News(page 19)

Information:
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The usage of HID devices is controlled via the nintendont config but forced on Wii U.

When using HID a sd:/controller.ini must be present, a few samples are supplied.

Nintendont uses a config file which is stored at sd:/nincfg.bin see nincfg.h.

Loaders can use the auto boot flag in the config to directly boot games.

When using the PS3 controller you must press the PS button first.

When using the GC controller you can use R+Z+B+DPad-Down to shut down the console,
when using a HID controller you have to map the Power entry to use this feature.

On the first boot it will create a new memory card which takes some time.


Error codes:
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When nintendont is loading a game you will see a running number unless it
reaches 7 something went wrong:

-1: Kernel failed to load
0: ES init failed
1: SD init failed
2: FAT init failed
3: CFG init failed
4: HID init failed
5: DI init failed
6: CARD init failed (It will wait here while creating a new memory card)

If SD or FAT fail your SD card is probably not compatible.

HID can fail if there are mistakes in the controller.ini or the controller isn't
supported.

DI fails if something is wrong with your game ISO.

ES has a rare chance of crashing just reset your Wii/Wii U.


Installation:
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Either copy the Nintendont folder into your apps folder or directly load
the .dol by any means.

When loaded directly Nintendont looks for games at:

sd:/games/<anything>/game.iso


HID Controller Config:
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You need my tool called HIDTest to determinate the values.

Most entries should be obvious.

All values are in hex, do not use the 0x prefix.

Polltype:
Use 1 (so far only the PS3 controller needed 0)

DPAD:
Certain pads use bits for each DPad direction other use numbers going
form 0 to 7 for each direction.

An easy test for this is if one direction doesn't change any bits then
use 1 and fill in all 8 values for the DPAD otherwise use 0 and just fill
in the four values. (see examples)

The rest uses [Button]=[offset],[mask] offset starts at 0.

szs v1.22a r4602 - 2013-09-14
- The Windows installer will now force type REG_EXPAND_SZ for path variables.

- New commmand: wbmgt MIX: Works like CAT, but combines all input files.

- Exported BMG text files will now show all characters of the Unicode Basic
Multilingual Plane (BMP; codes <=0xfffd) without escape sequences.

- Tool wbmgt: Option --single-line supports now 2 levels and option --brief
3 levels. See http://szs.wiimm.de/opt/wbmgt/single-line and
http://szs.wiimm.de/opt/wbmgt/brief for details.

- New option: wszst --patch-bmg: Patch BMG sub files directly. There is no
more need to extract BMG files before patching.

- New option for tools wszst and wbmgt: --msg=list: If set, the BMG messages
are filtered by this list. Only enabled messages are exported to the ouput
BMG file (binary or text).

- If an archive (SZS,...) is found while reading a BMG file, the archive is
searched for BMG sub files and found sub files together are used as BMG
source.

- wstrt can now detect main.dol files and its type (PAL, USA, JAP or KOR).

- Option --kmp accepts now the keywords 1LAP, 2LPAS ... 9LAPS to modify the
first byte of KMP/STGI (numer of laps). This first byte has only impact on
patched main.dol files.

szs v1.21a r4578 - 2013-09-07
- Improved built-in help system. Type e.g. "wszst help help" or visit
http://szs.wiimm.de/cmd/wszst/help for details.

- New keyword for option --kmp: FORCE: Ignore little repairable file structure
issues on reading KMP files. Works like --force, but only for KMP files.

- Bug fix: The check for the right position of all KMP sections failed.

- Optimized handling for SZS sub files with 'out of range offsets'.

- wszst: Option --auto-add can now be used together with the commands PATCH
and NORMALIZE. EXPERIMENTAL!

- Bug fix: Wrong calculation of parent directory index in U8 header fixed.
This bug existed from the beginning of the SZS tools and it seems, that it
had no impact for running a track or for other tools. However, the positive
impact is, that the creation of the files Track.szs, Race.szs and the other
language independent SZS files of MKWii directory './Scene/UI' works now.

szs v1.20a r4548 - 2013-07-21
- New Option for wszst and wimgt: --smart:
If resizing an image, use the new smart resize function. The new function
is much slower (factor 2-4) than the old function, but creates much better
resized images. This is only relevant for creating mipaps with odd width
or height. THIS NEW FUNCTION IS EXPERIMENTAL!

- Support of original SketchUp OBJ exporter, see next 2 points for details:

- More tolerant detection of Wavefront OBJ files. Export of the original
SketchUp exporter will be recognized as 'SKPOBJ' instead of 'WAVOBJ'.

- New --kcl flags: 'G' and 'USEMTL': If scanning an OBJ file, these flags
decides, which OBJ commands will define groups. If none is set (default)
'USEMTL' is used for files of type 'SKPOBJ' and 'G' for all others.

- Command 'wkclt CFF' accepts now option --brief to suppress the comment
'# f(type,variant)' and option --long to force a '= f(type,variant)'
parameter.

- Suppress some patch logging messages for CHECK commands.

- CHECK KMP: If option --long is set, print some additional statistics.

- Some error messages are more exact now.

- Bug fix: If using options --test and --remove together, the destination
file was removed sometimes (but not created).

- New patching option: --tform-kmp=list: Fine control about the sections
and objects (position, rotation or scale vector), that are transformed.
See http://szs.wiimm.de/opt/tform-kmp for details.

- Windows only: Cygwin update to v1.7.20 2013-06-07.