Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[Maxternal]

Hey guys,

I was out of the loop for a while and I noticed the wiiflow project got updated.

Now I'm confused which I should be using wiiflow or open-wiiflow-mod...

Whats the difference?

Thanks

WiiFlow-mod shows the beta development progress.
Every week that there's a beta "mod" version that's stable enough it gets the privilege of being the next version of the main WiiFlow.

EDIT : Ninja'd for taking too long.

 

[luck_gh0st]

Hello Everybody! I've been slave....er .. I mean working to death and just now got around to updating the WiiFlow.
All is fine and good except some minor graphical glitches. Not sure if it's something that I'm doing wrong or not but it seems to maybe have something to do with the source_menu. At first, I thought that I needed to update the Carbonik-ABZ theme but it glitched with the default theme for me too.. It sometimes comes out of the glitch and sometimes comes right back.. I tried to play around with the glitchy screen and the WiiFlow code dumped and reloaded i wasn't quick enough with the camera.. This (sometimes) glitchy screen doesn't seem to happen while playing a game.. my niece played Zelda for over 2 hours without a problem..
Well here are 2 pics of the glitchy source_menu.. Again, it may just be something that I did (or didn't do) Anyone else having any graphical weirdness?
Gotta run!

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[DaveZ_227451]

Hey lads, is the media player plug working for everyone else? I put cars on here to see if it would load and it worked. So i was like awsome, and through a few more
flicks to round it out. Even put in sum covers. Went back in and now all the vids just black screen and I have to forcefully reset. Also my covers will not show iether
but thats of little importance at the moment.

@luck_gh0st
I am no expert but I would suggest overwriting your themes and source_menu with what is in the awsome packs here. Check out posts by Abz and Master for the goods. If thats no dice then perhaps it's off to http://code.google.com/p/wiiflow/downloads/list with you for a clean install

CHEERS

 

[ToddofWar420]

Hey lads, is the media player plug working for everyone else? I put cars on here to see if it would load and it worked. So i was like awsome, and through a few more
flicks to round it out. Even put in sum covers. Went back in and now all the vids just black screen and I have to forcefully reset. Also my covers will not show iether
but thats of little importance at the moment.

What's up DaveZ,
Mine still works (kinda), but currently all I have is 1 movie and it's on my SD Card; The Amazing Spider-Man.
The cover still shows up and all, the only thing is now I have to redirect WF to the plugins/Movie folder to play everytime.
I wonder how you did that??

 

[DaveZ_227451]

Ya I have no idea. The first time I tried it, everything worked like you would expect. But never again there-after so I am confused all to heck.

 

[otototot]

Hi,

Tried to move from 4.0.1 to 4.0.4, and the newer one does not detect my USB partitions properly, although 4.0.1 (and previous) did.
I removed wiiflow.ini and let it start fresh: it only shows up NAND.
known issue with that latest release?

Thanks for a fix, Fix

 

[luck_gh0st]

@luck_gh0st
I am no expert but I would suggest overwriting your themes and source_menu with what is in the awsome packs here. Check out posts by Abz and Master for the goods. If thats no dice then perhaps it's off to http://code.google.com/p/wiiflow/downloads/list with you for a clean install

CHEERS

Thanks for the tip. I saw the new Carbonik-ABZ theme for 4.04... funny.. i couldn't find it last night, guess that i was just tired.. i will try it later on when i get back home tonight...
Also, i bought Epic Mickey 2 and i ripped it then put it on the Wiiflow, it played fine but is now locked up at the save part.. anyone know if Epic Micky 2 NTSC has to be set to another IOS?
I used to have this problem with Zelda Skyward Sword but (on IOS 250) but I just turned off NAND game saves for Zelda (per game settings) and just saved to the Real Wii's nand.. no problems with saves after that..
Maybe this game is similar..?

 

[ToddofWar420]

Ya I have no idea. The first time I tried it, everything worked like you would expect. But never again there-after so I am confused all to heck.

Check your argument line in your .ini
I had mine set up correctly but when I went to run the plugin after I updated to 4.0.4, it seemed to disappear for some reason.

 

[mclow]

almost finished everythin... just need covers for my channels and a couple games.... ok just wantet to say thx to u guys..

