Clarification:
DML ONLY works from SD Card/SDHC Card, nothing else, no USB. There won't be a USB version someday.
So Yeah, this "Clarification" is incorrect, crediar was able to do it


What you'll need:

• IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FROM SD
• The Latest DIOS-MIOS (Lite) package from here (older versions here).
• DML WAD Creator (for older versions)
• IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FROM USB
• FOR DML and DIOS-MIOS
• GameCube ISO Compress, fstfix, DiscEX or GCReEX (your choice, read below first and decide what you want to use)
• A WAD Manager (for example WAD Manager 1.7)
• A SD Card or a USB Device (D'OH!)
• Gamecube Controller and Memory Card

How to:

1. If you have downloaded the newer version go to step 6, if you picked the older ones follow this.
2. Extract the DML package in a folder with the same name as the package (for example DMLr13 for DMLr13.zip). If there is just a iosmodule.elf of the latest DML available then copy it into a new DML folder and rename it to DML.elf.
3. If you already have a RVL-mios-v10.wad, copy it into the DML folder. Then the creator don't need to download the file.
4. Extract the DML WAD Creator into the DML folder. Then run the "create_wad.bat" and type "DML" to create the DML wad, if you don't have the RVL-mios-v10.wad it will be downloaded.
5. If the DML WAD Creator asks you which version you want to build type it in like '13' for DMLr13.
6. Now let's convert some gamecube games! If you downloaded the new DML versions or DIOS-MIOS just start reading here.
7. You'll need the gamecube games in iso or gcm format.
8. If you want to use DiscEX and downloaded the older DML versions, the DiscEX files needs to be in the same folder as the DML WAD creator. Just open the WAD Creator, type "C" to enter the convert menu, drag and drop the game into it and say if you want to compress it or not. If you use the newer DML versions or DIOS-MIOS, open up a command prompt and enter "DiscEX -c gamename.iso" if you want compression, replace "gamename" with the name of your iso file. If you dont want compression just drag and drop the iso file into the DiscEX.exe. Mostly compression will work fine, some games need to stay uncompressed, see here.
9. You can also use Gamecube ISO Compressor for the job, easiest way is there to just drag and drop your ISO file into the Compressor exe file. You can also just double click the exe file to see which options you can also use to compress the ISO files, they are more modes in it.
10. If you have downloaded the new DML versions, you can also use GCReEx, there you can use "GCReEx.exe -x game.iso", this will create no new ISO file but a folder which contains the extracted files, this way saves most space on the sd card.
11. There is also the possiblity to use fstfix instead to compress the games, use it like "fstfix game.iso" or "fstfix game.iso t" and drag and drop the resulting new iso in DiscEX. DiscEX will may stop at a certain percentage to copy the game, it will may also say the game is underdumped/overdumped. Both things come because the image haven't got the orignal size anymore, so you can ignore these messages.
12. After using one of the above ways to convert your games, copy the newly created folder of the tool to sd:/games if you want to play from SD and to usb:/games if you want to play from USB.

On your Wii:

1. Install the DML/DIOS-MIOS WAD with a WAD Manager, this will overwrite the current MIOS/cMIOS. Retail gamecube discs will still work since DMLr19. If you had a cMIOS installed before to play disc backups it wont be possible anymore until you re-install the cMIOS which will overwrite DML.
2. You can play the games either with DIOS-MIOS Booter, NeoGamma, postLoader4, Wiiflow, USB Loader GX or Configurable USB Loader. Make sure you have a disc inserted, otherwise your Wii will simply reset if you try to play a game.
3. The easiest one is DIOS-MIOS Booter, it works with all DML and DIOS-MIOS versions, just start it, select the game you want, set new options with the B button if you want, and launch the game.
4. To boot games using Wiiflow switch the coverflow mode to the gameube coverflow mode by pressing the icon down-right near the home icon a few times until you see the games. You can also download covers for them in the settings, it's the gear icon down-left. Wiiflow also supports all DML and DIOS-MIOS versions with all options.
5. To boot games using postLoader just press home to enter the menu, select "Switch to Game mode". In game mode just press up on the wiimote to enter the DML menu or press home, select "Game options" and then "Show DML menu". Then select the game you want to play.
6. For USB Loader GX you just need to go to the display icon and select display gamecube games too, then you can set options in the menu and play them.
7. In Configurable USB Loader they are just displayed together with the other wii games, there you can also set the options and launch them.
8. The other ways described now are currently not optimized for the new DML versions, doesnt work with DIOS-MIOS and my not work properly.
9. To boot games using NeoGamma go down to "Load Games from: " and select "Load GC Games via DML". Then go up and press A to search games. Select the game you want to play and press A to start it. NeoGamma doesnt have options to set for DML because its made for old DML versions.
10. If you want to remove DML/DIOS-MIOS again either reinstall a cMIOS or the RVL-mios-v10.wad. If DML doesn't work for you make sure you have a clean BC, to get it run the "create_wad.bat" in the DML wad creator package again and type "BC". Then just install the RVL-BC-v6.wad on your wii and try it again.

