Wiiflow USBLoader 1.1

Post by **bobtomarina** » Mon 14 Sep 2009 17:45

a big thanks

Post by **zeric59** » Mon 14 Sep 2009 18:47

thanks

Post by **Babidi** » Tue 15 Sep 2009 11:21

Thanks

Post by **tibmuse** » Tue 15 Sep 2009 17:21

A big thanks

Post by **bulbiton** » Tue 15 Sep 2009 19:21

Thanks and congrats for the work

Post by **Oops** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 14:24

Added 4 new themes, 3 of them with video, on the 1st post

Post by **chedli** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 15:50

so awesome. can't wait for a wiiflow with in-game video

Post by **Oops** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 15:59

Back to the first post, read the FAQ and you'll get an answer to your question.

Post by **bipbip68** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 17:09

Thanks for sharing

Post by **Ddjay** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 18:04

Hello!!

well thanks a lot going to try it!!

Post by **arlong** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 18:39

wow top of the top!!
I had the beta and already found it pretty good but this

just one thing missing "I find" is the hdd info, free space, used space and the number of games "GX style"

Post by **Marty54** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 19:06

I'm going to test this loader since Usb Loader Gx doesn't work for me

Thanks again

Post by **kia** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 19:28

Absolutely everything I need for my wii, thanks!

Post by **marlboro12** » Wed 16 Sep 2009 23:45

Thank you very much for this superb work!! I can't wait to test all this!

Post by **virus8882** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 00:09

thanks so awesome

Post by **patrick56** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 04:46

Oops wrote:Jiiwah & Oops
present to you:

Wiiflow USBLoader V1.0

Author/Coder: Hibern (Hibernatus)

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To avoid overloading the post too much, the next videos will be spoilered.

Created by a Frenchman - Hibern (Hibernatus) - this USBLoader is without a doubt the most beautiful of them all. However, it was neglected by some of you because it cruelly lacked certain features. Today, after several weeks of testing, in which Jiiwah and I took part, we're pleased to offer you this little gem. CHANGELOG

Edit: For those who had the beta version, you absolutely must delete the "cache" folder that's in the SD:/wiiflow/ folder, then relaunch wiiflow v1.0

Edit bis: If you have an hdd with a fat/fat32 partition and you still want to keep the wiiflow folder on your SD to have easier access to covers, themes and other ".ini" files. You need to have the wiiflow.ini file on your SD in the wiiflow folder and add or edit the following line in [GENERAL]:
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data_on_usb=no
- 2 dols, primarily using cIOS 249 and 222. (for loading the wbfs partition)
- Alt-dol selection directly on the ISO.
- Compatible ISO launching via cIOS 249, 222, 223, 250.
- ocarina support
- parental control
- Works as a channel, on SD or HDD but also via Preloader.
- Storage of covers, themes and .ini files. On HDD or SD in the wiiflow folder. HDD by default if a FAT partition exists (option changeable).
- Priority download of covers matching your console's language. With exclusive full FR HQ cover 1024x680 for France (Thanks to Benjay and Wiitdb) then LQ 512x240 fr and if not found: LQ eng. Flat covers (one side) if the full cover doesn't exist.
- Download of 100% French titles.
- Random playback of OGG audio files in the wiiflow/music/ folder
- Multi-language.
- Compatible with themes with sound.
- And another exclusive - a real killer feature - that I'll let you discover on the first click on a cover.
I'm surely forgetting some...

CONTROLS

Main page (Coverflow):

Up / Down Previous / Next game (vertical)

Left / Right Previous / Next game (horizontal)

Minus / Plus Previous / Next page

B+Minus / B+Plus Alphabetical search

A Select game

A+B Quick launch of the game

B+Home Reload/Refresh data

Home Exit

1 / 2 Previous / Next display mode
Game page:

A on the box View the back cover

A off screen Launch the game

B Back to coverflow

Minus / Plus Previous / Next game (vertical)

Left / Right Previous / Next game (horizontal)
Settings menu:

Minus / Plus Previous / Next page
Display mode adjustment menu:

