Hey there, I guess I´ve been last time on this forum about 8 or 9 years ago.
Now I have a 4 years-old boy and, since all my xbox games are about violence and shooting, I re-activated my Wii for him.
Then I came to youtube and gbatemp forums and WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE I HAD seeing that the community is stronger than ever, with a lot of posts within the current year (I really didn´t expect this) and a lot of freaking awesome working and updated tools. I´ve read anywhere "wii is the immortal console" and I really agree with this...
Since I am outdated and almost don´t remember anything about the tools, and don´t want to brick my wii, I will tell my config and my intent and my doubts. Any advice will be appreciated!
My current configuration is: I was playing most games trhough CD, and some of them on HD using Configurable USB Loader. For some reason I have the games on HD and the covers on the SD card, I guess it only worked this way. In last week I copied new games to HD using (new version yeah) of wii backup manager, downloaded the covers and copied them to SD, it works well
I could stop here, playing wii games through CFG, but since I´ve reading how the emulators are ruuning smooth, for a bunch of consoles, than I though why not?
Then I downloaded Snes9x, Genplus-GX and Neo Geo Mod. The last one did not work when playing a rom. In Genplus-GX, Sega CD roms did´t play it gives an message saying the rom is too big. Also, the app did not show the entire list of roms in mega drive for example (it goes from A to P, when I have A to Z, maybe can be solved using diferent folders) , besides I had some work resizing images to covers, and most of them aren´t being displayed yet, because the files have to be named equal. I gave up to go this way, because is taking too much work and I have about 3x more covers than roms (LOL).
But, since my kid has to operate the tools almost indepently, and he doesn´t able to read game names and navigate through folders , it is now imperative to have covers, so he can see and choose by the picture the "spider man´s game", "batman´s game", "sonic game", etc...
An then I went crazy when I saw this video embedded at this topic
After seeing this video, I came to conclusion that Wiiflow is the path I should take... I already downloaded it, I am aware that nothing ever is so easy, and the questions started to appear:
1- How do I install different emmulator plugins in wiiflow? And where do I download them? Is there a complete, updated pack or something anywhere?
2- Can my roms and covers, that are spread over snes9x and genplux folders, be automatically detected by Wiiflow, since I make a one-time-only configuration for each device inside wiiflow, or should I move them for wiiflow specific folder for roms? (and covers?) In the same topic mentioned above I saw a plugin intended to dowload an cache covers automatically from internet, it seems too easy to believe, does it work well? Is there anything special to configure, or just click-and-go?
3- When trying to run NeoGeo mod, I referred to this video - (I went crazy here too like WOOAHH METAL SLUG RUNNING SMOOTH ON WII, I GOT TO HAVE THIS!) but when loading the rom it only gaves a message "no itens found", what should I try now? (maybe I don´t need to fix this, since WiiFlow appears to have a Neo Geo plugin.. )
Maybe this Neo Geo issue is an IOS issue? I have about 20 IOS files in the WAD folder of my SD, if I well remember I used to download and install these "things" when needed for specific games. Which takes me to the next question:
4- I´ve read something about a tool called PIMP MY WII wich apparently resolves and updates everything on the fly, connected to internet. I´m afraid of bricking my wii doing this, do you guys recommend this tool? Do you think I really need using it? Are these IOSes still needed to be downloaded and installed nowadays? (I also have a NAND BACKUP folder here, it seems important, I´m not sure)
The post is getting looong. One more question about Wiiflow, before I copy the files:
5- Can I, for example, store roms in the HD, and the wiiflow app in the SD card? (I read in the README file that there´s a command onto an .ini file like "use_usb=yes" but I am not sure if it´s intended to flash usb card or USB hard disk. Snes9x did not recognize my HD so I had to put the roms on the SD (I had a 2gb one and had to arrange a 16gb one to try this). Genplux also seems to not have a way to store roms on the HD.
I am really sorry for the absurdly long post.
Many thanks in advance for any advice!
