* Added current version and revision number to boot screen
* Renamed "Gametdb Path" to "Titles Path" and set
default path for title's files to /titles/ subfolder.
* Added a prompt to move existing files when editing
Titles path. (Greywolf)
* Added an option to display Multi-disc prompt when
launching gamecube games with DM/DML/Nintendont.
* Fixed exiting the credit page (press B to exit)
* Set Loader's IOS setting to 58 if only 58 is available.
* Removed unneeded IOS58 patches to libruntimeiospatch
Nintendont:
* Added Nintendont 3.304+ new version detection.
* Removed warning if HID is enabled without controller.ini
on r3.304+. HID setting still used to copy .ini if needed.
* Fixed Booting game from USB if not on the first partition.
* Fixed loading settings/cheats/controller.ini when booting
from Disc.
* Added a missing warning message if kenobiwii.bin is not
found but debug option is enabled on Wii consoles.
* Updated French language file
partition located before primary partition. (Thanks RCJayce)
* Changed partition detection for Nintendont to allow logical
and primary partitions before the first FAT32 partition.
(ex. NTFS primary+FAT32 primary)
* Moved IsWiiU() function to sys.c
* Fixed French language file
Some menus or buttons might not work. (Thanks Airline38)
L3+R3 to shutdown the pad.
* Added PS3 controller support over USB, requires loader's
IOS set to IOS58. Button mapped as Classic Controller.
* Added a WiiU Auto aspect fixer based on current WiiU setting.
* Added a WiiU Widescreen switcher in Features menu.
Nintendont:
* Fixed detection for nintendont v2.263+ issue 2294
* Added a WiiU Widescreen setting. issue 2296
Default value based on current WiiU aspect ratio settings.
* Added a setting to choose Nincfg.bin behavior at launch issue 2297
Always delete; Always create; No change.
* Removed unused game specific settings section (MGS2)
* Renamed MCEmu ON setting to Multi
* Added Disc launching feature
* Added user prompt to select where MCEmu should be
located when using Disc launching.
The device is auto-detected if Gamecube source setting
is set to SD or Main(USB) only.
* Changed prompt type to warning if Nintendont version
detection fails.
Thanks to Airline38 for the WiiU pro base patch.
* Set video width to 694px (instead of 640px) when Wii set to 4:3
694 should look better. If you have crop issue, please report.
* Updated French, German and Portuguese_br.
Nintendont:
* Updated Nintendont detection function (thanks Airline38)
* Added Native controller setting.
* Added Video Deflicker setting.
* Removed forced MC Emu size when using a single card
for multi games.
* Added a warning when selecting a 2043 blocs MC Emu.
* Removed forced Maxpad setting on WiiU
* Removed forced controller.ini check on WiiU
* Added controllers folder check (controller.ini has priority)
* Fixed Video mode auto.
* Added an URL auto-updater for users with the old
GameCube banner URL.
Devolution :
* Added forced video mode to PAL60Hz 480i when playing
NTSC games on a PAL console.
* Added Crop Overscan and Disc Delay settings from
Devolution r234
- For PlayLog setting, use USBLoaderGX Playlog setting.
- "MemCard emulation on NAND" feature will not be added.
Nintendont :
* Added support for Nintendont v1.135+
* Added MemCard Emu "Multi" support, named "Enabled" like
with Devolution (OFF > Individual > Enabled) (v1.135+)
* Added MemCard Blocks size option (v1.135+)
* Added specific game settings (Metal gear Solid)
* Changed to use Argsboot method only if AutoBoot is set.
* Added auto network initialization if needed when updating
Nintendont from features menu.
* Added a backup of existing boot.dol when updating
Nintendont, restored if update failed.
* Added Nintendont missing settings
(MaxPads, LED, Log and OSReport).
* Added a per game "Nintendont Loader Path" setting (Requested)
* Changed Nintendont MCEmu setting to ON by default on new
USBLoaderGX installation.
* Updated French language file.
* Updated DIOS MIOS (Lite) detection up to v2.11
* Homebrew's AddBootArgument() function now accepts
struct as arguments (Thanks Fix94)
Nintendont :
* Always delete previous nincfg.bin file when launching a game.
