Hacking QUICK/NEWBIE QUESTIONS here!

[Snaper]

Do you have it in the folder WBFS?? Should look like WBFS/Super Mario Brothers...

All games go into the WBFS folder which is in the root of the drive.

Don't mix this up with the WBFS hard drive format, this is a WBFS folder on your FAT32k 32k cluster hard drive. Tends to get a bit confusing.

Ok, from the WBFS folder it works.
Weird, I've read literally tons of tutorials and stuff like this, any of those mentioned this

Anyway, on Mac, simply format the disc to FAT32, with Master Boot partition option, then create a folder called WBFS and copy the games there with WITGUI works.

Thank you for the help guys!

 

[johndaurk]

i have a question. how do i change my cISO? im running iso58 and i think its whats keeping me from running wii games with usbloaderex. please and thank you if anyone has any way to solve the not playing wii game problem(it blackscreens for a second then kicks me to the homebrew channel)

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

@johndaurk

Is your hack up to date?

To change the cios in usb loader gx, go to the USB LOADER GX settings.

to launch usb loader gx from the HBC, result ??

 

[johndaurk]

Hello,

@johndaurk

Is your hack up to date?

To change the cios in usb loader gx, go to the USB LOADER GX settings.

to launch usb loader gx from the HBC, result ??

impretty sure that its up to date, im not completly sure tho, but i just followed this guys guide on youtube, and when i do that, it says i need hearmes or something

 

[johndaurk]

i have another question. so i got one game to work wiht homebrew and usb gx, but with another one, loz skyward sword, its not letting me transfer it to the drive im using for my wii, what could be the problem?

 

[splatty]

So it's been years since I hacked my Wii so a lot of my knowledge has been wiped out. I bought a balance board the other day, so I put a bunch of balance board games on my HDD, and when I start USB Loader GX, they aren't showing up. All the games I had previously on there still show up, just not the ones I added. They're in the proper folder with all the others. Also, I ran WiiFlow to see if they show up there, and they do! So why am I not seeing them in USB Loader? I'm sure it's something really dumb I'm forgetting, so I hope anyway. Anyone know what's going on?

 

[vanillascrub]

hi,

i installed a load of VC turbogfx16 games to emunand in usb loader gx.
they are all listed as weird names (like PWPE, PGEE etc. etc)

i looked in showmiiwads and the channel titles are correct. usb loader gx seems to be listing title ids.
how do i change that?

 

[FancyNintendoGamer567]

hi,

i installed a load of VC turbogfx16 games to emunand in usb loader gx.
they are all listed as weird names (like PWPE, PGEE etc. etc)

@vanillascrub Those are called Game IDs.

 

[ThatGamingAirman]

I wanna start getting to wii hacking scene but can some tell me what a backup loader is, is just a way to load backups of games and if so which one should I get?

 

[migles]

I wanna start getting to wii hacking scene but can some tell me what a backup loader is, is just a way to load backups of games and if so which one should I get?

a backup loader is a program to load the "backups" (aka the games from an hdd)
for the wii there is usb loader GX, wiiflow, and configurable usb loader

i would recommend usb loader GX because its still being developed and updated. but any one will do, its mostly ya preference

 

[vanillascrub]

@vanillascrub Those are called Game IDs.

How do i get usb loader gx to show the correct game names instead of IDS?

 

[ZeryOs]

How do i get usb loader gx to show the correct game names instead of IDS?

Did you use the the Wii Backup Manager to move your games? I've never encounter that issue while moving games to any storage device (HDD or otherwise)

 

[Syaoran_Li]

Hey, I just got my USB Loader GX to work but now it's not recognising any games. I'm using a 1TB NTFS HDD, and I have a game in a wbfs folder. However after I boot up USB Loader it spits out this message to me "Error: Could not open wiitdb.xml" Any solutions?

 

[Woxinum]

Hello wii fans !

I was wondering if there is a way to force Madworld to 480p , i tried to "force NTSC480P" in video settings but i get a black screen. I'm playing US version since PAL version is a bad conversion (black bar) on a european wii.
PS: I'm using USB GX loader !

