Changelog since last revision:
- add banner/icon animation support for wii games / channels / gamecube
- add custom banner for gamecube which loads the gamecube internal opening.bnr information (it is much better than the generic one of the system menu) (big thanks to diddy from the wiithemeteam for creating the brlyt/brlan for the banner)
- add gamecube banner of system menu (not used right now since it sucks)
- add banner grid of the system menu (resources loaded from nand) (with button highliter)
- add big banner frame window of the system menu (resources loaded from nand). the banner window has buttons "Settings" and "Start" by default. if parental control is enabled the "Settings" button is replaced by "Back"
- add play count text to the banner frame window (can be disabled as up until now in the gui settings)
- add zoom in/out/scroll animations to banner grid and change into big frame window
- add loading gc banners from ISO and DVD
- add loading wii banners from DVD discs even if the game is not installed
- add favorite level setting to the game settings since it is no longer on the banner frame window
- add new settings section for banner settings
- add option to choose between disc window and banner window
- added back ehci module to support 2 usb drives and re-enabled the option
- add option for 2 usb drives for d2x cIOS as well (will be supported in the future, not yet)
- exchanged "GC Games" and "EmuNand Channels" on the game selection screen (more space for translators)
- add and fixed gui numpad for entering numbers of any kind
- add setting for tooltip delay time
- fix reload of cover image on game list when only 1 item is left after a change (e.g. sort)
- add use of old build in font for credits window because it doesnt look good with the system menu one
- fixed effect bug when scrolling buttons in the settings and the wiimote is over button 1
- fixed bug where entering -1 (Use global) for cIOS was not possible in game settings
- many source cleanups
- add bnr chace setting
- add DML configuration from the loader
- removed creation of temporary "boot.bin" file
- DML custom game paths.
Additionally i added support for following forms of paths:
1. configpath/gamepath/game.iso
2. configpath/gamepath/game.gcm
3. configpath/gamepath/GAMEID6.iso
4. configpath/gamepath/GAMEID6.gcm
Where gamepath can be anything you want inside the configure path in the custom path settings.
I don't know if GCM files are allowed by DML but i just added support for it just in case.
Changing path to USB is not blocked currently but games won't run from USB just keep that in mind.
The "copy to SD before start" feature is not added yet. Listing the games should work though
- DML cheats now work the same way as for wii, gct goes to "Cheatcode Path" as GAMEID.gct (same as on wii)
- several DML internal configs are added as per game/global settings
- added load of last cheat configuration from GCT files
- added init of network into background thread so it is cancelable and has a timeout
- added gc games copy from USB to SD on demand with choice menu to delete SD games to make space, SD games path can be chosen seperately from main gc path.
all dupicate sd games are prefered then the main path to allow direct boot of games that are already on sd. main path can be on USB or anywhere else.
- added gc disc dump functionality with multidisc, compress and align support (thanks to FIX94 and Overjoy for their disc dump source on which this is based)
- added selection menu for gc multidisc which game to install
- fixed loading game ID when it can't be read from path for GC games and with that loading the titles from GameTDB for them
- lots of string handling improvements (thanks to gerbilsoft for his patch)
- added gamecube banner cache loading (only loading) if available with GAMEID6.bnr or ID3.bnr in the banner cache path. wii games/channels also accept now ID3.bnr.
- added several progress bar cancel buttons on some missing progress windows
- improved calculation of progress speed. now it is always the last 15 secs average instead of overall progress speed.
- added pulsing new icon on banner grid layout for new games
- added resize of widescreen screenshots to 768 width
- added mii extract on save game extract if the file does not yet exists
- added mii extractor and SYSCONF extractor that always extracts and overwrites old files
- changed wifi gecko to UDP socket
- support for DML v1.2+
NOTE:
Banner animation support requires AHBPROT flag to be enabled. If you use old HBC you should use our forwarder or update the HBC otherwise you wont have that support.
I am hoping that now the themers and the translators can catch up with their stuff for the next upcomming official release.
