Hi, all, I am somewhat new to posting in this forum but I've gotten a lot of good info from here over the years. I've spent the whole week trying to solve this problem but haven't found an answer yet. I've had my original 4.3U Wii softmodded for a long time and using USBLoaderGX to play games from a usb drive. I've never had any problem with games as they were originally released and I mostly play Mario, Skylanders, and Wii Sports. This is my first time attempting to play modded Wii games, specifically Mario Kart Retro Rewind and NSMB Retro Remix. I didn't know about them until a couple of weeks ago and I'd really like to try these. For MK RR I've followed the tutorial here several times to patch my iso file but I can't get the resulting file to work. No matter what I try it either returns me to the Wii home screen or hangs on a black screen. NSMB RR is a pre-patched .wbfs I found online instead of patching my iso and I get the same result. My MK and NSMB isos are ripped from my own discs, and for MK I also tried patching an un-modded .wbfs found elsewhere, but still no joy. I've tried with the channel forwarder and directly from USBLGX. I've tried running from two different flash drives and two different SD cards, all formatted as FAT32. And I've tried two different versions of USBLGX, 3.0r1281 that I've been using for a long time and a recent download of 4.0r1283. The same usb drives and SD cards have no problem playing un-modded games such as original Mario Kart or Wii Sports, including with both USBLGX versions. Is there any cios that is required for modded games to work? I have an old file from the syscheck app if you need to what cios I have installed. My Wii was softmodded with LetterBomb and Hackmii 0.8. I can say that I have d2x-v10-beta52, and since this syscheck report I've only added PriiLoader 0.10.0 and updated Homebrew Channel from 1.0.8 to 1.1.4.

Wii Preloader stuck

mr_ghostfacexsc · 2026-05-26T21:46:52+00:00

Hi! so I bought this Wii from marketplace, and when i turned it on it just showed the preloader menu. What should i do?

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Hacking Can't install wads?

Thread starter KoopaTroopaZ
Start date Nov 17, 2009
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Replies 5

KoopaTroopaZ

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Nov 17, 2009

Followed a guide given to me here to get up to 4.2 and it works great but Now I can't install wads in wad manager 1.5 I keep getting error 1020...any ideas? I'm on that rev 14 cios

matguitarist

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Nov 17, 2009

Try reinstall your Cios rev 14, maybe you want to try cios15 but it has some bug in game with 001 error ...

does it do the error on all wad you try or just some? Try channel file manager 2.0 for installing wad.

KoopaTroopaZ

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Nov 17, 2009

I just re installed my cios and removed that stub thing and all that and still get the error so I'll try the file manager 2.0

KoopaTroopaZ

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Nov 17, 2009

tried with channel file manager 2.0 and it still doesn't work...it happens to all Wiiware wads only apparently

matguitarist

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Nov 17, 2009

try showmiiwad and make region free your wad, try other wii ware game from other place you have downlaod, i got this problem wii some wiiware i download,