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postLoader
postLoader
	File:Postloaderwii.jpg
General
Author	stfour
Type	Utilities
Version	4.7.96
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2015/04/22
Links
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	Website
	Source

Revision as of 12:55, 22 Ocak 2023

PostLoader: A tool designed to enhance the autoboot feature of priiloader. It aims to replace Forwarders, HB Channel, and the Wii System Channel with emulated NAND support, providing a more efficient and streamlined way to launch your games and apps.

What postLoader is:

HomeBrew Browser with subfolder and xml support
Channel/Title Browser with filters and cover
Emulator frontend page with plugin system (plugin .dol from WiiFlow)
neek2o & Uneek+DI game browser with cover support
game loaders forwarder (for CFG, GX and WiiFlow) with cover and filters support
DML/QF gamecube browser with USB to SD copy feature and auto wad install (please, read notes carefully !!!)
Themable user interface
Wiiload server
Designed for stability and performance

Features

General

If started from priiloader it gains AHPBROT and spawn full hardware rights to homebrew applications (with system menu 4.3 it seems that priiloader can't pass AHBPROT. Use the forwarder channel)
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).
Direct shortcut for SettingEditor GUI and WiiMod
Upper and bottom toolbars with icons for accessing common command

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)
uid.sys managment for neek (neek2o)

Uneek+DI game browser

Support covers
Support title vote

USB Loaders forwarder

Support cfg, gx and wiiflow (actually wiiflow crash)
Support covers
Support title vote
Support ios selection

DM(L) / Devolution / Nintendont Gamecube games

Support covers
Support title vote
Support ios selection
Can copy games from USB to SD before executing them

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.
up to 8 category can be assigned for each homebrew. Five category are assigned by default: Games/Utility/Emulators/Backup loaders/Hacking tools, and them can be changed in runtime
Can browse SD and USB device (FAT32 on first/active partition)
WiiLoad support (straight, compressed dol, zip archieve)

Channels

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)

Media

Wii postloader - (lost666loven)

Installation

postLoader can be executed like any wii homebrew. Anyway you can get the best from it in these ways:

(A) Real Wii: priiloader extension via priibooterGUI (see below) [SUGGESTED]

PRO: Easy to upgrade. All priibooterGUI beneficts CON: SD is always needed in the Wii

) Install to your SD or USB /apps/postloader like any homebrew
) Copy to your SD root priibooterGUI.dol.
) Enter in priiloader pressing "reset" when you turn on your wii.
) Select "Load/Install file" from priiloader menu'
) Select priibooterGUI.dol
) Go back to main menu'
) Select settings -> Autoboot: Installed File
) Select settings -> Return to: Autoboot
) If you wish, you can remove priibooterGUI.dol from the SD

(B) neek2o/UNEEK: priiloader extension via priibooterGUI

) Install to your SD or USB /apps/postloader like any homebrew
) Copy to your SD root neekbooter.dol.
) Run your NEEK environment pressing "reset" to enter in neek priiloader.
) Select "Load/Install file" from priiloader menu'
) Select neekbooter.dol
) Go back to main menu'
) Select settings -> Autoboot: Installed File
) Select settings -> Return to: Autoboot
) If you wish, you can remove neekbooter.dol from the SD
) postLoader MUST exist on the root of SD, and SD must be inside the Wii

Usage

Keys (during initialization - time depends on the speed of usb init + 2 sec)

(A) Enter in interactive mode (show user interface)
(B) Skip USB initialization

Keys (interactive mode)

(A) Start selected homebrew
(B) Show selected application menu, also act as cancel on popup menu
(-)(+) Change page
(Home) Show postLoader options menu
(1)(GCX) Go to page
(2)(GCY) Show filter menu (if available)
(up) WII Games
(down) GC games
(left) Channels
(right) Homebrew

Changelog

4.7.96

postLoader now supports booting Nintendont via argsboot.
postLoader will no longer boot Nintendont versions lower than 1.98.
postLoader will now print Nintendont version information in the debug log, if Nintendont 3.324 or newer is found.
PostLoader's autoupdate server has moved, and has been updated accordingly (my unofficial builds are still not on there, though).

