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04-02-2009
Wii WBFS Manager 1.0

UPDATE:
Hey everyone, version 2.0 is released and available here:
WBFS Manager 2.0

Give it a try and let me know if you find any issues.
Enjoy!

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Wii Backup File System Manger 1.0 (WBFS Manager)
Written by Alex

Note: There is no shared code with the other wbfs_win GUI apps that have been released.
The wbfs_win.exe from the wbfs_win_delta release however is being used by this application, mainly because the source code for it was so tightly coupled and unflexible that I though it better to do it this way for now and possibly look into a cleaner, less hacky way of using the source code for that directly, based on how much interest is shown.

Note 2: Although I've tested this a good deal it's only the first release and it may have some bugs. If you notice any let me know. For the most part everything should be ok as the actual work with the ISOs and WBFS drive are done in libwbfs. Of course, pulling your USB cable out while copying files isn't going to help.

Note 3: You might notice that the application window will not respond or may turn black when your copying files. This is expected behavior and will hopefully be resolved in the next iteration.

Requirements:
-.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (the installer will prompt you to automatically download and install it if you don't already have it.

What it does:
This application basically provides a GUI for the command line-based wbfs-win, used for accessing legal Wii Backups stored on disk drives that have been formatted to the WBFS file system.
As a front-end to wbfs-win, it provides all the basic functionality that comes with wbfs-win, including formatting to wbfs, adding backups, getting a listing of backups already on the drive, extracting ISOs from the WBFS drive, etc.

Features:
-Listing of games with titles, sizes and codes.
-Drag-and-drop support for adding multiple files at once to the WBFS drive from Windows Explorer.
-Easy to use interface which also reports available, total and used disk space at a glance.
-Batch processing of multiple ISOs.

Instructions:
-Extract and Install using setup.exe (not the .msi)
-Plug in the hard drive or USB stick.
-Run the application.
-Choose the correct drive letter.
-Click Load. (If you haven't already formatted the disk to WBFS, you can do that by clicking format).
-You should now see any backups on the drive on the left hand side.
-You can drag and drop ISO files from Windows Explorer onto the right hand side or you can click the browse button.
-Click the Add to Drive button to copy them over to the WBFS drive.
-Enjoy!
-(You can uninstall it like any other program if you dont like it, from Add/Remove Programs (XP) or Programs and Features (Vista) under the name WBFS Manager 1.0)

Future Plans:
-Using libwbfs directly to achieve greater flexiblity.
-Use a separate worker thread to improve responsiveness when doing IO operations.
-ISO library
-Additional info from ISO

DISCLAIMER (Borrowed from Waninkoko, hopefully he won't mind )
THIS APPLICATION COMES WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL, NEITHER EXPRESS NOR IMPLIED.
I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE IN YOUR WII CONSOLE
BECAUSE OF A IMPROPER USAGE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Thanks to Kwiirk for the wbfs tool, Waninkoko for a good deal of things and Team Twiizers.
Hopefully I've given everyone thier due credit. If you feel you deserver credit for a portion of the code used in this application please let me know.

Screenshot:


EDIT: Made a quick fix to something that might have caused problems for people with less than 6 drives :P
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File Type: zip WBFSManager1.zip (1.00 MB, 36204 views)

Last edited by AlexDP; 04-06-2009 at 05:29 PM.
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I like it, it looks very nice and easy to use. the only problem i had was it crashes when I extract isos
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Now this is pretty cool. I always love GUI based apps for fact that it makes everything all organized and can see at once almost all the info.
I'll be testing this out quite a bit.

EDIT: when list has a scroll bar, it covers part of the file size. tabs at bottom are cutting off text due to character limit fitting in fixed box.

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Any chance of a ISO Title rename feature?
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i didn't dig too much in WBFS format, but what i understand is that impossible to reconstruct original ISO by extracting from WBFS.
When you import ISO to WBFS, looks like it decrypt files and save them in plain-text format inside FS. It means, integrity of ISO is destroyed.
After extracting from WBFS you will need re-do whole ISO (ok, wbfs.exe does this part) and then re-sign it (by TRUCHA sign).
Probably Disk channel graphics also will be missing in such reconstructed ISO.

correct me if i'm wrong.
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Thanks for the early feedback guys. Would you mind posting your OS versions? I've done most of my testing on Win Vista, so it might have gotten a bit specific at some point in terms of security settings (for writing files during the extraction process).
Also, regarding the scroll bar issue, I've actually been messing around with that for a bit and I'll probably have a fix for that soon. Could you also mention your OS? I think the program renders slightly differntly in XP.
@buffstrix: ill look into that.
@sorg: actually the extraction code wasn't written by me so I can't explain all the details (documentation is a bit short too) but that's definitely something that works, if you try it with wbfs-win.exe. The crash seems to be an issue with my program which I'll be looking into soon.
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Link is down ??
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thanks for all
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Sorry jurulz, was just doing the quick update to fix a minor issue with the default drive letter. Should be up and runnning right now.
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I can confirm that the "extract" feature is working. It just takes a while to extract so you may think the application has crashed. I haven't burned the extracted iso to make sure it works yet but it does appear on my PC.
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