Hacking Black screen on game launch, don't think it's (c)IOS related

[Winkado]

I've already followed this guide on fixing the issue, which sadly didn't work:

I launch MKWii and it gives me a black screen. No controllers connect, and I'm forced to hard shutdown my Wii.

Here's a syscheck:

Spoiler: SysCheck

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)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 146086044
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Canada (18)
Boot2 v4
Found 104 titles.
Found 56 IOS on this console. 6 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: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Beer Ticket
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 06/15/2022.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

 

[CoolMe]

@Winkado What drive are you using?
Are you having issues with just this one game or ithers as well?
Are you using the disc or a wbfs image to launch the game?
You should re-do the cIOSs like it shows in here, or just drag & drop the syscheck file into ModMii..
You have a lot of unnecessary junk (cIOS's) installed on there.. don't know if they're canceling themselves out or not..

 

[Winkado]

I am using a 32Gb usb flash drive.
I am using a WBFS image downloaded off of the internet, my original disk is scratched.
I have already manually reinstalled the cIOS-s seen in the guide.

 

[Winkado]

I am using a 32Gb usb flash drive.
I am using a WBFS image downloaded off of the internet, my original disk is scratched.
I have already manually reinstalled the cIOS-s seen in the guide.

* I have tested Mario Kart and Brawl

 

[N7Kopper]

I am using a 32Gb usb flash drive.
I am using a WBFS image downloaded off of the internet, my original disk is scratched.
I have already manually reinstalled the cIOS-s seen in the guide.

Apparently flash drives are supposed to be wonky or something. Never a problem I had, but a lot of people report that they are so it might be that.

 

[Winkado]

Hmm... Ill try and find something else. I don't think I have an unused hard drive laying around - but I'll make sure to check

 

[Winkado]

@Winkado What drive are you using?
Are you having issues with just this one game or ithers as well?
Are you using the disc or a wbfs image to launch the game?
You should re-do the cIOSs like it shows in here, or just drag & drop the syscheck file into ModMii..
You have a lot of unnecessary junk (cIOS's) installed on there.. don't know if they're canceling themselves out or not..

What could I do about the "unnecessary junk" on my system? Is there a way to delete it?

 

[CoolMe]

I am using a 32Gb usb flash drive.

Is it formatted as Fat32 or as wbfs?

I am using a WBFS image downloaded off of the internet, my original disk is scratched.

You should try another wbfs file just for the sake of testing.

I have already manually reinstalled the cIOS-s seen in the guide.

After or before you made the syscheck? Just redo it, there's nothing to lose..

* I have tested Mario Kart and Brawl

Both black screened? Just try a small game, again just for the sake of testing..

What could I do about the "unnecessary junk" on my system? Is there a way to delete it?

Not sure if there's an easy way to do it other than manually going through each one..
@XFlak What do you think he should do about it?

 

[CoolMe]

Does the usb flash drive pass the usb initiation screen (without showing the countdown), when you first launch USBLoaderGX?
Btw, i recommend using this modded version of usbloadergx by @blackb0x
It could be just an incompatible drive. If it's still wouldn't work after you reinstall the cIOSs, you can formatting it as wbfs with WiiBackupmanager..

 

[Winkado]

Is it formatted as Fat32 or as wbfs?

You should try another wbfs file just for the sake of testing.

After or before you made the syscheck? Just redo it, there's nothing to lose..

Both black screened? Just try a small game, again just for the sake of testing..

Not sure if there's an easy way to do it other than manually going through each one..
@XFlak What do you think he should do about it?

It is formatted as Fat32, and Brawl black screened as well. I did the reinstall of cIOS before the syscheck, and I'll make sure to try another game

Also, the same copy of Mario Kart runs just fine on dolphin, I doubt that's the problem.

 

[CoolMe]

I did the reinstall of cIOS before the syscheck

Well, your cIOS bases are not like in the guide.
And it can be the reason why games are not working for you..

 

[XFlak]

His cIOS249 and 250 are currently the reverse of what they should be, but it makes no difference. In fact ModMii and wii.guide will probably be switching back to recommending base 56 in 249 and base 57 in 250 for reasons I won't get into now (which aligns with his syscheck). Ultimately it makes no difference, if your 249 doesn't work then switch to 250. So long as the OP has tried both 249/250 then it makes no difference which is installed to which slot.

251 being base 58 is not a big deal either; we recommend base 38 now as it provides usb keyboard support for animal crossing whereas base 58 does not (but both base 58 and 38 can play spongebob's boating blast); and he has this is slot 246 anyway

technically you could remove all cIOSs except d2x base 56/57/38, but having the other ones installed doesn't hurt anything, it may just take up a bit more space (i.e. in his syscheck you could remove everything from IOS90-IOS248, and optionally change 251 to base 38 instead of 58)

It's unclear what's going on with his system menu IOSs based on the syscheck, but it's probably fine.

So long way of saying the syscheck looks good enough; if you want to improve upon it slightly drag and drop it onto modmii.exe.

In terms of testing games I would not start with SSBB as it is dual-layer and some tools can corrupt it. Better to confirm a different game is working, then after you confirm other games are working move on to trouble shooting SSBB.

 

[Winkado]

Got it. It seems it might just be my usb stick. Should I be buying an SSD or a HDD?

 

[XFlak]

Wii will still only transfer at USB2 speeds, so you won't see any speed gains from using a SSD.

 

[CoolMe]

Got it. It seems it might just be my usb stick. Should I be buying an SSD or a HDD?

External hdd is fine. And get a y-cable with it if you can.

 

[Winkado]

I've finally gotten everything set up, and it works fine. Turns out it was the USB - Thank you for your help!

 

[CoolMe]

I've finally gotten everything set up, and it works fine. Turns out it was the USB - Thank you for your help!

Glad you got it sorted out!