*fix crash on missing <app> tag on meta.xml files
*removed pngu which is not needed, changed screenshot function to use libgd instead
*fix gui freeze after uninstall
*fix resorting of game list after uninstall
*fix bug in aif decoding (fixes some banner sounds)
*fix bug in wav decoding (fixes some banner sounds)
*added new option to force titles from disc header
*changed if "Titles from WiiTDB" is not enabled they will be loaded from directory names if possible (on force from disc that is not tried).
*some language files update
*restructured game settings for different types of games (Wii/GC/Channels)
*added uninstall option for emu nand channels and game cube games (iso only)
*add display of game size from wii disc games on game prompt
*add game size display for game cube games (iso only)
*force interlace mode on GC games except when explicitly used FORCE 480p PAL/NTSC
*removed mountMethod global variable which was annoying me very much
*some source cleanup
*optimized use of memory (sizes over 30kb go to mem2 now first till it runs out)
*avoid use of mem2 area used on IOS_Reload (first 2 mb)
*fixed bug in aiff sound playback. breaked some banner sounds
*fixed boot of We Dare again (stupid channels added in the pattern again :P)
*unmount the usb partition used for nand emu and remount it after activating nand emu (fat32 cache flush)
*change default virtual pointer speed to 0.18
*added instruction invalidation of dol areas before starting them
*corrected PAL60 system default video mode set
*fixed loading titles when titles from wiitdb is OFF
*removed buggy lz77 implementation and use the one known working
*fix small scrollbar bug when having only 1 item
*fix launch of dollz compressed dol files (thx FIX94)
*added channel hooking (real and emu).
*proper catch of none existing cheats on server if file is not found
*added back channel nand emulation mode and per game nand emu settings for channels (emulation mode can't be set to OFF for emu channels)
*improved handle of cached titles. (on first boot of this revision the cache title file will be renewed)
*settings title, keyboard text and key color can be changed by themes now
*added optional background image for list/carousel/grid layouts. The files do not actually exist in the loader. They are loaded if they exists otherwise the default background image is used.See here for filenames: http://code.google.com/p/usbloader-gui/source/browse/trunk/source/themes/filelist.h?r=1148#776
*add flush of homebrew memory before launching app_booter
*change: if titles from wiitdb is not enabled the title will be read from game disc header on /title [ID6]/[ID6].wbfs (iso/ciso) pattern. Title caching can still be used and is recommended in that case.
*added keep of AHBPROT flag on IOS Reload. Homebrews booted now have AHBPROT. (thanks davebaol)
*fixed loading ocarina files from SD when doing nand emulation from SD
*fix port libs includes reference in Makefile
*Fixed Ocarina code downloading for Channels.
*Moved portlib reference in makefile to fix possible compiling errors.
(Thanks to Dimok for all those changes)
*Update French and Italian language.
*removed source for wad installation to real nand completely
*apply of title rename to cached titles
*add listing of 00010004 titles on real nand
*add rename of internal used id of all HBC versions to JODI for GameTDB to find it
*converted all ogg sounds from 44.1 khz to 48 khz
*some source cleanup/movement
*changed install game function to call to be equal on + button and from the new disc prompt
*fix for ocarina codes when using more than 255 codes (brawl+) (untested)
*fix crash in HDD settings when no HDD is initialized
*add complete remount on USB on WBFS_Reinit in case the drive was not in the wii usb port on loader startup but inserted afterwards
*added support to control screen pointer with gc pad or classic controller. you are always able to control as long as the corresponding wii control does not point to the screen (e.g. wiimote 1 not pointing to screen -> gcpad/classic controller 1 can control pointer 1). a speed factor is added to the gui option. need feedback about a proper default value, currently 15% (only tested gc pad on dolphin-emu)
*fix reinit of cheatcount on download of new file
*moved installation window to be on top of main window
*added game installation cancel
*added nand extract cancel
*added back extract of save feature for a real nand channels
*added auto position of progress window messages in vertical direction depending of how many are used at the same time
*added translations parse for rating descriptors (not used yet) and for genres. requires one time update of wiitdb.xml for cache rebuild.
