Hacking Wii games won't backup

Centimentalgamer · Mar 29, 2020

Today I bought myself a WD 1 TB HDD to backup my old wii games. I installed USB Loader GX, d2x-cios-installer (latest version) and CFG USB Loader. I also formatted my HD to FAT32 with guiformat.exe. When I installed 5 games (from disc) to my 1 TB HD my wii detected it to be almost full. After I insterted the HD in to my PC I found out these weird types of files were installed (pictures below). Before I downloaded these games my wii declared their was just 128 GB on my HD (should be 931 GB). What should I do to be able to use all space on my HD efficiently?

When I try to run games I downloaded from the internet (WBFS files) both USB Loader don't recognise them.

Shadow#1 · Mar 29, 2020

Centimentalgamer said:
Today I bought myself a WD 1 TB HDD to backup my old wii games. I installed USB Loader GX, d2x-cios-installer (latest version) and CFG USB Loader. I also formatted my HD to FAT32 with guiformat.exe. When I installed 5 games (from disc) to my 1 TB HD my wii detected it to be almost full. After I insterted the HD in to my PC I found out these weird types of files were installed (pictures below). Before I downloaded these games my wii declared their was just 128 GB on my HD (should be 931 GB). What should I do to be able to use all space on my HD efficiently?

When I try to run games I downloaded from the internet (WBFS files) both USB Loader don't recognise them.

Those r currupted files

Centimentalgamer · Mar 29, 2020

Shadow#1 said:
Those r currupted files

Those are the files that got downloaded when i tried to backup my wii disc games. Do you have any ideas how I should backup this games instead?

Now my wii tells me their is no space left on the HD (I litteraly just formatted it). What should I do?

Shadow#1 · Mar 29, 2020

Centimentalgamer said:
Those are the files that got downloaded when i tried to backup my wii disc games. Do you have any ideas how I should backup this games instead?

The files r useless yes with a USB loader

Centimentalgamer · Mar 29, 2020

Okay, so I format my HD on my PC to FAT32. I insert the HD to the WII console (port 0). Then I open CFG USB Loader. CFG USB Loader tells my the HD is completely filled (its empty). I click on "Dump the BCA". Now CFG USB loader tells me the HD has 128 GB free. When I install the game it runs and works fine. But then I insert the HD to my computer and see those corrupted files again.

tech3475 · Mar 29, 2020

Do you have a spare <=32GB USB drive lying around you can test with? Try and isolate whether it's the drive or the Wii.

I would also maybe try a different formatting software, I usually use Minitool partition wizard free.

Centimentalgamer · Mar 29, 2020

tech3475 said:
Do you have a spare <=32GB USB drive lying around you can test with? Try and isolate whether it's the drive or the Wii.

I would also maybe try a different formatting software, I usually use Minitool partition wizard free.

I do have a 4 GB USB Flash drive lying around. When I download games from the internet to this flash drive they're visible on USB Loader GX. But when I start the game it crashes (because the Flash drive is too small I guess?). I wil try your formatting software first. Thank you for the response BTW.

CaptainHIT · Mar 29, 2020

Centimentalgamer said:
Okay, so I format my HD on my PC to FAT32. I insert the HD to the WII console (port 0). Then I open CFG USB Loader. CFG USB Loader tells my the HD is completely filled (its empty). I click on "Dump the BCA". Now CFG USB loader tells me the HD has 128 GB free. When I install the game it runs and works fine. But then I insert the HD to my computer and see those corrupted files again.

I'd suggest you to firstly format this drive again with 32k cluster size. Next I'd suggest you use CleanRip instead. Try a game and check again on your PC.

tech3475 · Mar 29, 2020

Centimentalgamer said:
I do have a 4 GB USB Flash drive lying around. When I download games from the internet to this flash drive they're visible on USB Loader GX. But when I start the game it crashes (because the Flash drive is too small I guess?). I wil try your formatting software first. Thank you for the response BTW.

The size of the drive shouldn't matter so long as the game fits on it.

Which CIOS version are you using?
https://github.com/davebaol/d2x-cios/wiki/How-to-choose-the-d2x-distribution-fitting-your-needs

Centimentalgamer · Mar 29, 2020

CaptainHIT said:
I'd suggest you to firstly format this drive again with 32k cluster size. Next I'd suggest you instead. Try a game and check again on your PC.

Thank you, The File is succesfully installed to the HD. Unfortunately i can't read the files on my pc anymore (it says I need to format again to be able to read the information on the HD). Usb loader gx now detects the full 931 GB which is positive. Unfornately usb loader gx can't recognise the file (games). What program should I use to launch the games I installed with CleanRIP?

