v5.4.5 May 12th 2020

Changes:

• sourceflow only shows cache covers progress bar if 1 or more cached covers are missing.
• fixed cache covers progress bar to not show if a plugin has no roms.
• fixed source on start to only work if their is a source menu. (although can be set to on in settings but it will not work)
• fixed sourceflow on start to remove quick flash of green screen.
• fixed startup for wiivc (although untested).
• made minor changes to cios loading on startup.
• fixed if wiiflow fails on startup to not exit to HBC unless booted from HBC.
• cleaned up some of game cios loading.

Blackb0x commits:

• updated wolfSSL.
• optimized the splash and wait images.
• fixed patching video mode for PAL games when using progressive scan.

v5.4.4 April 20th 2020

IMPORTANT! with this release you must replace your bins and imgs folders or wiiflow may crash. move or rename those folders to back them up in case you need to go back to previous version.

Changes:

• fixed crash when pressing 1/x or 2/y buttons (change coverflow layout) when no covers are loaded.
• fixed hiding the wait loading animation when using source menu on start.
• fixed exiting source menu on start via B button so covers show properly.
• fixed launching GC games via devolution. (if you still use it)
• fixed deleting wii games so that all the wbfs files are deleted.
• fixed using homebrew icon.png's with transparency as covers for smallbox by restoring some old code I didn't understand.
• fixed a potential issue if using the source select icon on main screen with no source menu.
• added 'no games found in {roms folder path}' if wiiflow doesn't find any roms for a plugin. This will let you know where wiiflow and the plugin are looking for the roms.
• spanish and korean languages updated. thanks DDinghoya and CrewMdk!

Blackb0x commits:

• fixed missing cacheing covers for real nand channels if you add covers manually and do reload cache.
• set riitag url to use https
• prevent crash caused by debug logging when using gamercards
• support paletted png images
• optimized wiiflow images and converted all jpg to png because using png images seems to consume less memory
• covers and banners download faster now
• added check for incomplete downloads before saving. Downloads should only fail like this if your WiFi signal is poor, your internet connection is awful or the server is experiencing issues.
• fixed video mode patching for PAL games.
• tried fixing cacheing covers after downloading them. works better but still might not create cached covers. It's a low free mem2 error if using rhapsodii shima theme and having a lot of games. if covers do not appear after downloading then i suggest rebooting wiiflow and doing reload cache first thing or switch to wiiflow's default theme and then download the covers and then switch back to rhapsodii shima theme.

v5.4.3 March 23rd 2020

• fixed cheat menu that was broken in v5.4.2

v5.4.2 March 19th 2020

• reverted change in 5.4.1 that made video output a little blurry.
• reverted change in 5.4.0 that may be the reason some users have issues loading games from sd card. especially on vWii.
• changed wiinertag to riitag and cleaned up code for it. More info here - https://gbatemp.net/threads/riitag-gamertag-for-wii-replacement-for-wiinnertag-and-dutag.559500/
• removed dutag
• changed optimmization from from -os to -o2 to hopefully compile better.
• other minor code cleanup.

v5.4.1 February 17th 2020

• fixed cacheing scummvm covers
• fixed setting scummvm cover's color via plugin
• now scummvm list is cached like all the other lists. but still does not use custom titles or titles from the plugins data xml.
• fixed the random bug where covers sometimes were not cached.
• fixed minor memory leaks via gametdb.cpp
• fixed an issue with using custom backgrounds via source menu.
• added the ability to move to next and previous game while on game info menu by using the controllers '+' and '-' buttons
• added the ability to launch a game directly from the game info menu by pressing 'A' on the controller.
• added the abilty to launch super smash bros melee via nintendont slippi. manually edit wiiflow_lite.ini by adding use_slippi=yes under [GAMECUBE]. google nintendont slippi and slippi project to learn about it.

v5.4.0 December 25th 2019

Lots of changes. Too many to list. Check the included text file for changes since last release (v5.2.0). Yes I skipped v5.3.0. Enjoy, just in time for Christmas!

v5.2.0 March 6th 2019

As of this release there will no longer be two separate versions. WiiFlow Lite will simply be a replacement for WiiFlow. Put it in apps/wiiflow and use wiiflow forwarder's to launch it via the wii system menu. forwarders can be found on wiiflowiki4. for wiiflow lite users, sorry but you must uninstall your wiiflow lite forwarder and replace it with a wiiflow forwarder.