* Added Argument Booting method for nintendont v1.98+
(faster booting, no nincfg.bin file written to device)
* Added "Update Nintendont" option in features menu. Issue 2260
if boot.dol was on USB (Thanks Badablek)
* Added Auto-edition of meta.xml arguments based on internal
user settings.
* Added support for meta.xml arguments when rebooting the loader.
Nintendont :
* Added support for v1.20+
* Fixed launching Gamecube in FST format with nintendont
(Thank VashTS)
at launch if no argument is set in meta.xml.
* Added an option to choose if HDD should be mounted on
Loader's launch
* Fixed installing games with no_split on NTFS partition
if SD Card is inserted (Thanks Dimok)
* Fixed a crash issue when plugging HDD after launch and
mounting WBFS partition for the first time in HDD menu.
* Fixed gamecube game's list when mounting HDD after launch.
* Fixed automatic switching to channel mode if no USB device
is detected.
* Updated Gamecube custom banner's default URL for new install.
* Added support for 302 Redirect HTTP error code
(for users still using the old banner URL).
* Updated runtimeiospatch to 1.5.2
* Replaced integer values with vector in credit page.
Nintendont :
* Removed SRAM patch (unused)
* Added Nintendont svn support. (Tested up to r84)
* Added Nintendont USB support.
* Added a check for kenobi file presence when using Ocarina
with DM/DML/NIN.
* Added a check for controller.ini presence when using HID
with Nintendont.
* Added support for Nintendont "loader.dol" filename
* Added support for r39 bootusb.dol and loaderusb.dol
the "GameCube Source" setting has USB priority.
* Fixed Playlog writing when using Hermes cIOS v4 (untested)
(Requires AHB access).
* Fixed EmuNAND when using cIOS revision 65535 (issue 2225)
* Added Nintendont support:
1. Select Nintendont's boot.dol folder in userpath settings.
2. Set the "GameCube Mode" setting to Nintendont.
3. Nintendont share some of DIOS MIOS (Lite) settings.
* Added sections in the Loader settings
(Wii/gamecube/Devolution/DIOS MIOS/Nintendont).
* Updated the GameCube game settings to display only
the selected GameCube mode related settings.
* Updated some menus to support more controller's input:
- Prevent GC/CC X and Y buttons to change row number in
Wall layout (use d-pad up/down only)
- Added GC/CC support to carousel's arrow button
- Added GC/CC support to Wall/Carousel continuous
scroll (+/- on CC, L/R on GC)
- Added GC support L/R and Start buttons in the
settings/homebrew browser.
- Added D-pad support in listing windows if not pointing
the screen. The cursor now moves with the selection
(not very good with high Overscan value) (issue 2093)
* Changed the StartupProcess to speed up launch time by
using AHB access to read config files. IOS argument in
meta.xml has priority over AHB detection.
* Added IOS58 + AHB support for launching the loader
without cIOS (Wii games and EmuNAND still require cIOS).
* Added a Loader's IOS setting (now Loader and Games use
two separate settings: loader can use 58 and games 249).
* Added LibruntimeIOSPatch to patch IOS58 and Hermes v4 to
get ISFS access and enable Banner mode, Channel's title
and System font with these IOSes (Requires AHB access)
* Added a delete prompt if downloaded cheat file is empty.
* Force all launched homebrew to reload to IOS58 if available.
* Changed Gecko.c to send logs to wifigecko too.
* Changed wifigecko IP to send logs to all IP 192.168.0.x
* Updated French translation.
PAL now really uses PAL
Force Interlace now really use interlace
Use Force480p if you want to force progressive
Use Disc/console default for auto-detection
This is experimental, please report your settings and tested game if you get blackscreen/freezes but same settings work with r1216 and you think you selected the correct video mode.
R+Z=Screenshot, X=Gameinfo window, Y=Covers download
* Added Classic Controller and GameCube Controller support
in GameInfo window:
Right stick=3D Cover movement, X=Flip 3DCover 180°, L/R=Zoom
* Added Wifi6 and wifi10 pictures for GameInfo window.
(Thanks OriginalHamster)
* Added device priority selection for GameCube listing
in global Loader settings (SD->USB, or USB->SD)
* Added a "Use global" language setting for Gamecube games.
