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so it was your usb port i guess its either damaged or you forgot and installed a cios that affected the usbport 2 or something i guess lol and yeah some homebrew only works on the correct port but you can use sd card to bypass that.
I think the USB port is "almost" dead, since I redid everything again on both wiis, and the first one still has troubles when the second one doesn't. Guess I did a smart move by buying one of the last RVL-001 before they stopped manufacturing !
 

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I think the USB port is "almost" dead, since I redid everything again on both wiis, and the first one still has troubles when the second one doesn't. Guess I did a smart move by buying one of the last RVL-001 before they stopped manufacturing !
well problem solved then like we said those issues dont exist unless its hardware error so yeah all this time you had issues with nintendont was becuase of your damaged usbport.
 

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Wii RVL-101 aka a "family edition" Wii without GameCube ports.

Wii U has four ports, so you can connect both cables of the Smash adapter as well as a USB HDD without any issues.
Related to this, I guess there's not enough bandwidth to use a USB hub to keep all four in the rear ports?
 

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Related to this, I guess there's not enough bandwidth to use a USB hub to keep all four in the rear ports?
It would be a power problem before bandwidth.

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So, I am having a problem with this. It crashes when I try to load a game on my Wii U.

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So I'm new to this, but I just bought a Seagate 1TB HDD for specifically dumping all my Gamecube isos on, and I made the mistake of letting the Wii U format it. So after manually removing the partition and reformatting the drive to work with PC, I realize the only options are NTSC and exFAT, and I don't believe Nintendont supports either, correct? In that case, I could manually format my drive to Fat32, or do you recommend a specific 3rd party program? At the moment, I'm trying to figure out why I keep getting crash dumps trying to update controllers and files on the newest version of Nintendont, so I'll be waiting for any advice.
 

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Hi, i've a question about the feature "GBA-link controller support (Wii only)"
Does it mean if i plug a GBA to the Wii it will recognize the GBA ? or does if i use a regular controller it can act like a GBA ?
I'm desesperatly trying to find a way to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle with my friends, but we can't find GBA & cables for decent prices and even the emulator failed to work, thanks.
 

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So I'm new to this, but I just bought a Seagate 1TB HDD for specifically dumping all my Gamecube isos on, and I made the mistake of letting the Wii U format it. So after manually removing the partition and reformatting the drive to work with PC, I realize the only options are NTSC and exFAT, and I don't believe Nintendont supports either, correct? In that case, I could manually format my drive to Fat32, or do you recommend a specific 3rd party program? At the moment, I'm trying to figure out why I keep getting crash dumps trying to update controllers and files on the newest version of Nintendont, so I'll be waiting for any advice.
Nintendont will never support NTFS. It be supporting exFAT soon. Windows has a size limit on how big it will format a partition as FAT32 so you need to use a 3rd party app to do so.
Hi, i've a question about the feature "GBA-link controller support (Wii only)"
Does it mean if i plug a GBA to the Wii it will recognize the GBA ? or does if i use a regular controller it can act like a GBA ?
I'm desesperatly trying to find a way to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle with my friends, but we can't find GBA & cables for decent prices and even the emulator failed to work, thanks.
It will allow you to use the GBA-Link function in certain GameCube games and connect to a GBA like Pokémon Colosseum.
 
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That's interesting. I don't plan on reformatting my drive again after this, so I'll likely just use Verbatim for the FAT32.
As for the GBA function listed above, using a vWii, what would be your take on using a GBA to USB adapter such as this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/141882848583?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true
That's only a charging cable.

The vWii cannot use the GBA-Link functions. Same goes for the Wii's that don't have GameCube ports. You also cannot use the USB GameCube Controller adapter.
 
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The first post says " Title.txt support to display correct game's name" Where exactly is Title.txt? I looked on my SD card under Nintendont but didn't see it. Need to edit an incorrect game name that shows Virtua Striker 2002 when it's actually F-Zero AX (Triforce game).
 
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That's only a charging cable.

The vWii cannot use the GBA-Link functions. Same goes for the Wii's that don't have GameCube ports. You also cannot use the USB GameCube Controller adapter.