 

[3smoke]

Hi I just recently joined the site so first post lol and bought a wii it’s running the d2x v52 on iOS 249 and v53 on iOS 250 and I have cfg loader wii flow and usbloader gx I’ve installed a lot of the wads required to make the apps work now to the problem my backups won’t boot of my usb I’ve tested iOS 249 iOS 250 they work on wiiflow on my sd card but not my usb tested numarous games and all work on sd card I’ve formatted usb several times different methods including format fat 32 gui using cmd to format to fat 32 also back up manager My usb is Sandisk ultra 32gb I was wondering if there’s anything else I can try and thank you in advance sorry forgot to say the games show up I get black screen when u click play

 

[lukands]

Hi I just recently joined the site so first post lol and bought a wii it’s running the d2x v52 on iOS 249 and v53 on iOS 250 and I have cfg loader wii flow and usbloader gx I’ve installed a lot of the wads required to make the apps work now to the problem my backups won’t boot of my usb I’ve tested iOS 249 iOS 250 they work on wiiflow on my sd card but not my usb tested numarous games and all work on sd card I’ve formatted usb several times different methods including format fat 32 gui using cmd to format to fat 32 also back up manager My usb is Sandisk ultra 32gb I was wondering if there’s anything else I can try and thank you in advance sorry forgot to say the games show up I get black screen when u click play

Games don`t show up in any loader OR games don`t work? Are you sure you have it plugged into the correct usb port?
AND please use some periods or commas, its difficult to read a run on sentence.

 

[3smoke]

Games don`t show up in any loader or games don`t work? Are you sure you have it plugged into the correct usb port?

Ok thanks for the reply the games show on loaders but once I click to play them it goes black screen I wait 5 mins nothing also I have the usb plugged in the bottom port when console is laying flat

 

[AFK797]

Is it possible to use WiiGSC/CRAP channel creator with gamecube games? Also, is there an equivalent program for gc games?

 

[Mythical]

Hey, I just got my USB Loader GX to work but now it's not recognising any games. I'm using a 1TB NTFS HDD, and I have a game in a wbfs folder. However after I boot up USB Loader it spits out this message to me "Error: Could not open wiitdb.xml" Any solutions?

Are they in wbfs format? You can to use the wii backup manager to convert/transfer the files over

 

[Clydefrosch]

So it's been a while since I used my wii and usb loader gx / nintendont.

The last time I did, I used two separate usb sticks, one for almost just gc games, the other for wii games and as far as I could tell, everything worked.

Now, a couple years later, i got some larger sticks lying around so I think, why not put everything on one? So I do that, formating it to fat32, copying the older sticks data onto it + a couple more isos that didn't fit before and usb loader still starts, downloading coverart works fine, but many a (gamecube) game doesn't start.
They're all in /games/name/game.iso / disc2.iso format btw.

Wario World and Cubivore gave me a blackscreen as did billy hatcher, Spyro - A heroes tail sometimes loads, sometimes doesn't, megaman collection worked most of the time.
From what I can tell, Wii Games work normally.

I tried updating to the latest nintendont and loader i could find, but then it started to just load the nintendont menu after chosing a game for a while (which then also couldn't run the games I tried).



Now here's the things I feel could be at fault here maybe:

1. It's the new stick. It's a 128gb 3.0 sandisk that comes with a usb a and a usb c connector. In many many years old threads, I read that loaders and sticks sometimes dont mix well. Is that still true?
I'll try again with the older and a different stick once I'm at home, but generally, would it be better to get a cheap ssd + sata to usb connector instead? Or does it have to be a spinny hdd for best compability?

2. I used GCMUtility to shrink some of the games. From what I remember, I also did that years ago with the other games without issue, but could that be a source for my issues?

3. something to do with ios? I never really quite understood that part of switch hacking to be honest, but is there anything to look out for in that regard?

4. I just copied the games back and forth over the standard windows explorer. Should I have used a program for that? I know there is one for wii games converting them to some other filetype, but I didn't think it was needed for gamecube games.