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Just wanted to report that the rpx version of the retroarch emulators just results in a black screen, the .elf version is what we need. Until then, we have to go to retroarch's site and manually download it. Oh and 1.5.0 is the latest version, wiiubru says Jan 22 which is much older.

I managed to completely fill my SD card (0 bytes free) without realising, outside of HBAS (I filled it while using disc2app, for info).

In this state, starting HBAS worked OK, but I couldn't download any apps. No error message was given, but after clicking on Get, it seemed to freeze for a few seconds then go back to the list of apps, with the app not showing as installed.

I haven't looked at the code but I'm assuming HBAS doesn't have a check for free SD card space when attempting to get or update an app (or any operation which involves writing to the SD card really, such as updating the cache), or if it does have such a check it doesn't provide user feedback.

The current master version consists of in-progress code that eventually turned into the get package manager, and was implemented in the Switch homebrew app store.

Fulfililing this issue should finally satisfy #10, and get's repo has system tests which also makes me feel better about the stability of this approach

Title might not make sense but I will try to make sense of it. I had a homebrew (HID config helper or something) that the elf and meta was simply in sd:/wiiu/apps. Not in any folder. This would cause a hang at the "One moment" screen. Haven't had the time to test this issue further as I only noticed it once, but I do believe it is the cause. I'll test it soon, but either way there is a bug somewhere.

Whenever I try to access the appstore from Homebrew Launcher, it says loading 124 items and the hangs on One Moment Please...

Is anyone else experiencing this.

Buttons currently activate on touch down, which is a pain, as they pop up while you're trying to scroll..

Instead, a button should activate under the following condition:

• a touch down is seen, && then a touch up is seen, && the distance between the two touches isn't that big (with the implication that the use would have "scrolled" away and not intended to click)

Visually, the button should "grow" on touch down, but shrink if scrolled away from. I believe this is how smartphones would handle it.

In addition to this, scrolling in general should be smoother (inertia?), and the joystick should allow the user to scroll as well as the touch screen

In order to provide further extensibility, it would be nice if the user could elect not to update the icon with the ones on the server.

This may go hand in hand with whatever caching implementation is decided on, see #6

Icons should be loaded off the main thread and cached for later use to prevent long load times

The precompiled binary for the wiiubru appstore does not download anything, I see everything just fine, but it just does not download anything whatsoever. Thanks if you can help. For right now, I will try replacing the files on the sd card. I got the HBAS from https://rikumax25.github.io/wiiusetup/ if that helps. Edit: Doesn't work for me...

Currently the app store only updates three things for an app: the meta.xml, the icon.png, and the actual elf. Some apps, however, may require additional files to be downloaded alongside them.

This wasn't implemented from the start, as it begs the question: what should happen to any conflicting existing files? Perhaps with #8 that would become a non-issue, as older files could be backed up and restored as well.

When you launch HBAS 1.0, it downloads all the icons asynchronously, and populates them in their buttons.

It seems if you try to click an app button while it's still loading these icons, the new window will freeze, the music will keep playing, and the app will be soft-locked.

This bug has become more apparent now that there are more homebrew apps out for Wii U.

I can't download anything. All the thumbnails on the store have been replaced with red Xs. Help?

All thumbnails are X’s.
When I try to download, it for a split sec, displays the bar and cuts to the apps grid, I looked to the other issues posted by other users, but the beta elf is 404’d. Any fix?

Loadiine seems to crash when trying to update Loadiine GX2. I'm using 1.0. Is this just due to the app being glitchy?

It would be nice if existing apps could be backed up prior to updating them, in the event that the newer version is worse.

It would be preferable then, that these backups could be restored via the app itself, so a method of keeping track of them would be nice.

@xhp-creations demonstrated some cool new functionality where urls can be opened in the browser, which could make use of the currently unused <url> attribute of the meta.xmls. If this functionality were added, it would have to be in an RPX build of hbas only.

