Saturday, February 4, 2012

postLoader 3.59.4

by Gestern, stfour
postLoader is intended to be an extension to priiloader autoboot feature. It aims to replace Forwarders and HB Channel.

Features:
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General:
* If started from priiloader it gains AHPBROT and spawn full hardware rights to homebrew applications
* Autoboot your default application/channel: If you don't press (A) in time to enter in interactive mode, postLoader will launch the predefined app (if enabled)
* Direct access to BOOTMII
* Support costom splash screen (only from SD device)
* Full support for UNEEK environment. May work under SNEEK
* Support for Wiimote and GC controllers
* Intergrated UNEEK nand switcher
* wiiload update: If you send postLoader.dol via wiiload, postloader installation will be updated (after confirmation). oneek2o advanced support
* USB Access for HOMEBREW (see historii.txt for important notices)
* Multiple nand support for different region games
* Built in game cache rebuilder (partially implemented, see historii.txt) Uneek+DI game browser (see historii.txt)
* Support covers
* Support title vote USB Loaders forwarder
* Support cfg, gx and wiiflow (actually wiiflow crash)
* Support covers
* Support title vote
* Support ios selection Homebrew:
* HB Channel replacement: It can be used to browse homebrew application, with it own interface.
* Dangerous homebrews can be hidden
* Full support for meta.xml arguments and all other tags.
* It support subfolders (see notes)
* Can browse SD and USB device (FAT32 on first/active partition)
* WiiLoad support (straight, compressed dol, zip archieve) Titles:
* Nand emulation (ciosx/waninkoko on slot 249)
* AHBPROT is need for real nand browsing (otherwise ios249 is used)
* Wii System Channel replacemente: Can browse and run Channels, WiiWare and VC.
* Can run Titles from real and emulated NAND on SD or USB with folder support
* Titles can be sorted voted and/or hiddened
* Support interactive application sorting
* Sort titles by vote/name
* Titles filters (System channels/wiiware/neogeo/c64... etc)
* Fast titles search
* Download title icons from wiitdb
* Alternat nand folder support (other that classic root)

CHANGELOG
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postLoader 3.59.4

* If you are using wiimote and point outside the tv, the cursor will disappear immediately
* Removed "default" from IOS selection in emunand channels property
* Missing from 3.59.3: AHBPROT is replaced by "+" symbol.

postLoader 3.59.3

* Now if the wiimote point outside the tv, the cursor will softly disappear. It return visible when pointing again or using controller sticks. (thx joostinonline for the idea)
* Changed sneek detection with joostinonline suggested one.
* Remove close button on channels properties
* If user pressed (B) in "Select NAND Source" to close the menu, the path to nand become corrupted
* If someone ( :p ) want postloader to stay always on 249, hexedit postloader .dol file, search for USE_IOS_249=0 and replace with USE_IOS_249=1
* postLoader channel hidden also in realnand and neek.

postLoader 3.59.2

* nandbooter mooved again a little upper as apploader mode was broken
* nandemu scanner now skip hbc and postloader channel (POST)
* priibootergui is now in the apps folder with it's xml-. This is need by priiloader > 0.8 to enable AHPBROT. Once installed it can be deleted
* added to postloader's xml
* some minor changes
* readmii.txt updated to v.1.6

postLoader 3.59.1

* Fixed a bug that was preventing postloader to browse real nand if ios249 is used (this heppens it AHPBROT flag is not available)
* added to xml file , it is required if executed from HBC

postLoader 3.59.0

* Removed debug output for nandbooter (emulation nand), now is much more faster and nicer. If an error occours, a log file is written to sd
* nandbooter moved to 0x81330000
* nandbooter: huge code cleanup
* Corrected a bug where selected homebrew icon can be partially overlapped by other icons
* homebrew application version is now displayed
* Almost totally rewritten postloader channels/nandemu routines
* postLoader need no more to reload 249 to refresh channel cache for emunand (and it is faster)
* channels filter menu is now on two columns
* fix an issue with some themes
* fixed the xml (thx joostinOnline)

postLoader 3.58.3

* Corrected a bug on theme detection that was causing a code dump
* Handled correctly sound when ios reload is performed
* Code clean
* Better debug output

postLoader 3.58.1

* Removed some heavy debug output
* Added debug output when browsing homebrew
* undo "grlib_menu redraw previous screen when exiting"... causes flickering

postLoader 3.58.0

* mp3 background music added... copy your mp3 to /ploader/mp3 or /mp3 on usb or sd
* created .conf file managment library
* Now channels/games configuration is stored in a single conf files.
* Added overflow protection if a bad header is found during wbfs scan.
* grlib_menu redraw previous screen when exiting
* gametdb titles.txt is now supported. Just copy in /ploader folder. Note that utf-8 support is minimal, so don't expect to read symbols (for example, Japanese).

postLoader 3.57.5

* Corrected a bug in some debug message that could lead to a c. dump if logging is enabled

postLoader 3.57.4

* Added the capability to change default loader home [home]->game options->set default loader (can be very slow)
* Corrected some menu options
* Corrected gamebrowser top title
* Some code clean

postLoader 3.57.3

* Added support for GC D-Pad (thx traitor)
* Corrected a bug in homebrew browser pagenum (thx traitor)
* Incremented debug output for dml operation
* DML: Removed call to setstreaming (thx FIX94)

postLoader 3.57.2

* Corrected a bug in GRRLIB when inverting a texture
* Added hourglass animation when reading game configuration
* dml: games on sd are displayed first

postLoader 3.57.1

* Updated readmii.txt to version 1.5 with latest changes
* wiimote key (1) now is "go to page...". D-Pad (LF) homebrew, (RG) channels, (UP) WII games, (DW) GC Games
* Added messages when "intensive" operation are performed
* When possibile bigger font are used.
* priibooter console no more in distribution
* added "wii theme" to the default distribution
* also the splash screen is installed if it is present in the theme
* Now name sorting is case insensitive
* Optimized a bit the keep usb live funcion
* Keep usb live is now called in the screensaver
* dml scanner function was failing if no usb hdd is attached
* Adjusted a lot of thing about themes. Themes must be updated to package 2.1
* Code clean and some bug fix in code

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