Difference between revisions of "Loadiine"

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Loadiine is a WiiU backup loader. It can load extracted game format from SD Card.

Compatibility List

Loadiine compatibility list

Usage

Installation

Loadiine does not need an installation on SD card. You need to use a browser exploit to launch it.

Loadiine can be found on public servers, for example:

http://exploit.wiiubrew.net/ provided by EclipseSin. Contains: Loadiine v1.0 to v4.0, including many other modded versions and homebrew.
http://maschell.de/loadiine_maschell/ provided by Maschell.
http://wj44.bplaced.com/ provided by wj44. Contains: Loadiine 4.0 (Dimok), Loadiine 4.1 (MLT), additional tools and some early homebrew games
http://wiiu.rapidraid.de/ provided by RapidRaid. Contains: Loadiine v3.0 and v4.0
http://spiffyhacks.com/wiiu/ provided by Deakphreak. Contains: Loadiine v3.0 and v4.0

If you want to host loadiine on your own local server, or to get more informations how to use Loadiine, you can refer to the release thread.

Controls

Installer

A - Install Loadiine without the log server
X - Install Loadiine with the log server enabled. You need to set your computer's IP on the install screen.

Menu

A - Auto-boot selected game using Disc mode
X - Auto-boot selected game using MiiMaker mode
Y - Mount selected game and exit to WiiU System Menu (No auto-boot). Launch Disc or Miimaker manually to boot the game.
Home - Exit to miimaker with no game mounted.

Game folder structure

The games are located on FAT32 SD card, in extracted file system format (not in .wud or .wux file format).

SD:\wiiu\games\<GAME TITLE HERE>\

In the created game folder, copy the code, content and meta folders. Example:

SD:\wiiu\games\Yoshi's Woolly World\code\
SD:\wiiu\games\Yoshi's Woolly World\content\
SD:\wiiu\games\Yoshi's Woolly World\meta\

The savegames will be created automatically by Loadiine in sd:\wiiu\saves\ folder.

Changelog

v4.0

Supports XML value parsing to fix lot of incompatible games (app.xml, cos.xml)
Uses some default XML values if xml files are missing

v3.0

Adds supports to boot games with MiiMaker (app)
No more RPX/RPL file size limit (65.7MB per file should be enough for all games)
sort of game list by name (case insensitive)
Adds Y button to mount game without autobooting, and exit to system menu. game can then be launched manually from any compatible title (SSBU, Miimaker, etc.)

v2.0

New folder structure
Speed load time X10
maximum RPX+RPL size is now 25.47MB
Adds Autoboot to disc.

v1.0a

Works with SSBU (disc) or SSBU (eshop) only.
Game executable RPX+RPL combined size can't be bigger than SSBU RPL+RPX combined size (22MB)
game's RPX can't be bigger than 4MB

Modded versions

v3.0 mod, by Maschell. Uses a different save path per profile.
v3.0 mod, by Ptitleray. Version compatible with WiiU 4.1 and WiiU 5.0.0
v4.0 mod, by NotKit. Version compatible with WiiU 5.0.0 and WiiU 5.1.0
v4.1, by MLT. Mod of v4.0. Add supports to boot games with Art Atelier (disc) and KaraokeU (eshop)

Note: This new booting method are not using autoboot. A is still auto-booting the inserted disc (SSBU or Art atelier), and X is still auto-booting MiiMaker. If you want to use KaraokeU you need to mount the game with Y to exit to the WiiU menu and then launch KaraokeU (or miimaker, or disc).

v4.0 flow, by Kasai07. Add cover display on the gamepad. cover need to be 160x225 icone.tga placed in main game's folder (alongside the content, meta, and code folder)
v4.0 + Pygecko, by Onion Knight. Fix and add pygecko auto-launching to Loadiine 4.0