I use CIOS version d2x-v10-final.

jeannotte · Mar 29, 2020

Centimentalgamer said:
Thank you, The File is succesfully installed to the HD. Unfortunately i can't read the files on my pc anymore (it says I need to format again to be able to read the information on the HD). Usb loader gx now detects the full 931 GB which is positive. Unfornately usb loader gx can't recognise the file (games). What program should I use to launch the games I installed with CleanRIP?

I use CIOS version d2x-v10-final.

Hello,

format your hard drive with this utility ==>http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

and then use "" wii backup manager "" ==>http://www.wiibackupmanager.co.uk/downloads.html

a simple copy, paste of games on the hard drive may not work

CaptainHIT · Mar 29, 2020

Centimentalgamer said:
Thank you, The File is succesfully installed to the HD. Unfortunately i can't read the files on my pc anymore (it says I need to format again to be able to read the information on the HD). Usb loader gx now detects the full 931 GB which is positive. Unfornately usb loader gx can't recognise the file (games). What program should I use to launch the games I installed with CleanRIP?

I use CIOS version d2x-v10-final.

The "Clean" in CleanRip comes from the fact that this tool does not require nor utilize any custom IOS (cIOS). It simply requires that you have the latest Homebrew Channel (HBC) installed. Also, if it finds that IOS58 is installed, you will be able to rip discs at USB 2.0 speeds.
So you dumped the game to the SD or USB HDD. I don't really remember if it did save the game into the root of the drive, or put a USBloader friendly directory to start straight ahead.
If it saves the file to the root of the device, you can create a directory named "wbfs" on that device, then inside this wbfs create another directory with the name of the game, for example New Super Mario. Now move this file into this New Super Mario directory and your loader will see the game. Eventually I'd suggest you to use "Wii Backup Manager 0.4.5 build 78" for copying over wbfs and ISO files. Wii Backup Manager is very easy to use: first select the game files (they could be either iso or wbfs images) from the files tab. Add as much as you want. Then put a mark on the files you want to transfer to your harddisk. After that click on the drive tab and select your external HDD. WBM will reload the disk and show what's on it. Go back to files tab, then click on the transfer button and select drive 1. Your files will be automatically copied over to the right directories.

Centimentalgamer · Mar 30, 2020

CaptainHIT said:
The "Clean" in CleanRip comes from the fact that this tool does not require nor utilize any custom IOS (cIOS). It simply requires that you have the latest Homebrew Channel (HBC) installed. Also, if it finds that IOS58 is installed, you will be able to rip discs at USB 2.0 speeds.
So you ripped the game to the SD or USB HDD. I don't really remember if it did save the game into the root of the drive, or put a USBloader friendly directory to start straight ahead.
If it saves the file to the root of the device, you can create a directory named "wbfs" on that device, then inside this wbfs create another directory with the name of the game, for example New Super Mario. Now move this file into this New Super Mario directory and your loader will see the game. Eventually I'd suggest you to use "Wii Backup Manager 0.4.5 build 78" for copying over wbfs files. Wii Backup Manager is very easy to use: first select the game files (they could be iso or wbfs images) from the files tab. Add as much as you want. Then put a mark on the files you want to transfer to your harddisk. After that click on the drive tab and select your external HDD. WBM will reload the disk and show what's on it. Go back to files tab, then click on the transfer button and select drive 1. Your files will be automatically copied over to the right directories.
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Thank you so much for helping me! Everything works fine now!

Cyan · Mar 30, 2020

the corruption you got on the first pictures are usually happening when the file couldn't be written correctly to the drive. often when ejecting the drive before the end of the writing process (or on PC before waiting for "safe removing" the drive).
it's a "file table" corruption, and there are usually nothing you can do except format the drive again and lose all your drive's content.

on the console, it could be because of unexpected freeze, so the file writing didn't end correctly. (I read recently that usbgx 1272 has freeze issue when dumping)
it could be a problem on your drive itself (sector issue on the file table)

just by curiosity, which apps did you use first to dump(extract from disc to HDD) your games? USBLoaderGX or wiiflow, which version?
there's nothing we can do, but it's just to know in case more users have that issue.

edit: Ah, also, don't use the word "download" if you talk about copying from disc, but "dump" or "copy from disc" or "install from disc". Dump is the proper word.
download is getting a file from internet's servers, and it's confusing if you use it for another meaning. "Before I downloaded these game" is not easy to understand whether you got the ISO from the net or extracted your own discs.

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