* Added support for USB devices with modified MBR's signature
to prevent WiiU's format message.
* Prevent Rockband cursor display on GameCube and WiiWare
games with "band" in the title (Crach bandicoot, Beach
Bandits, etc.)
* Added Dol's Video mode patcher in Loader/Game settings,
for games which couldn't be forced. (MadWorld, MotoGP08,
Mario Party 8, etc.)
♦ Region patch = Patches the dol's known video modes
to the region selected in "Video mode" setting,
but keep interlace/progressive references.
♦ ON = Patch all dol's known video modes to the one
selected in "Video mode" setting.
♦ ALL = Patch all dol's found video mode patterns
(even unknown video modes) to the one selected
in "Video mode" setting.
* DML: Updated DM(L) version detection up to v2.10
* DML: Automatically enable PADHook if Screenshot setting
is enabled
* DML: Fixed a bug where multiple video modes could be set
at the same time
* DEVO: Added a prompt if trying to launch a game from a
non FAT32 partition.
* DEVO: Added Direct Mapping Buttons setting (Devo r200+)
* DEVO: Added support for Language setting
* Language files updated: Chinese, French
* Fixed missing parent folder ".." when browsing a NTFS partition.
* DML: Updated DM(L) detection up to version 2.9
* DEVO: Added F-ZeroAX and TimerFix settings
(requires Devolution r196 or newer)
(Thanks Dimok and Dynamit)
* Fixed compiling on Linux
* Added back support for WBFS partition without a partition table
(Thanks PontoonAdmiral for the tests)
* Fixed Wad installation on EmuNAND
(both file decryption and file size)
* Fixed channel's save path creation when using Emulated NAND
* DML: Added Cluster size detection
* DML: Updated DM(L) detection up to version 2.8
* DML: prevent NODISC2 patch if not using DM(L) v2.2 update2
* DEVO: Added Widescreen setting (requires Devolution r188 or newer)
* DEVO: Added AHBPROT detection
* Updated libntfs
* Fixed progress window not hiding if Wiiload didn't send the file.
* Simplify HBC loading logic.
* Added a warning when trying to launch a Wii game with a non-d2x
cIOS if EmuNAND is enabled.
* Fixed individual game settings to allow modification of the EmuNAND
settings based on the game's IOS instead of global IOS.
* Added back cIOS rev17-21 support for EmuNAND Channel. issue 2152
(Thanks to Garfunkiel for the patch and to Themanuel
for all the tests with game compatibility and partition detection)
This hidden feature is unlocked only if all the user's setup
is compatible with rev17-21:
EmuNAND Channel path must be on the root of the first FAT32
partition on a 512 bytes/sector device.
* DML: Changed the GameCube Multi-discs prompt logic to display
on older DIOS MIOS (Lite) versions too.
* DML: Added a partition type verification to warn the user
if the HDD is not correctly setup.
Second ISO is now properly going into the existing folder instead
of using the Disc's internal Game Title.
* Prevent deleting a folder when installation is canceled if
the folder still contains another disc number.
* Added a new setting to select GameCube game source: SD, USB, Auto
Auto = based on DIOS MIOS (Lite).
This new setting fix two known problems:
- Device selection for Devolution is no more dependent of
the installed DM(L) type. (Select manually before launching a game)
- Installation of a game on a device if the game is already
on another device is now possible.
* Added auto-detection and loading multi-Disc games with both Devolution
and DIOS MIOS (Lite).
The Disc 2 must be named disc2.iso and placed in the same folder
than game.iso
* DML: Prevent temporary ocarina .gct file copy if the game is
launched from disc
Note:
If you use "GameCube compress" option (Extracted game format):
- If one of the disc is already extracted, it will not allows
you to dump another disc (as it's now using the same folder,
it would overwrite files from the other disc)
- If Disc 1 doesn't exist, it will tell you that disc 2 needs
to be in ISO format, but will asks if you really want to install
the game in extracted format.
* Fixed greek.lang file to UTF8
* DML: Fixed a possible version detection error due to timezone.
* DML: Fixed missing Widescreen in individual settings when using DML v2.1
* DML: Fixed individual settings choices for Japanese Patch.
* DML: Added DML v2.5 screenshot setting (use R+Z on 4th controller)
* Added Devolution version in Credit window.
