This post is to highlight the fix for Transmenu, due to which the urls are not generated for the sub menu items correctly when inside the sub-categories.

The edit needs to be made in the following file
modules/mod_virtuemart/vm_transmenu/transmenu.php

Search for the following text in the file:

//echo "$row->name $row->link $level<br>";
		if ($level){
			$pmenu = "tmenu$row->parent";
			//echo "$pmenu.addItem(\"$row->name\", \"$row->link\");\n";
			$active = 0;
			if ( in_array($row->id, $this->parent->open) ) $active = 1;
			echo "$pmenu.addItem(\"$row->name\", \"$row->link\", $row->browserNav, $active);\n";
		}

in the function ‘genMenuItem’.

After the

If (in_array($row->id, $this->parent->open) ) $active = 1;

line, add the following line

$row->link = $sess->url( SECUREURL . $row->link);

That’s it! This should fix the issue and you should be able to happily use the sh404sef plugin with transmenu!

With this post on the virtuemart scene I am hoping a lot of people would be able to benefit. This is a bug in the existing virtuemart (till 1.1.3) system that is seen when discounts are being used and the tax calculation is set to be done after the reduced price.

This issue is not seen when using tax calculation based on vendor address, but only in case of shipping address based tax calculation.
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Coming back to the Wii homebrew scene after a long time and what a great thing to talk about – BootMii. The awesome guys at hackmii have released (initial beta) the much awaited homebrew that has the potential to bring back your Wii from almost any brick.

A little background for those who haven’t heard of this before. The system boots through many stages and for all practical purposes, the very first stage after which it’s possible to brick the Wii, from bad firmware update to wrong region firmware etc, is now going to be protected.

This nifty hack into the system provides users with an option to boot directly into the Homebrew Channel, Backup / Restore your Nand without booting into the System Menu! What this means is if you brick your Wii in future with a bad firmware update (For eg) resulting in the error page directly on bootup, then this will come in handy, assuming you installed it beforehand

Backup your Nand (which, it seems can be done in under 3 minutes!) and keep it safe. If the firmware update goes back, all you gotta do is restore it using bootmii. Or you could use it to boot into the homebrew channel and use other homebrew utilities to restore your firmware. All the details are available on the homepage.

Although it’s in beta right now and can cause a brick itself due to some unforeseen bug, it’s a big step in the right direction as it holds the potential of giving users something nintendo couldn’t – possibility to restore things in the worst case scenario! If you’re confident about playing around you could do the testing and help out the developers. If not, just wait out the beta testing and then install away the awesome BootMii, for you might just need it on some rainy day!

Nintendo seem to have quietly released the Wii speak channel. From the description it’s basically a chat client with support for upto 4 connections.

All nice and cool! The catch however is that you need to buy the Wii Speak Microphone (seems to be a regular USB mic with high sensitivity) and enter the code that comes along to download the channel.

Interesting update I must say. They keep adding fun things every once in a while. But forcing people to buy their mic is not so much of a nice thing to do!

So nintendo came back and released another firmware update for the Wii, v3.4. The good things being as below:

• USB keyboard support in Mii Channel

• Enhanced parental controls

• Improved SD card read/write speed

• Improved disc reading

The good features aside, they also managed to kill the Twilight hack. Or so they thought anyways. The good guys at hackmii managed to exploit more bugs and have given us a new savefile for the Twilight hack (beta2 now). The procedure for Twilight Hack remains the same and the good old method to run homebrew still lives on!

Also changed is the policy of updates. If you update to 3.4, nintendo will be able to update your firmware online without asking for your permission. That is a loss of lot of control. This is bad news especially given the fact that the modchips now support update blocking from the discs, which were not preventable earlier. The recommendation is to not update to this firmware, unless absolutely essential!