Aroma Beta-27

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed softlocks that could happen when opening titles from the Wii U Menu.
• Fixed softlocks that could happen when unloading/loading plugins.
• Fixed crashing when using IO during plugin deinitialization.

Features and improvements

• Added support for holding down navigation buttons to scroll through the configuration menu.
• Improved performance of config menu to make it more responsive.
• Added automatic name truncation for long item names in config menu.
• Empty button combos are now valid combos.

Aroma Beta-26

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed heap corruption when compiling with devkitPPC r49.
  • Affected plugins will be disabled when booting into Aroma Beta 26.
  • Developers of affected plugins are informed with a solution.
  • Compiling plugins with WUPS 0.9.1 or higher and modules with WUMS 0.3.6 will fix this.
  • Recompiled all modules and plugins with the latest devkitPPC/wut/WUMS/WUPS.
• Fixed crash when loading incompatible plugins.
• Fixed crashing when exiting Assassin's Creed III.
• Fixed booting into TNT Racers.
• Disabled Aroma while playing Mass Effect 3 to fix exiting the game.
• Fixed potential crashes when redirecting files in certain games (e.g., Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze).
• Disabled mDNS support for ftpiiu to avoid potential crashes.
• Fixed resolving symbol names while cleaning up plugins.
• Fixed a small memory leak in the screenshot plugin.
• Fixed calling FINI on exit for plugins.
• Fixed crashes when patching certain kernel functions.

Features

• Implemented a TCP server that redirects syslogs and injects commands.
  • Can be toggled ON/OFF in the AromaBasePlugin config menu.
  • Use this Python script to connect to the server: tcp_log_server.py
• Added "IOPShellModule," which allows running commands via TCP syslogs or serial logging.
  • Check "cos help" for built-in commands from Cafe OS.
  • Check "iosu help" for IOSU-related commands.
  • Check "aroma help" for aroma related commands.
• Added initial support for tracking plugin heap usage and detecting double frees or memory leaks.
• Disabled Mocha's wupserver.
• Updated the SplashscreenModule to support JPEG and WebP, and load splashscreens from more paths (thanks DanielKO).
• Enabled WebSocket support for CURLWrapperModule.

Aroma Beta-25

What's Changed

Update WUMSLoader and WiiUPluginLoaderBackend to support modules/plugins built with latest devkitPPC/wut

Aroma Beta-24

What's Changed

Fixed "Failed to MemoryAllocEX"-error which could occur when starting certain games or homebrew apps when a lot a 3rd party Aroma Modules where used.

Aroma Beta-23

What's Changed

• General:
  • Added a ButtonComboModule to provide a API for plugins and modules to easily register button combos and detected combo conflicts
  • Added an "Aroma safe mode" to disable 3rd party plugin when pressing (L+DPAD UP+Minus) on boot on the Gamepad
  • Updated the SplashscreenModule to add support for showing a random splash-screen (by @dkosmari)
  • Plugins can now be completely deactivated and reactivated in the WUPS config menu
• ContentRedirectionModule:
  • Add support for single file replacements
• WiiUPluginLoaderBackend:
  • Use left/right to jump a full page on the toplevel menu.
  • Update plugin (un)loading logic to keep plugins loaded if possible
  • Add WUPSConfigAPI_Menu_GetStatus() function
  • Add support disabling plugins via the config menu, add "safe mode"
  • ConfigMenu: Show wiimote button when the last input was on a wiimote
  • Remove the global trampoline table and add a small trampoline table next to each .text section instead
  • Block on VPADRead() while the plugin menu is open by @dkosmari
  • Fake VPADResult when pressing the config menu button combo to avoid error message in some games

Aroma Beta-22

Changelog:

• Fix potential crashs when selecting a quick start title takes more than 30 seconds
• Add patches to allow usage of /dev/dlp (thanks @DaniElectra)

Aroma Beta-21

Changelog:

• Avoid/reduce screen corruption when booting into Aroma
• Close the quick start menu on the gamepad if not autobooting into an environment
• Make quick starting titles more consistent if selecting the titles takes longer than 5-10 seconds
• Launching title via the quick start menu will now show the correct splash screen and play the transition audio
• Add option to show a custom splash screen on boot. It will be loaded from sd:/wiiu/environments/aroma/splash.png. Recommended resolution is 1280x720 or 1920x1080
• Make config menu opening a bit more stable
• Fix opening the config menu with Motion Plus controllers in certain scenarios (thanks @Andrew1Hawes)
• Use steady/monotonic clock for the timers in NotificationModule (thanks @dkosmari)
• Mocha: add DLP permission group to homebrew titles
• Fix booting into vWII HBC from AutobootModule

Aroma Beta-20

Changelog:

• Fix displaying the config menu when using 480i + 4:3 or 576i as output resolution.
• Add "saving config" screen to the config menu.
• Actually save the OTP to otp.bin instead of opt.bin.
• Never show region free language select screen for Health and Safety Information, this avoids the splash screen when booting the console with disabled auto-detection.

Aroma Beta-19

Changelog:

• Avoid loading the modules/plugins twice after a IOSU reload.
• Fix save game redirection for certain persistent ids (fixes Wii U icons order for these users).
• Automatically save a OTP and SEEPROM dump to the sd card at the first launch
• Fixed potential crashes that could rarely happen when loading a setup module.

Aroma Beta-18

Changelog:

• Fixed loading Nanddumper via the PayloadLoaderPayload.
• The Plugins in the config menu will now be sorted by name.