*fixed a few mem leaks in GameTDB parser
*added refresh of partition size when activating wii games mode from none wii games mode
*fixed playback of some BNS banner sounds
*moved every allocation used during or after apploader to mem2 (fixes some memory overwrites problems by the apploader)
*improved detection of game partition when starting the loader without configs (fresh start)
*fixed remove of unused cached titles on wiitdb load
*add loading of wii games / nand channels / emu nand channels in all combinations into one list
*add button on main view for quick choice between the combinations of the three
*add "Real Nand" or "Emulated Nand" text on the game window prompt when starting a channel
*removed the need of a cIOS to launch the loader (if anyone uses it with IOS58 for whatever reason). The warning that a cIOS is needed is still present.
*removed support for both usb ports at once on hermes cIOS. Each can still be used individually but only one at a time. This is done because of some bugs in the new ehci module which make some games unbootable. The ehcimodule is now reverted to the last working one. Need feedback if the games work fine again.
*some preparations for the upcoming stealth mode feature of the d2x cIOS
*isfs is now initiated once and deinitated when cleaning up only (instead of the whole init/deinit every single access)
*removed choice for emulated nand channel modes. Emulated nand channels always need full emulation which is now always used on emu nand for channels.
*removed unused settings for channels from the per game setting
*changed default partition to 0 when starting with fresh settings (instead of -1 wtf?)
- fix booting wii discs when starting without a HDD (channel mode)
- add parental control option to block priiloader override on return to system menu
- add prompt asking for downloading new language files when trying to update and no language files exist yet
- reduced amount of checks for inserted disc (now every 100ms)
- fixed booting gamecube games (datatype bug for mount method)
- fix winnertag for gamecube games
- add per game nand emu path setting
*Optimized TMD loading. Removed unnecessary accesses to it.
*Fixed ocarina path loading for channels
*Optimized device shutdown before game/channel start
*A few code optimizations
* added direct list of emu nand channels without activating emu nand (for speed up)
* removed autoclose of search bar and changed the search engine to have both methods
* added setting for switching "Beginning" and "Content" search methods and a quick switch button on search window
* added autocomplete if only one search character is available and more than one match
* added seperate path and setting for emu nand channels/saves
* added caching of emu nand channel titles
* fixed a few alignment issues when activating emu nand (thanks daveboal)
* some minor clean ups
TODO/Next Rev:
* add channels banner sounds
* remove unneeded game settings options on channels
*Changed everything from WiiTDB to GameTDB (using new host and name)
*Added quick switch between system font and old font (fixed memory leak in font change)
* Extract saves to EmuNand for all unfiltered game list.
* Added extraction path 00010004/ for games with installable channels (Mario Kart, Wii Fit, etc.)
* Fixed scrolling bar display in menu lists.
* Language files updated
*Fix crash in cheat menu when the browser has an empty entry
*Improved detection of not existing cheat txt files (404 Page Not Found)
*Added a per game save game extraction to emu nand (right now only from /title/00010000/, others will come when users report which are needed for which games :P)
*Added feature to extract all save games to emu nand
*Added proper message to install progress bar to show when install is really finished and a game list reload starts (wait time is taking too long sometimes)
*Fixed a little bug in the progress bar
*Several code optimizations
*Changed default make file build to IOS249 build since most people use d2x now
*Added hide of password when entering unlock password. (Issue 1847)
*Added Priiloader override on returning to Wii System Menu
*Fixed issue with filebrowser not jumping back to first directory entry on directory change.
*Disabled try to mount of drive when no disc is inserted
*Bug in NandEmu fat FD close was fixed with latest d2x, workaround removed
*Added create of nand emu path for rabbits go home to /title/00010004/ (Partial Nand Emu) (thx nic for the info)
*Fixed loading default values for new added game settings
*Added check for d2x IOS for Nand Emu again (now it's valid)
*Added different hooktype and wiird debugger (see "Loader Settings") (thanks GeckoOS for the sources)
IF YOU USE RETURN TO OPTION THEN THE UNEO TITLE MUST BE ON EMU NAND AS WELL FOR PARTIAL AND FULL EMULATION.
*Added back our old font as fallback font in case the wii system font can't be loaded. Also the use of the Wii System Font can be disabled in the settings (don't forget to set font scale back to 1.0 for old font)
*reload back to entry ios when starting homebrew instead of starting it in cIOS
*removed limit of .csv and .txt gamelist creation
*fixed META.XML format
*Added use of the internal Wii System Menu font (removed old one) (thx to giantpune and r-win)
*Changed default Font Scale to 0.8 to fit with the new font. If you don't reset configs it's recommended to change it manually in the settings to 0.8.
