Playstats

playstats
General
Author(s)	chris
Type	Utility
Version	1.02
Licence	Custom (see readme.txt in either package)
Links
Download
Website
Source
Downloadable via the Homebrew Browser
Peripherals

Playstats is a utility to analyse the play history on the Wii (shown under Today's Accomplishments on the Wii Message Board). It shows such stats for each game/channel, including total time played, total number of times played, average time played, first and last time played.

Recent updates to the Nintendo Channel now allow it to do much the same thing, often with more stability. However, unlike Playstats it does not display all third party titles and does not give you as much analysis.

Screenshots

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Controls

Button	Action
	Move pointer
	Select option
	Next page
	Previous page
	Exit
	Turn off Wii

FAQs

What's the point of this?

It's only a curiosity. I like to see what games I haven't played in a while and how long other games took to complete. I also found it interesting to unravel some of how the Wii stores its messageboard data. If you do most of your stuff through the Homebrew Channel or other non-official channels and don't play many official games then it won't give you very interesting results.

Can you get it to show the apps loaded through HBC?

Unless I've missed something, the HBC does not log play records so there is no way to retrieve this info.

I get nonsense stats/jumbled up titles!

Yes, this is a known issue for some people. I have now identified the cause of this bug and a fix might eventually come out, however the bug is non-trivial (at least not for me!) and I don't have a lot of free time so please be patient.

Why will it not show stats for channels loaded through Preloader or Bootmii?

The system menu is bypassed here so the Wii does not log this information on the messageboard; consequently there is no way to get stats for this.

Can you add the ability to delete playlogs/reset the stats?

This involves editing the messageboard, which is not totally understood. Get this wrong and the messageboard (and consequently the system menu) will not load and you have a brick. Now we have some form of brick protection, someone might want to have a go at this but I have no interest in doing so. Incidentally, deleting messages will not free up any blocks for installing channels; the messageboard is fixed at 20MB.

Why is there no support for Japanese Wiis?

Mainly because of the total arseache of supporting all the kanji characters. I would quite like to do this though but I've got to get the other bugs out first.

How about a pie chart?

I did think about this but was too lazy. Maybe later.

Changelog

v1.02 19/05/2009

• Fixed bug that caused the program to sometimes skip a few play logs and could on rare occasions cause the program to hang when loading (thanks bengalih).

v1.01 14/05/2009

• Fixed a bug that was causing odd results for some people (thanks Electrokidd); however other bugs of this nature remain, see talk page for more info.
• Source can now be compiled to read SD dump of messagebord file instead.

v1.0 02/04/2009

• Initial release.

Credits

Uses GRRLIB, devkitPro,dolLz, and associated libraries.