Hacking USB Loader GX

XFlak · May 22, 2026

Yes that's fine

mrconsole · May 26, 2026

mrconsole said:
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.

blackb0x said:
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).

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.

Sliter · May 28, 2026

I was pretty sure it was possible but I'm lost now....
Can't we have riivolution patches on games using the loader?

mrconsole · May 30, 2026

Sliter said:
I was pretty sure it was possible but I'm lost now....
Can't we have riivolution patches on games using the loader?

Iirc it requires physical disks to be present and doesn’t work with backups on purpose to fight piracy - that was developer’s choice.

AlfredoDore · Monday at 2:56 PM

I have a question regarding Little King's and Scarface PAL, how do I get them to run at 60Hz?

Sliter · Monday at 11:06 PM

mrconsole said:
Iirc it requires physical disks to be present and doesn’t work with backups on purpose to fight piracy - that was developer’s choice.

oh, I see....
it's strange today that works on emulators but not on the own wii lol

Case_Of · Thursday at 8:55 PM

Hello,
I do own a RVL-015 adapter to plug ethernet cable on my Wii U and I would like to know how to make USB Loader GX to use it to download covers?

Edit: I should mention that internet works on other apps like weather channel in vWii.

lZer0 · 2026-06-06T23:04:47+0100

I’m experiencing a 'strange' behavior on my console. When using version v4.0-r1283 and running the app from the SD card, it does not generate any configuration files. I tried editing the custom paths in the settings to assign them to the SD card, but it only lets me select usb1. When running the app from usb1, it does generate all the configuration files in usb1:/apps/usbloader_gx.

G:\apps\usbloader_gx
boot.dol
icon.png
meta.xml
wiitdb.xml
GXGlobal.cfg
wiitdb_offsets.bin
GameTimestamps.txt
GameList.txt
GXGameStatistics.cfg
TitlesCache.bin

Is there any solution to make the loader generate the configuration files on the SD card instead of forcing them to usb1:/?

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