B+Minus / B+Plus Previous / Next page

B Quick adjustment (B+A instead of a simple button click)

B+1 Copy all the settings of this display mode

B+2 Paste all the settings of the copied display mode
README/FR MANUAL

Spoiler
The Wiiflow manual

Table of contents
========

1.1) Installing Wiiflow
1.2) Installing Wiiflow from an SD card
1.3) Installing Wiiflow from the hard drive
1.4) Starting Wiiflow

2.1) Navigating the "Coverflow" main menu
2.2) Navigating the game selection menu
2.3) WiiFlow settings
2.4) Installing games
2.5) Downloading covers
2.6) Password-Administration
2.7) Game settings

3.1) Playing background music
3.2) Installing themes
3.3) WiiFlow graphic settings (main screen and game selection screen)
3.4) Configuring the ini file

1.1 Installing WiiFlow
-------------------------------
You can install WiiFlow either on your SD card or on your hard drive. Each method has
advantages and disadvantages: if you install it on your SD card, you'll need the
SD card to run WiiFlow. You should always leave the SD card in your
Wii and it shouldn't be write-protected, otherwise WiiFlow won't work properly.
It's preferable to install WiiFlow on your hard drive, but you'll need a FAT partition
for it and a second WBFS partition for your Wii games. If you only have a WBFS
partition, you'll need to repartition your hard drive. This will delete all your installed
Wii games. So I'll explain both methods now:

1.2 Installing WiiFlow on an SD card
---------------------------------------------------------------
Just copy the contents of the archive to the root of your SD card. You should
get the following path:
SD:\wiiflow\language.ini
WiiFlow will save all settings and files in the SD:\wiiflow\ directory.
Exception: if you connect a hard drive with FAT and WBFS partitions, WiiFlow
will save its files on the FAT partition. To avoid this, you need to open the
SD:\wiiflow\wiiflow.ini file and add the line "data_on_usb = no" in the
[GENERAL] category. WiiFlow will ignore the FAT partition. If wiiflow.ini isn't there, copy the one
that was created on the hard drive.

1.3 Installing WiiFlow on the hard drive
---------------------------------------------------------------
You need to divide your hard drive into at least two partitions to install
WiiFlow on one of them. One is the WBFS partition which contains all the Wii games
and the other is a FAT16 or FAT32 partition and contains WiiFlow's data.
(If you only have a WBFS partition on your hard drive, you'll need to reformat it
into two parts, the first in FAT or FAT32 and the second in WBFS. You will lose
all the games installed at that time).
Once you've got that, just copy the contents of the archive onto your
external hard drive. You should get the following path:
USB:\wiiflow\language.ini
WiiFlow will save all settings and files in the USB:\wiiflow\ directory.
Exception: if you put an SD card with the entry "data_on_usb = no" in wiiflow.ini
into your Wii, WiiFlow will use the SD folder and not the one on your hard drive.

1.4 Starting Wiiflow
------------------------------
You can launch WiiFlow by running the boot.dol from the archive. WiiFlow starts
from anywhere. It doesn't care about the current directory. It will work in the
directory where you installed it (SD:\wiiflow or USB:\wiiflow). But I'll
explain a few options for starting WiiFlow:
1.4.1) Starting WiiFlow via the Homebrew Channel
You need to save the "boot.dol" file in the SD:\Apps\wiiflow\ directory so that
the Homebrew Channel can find it. The meta.xml and icon.png files also belong in
this directory, but they aren't required to run it.
1.4.2) Starting WiiFlow via a WiiFlow channel
If you have a WiiFlow channel (not a forwarder), the boot.dol is already inside
and it will be launched. There's no need to save it anywhere else.
You can install one of these channels with the help of a WAD-Manager.
1.4.3) Starting WiiFlow via a Forwarder channel
A forwarder is a channel that runs a specific file in a specific directory.
So you need to rename the boot.dol and place it in the folder the
forwarder looks for so it can find it. Ask the forwarder's author which folder is needed.
1.4.4) Starting WiiFlow via Preloader
Rename boot.dol to WiiFlow.dol and save it to the root of your SD card. Now
Start Preloader and select "Load/Install File" then select "WiiFlow.dol".
After a short while the file is installed and you can automatically start
WiiFlow when your Wii boots up.

