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NOTE: Also see http://www.wiiflowiki.com
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WiiFlow Manual
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Content
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1.1) About the Installation from WiiFlow
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1.2) Installation of WiiFlow
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1.3) Starting WiiFlow
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2.1) Installing themes
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2.2) Playing background music
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1.1 About the Installation of WiiFlow
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You can either install WiiFlow to a SD-Card or on your Harddisk. Both types has
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advantages and disadvantages: If you install on a SD-Card you will need the
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SD-Card to operate with WiiFlow. With this setup, you must always let the SD-Card inside
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your Wii and with write-protect off. Otherwise WiiFlow will not work properly.
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Also, with covers and settings and fanart/trailers/etc an SD will become full very fast.
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It is better to install WiiFlow on your Harddisk but you will need a FAT32, NTFS, or EXT2/3/4
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partition for it. Since HBC does not support ntfs, a forwarder is required to boot a dol which
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is placed on an NTFS partition.
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If you have a WBFS only hard disk, you would need to repartition it, which will delete all
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of your Wii-Games on it. If you do this we suggest you backup as many of your games as you can.
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1.2 Installation of WiiFlow:
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NOTE: DO NOT boot wiiflow until the entire installation is completed.
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If you have a previous installation, it is recommended to back up your covers and delete
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all wiiflow folders before you continue.
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Copy the content of the archive to the Root of the device you wish to use to boot wiiflow.
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You should get the following Path:
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device:\apps\wiiflow\wiiflow.ini
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WiiFlow will save all settings and files into the data directory by default, which is: device:\wiiflow\.
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If you want the data on a different device than where you have the apps folder,
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open the included device:/apps/wiiflow/wiiflow.ini and change the "data_on_usb=" option.
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If you set "data_on_usb=yes", move the device:/wiiflow folder along with its contents to USB.
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If you set "data_on_usb=no", move the device:/wiiflow folder along with its contents to SD.
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You may now boot wiiflow.
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The initial boot time of wiiflow may seem slow as it creates files and folders for the installation, this is normal.
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Once you get into the coverflow, you may either exit and add in your covers back to the device (If you have them), or
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click the settings icon (The icon with the little gear on it in the bottom left corner of the screen) and
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select from the menu that pops up "Download covers and titles". This will bring up yet another menu where you must select "WiiTDB".
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Wait for it to complete, press B to go back or click A on the back button, and then select the option "Missing" and wait for that to also complete.
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Wiiflow is now set up for basic use.
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1.3 Starting WiiFlow
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1.3.1) Starting WiiFlow via Homebrew-Channel
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You need to save the file "boot.dol" into a FAT partition in the directory device:\apps\wiiflow\
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so that the Homebrew-Channel can find it. The files meta.xml and icon.png belongs in
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that directory too, but they are not necessary for the execution.
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1.3.2) Starting WiiFlow through a Forwarder-Channel
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A forwarder is a channel which executes a specific file in a specific directory.
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So you may need to rename the boot.dol and place it on that directory where the
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forwarder can find it. Ask the author of the forwarder which file it will start.
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1.3.3) Starting WiiFlow with help of Preloader
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You may use a forwarder designed for priiloader, or you may install the boot.dol directly as
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an autoboot file.
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To use the boot.dol itself:
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Rename boot.dol to WiiFlow.dol and save it inside the root of your SD-Card. Now
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start Preloader and select "Load/Install File" and then the "WiiFlow.dol".
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After a short time the file is installed and you can automatically start
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WiiFlow by powering on your Wii if you set this in the settings of Preloader.
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2.1 Installing Themes
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You can change the look of WiiFlow by installing an additional theme. You can
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either download a theme or create one by yourself. To install a theme just copy
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it inside the directory datadevice:\wiiflow\themes\. Themes consist of a ini-file and a
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belonging directory, which contains the graphics and fonts. You only have to
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check if both has the same name (e.g. to the file "\wiiflow\themes\pear.ini"
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belongs the directory "\wiiflow\themes\pear\" and all files inside of it).
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After you have copied both things, you can choose this theme in the settings.
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2.2 Playing background-music
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If you want to have some music in WiiFlow, you can save one or more audio
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files inside of \wiiflow\music\. WiiFlow will randomly play one of these
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files each time you start it. If the file is played to the end of it, it
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will start a new one. WiiFlow will only play
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OGG-files and MP3's. |