Alright, that's fine. I figured as much, but just wanted to check what you can and can't do, since the official WiiU GC controller adapter is supported for controller use. Now I just need to look into what mame games can be converted to Triforce, since most have .u files.

Actually, now I'm stuck. I went to load a game, it showed up, Nintendont went to mount an emulated mem card, and it had an error and had to shut down. I loaded it back up, and now it's stuck checking storage devices and doesn't recognize my hdd.

It crashes when I load a game, it crashes when I try to go back, sometimes it doesn't even see any games on my drive, and when it says reload, it doesn't reload. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here.

I reformatted it, so now it's only 930/1000GB, whatever, and used Ustealth to hide it from the Wii U. It works now. I still don't know what was wrong with it.

Nevermind, I was playing a game, and went to load a stage, and got a loud buzzing freeze, reloaded the Wii U, it tried to mount the mem card, failed, shut down, loaded the Wii U again, can't open the FAT32 storage device, hit go back, crash dump screen, can't reload. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing wrong. Games just randomly freeze for no reason, and hitting the home button always crashes the system.
 
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It would be a power problem before bandwidth.

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So, I am having a problem with this. It crashes when I try to load a game on my Wii U.

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do you have more than one usb device connected? is your device correctly formated to fat32?

Since you are suing the wiiu are you using an hdd with an y cable or your hdd has its own power supply?

So I'm new to this, but I just bought a Seagate 1TB HDD for specifically dumping all my Gamecube isos on, and I made the mistake of letting the Wii U format it. So after manually removing the partition and reformatting the drive to work with PC, I realize the only options are NTSC and exFAT, and I don't believe Nintendont supports either, correct? In that case, I could manually format my drive to Fat32, or do you recommend a specific 3rd party program? At the moment, I'm trying to figure out why I keep getting crash dumps trying to update controllers and files on the newest version of Nintendont, so I'll be waiting for any advice.
while nintendont exfat support is being worked on i dont advise on using it becuase most wii homebrew is fat32 only so yeah kinda pointless no? i say go with fat32 for sure.

Hi, i've a question about the feature "GBA-link controller support (Wii only)"
Does it mean if i plug a GBA to the Wii it will recognize the GBA ? or does if i use a regular controller it can act like a GBA ?
I'm desesperatly trying to find a way to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle with my friends, but we can't find GBA & cables for decent prices and even the emulator failed to work, thanks.
someone never had a gamecube lol, the gba link feature was used with some games where you used the gba link cable to gc and a specific gba game sometimes and had certain features enabled like trading pokemon to the gc version on pokemon games, enabling special stuff like tingle tuner in WW or splinter cell map and so on.


Alright, that's fine. I figured as much, but just wanted to check what you can and can't do, since the official WiiU GC controller adapter is supported for controller use. Now I just need to look into what mame games can be converted to Triforce, since most have .u files.

Actually, now I'm stuck. I went to load a game, it showed up, Nintendont went to mount an emulated mem card, and it had an error and had to shut down. I loaded it back up, and now it's stuck checking storage devices and doesn't recognize my hdd.

It crashes when I load a game, it crashes when I try to go back, sometimes it doesn't even see any games on my drive, and when it says reload, it doesn't reload. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here.

I reformatted it, so now it's only 930/1000GB, whatever, and used Ustealth to hide it from the Wii U. It works now. I still don't know what was wrong with it.

Nevermind, I was playing a game, and went to load a stage, and got a loud buzzing freeze, reloaded the Wii U, it tried to mount the mem card, failed, shut down, loaded the Wii U again, can't open the FAT32 storage device, hit go back, crash dump screen, can't reload. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing wrong. Games just randomly freeze for no reason, and hitting the home button always crashes the system.
nintendont only supports mario gp,mariogp2,f zeroax,virtua striker versions and pro yakun or whatever its called.

on wiiu you need a hdd with its own power supply or an y cable.

take a picture of your settings screen on nintendont if you can.
 

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I would still like to know how to rename games (please) but I am having another problem when I hit the home button to go back to the main menu fron Nintendont I get a black screen and I have to reboot by holding down the power button on the Wii. I just tried updating boot.dol but it still does it.
 