2.1 - 2.7 Not translated (sorry)
----------------------------
!!! I've skipped the translation of these points because WiiFlow should be!!!
!!! self-explaining. I will hand this in later to avoid a delayed release.!!!

2.1 to 2.7 not translated (sorry)
----------------------------
!!! I skipped translating these points because WiiFlow should be!!!
!!! self-explanatory. I'll do it later to avoid delaying the release.!!!

3.1 Playing background music
--------------------------------------------
If you want to listen to music in WiiFlow, you can copy one or more
audio files into \wiiflow\music\. WiiFlow plays one of these files in random order each
time you launch it. If the file finishes playing, it will start again.
If you want WiiFlow to play another file, you need to restart while holding
the B button and pressing Home. WiiFlow only plays OGG files and is not
compatible with the MP3 format, but there are free converters.

3.2) Installing themes
----------------------------------------
You can change WiiFlow's appearance by installing an additional theme. You can
either download a theme or create one yourself. To install a theme, just copy it
into the \wiiflow\Themes\ directory. A theme consists of an ini file and a directory,
which contains the images and fonts. You just need to check that both have the same name
(for example the file "\wiiflow\Themes\pear.ini" belongs to the directory
"\wiiflow\Themes\pear\" and to all the files inside it).
After copying the ini file and its directory, you can choose this theme in the settings.

3.3) WiiFlow graphic settings (main screen and game selection screen)
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This feature was made to help theme designers even though all this
may seem a bit complicated. You can customize WiiFlow by clicking on
"Adjust Coverflow" in the settings on page 2/6. You can move the
covers, the camera and much more with it. You can even set
the swaying of the covers. I won't explain the various functions here.
Just try it yourself. At the top of the screen, you'll find
a few buttons on the left edge. They're reserved for changing the current view.
In the middle, you can switch between the different functions and on the right edge
are the buttons to save or to exit without saving your changes.
The settings themselves are on the bottom of the screen. You can copy everything by holding
down the B button and pressing 1. Now you can move to another viewpoint,
hold the B button again and press 2 to "paste". Your changes
will be saved inside the ini file that belongs to the theme. While you're
adjusting a setting, press B to speed up (so press B + A instead of
pressing only A when you click the button)

3.4 Configuring the ini file
-------------------------------------------
WiiFlow will create the \wiiflow\wiiflow.ini file the first time it runs. It will save
all the settings inside it. You can open and edit this file with your PC,
but the default Windows editor "notepad" can't display it correctly. So you need to
use Wordpad on Windows (and avoid any text formatting) or a better text editor
like Notepad++. I'm only going to explain the settings you can't find
inside WiiFlow. All settings must be inside the [GENERAL] category:

data_on_usb = no: WiiFlow will ignore a FAT partition on your hard drive and
use the SD card instead (as explained during installation).
compress_cache = no: This is a useless zlib compression of cache covers.
Just ignore this setting and leave it on "no".
cover_buffer = 120: The maximum number of covers stored in memory. 120 is a good
value for a resolution of 512x512 pixels or 1024x1024 pixels per cover.
keep_png = yes: WiiFlow only works with covers that are in the cache folder.
Here, you can force WiiFlow to delete the png file after a cache file has been created.
max_fsaa = 5: Maximum anti-aliasing (Here: 5x). This would be the limit set by each theme
and a value above five is rarely fast enough for WiiFlow. So the anti-aliasing
applied is the minimum between this value and the one found in the theme's description.
url_flat_covers =...: Here you can enter the URLs for the cover faces.
url_full_covers =...: Same as above, but for full covers (front and back).

