Project Description

QWBFS Manager provides a cross platform Qt 4 GUI for working with hard disk drives that have been formatted to the WBFS file system. This is a cross platform 32/64bits (Windows, OS X, Linux/Unix like) alternative to WBFS Manager.

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Features

• Build with Qt4 and/or Qt5 (1.2.5)
• Partitions combobox widget presenting their name, file system and size for a better and easy access to your drives. (1.2.0)
• Game sorting by id, title, size and region. (1.2.0)
• New ListView widget providing enhanced list and icon mode. (1.2.0)
• CoverFlow view. (1.2.0)
• Worker thread has been rewrited and now support all kind of import/export/convert (ISO to ISO, ISO to WBFS, WBFS to ISO, WBFS to WBFS), opening the door for normal file system disc handling (FAT, NTFS...) in a next version. (1.3.0 ?)
• Batch convertion of ISOs files to WBFSs files. (1.2.0)
• Batch convertion of WBFSs files to ISOs files. (1.2.0)
• Batch renaming of ISOs/WBFSs files using customizable mask. (1.2.0)
• New application icon by Vasseur Jean-Baptiste (Exilys, [email protected]) (1.2.0)
• New splashscreen by Nagy Franto (http://code.google.com/u/nagy.franto) (1.2.0)
• Listing of games with titles, sizes and codes. (1.0.0)
• Drag-and-drop support for adding multiple files at once to the WBFS drive (ISOs). (1.0.0) - Now support WBFSs files (1.2.0)
• Easy to use interface which also reports available, total and used disk space at a glance. (1.0.0)
• Batch processing of multiple ISOs. (1.0.0) - Now supports WBFSs files (1.2.0)
• Rename discs on the WBFS drive. (1.0.0)
• Multilingual support
  • en_US. (1.0.0)
  • fr_FR. (1.1.0)
  • es_ES by Frannoe (Ubuntu Cosillas) ([email protected]) (1.2.0)
  • ca_ES by Frannoe (Ubuntu Cosillas) ([email protected]) (1.2.0)
  • it_IT by Federico Pietta (Darkmagister, [email protected]) (1.2.0)
  • it_IT update by kimotori (kimotori, https://github.com/kimotori) (1.2.5)
  • ru_RU, sl_SI, pl_PL, zh_CN, he_IL, da_DK, sk_SK, ja_JP, uk_UA, cs_CZ, ar_SA, zh_TW, de_DE, pt_PT, sv_SE open for translation. (1.1.0)
• ~~Homebrew Channel entry creation.~~
• Direct & Indirect Drive-To-Drive transferring and cloning. (1.0.0)
• ~~Automatic RAR archive extraction.~~
• Batch extraction and deletion. (1.0.0)
• ~~Exporting list of games on drive to a .CSV.~~
• ~~Ability to use more than one cover directory.~~
• ~~Channel Creation (NEW).~~
• Using libwbfs directly to achieve greater flexiblity. (1.0.0)
• Using libfresh for extending Qt, providing great classes like the update checker, the network cache... (1.2.0)
• Use a separate worker thread to improve responsiveness when doing IO operations. (1.0.0)
• Update checker. (1.1.0)
• Passive error handling. (1.1.0)
• Translations manager. (1.1.0)
• Network cache based on max retry per query to avoid over bandwidth traffic. (1.1.0)

Notes

• Estimating the size of an ISO file can lead to the creation of a temporary file of 16MB in your system temporary path.
• Indirect transfer can lead to WBFS convertion to ISO of 4.4GB in a temporary file in you system path.

Requirements

• Qt 4.5.0 minimum (bundled with mac os x & windows packages)
• OpenSSL (bundled with mac os x & windows packages)
• A brain
• A chair
• Some fingers

Instructions

• Install using setup.
• 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 right hand side.
• You can drag and drop ISO files from Windows Explorer onto the left hand side or you can browse the file system in the left hand view.
• Click the Process the import list button to copy them over to the WBFS drive.
• Enjoy!

Remaining Future Plans

• UnRar functionality to automatically UnRar files and add the iso to the WBFS drive.
• ~~ISO library.~~
• ~~Additional info from ISO (Game image shown in Disc Channel,...).~~

They speak about QWBFS Manager

• Ubuntu Cosillas
• WiiGen
• WiiHacks
• Logic Sunrise
• Wii Addict
• Wii GX Mod
• Xav91Wii
• Wii Info

DISCLAIMER THIS APPLICATION COMES WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL, NEITHER EXPRESS NOR IMPLIED. I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR WII CONSOLE BECAUSE OF IMPROPER USAGE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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