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Covers Emuflow...

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Hello everyone, :bienvenue:

I can't manage to put covers on my nes, snes etc games... with wiiflow mod 4.1.
I name them like the nes file. adding game name.nes(.png). and I put them in root/wiiflow/boxcovers, nothing.
I also tried root/wiiflow/boxcovers/fceugx, nothing.
my covers are indeed in png.

taken here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/cover-colle ... rt.324714/

A good quick Tutorial would be welcome.

Thanks in advance ;)
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Re: [Resolved] Emuflow Covers...

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try root/wiiflow/covers or putting them in the same folder as the roms
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I had thought about writing a tutorial 6 months ago but being very lazy, I never finished it.

The correct path is root/wiiflow/boxcovers/emulator name, as for the cover, it's rom name + .extension + .png or .jpg.
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Re: [Resolved] Emuflow Covers...

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If it can help, the topic has already been covered here => logicielswii/wiiflow-mod-installer-v1-5 ... ml#p102794

The explanations spread over several posts.
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Ayatus wrote:If it can help, the topic has already been covered here => logicielswii/wiiflow-mod-installer-v1-5 ... ml#p102794

The explanations spread over several posts.
Thanks I'll try to find it, too bad about the tutorial :angel:

Thanks again for your reply Ayatus. :74:
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:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I've tried everything, nothing works, I must be stupid????
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WiiFlow is sometimes tricky with the covers caching for plugins, so you need to try reloading the cache. Ah, and above all avoid displaying all emulators at the same time, at least while creating the covers cache.

And while I think of it, what's the size of your covers?
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Ayatus wrote:WiiFlow is sometimes tricky with the covers caching for plugins, so you need to try reloading the cache. Ah, and above all avoid displaying all emulators at the same time, at least while creating the covers cache.

And while I think of it, what's the size of your covers?
For now I'm just testing fceugx.

I reloaded the cache each time, the size of the covers is 1090x680.

My wiiflow is on the SD card and my games are on the hard drive, is that a problem?

They're in zip format on my hard drive so I tried naming them both ways (e.g. zip: Addams Family.nes.png and rom: ADDMF.nes.png), nothing!

I also tried another format (jpg) 3366x2100, nothing.

My wiiflow was in sd>apps>wiiflow
After downloading the wii and gamecube games' covers it created a wiiflow folder at the root of the card with the plugin covers, languages, etc...
All my covers (wii, gamecube) are there.
So I tried putting my NES covers like this:

SD>wiiflow>boxcovers, nothing
SD>wiiflow>boxcovers>fceugx, nothing.

So now I'm lost :shock:

I'm not working today so I'm going to try again :)
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Re: [Resolved] Emuflow Covers...

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If your game is named Addams Family.zip then its cover should be named Addams Family.zip.png.
Just a reminder in case, on Windows file extensions of a known type are hidden by default, so you need to make sure you don't have Addams Family.zip.png.png.

The dimensions of the covers must not exceed 1500px*1500px (to be confirmed).

Since all your covers are on the SD, it should be the same for the plugins' covers.
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Thanks for your patience Ayatus,

Nothing works, my roms are on my hard drive (in zip format), here's exactly what I see A>fceugx>rom>Addams Family (A is my FAT32 hdd partition), no zip shown just Addams Family

How would you do it then?

SD>wiiflow>boxcovers>??????

Do I need to make an fceugx folder?
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Lacking the covers, do you have the list of your roms and can you launch them?
cedwii wrote:Nothing works, my roms are on my hard drive (in zip format), here's exactly what I see A>fceugx>rom>Addams Family (A is my FAT32 hdd partition), no zip shown just Addams Family
That's the thing, is it a zip or not, as I told you before, Windows hides extensions (but that can be changed).

