Hacking Need Help Making USB Loader Recognize My Flash Drive

[Hitokage]

I've been fiddling around with trying to make my Wii U load Wii games from my flash drive all day. At first, the game would show up (Twilight Princess, if that matters any), but when I clicked start, it would just crash back to the Homebrew Channel main menu.

After learning it was a problem with the cIOS, I installed the proper one (I forget the name, v53 I think?), which I verified worked due to it finally no longer saying "You cannot load Wii games and some channels on this version". It instead tried to initialize an HDD, but couldn't find anything, so it went to the menu, but read off of the Wii U's hard drive, rather than my flash drive.

It is not seeing my flash drive at all, even after formatting it in several types (WFBS, FAT32), and I'm about at my wit's end trying to make it work. Any ideas?

 

[jbuck1975]

I don't have an answer for you, but when I first did my vWii, i tried 2 different flash drives, neither worked finally bought a extrnal hard drive with y cable and it worked.

 

[Hitokage]

I don't have an answer for you, but when I first did my vWii, i tried 2 different flash drives, neither worked finally bought a extrnal hard drive with y cable and it worked.

I don't have the money for an external hard drive, sadly. The strange thing is prior to flashing a new cIOS, it was able to find my flash drive just fine, it just would crash upon launch

 

[endoverend]

Make sure you have installed cIOS perfectly according to this guide. You may have installed a Wii cIOS which is incompatible with the vWii. Use the guide in my signature to post a sysCheck as well so we can see your IOS setup.

Some other info is needed as well. What flash drive are you using? How big is it? Have you tried using a Y-Cable or a different flash drive?

 

[Hitokage]

Make sure you have installed cIOS perfectly according to this guide. You may have installed a Wii cIOS which is incompatible with the vWii. Use the guide in my signature to post a sysCheck as well so we can see your IOS setup.

Some other info is needed as well. What flash drive are you using? How big is it? Have you tried using a Y-Cable or a different flash drive?

Mind if I get that to you tomorrow? I just turned my Wii off (school tomorrow -3-), but I know I'll be fiddling with it more as soon as I get home.

As for the flash drive, it's nothing fancy. 16 GB (~14.9 usable out of the box) Lexar USB 2.0 flash drive, the other flash drive I have is too slow to try and run a game off of (oddly, even saving word documents to it is slow), though testing it wouldn't hurt. I do not own a y cable.

 

[endoverend]

Mind if I get that to you tomorrow? I just turned my Wii off (school tomorrow -3-), but I know I'll be fiddling with it more as soon as I get home.

As for the flash drive, it's nothing fancy. 16 GB (~14.9 usable out of the box) Lexar USB 2.0 flash drive, the other flash drive I have is too slow to try and run a game off of (oddly, even saving word documents to it is slow), though testing it wouldn't hurt. I do not own a y cable.

Alright, just send the syscheck when you can because we need that to proceed.

 

[Hitokage]

Alright, just send the syscheck when you can because we need that to proceed.

Well, I tried to do it. Gives me the error-

Failed to get stored TMD for IOS36

I'm going to assume I either flashed the cIOS incorrectly, or I didn't copy a file properly on the syscheck program itself

 

[endoverend]

Well, I tried to do it. Gives me the error-

Failed to get stored TMD for IOS36

I'm going to assume I either flashed the cIOS incorrectly, or I didn't copy a file properly on the syscheck program itself

What that means is that you have an invalid IOS 36 installed on your system which could be causing problems. We can fix that, but I want to see your cIOS as well. Follow the "troubleshooting" part of the syscheck guide to skip IOS 36 and get the rest of the report.

 

[Hitokage]

What that means is that you have an invalid IOS 36 installed on your system which could be causing problems. We can fix that, but I want to see your cIOS as well. Follow the "troubleshooting" part of the syscheck guide to skip IOS 36 and get the rest of the report.

Sorry it took so long, here it is-

Spoiler

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline Double_A R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6432).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v609)
Drive date: 07.12.2012
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 613069004
Console Type: vWii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v0
Found 45 titles.
Found 33 IOS on this console. 0 of them are stubs.
vIOS9 (rev 1290): No Patches
vIOS12 (rev 782): No Patches
vIOS13 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS14 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS15 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS17 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS21 (rev 1295): No Patches
vIOS22 (rev 1550): No Patches
vIOS28 (rev 2063): No Patches
vIOS31 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS33 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS34 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS35 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS36: Skipped
vIOS37 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS38 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS41 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS43 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS45 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS46 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS48 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS53 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS55 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS56 (rev 5918): No Patches
vIOS57 (rev 6175): No Patches
vIOS58 (rev 6432): USB 2.0
vIOS59 (rev 9249): No Patches
vIOS62 (rev 6942): No Patches
vIOS80 (rev 7200): No Patches
vIOS249[56] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access USB 2.0
vIOS250[57] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access USB 2.0
vIOS251[58] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access USB 2.0
vIOS512 (rev 7): No Patches
vIOS513 (rev 1): No Patches
Report generated on 04/03/2016.

 

[endoverend]

Sorry it took so long, here it is-

Spoiler

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline Double_A R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6432).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v609)
Drive date: 07.12.2012
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 613069004
Console Type: vWii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v0
Found 45 titles.
Found 33 IOS on this console. 0 of them are stubs.
vIOS9 (rev 1290): No Patches
vIOS12 (rev 782): No Patches
vIOS13 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS14 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS15 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS17 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS21 (rev 1295): No Patches
vIOS22 (rev 1550): No Patches
vIOS28 (rev 2063): No Patches
vIOS31 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS33 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS34 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS35 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS36: Skipped
vIOS37 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS38 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS41 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS43 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS45 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS46 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS48 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS53 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS55 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS56 (rev 5918): No Patches
vIOS57 (rev 6175): No Patches
vIOS58 (rev 6432): USB 2.0
vIOS59 (rev 9249): No Patches
vIOS62 (rev 6942): No Patches
vIOS80 (rev 7200): No Patches
vIOS249[56] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access USB 2.0
vIOS250[57] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access USB 2.0
vIOS251[58] (rev 21010 Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access USB 2.0
vIOS512 (rev 7): No Patches
vIOS513 (rev 1): No Patches
Report generated on 04/03/2016.

Your cIOS setup is ideal, leading me to believe that the missing IOS 36 is causing the issue in some way. In a few moments I'll PM you a guide on how to fix the IOS and hope that resolves the problem.