Nintendont sees external SSD, but USB Loader GX doesn't

Half-Life (Xash3D FWGS) - Wii port

MintFerret · 2026-06-15T17:26:43+00:00

I wanted to post this when this port was stable enough to release, but thought I would share this before someone keeps asking for this. So a couple months ago, I started porting Xash3D to the Wii. I figured that with the engine now having big endian support and the Wii having SDL2 and an OpenGL wrapper, it should be easier to port it than what the previous attempt had to work with. I still had to patch some stuff (using the Dreamcast port as reference) in order to statically link the game's libraries, as libogc doesn't have any form of dll loading. Other than that, most stuff is already working out of the box, but there's still lots to be done. To-do list: Fix saving and loading save files (mostly loading in general) Network support Hardware acceleration via OpenGX Wiimote + Nunchuck support (with QuakeGX aiming) Source code: https://github.com/MintFerret/xash3d-fwgs/ Screenshots below are running in software rendering, as compiling the engine with opengx makes the binary too big to fit into memory

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I've spent the past 2 days troubleshooting an issue with my external HDD not being recognized. The Nintendont app can see the device, all its gamecube games, and play them no problem! However, my USB Loader GX and WiiFlow never pick up the external HDD. They only see my SD card.

I modded my wii for the first time last weekend using https://wii.hacks.guide/ and ModMii. Running everything off my SD card works great!

I then tried adding an external HDD. It's a spare M2 SSD (WD Black PCIe Gen3x4 NVME 256GB), inside this UGREEN USB enclosure. The drive is properly formatted (MBR, FAT) and I used TinyWiiBackupManager to load all my games onto it without any issues. I'm plugging the drive into USB Port 0 on the Wii, and powering the drive with a powered USB hub. The attached zip has my syscheck csv output.

Nintendont works great!
USB Loader GX only sees the SD card, no matter what settings I change in the app's Loader / Drive settings

If it weren't for the fact that the Nintendont app is able to see the drive and play the games, I would just assume the drive is incompatible with the Wii. I've already spent more than I should've on accessories for this little wii mod project so I'm looking to avoid buying a new drive if possible.

Any further ideas?

Hacking Nintendont sees external SSD, but USB Loader GX doesn't

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