Hacking WiiFlow - an open source GUI USB-Loader

[Wiimpathy]

Ok Abdallah, maybe I wasn't clear enough but the plugin should find the games on USB with these steps:

- Download the original WiiTuka and the offline roms pack here
- Launch the app from sd card and let it generate the .conf files and quit.
- Copy sd:/apps/wiituka to usb:/apps/wiituka.
- Put other games (zip only) in usb:/apps/wiituka/DISKS.
- Launch wiiflow, choose partition usb, start a game et voilà.

There could be a fail though, due to a beautiful mess in my libraries on this computer but I can assure it works for me.

Edit :
Perhaps having wiiflow settings on sd can make a difference. Wiituka is great but changing this source code just for a plugin was a pain in the ass so there could be mistakes...

Re-Edit:
@MassiveRican
I had a long phonecall and wrote my shit before. Anyway, the most important are the .dat files not the .plg in apps/scummvm/plugins I think. Another answer could be try it !

 

[FIX94]

looks like I forgot to tell everyone that I was in vacation this week, thats why nothing new happend, however I'm back now

 

[ziggy34]

Has anyone heard from Miigotu lately? I need to get a hold of him.

Thanks

 

[ntpsq]

anyone know why emunanc vc games would only work when i launch w/ neek2o? this happens to all my games even NES ones. :/

edit: figured it out. was putting usb stick into wrong slot

 

[MassiveRican]

FIX94 hope u had fun man, good to have u back! I love dodging out of town

Has anyone heard from Miigotu lately? I need to get a hold of him.

Ain't been on IRC lately, maybe someone from the channel can help who's tight with him.

anyone know why emunanc vc games would only work when i launch w/ neek2o? this happens to all my games even NES ones. :/

Make sure you have the latest d2xv8-Final or d2xv10-r52 cIOS installed for best e-NAND support.

 

[Etheboss]

Has anyone heard from Miigotu lately? I need to get a hold of him.

Thanks

Ain't been on IRC lately, maybe someone from the channel can help who's tight with him.

He has not been around in IRC for a while now too, i can safely say now that there is a 99% chance he won't come back.
If it is wiiflow related you have to contact FIX for it...
(Hey Ziggy, if you are the same one i know from the past, then i hope you are doing well atm. and welcome back hopefully)

 

[Apostrophe]

Does anyone know if it's possible to load more than 1 plugin by default when selecting from the source menu?

Like could I have a button on source menu that loaded all my retroarch plugins, but not all plugins?

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Does anyone know if it's possible to load more than 1 plugin by default when selecting from the source menu?

Like could I have a button on source menu that loaded all my retroarch plugins, but not all plugins?

sure just add all the magic numbers separated by "," in source_menu ini file

 

[Apostrophe]

sure just add all the magic numbers separated by "," in source_menu ini file

Oh! It's just that simple? Wow, thanks a bunch

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Ok Abdallah, maybe I wasn't clear enough but the plugin should find the games on USB with these steps:

- Download the original WiiTuka and the offline roms pack here
- Launch the app from sd card and let it generate the .conf files and quit.
- Copy sd:/apps/wiituka to usb:/apps/wiituka.
- Put other games (zip only) in usb:/apps/wiituka/DISKS.
- Launch wiiflow, choose partition usb, start a game et voilà.

There could be a fail though, due to a beautiful mess in my libraries on this computer but I can assure it works for me.

Edit :
Perhaps having wiiflow settings on sd can make a difference. Wiituka is great but changing this source code just for a plugin was a pain in the ass so there could be mistakes...

Yeah thanks, this is what I did looks like we're getting problems when Wiiflow and the roms are on different partitions, but otherwise it's working great
Thanks again

 

[MassiveRican]

Hi guys with all the improvements in the coverflow loading lately and the massive Plugin support brought on by Sion Zaphod, Wiimpathy and possibly others, I figured a couple of things would be helpful.

First here is a ScummVM Full Plugin Setup, if anyone's interested, that uses both mod7/mod7-alt in one source menu button and launches Zak McCraken, Discworld 1 and Discworld 2 along with all the rest of the scummVM games that have covers on Mastershoe's thread. I've included a renamed cover for Zak McCracken so that it shows up, reload the cache and voila all done. Credit goes to the magnificent Wiimpathy & Tetsuo Shima for the plugin and setup help.

If you have any additional games that are not in my scummvm.ini, under wiiflow/plugins edit the file and add the entries. DO NOT EDIT the scummvm.ini in wiiflow/plugins/scummvm-alt.

