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Talk:Homebrew Browser/Archive 2 (view source)
Revision as of 09:16, 20 June 2010
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:: If you do plan to implement this, the other wii's should show a catalog of all the software available on the server wii to give users a choice of what new (not already installed) stuff will install and what old stuff will update, since some people may not want all the software on the server wii on every "client" wii, or may want to update only certain apps with new versions, while keeping other ones with old stuff. (I have an SNES game that needs a separate version of 9x to run...GX code-dumps loading it but the old version runs it fine.) --[[User:Techboy|Techboy]] 20:05, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
:: If you do plan to implement this, the other wii's should show a catalog of all the software available on the server wii to give users a choice of what new (not already installed) stuff will install and what old stuff will update, since some people may not want all the software on the server wii on every "client" wii, or may want to update only certain apps with new versions, while keeping other ones with old stuff. (I have an SNES game that needs a separate version of 9x to run...GX code-dumps loading it but the old version runs it fine.) --[[User:Techboy|Techboy]] 20:05, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
=== OpenBOR credits mistake ===
Thanks for adding OpenBOR to the Homebrew Browser! However, I've noticed that it only lists SX as the author. This is not quite correct, as I (Plombo) did much of the work on the Wii port of OpenBOR, especially the controls. Would you mind adding me to the "Author" field? Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
--[[User:Plombo|Plombo]] 06:56, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
No problem, I've added you as an author. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 11:54, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
== Archived Problems ==
== Archived Problems ==
::It would really be much more user-friendly for any new addition to the HBB to always appear at the top of the list, even if you have to manually "touch" the file date of the .dol file when you add new things so that it's recent. Or just alter the behavior so that the HBB uses the date the zip file was added, or something.... It's just difficult to find the "newly added" games when they appear way down the list, and they can get overlooked. Anyway, feel free to wipe out all these extra comments on your next pass of editing this page. Thanks for your continued work on the HBB. Oh, one final tip: Whenever you update apps for the HBB, always check PDRomns site, becaue they often seem to have one or two things listed that don't get put into HBB: http://www.pdroms.de/news/wii/ (like the newest version of Scape this time). --[[User:Mr. Reaper|Mr. Reaper]] 20:09, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
::It would really be much more user-friendly for any new addition to the HBB to always appear at the top of the list, even if you have to manually "touch" the file date of the .dol file when you add new things so that it's recent. Or just alter the behavior so that the HBB uses the date the zip file was added, or something.... It's just difficult to find the "newly added" games when they appear way down the list, and they can get overlooked. Anyway, feel free to wipe out all these extra comments on your next pass of editing this page. Thanks for your continued work on the HBB. Oh, one final tip: Whenever you update apps for the HBB, always check PDRomns site, becaue they often seem to have one or two things listed that don't get put into HBB: http://www.pdroms.de/news/wii/ (like the newest version of Scape this time). --[[User:Mr. Reaper|Mr. Reaper]] 20:09, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
::: Thanks for that site, I'll keep it handy. I'll also take your suggestion about new apps appearing on the top and will touch up the file dates. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 07:12, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
::: Thanks for that site, I'll keep it handy. I'll also take your suggestion about new apps appearing on the top and will touch up the file dates. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 07:12, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
=== Unable to create empty directories (C64-network.org) {{Talk:Homebrew Browser/Solved}} ===
This issue for C64-network.org: http://code.google.com/p/frodo-wii/issues/detail?id=25, seems to be caused by the homebrew browser not creating the '''/frodo/tmp''' directory on the SD card. The directory is empty, so perhaps there is some issue with empty directories in the archive? --[[User:SimonKagstrom|SimonKagstrom]] 06:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
: I've updated the directories to create in HBB, should be fixed now. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 10:12, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
=== Unable to initialize FAT subsystem {{Talk:Homebrew Browser/Solved}} ===
I just installed Homebrew (1.0.3, IOS61 v19.26) and also the Homebrew browser last night for the first time. I've been experimenting with this error message I keep getting when I start the Homebrew Browser: '''Unable to initalize FAT subsystem, exiting.'''
At first I thought it had something to do with files left over from the Homebrew installation. So I deleted the boot file and the "private" folder, and the Homebrew Browser started up. Problem solved! Well, no....
However, the problem returns after running certain apps. [[Double Dash Wii]], for example, always crashes when I attempt to start a game, and after that Homebrew Browser will fail to run. [[WiiXplorer]] is another example of an app that causes Homebrew Browser to fail to run.
I thought it might make a difference if I formatted the SD card from Windows XP rather than Windows Vista, but it didn't seem to make a difference (other than the Vista format took several minutes for an 8 GB card, and XP took a couple seconds). I'm using FAT32.
