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!

 

[Wanderlei777]

wrong place, sorry, please delete

 

[Maxternal]

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?

Okay, what the tutorial's actually saying is you have to
1. Download and extract the WAD creator (even though you won't use it to acutally create a WAD.)
2. Download and extract DiscEX
3. Put DiscEX into the folder with the WAD Creator files.
4. Run the WAD Creator.
5. When it gives you the option, type "C" to "convert" a game instead of create a WAD
6. Drag and drop the GameCube game into the open WAD Creator window.
7. Tell it if you want it to compress it or not.
8. Wait while it does it's thing.
9. Put the folder it makes inside the /games folder on your SD or USB device.
10. Profit.

Also, if you're NOT going to compress it, with the newer DM(L) versions it's easier just to.
1. Put the GameCube game into a folder by itself (name it whatever you want)
2. name the GameCube game exactly "game.iso". It doesn't matter if it's a GCM or an ISO. (They're really the same thing.) Just name the file "game.iso"
3. put the folder in your /games folder
4. profit.

Even easier :
Use GCIT
http://www.wiibackup...co.uk/gcit.html
Just tell it to "extract" it in DiscEX format and save it in the /games folder.

 

[Nyminix]

I have this problem (Tried DML 2.2 and 2.3). Whenever I try to run a game, it just freezes at the DIOS MIOS splash screen.

 

[Maxternal]

I have this problem (Tried DML 2.2 and 2.3). Whenever I try to run a game, it just freezes at the DIOS MIOS splash screen.

Does this happen with all the games you try to play?
What settings do you have set for those games?
What loader are you using?

Also, how big is your SD card or HDD? What format is it in? What's the sector size? How many partitions does it have?

Just to make sure it's not a problem with the game format, try just putting the full sized, untouched, in a folder and name it "game.iso" and put that folder inside the /games folder on your Wii INSTEAD of running it through DiscEX or GCReEx just to make sure they're not messing it up in the process.

If you're using DML (SD)
There are some SD cards that DML is not compatible with since v1.0 and so the solution would be installing r59 which is the last version without those compatibility problems.
You can get it here : http://www.mediafire.com/?qk17b9hubiki4v7

If you're using DM (USB)
Do you have it plugged into USB port 0 (the one closest to the edge of the Wii)
Other than that, there are some USB devices that are just not compatible with DiosMios. You could try plugging in and unplugging the USB while it's frozen to see if it helps but.

 

[Nyminix]

I have this problem (Tried DML 2.2 and 2.3). Whenever I try to run a game, it just freezes at the DIOS MIOS splash screen.

Does this happen with all the games you try to play?
What settings do you have set for those games?
What loader are you using?

Also, how big is your SD card or HDD? What format is it in? What's the sector size? How many partitions does it have?

Just to make sure it's not a problem with the game format, try just putting the full sized, untouched, in a folder and name it "game.iso" and put that folder inside the /games folder on your Wii INSTEAD of running it through DiscEX or GCReEx just to make sure they're not messing it up in the process.

If you're using DML (SD)
There are some SD cards that DML is not compatible with since v1.0 and so the solution would be installing r59 which is the last version without those compatibility problems.
You can get it here : http://www.mediafire...qk17b9hubiki4v7

If you're using DM (USB)
Do you have it plugged into USB port 0 (the one closest to the edge of the Wii)
Other than that, there are some USB devices that are just not compatible with DiosMios. You could try plugging in and unplugging the USB while it's frozen to see if it helps but.

I can't remember all those answers to it, but I'll answer as much as possible
- Yes it happens to all games (Pal Wii - tested Mario Party 7 (USA), Metroid Prime (PAL, and ripped myself), Metroid Prime 2 (USA)
- USBLOADER GX r202, DM Booter r30... I'll get back to you on the WIiflow and CFG.
- It is a Kingston class 4 8GB SDHC formatted to FAT32 64KB clusters. Not sure what you mean by sector size and partitions.

I'll test out the DML you posted when I can.
EDIT: Okay... I'm confused on how to do this... can you help? The readme is sort of confusing. D:

 

[LuisSanchez]

Im having a problem with the wii games, they dont start at all :/ before i changed the partition from wbfs to fat32 they did work but now when i start the game it just goes to a black screen. anyone knows why??

 

[cytokinetic]

Im having a problem with the wii games, they dont start at all :/ before i changed the partition from wbfs to fat32 they did work but now when i start the game it just goes to a black screen. anyone knows why??

Same thing happened to my HDD. I think it's an issue with DIOS MIOS. I reformatted the USB HDD and then installed DIOS MIOS 2.4 and put a game on the partition and it works again. I am not sure for how long but it may be because my HDD is USB 3.0 and DIOS says that some devices are not supported which is what causes the black screen. If it happens again I will try to use a native USB 2.0 drive and see if that helps.

 

[stsaerox]

I'm trying to download dml 2.4 from google code/uploaded.to for 2 days now.... and I;m getting message "servers are full"

That's ridiculous... Here is a link for anyone need this.

