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I’ve noticed some weird behavior with some PAL games on vWii (converted from Japan Wii U, vWii system titles were reinstalled for EU region): they hang without any output - just black screen. Mainly happens with Nintendo titles: Mario Sports Mix (EU PAL), Mario Party 8/9 (EU PAL), also with Boom Blox (EU PAL). I dumped these games which are in my collection. They do work in Dolphin.
Then I bought these games for US region, dumped them and they do work w/o any changes to USB Loader GX settings.
Btw, it looks like it can be fixed by using Region Patch in Video Mode for these PAL games, which refuse to load and show black screen. But it's not clear why they fail - my vWii is region changed to PAL, so all PAL games should work OOB. Maybe some other global setting may affect certain games.There's nothing a user can do at that point, since the loader has handed it off to the cIOS.
I own a USB Gecko, so if I can replicate the issue on a Wii, I should be able to see what the games are doing (if anything).
Iirc it requires physical disks to be present and doesn’t work with backups on purpose to fight piracy - that was developer’s choice.I was pretty sure it was possible but I'm lost now....
Can't we have riivolution patches on games using the loader?
oh, I see....Iirc it requires physical disks to be present and doesn’t work with backups on purpose to fight piracy - that was developer’s choice.