*Improved memory usage on category xml creation. Thanks to NJ7 for all the tests he ran here too)
*Changed TinXML to not throw an exception on every allocation fail but to return a 0 pointer
*Fixed crash with categories and disabled "Titles from WiiTDB"
*Compilation fix (forgot to remove some xml.h)
*little fix in themes xml downloader (thx dj_skual)
*fixed Theme Downloader to actually list the themes (wonder why no one reported that its broken)
*fixed freeze on 0 games and gameGrid
*added a "Sneek Video Patch" mode. According to WiiPower it can come in handy for some games. (Thanks to WiiPower)
*made showing categories on game details screen limited by the space available
*removed alt dol prompt on "default" setting for d2x users
*Added a Block SD Reload option
*added saving of game browser position (on all modes)
*several cleanups and small fixes
*added a "Block Category Menu" setting
*fixed bug with parental block and game settings (thanks NJ7 for finding it)
*fixed "All" not being translated in category menu
*modified libcustomfat and ntfs fragment fetch function to support >512 bytes per sector
*Added new ehcmodule (thanks rodries)
*Added real support of using both ports simultaniously without shutting down the other (thanks rodries for the ehcmodule works on this). There is no longer the limitation that the settings have to be on SD card for this. (ONLY HERMES CIOS)
*Moved a few settings to Feature Settings and added a new Hard Drive Settings
*Changed Wiinnertag path to only point to the path and not to the file. You must correct the path manually in custom path settings or reset you configs for this change or Winnertag won't work!!
*Removed a few compile warnings for devkitPPC R23
*fixed crashes on category add/delete/rename
*changed icon of category rename and mapped triggers +/-/1 to the buttons
*fixed green bar flash on game start
*fixed freeze in STATE_DISABLED when leaving->entering->saving game settings
*separated a few settings from the GUI setting and created a "Feature" settings menu
*Updated language files
*Added Wiinnertag support.
NOTE:
When you enable the Wiinnertag in the settings a prompt will come up if the Wiinnertag.xml does not exists in the setup path for it. This prompt will ask you if you want an example file created by the loader which you can adjust to your account (I suggest you create one on first use). Multiple/Other tag sites can be setup in the xml file and loader will execute them all one after another. Also Wiinnertag requires a network connection established to be working. When you enable this feature and auto network init is disabled you will be prompted to enable it.
*Created an own class for the homebrew prompt
*Created scrollbar class which is now used on every browser
*Created a checkbox browser list class
*Changed the category prompts to the new list mode
*Improved B-Button scrolling
*Fixed horizontal text scrolling
*Fixed possible crash on long text display
*Many internal gui changes and navigation changes
*Fixed booting games by argument (headless id) (Issue 1930)
*Fixed SD Reload button to really reload the SD after it was ejected (Issue 1923)
*Added booting with arguements from meta.xml for homebrews (Issue 1926)
*Added some arguments acception from meta.xml to our app. "-ios=xxx" and "-usbport=x" or "--ios=xxx" and "--usbport=x" can be used. -usbport is for Hermes cIOS to decide which usb port to use on startup. The ios is the boot IOS on startup, it always overrides the compiled boot IOS into the application.
*Change in nand title search (fixed bug which can find wrong nand title and set it as return to)
*Fixed bug when a wiimote leaves the game list choice and returns to it without going over another game that game was not clickable (Issue 1918)
*Changed search bar to clear text on [X] button click. search bar is now closed by pressing B
*Reverted USB port auto detection through ehcmodule which was added in R1085, it breaks BlackOps on Hermes cIOS (thx s.v.groeneveld for testing)
*Added "Import categories from WiiTDB" function to the global settings as last entry. It will import the categories available in wiitdb.xml as <genre> for your games and assign your games automatically to the categories they are assigned to in wiitdb.xml.
