Hacking DIOS/MIOS CFG loads to black screen, please help!

[mmilhoan]

I am trying to play backup gamecube games on my Wii. I followed a video step by step. I cleanrip'd a retail GC disk of SSBM to a Fat32 external HDD, loaded it to Diskex on computer, then through GCMUtility. Put game.iso in games folder on hard drive.

Next I loaded up the necessary files on SD card. Pimp My Wii, CFG Loader, and DIOS MIOS.wad(and rev files v.10 and v.6) I went through the whole PimpMyWii process and installed/updated all necessary things.

Once that finished, I exited PimpMyWii and went to CFG loader, I changed the boot to Fat32 in settings then saved. I went back and saw the Super Smash Bros. Melee game(and all others I had on my drive) present and accounted for. I click start on any game and it loads up to a black screen. It doesnt shut the wii off, it doesnt reset, it just sits there all day on a black screen. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?? Any help would be appreciated, thank you!!

This is the tutorial video I watched ---- (youtube)watch?v=IUkzYTAiC9Q

So I also found that you need the Fat32 HD to be 32kb clusters, I got a program called Ease Partition Manager and made the partition Primary 32kb clusters and it still loads to a black screen. So I really have no idea what I am doing wrong.

 

[mmilhoan]

A wild guess: One thing that might be causing it is that the HD is a 2TB My book, and it is split into three parts, 1) 500 GB for wii games... format: wbfs 2) 1.475GB NTFS(movies + such) 3) 25GB for GC games. And they are all set as primary. Could this be the issue? As well, when I try setting it to 32kb clusters and then go back to confirm it(on Ease PM), the cluster setting is at 16KB, so I don't know/think it's actually changing it even after I hit apply and it says it does. So is there any way to check or does it really even need to be 32kb clusters?! I may need to just get a 32GB flash drive or something

A little more info. Dios/Mios v 2.10 2GB standard SD card

 

[mmilhoan]

So, I've been reading. And another thing that could be causing it??? in the GC hard drive. It goes: games/GALE01(for example)/game.iso, but I also have a folder in there called sys which contains like loaders and stuff. I will attach what all it has on it. I have all those files in the GALE01 folder

 

[mmilhoan]

Also, while I'm going through Pimp My Wii, I just noticed, it says that I dont have a cMIOS that is needed to play GC games, what cMIOS do I need, I have the ciosInstaller, but I dont want to install the wrong thing and mess things up

 

[mmilhoan]

Update: Alright, so this thread will most likely just be in my journey of discovering how to get this to work/as well as what all I did wrong. I don't think that my drive is set as the FIRST DRIVE, also I have read that EASEUSPARTITION MASTER can trick you into making you think it changed your drive to 32kb clusters, so I am going to make sure that my drive(which I believe is compatible)'s partition for my GC games is set first, active, and 32kb with one of these tools Acronis Disk Director (trial), MiniTool. I found this tutorial which looks like it will be extremely helpful.

http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended...v2-10-play-gamecube-backups-your-usb-hdd.html

And if I still can't get it to work I might try getting a different Hard drive/flash drive. I will get one that works for other people.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/post-the-model-of-hdds-youve-used-with-dios-mios.344522/

 

[mmilhoan]

Update:Western Digital
-Western Digital

Name of HDD: Western Digital My Book Essential
Model: WDBACW0020HBK-NESN
Size Of Drive: 2TB's
Usb Support: 3.0 + 2.0*
Working With:WII Games
Not Working: GC Games (Black Screen)
What Version DM:2.5, 2.9, 2.10
Loaders:Usb Loader Gx r1213, Usb Loader Gx r1215, Usb Loader Gx r1204
Additional Info: Issue appears to be that HDD briefly reboots while attempting to boot up Dios Mios.

Model:WDBACW0020HBK-00
Size:2TB's
Usb Support:2.0/3.0
Working With: Wii Games
Not Working:GC GAmes
What Version Of DM:2.0
Loader:Usb Loader Gx r1193 Mod 2

Size: 2TB
Brand: Wd
Model: My passport
P/N WDBY8L0020BBK-01
S/N WX31EA1ER545
Enclosure: n/a
Format: FAT32
Firmware/Softmod: Hombrew 1.1 4.3U then downgraded to 4.1U, Dios Mios v2.2
Loader: usb loader gx 3.0 r1200
Working/Not Working: Gc and Wii games both work

Name of HDD:My Book Essential
Model:WDBACW0020HBK-NESN
P/N:WDBACW0020HBK-01
S/N:WMAZA8015601
Size Of Drive:2TB
USB Support:3.0+2.0
Working With:GC/WII Games
What Version DM:2.5
Loaders:USB Loader GX R1204, Wiiflow v4.0.4, CFG Loader r49

On that tutorial I found this compatibility list, I am not by my hard drive atm, but I will update when I find out the model number, because this could have been my issue

 

[mmilhoan]

Model:WDBACW0020HBK-00
Size:2TB's
Usb Support:2.0/3.0
Working With: Wii Games
Not Working:GC GAmes
What Version Of DM:2.0
Loader:Usb Loader Gx r1193 Mod 2

Ok, so I have this hard drive, so does that mean I can't play gamecube games on it? And if that is the case, what is a suggested flash drive that I can get that will be able to work with DIOS/MIOS?

 

[tbgtbg]

Instead of pimpmywii you should probably be using modmii.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/modmii-for-windows-official-support-topic.207126/
Not saying this will fix your problem, just a bit of general advice.

I can't get DIOSMIOS to work with my HDD either, so I just use Devolution. Granted if you don't have original discs handy that's not an option. DM works okay with a 2GB thumbdrive I have though, so you might want to try something like just to make sure the issue is your HDD.

 

[mmilhoan]

Instead of pimpmywii you should probably be using modmii.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/modmii-for-windows-official-support-topic.207126/
Not saying this will fix your problem, just a bit of general advice.

I can't get DIOSMIOS to work with my HDD either, so I just use Devolution. Granted if you don't have original discs handy that's not an option. DM works okay with a 2GB thumbdrive I have though, so you might want to try something like just to make sure the issue is your HDD.

Thanks for the reply, I was able to get DIOS/MIOS Lite to work, so I think I'm just gonna stick with that, but with my 2GB Class 2 SD card the game runs very slow, but as I have read you can put up to 32GB Class 10 SDHC cards in the front slot of the WII and it will work, is that true??

Cause all I remember is seeing everywhere that you can only put up to a 2GB standard in the WII