Wiimm's Custom Archive/Track Selections and Test Distributions

Wiimm's Custom Archive is a service (website https://ct.wiimm.de/) by Wiimm. It allows an easy access to custom tracks and arena archive. This article focuses at Custom Track Selections and Test Distributions supported by the website.

Introduction

The website ct.wiimm.de supports the management of Custom Track Selections and Test Distributions. Distributions use selections as basis. The main idea is, to give all track creators and testers a chance to test tracks online with enabled item cheats. Item cheats are very important to simulate situations. The best test for item routes are red shells and Bullet Bill.

Don't be confused about Test Distributions created by ct.wiimm.de and official custom track distributions from external resources. At this article we talk about the first kind, the Test Distributions.

Custom Track Selections

Each registered use with the granted rights can create and manage custom track selections. TH create gives the selection a name and an addition info, and selects tracks. Private tracks can also included. Then he can publish the selection to other named users of the website, or to the public. It is also possible to grant edit rights to other users.

At this point, custom track selection is only a set of tracks, that can be made visible to others. This page show all public track selections.

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Test Distributions

The idea of test distributions is to give authors a chance to test new and updated tracks online using item cheats. They can create a test distribution without specific knowledge.

If a user with the granted rights have access to a custom track selection (usually created by himself), then he can create a test distribution. After adjusting some of the default settings, the user has simply to press a button.

The server checks now the settings, selects a Wiimmfi region (2000 regions reserved at Wiimmfi) and a disc id, and starts to create the test distribution. Dependent on the number of tracks, the creation needs 1–2 minutes, and most of the time to pack the result to a 7z-file. After finishing the user gets either an error message or the final link. Finally, the user has to store the link and to send to the group of online testers.

The resulting 7z-file contains a patcher. The patching system is the same as used for Wiimms Mario Kart Fun and for Intermezzo. Each user needs a copy of a original disc of Mario Kart Wii to create the test distribution. The patching system runs on Windows and Linux (Mac has issues) and can create Riivolution setups and complete images for USB loaders.

At 2018-05-31, a complete test series with selecting tracks, creating the test distribution, creating Wii images and playing online was successful done. In the next weeks, Wiimm have to implement the web interface to manage the test distributions.

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Register to ct.wimmm.de

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