Menu Sort Aroma

Unofficial port of Menu Sort (originally by Yardape8000 and doino-gretchenliev) from the legacy Homebrew Launcher toolchain to the modern Aroma environment, using wut and libmocha instead of the old dynamic_libs/libiosuhax stack.

Ported and maintained by Yirr777.

With Menu Sort Aroma you can alphabetically sort icons on the Wii U Menu, per user account - including inside folders, and homebrew icons injected by the Homebrew On Wii U Menu plugin.

The following items will not move (though a folder's contents still get sorted): folders and system icons (Disc, Settings, etc), the Homebrew Launcher, any IDs listed in dontmove.txt, and any homebrew app whose name matches an entry in dontmove_homebrew.txt.

Warning: always use the backup option (+) before sorting anything for the first time. Bricked consoles are not the author's (or this port's) responsibility.

Controls

Button	Action
B	Standard sorting
A	Standard sorting, ignoring a leading "The"
X	Bad naming mode sorting
Y	Bad naming mode sorting, ignoring a leading "The"
+	Backup the current order (including folders)
-	Restore the last backup (including folders)
L	Count items only, no changes
HOME	Exit without doing anything

Backups

Whenever an actual sort runs (any of B/A/X/Y — not L), Menu Sort Aroma automatically backs up the current, unmodified order to sd:/wiiu/apps/menu_sort_aroma/BaristaAccountSaveFile.dat before touching anything, whether or not you also pressed + first. Press - at any time to restore that backup.

Homebrew On Wii U Menu plugin compatibility

If the Homebrew On Wii U Menu plugin is installed, it redirects the Wii U Menu's save data to its own copy on the SD card so it can inject homebrew icons without touching the real system save. Menu Sort Aroma detects this and reads/writes that same SD-card copy instead of the raw system save file, then mirrors the result back to the system save - so both stay in sync and you never lose folders or icons the plugin hasn't flushed yet.

What changed from the original

• dynamic_libs (runtime function-pointer loading) → native wut headers (coreinit, vpad/input.h, whb/proc.h).
• Raw IOSUHAX / libiosuhax / MCP thread hijacking → libmocha (Mocha_MountFS / Mocha_UnmountFS).
• Manual SD card FAT mounting → dropped; wut mounts the SD card automatically at fs:/vol/external01/....
• libxml2 → a small hand-rolled XML text extractor (src/utils/xmltext.c), since libxml2 isn't part of the standard wiiu-dev package group.
• nn_act_* → src/act_wrapper.cpp, a tiny extern "C" shim, since wut only exposes nn::act in C++.
• Output on both the TV and GamePad screens (the original only wrote to the GamePad).
• Builds to a .wuhb (Aroma Homebrew Launcher) instead of a legacy .elf.
• Automatic backup before every real sort, in addition to the original's manual + backup.
• Homebrew icons injected by the Homebrew On Wii U Menu plugin - which didn't exist when the original was written - are now sorted too, with their own exclude list (dontmove_homebrew.txt) and compatibility with the plugin's SD-card save redirection.

Building

Requires devkitPro with the wiiu-dev package group, plus libmocha and libwuhbutils built from source and installed (git clone each repo, then make install in it).

export DEVKITPRO=/opt/devkitpro
export DEVKITPPC=$DEVKITPRO/devkitPPC
export PATH="$DEVKITPPC/bin:$DEVKITPRO/tools/bin:$PATH"
make

Produces menu_sort_aroma.wuhb.

Installing

Don't want to build it yourself? Grab the SD card zip from the latest release and extract it to the root of your SD card - it already contains everything below, laid out correctly.

Copy menu_sort_aroma.wuhb, dontmove.txt, titlesmap.psv and dontmove_homebrew.txt to sd:/wiiu/apps/menu_sort_aroma/ on your SD card. Edit them as described below, then launch the app from the Aroma Homebrew Launcher.

Upgrading from an older version installed under sd:/wiiu/apps/menu_sort/? Move that whole folder to sd:/wiiu/apps/menu_sort_aroma/ (keeping your customized dontmove.txt / titlesmap.psv / dontmove_homebrew.txt), then delete the old empty menu_sort folder. The Homebrew Launcher will list it as a new entry either way.

Don't Move list

Override dontmove.txt with a list of non-movable icons, identified by the last 4 bytes of the title ID:

10179B00 # Brain Age: Train Your Brain In Minutes A Day
10105A00 # Netflix
10105700 # YouTube

You can also use dontmoveX.txt (X: 0-9, A, or B) for per-user-profile lists — X is the last digit of the console's 8000000X save folder for that user (shown by the app as User ID: X). dontmoveX.txt takes priority over dontmove.txt; only one file is used per profile.

Titles map

Override titlesmap.psv to sort by group name instead of title name ("bad naming mode"):

titleId#1|groupName
titleId#2|groupName

titlesmapX.psv works the same way as dontmoveX.txt for per-profile overrides.

Homebrew exclude list

Homebrew icons injected by the Homebrew On Wii U Menu plugin don't have a fixed title ID the way installed titles do (it's a hash of wherever you happen to have installed them), so dontmove.txt can't target them reliably across different setups. Instead, edit dontmove_homebrew.txt with one app name (or part of one) per line - any homebrew icon whose resolved name contains that text (case-insensitive) is left in place:

Aroma Updater
Payload-Loader Installer
NUSspli

Ships with only Menu Sort Aroma itself excluded by default - add whichever other homebrew apps you want left in place, one per line, no rebuild required.

License

This port is released into the public domain under The Unlicense - do whatever you want with it. The original project it's based on doesn't declare a license of its own.