You can enter more URLs here separating them with the "|" character. WiiFlow uses the
variables you want to use to specify the cover search. Use either {gameid4} or
{gameid6} to indicate the game ID (with 4 or 6 letters). Use {loc} to indicate the country code
(as used on wiitdb) and {region} for the game region (as used on wiiboxart).
Translation by google... nah just kidding... By my buddy Jiiwah with 2 i's

FAQ:

Spoiler
So let's go over a few questions that have been asked about wiiflow:

* Question: What is cIOS250?

# Answer from Hibern: "cIOS 250 is a backup of 249 which was installed with rev10 I believe. A tester asked me for it. At most, if an old game works better with rev10 than with 14 (super smash bros brawl?) this option might be useful. Of course cIOS250 has to be installed for it to work."

* Question: In the game-specific options, page 3, there's a video mode patch with several options: normal, all, more, none... What is its function?

# Answer: The video mode patch consists of searching the game's dol for the video mode descriptions, and replacing them with the mode you want. This means that when the game itself changes the video mode, it will actually apply ours instead. The different tolerance levels are meant to avoid making too drastic a replacement, like replacing 576i with 480p:
- Normal: replaces a video mode if it has the same resolution (number of lines) and the same mode (progressive/interlaced)
- More: replaces a video mode if it has the same mode (progressive/interlaced)
- All: replaces everything without testing. You need to have chosen PAL50, PAL60 or NTSC in the video mode for this to take effect (Default and Auto Patch are ignored).

"And actually it's the same thing as the video mode patch but with automatic mode selection, and above all even dumber!
Oops, I should have removed that option. Especially since I didn't copy-paste the new one, I rewrote it in a simpler way."

* Question: The must-have for the next version, if someone who's in touch with hibern could mention it to him:
A small video animation when you click on a cover (And the video is in the background, but you can still see the cover and the "Play" button)

And afterwards if people don't like it, you just have to go remove it in our wiiflow's options

(Also, a while back I wanted a loader like this, I'd posted a topic about it xD)

# Answer: "Regarding game animations, I thought usbloader gx had always wanted to do it, but it seems they haven't made any progress at all.
I was tempted to do it myself since it's not complicated, but I don't like unfinished work, and it would have taken me too much time.
There's already a very well-made interface that reads channels perfectly, and that can launch games from a USB hard drive, it's called System Menu. lol
If it's just to do the same thing worse, it's not worth it.
In wiiflow I would have displayed animated icons projected onto "covers" (so flat covers with a 4:3 ratio and animated).
But I'm not sure it would be as practical as the game boxes, and I simply have other things to do.

* Question: "Also, does the built-in Ocarina version support the new code types?
(For example the one to counter error 20102 lol)"

# Answer from Hibern: "No usb loader integrates the new cheat system. The first to do it will probably be neogamma, which failed on a first attempt."

* Question: Wiiflow and ocarina: does it work? And how?

# Answer: "Ocarina should work as before, but I modified how it works so it interferes as little as possible with loading the game. I tested it on a game and it still worked. The only thing that changed is that when you activate ocarina, I disable code that's needed for online play (and maybe a few other small things). This is to avoid encouraging cheating. So, for cheating you need to use another loader. Another thing: if a game crashes with ocarina activated, I really don't care, I can't take a bug report into account when I'm not sure of the game's integrity."

"So here's my answer to all the questions about ocarina:
- Wiiflow is a loader intended for simple people who are happy just playing games normally. This kind of cheating ruins all the magic by giving the impression of playing a game still in development in debug mode. Making it too easy is like integrating a spoiler download into a media player.
- For tinkerers who need ocarina, I think they need a specialized loader, rather than giving everyone who uses wiiflow the means to ruin games."

"To use ocarina in wiiflow you need to use software that
converts a TXT into a GCT, and copy the GCT into /codes/. A GCT must be
named after the game's ID."

end ----------------------------------

Whoa! He's very hard on ocarina users. I approve 100% because for those who, like me, love online play and one day found themselves facing a guy with infinite ammo, "deadly" special weapons at will and on top of that full armor... well I say:

When he says "in /codes/" I assume sd or usb:/code/
LINKS: (post to see the links)

meta.xlm fr and icon.png
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Useful topic:

cIOS202/222/223 Hermes, (multi) alt dol for, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Guitar Hero 5, Wii Sport Resort, SSBB, etc...