• fixed downloading flat front covers. saved in proper folder now. no longer stretched to cover entire box.
• fixed game/banner sound sometimes memory leak.
• fixed custom missing covers, broken in last release.
• fixed theme config saving via '1' button on home menu. broken in last release.
• fixed magic #'s for short covers. broken in last release.
• fixed source menu button autoboot for realnand and emunand sources.
• fixed wfl_as_wiiflow to use correct stub.bin to return to wiiflow after a plugin game.
• fixed Select Plugin menu when using nand and emunand plugins.
• fixed classic controller left stick by removing old wiiuse libs from portlibs and use newer libs in libogc. also adjusted lstick and rstick values in btnmap.h
• replaced 'init network' with 'mount SD only' on startup settings menu.
• added reboot when 'SD only' is changed.
• changed and added a few gecko prints.
• added GC banner sound options by einsteinx2 to page 11 of main settings menu.
• now using font.ttf in imgs folder as default font. it looks better.
• added plugins 'game info' menu with snapshots and cart/disk pics. big thanks to wiimpathy for all the database xml's and gathering all the pics and writing the code.
• added custom coverflow background via source menu button. add 'background=img_name.png or .jpg to any source menu button. put the background images in wiiflow/backgrounds.
• added option to use theme subfolders for the backgrounds and source tier backgrounds. put a folder named the theme in the backgrounds folders and put your images in it. these backgrounds will only load if using that theme.
• added option to use multiple homebrew plugins each with it's own romdir=. first six characters of magic# must be 484252. the last two can be random.
• restored homebrew to use coverflow with favorites, categories, and adult only.
• added fix to make sure -0.00 shows as 0.00 for values on adjust coverflow menu.
• on adjust coverflow menu, moved parameter selection from middle top to next line on left to keep from mixing with coverflow title.
• now when changing coverflow layout with '1' and '2' the current cover stays as the current cover.
• added 'Lock coverflow layouts' option to page 12 of main settings. if set to yes this will disable the 1 and 2 buttons to keep users from switching flow layouts.
• moved source menu settings to page 12 of main settings. no more pressing 'home' while viewing the source menu/flow.
• moved homebrew settings to page 12 of main settings. no more pressing 'home' while viewing homebrew flow.
• replaced homebrew button on main screen with categories button. new images thanks to Hakaisha. no more 'B' on favorites star.
• replaced adult only button on game selected screen with categories button. no more 'B' on favorites star.
• homebrew button is now restored as one of the quick launch buttons or accessible via source menu or plugin select menu
• adult only option now replaces the categories option of the game settings menu page 1 line 1.
• locking wiiflow no longer blocks homebrew access. you must use the adult only option for each homebrew app to block kids from accessing it.
• adjusted the position of main buttons on main screen and moved the song title to very top of screen.
• many language updates thanks to DDinghoya (korean), Brawl345 (German), and CrewMDK (spanish, english).

v5.1.0 Dec 17th 2018

• added support for new Wiimmfi mario kart wii update. (thanks Leseratte!)
• added global GC custom banners download to Downloads Menu.
• now when wfl's language is changed it will auto do reload cache to update game titles.
• updated German translation. (thanks Brawl345!)
• updated Italian translation. (thanks Tetsuo Shima!)
• updated Korean translation. (thanks DDinghoya!)
• fixed wfl crashing when you don't have a source_menu.ini and a error message would show.
• fixed progress bar for cache covers.