* Added Greek language file. You will need Hellenic font (Thanks nakata)
* Changed default path for GameCube Main Folder to usb1:/games/
* Changed default path for devolution folder to be located on the
boot device instead of SD.
* Changed default URL for Channel's banner animation.
* Fixed launching Korean games (Thanks damysteryman)
* Fixed meta.xml release date format (Thanks Joostin)
Devolution:
* Added Devolution setting "NOLED" (and "WIDE" but not used yet).
DIOS MIOS Lite:
* Fixed DIOS MIOS (Lite) version detection when using a DM version
more recent than the latest known.
* Fixed DIOS MIOS (Lite) detection when booting without AHBPROT
(Priiloader direct boot, old HBC, etc.) but with Waninkoko/d2x cIOS.
* Removed "DML NoDisc+" setting when using DM v2.3+
* Removed warning messages related to individual game settings if
they are currently unavailable.
* Ocarina GCT folder can now be placed anywhere. If required, the .gct
will be copied to a temporary file on the root of the
game's partition. (no need to move the folder manually anymore)
* Added a setting for DML Japanese Patch
* Hide DML individual game settings if DM(L) is not installed
or is not the correct version.
* Fixed device selection when using USB with devolution
* Fixed Devolution's launching and game region detection
(Fix lag and wrong colors. Thanks to testers)
* Prevent Playcount increasing if the game couldn't launch
animation only on Channels layout, other layouts use Rotating disc.
* Added new Priiloader 0.8 beta4 compatibility to parental control setting
* Added support for Devolution's smaller Memory Card size
(min size = 512KB, 59 blocks)
* Fixed the auto-completion search bug (Thanks to hvy109 for the patch)
* Reworked GUI window for covers download and auto select all choices.
Select HQ/LQ/custom/original priority in the GUI settings.
* Added banner download from custom URL when GameCube mode is enable.
Set the URL manually in the GXGlobal.cfg, http://URL/ will search
for http://URL/ID6.bnr and http://URL/ID3.bnr
Delete URL to disable banner download. Thanks to Abz for the default URL.
* Fixed in-game video mode (50/60hz) selection screen not displayed and fixed
incorrect colors with DIOS MIOS. Please report any problem with Wii/Channel games.
* Allowed Video Mode setting for Devolution instead of always forcing Disc default.
* Added Japanese game fix for memory card access with DIOS MIOS.
* Added Forced Language settings for GameCube games when using DM(L)
* Fixed GameCube games video mode error with DML by removing forced progressive mode
when using component cable.
* Replaced the "Force interlace" by "DML Progressive Patch" (use it ONLY if you don't
see any picture when forcing 480p)
* Added a setting to choose whether to use MIOS or Devolution for GameCube games.
* Added support for Devolution:
- place Loader.bin from devolution sources in "DEVO Loader Folder".
default folder is sd:/apps/gc_devo/ but you can change it.
- You need to use the same folder layout than DIOS MIOS: /games/title [ID6]/game.iso
- You need to place the second game disc ISO in the same folder than the first ISO (untested)
- The Memory Card Emulation for Devolution can be:
OFF (real Memory Card)
ON (saved in /apps/gc_devo)
Individual (Saved in the game folder)
- Other settings have no effect in Devolution Mode. (no Ocarina/language/video force/etc.)
* Fixed crashing problem when launching a game before banner caching is completed. (Dimok)
* Fixed theme downloader stuck at 100% after unzipping.
* Fixed prompt typo and prompt behavior when exiting the copy/delete GC menu.
* Renamed string "Rename Game on WBFS" to "Rename Game Title".
You can now easily hide games on category basis.
Click on a category to cycle through possible checkbox states.
The "ALL" category can now have 3 different states:
[ ] Not checked = Doesn't display all categories (like before)
[v] Checked = Displays all categories (like before)
[X] Cross = Displays all categories except forbidden categories.
The other categories now have 4 different states:
[ ] Not checked = Games containing this category are not filtered (like before)
[v] Enabled = All games containing this category will be displayed (like before)
[X] Forbidden = All games containing this category will NOT be displayed.
[+] Required = All games NOT containing this category will NOT be displayed.