Wiiflow 1.0 light pack: 4.8Mo

Pack contents: boot.dol, 2 themes, language.ini, titles.ini.

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Wiiflow 1.0 full pack: 61.4 Mo

Pack contents: Light pack + icon.png + 21 themes + 3 different channel bases giving: 3 forwarder channels + 2x2 channels with cIOS249 or 222 dol.

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Wiiflow 1.0 full pack 21 themes: 31.8 Mo (identical to those in the full pack)

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3 new themes by spayrosam: Windows Seven, BOB the builder, BOB the sponge.
bob the builder, name: Bob

SpongeBob Squarepants, name: Spong

windows 7, name: windows 7
1 new one by lajd:
White

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THEME VIDEOS:

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[NEW] Windows Seven, BOB the builder, BOB the sponge.
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CHANNEL VIDEOS:

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https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/chaineswii/wiiflow-starnight-channel-t2186.htmlWiiflow StarNight Channel Forwarder-WSNF.wad[/click]
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Spayrosam Forwarder-SRFW.wad:
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THANKS:

Thanks to Hibern (coder), benjay (beta tester/uploaded the full FR covers on wiitdb), Jiiwah who went to a huge amount of trouble to fix a channel until 12:30am this morning even though he had to get up at 5am .Thanks also to all the other beta testers on the gbatemp topic.

Please excuse me if I've made a lot more mistakes than usual and if I've forgotten things that might seem important to you.

More info will come later...

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Post by **spawned2597** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 07:26

very nice for my part, I'll test it very soon
Thanks for sharing

Post by **sylux** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 13:22

This loader is amazing! Thanks!

Post by **chouchen_spirit** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 13:49

I've installed it
didn't understand it all
but thanks anyway

Post by **_Jeff54_** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 15:23

Thanks for this loader which is superb! and on top of that the cover downloading works really well!

Thanks again!

Post by **malauc** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 18:26

Thanks

Post by **ludo913** » Thu 17 Sep 2009 23:46

thnks!!!

Post by **danis** » Fri 18 Sep 2009 02:25

beautiful work

Post by **djxav2000** » Fri 18 Sep 2009 06:13

thanks!!!!

Post by **ZARTRAN** » Fri 18 Sep 2009 11:17

I'M 100% wiiflow

Haut / Bas	Précédent / Prochain jeu (vertical)
Gauche / Droite	Précédent / Prochain jeu (horizontal)
Moins / Plus	Précédente / Prochaine page
B+Moins / B+Plus	Recherche alphabétique
A	Sélectionner jeu
A+B	Lancement rapide du jeu
B+Home	Rechargement/Actualisation des données
Home	Exit
1 / 2	Précédent / Prochain mode d'affichage

A sur la boite	Voir la face arrière
A hors de l'écran	Lancer le jeu
B	Retour au coverflow
Moins / Plus	Précédent / Prochain jeu (vertical)
Gauche / Droite	Précédent / Prochain jeu (horizontal)

B+Moins / B+Plus	Précédente / Prochaine page
B	Ajustement rapide (B+A au lieu d'un simple clic d'un bouton)
B+1	Copiez l'ensemble des paramètres de ce mode d'affichage
B+2	Collez l'ensemble des paramètres du mode d'affichage copiez

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Up / Down	Previous / Next game (vertical)
Left / Right	Previous / Next game (horizontal)
Minus / Plus	Previous / Next page
B+Minus / B+Plus	Alphabetical search
A	Select game
A+B	Quick launch of the game
B+Home	Reload/Refresh data
Home	Exit
1 / 2	Previous / Next display mode

A on the box	View the back cover
A off screen	Launch the game
B	Back to coverflow
Minus / Plus	Previous / Next game (vertical)
Left / Right	Previous / Next game (horizontal)

B+Minus / B+Plus	Previous / Next page
B	Quick adjustment (B+A instead of a simple button click)
B+1	Copy all the settings of this display mode
B+2	Paste all the settings of the copied display mode

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