README.md 5.5 KB

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.

Downloads - Forum - Downloads Feed

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, exilys@hotmail.fr) (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) (frannoe@gmail.com) (1.2.0)
    • ca_ES by Frannoe (Ubuntu Cosillas) (frannoe@gmail.com) (1.2.0)
    • it_IT by Federico Pietta (Darkmagister, f.pietta@gmail.com) (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

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.

Screenshots

Linux

Linux

OS X

OS X

Windows

Windows