Hacking USB Loader GX & Nintendont "Unable to open the disc image file."

IveMalfunctioned · May 4, 2019

Hi! I've recently gotten back into Wii hacking, and I had the very first version of USB Loader GX from years ago, I didn't even have GC games on it. I'm trying to play GC games from USB loader gx, but I get this error:

I upgraded my Nintendont but whenever I loaded into a GC game it just froze. So I reverted back to the old version I had.

My software:
-USB Loader GX v3.0 R1271
-Nintendont v5.486

Modified Custom Paths:
Main GameCube Path: usb1:/games/
Nintendont Loader Path: usb1:apps/Nintendont

The reason its USB1 is because I use a 4 GB USB stick to load all my apps and cheat codes, and I use a 1 tb HDD to store all the games. I wanted to permanently have Nintendont on the HDD so I put it in usb1:/apps/Nintendont
Here's my SysCheck, including all my versions:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 89604853
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 132 titles.
Found 53 IOS on this console. 7 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Beer Ticket
IOS247 (rev 21003): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[56] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10 (DIOS MIOS 2.22)
Report generated on 03/12/1903.

If you need any more info, lmk

Cyan · May 4, 2019

read the RED MESSAGE : Unable to open the file.
the problem is clearly access to the file.

1)
USB Sticks ARE BAD.
use a real HDD.

2)
verify your ISO is good, and really an ISO.
if it's a ciso, that's probably the issue, renaming ciso to iso is not the solution.
if it's a ciso format, rename it back to ciso, and use nintendont to boot the game instead of usbloadergx.

3)
verify your partitions!
usb1 means "first partition".
if you use 2 USB devices, don't !
really, don't use 2 devices plugged at the same time, you'll fixed lot of issues.
put everything on the 1TB HDD.

if you still plan to use 2 devices at the same time, you need to understand how the console works and how the USB Ports are accessed to know which order to plug the devices, and which one needs the files on it.
you probably messed the settings and have USBLoaderGX see the games on one drive, but nintendont trying to find it on the other drive.
just use 1 device, problem fixed.
even better, use an SD card for homebrew instead of usb stick ! don't be cheap, and you'll be thanking me once everything works instead of trying to fix issues that you shouldn't have to begin with. lot of people just make fantasy and folkloric setup and wonder why they have problem, and persist in not changing but request a fix to bad setup instead.

proper and better setup for wii is :
SD card + 1 HDD
SD for apps and resources, hdd for iso/rom/games.

Nintendont goes to Sd card too !
sd:/apps/nintendont/boot.dol <--- ALL homebrew apps on SD
usb:/games/title/game.iso <--- ALL ISO on USB

you don't need to put nintendont on USB to play games from USB.

IveMalfunctioned · May 4, 2019

Ok, I'll be using a 2GB SD equipped with the same version of USB Loader GX and Nintendont. I tried loading it up without the 4GB USB connected, and I changed the Nintendont Loader Path to sd:/apps/Nintendont but I still get the same error. Also the Main Gamecube Path hasn't changed to usb:/games it's still usb1:/games

IveMalfunctioned · May 5, 2019

Cyan · May 5, 2019

use of SD : good
use of flash drive : still not the best idea, why not use your 1TB HDD for the games? it's not FAT32?

if only your flash drive is FAT32, be sure you plug it into USB Port 0 (bottom on Wii), or in port1 if you still use 2 USB devices. Port1 is seen first by nintendont and will be used even if no games are present, resulting in "can't find file" error.
if everything seems good (path and filename and usb port), then maybe the problem is really the ISO itself. did you verify it? are you sure it's an iso and not ciso ?

did you try to launch nintendont directly, without using usbloadergx ? see if the gamecube game works that way to know if it's a loader's issue, or a file issue.

Bengaltiger10251 · Jan 24, 2020

How do you verify an iso? I have not gotten many GameCube games and want to know more about this.

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Cyan said:
use of SD : good
use of flash drive : still not the best idea, why not use your 1TB HDD for the games? it's not FAT32?

if only your flash drive is FAT32, be sure you plug it into USB Port 0 (bottom on Wii), or in port1 if you still use 2 USB devices. Port1 is seen first by nintendont and will be used even if no games are present, resulting in "can't find file" error.
if everything seems good (path and filename and usb port), then maybe the problem is really the ISO itself. did you verify it? are you sure it's an iso and not ciso ?

did you try to launch nintendont directly, without using usbloadergx ? see if the gamecube game works that way to know if it's a loader's issue, or a file issue.

I am curious about this topic because I have downloaded GameCube games from the Internet that say .nkit.iso and I want to know how I can use these files with usbloadergx and nintendont.

argetlam1337 · Mar 17, 2022

Cyan said:
use of SD : good
use of flash drive : still not the best idea, why not use your 1TB HDD for the games? it's not FAT32?

if only your flash drive is FAT32, be sure you plug it into USB Port 0 (bottom on Wii), or in port1 if you still use 2 USB devices. Port1 is seen first by nintendont and will be used even if no games are present, resulting in "can't find file" error.
if everything seems good (path and filename and usb port), then maybe the problem is really the ISO itself. did you verify it? are you sure it's an iso and not ciso ?

did you try to launch nintendont directly, without using usbloadergx ? see if the gamecube game works that way to know if it's a loader's issue, or a file issue.

Cyan,
I am having the same issue as the OP. The file works when run directly through Nintendont, but not through usbloadergx. Any suggestions?

Cyan · Mar 17, 2022

if you have the same problem, then use the same fix and answer the same questions?

Do you use SD or SB ?
which version of everything (USBGX, IOS58, nintendont)
if you have the exact same message, it means it can't find the ISO, so either your device is not initialized or not formatted in the proper format.
or the ISO is not the expected format ?
or maybe not the expected filename seeing it's an error message about "checking multi disc games"

I'm not following the Wii scene for 2-3 years, I might be rusty to find bugs and help users.

FoxStorm1 · Apr 7, 2024

Cyan said:
use of SD : good
use of flash drive : still not the best idea, why not use your 1TB HDD for the games? it's not FAT32?

if only your flash drive is FAT32, be sure you plug it into USB Port 0 (bottom on Wii), or in port1 if you still use 2 USB devices. Port1 is seen first by nintendont and will be used even if no games are present, resulting in "can't find file" error.
if everything seems good (path and filename and usb port), then maybe the problem is really the ISO itself. did you verify it? are you sure it's an iso and not ciso ?

did you try to launch nintendont directly, without using usbloadergx ? see if the gamecube game works that way to know if it's a loader's issue, or a file issue.

My HDD is plugged into the first usb slot on my wii u. Disconnecting my Skylanders Portal seemed to fix the issue.
Games are in my usb2:/games/ and I simply updated the path to that in usb loader gx path settings.

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