Wii forever, whoah!
Now I have a 4 years-old boy and, since all my xbox games are about violence and shooting, I re-activated my Wii for him.
Then I came to youtube and gbatemp forums and WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE I HAD seeing that the community is stronger than ever, with a lot of posts within the current year (I really didn´t expect this) and a lot of freaking awesome working and updated tools. I´ve read anywhere "wii is the immortal console" and I really agree with this...
Since I am outdated and almost don´t remember anything about the tools, and don´t want to brick my wii, I will tell my config and my intent and my doubts. Any advice will be appreciated!
My current configuration is: I was playing most games trhough CD, and some of them on HD using Configurable USB Loader. For some reason I have the games on HD and the covers on the SD card, I guess it only worked this way. In last week I copied new games to HD using (new version yeah) of wii backup manager, downloaded the covers and copied them to SD, it works well
I could stop here, playing wii games through CFG, but since I´ve reading how the emulators are ruuning smooth, for a bunch of consoles, than I though why not?
Then I downloaded Snes9x, Genplus-GX and Neo Geo Mod. The last one did not work when playing a rom. In Genplus-GX, Sega CD roms did´t play it gives an message saying the rom is too big. Also, the app did not show the entire list of roms in mega drive for example (it goes from A to P, when I have A to Z, maybe can be solved using diferent folders) , besides I had some work resizing images to covers, and most of them aren´t being displayed yet, because the files have to be named equal. I gave up to go this way, because is taking too much work and I have about 3x more covers than roms (LOL).
But, since my kid has to operate the tools almost indepently, and he doesn´t able to read game names and navigate through folders , it is now imperative to have covers, so he can see and choose by the picture the "spider man´s game", "batman´s game", "sonic game", etc...
An then I went crazy when I saw this video embedded at this topic
After seeing this video, I came to conclusion that Wiiflow is the path I should take... I already downloaded it, I am aware that nothing ever is so easy, and the questions started to appear:
1- How do I install different emmulator plugins in wiiflow? And where do I download them? Is there a complete, updated pack or something anywhere?
2- Can my roms and covers, that are spread over snes9x and genplux folders, be automatically detected by Wiiflow, since I make a one-time-only configuration for each device inside wiiflow, or should I move them for wiiflow specific folder for roms? (and covers?) In the same topic mentioned above I saw a plugin intended to dowload an cache covers automatically from internet, it seems too easy to believe, does it work well? Is there anything special to configure, or just click-and-go?
3- When trying to run NeoGeo mod, I referred to this video - (I went crazy here too like WOOAHH METAL SLUG RUNNING SMOOTH ON WII, I GOT TO HAVE THIS!) but when loading the rom it only gaves a message "no itens found", what should I try now? (maybe I don´t need to fix this, since WiiFlow appears to have a Neo Geo plugin.. )
Maybe this Neo Geo issue is an IOS issue? I have about 20 IOS files in the WAD folder of my SD, if I well remember I used to download and install these "things" when needed for specific games. Which takes me to the next question:
4- I´ve read something about a tool called PIMP MY WII wich apparently resolves and updates everything on the fly, connected to internet. I´m afraid of bricking my wii doing this, do you guys recommend this tool? Do you think I really need using it? Are these IOSes still needed to be downloaded and installed nowadays? (I also have a NAND BACKUP folder here, it seems important, I´m not sure)
The post is getting looong. One more question about Wiiflow, before I copy the files:
5- Can I, for example, store roms in the HD, and the wiiflow app in the SD card? (I read in the README file that there´s a command onto an .ini file like "use_usb=yes" but I am not sure if it´s intended to flash usb card or USB hard disk. Snes9x did not recognize my HD so I had to put the roms on the SD (I had a 2gb one and had to arrange a 16gb one to try this). Genplux also seems to not have a way to store roms on the HD.
I am really sorry for the absurdly long post.
Many thanks in advance for any advice!
Wii forever, whoah!
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