21 February 2010 (v0.3.8)
- Speed improvement when parsing homebrew list
- Added .ogg music support
- Added ability to disable mounting USB devices
- Added timeout for Homebrew List download
- Fixed bug when updating apps or HBB the meta.xml file was corrupted
- Fixed bug when reverting to HBB repo it would sometimes fails
- Fixed bug when updating installed apps didn’t work when installed apps are hidden
The Homebrew Browser has been upgraded to v0.3.8. This version includes a few bug fixes, with the ability to play OGG files. Also you should notice some improvement when HBB starts up and it parses the homebrew list. Another very small improvement too (not listed) is when changing categories it should be a little quicker when all the icons are loaded.
Another thing to mention is that the Homebrew Browser Guide, which has been updated showing things more clearly and it has some common problems answered. It will be included with the HBB download from now on.
Download HBB v0.3.8 or run HBB on your Wii to update.
I tried updating through HBB itself. I got a code dump. Restarted the wii, retried HBB. Problems writing…SD card is definitely unlocked. Pressed B to cancel. Code dump again. Will now try installing directly from zip file.
When exactly did you get the code dump, when it was downloading the new file and it was printing out those dots?
I had the same problem and yes. the dots would start going and then it would say something failed? aborting? and then the lines would come up and go straight to the code dump thing.
Ditto, same problem.
Thanks, if you replace your boot.dol file with the v0.3.7 boot file again (found here), are you able to reproduce the issue?
Sorry about the slow reply!
Anyway, if I replace the boot.dol it will boot just fine and, as it turns out, if I update from 3.7 it now works fine–no more code dump.
Oh, and how rude of me: thank you!
Hey thanks you were right about replacing the 3.8 boot.dol file with the 3.7 boot.dol!
That FIxed the problem!
The downloaded program did not work either. When trying to get the graphics file I am getting the following
debug fwrite error [1] not owner
Hmm, I would say to format your SD card.
Format It to FAT32 or FAT?
Format as FAT
yeah mine took a dump too
I’m glad that you fixed the issue with reverting to the HBB repo. I had some trouble trying to get the browser to load up properly until I eventually needed to manually set the repo back to default.
The .ogg support is what I was most excited for but I never got a chance to try out my own music because somehow a loop.mod kept on getting created every time I loaded the browser. The loop.mod had higher priority than the .ogg so I couldn’t use my own music.
Maybe you can make a hierarchy of audio filetypes so that a .mod will be the last on the list to have its chance to play since you did do this with the .mp3.
Hi, that’s odd, HBB tries to load the MP3 first, then the OGG and then the MOD file. Can you confirm that you do have an ogg file named “loop.ogg”?
AH! How silly of me. I forgot to call it “loop.ogg” so it would be recognized by the browser.
I just tried it out and the looping works flawlessly. I don’t hear any sort of pause or distortion before it repeats. Excellent work!
HBB works fine (always updated), only i have issues, not downloading an app, the problem is when extract data….
When i have an older SD 128mb card extract very, very fast!! but when i change with an SDHC 4gb Kingston, the extract time takes AGES!!!
Is there a problem with the velocity write of SDHC????
Or HBB don´t feel good with this confuse generation of SD´s ???
In theory SDHC read/write faster….
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!!
im having trouble with homebrew browser when i loaded it to my hcsd 8 gige it will say whaiting to intalise after words it whould say error reading sd and usb slot and it keeps saying it i neat help pleas write me back to myspace lil_baby_angel1201994@yahoo.com
I downloaded HBB 0.3.8 on PC, and installed it to SD.
The HBB can initialize network but it has always “read error”.
I looked into the cause by using “nslookup”, “whois” and so on.
C:>nslookup codemii.com
Server: local.gateway
Address: 192.168.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: codemii.com
Address: 195.178.184.80
C:>nslookup 195.178.184.80
Server: local.gateway
Address: 192.168.0.1
Name: poo.tatis.nu
Address: 195.178.184.80
Aliases: 80.184.178.195.in-addr.arpa
On the other hand, I tried “who is codemii.com” on http://www.internic.net, the result was
Domain Name: CODEMII.COM
Registrar: NEW DREAM NETWORK, LLC
Whois Server: whois.dreamhost.com
Referral URL: http://www.dreamhost.com
Secondly, I tried “whois poo.tatis.nu” on http://www.ripe.net,
inetnum: 195.178.184.64 – 195.178.184.95
netname: RID-0000068693
descr: RID-0000068693
country: SE
admin-c: BD856-RIPE
tech-c: BD856-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: BAHNHOF-NCC
source: RIPE # Filtered
role: Bahnhof DBM
address: Box 6220
address: 10234 Stockholm
e-mail: ripe@bahnhof.se
admin-c: BD856-RIPE
tech-c: BD856-RIPE
nic-hdl: BD856-RIPE
mnt-by: BAHNHOF-NCC
source: RIPE # Filtered
The IP address 195.178.184.80 is used by 2sites.
