Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[bostonBC]

Would be better if you guys test r868:
http://www.mediafire.com/?m2rb92y7m62204f

Looks pretty good to me but I did get a hang after a lot of cover scrolling and changing of coverflows on my 2TB (1186 game) system.

When I pressed reset I got this code dump:


upload

 

[bostonBC]

If anyone is interested here is my categories_v4.ini file updated for r852 and later revisions:

http://www.mediafire.com/?m665cmgbk8l6q19

It has the main GameTDB categories set on all 1287 games in my 3TB collection as well as the ESRB ratings set for each game. Here are the categories:

cat1=Action
cat2=Adventure
cat3=Fighting
cat4=General
cat5=Health
cat6=Music
cat7=Racing
cat8=Role Playing
cat9=Simulation
cat10=Sports
cat11=Strategy
cat12=Traditional
cat13=Theme
cat14=ESRB: Early Childhood
cat15=ESRB: Everyone
cat16=ESRB: Everyone 10+
cat17=ESRB: Teen
cat18=ESRB: Mature
cat19=ESRB: Adults Only
One thing I like about CFG is the ability to filter on a device like balance board and was wondering if there was any interest in more categories like that to match what CFG offers.

 

[FIX94]

@bostonBC, codedump looks kinda random to me...

 

[fledge68]

If anyone is interested here is my categories_v4.ini file updated for r852 and later revisions:

http://www.mediafire.com/?m665cmgbk8l6q19

It has the main GameTDB categories set on all 1287 games in my 3TB collection as well as the ESRB ratings set for each game. Here are the categories:

cat1=Action
cat2=Adventure
cat3=Fighting
cat4=General
cat5=Health
cat6=Music
cat7=Racing
cat8=Role Playing
cat9=Simulation
cat10=Sports
cat11=Strategy
cat12=Traditional
cat13=Theme
cat14=ESRB: Early Childhood
cat15=ESRB: Everyone
cat16=ESRB: Everyone 10+
cat17=ESRB: Teen
cat18=ESRB: Mature
cat19=ESRB: Adults Only
One thing I like about CFG is the ability to filter on a device like balance board and was wondering if there was any interest in more categories like that to match what CFG offers.

You know you can have as many categories as you like. you could add categories based on controller types, release year, single player, multiplayer, and publisher. maybe you can update your little tool to parse your games that way. Or maybe Maxternal or Spayrosam can write an app that would read wiitdb.xml and your games on HDD and parse them into categories for wiiflow.

 

[spayrosam]

You know you can have as many categories as you like. you could add categories based on controller types, release year, single player, multiplayer, and publisher. maybe you can update your little tool to parse your games that way. Or maybe Maxternal or Spayrosam can write an app that would read wiitdb.xml and your games on HDD and parse them into categories for wiiflow.

I'll create this app

 

[bostonBC]

You know you can have as many categories as you like. you could add categories based on controller types, release year, single player, multiplayer, and publisher. maybe you can update your little tool to parse your games that way. Or maybe Maxternal or Spayrosam can write an app that would read wiitdb.xml and your games on HDD and parse them into categories for wiiflow.

Yes, that's why I was asking. I wrote an app to parse the gameTDB xml into the categories and I mapped the ESRB ratings in as well, that's what populated that list to begin with.

I was just wondering if anyone would like the controller categories too.

 

[bostonBC]

I'll create this app

Cool, now I won't have to do it

If you can code it so that it adds the controllers your current categories_v4.ini file that would be ideal as not all of the gameTDB info is clean and I had to parse out a lot of the ESRB into cases depending on the region of the game since there are different rating systems around the world and I normalized all non-US region games into the US ESRB rating categories.

 

[bostonBC]

Anyone know if there is a problem with cheat codes on the recent versions of WiiFlow?

A friend says he downloaded the cheat, applied it and enabled Ocarina but the cheats don't seem to be working.

I just checked and it's not working for me either but I have to admit it's been over a year since I tried it last.

 

[fledge68]

Anyone know if there is a problem with cheat codes on the recent versions of WiiFlow?

A friend says he downloaded the cheat, applied it and enabled Ocarina but the cheats don't seem to be working.

I just checked and it's not working for me either but I have to admit it's been over a year since I tried it last.

I think you have to set the hook type as well - vbi should be fine i recall

 

[spacepimp]

Top work all round on the GameTDB.xml!

 

[bostonBC]

I think you have to set the hook type as well - vbi should be fine i recall

Awesome, thanks! I will let him know.

 

[ToddofWar420]

Anyone know if there is a problem with cheat codes on the recent versions of WiiFlow?

A friend says he downloaded the cheat, applied it and enabled Ocarina but the cheats don't seem to be working.

I actually had this problem too with a few games with the hooktype set to VBI. For Instints, I was trying to unlock all characters and stages with TMNT Smash UP! and I couldn't get it to work. But games like Brawl, I have everything again and it worked just fine. I guess it just doesn't have full compatibility of something...

 

[AbdallahTerro]

@fledge68
did u check Source menu icon selection bug when button uses 2 magic numbers?

 

[ToddofWar420]

Anybody still having issues with WF (r868) not wanting to pick up the game partitions at startup until after you select a plugin then go back to see the games are there?
Also, some memory issues with the covers not wanting to show when making the .wfc files

 

[Rocco Savadgie]

You know you can have as many categories as you like. you could add categories based on controller types, release year, single player, multiplayer, and publisher. maybe you can update your little tool to parse your games that way. Or maybe Maxternal or Spayrosam can write an app that would read wiitdb.xml and your games on HDD and parse them into categories for wiiflow.

Has anybody got a category file that sorts lets you filter games by their metacritic or gamerankings average rating?
e.g.
cat1=0-50% Shovelware
cat2=51-70% Good
cat3=71-85% Great
cat4=86-100% Fantastic

 

[fledge68]

@fledge68
did u check Source menu icon selection bug when button uses 2 magic numbers?

no not yet

 

[MassiveRican]

Has anybody got a category file that sorts lets you filter games by their metacritic or gamerankings average rating?
e.g.
cat1=0-50% Shovelware
cat2=51-70% Good
cat3=71-85% Great
cat4=86-100% Fantastic

No but you can make it and share with us if you want it bad enough

 

[Etheboss]

Wait!, you first put your game on the hdd, then look at the metacritic filter to see that it is a crap game?

Lol...sounds great to me (not), but maybe there is a market for it.

 

[bostonBC]

Fix94 - I didn't see anything like this posted on the WiiU forums and was wondering if you might know if anyone is working on this or something similar...

As you know the WiiU takes over the entire USB drive with some unknown format when it starts up (if you accept the recommendation to format the drive). Instead of worrying about users accidentally formatting a FAT32 or NTFS volume loaded with old Wii games when they start their WiiU - could we do something like the old WBFS partitioning scheme and decipher how the WiiU stores files on that partition and then write a utility like the old WBFS Manager or the WiiBackupManager to maintain Wii game images on the drive?

I have WiiFlow and other homebrew running on the WiiU in emulation mode but I'm afraid one of my kids is going to accidentally format the drive when they turn the WiiU on.

 

[iancer]

yo guys, got a quick question:
how EXACTLY would i go about setting a ''combined view'' for my wiiflow sources?
im talking about the "MAIN" sources, would i need to seperated them by commas?
""source= wii, emunand, dml"
or do i have to manually select them each time i start wiiflow by clicking B on the icon?
we all love wiiflow more each revision! THANX!