* Added a Clock size factor (size factor is theme-able and will override user's value if not "1.0" in .them file)
* Fixed tooltip opacity on Home Button and game icons on Channel grid mode.
* Fixed Banner Grid position X and Y not working in .them file (Thanks Dimok)
* Fixed half-cut cover in grid mode if only 4 games are displayed by showing it on both sides and allowing scrolling.
Released on 2012 05 12
ATTENTION:
USB Loader GX Version 3.0 introduces a new auto-update mechanism which is not compatible with old versions. (The old host is offline)
If you are still using an old version of USB Loader GX, you need to update manually.
Download the latest version or use our easy installer for Windows available on our website. http://code.google.com/p/usbloader-gui/downloads/list
You can also check how to install or update manually here: http://code.google.com/p/usbloader-gui/wiki/Installation
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
New:
- Added a new Layout: Channel grid mode! Channel grid displays games as channels and plays banner animations like the real Wii System Menu.
Channel grid mode and banner animation requires AHBPROT flags to load resource files directly from your Wii.
If you use an old HBC you should use our latest forwarder or update the HBC otherwise you wont have that support.
- Added Channel launching from Emulated NAND. (big thanks to TriiForce guys and Miigotu)
- Added GameCube games launching from SD Card through Dios Mios Lite (DML). (thanks to G0dLiKe, crediar, all DML devs and FIX94)
Check DML website here http://code.google.com/p/dios-mios-lite-source-project/
- Added direct install/uninstall of WAD files to the Emulated NAND Channel path in the features settings menu.
- Added a new icon in the toolbar to select the origin of the titles: Wii games, Channels from Wii, Channels from EmuNand, GameCube games.
- Added the possibility to boot USB Loader GX without an HDD connected (It will fall back to "Channel from Wii" title's origin).
- Added an option to choose which Game Window mode to use between the old "Rotating Disc" or the new "Banner Animation".
- Added the favorite level setting to the game settings since it is no longer displayed when using "Banner Animation" game window mode.
- Added an option to adjust the screen size for overscan TVs (Use negative values to shrink the display).
- Added display of game's size from Wii disc games on the game window prompt (Rotating disc mode only).
- Added a button in the search window to switch between "Beginning" and "Content" search methods.
- Added auto-complete function to the search window.
- Added a new GUI numpad for entering numbers.
- Added setting for tooltip delay time.
- Added resize of widescreen screenshots to 768px width.
- Added cover download for the currently inserted disc.
- Added delete of full cover on art work uninstall and game uninstall.
- Added a parental control option to block priiloader override on return to system menu.
- Added a prompt asking for downloading new language files when trying to update and no language files exist yet.
- Added translation parsing for rating descriptors and for genres from wiitdb.xml. Requires a one time update of wiitdb.xml for cache rebuild.
- Added a new option to force reading the game's titles from disc header.
- Added renaming of internal TitleID of all HBC versions to JODI for GameTDB to find it.
- Added a cheat update button to re-download the cheat text file.
- Added a cancel button to several progress bar windows: Game installation, NAND extraction, etc.
- Added separate path and setting for Emulated NAND Saves and Emulated NAND Channels.
- Added per game NAND emulation path setting.
- Added Mii extractor and SYSCONF file extractor to Emulated NAND. It always overwrites old files.
- Added automatic Mii extraction on save game extract if the Mii file does not exist yet on Emulated NAND.
- Added keep of AHBPROT flag on IOS Reload. Homebrews booted now have AHBPROT. (thanks to davebaol)
- Added a new feature to force aspect ratio on games/channels. (thanks to giantpune for help with disassembler)
- Added Zelda Skyward Sword Alternative dol offset (PAL and NTSC-U) for automatic dol selection.
- Added detection of enabled cheat codes from an already created .gct file.
- Added support for 2 USB drives for d2x cIOS (Requires d2x v9+).
Changes:
- Removed buggy focus system completely and added support to control screen pointer with analog sticks from respective controllers if the wiimote is
not pointing to the screen. Compatible with Nunchuk, Classic Controller and GameCube controller. A speed factor is available in the GUI settings.
- Restructured game's settings for different types of games (Wii/GC/Channels).
- Added auto position of progress window messages in vertical direction depending of how many are used at the same time.
