Hacking QUICK/NEWBIE QUESTIONS here!

[GreyWolf]

You can't use alt. It uses both ports for USB HDD access.

 

[tswntk]

someone said he installed d2x cIOS with a base80 and it worked for some games, ...

I tried base80 with Metroid Prime 3 (the game I am playing currently - MP Trilogy) and yes it works but I am still skeptical if an ios for system menu (ios30,40,50,60,70,80) is so good, why no game is released using them but keep using ios with lower numbers and why Nintendon't has to make such a big mess with numerous ios.

 

[Cyan]

yes, that's also what I think.
Maybe the system menu IOS has different functions, for example it could miss zlib so as long as your game doesn't need it, it works, but games require specific IOS for a reason.
I'm sure music games requires IOS58 for USB2.0 support, unless accessories are USB1.1 then IOS57 should work.

I don't know what is the issue with latest release of music games, old ones are working fine. Maybe they added a protection/detection ? or there's really a missing setup with USBLoaders and cIOS.

 

[incidentallyscribble]

You can't use alt. It uses both ports for USB HDD access.

Thank you! It worked!

 

[CallieMarie]

What's the largest SD/MicroSD card I can use to load Wii and GC games? Can I use 64-128GB MicroSDXC?

 

[ca032769]

What's the largest SD/MicroSD card I can use to load Wii and GC games? Can I use 64-128GB MicroSDXC?

Should work just fine. I've been using a PNY Elite Performance 256GB High Speed SDXC Class 10 UHS-I (Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FF90EZM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) for a year or so without any problems.

 

[CallieMarie]

Should work just fine. I've been using a PNY Elite Performance 256GB High Speed SDXC Class 10 UHS-I (Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FF90EZM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) for a year or so without any problems.

Thank you!

 

[Mike McKeen]

Quick question. Replacing a dying HDD with a SSD, everything eventually went fine when I decided to just use Fat32 for the whole hard drive, instead of backing up to a wbfs partition. Switched from CFG loader to USB Loader GX, got my Gamecube backups working with Nintendont, but the partition I am using is technically the 2nd primary partition, because you know the recovery partition on most hard drives? That is the "First Primary Partition" and thus USB Loader GX won't play them, every time it says I have to set the Main Path, which I have done.

So, is there a way around that or will I have to start from scratch, reformat the drive, somehow find a way to erase that extra partition or make it the second primary? I have looked all over the web and have found all sorts of information around the topic, but no specific answers to this question.

Thanks in advance!
Using a Macbook with OSX El Capitan but also have access to Window10 laptop.
OSX does not give me an easy option to erase that extra partition.

 

[Procyon]

Quick question. Replacing a dying HDD with a SSD, everything eventually went fine when I decided to just use Fat32 for the whole hard drive, instead of backing up to a wbfs partition. Switched from CFG loader to USB Loader GX, got my Gamecube backups working with Nintendont, but the partition I am using is technically the 2nd primary partition, because you know the recovery partition on most hard drives? That is the "First Primary Partition" and thus USB Loader GX won't play them, every time it says I have to set the Main Path, which I have done.

So, is there a way around that or will I have to start from scratch, reformat the drive, somehow find a way to erase that extra partition or make it the second primary? I have looked all over the web and have found all sorts of information around the topic, but no specific answers to this question.

Thanks in advance!
Using a Macbook with OSX El Capitan but also have access to Window10 laptop.
OSX does not give me an easy option to erase that extra partition.

Erase the extra partition using fdisk

 

[Mike McKeen]

Erase the extra partition using fdisk

So that sounds good in theory, but we're talking about a system partition of 200+kb.
As far as I know it shouldn't even be an option on for the loader to use...
I'm going to assume it has something to do with the SSD being formatted with a Mac OSX operating system. If it were formatted on a Windows PC or third party app do you think that would make a difference?

 

[Procyon]

So that sounds good in theory, but we're talking about a system partition of 200+kb.
As far as I know it shouldn't even be an option on for the loader to use...
I'm going to assume it has something to do with the SSD being formatted with a Mac OSX operating system. If it were formatted on a Windows PC or third party app do you think that would make a difference?

Don't know, but try fdisk. It should be fine

 

[GreyWolf]

So that sounds good in theory, but we're talking about a system partition of 200+kb.
As far as I know it shouldn't even be an option on for the loader to use...
I'm going to assume it has something to do with the SSD being formatted with a Mac OSX operating system. If it were formatted on a Windows PC or third party app do you think that would make a difference?

OS X likes to make extra EFI partitions whether you want them or not. If you have access to Windows you could try Ridgecrop's FAT32Formatter or Bootice. (Or a live GParted bootable USB, too.)

 

[Mike McKeen]

OS X likes to make extra EFI partitions whether you want them or not. If you have access to Windows you could try Ridgecrop's FAT32Formatter or Bootice. (Or a live GParted bootable USB, too.)

So I used Windows 10 and AOMEI partition tool (As admin) to format the drive with 2 Fat32 Partitions, one to place the games on, and one to maybe possibly run Homebrew and all that jazz.

Copied all of my GC backups and WBFS backups over, then because I was worried my old 2 gb class 2 sd card was going to crap out soon I bought 2 16 gb class 4 SanDisk SD cards (One for each Wii I am updating all this fun for) and copied the homebrew setup over and all my roms/wads.

