Feb 1, 2018 - Original Post:
Hi Cyan--still always amazed by everything you are doing here after all these years--I'm grateful to see you still active and helping everyone. I've been off of my Wii for few years, but I'm jumping back in and wanted some of your seasoned advice.
I have a 2nd gen Wii (I think), long ago hacked using Lego Indy. Everything on my 32GB Sandisk SD card has always run 100% perfect, all emulators, apps, WiiWare, forwarders/channels--everything runs fine. All that being said, I'm running into HDD annoyances for my GC and Wii games. For reference I run Win, Mac, and Linux, so I have access to ALL the hardware I need/want to make things work. My HDD is a 750GB WD Blue (details below)
My core set-up is built around:
In an ideal configuration I would like to consistently prioritize all GC and Wii gaming to load properly from my HD.
Any recommendations on a properly tweaked set-up? I can provide more technical details if necessary. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Feb 18, 2018 - UPDATE: Here is my current SysCheck HD Edition Report
[
sysCheck v2.1.0 HD Edition by Double_A and R2-D2199, JoostinOnline, Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 83257403
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 188 titles.
Found 49 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stub.
IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS248[37] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/18/2018.
]
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Feb 18, 2017 - UPDATES AND NOTES:
I spent some time reviewing this thread https://gbatemp.net/threads/what-exactly-do-i-need-to-install-the-usb-loader-gx.403354/ , and the problem might be related to my use of d2x-v10beta52, but I'm not quite sure.
Hi Cyan--still always amazed by everything you are doing here after all these years--I'm grateful to see you still active and helping everyone. I've been off of my Wii for few years, but I'm jumping back in and wanted some of your seasoned advice.
I have a 2nd gen Wii (I think), long ago hacked using Lego Indy. Everything on my 32GB Sandisk SD card has always run 100% perfect, all emulators, apps, WiiWare, forwarders/channels--everything runs fine. All that being said, I'm running into HDD annoyances for my GC and Wii games. For reference I run Win, Mac, and Linux, so I have access to ALL the hardware I need/want to make things work. My HDD is a 750GB WD Blue (details below)
My core set-up is built around:
- 32GB 30MB/s 10-class SDHC SanDisk card (love it, it's always worked perfect) - runs all my old school games with ease except GC and Wii.
- USB Loader GX on an external HD (more details below) - I think I may need to manually overwrite some configs to prioritize Nintendont consistently.
- Homebrew Channel/Browser - the usual
- Nintentdont - I just updated this to the Nov 2017 release, but I now know that not everything is set properly
- My HD is probably the source of all my issues -- I run a WD Blue HD that I pulled from a dead iMac. It's 750GB, 1 partition, FAT, (I “think” it’s 7200rpm) holds all my GC and Wii games -- I'm one of those hardheads who owns 98% of my games on disc, games from US, EU, JPN (I love the little GC boxes from JP), but I ripped 98% of them myself all to my HD and put my games in my closet to free up my shelves. I have this weird Sabrent HD USB 3.0 Enclosure, Model EC-TB4P--its thicker to hold physically larger HDs and has done the job until these past year. It was supposed to have a Y-cable, but it came with a 3.0 straight line--despite of all of that, things ran well, but I have kept my system (and drive) mostly unplugged. I’m certain “time” is a source of my challenge. I know I am not supposed to defrag the drive, but I can’t help think that some kind of unoptimized rot is setting in.
In an ideal configuration I would like to consistently prioritize all GC and Wii gaming to load properly from my HD.
Any recommendations on a properly tweaked set-up? I can provide more technical details if necessary. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Feb 18, 2018 - UPDATE: Here is my current SysCheck HD Edition Report
[
sysCheck v2.1.0 HD Edition by Double_A and R2-D2199, JoostinOnline, Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 83257403
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 188 titles.
Found 49 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stub.
IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS248[37] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/18/2018.
]
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Feb 18, 2017 - UPDATES AND NOTES:
- I swapped to a WD Black 1TB HDD @ 7200RPM. I suspect a 5400RPM drive would be preferred, but finding older drives is difficult and this was available.
- I used Linux dd to copy my 750GB HDD to the 1TB drive, but it partitioned my drive to match the 750GB HDD, which is fine, because I have too much space anyhow.
- I swapped to an older USB 2.0 enclosure from MacSales, again for success with older tech.
- I removed all Apps from my USB drive, and they all run from my SDHD.
- I doublechecked that I am using the latest:
- Nintendont v5.481
- USB Loader GX 3.0r1268
- Loader's IOS 249 / 56
- Game's IOS 250 / 57
- Loader's IOS 249 / 56
- Rev. 21010
- AHB
- d2x v106beta52 base 56
- USB Loader GX-UNEO_Forwarder_5_1_AHBPROT.wad
I spent some time reviewing this thread https://gbatemp.net/threads/what-exactly-do-i-need-to-install-the-usb-loader-gx.403354/ , and the problem might be related to my use of d2x-v10beta52, but I'm not quite sure.
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