Recommendations:

• Format your SD Card to FAT16/FAT32 with 64KB cluster size to increase game speed
• If you want to use DIOS-MIOS format it to FAT32 with 32KB cluster size, also make the FAT32 the first one, primary and active
• If you want to use DML r21 I suggest the debug version since the regular version got small problems. Delete the DML.elf, rename the DMLdebug.elf to DML.elf and then create a new wad with it.
• If you have a problem you can try to rename/delete the "saves" folder on your sd card to everything you want, that can may fix it.
• Crediar created a small FAQ here that might help you as well with some general questions.

If you want to know game compatility check out the compatility list here:
http://wiki.gbatemp....patibility_List
http://crediar.no-ip.com/gc/
Don't forget to add the games you play to the list if they are missing

That's it! If you have questions just ask here. Have fun playing your gamecube games from SD!

 

[Maxternal]

Is downloading the ROM the same as downloading gcm?

technically the term ROM is for older consoles that used cartridges and not for GameCube but some people still use it for the same thing. A GCM is basically the closest you'd get to a GameCube ROM, yes.

 

[michaelcr]

Do I need to mAke the fat32 partition actually in front of the other partition or do I just make it primary

 

[Maxternal]

Do I need to mAke the fat32 partition actually in front of the other partition or do I just make it primary

Primary is not to be confused with active.
Active is a setting. You can have one partition set to active.
Primary is a type of partition. It's either primary or extended(which would then have virtual partitions inside it)

People say it needs to be active but it doesn't. What's important there is that the type of partition is a primary partition.

also

The first partition thing, it's really just important to have it be the first partition in the MBR (the "partition list" at the beginning of the drive) but partitioning programs usually put the partition that's physically first as the first one on the MBR but even if it ends up being the last one physically, you can use this to switch them in the list :
http://gbatemp.net/t...n-a-faster-way/

 

[michaelcr]

What is a good wad viewer and downloaded app

 

[Maxternal]

What is a good wad viewer and downloaded app

I'm not sure what you mean here ?

 

[michaelcr]

Wad manager is not mounting my device even though I know the wii reads it because I can open apps from it....

 

[Maxternal]

Oh, okay.
There's ...
WiiMod
MultiModManager (MMM)
WadManager GUI
... and lots of others that are just WAD Manager mods and versions.

You could also tell WAD Manager to use a different IOS at the beginning when it loads up. That might help.

 

[michaelcr]

I installed the wad but now it says I have to install DM(L) to play games of USB or sd card :/

 

[Maxternal]

I installed the wad but now it says I have to install DM(L) to play games of USB or sd card :/

Ouch, did you update GX, too, or just install the WAD?
on your old version you needed to change the "DML installed version" setting for it to work.
You could always see if it works with DM(L) Booter.

 

[michaelcr]

I take my Sd card out and now no games appear even though I have a games folder in USB with game in it

 

[Maxternal]

I take my Sd card out and now no games appear even though I have a games folder in USB with game in it

Oh, wait, did you change your custom path setting for gamecube in GX?

 

[michaelcr]

Nvm the game is working (so far) lets hope there is no problems

 

[KingMuk]

REMOVED

 

[michaelcr]

Ok it's official! Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is 100% compatible with Dios Mios 2.3! It works flawlessly off of my USB hdd!
BIG THANKS to Maxternal for putting up with all of my questions and answering them all with respect!

