Hacking Wii flow not showing new games I transfer

Bartjunited · Jul 24, 2020

I use WiiFlow to play games for the kids and have tried to add a few new games to the SD card where all the games are located.
I used Wii Back Up Manager to transfer the games
2 of the new games were ISO and 1 was a WBFS format.
I convereted the ISO to WBFS using WBUM and transferred all 3.
However WiiFlow is not showing me any of the games I transferred.
I also am now seeing other system files like Hack Me, etc whilst in Wii Flow
Please help .............kids driving me nuts :-)

jeannotte · Jul 24, 2020

Hello,

Is your SD card in FAT 32 ??

Your games are not corrupted ??

Bartjunited · Jul 24, 2020

I think it's FAT 32 yes and games that are on there are all ok

jeannotte · Jul 24, 2020

what version of wiiflow do you play your games with?

Bartjunited · Jul 24, 2020

I'll check but installed it less then a year ago

Bartjunited · Jul 24, 2020

Wii flow WFL 5.2.0

jeannotte · Jul 24, 2020

try this version of wiiflow 5.4.6 ==>https://github.com/Fledge68/WiiFlow_Lite/releases

Bartjunited · Jul 24, 2020

Thank you

Been so long since I installed a loader

Do I extract the zip to the wad or app folder on SD card?
And then use multi mod manager to load it?

PewnyPL · Jul 24, 2020

Also, if my memory serves me right, for WiiFlow to update the game list, you must use Reload Cache option (I think it's in the menu that shows up after pressing +/-)

Bartjunited · Jul 24, 2020

I def didn't reload cache so I'll try that thank you

jeannotte · Jul 25, 2020

Bartjunited said:
Thank you

Been so long since I installed a loader

Do I extract the zip to the wad or app folder on SD card?
And then use multi mod manager to load it?

Hello,

change the wiiflow boot.dol in the APPS folder of your SD card and merge all the folders in the wiiflow folder to the root of the SD card.

Bartjunited · Jul 25, 2020

Thanks but don't understand what you mean by change the boot.dol file

If I do this what does that do?

Bartjunited · Jul 25, 2020

PewnyPL said:
Also, if my memory serves me right, for WiiFlow to update the game list, you must use Reload Cache option (I think it's in the menu that shows up after pressing +/-)

Tried this and didn't show the new games

jeannotte · Jul 25, 2020

Bartjunited said:
Thanks but don't understand what you mean by change the boot.dol file

If I do this what does that do?

Put the 5 files of the new wiiflow (boot.dol, Icon, meta, Imgs, Bins) in the APPS (wiiflow) folder on your SD card.

and the other wiiflow has the root of SD card.

You will have the new version of wiiflow

Bartjunited · Jul 25, 2020

Thanks I actually copied the files and then installed it via MMM and hey presto games now work. Have 2 happy kids... Who can now fight about what to play

HuH151 · Mar 10, 2022

PewnyPL said:
Also, if my memory serves me right, for WiiFlow to update the game list, you must use Reload Cache option (I think it's in the menu that shows up after pressing +/-)

Thank you! This was driving me crazy!

Drackala · Nov 22, 2023

Bartjunited said:
I use WiiFlow to play games for the kids and have tried to add a few new games to the SD card where all the games are located.
I used Wii Back Up Manager to transfer the games
2 of the new games were ISO and 1 was a WBFS format.
I convereted the ISO to WBFS using WBUM and transferred all 3.
However WiiFlow is not showing me any of the games I transferred.
I also am now seeing other system files like Hack Me, etc whilst in Wii Flow
Please help .............kids driving me nuts :-)

I have a similar problem...Some games show up...some don't!
My modded wii recently crashed, and required a rebuild...including the external usb drive housing my game library. (Still working on trying to get over a 120 games back)
I have it going again, homebrew, usbloader all working fine. I have installed a WBFS partition on a new drive, and was able to use Wii backup manager to transfer a few games i had backed up onto the WBFS partition, and they play fine...!

The problem, is that games i have downloaded in wbfs format, used two different tools to convert them to .iso files...won't show up in the wii, once i launch usbloader...the Older games are still there...but the new ones-just don't show up.

I have tried WBFS backup manager, and wbfstoiso, to convert the wbfs file...These both seem to work (no errors), and all seems well, but they are not showing up after launching usb loader! Any ideas?? Why some iso show up, and others don't??

jeannotte · Nov 22, 2023

Drackala said:
I have a similar problem...Some games show up...some don't!
My modded wii recently crashed, and required a rebuild...including the external usb drive housing my game library. (Still working on trying to get over a 120 games back)
I have it going again, homebrew, usbloader all working fine. I have installed a WBFS partition on a new drive, and was able to use Wii backup manager to transfer a few games i had backed up onto the WBFS partition, and they play fine...!

The problem, is that games i have downloaded in wbfs format, used two different tools to convert them to .iso files...won't show up in the wii, once i launch usbloader...the Older games are still there...but the new ones-just don't show up.

I have tried WBFS backup manager, and wbfstoiso, to convert the wbfs file...These both seem to work (no errors), and all seems well, but they are not showing up after launching usb loader! Any ideas?? Why some iso show up, and others don't??

Good morning,

is usb loader GX up to date??

If you use WiiFlow, activate the "cache" in the WiiFlow settings to display the games.

maybe your games are corrupted, you can see it with "wii backup manager", by going to "tools", then "sha-hash1", then "check item or all".

if it's green ==> OK
if it's red ==> redo the Dump (original copy)

is the external hard drive formatted in FAT32??? , with 32 KB clusters ??

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