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Hi Guys,

I need to clear some space and I want to know if there is a list anywhere of all the Wii games that need an alt-dol pulled out of the iso. Or maybe we can make one here.

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Multi .dol games
Red Steel
Metroid Prime 1(no menu, no settings)
Metroid Prime 2(no menu, no settings)
House of the Dead 2(3 works without)
Metroid Prime Triology((no menu, no settings, no multiplayer?)
Wii Sports Resort WM+ video you have to see in order to play
WM+ videos in various games
Fate of Atlantis in Indiana Jones

IOS Reloading games that are not multi .dol games:
Sam & Max

Please add more
 

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Some of the other multi .dol games:

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
SSX Blur


Oh, and I might like to add that NONE of the games listed by me and WiiPower require an alternative .dol to be "pulled out of the iso". Most modern USB Loaders can detect the .dols on the image itself without extraction and have been able to do so for months. Thank you so much for giving us that functionality, WiiPower. It's a pity the "disc" naming issue meant so many people misunderstood your superb feature.
 

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There's no difference for loaders and games if the data is technically on disc or usb.(that's why usb loading works as good as it does) An usb loader is the SAME as a disc loader, it just has very little extra code to tell the cIOS to mount a disc from usb. There are no special commands to access files from usb or such.

About the .dols: If a loader has the alternative .dol loading feature from disc, but does not show any for a game, the game does not have any. Theoretically there could be a renamed .dol, but this haven't been reported yet.
 

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Don't know if you'd want to included "Rampage: Total Destruction", as the main game doesn't require it, but alt.dol is required to play the 2 bonus emulated games M1.dol=Rampage and jarvos.dol=Rampage World Tour.
 

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Dr. Clipper said:
Some of the other multi .dol games:

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
SSX Blur


Oh, and I might like to add that NONE of the games listed by me and WiiPower require an alternative .dol to be "pulled out of the iso". Most modern USB Loaders can detect the .dols on the image itself without extraction and have been able to do so for months. Thank you so much for giving us that functionality, WiiPower. It's a pity the "disc" naming issue meant so many people misunderstood your superb feature.

So you're saying that the need to pull the .dol out of the iso is no longer needed for a few of the usb loaders? What one's have this ability? Wiiflow? GX?

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Pretty much all the USB loaders that are still being worked on, have the alt .dol from disc option in the settings. So WiiFlow, GX, Configurable, NeoGamma, etc. Just select the .dol from disc in the options, and you can browse through the available .dols for each game.
 

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Red Steel
Metroid Prime 1(no menu, no settings)
Metroid Prime 2(no menu, no settings)
House of the Dead 2(3 works without)
Metroid Prime Triology((no menu, no settings, no multiplayer?)
Wii Sports Resort WM+ video you have to see in order to play
WM+ videos in various games
Fate of Atlantis in Indiana Jones
Mortal Kombat Armageddon
SSX Blur
Medal of Honor Heroes 2
Rampage: Total Destruction (ONLY FOR THE BONUS GAMES = M1.dol=Rampage and jarvos.dol=Rampage World Tour)

IOS Reloading games that are not multi .dol games:
Sam & Max


Thought I'd paste the list all together, hmmm I'm sure we're missing some ?
 

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Alternate DOL's List
Before Alternate DOL's, there were certain games that could not be played through the USB Loader.

Using Alternate DOL's now allow you to play these games listed below through the USB Loader


RedSteel
(NTSC-U) (PAL)
Extract redsteel.dol - Rename to REDE41.dol

Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2
(NTSC-U) (PAL)
Extract game.dol - Rename to RM2E69.dol

The House Of The Dead 2
(NTSC-U) (PAL)
Extract hod2.dol - Rename to RHDE8P.dol

SSX Blur
(NTSC-U) (PAL)
Extract ssx.dol - Rename to RSXE69.dol

Indiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings
(NTSC-U) (PAL)
Extract fateatlantis.dol - Rename to RJ8E64.dol

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
(NTSC-U) (PAL)
Extract MK7.dol - Rename to RKME5D.dol

Boogie
(NTSC-U)(PAL)
Extract ssx.dol - Rename to RBOE69.dol

Wii Sports Resort
(NTSC-U)
Extract player.dol - Rename to RZTE01.dol

For PAL, extract your dol and change the 4th letter from an E to P when you rename it.

To apply these dols to usbloadergx:

* Make a new folder on your SD card and name it "alt-dols"
* Place the DOL file in your alternate DOL folder..
* Run the loader, and change the custom path for alternate DOL's to "SD:\alt-dols\"
* Bring up the game you want, open up settings, and turn alternate DOL to ON
some loaders you do not need to change the names of the .dol
 

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