Download Dios mios lite 2.4:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mw274tv6ciqbzxl

If it is against the rules just please let me know. I'll instantly delete this.

 

[Xiomara]

What happens if you didn't name it "games.iso" because i named it after the game name like "sonic heroes.iso" and when i put in the wii it didn't load the game it said apploader size is zero so if i name it game.iso will it load the game?

 

[Maxternal]

What happens if you didn't name it "games.iso" because i named it after the game name like "sonic heroes.iso" and when i put in the wii it didn't load the game it said apploader size is zero so if i name it game.iso will it load the game?

Basically, yes, if you name it "game.iso" it should load just fine.

 

[FIX94]

No idea if anybody still cares, but I've update my small gc iso compressor with some fatal bug fixed which made it impossible to compress certain games, win32 binary here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?e5uumv65l78667d
And source here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7n4gos0yu1c63wu

 

[YanMegaMan]

I can't seem to be able to get the games to work. I did all of the steps, and when I got to USB LOADER GX it showed a blank channel where SUper Mario Sunshine should have been and when I clicked start on it, it took me back to the system menu. Any help? The only thing I can think of that might be causing this is that I had Mios/cMios that I didn't remember installing. I'm also trying tto play from a usb drive.

 

[Maxternal]

I can't seem to be able to get the games to work. I did all of the steps, and when I got to USB LOADER GX it showed a blank channel where SUper Mario Sunshine should have been and when I clicked start on it, it took me back to the system menu. Any help? The only thing I can think of that might be causing this is that I had Mios/cMios that I didn't remember installing. I'm also trying tto play from a usb drive.

That's kinda wierd. You MIGHT have a corrupt disk image or need a newer version of GX. ( http://www.mediafire.com/?uahhi8exdaawmls )
Try updating and redoing the disk image to see if that helps. :/

 

[YanMegaMan]

I've actually manged to get somewhere with this. I moved the game to my SD card and now it will try to run the game, but it shows the Dios Mios logo and says "Incorrect configuration version. Please update your loader." But I already have Usb Loader GX as up to date as it can get. So I'm guessing the problem is in my installation of Dios Mios or Dios Mio Lite. I've been trying to get this to work all day and I think I'm finally getting somewhere but still have a little more to do.

 

[Maxternal]

I've actually manged to get somewhere with this. I moved the game to my SD card and now it will try to run the game, but it shows the Dios Mios logo and says "Incorrect configuration version. Please update your loader." But I already have Usb Loader GX as up to date as it can get. So I'm guessing the problem is in my installation of Dios Mios or Dios Mio Lite. I've been trying to get this to work all day and I think I'm finally getting somewhere but still have a little more to do.

Yeah, that shouldn't happen with GX v3.1 beta r1208 (linked above). are you running it directly through the HBC. If you're running it through a channel, it might not be a forwarder channel and just be running itself instead of the boot.dol file you updated. ... or you might have an older copy on USB still that you forgot about and the new one on SD (or visa versa) and it's running the wrong one.

 

[YanMegaMan]

Yeah, that shouldn't happen with GX v3.1 beta r1208 (linked above). are you running it directly through the HBC. If you're running it through a channel, it might not be a forwarder channel and just be running itself instead of the boot.dol file you updated. ... or you might have an older copy on USB still that you forgot about and the new one on SD (or visa versa) and it's running the wrong one.

Oh, I didn't realize there a version past 3.0. I just downloaded the file from that link. What do I do with it? I extracted the 3 files in it with 7-zip, but I have no idea what to with .dol files. I am sort of a noob at Wii softmodding, so I'm sorry if my asking for so much help is annoying. And as for your question about through HBC or channel, I've tried both ways.

 

[Maxternal]

Oh, I didn't realize there a version past 3.0. I just downloaded the file from that link. What do I do with it? I extracted the 3 files in it with 7-zip, but I have no idea what to with .dol files. I am sort of a noob at Wii softmodding, so I'm sorry if my asking for so much help is annoying. And as for your question about through HBC or channel, I've tried both ways.

You put the boot.dol from the 249 folder in the /apps/usbloader_gx folder replacing the existing one. (the other files in the package are slight variations that most people don't need anyhow.) If there's not already a file like that in that folder then see if there's a folder with a similar name and make sure you've looked on both SD and USB.

If you STILL can't find a file to replace then it's likely that you ARE running it from a channel that has it built in so you'll have to make the new folder and either run it from HBC or replace the channel you're using with a forwarder channel that will look for and use what's in that folder.

 

[Yepi69]

Is Dios Mios Lite easy uninstalable? BTW Does it work with a GCN memory card and a GCN to GBA link cable?

 

[Maxternal]

Is Dios Mios Lite easy uninstalable? BTW Does it work with a GCN memory card and a GCN to GBA link cable?

- Yes, you just install a clean MIOS v10 WAD file over the top of it.
- Yes.
- Yes.

 

[Yepi69]

- Yes, you just install a clean MIOS v10 WAD file over the top of it.
- Yes.
- Yes.

So, I just install it as a normal WAD and remove it as a normal WAD? Is that it?