So, I still can't load gamecube games through the USB Loader GX (using Nintendont, all paths are correct and settings set), and I also have been having a problem with the N64 roms on Wii64 (Both Wii64 and Not64 say "Invalid Rom" when using either the .v-z-n64 file or the .zip, that is still happening.

So I am in the process of installing all the wads over to my sd card as that will overlap some of the N64 games I have (not all of them) and wondering how the hell anyone ever get this to work the way they want. I have had a modded Wii for 8+ years and I don't think I've ever had it run everything I wanted it too... :-\
...That is in part because I am cautious to not brick my Wii, and don't want to go crazy trying to get it all working and either brick it or use it to play the hammer game. RAWR!! SMASH IT!!! X-D

Sooo... any help? Am I missing an IOS, or some other big piece? I can't figure out why the Wii64 or the GC games won't load...

 

[BigHairyFart]

Hi all! I'm not really a 'newbie' but I've not messed with this stuff for a LONG time so I'm rusty. I'm having trouble changing the install directory in USBLoaderGX. I have updated USBLoader and the HBC and that has not helped. When I go to 'Hard Drive Settings' the first bar (Game/Install Partition) says 'NTFS (59.95GB)' and selecting it does nothing to change the format my games are installed on (my drive is formatted to FAT32 for use with Nintendon't). If it helps my games are installed as such:

D/wbfs/Super Smash Bros. Brawl [RSBE01]/RSBE01.iso

I have not changed the folder/file names of any of these, meaning that this same setup worked with USBLoader worked just fine before I changed my hard drive's format type to FAT32. I have also in the past successfully ran games using FAT32 so I'm not sure what the issue is now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Oh and I have an original model Wii on Ver. 4.3U if that matters at all.

Thanks!

 

[fledge68]

I don't have an answer for you. but thanks for making me laugh LMAO - love your name BigHairyFart!

 

[evilanimeluver]

Ok, this is actually about the gamecube but i couldnt find a place for it so i'm tossing it in here. I've got a gamecube xeno chip coming in and i'm curious if i can use backups directly from an sd gecko with no disk.

 

[Owl Whiskey]

Ive got my Wii fully modded to play burnt disks, but some games (my copy of SSBB) cannot fit on my 4 gb dvds. Is there a way to load backups from burnt disks AND Usb?

 

[incidentallyscribble]

Ive got my Wii fully modded to play burnt disks, but some games (my copy of SSBB) cannot fit on my 4 gb dvds. Is there a way to load backups from burnt disks AND Usb?

Yeah, you can get a usb loader, such as usb loader gx. Are you saying you want to play usb games from the disc channel? Because I'm pretty sure you cant.

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Hi all! I'm not really a 'newbie' but I've not messed with this stuff for a LONG time so I'm rusty. I'm having trouble changing the install directory in USBLoaderGX. I have updated USBLoader and the HBC and that has not helped. When I go to 'Hard Drive Settings' the first bar (Game/Install Partition) says 'NTFS (59.95GB)' and selecting it does nothing to change the format my games are installed on (my drive is formatted to FAT32 for use with Nintendon't). If it helps my games are installed as such:

D/wbfs/Super Smash Bros. Brawl [RSBE01]/RSBE01.iso

I have not changed the folder/file names of any of these, meaning that this same setup worked with USBLoader worked just fine before I changed my hard drive's format type to FAT32. I have also in the past successfully ran games using FAT32 so I'm not sure what the issue is now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Oh and I have an original model Wii on Ver. 4.3U if that matters at all.

Thanks!

Have you formatted it to fat32 correctly? Make sure not to use a "quick format" or such. Also, did you get to uninstall then install usb loader gx?

 

[cpire]

Hi All,

I'm having a problem getting games to load on USB Loader GX (and every other usb loader). With that, I choose a game and hit Start, and it just exits back to HBC. I've read a bunch of similar threads and have tried different cIOSs, different video settings (forcing PAL/NTSC), different usb drives, different ISO games, etc., and still the same thing happens. I use Wii Backup Manager to put the games on the drives (and they show up fine). Here is my SysCheck:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 80919826
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 75 titles.
Found 53 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[57] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[56] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v65535
Report generated on 11/05/2016.


I greatly appreciate any assistance. I've tried a ton to get this Wii to play backup games and haven't had any success with Wii games (GC games work).

Thanks.

Edit: I'm using USB Loader GX version 3.0 Rev. 1262.

 

[incidentallyscribble]

Hi All,

I'm having a problem getting games to load on USB Loader GX (and every other usb loader). With that, I choose a game and hit Start, and it just exits back to HBC. I've read a bunch of similar threads and have tried different cIOSs, different video settings (forcing PAL/NTSC), different usb drives, different ISO games, etc., and still the same thing happens. I use Wii Backup Manager to put the games on the drives (and they show up fine). Here is my SysCheck:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 80919826
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 75 titles.
Found 53 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
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 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[57] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[56] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v65535
Report generated on 11/05/2016.


I greatly appreciate any assistance. I've tried a ton to get this Wii to play backup games and haven't had any success with Wii games (GC games work).

Thanks.

Edit: I'm using USB Loader GX version 3.0 Rev. 1262.

Hmm... I noticed that you have priiloader installed. What settings for you set on priiloader? Just a random guess, but it's better than nothing.