 

[ReidParsekian]

Hey everyone, I'm having a problem getting ocarina codes to work on DML
I'm using DML because I have a WBFS formated drive for my Wii games and I only need a couple of Gamecube games. So I took the DML route and I'm using a 16GB sd card.
I downloaded DML 2.3 and got it working right away on USB Loader GX r1202 with zero problems. However getting codes to work is a different story. I enabled ocarina and saved the .gct under sd/codes/GAMEID and got a message saying "Warning: The GCT Cheatcodes path must be on SD" when starting a game. Weird because all I'm using is an SD?? So I looked around online and people were saying that it has to be under the directory usb/game/GAMEID so I tired that on my SD but had no luck. I also tried renaming the GCT to ID6.gct and I tried using Dios Mios Booter and nothing! I really just want to get cheats to work! So if any one knows what to do please help me! Thanks.

 

[Maxternal]

Hey everyone, I'm having a problem getting ocarina codes to work on DML
I'm using DML because I have a WBFS formated drive for my Wii games and I only need a couple of Gamecube games. So I took the DML route and I'm using a 16GB sd card.
I downloaded DML 2.3 and got it working right away on USB Loader GX r1202 with zero problems. However getting codes to work is a different story. I enabled ocarina and saved the .gct under sd/codes/GAMEID and got a message saying "Warning: The GCT Cheatcodes path must be on SD" when starting a game. Weird because all I'm using is an SD?? So I looked around online and people were saying that it has to be under the directory usb/game/GAMEID so I tired that on my SD but had no luck. I also tried renaming the GCT to ID6.gct and I tried using Dios Mios Booter and nothing! I really just want to get cheats to work! So if any one knows what to do please help me! Thanks.

Hope this answer to a similar question on another thread helps.

It doesn't Autoload the gct if it's in the same location than the ISO, it load the GCT from the GCT path defined in the loader!
If you are using GX, the cheat file should be placed in the GCT folder (the one defined in the "user paths" menu, in the laoder's setting).
DIOS MIOS (Lite) require that the gct is located on the same partition than the game (not necessarily the same folder).

By default, these folders are used by USBLoaderGX:

SD:/txtcodes/ (this one is the folder where the .txt files are downloaded)
SD:/codes/ (this one is the folder where the .gct are created)

If you are using DIOS MIOS Lite (SD), then you need to place the folder on SD.
SD:/codes/GABE01.gct
If you are using DIOS MIOS (usb), you need to place the folder on USB too:
USB1:/codes/GABE01.gct


To change the location of the folder, go to settings > Page 2 > User's paths > GCT code folder.
Select ANY folder located on the same partition than the game you want to play.
There is NO NEED or restriction that the folder is called "codes".
You can select USB1:/
If you want to put them on the root

If you change the folder's path, don't forget to move the gct too, or create it again using the Ocarina menu in the loader.


Then, to enable cheat code, don't forget to enable it in the game settings > Ocarina : enabled.


PS:
There are user's report about USBGX r1202 abd DMLite not working correctly with Ocarina.
It seems it's a SD path detection problem.
But if you use USB and DIOS MIOS, it should work without problem.

 

[ReidParsekian]

I just switched back to USB Loader GX r1201 and the codes do in fact work! I just still get that error message before starting the game. At least it works! Thanks a bunch. Hopefully a future update will clear this all up.

 

[LuisSanchez]

Hey everyone Im having problem with audio in a game i already tried downloading it from 2 different websites and if i play it in dolphin the audio does work. I use usbloadergx to play and all the other games work just fine. The game is Dave Mirra fREESTYLE bmx 2 NTSC i will really appreciate the help.

 

[ddetkowski]

Dave Mirra fREESTYLE bmx 2 NTSC is a game with streaming audio for GC. Sorry, audio streaming games ALL have that problem for now, unless a revision is made to fix that.

 

[Taint]

I'm trying to install DML and am having a major issue. I installed it on my Wii no problem, but whenever I try to drag and drop the gamecube iso file onto the discex.exe icon, the black window pops up for a split second an disappears. I've tried with both the 0.8 and 0.9 releases, but still neither one seems to open for me properly. I have all the discex files in the right spot and I don't know what the problem is. Can anyone help me please?

Thanks!