Second, I re-did my entire cover cache library 2x now and I must say with the new cover cache subfolder support, and improved memory usage of coverflow, cover caching is a smooth dream. Almost all themes work with their respective ini's to cache, there are a few exceptions. It's very fast and stable, but there are a few tips to follow which I'll include in a post later on about mass cover caching, otherwise it's slower and hangs more often. Although most info is common sense, but since common sense is not so common nowadays I'll have a brief tut on it later lol

Other than that, I'm lovin' WiiFlow to death right now, just hacked my vWii on Wii U and can't wait to see if my HDD works with it later on this week since I'm short on time as usual. Hopefully we'll see fix94 fix whatever memory leak a few of us are experiencing with the HQ Full Cover option on, add some new features, and improve stability as usual. Keep up the great work fix94/Fledge68, you guys are awesome!

 

[fledge68]

Hi Massiverican. You just delete the corresponding entry for the game (not the entire file!) in the original scummvm.ini inside wiiflow/plugins.
Add the entries ([dw-cd], [dw2-cd] etc...) in the other scummvm.ini inside /WiiFlow/plugins/scummvm-alt folder.



Would it be possible to have an option to go to a specific category when you choose a plugin in source menu? For example, if we want all mario games in existence from all machines, we could create a category "mario", combine the related plugins, and then have access to the games directly from source menu. Thanks for your work.

so when you choose a source btn it automatically chooses a category and using multiple magic numbers you would be choosing the plugins. sounds interesting. although that wouldn't work for wii and GC games unless you are using one of Maxternals plugins. something to think about.

 

[ziggy34]

He has not been around in IRC for a while now too, i can safely say now that there is a 99% chance he won't come back.
If it is wiiflow related you have to contact FIX for it...
(Hey Ziggy, if you are the same one i know from the past, then i hope you are doing well atm. and welcome back hopefully)

Hey Etheboss,

Same one. Doing OK, still kicking and screaming.

The two domain names I have been paying for (wiiflow.org and wiiflowiki.com) are do for renewal next month. Just trying to get a hold Miigotu to see if he wanted me to renew them. If I don't here from him, I am going to let them expire.

 

[Etheboss]

The two domain names I have been paying for (wiiflow.org and wiiflowiki.com) are do for renewal next month. Just trying to get a hold Miigotu to see if he wanted me to renew them. If I don't here from him, I am going to let them expire.

You might wanna get in touch with fledge68 for that one, he is our new web master guy...
he made this -> https://sites.google.com/site/wiiflowiki4/
but would love to get his hands on the old websites...he is also a wiiflow dev atm...

I am strongly convinced miigotu won't return either btw. but hey, you are back, so who knows.

 

[Wyciokazz]

Hello everyone i can't load games from Wiiflow when i start to play game my Wii show black screen and then it start original wii menu with channels

I have Wii black edition.

 

[MassiveRican]

Hello everyone i can't load games from Wiiflow when i start to play game my Wii show black screen and then it start original wii menu with channels

I have Wii black edition.

Did you follow the guide from wiiflowiki? Post a syscheck, it helps since your post is too vague it could be a multitude of things.

 

[sunpious]

Can I install Wiiflow 4.1 for my Korea Wii v4.1u? Tks

 

[Wyciokazz]

Here it is:

Region: PAL
The system menu v514 is running under IOS58 (rev 6176)
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 156320248
Boot2 v4
Found 91 titles
Found 50 IOS on this console
Found 5 IOS Stubs on this console

 

[Apostrophe]

Does anyone know when there will be an update to the Wiiflow plugins?

I'm playing Snes9xgx and it keeps asking me to update whether I update or not. Also my games will freeze without warning about once every two hours or so, and I think the more up to date version would help.

 

[ziggy34]

You might wanna get in touch with fledge68 for that one, he is our new web master guy...
he made this -> https://sites.google.com/site/wiiflowiki4/
but would love to get his hands on the old websites...he is also a wiiflow dev atm...

I am strongly convinced miigotu won't return either btw. but hey, you are back, so who knows.

Thanks Ethboss,

Could you touch base with fledge68 and have him contact me at 34ziggy @ gmail . com about the domains. If he wants to use them, I will pay the renewal for one more year and then transfer them to who ever wants to be in charge of them.

I need to turn my Wii back on and do updates. Been almost 2 years since I've turned it on. Where is the best instructions on current wiiflow and Wii mods needed. I do most of my game playing on my Nexus 10 android tablet.