Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.matcon5 said:Just a quick and simple question for now from me
Will an external enclosure and a 200GB IDE drive work alright? or is SATA more recommended?
Thanks in advance.
Dr. Clipper said:Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.
I'm not sure what it is, but speaking from experience from troubleshooting a lot of drives in chat, the enclosures seem to have a much higher failure rate. For some of them, it's because they implement a hub interface; others like to only have certain formatting types and don't work well with the Wii drivers. Much of the time there's no clear reason why they don't work, but they don't. Now, I'd still say that there are more successes than failures via enclosure, but the success rate definitely seems lower than with drives.smf said:Dr. Clipper said:Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.
What is the difference? The only one I can think of is it's easier to know if it will work if you buy a branded one and it's on the compatibility list.
I bought a cheap 2.5" SATA caddy and put a drive that had come out of a laptop inside and it worked fine.
PATA should be ok as well. Only way to know for sure is to try it.
Yes, but the types of enclosures that come with standalone drives don't have these features that are making the separate enclosures less compatible. They just seem to work better in combination with the Wii.giantpune said:huh??? what do you think a external drive is? its a internal drive with an enclosure. open one up and see. they even have sata/ide connectors. and you can open up a external hdd and put another hdd in it.
Dr. Clipper said:Yes, but the types of enclosures that come with standalone drives don't have these features that are making the separate enclosures less compatible. They just seem to work better in combination with the Wii.giantpune said:huh??? what do you think a external drive is? its a internal drive with an enclosure. open one up and see. they even have sata/ide connectors. and you can open up a external hdd and put another hdd in it.
Dr. Clipper said:Thus, if you use a coverflow GUI to view your games, you can have the full or 2D covers in combination with disc art when you select a game. All the console and gridflow views are limited to one type at a time, though.
yes, it's possible. but I don't think it's supported by cfg loader now. I'm fairly sure it's supported by the preloaders.Anusko said:Is it possible to autoboot disc games?
Dr. Clipper said:Which IOSes (249,222) are you using and which revisions of those IOSes (rev 17, v4, etc.)?mgridgaway said:I have an odd issue I was hoping to find some help for.
I was looking for an alternative to USB Loader GX since it seems to get buggier with new features. However, when trying to boot games from my WBFS partitioned hdd, CFG USB Loader r51 sometimes hangs when the screen says "Booting Wii Game, Please Wait.." Other times, it will boot perfectly. Either way, I've never had this issue with USB Loader GX (though I've had tons of experience with 002, etc), and I did test it again and found the same.
Any ideas?
Have you been turning on the Anti 002 fix in options? (you probably shouldn't be, but it depends on your 249 revision)
Thanks. This works like a charm!oggzee said:I think this should work:Stigmatic said:Is there a way to get your own custom names for some games?
Like a custom_titles.txt file or something?
I have added a few things to Wiitdb, but I wouldn't edit names there for personal use.
For example I would like all Rock Band titles to start with Rock Band, and not The Beatles, or LEGO or whatever, so that I can find them all in the same place.
If you're using sd:/usb-loader/ for all the config files and titles.txt
you can put your custom titles.txt to: sd:/apps/usbloader/titles.txt
both will be used with the second one overriding the original...