Hacking Black screens loading games from USB Loader GX

[wangsouffle]

I modded my Wii back in 2010 and recently updated it following guides very carefully.

I've been able to load WADs and Wii backups successfully, but more than half the time it either takes 20-30 seconds for the game to appear or it hangs on a black screen indefinitely.

I'm using greywolf's USB Loader GX R1269 on 4.3U. Attaching a syscheck output, but please let me know if anything else would be helpful.

Spoiler: sysCheck.csv

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: 05.26.2006
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS61

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 68263087
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 114 titles.
Found 51 IOS on this console. 12 of them are stubs.

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
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): 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 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): 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 04/12/2017.

 

[wangsouffle]

And not sure if this is expected, but my Wiimote always disconnects when I launch a game. If the game actually loads, it reconnects as usual after hitting a button to wake it back up.

I also noticed that I was running with 249 for both loaders, which holds 56/v10beta53-alt. Should 250 (57/d2x-v10beta52) be more compatible?

 

[John_Ice]

And not sure if this is expected, but my Wiimote always disconnects when I launch a game. If the game actually loads, it reconnects as usual after hitting a button to wake it back up.

I also noticed that I was running with 249 for both loaders, which holds 56/v10beta53-alt. Should 250 (57/d2x-v10beta52) be more compatible?

Try to install d2x-v8 or d2x-v10beta52. Because v10beta53 is not recommended and you will have less compatibility with hard drives.

 

[wangsouffle]

Just so I understand as I'm still learning, is this as easy as swapping the config to use slot 250 for both loaders?

 

[GreyWolf]

No, install d2x v10-beta52 as slot 249[56] instead of using v10-beta53. It also helps it you say what your games are stored on. Flash drives are notoriously flaky and not recommended and HDDs should have any encryption or power saving turned off with their management tools.

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

Would not there be a little concern with the HBC, which according to the Syscheck report gives this ==>

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: 05.26.2006
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS61

Is not it necessary to reinstall the HBC on the right IOS 58 ??

 

[GreyWolf]

I missed that. It should be reinstalled so it picks up IOS58 but that shouldn't be causing black screens.

 

[wangsouffle]

Reinstalled HBC on 58, installed d2x v10-beta52 as slot 249[56]. Played with a bunch more things for several hours, and every game launch would still hang. Moved on and tried to get neek2o to work for a couple days and ran into even more problems. Had a feeling it might be related to the flash drive, so swapped it to an SSD in an external enclosure. Everything just started working.

Thanks for taking a look and giving a sanity check.

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I was also using priiloader to autolaunch USB Loader GX, which was very confusing when it still fully launched without an SD or USB drive attached. I guess I assumed it acted asa forwarder to an app directory, but it apparently injects the full binary? I wasn't totally sure which directory it was launching from which may not have caused direct problems, but it definitely added to the confusion.

 

[GreyWolf]

There is a dol version of the forwarder you can use for Priiloader here. You can delete it from your SD/HDD after you install it if you don't want to leave it on the drive.