What does it mean?
Probably, my wii is going to access to “poo.tatis.nu”
How can I resolve the name?
That’s ok, the IP address you get is correct.
After HBB initialises the network, I assume it’s able to get the http://www.codemii.com IP address? E.g. “IP address of http://www.codemii.com successfully retrieved”
Do you use a proxy of some sort?
error code -116…. dunno what to do… i m running a pal version v4.2E with the latest version of the browser… same error found in version 0.3.6…
it says:
“read error -116 occurred. retrying….” and it continues… plz let me know
Hi, i tried to install offline, because i have no internet. I got this message:
HomeBrew list file can’t be found.
Ok ;( Where i get the list file? And where i get the loop.ogg file.
I have Homebrew ver. 1.0.6, IOS36.v12.18.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks.
Hi, the only way around that will be to download this file: http://www.codemii.com/hbb/homebrew_browser/listv036.txt
and place it in /apps/homebrew_browser/
You don’t need the loop.ogg, you only need that if you want your own background music.
i am on hbb 3.8 and how come recently whenever i try to download an app, it just freezes on me there? it hasnt happened to me when since i updated it, but yesterday and today, it started to act up on me. whats going on?
Hi, I’m sort of new at this whole homebrew business, and I’m trying to load the newest version of the HBB, for a first time… Install, I guess you could call it. When I press load, it runs all of the steps correctly, and it says that it has done everything correctly, but then it stops at “Parsing Homebrew List”. I’ve pressed the 2 button, which should revert it to the CodeMii.com repository, but it still freezes… Yes, I have internet, and everything. What should I do/what’s wrong?
Hi, could you check the file of this following file on your SD card: /apps/homebrew_browser/listv036.txt
The server was down yesterday so that could have had something to do with it however you shouldn’t have got past “Requesting Homebrew List” if that was the case.
Please try re-loading HBB too once you let me know the file size.
Ok, so, I found out that the issue was that my SD card had the write lock on. Now, I installed it, it parsed the homebrew list, etc; but now it says “Exception (DSI) occurred!” and has a bunch of numbers, and letters and stuff. It also says “STACK DUMP:
80070310 –> 800702f0 –> 8009d954 –> 8009dBf4″
And then a code dump… Help?
Hmm, strange. Please try removing the HBB directory and re-installing. Make sure you don’t have any USB devices plugged in and see how it goes.
I have same issue. when I try to lead the homebrowser it goes fine until the last where it ask not to press B. after that the error shows that it cant open the zipped files and then stack dump 80060ab8–>80060a98–>8008e0fc–>8008e09c
I also get the dump. I tried using boot.dol 3.7, replacing the whole homebrew_browser folder with 3.7, as well as adding listv036.txt in /apps/homebrew_browser/.
One thing I don’t understand is my SD card isn’t mounted even though it works to load the apps in Homebrew and mplayer can play files from it.
My network id working in WiiEarth so I don’t think that is it.
Any suggestions?
Can you let me know the brand and space of the SD card?
Do other homebrew applications work like SnesGX?
Do you have a USB device plugged in?
i also have the same problem. my SD card is a Lexar. and my space is 2GB. please, i really want this channel
Hello.
Can any body please explain me how to publish games within HBB, because I have develop several remakes how Spirits & Abusimbel Profanation, and I have put them into wiibrew.org, but I can’t find any reference about how to publish this games in the HBB repository to be accesible for all interested users.
Tanks so much, I’ll be pleased if any can response me to my email: masoftware@terra.es
Hi,
You can either post the links to your applications here or on the Wiibrew Wiki. You can also make your own repo if you like: http://www.codemii.com/hbb-repositories/
basically when i load my homebrew browser it says parsing list ive been told to change repo but my homebrew channel doesn’t have any bit where i can click settings it just says shut down exit homebrew about and summit else what do i do?
