Hacking USB Loader GX doesn't load GC games, Nintendont work

[itachi_hm]

I already did it work on my Wii, so doesn't seem to be something "stupid".
My Wii is with USB Loader GX r1281 (latest). Already cleaned all files and tested a fresh install.
HD with 2 partitions, 1 Fat32 for GC e another NTFS with Wii.
Nintendont already installed, and working OK. (Identify all my games and every one that i tested worked OK).
Using phisical GC media already work.
I configured the folders inside USB Loader for GC files, and USB Loader find and list all Wii AND GC games, with covers OK.
Wii games load ok. But GC games on USB Loader stuck on "copy to SD" menu.

Keeps asking me to copy the GC game to SD card or to erase SD file.

Any hints of whats's happening? My Wii was updated before the motherboard failed and the technic that check it changed the motherboard. So i'm not sure everything is updated.

What's bothering me is that Nintendont work, so the emulation itself is working. Also Wii games on USB Loader also is working. The problem seems to be only that USB Loader isn't forwarding the GC USB game to Nintendont.

The strange is that during my 3 hours testing, sometimes some games loads OK from USB Loader, after that, not.

Some hints? Everything i found about that problem is 10 years old related to versions not updated.

Thanks!

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

why not make a single FAT32 partition of your external hard drive and put your Gamecube and Wii games on the same partition.

please post a syscheck report here to see if your CIOS,IOS are installed correctly.

 

[itachi_hm]

why not make a single FAT32 partition of your external hard drive and put your Gamecube and Wii games on the same partition.

FAT32 is limited to 4GB file size. Some Wii games has 7GB+ size.
At USB Loader GX i changed options to "multiple partitions" and the games are loaded OK. And also works with Nintendont finding it. If i'm not wrong the first one is FAT32 (to better recognition) and the second is NTFS.
It's better than the old times with WBFS partition LOL

please post a syscheck report here to see if your CIOS,IOS are installed correctly.

Spoiler

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: xxxxx
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 86 titles.
Found 49 IOS on this console. 11 of them are stubs.

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): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
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): No Patches
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): No Patches
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): No Patches
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: Hermes-v55.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: Hermes-v55.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: Hermes-v55.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: Hermes-v55.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65280): Stub
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 01/06/2025.

As i said, the board was changed last year, so i'm reconfiguring things to work as expected (Lost all my Wii save games that was inside my old board).

 

[JustMeDaFaq]

FAT32 is limited to 4GB file size. Some Wii games has 7GB+ size.
At USB Loader GX i changed options to "multiple partitions" and the games are loaded OK. And also works with Nintendont finding it. If i'm not wrong the first one is FAT32 (to better recognition) and the second is NTFS.
It's better than the old times with WBFS partition LOL

Fat32 beeing limited to 4gb doesnt matter. If isos/wbfs files are too big, you can split them. Wii Backup Manager does that automatically for example

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

you don't have the latest version of CIOS (d2x-v11-beta1), you can see here ==>
https://wii.hacks.guide/cios.html

or use @XFlak Modmii to update your syscheck, just drag and drop your syscheck report into Modmii and it will tell you what to install.

wii backup manager splits games over 4gb (no problem).

it's true WBFS is really outdated.

or look here for your problem ==>
https://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx-troubleshooting-guide.617564/

 

[itachi_hm]

Fat32 beeing limited to 4gb doesnt matter. If isos/wbfs files are too big, you can split them. Wii Backup Manager does that automatically for example

Thanks for the tip, but using NTFS wish ISO files is simpler and not need to use an app to add / move games I'm using two partition just to use the same disk for GC and Wii, before using for GC my entire disk was formated with NTFS.

or use @XFlak Modmii to update your syscheck, just drag and drop your syscheck report into Modmii and it will tell you what to install.

I used Modmii on my Wii before the "board transplant" (6.6.2 at the time) but being very sincere i don't like the fact that the v7 it's being marked as malware for Mozilla, Microsoft and Google together.
So considering that right now i didn't have a PC to "risk it" i prefeer to wait some patch or correction on that behavior.
Considering that the version 6.2.2 doesn't have any "flag" as i open it to test and check for viruses without any flag, something on version 7 is triggering the AVs.

or look here for your problem ==>

The problem with these links (i read them all before posting here) that all is related to SD card games or "black screen" or the program crashing.
My problem in this case it's that the USB Loader itself is flagging the need to copy to SD (USB Loader doesn't let my games being load from the USB drive) but everything else seems to work.

I will try again the version 1272 to confirm that Nintendont works as it is now (using the actual CIOS), after that i will download the update to test the version 1281.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Thanks for the tip, but using NTFS wish ISO files is simpler and not need to use an app to add / move games I'm using two partition just to use the same disk for GC and Wii, before using for GC my entire disk was formated with NTFS.

I used Modmii on my Wii before the "board transplant" (6.6.2 at the time) but being very sincere i don't like the fact that the v7 it's being marked as malware for Mozilla, Microsoft and Google together.
So considering that right now i didn't have a PC to "risk it" i prefeer to wait some patch or correction on that behavior.
Considering that the version 6.2.2 doesn't have any "flag" as i open it to test and check for viruses without any flag, something on version 7 is triggering the AVs.

The problem with these links (i read them all before posting here) that all is related to SD card games or "black screen" or the program crashing.
My problem in this case it's that the USB Loader itself is flagging the need to copy to SD (USB Loader doesn't let my games being load from the USB drive) but everything else seems to work.

I will try again the version 1272 to confirm that Nintendont works as it is now (using the actual CIOS), after that i will download the update to test the version 1281.

You shouldn't be using ISOs. They contain a lot of unnecessary padding, most Wii games are less than half the size when converted to wbfs. Many games are only a few hundred MBs when converted. Super Paper Mario for example is 400 MB. And Wii Backup Manager takes care of file naming, splitting wbfs, and even downloading covers for you. It's much nicer than having a folder full of ISOs with inconsistent filenames.

 

[itachi_hm]

You shouldn't be using ISOs. They contain a lot of unnecessary padding, most Wii games are less than half the size when converted to wbfs. Many games are only a few hundred MBs when converted. Super Paper Mario for example is 400 MB. And Wii Backup Manager takes care of file naming, splitting wbfs, and even downloading covers for you. It's much nicer than having a folder full of ISOs with inconsistent filenames.

I understand that. The point is that i bought an 500GB drive just for Wii, at the beginning i use USB Loader with WBFS folder so half of the drive was available. I formated the drive, made a 120GB for GC, and when i was to use Wii Backup to shrink i saw that all the Wii games that i want, in ISO mode, didn't get the free space, right now i have 80 or 90GB free space, so right now i didn't see a point to shrink files instead to just plug and copy it, eEven my FAT32 partition has 40 ou 50GB free.

If that was the case, yes, i agree that WBFS would free some space.