 

[FIX94]

I removed wiiflow.ini and let it start fresh: it only shows up NAND.

Does your wii already boot in channel mode? Or can you switch to wii coverflow and see your games there? Do you have both sd and usb inserted? And how long does it take to boot wiiflow? If you mean your emu nand is not displayed, you need to press b on the coverflow switch icon to enable it.
@mclow:
Cool video, just reminding you 4.0.4 is the latest, you may update to that rev

 

[AbdallahTerro]

almost finished everythin... just need covers for my channels and a couple games.... ok just wantet to say thx to u guys..

Cool,
Yeah the new WiiFlow 4.0.4 has the cool "custom missing covers" feature for all modes the one you have only shows the default cover in all modes
grab it from my sig
if u have already updated just extract my latest theme and you'll be ready to go
grab theme only here: http://www.mediafire.com/?8t26iisf6sf06p2
TC

 

[otototot]

Does your wii already boot in channel mode? Or can you switch to wii coverflow and see your games there? Do you have both sd and usb inserted? And how long does it take to boot wiiflow? If you mean your emu nand is not displayed, you need to press b on the coverflow switch icon to enable it.

Thanks Fix for looking at it.
So, let me explain in greatest details:
Setup:
no SD, Games on FAT partition #2 out of 4 (3 of them are not FAT)
Removed all 4.0.1 files in /app/wiiflow, and replaced by 4.0.4 files
Boot wii on system menu.
Hit Wiiflow Forwarder - then start
about 12 sec black screen, then wiiflow logo then shows box for forecast channel
All items from my system menu are there.
hit button on bottom right, next to home
briefly says [emulator SD] and still see same system menu content but narrower boxes
hit button on bottom right again (has become a purse), next to home
briefly says [homebrew SD], same content with a myriad of boxes
hit button on bottom right (has become a USB logo), next to home
install game or select partition -> hit the latter
Get to setting page, Game partition only shows USB1 or USB4

I exit to system menu, power-off the wii and look back at the disk.
apps/wiiflow has no wiiflow.ini file in it.

Notes:
- if there is a SD card in the wii slot, then screen stays black once I launch wiiflow forwarder.
- if I restore 4.0.1 files in apps/wiiflow, everything works fine as it did so far.

Hasn't anything changed in HD detection?

Thanks!

 

[FIX94]

May try you through 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 as well so we get some more specific direction.

 

[otototot]

May try you through 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 as well so we get some more specific direction.

Issue starts with 4.0.3.
4.0.2 is fine.

 

[drakorex]

I remember reading a while back that the cheats stopped working for some people because hooktype was changed to off by default. I really don't see the reason behind this, as it makes it that much more difficult to use cheats ( I admit that it's not that hard to just change one more option to use the cheats, but for every game? It's still an inconvenience that didn't used to be there.) Maybe I'm way off.

Anyway, while we're on the subject of cheats, would it be possible to allow wiiflow to read cheats for emus and overwrite the on/off settings just before launch?

 

[leftwingzero]

Seems the Wii U can already run homebrew via Smash Stack. Of course it is still in the Wii U's "Wii Mode", but maybe this means good things for Wiiflow on the Wii U in the future.

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[mclow]

yeah i just installed 4.0.4 with priiloader... now the missing covers are showing up... thx alot!

 

[stfour]

Hey fix, I'm out from wii scene for some weeks... maybe have you updated emulators plugin to work in neek ?

 

[Empu1]

I seem to be having problems with Super Mario Galaxy and WiiFlow today. The game had been running just fine until last night, and then when I tried playing it today I got a codedump. I thought it was maybe just a random issue so I restarted and tried to load the game again, only to be "greeted" by a codedump again... and then a third time. At that point I thought "ok, f' it, I'll try a different loader and see what happens" so I opened it with uLoader and it works just fine there. What could the problem be? I haven't done anything to my WiiFlow (version 4.0.4) on the SD card or my HDD. The codedump is this

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[ToddofWar420]

I'm using the new plugin .dol for the genplusgx 1.7.1.. everytime I start up the rom for sega cd I get an error. When I select the rom via game directory, it reads unable to load bios. So where do I need to place the sega cd bios so Wiiflow can read it?