- If "Titles from GameTDB" is not enabled the title will be read from the folder name if possible or from the game disc header.
Title caching can still be used and is recommended in that case.
- Settings title, keyboard text and key color can be changed by themes now.
- Added optional background image for list/carousel/grid layouts (unused by default theme).
- Use of old built-in font for credits window because it doesn't look good with the system menu one.
- Removed the need of a cIOS to launch the loader (if anyone uses it with IOS58 for whatever reason).
- Improved detection of game partition when starting the loader without configs (fresh start).
- Isfs is now initiated once and deinitiated when cleaning up only, instead of the whole init/deinit every single access.
- Updated file system libraries.
- Removed pngu which is not needed, changed screenshot function to use libgd instead
- added init of network into background thread so it is cancelable and has a timeout
- changed wifi gecko to UDP socket
- Converted all ogg sounds from 44.1 khz to 48 khz.
- 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) ;
Change font character texture to I4 which uses half as much memory (less cache memory).
- Changed update function to get the files from googlecode website, since old update host website isn't accessible anymore.
Fixes:
- Fixed small scrollbar bug when having only 1 item.
- Fixed reloading of cover image on game list when only 1 item is left after a change (e.g. filtering).
- Improved calculation of progress speed. Now it is always the last 15 secs average instead of overall progress speed.
- Fixed "new" game showing even with a parental control setting.
- Fixed removing of unused cached titles on wiitdb load.
- Fixed ocarina codes when using more than 255 codes (brawl+) (untested).
- Fixed bug where entering "-1" (Use global) for cIOS was not possible in game settings.
- Fixed playback of some BNS banner sounds.
- Fixed reloading into another IOS before launch of game.
- Removed buggy lz77 implementation and use the one known working.
- Fixed launching of dollz compressed dol files. (thanks FIX94)
- Fixed reading game's titles from disc header on fat32/ntfs/ext.
- Fixed crash on missing <app> tag on meta.xml files.
- Forwarder: Fixed crash on drives with physical sector size > 512 bytes.
- Forwarder: Fixed endless waiting for slow HDD. (thanks to FIX94)
- Forwarder: Added missing ext2 unmount. (thanks to FIX94)
- Supports new WiiMotion+ controllers by using latest libraries.
- Lots of string handling improvements (thanks to gerbilsoft for his patch)
New Channel Grid Mode specific features:
- New settings section for all banner's settings.
- Use of BNR (banner animation) cache setting to load banners and icon's animation faster. (Enabled by default. Takes ~35MB/100 Banners)
Wii games/Channels also accept ID3.bnr for custom-made multi-region banners.
- BNR cache path setting.
- Pulsing "new" icon on banner grid layout for new games.
- Centering and size setting for banner's animation resources.
- Channel's zooming speed setting.
- Page's scrolling speed setting.
New GameCube specific features:
- Supports Dios Mios Lite (DML) v1.2+
- Uses of a custom banner for GameCube games which loads the game's internal opening.bnr informations (big thanks to diddy
from the wiithemeteam for creating the brlyt/brlan for the banner).
- DML settings editable from the loader (global and per game settings).
- Supported formats for gamecubes are ISO/GCM and GCRegEx.
- Custom game paths. The following paths are accepted:
1. configpath/ID6/
2. configpath/ID6_Title/
3. configpath/Title [ID6]/
4. configpath/gamepath/ (slow loading speed)
Accepted game's filenames: title.iso, title.gcm, GAMEID6.iso, GAMEID6.gcm
- DML cheats now work the same way as for other Wii games, gct goes to "GCT Cheatcode Path" as GAMEID.gct
- GameCube games copy from USB to SD on demand with choice menu to delete SD games to make space,
If you want to use this feature then set the "Main GC path" to USB and the "SD GameCube path" to SD card.
If duplicated games are detected on SD and USB, the games on SD will be prioritized.
- Added GameCube disc dump functionality with multi-disc menu game selection, compress and align support
(thanks to FIX94 and Overjoy for their disc dump sources on which this is based).
- Use of the BNR cache path to load ID6.bnr or ID3.bnr if available for custom-made banners. (Loading only)
- Video mode option to force interlace mode on GameCube.
- Fixed force prog mode on DML 1.4