4.7.95

UI: Support Wii U Pro Controllers, thanks to FIX94's libwupc.

4.7.94

Nintendont: Fix auto video mode (it was broken, forcing NTSC all the time).
UI: Fix the "restart postLoader" option for USB. It wasn't even attempting to restart the application.
UI: Add a menu option to reboot the Wii to Priiloader, bypassing its autoboot.
UI: Let the GC analog triggers change pages when partially held down, instead of only working when entirely pressed.
UI: Hide the default video mode menu option for Nintendont, it didn't work anyway.
UI: Hide the manual MIOS install option when under Nintendont and Devolution, they don't use MIOS at all.
UI: Added AHBPROT info to the about screen (the + next to IOS is nice, but it's not immediately obvious what it means).
UI: Added Xerpi (libsicksaxis), Crediar, and Nintendont Team to credits.
UI: Fix a few more English typos.

4.7.93

Nintendont: Allow video mode forcing.
Nintendont: Add a menu option to enable cheats. postLoader just lets Nintendont handle where the file is.
UI: Dualshock 3 controllers are now supported thanks to libsicksaxis (and a corresponding wrapper to make it resemble WPAD). Just connect it and press the PS button to use it. It has the same button layout as Nintendont.
UI: postLoader should now work with UStealth drives. This feature is mostly untested, however.

4.7.92

UI: Display useful error messages for GC games that fail to boot (Nintendont only, for now).
Nintendont: Don't try to boot if Nintendont isn't even installed.
Nintendont: Fix a stupid bug where postLoader would look on the wrong device for games.
Nintendont: Start initial work on cheat support (disabled for now).

4.7.91

Use a slightly different versioning scheme, since the following changes don't warrant the next major version (4.8.0).
Nintendont: Remove some redundant safety checks, and simplify the booting code.
Nintendont: Add a menu option to boot games in supported languages.
Nintendont: Clean out/delete ndebug.log on every boot to perform as clean of a boot as possible.

4.7.9

Nintendont support: save and load the HID controller option properly.
Don't show the Nintendont HID option if running on Wii U. The option -must- be on, on Wii U.

4.7.8

Revert the Nintendont crash "fix" (it was really on Nintendont's end). Please use Nintendont 1.61 or higher for less chances of crashing before

a game boots.

Nintendont support: turn on memory card emulation by default if the play count is < 2.

4.7.7

Finally fix the Nintendont loader crash for real.
Tell Nintendont to use the OSReport patch (useful for USB Gecko output when running GC games).
Don't boot Nintendont if the configuration file (nincfg.bin) can't be written.
Support the newer "<ahb_access/>" tag when deciding on reloading IOS or not.
Misc. English grammatical tweaks.

4.7.6

Fix some English grammatical issues.
Attempt to fix crash when booting Nintendont off SD (no promises, though).
Log more verbosely when booting Nintendont, for debugging purposes.

4.7.5

Add Nintendont support.

4.7.4

Fix files without extension detected as rom
updated plugins.conf with latest corrections.
Starting from now, plugins.conf has a version number (v.1)

4.7.3

fix roms/folders dupes

4.7.2

fixed category issue in wii/gamecube games
updated download site to http://postloader.dnsdynamic.net, the new official site for downloads

Credits

obcd for all support during neek2o specific code and for let me enabling usb access under neek2o
GRRLIB (I've removed ttf support to have much smaller application)
USB Loader GX, I've used it's app_booter.dol... it seems to give the best compatibility
wiiXplorer for network code
Yal for disc boot code
Joyflow for (better) boot disc code
Priiloader
CFG Usb loader (for let me understand how priiload magic words should be used)
TriiForce: It was integrated in postLoader. I've tried to minimize the impact, so I can update postLoader as triiforce is updated.
oggzee for helping me to solve homebrew boot problems (wiimc & cfg72)
Dolphin: great help in testing
GBATemp community
davebaol for d2x and path code for ahbprot
FIX94 video init code

External Links

Oscwii - https://oscwii.org/library/app/postloader
Google Source - https://code.google.com/archive/p/postloader/
Github - https://github.com/thedax/postloader