BootMii Configuration Editor/FAQs

How do I stop BootMii from showing on startup of the wii?

• Set the boot delay to '0' and the BootMii screen will not show when the Wii starts up.

• There is a bug reported in the most recent beta of BootMii which causes a boot delay of 0 to not function as expected.
• You can use the switch functionality in v2.5 to disable BootMii from starting up.
• Alternatively, you could download the latest mini binary for bootmii and replace the version on your SD card with the downloaded file. http://bugs.hackmii.com/index.php?do=details&task_id=350

Why does my homebrew channel icon change colour?

• The icon changes colour to represent the status of the bootmii directory.

• Green = BootMii Active (directory is name /bootmii).
• Red = BootMii Inactive (bootmii directory renamed to /~bootmii)
• Yellow = Bootmii switch mode - both /bootmii and /~bootmii exist on the SD.

How can I change the interface language

• Press the 'HOME' button on the wiimote to open the settings dialog. The language is the first setting. Push left/right to change it and when you've found the language you require, move to the 3rd option on the screen (the one with an empty line above it). Press A on this, and the language will be changed.

How do I Add a new Language or Skin

Creating a new translation

To add a new translation/language perform the following steps which use French(fr) as an example

• Open the BCE_MESSAGES.XML file in an editor
• Add a new language/code to the available langauges section near the top of the file

(e.g. to add french add the following line:

<language description="Francais" code="fr" /> 

to the available section, for example:

<available> 
  <language description="English" code="en" /> 
  <language description="Espanol" code="es" /> 
  <language description="Francais" code="fr" /> 
</available>

• For every <entry, add in the french translation using an attribute named the same as the value specified in the code for the langauge (e.g. fr) for example

<entry code="mm1" en="Video:" es="Modo de Video:" fr="Mode visuel:"/>

• Ensure the XML file validates and that you've added a language string for EVERY entry.

• Copy/Save to SD card and test. If the application errors with a stack dump, then there will be a problem in the XML, either it's invalid, or you've missed one of the entry elements usually

Creating a new Skin

• Open the BCE_SKINS.XML file in an editor
• Find the <skins element and within this, select and duplicate a skindetail

 <skindetail id="custom1" name="My Custom Skin"
 consolebgcolor="14" consoletextcolor="17" mainbgcolor="7"
 maintextcolor="0" maintextcolor2="10" maintitlecolor="11"
 maintitlelinecolor="0" mainselectedIndicatorcolor="11"
 mainselectedOptioncolor="15" mainshadow="0" maildecl="7" dialogbgcolor="10"
 dialogtextcolor="17" dialogtextcolor2="17" dialogtitlecolor="17"
 dialogtitlelinecolor="7" dialogselectedIndicatorcolor="11"
 dialogselectedOptioncolor="13" dialogshadow="0" dialogdecl="10" />

• Change the id and name. The id must be unique through all the skins.
• Modify the numbers for the colours. The following colours/numbers are available to use:
  • 0 - BLACK
  • 1 - DARK_RED
  • 2 - DARK_GREEN
  • 3 - DARK_YELLOW
  • 4 - DARK_BLUE
  • 5 - DARK_MAGENTA
  • 6 - DARK_CYAN
  • 7 - GRAY
  • 10 - DARK_GRAY
  • 11 - RED
  • 12 - GREEN
  • 13 - YELLOW
  • 14 - BLUE
  • 15 - MAGENTA
  • 16 - CYAN
  • 17 - WHITE

• There are 3 main parts to the skin settings
  • consolebgcolor/consoletextcolor

Background colour of the whole screen and default font colour (currently not used)

• • mainxxxxxx

mainbgcolor - Background colour of the main 'window'

maintextcolor - Colour of text in the main 'window'

maintextcolor2 - Colour of secondary text in the main 'window'

maintitlecolor - Colour of window title text

maintitlelinecolor - Colour of the line in the window title

mainselectedIndicatorcolor - Colour of the indicator '->' which shows which item you are on

mainselectedOptioncolor - Color of the text of selected item when you select it

mainshadow - shadow colour of the 'window'

maindecl - Colour of the 'window' edge characters (Pipe | and Minus - ) that indicate the window edge. These are used on the monochrome/green screen skins.

• • dialogxxxxxx

Same as the main settings, but for secondary windows, e.g. the settings dialog.