Homebrew USB Loaders not showing games on USB

Cyan · Aug 13, 2018

the important is that it works

if you want to have a little more understanding how the console works, I wrote a guide here. (still unfinished)
I explain what IOS are, and what cIOS236 was used for. It probably miss details, or better explanation or different word choice for users new to hacking and modding world.

Sathya · Aug 13, 2018

Cyan said:
the important is that it works

if you want to have a little more understanding how the console works, I wrote a guide here.
(still unfinished)

yes it works without any problem untill now for all of my wii games

Cubbz · Aug 14, 2018

Cyan said:
you edited the partition since yesterday ? or you already had the 500GB partition working?

Try to force a partition refresh : settings > hdd menu > click on the first option to reload partitions, set it to the proper one.
I hope it's just this, it might remember you have games on a different partition number.

verify your games are not write protected too. I think it's only a FAT32 bug, so maybe NTFS is not affected, but it's always good to eliminate all possibilities.

Sorry for the late reply. I haven't edited the partitions or anything on the hard drive, and I already had the partition on there before I moved the games onto it. I have checked and I don't think they are write protected. Could NTFS compression have anything to do with this?

Cyan said:
what you can check :
which IOS is set in the loader ? 58 or 249 ? (settings>credit, or setting>loader settings>loader's IOS)
set it to 249 or 250.
be sure the "game's IOS" is set to the same slot.

The loader and game was already set to 249. I tried 250 but that didn't work either

Cyan · Aug 14, 2018

Cubbz said:
Could NTFS compression have anything to do with this?

Maybe.
I don't know if the library used by homebrew is compatible with compressed volumes/sparsed files.
that's something I never have though about, good think you did. can you disable compression easily or do you have to do a lot of things (moving/reformatting/replacing files?), or maybe wait for the drive to expand the files back to their original size?

Cubbz · Aug 14, 2018

Cyan said:
Maybe.
I don't know if the library used by homebrew is compatible with compressed volumes/sparsed files.
that's something I never have though about, good think you did. can you disable compression easily or do you have to do a lot of things (moving/reformatting/replacing files?), or maybe wait for the drive to expand the files back to their original size?

I think I fixed it! The games load now! I just re-formatted the partition and disabled NTFS compression, then I transferred the game files over again.

Cyan · Aug 14, 2018

thank you for your report.
really, I wouldn't have thought about that

when every other possibilities failed to fix it, there were necessarily another reason! just had to find it.

now, I should try to remember for future users with the same issue. hopefully, NTFS is not often used, FAT32 is recommended for neek and gamecube. but because of that, we rarely have ntfs related problems so it's harder to find the cause.

Cubbz · Aug 14, 2018

Cyan said:
thank you for your report.
really, I wouldn't have thought about that
when every other possibilities failed to fix it, there were necessarily another reason! just had to find it.

now, I should try to remember for future users with the same issue.

Thank you so much for helping me! It didn't really occur to me that the compression would have an effect until just then

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