Brsar player Wii Channel by jurassicPieter at 1:13 PM EDT on September 11, 2009
I found something out that might make it possible to make a brsar player channel on your wii: the final fantasy crystal chronicles: my life as a king has lots of *.nut files. These files are plaintext script files and they also contain initializing game code, including loading graphics, menu's, and the brsar containing the music.
My attempt will be this: 1. remove all scripts which are not sound related. 2. write a new script that says to play a sequence in the brsar. 3. rebuild the wad-file. 4. install the wad file on your wii.
First tests done after figuring out how to rebuild a wad file. I changed the code to play a random sequence file of final fantasy crystal chronicles my life as a king and it works perfectly. Now let's see if i can change the brsar that is being used and pruning the scripts to sound related only.
by snakemeat at 11:37 PM EDT on September 11, 2009
Re: by jurassicPieter at 10:43 AM EDT on September 13, 2009
ok, i tried to prune the scripts as much as possible, but it seems to be more challenging than expected. Any mistake leads to a black screen and the home and reset button not responding and rebuilding the wad and installing it again on the wii is slow.
I changed the brsar for the brsar of the wii fit channel and changed the script to play a random sequence. And guess what? It plays perfectly! Now I need to find a way to edit the menu so i can make a sequence select. :)
Cool! So what mistakes were keeping it from working before?
Re: by jurassicPieter at 11:04 AM EDT on September 14, 2009
Well, if you make one script mistake the wad doesn't run at all with no error shown, so it's just time consuming to make a single change, uninstall old wad, create new wad, upload wad with ftpii to wii and then reinstall new wad.
I should check what happens if I turn on debug mode. There seems to be code for a developer menu.
All sound effects and sequences are numbered from 0 to whatever and sound effects can be played too as a bgm. Only problem I could see is replacing it with brsar's that are made in a newer version.
Plus the only thing not scripted is the start up screen and the home button menu. If you remove graphics you remove the start up screen too, so i'm stuck with a 45mb wad instead of a 1,5 mb wad for now.
by Camo Yoshi at 4:59 PM EDT on September 15, 2009
Code for developer menu is to hold down - and + when turning on the Wii.