Brawl+ Windows/Mac/Linux Autoupdater & Installer v5.0: Now with SD, FTPii & Snapshots

[Isatis]

You have to launch in your wii the homebrew application FTPii, then in your PC run autoupdater with the option of FTPii and then put your wii's IP (ex. 192.168.1.2) and the files downloaded are going to be directly on your SD inserted on your Wii

This is usefull for people who have not SD readers on their PC

I felt sympathetic since I used to use ftpii on a regular basis before I bought a new laptop

 

[cookieM0Nster]

OK. MAJOR BUG REPORT for people using the No Homebrew Method in the program (not FTPii). Some people already have the exploit as a stage in the correct folder. However, the stage is named something else (with lots of numbers and stuff, lol. Plus, it would be extremely helpful to just automatically delete the stages (OR back them all up somewhere, IDK, in a folder in the PF folder called "Stage Back Ups"? Ask to back them up, of course) because the exploit cannot have any stages in the st folder. Except for the exploit of course.

So, here is what happened. I had two copies of the exploit in my st folder, but they were named different things. And the game froze lol.
So yeah, just delete everything in the folder. Ask to back it up as well. Kanye out.

 

[Isatis]

I keep forgetting to make the GCT that has the Disable Custom Stages in it, it defaults to the regular GCT if it can't find the NoHomeBrewRSBE01.gct in the downloads folder.

Doing it now...

Also, I uploaded my st_exploit.bin to Brawl+ by accident because I usually make sure to distinguish the real stage from the fake one, but I may change it back.

 

[cookieM0Nster]

No, I like the name st_exploit, it is easy to recognize.
And thank you.

 

[Deleted member]

Okay I'm having some serious trouble with this autoupdater.

Finally I figured out that I had to type "sudo php (drag the file onto Terminal)" Enter

Then I had to rename my SD card to "SD" (it was "NO NAME" before and the pathing system was mad buggy)

then when I booted up the game, before going into the Brawl intro screen, a black screen appeared and a chat window said "Retrieving Vault Files" and had the online timer thing that went infinitely.

Now when I get past that (somehow) it doesn't go into the character select screen, it just freezes.

 

[Isatis]

Okay I'm having some serious trouble with this autoupdater.

Finally I figured out that I had to type "sudo php (drag the file onto Terminal)" Enter

Then I had to rename my SD card to "SD" (it was "NO NAME" before and the pathing system was mad buggy)

then when I booted up the game, before going into the Brawl intro screen, a black screen appeared and a chat window said "Retrieving Vault Files" and had the online timer thing that went infinitely.

Now when I get past that (somehow) it doesn't go into the character select screen, it just freezes.

I know the only time I've gotten Retrieving Vault Files infinitely was 3 months after I bought Brawl, and that only happened once, so I'm not sure it was Brawl+.

As for the CSS freezing, I don't have a definite answer for that...maybe it was a bad download?

 

[Gardevior]

Could we have the autoupdater not put a (gecko) background.png on my SD card, completely erasing any prior one I had on there already? I mean, I'm fine with the image being part of the updater package, I just far prefer the ones I already made, and having an updater erase my own image and replace it with one I don't like kind of sucks.

 

[giantpune]

here, i made a dol to be run on the wii that will handle all the updating
http://www.mediafire.com/?ntxytwmjmz2

just run it from any way you can and it will do the following
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Start the WiFi and SD card
Download the php with the file list
parse the list and turn it into usable text strings
check for files on the list against those in the SD card
verify MD5
download a file if needed and check the hash again
create any necessary directories before saving a file
look for the boot.elf in the default location and try to boot it


there is only some minor idiot checking, so stupid things like trying to run it without a SD card in the wii arent really accounted for. also any existing files not matching the MD5 are DELETED!!! LOST FOREVER!!!! so back up anything you think is important. i will be posting any future updates here...
http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,38465,38812#msg-38812

have fun... giantpune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLBhaE7Mhc

 

[Rudementry]

Could we get an uninstaller? Cuz you know, maybe people want to play with their textures n stuff, and not play brawl+. Like lets say I want to play brawl+ for 15 mins, then play regular brawl (with music n textures n stuff) Is there an easier way than just going and deleting every characters .pac file?

 

[Cornballer]

Nice release.

 

[GHNeko]

Could we get an uninstaller? Cuz you know, maybe people want to play with their textures n stuff, and not play brawl+. Like lets say I want to play brawl+ for 15 mins, then play regular brawl (with music n textures n stuff) Is there an easier way than just going and deleting every characters .pac file?

rename the fighter folder inside pf to fighterbplus and have another fighter folder called fighterbrawl and rename that to fighter

 

[SativaJoe]

thank you thank you thank for writing this in php.

 

[Isatis]

Thanks giantpune!! I'm definitely attributing all of the credit to you for this! Now we just need an icon and meta data then I can release it on Brawlplus.net...

Could we get an uninstaller? Cuz you know, maybe people want to play with their textures n stuff, and not play brawl+. Like lets say I want to play brawl+ for 15 mins, then play regular brawl (with music n textures n stuff) Is there an easier way than just going and deleting every characters .pac file?

It's probably wayyyy back in Smash Workshop, but search for the "Brawl+ Backup/Restore Tool".