator)

I placed my wii64 folder in the usb:\wiiflow\covers directory and also the usb:\wiiflow\boxcovers directory and tried rebuilding the cache by pressing settings-B but the graphics aren't showing up.

The graphics are named like:

1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).png

and the games are named like this:

1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64

Am I missing something in the naming convention or where the graphic folder should be?

Please let me know.

Thanks!

Simple enough!
You have to put the WHOLE file name in the PNG file name.
for example:
1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64.png
emphasis on the z64!

edit: Maxternal beat me to it!

 

[Maxternal]

Ok, now that the emus are all working and can return to WiiFlow I am trying to setup the cover art for my games.
In the plugins folder each emu ini has a
coverFolder=wii64 (corresponding to the emulator)
I placed my wii64 folder in the usb:\wiiflow\covers directory and also the usb:\wiiflow\boxcovers directory and tried rebuilding the cache by pressing settings-B but the graphics aren't showing up.
The graphics are named like:
1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).png
and the games are named like this:
1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64
Am I missing something in the naming convention or where the graphic folder should be?
Please let me know.
Thanks!

I believe the naming convention in this case would actually be 1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64.png
also, you did mean you put the covers in usb:\wiiflow\covers\wii64 and usb:\wiiflow\boxcovers\wii64 since you also mentioned adding the INI option, right?

 

[bostonBC]

Ok, now that the emus are all working and can return to WiiFlow I am trying to setup the cover art for my games.
In the plugins folder each emu ini has a
coverFolder=wii64 (corresponding to the emulator)
I placed my wii64 folder in the usb:\wiiflow\covers directory and also the usb:\wiiflow\boxcovers directory and tried rebuilding the cache by pressing settings-B but the graphics aren't showing up.
The graphics are named like:
1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).png
and the games are named like this:
1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64
Am I missing something in the naming convention or where the graphic folder should be?
Please let me know.
Thanks!

I believe the naming convention in this case would actually be 1080 Snowboarding (Japan, USA) (En,Ja).z64.png
also, you did mean you put the covers in usb:\wiiflow\covers\wii64 and usb:\wiiflow\boxcovers\wii64 since you also mentioned adding the INI option, right?

Ah, thanks guys... I forgot about having to add the extension.

 

[fledge68]

@fledge68

Just remove his themes, retaliation on a friend behalf more than likely as the themes had been abandoned for quite a long time and it seems the band wagon has been boarded

yea i could do that and then what - benjay and jsugarsmacks shows up all of a sudden after all this time to complain too. And you're right - it does seem awfully strange that he shows up after all this time and i've seen him in irc a couple of times and he never said a thing to me. His flags look nice but that page definitely was made up. he says he looked at the ini - i guess he should know that it was hacked up like that to make it easier to keep updating it to keep up with all the wiiflow updates. Anyway I guess you guys don't really want the themes because I don't see very much complaining. maybe someday jiiwah will get around to posting his.

 

[masterjakeway]

I got my copies before you were made to take them down, Thank you! If no one else will say it, i will.
Anyway, I thought these had the emuflows in them? I can't seem to tell the difference...

 

[Maxternal]

*cough cough* technically, you can dig through googlecode's history and try to find evidence of old themes' existence even though it's deleted but, yeah, it's too bad he had to remove that from there. It's too bad just the themes in question couldn't have been removed by themselves.

Anyway, speaking of themes, idling going through some images that some of the theme use, I found where there's the loading and not found images for both front and full covers. It made me wonder, is there any way in themes (or without them for that matter) to set a default back for games with only front covers? It would be nice even if it was just all white instead of the ugly default grey.

 

[fledge68]

yea that would be nice but I doubt Fix94 would want all those png's added to wiiflow and increase the size dramatically. If it doesn't bother him then more power to anyone who knows coding and wants to make this work.

 

[Maxternal]

Spoiler

yea that would be nice but I doubt Fix94 would want all those png's added to wiiflow and increase the size dramatically. If it doesn't bother him then more power to anyone who knows coding and wants to make this work.

Actually, not that you mention it, since the PNG's would be per-plugin, it would probably be something that would have to be added in the INI file for each plugin so that might not be that bad. Just organizing all the images on the screen every time someone adds a new plugin or disables an existing one would be the hard part.

 

[seam]

@[member='fledge68']

Just remove his themes, retaliation on a friend behalf more than likely as the themes had been abandoned for quite a long time and it seems the band wagon has been boarded

yea i could do that and then what - benjay and jsugarsmacks shows up all of a sudden after all this time to complain too. And you're right - it does seem awfully strange that he shows up after all this time and i've seen him in irc a couple of times and he never said a thing to me. His flags look nice but that page definitely was made up. he says he looked at the ini - i guess he should know that it was hacked up like that to make it easier to keep updating it to keep up with all the wiiflow updates. Anyway I guess you guys don't really want the themes because I don't see very much complaining. maybe someday jiiwah will get around to posting his.

well i think Jiiwah is being an idiot. If he cared so much about his stupid themes he would update them instead of complaining when other people do... but whatever

 

[fledge68]

I got my copies before you were made to take them down, Thank you! If no one else will say it, i will.
Anyway, I thought these had the emuflows in them? I can't seem to tell the difference...

make sure you have r398+ to see mastershoes' emuflows or i think you can set smallbox=yes under EMULATOR in wiiflow.ini

 

[leftwingzero]

On rev 401 games on DML are showing up twice. One of them works, the other doesn't.