*Fix homebrew browser indicator counter (thx dj_skual)
*Fix We Dare anti piracy protection (thx oggzee)
*Fix Wip patching
*IOS reload block working with d2x v6 beta1+ with all filesystems
*Changed CheckBox Cross to squareroot sign
*Added auto detection of the usb port on start with Hermes cIOS (allowing startup without waiting 20s for USB port 1) (was build in in rodries ehcmodule, thx!)
*With new d2x v6 beta1+ sector sizes other than 512 bytes per sector should be supported on ext/ntfs (maybe fat too) (NOT TESTED, need feedback)
*corrected the patch for returnTo using d2x (should be working now)
*added block ios reload of d2x. you can choose the methods in the game settings (same option as for hermes ios but it can be 1 or 2 on waninkoko ios, last option on screen) (not tested yet)
*major restructuring of patching code for game patches inside the source
*Fixed reset of the loader when loading game with IOS reload and disabled WiiTDB titles (Issue 1874)
*Added new 'Inherit' or 'Use global' setting for game settings. If that option is set than the global setting is used for that option. (Issue 1842)
*Fixed timeout timer on startup to count correctly. (Issue 1907)
*Added two new video modes to force progressive video mode, 'FORCE PAL480p' and 'FORCE NTSC480p' (basically the same but oh well) (Issue 1902)
*Added the new 'Return to' procedure for the d2x v4 IOS for Test purpose (didn't test it, need feedback on this one). The old method is used if this procedure fails. Please test it on problematic games (e.g. PoP). (Issue 1892)
Changelog for R1076:
*Fixed case sensitivity issue on game id compare
*Convert all game ids to upper case when reading from files/folders
*Reverted ntfs ignore case sensitivity setting
*Fixed wiimote2.png not being shown on game info
*Fixed titles being reloaded to game titles when setting titles from wiitdb to off
*Recut the credits music for better loop timing (thanks to Black.Pearl for doing that)
*update of ehcmodules for Hermes IOS supporting now more drives (thanks rodries again)
*added ignore case sensitivity on NTFS (hopefully it works as good as it sounds)
*fixed homebrew receiving in homebrew launcher via network
*changed video switching code to the one from Wiiflow
*allow ',' as floating point '.'
*Fix of reloading titles after wiitdb update
*reset all other button clicks on carousel when two or more buttons are clicked at once
*a few code optimizations
*fixed compile bug on OSX (Issue 1844 and Issue 1132)
*language files updated
*Added a font scale factor to the settings. This font scale resizes the overall font sizes. Only full integer font sizes are supported. The font scale factor is multiplied to the font size of a text and the result is rounded and used as the font size. It's a good quick fix for too big fonts.
*Fixed GAMEID_GAMETITLE folder game layout
*Fixed cutoff of box cover when it is too near and increased zoom range of the box cover. Reworked the move/zoom of the cover.
*Change wiimote icon when grabbing and dragging the box cover to grab icon
*Fixed bug in homebrew browser (crash)
*Changed a few default GX view configurations
*Use proper size of wiimote pointer image instead of hard coded values
*Reworked scroll/B hold movement stuff from the game list layout
*Removed buildtype.sh and added the define directly in makefile. No need to make an extra header for that.
*Changed makefile a to allow different IOS build modes. The build IOS is used at the start of the loader to load the settings under. If the build IOS is the same as the settings boot IOS the startup is a lot faster since no IOS reload is required.
To build yourself a special IOS build version type:"make IOS=XXX" where XXX is the number of the IOS (CSettings.cp has to be recompiled for that at least). If nothing is defined IOS222 is taken. There will now be always two versions supplied (IOS222 and IOS249 version). If another build is required build it yourself. You can see the revisions until now as the "IOS249 build version" since they behaved like that.
*Added left/right on game info screen to go to the next/previous game
*Fixed loading of titles cache settings
*Changed to show always the first game as first visible cover on carousel
*Added a "Details" button on the GameWindowPrompt which calls the game info window
*Added a cache titles setting. You can disable caching titles with that. Also when re-enabling this option the cache file is newly generated. This is there so it is possible to reset a false cached title without having to delete the "TitlesCache.bin"
*Added button 2 on zoom mode of 3D Boxes to rotate the box fast by 180°
*Increased speed for box rotating with WiiMote D-Pad