Let's go back to the fceugx.ini file

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[PLUGIN]
magic=46434555
coverColor=ff0000
coverFolder=fceugx
fileTypes=.nes|.fds|.nsf|.unf|.nez|.unif|.zip|.7z
romDir=fceugx/roms
dolFile=fceugx-mod11.dol
bannerSound=nes.ogg
displayname=FCEUltraGX
consoleCoverID=nintendo
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}|{loader}
Where fileTypes corresponds to the supported extensions.
Where coverFolder corresponds to the covers folder, it's actually the subfolder that will be located in wiiflow/boxcovers, in your case it will be SD:/wiiflow/boxcovers/fceugx.
As for the cover's name it will be the full name of your rom + .png, so Addams Family.zip.png if it's indeed a zip archive.
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Yes my games launch fine.

They're in zip, I checked.

I already tried Addams Family.zip.png in SD:/wiiflow/boxcovers/fceugx. It doesn't work!!!!

That's why I'm bugging out!

I'm going crazy!!

I'm going to try again!

Well I don't know what else to do??????
I unzipped the rom which afterward was named ADDAMSF.NES, the cover ADDAMSF.NES.png and still nothing!

It's depressing!
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Make sure once again that your cover's extension isn't .png.png.

If reloading the cache doesn't do anything, try deleting the content of wiiflow/cache/lists.
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I don't know if this can help understand my problem?

[PLUGIN]
magic=46434D4D
coverColor=ff0000
coverFolder=retroarch
fileTypes=.nes|.unif|.zip
romDir=fceugx/roms
dolFile=retroarch-wii/fceumm.dol
bannerSound=nes.ogg
displayname=FCEUMM
consoleCoverID=nintendo
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}
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Ah, if you had started by mentioning you were using retroarch...

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coverFolder=retroarch
So your covers in sd:/wiiflow/boxcovers/retroarch/.
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No it still doesn't work!!

Do you think I should change plugin pack?

Would you have a link to a good pack?

Thanks Ayatus.
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Did you try deleting the content of wiiflow/cache/lists?
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No I haven't touched anything.

Here's what it contains

usb1_534e4553
usb1_46434555
usb1_gamecube
usb2_wii
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Ayatus wrote:Make sure once again that your cover's extension isn't .png.png.

If reloading the cache doesn't do anything, try deleting the content of wiiflow/cache/lists.
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I've tried everything!

Addams Family.zip.
Aventures of Lolo.zip
Aventures of Lolo.zip.png.
Aladin.zip.png

NOTHING when deleting the list content and reloading wiiflow's cache...

I also tried with a jpg cover

Super Mario Brothers 1.zip.jpg

Do I need to put a . after the jpg or png?

Anyway I've never had this much trouble but this time I don't get it!
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No .png., the last dot is punctuation.

There's no point "changing" the plugin pack (it's unique), especially since covers are handled by WiiFlow.

As it stands, I have no ideas, which version of WiiFlow are you using?

I use some of these plugins without the slightest problem with covers.
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I have v 4.1-R436

I don't know what else to try either!

my games are indeed .zip and my covers are .png

How do I see if windows is hiding extensions?
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cedwii wrote:Here's what it contains

usb1_534e4553
usb1_46434555
Where usb1_534e4553 => magic=534e4553 => snes9x-gx.ini

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[PLUGIN]
magic=534e4553
coverColor=01a300
coverFolder=snes9xgx
fileTypes=.smc|.fig|.sfc|.swc|.zip|.7z
romDir=snes9xgx/roms
dolFile=snes9xgx-mod11.dol
bannerSound=snes.ogg
displayname=SNES9xGX
consoleCoverID=nintendo
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}|{loader}
So SD:/wiiflow/boxcovers/snes9xgx

Where usb1_46434555 => magic=46434555 => fceugx.ini

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[PLUGIN]
magic=46434555
coverColor=ff0000
coverFolder=fceugx
fileTypes=.nes|.fds|.nsf|.unf|.nez|.unif|.zip|.7z
romDir=fceugx/roms
dolFile=fceugx-mod11.dol
bannerSound=nes.ogg
displayname=FCEUltraGX
consoleCoverID=nintendo
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}|{loader}
So SD:/wiiflow/boxcovers/fceugx

Just in case, you wouldn't have replaced the .jpg with a .png for your covers?
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Just in case, you wouldn't have replaced the .jpg with a .png for your covers?[/quote]

My covers are in .png so I name them .png
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