Hacking YAWMM Not Loading USB (Newbie)

SailorsNot · Aug 11, 2018

Hey guys. Brand new to the whole modding scene. I just formatted a 32gb USB from FAT32 to NTFS. I downloaded USB Loader and it appears on there, but it shows up an error; the error says "ERROR! (ret = -1)". I've tried doing some research on some of the threads on here, but I've come up very confused and hesitant to try all of the different ways to troubleshoot it. I forgot to say that I am on an original Wii with 4.3U.
I just want to know the simplest way of troubleshooting this.

FancyNintendoGamer567 · Aug 11, 2018

@SailorsNot Try FAT32? Why did you switch from FAT32 to NTFS?

SailorsNot · Aug 11, 2018

FancyNintendoGamer567 said:
@SailorsNot Try FAT32? Why did you switch from FAT32 to NTFS?

I wanted to use NTFS so I could install larger games, which FAT32 is not capable of doing more than 4gb in one file

nintendo1889 · Aug 11, 2018

SailorsNot said:
Hey guys. Brand new to the whole modding scene. I just formatted a 32gb USB from FAT32 to NTFS. I downloaded USB Loader and it appears on there, but it shows up an error; the error says "ERROR! (ret = -1)". I've tried doing some research on some of the threads on here, but I've come up very confused and hesitant to try all of the different ways to troubleshoot it. I forgot to say that I am on an original Wii with 4.3U.
I just want to know the simplest way of troubleshooting this.

I believe you can split large files. And Wii Backup /wbfs manager do this automatically, if they need to. Disclaimer: AFAIK

https://gbatemp.net/threads/trouble...-fat32-if-split-over-4gb.320937/#post-4106167

GreyWolf · Aug 11, 2018

You don't need NTFS for large files. As nintendo1889 said you can split games >4GB. Also, a lot of homebrew does not work with anything except MBR/FAT32, including the HBC itself.

There is no difference in how cIOSes access games once they're started as far as filesystems go because the loader just sends a list of the sectors the game takes up. The disc could technically be unformatted as long as the game is on the disc somewhere.

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