If I copy my apps folder to my PC desktop, reformat the SD card, and restore the apps folder to the SD card, Homebrew Browser will start properly... until I run certain other apps like Double Dash Wii. Some apps, such as [[Mahjongg Wii]], cause no problems. -[[User:Anachronist|Anachronist]] 16:16, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
:Update: It appears that any app that needs to write data to the SD card will cause Homebrew Browser to abort, and other apps that need to write to the SD card will similarly fail to run. Apps that don't write to the SD card work just fine. Anyone have any idea what may be the problem? [[User:Anachronist|Anachronist]] 04:00, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
:I can't be sure if this is related, but I have issues with corrupted files after using Homebrew Browser. It usually shows up as a bad scummvm.ini, or a bad save game from some other app, so it appears to affect the last files written to the card before Homebrew Browser is run. If I run chkdsk on the card, it recovers copies of Homebrew Browser's settings.xml padded with the word "Test" as lost chains. This is a 4GB card formated FAT32. --[[User:8bitHacker|8bitHacker]] 01:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
:Still having the same issue. I have attached a zip file with the chkdsk stdout and a copy of the lost chains here [[File:LostChains.zip]]. The lost chains appear to contain the meta.xml, and my meta.xml in homebrew_browser is zero bytes. [[User:8bitHacker|8bitHacker]] 20:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
:: Can you format, etc, and then try v0.3.7 and see how that goes? Does it happen every time you run HBB? --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 23:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
::: Sorry for the delay. I had installed v0.3.7 on Jan 19. The meta.xml file was corrupted when I installed, and my last set of lost chains may have been from that date. Since then I haven't found a problem. I can launch and exit HBB fine. I've tested installing single apps, installing multiple apps in a batch, and upgrading an existing app. So far the filesystem has tested clean after each operation. [[User:8bitHacker|8bitHacker]] 03:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
:This may need its own section as I have been getting the same lost chains for weeks. I just recently updated my card from FAT to FAT32. [[User:Bman|Bman]] 02:53, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
: chalk me up as another one with the lost chain issue. --[[User:Yossi|Yossi]] 05:41, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
:: I believe this shouldn't happen any more. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 07:16, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
=== Working with [[Categorii]] {{Talk:Homebrew Browser/Open}} ===
I saw that you mentioned trying to support the multiple apps directories (ie: apps*) but I couldn't find anything more about it and the latest entries do not mention anything.
I posted a sample directory setup on the Categorii page and with that all the user has to do is run the HBB from any section (Please let me know if it is not ok to redistribute?). All that HBB has to do is put the downloads into the appropriate other folders (eg: apps_demos, apps_emulators, apps_games, apps_media, apps_utilities) or into the apps folder if the "other" folder does not exist (because it is being used). It would also be worth moving the HBB data folders up two levels (eg: \HBB| so that all instances can share the data rather than having several copies of it). From the users perspective, they would do virtually nothing - just download and it goes into the category directory if it exists, or just goes to apps. For those with downloads already (like me), they can simply drag the sub-folders from the apps directory into the apps_xxx directory or simply delete then and end up re-downloading
If you haven't guessed, I'm really keen on this - Could I get an update please on your plans? --[[User:Sorky|Sorky]] 02:18, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
:Yes I am planning to add categorii support like you have mentioned. There will be a setting in HBB to enable this. I do agree that it's also a good idea to put the HBB temp files in /HBB/. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 07:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
:: You are a star - Thanks heap - Love your work! --[[User:Sorky|Sorky]] 15:15, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
::: Actually now I'm starting to make my own kind of categorii application which lets you add/remove apps to the categories from the Wii directly. Will be open source so anyone can make their own category names. --[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 02:05, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
:::: If I may be so bold as to suggest that you allow the directory that is compared & downloaded to be specified for each group (eg: Media=apps_m, Games=apps_g - The default for all could just be apps so that it works as is unless specified). This would work for Categorii and hopefully would link in to whatever you decide to do as well.
=== HDD problem {{Talk:Homebrew Browser/Solved}} ===
I used a partitioned (2) HDD. I am able to launch the browser from Homebrew Channel, but when its mounting devices it doesnt mount the HDD. This also happens with Dragon media player. The first partition is in a format i will not mention here, wich homebrew channel (or pc) dont recognice. Partition 2 is 22GB FAT32, wich is where HBB is. Yet WiiExplorer works fine. DMP does'nt display USB/.
I posted this from my wii so signature is'nt here. I'll add it later.
WiiMAN1 october 3 2009 19:11
: Regardless of what this peculiar other partition is, the FAT32 partition should be the first partition. [[User:Helsionium|Helsionium]] 18:30, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
=== Problem opening "Emulator" section {{Talk:Homebrew Browser/Solved}} ===
Hi. well, every time I open the Emulation side of the Browser, it will just close and go back to the Homebrew channel. This has happened ever since I got the new update. please fix this. thanks.
--[[User:Vilapupu|Vilapupu]] 21:05, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
: Hi, I can't say I'm experiencing this issue. Can you zip up the /apps/homebrew_browser/temp directory, store it somewhere and then remove that directory and run HBB? If this fixes the issue, can you email me the zip file? teknecal@gmail.com Thanks.--[[User:Teknecal|Teknecal]] 11:48, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm actually going to delete that whole "temp" folder and leave it blank. I'll tell you when the problem is fixed. ^^
--[[User:Vilapupu|Vilapupu]] 06:26, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- UPDATE: yeah, this fixed the problem. So, I guess there was probally some bad image file that goes in the "Emulation" part of the program. fixed. ^^
--[[User:Vilapupu|Vilapupu]] 05:38, 11 March 2010 (UTC)