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I reformatted it, so now it's only 930/1000GB, whatever, and used Ustealth to hide it from the Wii U. It works now. I still don't know what was wrong with it.
Just for your information Windows will report a 1TB HDD as having around 930GB because Windows uses the Base 2 storage calculation whereas the HDD maker uses the Base 10 calculation. In reality the Base 2 930GBs = Base 10 1000GBs so you are not actually loosing any storage.

I would still like to know how to rename games (please) but I am having another problem when I hit the home button to go back to the main menu fron Nintendont I get a black screen and I have to reboot by holding down the power button on the Wii. I just tried updating boot.dol but it still does it.
You don't have a full channel forwarder for Nintendont. When you don't the behavior you experienced is normal.
 
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Yeah, I formatted it to FAT32, sometimes it detects the games, other times it gives errors such as blank drive, couldn't find /games/, couldn't find FAT32 drive, stuck searching for devices, stuck loading, random crash, crash at mounting usb/sd, crash dump every time from pressing the home button, random crash loading a new level in pretty much any game with a stage menu, just constantly crashing. I keep having to unplug my Wii U, and it's really frustrating. Seagate HDD systems are smaller than a deck of cards, and have a single USB slot. I'm also using the back USB slot if that makes any difference from the front slot. It just crashes way too much to play anything.
 

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Yeah, I formatted it to FAT32, sometimes it detects the games, other times it gives errors such as blank drive, couldn't find /games/, couldn't find FAT32 drive, stuck searching for devices, stuck loading, random crash, crash at mounting usb/sd, crash dump every time from pressing the home button, random crash loading a new level in pretty much any game with a stage menu, just constantly crashing. I keep having to unplug my Wii U, and it's really frustrating. Seagate HDD systems are smaller than a deck of cards, and have a single USB slot. I'm also using the back USB slot if that makes any difference from the front slot. It just crashes way too much to play anything.
The Wii U doesn't give the USB ports enough power for most HDDs so you need either an external HDD that has its own power supply or a Y-Cable that has two USB plugs, the second plug gives the drive more power. It seems your drive requires more power than one USB port gives on the Wii U.

You can order the Y-Cable for either mini-usb or micro-usb devices online like I did.
 
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The Wii U doesn't give the USB ports enough power for most HDDs so you need either an external HDD that has its own power supply or a Y-Cable that has two USB plugs, the second plug gives the drive more power. It seems your drive requires more power than one USB port gives on the Wii U.

You can order the Y-Cable for either mini-usb or micro-usb devices online like I did.

I mean I'm playing a game right now, but it just froze at the intro video. The power supply can't really be the problem, can it?
 

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I mean I'm playing a game right now, but it just froze at the intro video. The power supply can't really be the problem, can it?
The errors and issues you are describing lead us to believe your HDD needs more power than One USB port on the Wii U gives. It also sounds like your HDD is near the threshold of the power the Wii U USB port gives where it may work and not work. When Nintendont tries to load something the HDD needs enough power to give Nintendont the data. If it can't, Nintendont crashes or gives an error.

Nintendo did a lousy job when designing the Wii U. They just didn't allocate enough power to the USB Ports. This is why the USB GameCube Controller adapter requires 2 USB port, One for the controller itself and one for the rumble.
 
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The errors and issues you are describing lead us to believe your HDD needs more power than One USB port on the Wii U gives. It also sounds like your HDD is near the threshold of the power the Wii U USB port gives where it may work and not work. When Nintendont tries to load something the HDD needs enough power to give Nintendont the data. If it can't, Nintendont crashes or gives an error.

Well if that's really the reason behind the detection issues, not mounting kernel -3, and constantly freezing, I'll buy this cord. It looks compatible with my Seagate. http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Micro-B-Cable-Computer-Laptop/dp/B00DDNXLFW

It still doesn't explain why the home button causes a crash dump every time.
 

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Well if that's really the reason behind the detection issues, not mounting kernel -3, and constantly freezing, I'll buy this cord. It looks compatible with my Seagate. http://www.amazon.com/EZOPower-Micro-B-Cable-Computer-Laptop/dp/B00DDNXLFW

It still doesn't explain why the home button causes a crash dump every time.
As long as your external HDD is a USB 3.0 device it should work fine.

As for the crash dump when you press home, that a different issue related to not having a proper Nintendont forwarder channel installed.
 

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