Can you check to make sure your SD card little lock tab isn’t on? Can you try another SD card too?
Also try going to /apps/homebrew_browser/ and checking if there is a listv036.txt file there?
nope there is no listv036.txt file how do i get it there thanks in advance
Did you check your SD cards lock switch? Do you have another SD card you can try? Do other homebrew applications work? Do you have a USB drive you can plug in to try with?
I kept getting that same error while running off sd or usb.
Launch homebrew browser and as it leaves homebrew channel press the 2 to change the server, it will change to codemii default server as the program is loading up and works.
Pressing 2 after it does the first check seems to fail and it keeps failing and falls back to hbc if not done at that particular time
nope there is no listv36.txt what do i do thanks in advance
I tried to download the homebrew browser. I downloaded 3 versions from the newest update down, and all of them got error codes. Each installation worked fine until the very end when it says zipping the images or something? When it gets to that part, even if I try to skip it, all these lines appear on the screen and then it goes to the dump message. Any idea how to fix this?
The lines that appear are normal, can you try removing your /apps/homebrew_browser/temp folder? Also try unplugging all controllers/devices that might be connected.
hi i need help everytime i load hombrew browser. iget a read error 104 retrying. a several times.
any help wud me appreciated
Yes i’m getting the same problem, then it redirects me to the hombrew channel. Please help.
I keep getting the same message exception DSI occurred how do i fix this can anybody please help. This is the first time i have used wii
tried loading up homebrew browser last night but keep getting a Exception (DSI) occurred! and then a stack dump followed by a code dump. I tried butting the 3.7 boot.dol in but then it just freezes. when i restart the wii and run the browser it seems to get to the menu with games and apps but the remote wont work and the logos don’t show.. btw im on 4.2u.. any help out there?
I’m assuming HBB has worked before, if so, try to remove the /apps/homebrew_browser/temp folder.
Hi there, i was able to fix the “stack dump issue” and load the homebrew browser after deleting the temp folder. can you please point to me where is the backup loader. i want that app.
Good to hear, unfortunately that’s classified as an illegal application and can’t be put on the homebrew browser.
thanks for the quick feedback, teknecal!!
now the browser gets stuck when I am browsing games or playing any home brew games. should I go to 3.8 version and then remove temp folder there?
one time the wii remotes got stuck also…is this normal?
Yes, please try v0.3.8. On the bottom, does it say “Checking icon xxx/xxx”? Does that every finish? What’s the size of your SD card, is it slow?
The wii remotes sometimes gets stuck when changing categories or when it’s loading the icons but only for a second or two. If it’s stuck for 10-20 seconds or more then something is wrong.
Hi, i can install the HBB browser and everything but when the images are unpacked i get a error:
Exception (DSI) occured!
[Random text]
Stack dump: [Random text]
What do i have to do?
Oh Btw, i Have v4.2E
Hi,
Some things to try include the below:
Do you have free space left on your SD/USB device?
Can you try to re-formatting the SD/USB device?
Can you check your sd/usb device and see if there is an /apps/homebrew_browser/temp directory, then remove it and skip the images unpacking?
Is there a /apps/homebrew_browser/listv036.txt file?
Can you try unplugging all other controls/devices except the wiimote (e.g. gamecube controllers, USB fans, etc)?
Do you know the last thing it says when getting the exception screen?
Where did you download the homebrew browser? Is it v0.3.8?
Is there a /apps/homebrew_browser/loop.mod file or is it just named “loop”?
Allright named loop to loop.mod and it fixed, many thanks my friend.
Hmm, where did you download the homebrew browser from or did you do an update via homebrew browser?
Downloaded on this page, guess the file was broken because the app made a new file.
Think the file was named loop.mod and I called it loop.mod.mod so the browser didnt recognize it and then he made a new file.
Now it doesnt work anymore but well I dont care think its just my Hard Disk on my SD it worked.
So next time ill load from my SD.
Would you need the Homebrew Channel app itself? Or can you install it with the whole Homebrew Channel app from this file?
If not, please provide me with a download for the Homebrew Installation, and a guide for me to follow with.
I am also using 4.1U if that matters
Here is the guide on how to install homebrew on your Wii: http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup