Ah understandable. Will HID devices be supported in the near future? Not all, just this one. Only asking as the code is most definitely floating around for it already. It makes it a pain to have to bring a wiimote with you whenever you wanna play a gc game on wiiu.
Ah understandable. Will HID devices be supported in the near future? Not all, just this one. Only asking as the code is most definitely floating around for it already. It makes it a pain to have to bring a wiimote with you whenever you wanna play a gc game on wiiu.
I have been able to reproduce the IOS change issue but I haven't pinned down the cause yet. Try using 1264 if you haven't already and see if it works. If not, 1263 (or official 1262) should be ok, they're just missing the newer Nintendont settings.
Ok, thanks. I'll go from there. That's after the devkit upgrade so it's probably something I broke after that.
Hi there! I am having some issues with getting USB Loader GX (or any backup loaders) to work on my new USB (I don't remember the specific one but I can dig up details if that's relevant), but it worked perfectly on my old tiny 4GB USB and I can't figure out the cause. It seems to have some trouble reading files and just acts strangely in general, it doesn't want to read the wbfs folder no matter what I do (I tried to switch them off from read-only and that didn't seem to do anything, I tried formatting it too, nothing seems to work), and if I try to start it up with the wbfs folder existing I just get a blank screen, and if I remove it the interface is... semi-functioning but never wants to go back from a menu? Is this a USB problem or is it something that I can fix?
The specific one is indeed relevant, so please provide that.
Recommended setup for an external hard-drive or flash drive:
- Partition Scheme: MBR (GPT is not supported)
- File System: FAT32 (others are supported, but FAT32 is by far the most compatible)
- Cluster Size: 32KB (sometimes called bytes per allocation unit- in which case it'd be 32,768B)
- Partition Type: Primary (not logical)
- Other Info: Ideally there should be only one partition- if there are multiple, make sure the first partition is the one you're using, make sure that the partition is also set active, even if it's the only partition on the device.
- For External Hard Drives, verify spin-down or "sleep" modes are disabled using the manufacturer's tools (if avaliable).
- For All USB devices, it's important the device be USB 1.0 or USB 2.0 compliant- many USB 3.0 devices have issues- and if you are using a 3.0 drive, it'd be a good idea to use a standard MicroUSB cable rather than a MicroUSB3.0 cable.
- Use Wii Backup Manager to install Wii games- manually setup gamecube games.
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Ah, thank you so much for your reply! It's a Sandisk Cruzer Edge since you needed that.
I did all the steps you mentioned above, and tried to test it, but it had the same issues as before, sadly
Given how cheap >128GB SD cards are nowadays, it's a shame that ULGX doesn't support booting Wii titles from the SD slot. It's a much more convenient/elegant solution than fussing around with potentially-incompatible USB caddies.
Actually, the maximum the Wii can even support is only 32GB, the physical SD slot on the Wii can't support SDXC to my knowledge.
Nope. SDXC cards work fine.
It's a similar situation to the 3DS - it doesn't support the SDXC standard in that it can't handle exFAT - but formatting the card as FAT32 works.
You've misunderstood the issue!
The Wii is perfectly capable of handling SDXC cards, if formatted as FAT32- it's a common situation in devices with SDHC support (3DS, etc).
The reason I commented is that USB Loader GX, unlike, say, Cfg Loader, doesn't support booting Wii titles from anything other than USB - the only things it can load from SD are EmuNAND channels and GameCube titles. Seems like it's the last missing feature of significance in the loader- and given the wider availability of high-capacity SD cards, it's a feature that's a fair bit more important than was the case a few years ago.
I remember SD support being planned at some point (easily a year or so ago), but nothing ever happened in that respect, as far as I'm aware.
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@All:
Please tell me when you either found a 2,5" drive (with y cable of course) which has at least 4 TB (on one partition) and works just fine with vWii + USB Loader GX or if there's a workaround for my often stated problem that I have to
Please tell me when you either found a 2,5" drive (with y cable of course) which has at least 4 TB (on one partition) and works just fine with vWii + USB Loader GX or if there's a workaround for my often stated problem that I have to
- change the USBLGX IOS to 58 which causes almost all Wii games to freeze at start
or
- start something else in vWii first which accesses the drive once (like WiiFlow) before I launch USBLGX
Maybe cyan will add that feature if you let him know about it. Sounds like it would be a nice addition.
@All:
Please tell me when you either found a 2,5" drive (with y cable of course) which has at least 4 TB (on one partition) and works just fine with vWii + USB Loader GX or if there's a workaround for my often stated problem that I have to
It's really killing my fun and preventing me from using my vWii mode at the moment.
- change the USBLGX IOS to 58 which causes almost all Wii games to freeze at start
or
- start something else in vWii first which accesses the drive once (like WiiFlow) before I launch USBLGX
Have you considered using a more reasonably-sized partition/hard drive? 4TB is the size limit for FAT32 volumes with 32kb clusters.
Be realistic. You're never going to play four terabytes of Wii/GameCube games. Even a 300GB HDD would be enough to meet your needs.
The partition shouldn't be the problem.
I tried a 4 TB drive with a 4 TB FAT32 partition (32 k cluster size) and a 5 TB drive with a 5 TB FAT32 partition (64 k cluster size) as decribed multiple times in this thread by a few members.
Both were working. The problem was just that USBLGX always freezes at the title screen at "initializing usb device" in it's default IOS 249 (which I need to have in order to launch Wii games) as it can't wake the drive obviously.
There's only two workarounds:
Using another app like WiiFlow before, which (for any reason) can wake the drive before I launch USB Loader GX which runs just fine then or doing what Cyan told me: Change USBLGX's global IOS to 58.
Afterwards it can wake the drive on its own but launching many Wii games leads to a black screen then.
So the closest solution would be to look how WiiFlow wakes the drive and implement that into USBLGX so that it even works with IOS 249.
That would be just epic as I could use the forwarder channel of hbl2hbc which has the settings to directly launch USBLGX with IOS249 where I can do everything I love:
- play Wii games with saves being in emuNAND
- play WiiWare from emuNAND
- play GC games with Nintendont
- playing even WiiWare games like "TV Show King 2" which require neek
