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I was hoping to find more time to finish it.
I realize i can't, so i give up, and here is a "public beta".

I hope a few artists will manage to use theme.ini to make it look better.
To help them i've done 2 little things :
- A pre-filled theme.ini : http://hibernatus34.free.fr/wii/theme_pack.zip
But remember that you can do more than replacing pictures and fonts.
You can modify animations, color/position/size of every gui element.
- And a gui for adjusting the coverflow (you'll find it in the settings menu). It almost has all the parameters from theme.ini.

So here is my incomplete loader gui :
http://hibernatus34.free.fr/wii/WiiFlowBeta.zip

In the coverflow, try to press left, right, up, down, +, -, 1, 2
Press A to select a game
You can point at the screen too, and you'll find the settings menu.

When you've selected a game, press +, -, left, right, up, down, and if you don't point at the screen press A to launch the game or B to get back to the coverflow.

In the settings menu you can use +/- to navigate faster.

The covers take ages to load, and they even disturb the display. I am awar of that but i haven't had time to find a solution. I've been told a new version of devkitpro might bring faster access to the SD card, so i'll wait for it.

I'm sorry i didn't finish it, maybe in a few weeks i'll be able to.

Before you start making suggestions, here is a little comment :
The purpose of a game loader is to load games. What makes a good loader is that it's handy, and you find and launch a game in no time. An animation should never block the user. You'll never see an animation which adds a useless wait in my loader.
I also think i should keep it simple.

There may be serious bugs because only two persons have tested this version. So use it at your own risk.

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Forgot to say :
There may be 2 or 3 parameters available only through loader.ini, like fsaa (2x, 3x or 4x, since the graphics are not optimized at all, 4x might be too slow).
The loader can load up to 300 (maybe more) covers in 512x340, and almost 2000 in 160x225, the settings are in loader.ini too.

Oh, and there's a language.ini. If you want to add your language, add a [MYLANGUAGE] and write in UTF-8 and save it without the BOM.
I will take any language you ive me for an "official" version.
I might also take a theme too if some one makes a nice one.

MAtt22 Wrote:Merci pour le liens !! laslande 

sinon Diablo perso je prefere les ForWader c'est mieux que les chaines car en cas de mise a jour faut les desinstaller et réinstaller la nouvelle que pour le ForWader c'est direct le raccourci 

feature list (partial):

1. according to this thread, fun and easy to use interface :}
2. fast startup, asynchronous operation
3. antialiased rendering
4. full widescreen support
5. on-the-fly mipmapping, texture compression

gustour Wrote:

MAtt22 Wrote:Merci pour le liens !! laslande 

sinon Diablo perso je prefere les ForWader c'est mieux que les chaines car en cas de mise a jour faut les desinstaller et réinstaller la nouvelle que pour le ForWader c'est direct le raccourci 

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