Hacking Black screens (freezing) when using usb loaders

drdoom · Jan 12, 2010

I posted this to the SoftmodGuide forums, but it doesn't look like I'll get answers anytime soon and am hoping you guys are able to help:

Wii System Menu: 4.1U

Followed the CompleteSoftMod guide and now have both waninkoko's cios installed as well as hermes. I have an external USB HD (WD 160 GB - Venus DS3 enclosure) formatted FAT32 and used the Wii Backup Manager to create the partition (and subsequent wbfs folder).

I have three games:

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

I am able to, at times, get Mario Bros and Zelda to run but never Smash. When either Mario or Zelda are running, it's only a matter of time until I see the DVD slot fade long blue and I will generally get a black screen where I'll be forced to turn off the Wii. To some extent, Zelda will load and play and I can sometimes go from area to area but within a few minutes, it will black screen and lock up.

This happens with both USB Loader GX and Configurable USB Loader.

I used the advanced search and about the only thing I can come up with is that I didn't remove stubbed IOSes although I'm not sure how to go about that. DOP-IOS Mod option?

Any idea how I might fix this issue?

Thank you!

BBking83 · Jan 12, 2010

cIOS rev14 doesn't support Dual Layer.

I think 13 does? Or 15?

Maybe Hermes does?

cobleman · Jan 12, 2010

It could be an external caseing problem i didnt find out i had a problem untill i used Configurable USB Loader and it came up with the error ehc module could not be initialised BUT it showed me everything on the drive just like when you would format it as NTFS

drdoom · Jan 12, 2010

BBking83 said:
cIOS rev14 doesn't support Dual Layer.

I think 13 does? Or 15?

Maybe Hermes does?

Should be the newest revision, 16 I believe.

QUOTECheck your drive online to make sure its not a sleeper if it is see if they have a hardware update to turn sleep mode off
You could always try to format it to WBFS partition seems to have better compatability for the moment but if it doesnt work and keeps going to sleep, (well thats what it seems to be doing to you) You might just need another drive

Do you have a link for the sleeper db? I do plan on going to WBFS just to see what happens.

gamecat · Jan 12, 2010

QUOTE said:
Do you have a link for the sleeper db? I do plan on going to WBFS just to see what happens.

http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php?tit...patibility_List

Smash works for me using hermes on fat32

drdoom · Jan 12, 2010

Thanks for the link gamecat. My enclosure isn't listed at this time, but I'll be sure to add it after playing around a bit more.

Deleted User · Jan 12, 2010

Another way to test it is to wbfs format an USB key and put one of your games on it.
If it works with usb key, then the problem is located in/on your HDD

drdoom · Jan 12, 2010

laguna75 said:
Another way to test it is to wbfs format an USB key and put one of your games on it.
If it works with usb key, then the problem is located in/on your HDD

That's a good idea laguna, thanks.

In any event, I WBFS formatted the external drive this morning and I do get better results under USB Loader GX with Zelda and I'm now able to play Smash Bros. A new problem is that Smash Bros. will at times run too fast. I also get an "eject disc" error after beating the game.

Configurable USB Loader is also able to play Smash Bros. except that I can get it to crash to the same "eject disc" error by attempting to load a movie from the Movies section in-game.

cobleman · Jan 13, 2010

drdoom said:
laguna75 said:

Another way to test it is to wbfs format an USB key and put one of your games on it.
If it works with usb key, then the problem is located in/on your HDD

Click to expand...

That's a good idea laguna, thanks.

In any event, I WBFS formatted the external drive this morning and I do get better results under USB Loader GX with Zelda and I'm now able to play Smash Bros. A new problem is that Smash Bros. will at times run too fast. I also get an "eject disc" error after beating the game.

Configurable USB Loader is also able to play Smash Bros. except that I can get it to crash to the same "eject disc" error by attempting to load a movie from the Movies section in-game.

Use hermes cIOS222 to run ssbb you wont have any trouble then

drdoom · Jan 25, 2010

Update:

I had problems even after going to WBFS, although not as frequently. I found a post on people having success with hdparm. It had been a long time but I tried using the parted magic (Parted Magic) live cd:

CODEhdparm -S 0 /dev/hda

For those interested in hdparm:

hdparm

After this, I am not able to get the games to crash except for SSBB.

For SSBB, this results in the "disc error" screen. This happens using Hermes 222, 223 or Waninkoko's 249 rev16.

I guess I'll have to try 249 rev17 when I get the time. In any event, hdparm seems to have worked well for me!

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