v5.0.1 Nov 26th 2018

• compiled with ppc r30 and libogc 1.8.19 to make sure dosbox wii plugin works.
• sourceflow small_covers can now go in a subfolder with the same name as the theme. which makes them change when the theme is changed.
• added notification messages when you delete a cover or banner on manager cover banner menu.
• download cover menu changes: title is now 'Downloads'. removed 'missing' button and changed 'all' to 'download' because there was no difference between all and missing. it always downloads missing covers.
• fixed downloading covers, wiitdb.zip, banners, and cheat files.
• fixed the progress bar and percentage when downloading covers.
• fixed reload cache when using wii, gc, and channels plugins in plugin view.
• fixed plugin view to properly remember last game selected when using wii, gc, and channel plugins.
• fixed default theme name no longer all caps.
• fixed the deault text of channels type setting on pg 3.
• fixed various settings on main config pgs 7 thru 11 to show yes, no , on, off correctly.
• fixed unused parameter warning in sys.c when compiling

v5.0.0 Nov 15, 2018

• now compiled with ppc r33 and libogc 1.8.21.

• now removing games from categories_lite.ini if they are not in a category. this helps keep the list shorter.

• now on very first start wii games partition is set to a partition that contains a wbfs folder or is wbfs partition type. no longer defaults to SD.

• added more default gamecube settings to the gamecube default settings menu. added devo emu memcard, nintendont emu memcard, and nintendont wii u widescreen. now you don't have manually edit wiiflow_lite.ini to set these.

• added pages 7 thru 11 to main settings for a total of 19 more settings you can now set without having to manually edit the ini file. removed data_on_usb and replaced it with sd_only setting.

• added ability for music plugin to play playlist files (.pls or .m3u). edit your music plugin ini. change the filetypes line to include .pls and .msu for example: filetypes=.mp3|.ogg|.pls|.m3u

• added auto cache covers and banners when you start wiiflow for the very first time or you do a reload cache. this means wiiflow will go thru the gamelist making cache (.wfc) files for every game that doesn't already have one.

• restored fanart but with some differences. 1. only fanart shows, no cover and no game title and no buttons (play, back, favs, etc.). 2. to stop and exit fanart press 'a' while pointer hand is on screen. if pointer hand is not on screen pressing 'a' launches game. pressing 'b' exits game selected screen and returns to normal coverflow. d-pad right and left still go to next or previous game. 3. fanart can either play once or loop. when play once is done it automatically clears fanart and returns to cover view. with looping it will restart the fanart. looping is good for slideshows of game images. looping and play once is determined by the setting "show_cover_after_animation". if set to no then looping is enabled. set to yes for only once.

• now fanart works for plugins too. plugin fanart goes in wiiflow/fanart/{coverfolder}/{gametitle}. replace {coverfolder} with the coverfolder= that's set in the plugin's ini file.
  replace {gametitle} with title of the rom file without the extension.
  the fanart ini file must match the {gametitle} you used for the folder.

• fixed sourceflow to include the last source menu button

• fixed source menu so it only shows buttons on last page and hides the rest.

• added sort by button numbers for sourceflow. hold 'b' and press '+' to change from alpha sort to by button numbers and back. while viewing sourceflow.

• added optional ability to use source menu tiers/virtual subfolders. each tier is a different source_menu.ini. put them all in wiiflow/source_menu. name them all differently but the base source menu must be named source_menu.ini. to access another source menu ini create a source button with source=new_source and set magic=filename.ini replacing filename with the one you want. to go back a tier press '-' and press '+' to go back to base source menu.

• added [GENERAL] section to source menu ini's. with 2 settings. background= and flow= both explained next.

• added option to change sourceflow background with every new tier. set background=filename.png (or .jpg) and place your background images in wiiflow/source_menu/backgrounds.

• added flow=x for sourceflow tiers. each tier can have its own flow layout.

• added _flatflow as a coverflow. covers will be displayed flat one sided. only works with plugins. add 'boxmode=no'to any plugin ini and the covers will use _flatflow.