Needs the following sorting modes:
Name, Author, Random

And at some point:
Most popular

Each sort mode should also have an inverse (a-z and z-a, least-most and most-least)

title says all. ftpiiu won't install, it does it, then it shows up as not being installed. This is annoying since I lost my USB SD card reader and I need to put files on my SD Card.

It appears that if an elf is placed directly in sd:/wiiu/apps that no apps will load from the server.

To reproduce:
Put any elf directly in /wiiu/apps, for example, having the file sd:/wiiu/apps/boot.elf will cause a soft-lock

To fix:
Put the elf in a folder in /wiiu/apps, for example, sd:/wiiu/apps/boot/boot.elf

Target
Milestone 1.5

I'm having a lot of trouble with home-brew app store 1.5, because when ever I try to select all apps or emulators it crashes and gives me the error code that says "Unfortunately, Homebrew App Store 1.5 has crashed..."

If every pork chop were perfect,
we wouldn't have hot dogs.

(BTW I like your joke)
If the problem persists try holding while starting:
L button: Clear icon cache
R button: Disable icons
or report the issue on GitHub. (which is what I'm doing)

Enjoy your day :>"

Please help me or make an update that allows me to use all apps and emulators.

To keep backwards compatibility with older releases, the structure of the unzipped apps on the server (that are input to gen.py) will make use of an sd folder to specify additional files. This is transparent to the user, and only important for repository maintainers.

There is also a .deleteme file that is generated when a zip is created, which can be deleted to have the zip be regenerated by gen.py.

└── apps
    └── haxchi
        ├── .deleteme
        ├── haxchi.elf
        ├── icon.png
        ├── meta.xml
        └── sd
            └── haxchi
                ├── bootDrcTex.tga
                ├── bootTvTex.tga
                ├── config.txt
                ├── iconTex.tga
                └── title.txt

Basically a setting button to change some options like music on/off, keep old icons when downloading new apps, etc...

It would be nice if RPX files could be fully supported and treated like ELFs as much as possible.

For ELFs (to be run by HBL):
sd:/wiiu/apps/

Example app:

/wiiu/apps/example/example.elf
/wiiu/apps/example/icon.png
/wiiu/apps/example/meta.xml

For RPXs:
sd:/wiiu/games/

Example app:

/wiiu/games/Example [111111]/example.rpx 
/wiiu/games/Example [111111]/meta/icon.tga
/wiiu/games/Example [111111]/meta/background.tga
/wiiu/games/Example [111111]/meta/meta.xml
/wiiu/games/Example [111111]/app.xml
/wiiu/games/Example [111111]/cos.xml

I don't love this solution, but it's a bit different than #10 in that both formats would have to be listed in the main menu.

It would be nice to have a button that loads a separate page with the credits for people whose work on this project, it would look more professional and the background less cluttered.

This issue is for the 2.0 release, which adds the ability to download to any path on SD.

Currently it looks like the whole thing freezes while downloading, integrating a progress bar would be useful (as HBL has)

There should be permission attributes that display a small icon under the app button that shows which permissions it has.

It would be configured in meta.xml (see #3) like so:

<permissions>
    <sd>yes</sd>
    <usb>yes</usb>
    <wifi>yes</wifi>
    <sound>yes</sound>
<permissions>

I was having DNS problems (unrelated) and attempted to open the AppStore. The app would stay at "Downloading app catalog" for a while then load the App Store. The apps I did have were listed as Local but nothing else was listed. When I opened a category, it was empty. If I hit the random button, it crashed.

There should be further xml attributes:

To help with filtering games+apps (#1):
game
or
tool

There should also be permission attributes for #4

When updating my libretro cores from ELF to RPX builds using HBAS, the old ELF files remain, so they are listed twice in HBL. Need to delete the old ELF, or give option of doing that.

Needs the following filter modes:
Installed, Updated, Get (on server), Local

As well as potentially:
Game, Tool, and permissions

The latter would need additional support in meta.xml

When filtered, only the apps that match all active filters will be displayed and sorted

See fortheusers/hb-appstore#13 (comment)

Add archive support to save bandwidth on WiiUBru.

Perhaps add a repo selection gui to the app itself?